Ugly Shocks
May. 10th, 2010 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaHoly crap.
Someone posted a secret on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fandomsecrets that used, as the background picture, the smoke trail from the Challenger disaster.
1) I haven't seen that set of plumes in, gods, over a decade, probably, and I still recognized it instantly. I've maintained for a while that that's how you know if you're a GenXer or not - if you remember Challenger but not JFK's assassination, you're GenX. But I hadn't realized how deep it was hardwired, at least for me.
2) About the same time the cortex was going "oh, my gods, that's . . . ," my heart rate doubled and my face went completely red. I don't get triggered hard by images in general, but that one's still got power. And that was before I started to get angry at them for picking that image.
In conclusion, some people are dicks. (And it wasn't even an interesting secret.)
Someone posted a secret on
fandomsecrets that used, as the background picture, the smoke trail from the Challenger disaster.1) I haven't seen that set of plumes in, gods, over a decade, probably, and I still recognized it instantly. I've maintained for a while that that's how you know if you're a GenXer or not - if you remember Challenger but not JFK's assassination, you're GenX. But I hadn't realized how deep it was hardwired, at least for me.
2) About the same time the cortex was going "oh, my gods, that's . . . ," my heart rate doubled and my face went completely red. I don't get triggered hard by images in general, but that one's still got power. And that was before I started to get angry at them for picking that image.
In conclusion, some people are dicks. (And it wasn't even an interesting secret.)
