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35 minutes ago, jlx9 said:

You’re telling me…I’m 22 and been lurking here as early as 2014, while joining the following year. I got into blink by 2012 or 2013, but experiencing the Skiba era unfold on here was apparently my “nostalgic moment” with blink, which is so fucking weird to think about. I’m gonna miss him, but it feels like a distant fever dream looking back at his time in blink. I don’t have much of a musical bias towards any era of the band. I like it all for different reasons. Was gonna buy tickets to see them at least once before they call it quits someday, but Ticketmaster is telling me otherwise. Back to the boards, I figured the youngest of the regulars was like at least 30 so I’ve been trying hard to refrain from using any zoomer language here. 😆

I’m gonna miss Skiba too. That era was still blink for me so while different and obviously not the same I still loved it all.

And don’t worry about using Zoomer lingo. @Nasa is a baby too so you two can zoom it up all over the place.

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1 hour ago, jlx9 said:

You’re telling me…I’m 22 and been lurking here as early as 2014, while joining the following year. I got into blink by 2012 or 2013, but experiencing the Skiba era unfold on here was apparently my “nostalgic moment” with blink, which is so fucking weird to think about. I’m gonna miss him, but it feels like a distant fever dream looking back at his time in blink. I don’t have much of a musical bias towards any era of the band. I like it all for different reasons. Was gonna buy tickets to see them at least once before they call it quits someday, but Ticketmaster is telling me otherwise. Back to the boards, I figured the youngest of the regulars was like at least 30 so I’ve been trying hard to refrain from using any zoomer language here. 😆

We been liking the band and lurking since a similar time.

22...damn, what an age. I'm 25 now, it's all downhill from here, sonny.

Actually - I read something about your frontal lobe not fully forming until you're 25. I don't know if it's placebo, but I do feel different. Like the final form of Charizard you know.

How are you finding your 20's? It's taken me half the decade to even start figuring it out, confusing af

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i'm very happy to have been wrong about this. 

anyone who is a longtime fan of skiba knows that he struggles with a lot of personal shit. it's apparent in his lyrics and some of his late night IG posts. so, if this had been handled poorly, i'd feel really bad for him. that's something i didn't want. 

i think the fact that he's been living with family in a chicago suburb for over a month is really telling of where he's at lately too. he's probably hitting the reset button. despite being happy for blink, it's gotta be a mental whirlwind for him. one day, he's taking press photos on top of the empire state building and playing good morning america. then, a few years later, he's reading about their triumphant reunion from a random park in the midwest where nobody will ever recognize him. 

i hope he comes back with the best alkaline trio record ever. 

 

 

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At this point if we don’t get a 4 piece song or at least a live performance with Matt coming out for a few songs I’ll be very surprised.

There is no hard feelings here. Everyone seems to be good with each other. It’s an opportunity they’d be stupid to squander.

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10 minutes ago, Russel Coight said:

At this point if we don’t get a 4 piece song or at least a live performance with Matt coming out for a few songs I’ll be very surprised.

There is no hard feelings here. Everyone seems to be good with each other. It’s an opportunity they’d be stupid to squander.

Maybe blink will make a special appearance at When We Were Young this year and they'll play a couple of songs?  

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18 minutes ago, Elisa said:

Maybe blink will make a special appearance at When We Were Young this year and they'll play a couple of songs?  

I’m not ruling it out but would be super surprised if something happened this soon. But who knows? With the way things are going at the moment anything is possible really.

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29 minutes ago, Russel Coight said:

I’m not ruling it out but would be super surprised if something happened this soon. But who knows? With the way things are going at the moment anything is possible really.

yeah, I was just trying to figure out what Skiba meant with "see you in vegas"

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On 10/15/2022 at 8:50 AM, jlx9 said:

You’re telling me…I’m 22 and been lurking here as early as 2014, while joining the following year. I got into blink by 2012 or 2013, but experiencing the Skiba era unfold on here was apparently my “nostalgic moment” with blink, which is so fucking weird to think about. I’m gonna miss him, but it feels like a distant fever dream looking back at his time in blink. I don’t have much of a musical bias towards any era of the band. I like it all for different reasons. Was gonna buy tickets to see them at least once before they call it quits someday, but Ticketmaster is telling me otherwise. Back to the boards, I figured the youngest of the regulars was like at least 30 so I’ve been trying hard to refrain from using any zoomer language here. 😆

hello youth

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