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Subject: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: John Titor on 09/28/17 at 2:37 pm

Any one else agree?

-Stores in the malls gone
- no TRL
- Toonami gone
-Dark age of WWE
- KB gone
- MJ died
- Myspace on its last legs

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/17 at 2:40 pm

The first thing I remember was that tragic day in June 2009, when Farrah Fawcett and
Michael Jackson died on the same day.  :\'(

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/17 at 2:40 pm


Any one else agree?

-Stores in the malls gone
- no TRL
- Toonami gone
-Dark age of WWE
- KB gone
- MJ died
- Myspace on its last legs
KB ?

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: John Titor on 09/28/17 at 2:43 pm


KB ?


KB toy store

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: John Titor on 09/28/17 at 2:44 pm

I have a vivid memory of every summer of the 2000's  (being a teen in pretty much all of them)

and 2009 was the most boring of them all

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/17 at 2:46 pm

Personal, I was making the most of that summer for I was set to start a new job position at the beginning of September, which turned out to had been my favourite job in my working career.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: John Titor on 09/28/17 at 2:47 pm


Personal, I was making the most of that summer for I was set to start a new job position at the beginning of September, which turned out to had been my favourite job in my working career.


I felt like that summer was devoid of anything exciting

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: bchris02 on 09/28/17 at 3:00 pm

Summer 2009 was a very memorable, landmark summer for me with a lot of firsts.  I had some of the best times of my life and some of the worst times of my life that summer.  In fact, much of my life since has been defined directly or indirectly by things that happened during the summer of 2009.

I stopped going to church and started smoking cigarettes in June 2009.  I discovered clubbing, marijuana, and came out of the closet about my sexuality that summer.  The ONLY time I have ever actually dated in my life was during that summer and a little bit into the fall of 2009.  The music that summer was probably the best of my life (I can't think of another summer before or after where I was more into the music than I was in '09).  I finally got to move away from my small hick town (that I later moved back to in 2012) that summer which was one of the most exciting moments of my life.  I also lost focus at work and ended up getting myself fired from my job, which my family then told me I deserved because I was a disgusting f*ggot.

I would not want to relive Summer 2009.  As great as parts of it were, I wouldn't want to go through the bad parts.  That said, I look back on it very fondly and am glad I experienced it.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: LooseBolt on 09/28/17 at 3:44 pm

Maybe for the average joe, but I was in the Middle East that summer. It was pretty dank.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: John Titor on 09/28/17 at 3:54 pm


Maybe for the average joe, but I was in the Middle East that summer. It was pretty dank.


I was on the set of a hollywood movie for 6 weeks, they ended up not even releasing the movie, I ended up moving
to Texas for 3 months after that and then moved east

How long did u end up staying out in the middle east

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Looney Toon on 09/28/17 at 4:08 pm

Summer of '09 was alright.If we're talking about pop culture than sorta.

In terms of music 2009 was actually pretty good.
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For video games 2009 was meh.

Fashion wasn't anything special as nothing really stood out.

When it came to cartoons on TV it was terrible as Toonami was gone, Toon Disney was replaced by Disney XD (which in 09 wasn't as good as it is today), Nickelodeon was meh, and Cartoon Network was in their dark age.

For live action TV I can't remember anything memorable really starting up in 2009.

Although I did like Youtube in '09. Back when Youtube was still a crazy social video site with a ton of crazy videos. Not the samey lets play, vlog, political, reaction videos we have today.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: bchris02 on 09/28/17 at 4:18 pm


Fashion wasn't anything special as nothing really stood out.


I really liked the fashion in the 2008-09 era.

http://www.menshairstyleguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/emo-hairstyles-for-guys-04.jpg

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: mjstudios97 on 09/28/17 at 4:33 pm

Don't forget about the "Swine Flu" H1N1 Pandemic scare of 2009! That was going on a lot in the TV and news, and I was so paranoid.

I was 11 going on 12 that summer, and about to start seventh grade in the fall. I caught the flu in June, and I was so bedridden and ill for a month that I thought I actually caught a case of Swine Flu.  ;D

I saw two movies while sick in bed that summer that I can remember: Coraline (2009) and Knowing (2009) with Nicholas Cage which blew my mind completely. Miley Cyrus' 'Party in the USA' became an overplayed song.  8)

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: wixness on 09/28/17 at 9:02 pm



I really liked the fashion in the 2008-09 era.

http://www.menshairstyleguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/emo-hairstyles-for-guys-04.jpg

Same.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: LooseBolt on 09/29/17 at 7:28 am


I was on the set of a hollywood movie for 6 weeks, they ended up not even releasing the movie, I ended up moving
to Texas for 3 months after that and then moved east

How long did u end up staying out in the Middle East


That's cool! Are you allowed to talk about the movie or do they have you under an NDA?

