129 definitions by GaaraoftheDamned
One who at one point identified as a traditional hippie, sharing the same viewpoints on politics, culture, sex, and drugs, but have since cleaned up and taken up normal lives. While most ex-hippies remain politically liberal on most issues, their views tend to be more to the right than their views in their hippie days, while several take more conservative approaches to the drugs they once did, especially involving their own children.
For most ex-hippies, the same bands they liked back in the day remain with them. More often than not it remains the only thing about them that doesn't change.
by GaaraoftheDamned December 2, 2013
Once one of the most important steps in creating and maintaining society, schools in the last 60 years or so have become about as effective as a condom with no covering on the tip.
Multiple factors have contributed to the downfall of school effectiveness, including (but not limited to):
*Teachers that treat students like they're more stupid than they really are
*Schoolboards and administrations that are more concerned with what the students are wearing than what they are learning
*Textbooks so boring and poorly written they make the worst parts of the bible look like the Harry Potter books
*Students who take out their frustrations with the school system on other students, making it hard for anyone to look forward to going
*Assignments, tests, and grading systems that make students start worrying about the smallest, most insignificant things.
Multiple factors have contributed to the downfall of school effectiveness, including (but not limited to):
*Teachers that treat students like they're more stupid than they really are
*Schoolboards and administrations that are more concerned with what the students are wearing than what they are learning
*Textbooks so boring and poorly written they make the worst parts of the bible look like the Harry Potter books
*Students who take out their frustrations with the school system on other students, making it hard for anyone to look forward to going
*Assignments, tests, and grading systems that make students start worrying about the smallest, most insignificant things.
Schools are really now nothing but prisons that let you go home every day-so long as you return the next.
by GaaraoftheDamned January 28, 2013
From the game Portal 2. A lemon with the power to explode and start a fire. Yelled by Cave Johnson via an old recording while Chell and Glados navigate through the abandoned part of Apeture Science laboratories.
by GaaraoftheDamned October 3, 2011
When your internet browser doesn't load properly and several-if not all-pictures are replaced with a mini question mark.
by GaaraoftheDamned November 11, 2012
When the government or media (more often than not it's both working together somehow) drive fear of a new threat (often terrorism or a deadly disease) into the people of the nation and keep them from expressing all of their freedoms and/or views and doing the things they want to do
Notable stories/events that have been constantly attacked/used for Government/Media fear:
-Terrorism
-Communism (see McCarthyism/ Red Scare)
-AIDS
-Drugs
- 9/11
-The "Brain Eating Amoeba"
-Terrorism
-Communism (see McCarthyism/ Red Scare)
-AIDS
-Drugs
- 9/11
-The "Brain Eating Amoeba"
by GaaraoftheDamned August 19, 2011
A very dark and experimental genre of music. The genre was first created by Throbbing Gristle in the 1970's. The sound is characterized by drone-like noises in an ambient style and frequent use of found objects and electronic instruments (mainly the keyboard and computer programming but electric guitars, bass, and drums are found in it). Industrial music became more well-known when the genres of Industrial Rock and Industrial Metal first came into being. Fans of Industrial music are called rivetheads though Industrial is very popular with straight up Goths.
Contrary to what some people say, bands like Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, KMFDM, and some works of Marilyn Manson ARE in fact Industrial. Though these bands have had at least one period of mainstream exposure, they remain relativley underground compared to a lot of other musicians, not to mention a lot of them are back in the underground (while NIN and Manson have performed in stadiums before, they mostly play in smaller venues that barely hold more than 500-1000 people). Bands like the above mentioned ones are great for starting out with Industrial, though if you want to become serious about it you should also check out bands like Controlled Bleeding, Whitehouse, and Coil.
Contrary to what some people say, bands like Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, KMFDM, and some works of Marilyn Manson ARE in fact Industrial. Though these bands have had at least one period of mainstream exposure, they remain relativley underground compared to a lot of other musicians, not to mention a lot of them are back in the underground (while NIN and Manson have performed in stadiums before, they mostly play in smaller venues that barely hold more than 500-1000 people). Bands like the above mentioned ones are great for starting out with Industrial, though if you want to become serious about it you should also check out bands like Controlled Bleeding, Whitehouse, and Coil.
When you listen to Industrial Music, whether it be Throbbing Gristle's "20 Jazz Funk Greats" or Ministry's "The Land of Rape and Honey", you get a certain satisfaction and creative feeling you can't get from most other music.
by GaaraoftheDamned May 23, 2011
Noise Rock/Experimental Rock duo from Providence consisting of Brian Gibson on Bass and Brian Chippendale on Drums and Vocals. Known for crazy, loud, chaotic sounds as well as their intense, confrontational live shows.
by GaaraoftheDamned November 18, 2012