Cheerios4u98 Posted February 22, 2017 Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 It's today. Feb 22nd, 2005, the band announced they were going on indefinite hiatus. TWELVE YEARS AGO. How crazy is that?? What's weirder to me is how long the hiatus felt, but it only lasted four years. We've had blink back for a long time now. v strange. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patient #48273 Posted February 22, 2017 Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 I was looking at the date earlier and I thought it was significant for some reason, but couldn't remember why. I think this is it. Not that I consider it significant anymore, but 15-year-old me certainly did. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyjones Posted February 22, 2017 Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 i was 28. i was happy about it; i thought the untitled album was terrible and it seemed to be nice that they were going away. boxcar racer was bad, AvA was even worse, but we got +44, which i still think is an awfully fine album. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasa Posted February 22, 2017 Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 I was 7 years old, LMFAOOOO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Value Man Posted February 22, 2017 Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 There was a study done that said an adult and a child experience a day of time exactly the same. That makes me scratch my head because the older I get the faster and faster time goes. The 4 years of their hiatus will seem longer than the 8 years they've been back together because that is just how time works. I know an 86 year old who says the 1960's "feel like yesterday". Its some scary shit. But it should remind you to savor life, its goes very very quick. Quicker than any of us might know, until we get into old age and think "where did my life go?" 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Value Man Posted February 22, 2017 Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 Just now, Nasa said: I was 7 years old, LMFAOOOO Jesus Christ, I feel like I need to get my walker out now just reading that shit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elisa Posted February 23, 2017 Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 I remember that day like yesterday. First I had to look up the word hiatus in the dictionary and then a cried all day. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasa Posted February 23, 2017 Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 12 minutes ago, Olidamus said: Jesus Christ, I feel like I need to get my walker out now just reading that shit. Fun fact: I didn't get into blink till I was 10/11 (2008ish) when an older schoolmate introduced me to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feeling_This_1 Posted February 23, 2017 Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 Those 4 years felt like an eternity. Weve barely gotten any blink 182 music in the last 12 years I was so excited in 2009 but that eventually died because it took another 2.5 years to release that shitty song "Up All Night" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheerios4u98 Posted February 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 Who else stayed up late when they played their first shows in 2009 hoping to hear new blink music from shitty live YouTube videos? I don't think I was on these boards yet, I was still over at punkdisasters back then. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedo Posted February 23, 2017 Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 I was on 182online 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheerios4u98 Posted February 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 I guess I joined here May 2009. Maybe I was here but I don't remember posting here around that time. I might have to cyber-stalk myself on here to see what I was up to back then. All I know is I once looked back at my first posts and I got into a fight with someone here the first day I started posting. Nice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knapppers Posted February 23, 2017 Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 Were the first shows those tmobile ones?(might have been verizon) I just remember Tom being drunk off his ass. That hiatus did seem like a long time. That might be because that was basically all of my high school life though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxelder Posted February 23, 2017 Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 i wasn't around when they broke up. i tuned in just riiiight before travis's plane crash; that's the first real memory i have as a semi-fan. then after the grammy's, around the beginning of that summer, i became a fan, and the summer after that, a superfan. it hasn't stopped lol. i spent those early years on 182online. as for the whole time thing, my goodness yes it's already happening for me. seems like YESTERDAY blink was at reading 2014... and that's been 2 1/2 years ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheerios4u98 Posted February 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 1 hour ago, knapton said: Were the first shows those tmobile ones?(might have been verizon) I just remember Tom being drunk off his ass. That hiatus did seem like a long time. That might be because that was basically all of my high school life though. Yeah they did a three-song secret show for their first performance back and Tom was super super drunk. I was talking about the first shows of their reunion tour though, I was convinced we were going to hear something new (because they band had said we would). But we didn't get anything until another two years after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosferatu Posted February 23, 2017 Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 Man those 4 years of no blink felt like forever. I still remember watching youtube videos of AVA's live performances, trying to read Tom's face and thinking to myself "this dude misses blink" especially whenever AVA were performing weird versions of blink songs right before the Adventure. I always had the belief they'd get back together one day. Eventually they did. I was clearly wrong thinking Tom missed blink though. I agree with Oliver, I still can't believe how long ago it was. 8 years ago. Wow. Doesn't feel like this at all and I'm only 24. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted February 23, 2017 Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 TWELVE FUCKIN' YEARS? Cheerios, you bastard, thanks for reminding me I'm becoming an old fuck. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheerios4u98 Posted February 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 22 minutes ago, Ghost said: TWELVE FUCKIN' YEARS? Cheerios, you bastard, thanks for reminding me I'm becoming an old fuck. I can't believe it either! I'm 25 so this was almost half my life ago. So incredibly weird. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted February 23, 2017 Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 Let this old fuck throw here a classic old fuck sentence: "it would be worse if we don't get older". Hahaha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted February 23, 2017 Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 I was 15 (almost 16), in school, and I cried. I cried when I found out. in front of people. very embarrassing. I felt worse than I did when my pet rat died (like a year before). I was majorly bummed out for like weeks afterwards as well. I was in forum exile at the time, because it was after I got chased away from here but obviously before Plus44online was a thing. And yeah that first performance on tmobile with super drunk tom was awful to watch haha, I was so cringy and still very defiantly like "this reunion is a bad idea, Toms a douche" that I hated it. what did they perform again, Dammit Whats My Age Again and Rockshow? I can't remember now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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