Anyway it wasn't long, about a month. I worked on a kibbutz, crossed into Jordan for a bit, saw Syria when things were slightly less sheeshty for them...good times.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: SpyroKev on 09/29/17 at 10:17 am

I generally didn't enjoy 09, so. I said it once, the vibe of that year had strangeness to it.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Shemp97 on 09/29/17 at 11:52 am


- Toonami gone

And? Was the US like England in the 1970s with only four channels? CN, Adult Swim, YTV, ABC kids all had your TV anime cravings covered.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: SpyroKev on 09/29/17 at 1:24 pm


And? Was the US like England in the 1970s with only four channels? CN, Adult Swim, YTV, ABC kids all had your TV anime cravings covered.


Toonami was a phenomenon for American males. You wouldn't see it. Toonami being gone at the time was like, you could feel a void around you.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: John Titor on 09/29/17 at 1:25 pm


Toonami was a phenomenon for American males. You wouldn't see it. Toonami being gone at the time was like, you could feel a void around you.


as well as TRL being gone,
thank god its back

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: John Titor on 09/29/17 at 1:27 pm


Toonami was a phenomenon for American males. You wouldn't see it. Toonami being gone at the time was like, you could feel a void around you.


but the real death of toonami was when they switched to that Thomas the tank engine Tom, as soon as they switched it I was out lol

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Howard on 09/29/17 at 3:16 pm


The first thing I remember was that tragic day in June 2009, when Farrah Fawcett and
Michael Jackson died on the same day.  :\'(


I remember that day too. :(

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/29/17 at 3:20 pm


I remember that day too. :(
I was watching BBC News 24 waiting to call and show my wife the report on the death of Farrah Fawcett, at the time of around 9:30pm here in the UK, the report never came and was not shown, for the breaking news on Michael Jackson took over. Also, Google crashed too! Then eBay went haywire with the selling of MJ's products.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Howard on 09/29/17 at 3:57 pm


I was watching BBC News 24 waiting to call and show my wife the report on the death of Farrah Fawcett, at the time of around 9:30pm here in the UK, the report never came and was not shown, for the breaking news on Michael Jackson took over. Also, Google crashed too! Then eBay went haywire with the selling of MJ's products.


It was so devastating for 2 deaths to occur in just the span of one day. :\'(

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: DesiredUsernameWasTaken on 09/29/17 at 4:04 pm

It was actually the best time of my whole life.

So we're in completely different worlds from each other.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/29/17 at 4:08 pm


It was so devastating for 2 deaths to occur in just the span of one day. :\'(
Also the Los Angeles two hospitals concerned are around ten miles from each other.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: unicornic on 09/29/17 at 5:13 pm

I was really stunned by Michael Jackson's death that year.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Shemp97 on 09/29/17 at 7:22 pm


Toonami was a phenomenon for American males. You wouldn't see it. Toonami being gone at the time was like, you could feel a void around you.

Did you feel an irreplaceable void when Vine ended? I could care less if a corporation wishes to shoot themselves in the foot(CN in 2009 was machine gunning it).There are plenty of alternative today just as their were a decade ago.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Slim95 on 09/29/17 at 10:10 pm

It wasn't horrible but wasn't the best. Michael Jackson dying, the swine flue, the economy in the toilet, were all things that made it pretty bad summer.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Howard on 09/30/17 at 7:03 am


Also the Los Angeles two hospitals concerned are around ten miles from each other.



That must've been so coincidental.  :o

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: SpyroKev on 09/30/17 at 11:04 pm


Did you feel an irreplaceable void when Vine ended? I could care less if a corporation wishes to shoot themselves in the foot(CN in 2009 was machine gunning it).There are plenty of alternative today just as their were a decade ago.


I was never into Vine.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Shemp97 on 10/01/17 at 2:39 pm


I was never into Vine.

Because like Toonami, it wasn't the only option for that type of entertainment.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: prodanny288 on 10/01/17 at 3:22 pm

2009 was the year Toon Disney closed and turned to Disney XD.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: John Titor on 10/03/17 at 5:11 pm

2009 was just an empty year

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Shemp97 on 10/07/17 at 12:07 am


2009 was the year Toon Disney closed and turned to Disney XD.

It was a sad day for cartoons.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: LooseBolt on 10/07/17 at 6:57 pm

What? DisneyXD is awesome.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: 2001 on 10/07/17 at 8:35 pm


What? DisneyXD is awesome.


That was the station with Phineas & Ferb, right?

Boss channel.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: 2001 on 10/07/17 at 10:12 pm

Summer 2009 was when I bought my first pair of skinny jeans, and my fashion style became truly "early 2010s". It was a transformative experience! June 2009 is the last time I wore those late 2000s bootcut jeans. NEVER AGAIN (is what we all say).

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: John Titor on 08/24/18 at 11:32 am


What? DisneyXD is awesome.


Disney xd is a joke

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Wobo on 08/24/18 at 12:25 pm


Disney xd is a joke

DisneyXD is awesome tf you talking about?

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: John Titor on 08/24/18 at 1:11 pm


DisneyXD is awesome tf you talking about?


You have to subscribe to higher tier to get the channel, also Toon Disney was better
it also had Jetix when Abc family got rid of it

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Wobo on 08/24/18 at 1:40 pm


You have to subscribe to higher tier to get the channel, also Toon Disney was better
it also had Jetix when Abc family got rid of it

I didn't have to pay money inorder to get the channel, and yeah Toon Disney was better, i still think DisneyXD is awesome way better than Disney Channel.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: ofkx on 08/25/18 at 2:11 pm

I actually really liked the summer. I don't really care about the stuff you listed (except for WWE, but I wasn't really into it at the time) so I didn't think it was boring. It was the first summer I actually cared about music since my sister gave me her iPod and there were lots of great songs.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: CatwomanofV on 08/25/18 at 3:10 pm

2009 was not a happy time for me. I lost my sister in Nov. of 2008 and my grief was hitting me hard throughout 2009. Carlos was undergoing radiation for prostate cancer (I think he was done by June of that year).

My youngest step-daughter got married in July and there was something that happened at the wedding (that I don't want to get into it) that really hurt me to the core.

Plus, I was dealing with a hormonal imbalance that didn't make things any easier. 

The good things that happened that year (but not in the summer) were that Granddaughter #4 was born in March and we bought our house in Puerto Rico in Oct. That house being sold as I am writing this and the sale should be complete just about any day now.


Cat

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Dundee on 08/25/18 at 5:39 pm


Summer 2009 was when I bought my first pair of skinny jeans, and my fashion style became truly "early 2010s". It was a transformative experience! June 2009 is the last time I wore those late 2000s bootcut jeans. NEVER AGAIN (is what we all say).
Would call it "late 2000s chic" 8)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/2581402039_26c7165326_o.jpg


Though your typical Joey sported more something like this :D
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3191/2454015526_485452a87a_o.jpg

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: LooseBolt on 08/25/18 at 6:44 pm


Would call it "late 2000s chic" 8)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/2581402039_26c7165326_o.jpg


Though your typical Joey sported more something like this :D
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3191/2454015526_485452a87a_o.jpg



Where the heck are you from???

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: Tyrannosaurus Rex on 08/25/18 at 6:45 pm


Would call it "late 2000s chic" 8)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/2581402039_26c7165326_o.jpg


Though your typical Joey sported more something like this :D
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3191/2454015526_485452a87a_o.jpg



Those pants make the photo look much more recent than the late 2000's.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: John Titor on 11/01/18 at 4:37 pm

Summer 2009 felt like someone sucked the soul out of the 2000s. There was a few things that still looked like the 2000s such as some fashions and vh1 stillin its celeb show phase as well as MySpace still be used despite facebook coming along, but for the most part the culture of the 2000s was about 65 percent gone in 2009.  As far as I am concerned 2008 was the last summer of the 2000s .

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: wagonman76 on 02/24/19 at 9:43 am

It was one of the coldest, wettest summers on record.  Many mornings were still -20 to -25F in April.  And it never got warm.  Many days were only 40 some degrees F, and it rarely stopped raining until fall when it was almost ready to snow.  I didn't get much of anything done outside.  Combine that with the recession (where I would be laid off soon), and $4/gallon gas, it wasn't a good time.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: shadowcookie on 02/24/19 at 10:00 am

I turned 14 in the summer of 2009. It was okay imo, I liked the music - When Love Takes Over was probably the biggest hit of the summer here in the UK, great song that I still listen to today. Bulletproof by La Roux is another good one.

The weather was pretty normal. I do remember a huge thunderstorm in June while I was in school though. That day started off hot and a lot of people got caught out. Was funny watching people come indoors soaking wet. ;D

MySpace was still being used but was on the decline. Lots of people started switching over to Facebook earlier in the year. Twitter was popular too. No Instagram or Snapchat back then. Smartphones were still a big novelty, not many people had one.

The recession was obviously in progress but we weren’t too badly affected thankfully. Most noticeable difference for me as a 14 year old was things becoming more expensive and money not going as far as it did a year earlier. This was most evident with our weekly food shop.

Oh, and my fashion sense was dreadful. I cringe at how badly I dressed as a teenager.

Subject: Re: Summer 2009 was very boring

Written By: February2002 on 03/01/19 at 7:27 pm

2009 was very bland, you have to remember 2008 was the end of the 2000s culture

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