Apr 23 2009Scary: A Childhood Photo From The Future
This is a childhood photo FROM THE FUTURE. Don't ask me how I got it, but suffice it to say I got some wires crossed when I was building my time machine (read: I showed up in 2120 with a trash bag full of dinosaur-sized condoms). Anyway, I brought this back to show you how not cool the future is. You want your kids growing up with robot pals? No, no you don't. And if you do, well, *ffffubt*. Oh that? Nothing -- just a little contraceptive blowdart.
Hit the jump for a worthwhile picture of some African robots.
Friends Forever [heyokay]
and
Robots of Africa [heyokay]
Thanks to Dominic, who thought it would be funny to make a cardboard robot costume and try to scare me on my way to work. It wasn't. Get well soon, Dominic.
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Reader Comments
1. ITSDAGOOCH - April 23, 2009 9:12 AM
goin for the first
2. tom - April 23, 2009 9:14 AM
nice
3. Alex - April 23, 2009 9:14 AM
Golly moly! I'm scared!
4. Rachel - April 23, 2009 9:21 AM
In the future we'll dress like it's the 80's?
5. Kailyn - April 23, 2009 9:27 AM
It has an evil look in it's eyes...
6. NassT - April 23, 2009 9:32 AM
So cameras are going back to 35mm film in the future?
7. Frank B. - April 23, 2009 9:38 AM
@ 4 Apparently so. Better dig out those legwarmers.
8. Vagabondos - April 23, 2009 9:38 AM
Wow! i can actually post here......
9. Graf Zeppelin - April 23, 2009 9:47 AM
LAST!
and... FAKE! no selfrespecting kid would let another kid wear those trousers to the right without pummeling him into submission. and... wait, that's why that robot's there and... my ass is hurting...
10. Pat - April 23, 2009 9:51 AM
Do the initials on the robot in the first photo say "HK"? As in 'Hunter-Killer"?
11. Watch - April 23, 2009 9:59 AM
creepy
12. kat - April 23, 2009 10:12 AM
the acid wash jeans and abstract 80.s sweaters weirded me out more.
13. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - April 23, 2009 10:14 AM
GW had the dino sized condoms because he didn't want to contract the AIDS from a stegosaurus fücking his loose asshole.
14. Robots! - April 23, 2009 10:18 AM
And apparently, cameras SUCK in the future...
15. Ninja - April 23, 2009 10:21 AM
Im hella scared....IRobot...
also how nothing has a shadow...
AHHHHHHHH!
16. CoinOperatedBoi - April 23, 2009 10:26 AM
My buddy my buddy...my buddy my buddy...wherever he goes *pew pew* ahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
17. ZACK - April 23, 2009 10:28 AM
im gay someone call me 615-796-3242
18. OJ's Mom - April 23, 2009 10:31 AM
GODDAMN IT!
THE ROBOT REVOLUTION IS COMING AND NOBODY EXCEPT THE GW AND ME SEEM TO CARE! IT STARTS WITH CHEAP RUMBA'S ON WOOT.COM, AND THEN SUDDENLY YOU WAKE UP ONE NIGHT TO THE HEAVY FEELING OF A ROBOT ON YOUR CHEST, STABBING YOU THROUGH THE EYES WITH HIS COLD, STEELY CLAWS!!!!!
FEAR THE ROBOTS GODDAMN IT!
FEAR THEM.
19. ᵑ ᵃ ᵃ ᶳ - April 23, 2009 10:32 AM
@4 The 80's? Maybe if you grew up in Yugoslavia. Looks more like the early 70s from here
@11 agreed
Not sure why the thing is also wearing eyeliner OR why its 'suspend attack' button is light blue on it's breastplate
20. ZACK - April 23, 2009 10:32 AM
im jk dont call that number its my moms cell number my friend is a d-bag
21. DeeplyTroubled - April 23, 2009 10:35 AM
Is that.... David from "David after dentist"? (....my robot has two fingers)
22. Graf Zeppelin - April 23, 2009 10:58 AM
@20 oh. actually I already called her. we have a date tomorrow behind arby's. I won't tell I know she's not a guy.
23. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - April 23, 2009 11:02 AM
¡ʇoqʞɔnɟ ɐ ʇuɐʍ ı ¡souıp ǝɥʇ ʇǝƃɹoɟ
24. jeans - April 23, 2009 11:35 AM
this is SO fake. everyone knows that there are no humans left in the year 2120.
25. nadalo日本にいます。(also in Japan) - April 23, 2009 11:54 AM
I HAIL YOU OH MASTER ROBOTS...who will buy their son a leopard print pair of pants...that's so gay....hmmm well, well in the future our masters take away the joy of good fashion sense and having nice clear photos...they seem to be having a good time making us suffer ...I wanted to be their slave but this sucks...pffft....
26. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - April 23, 2009 12:41 PM
The junior Boy George Companion Bot is perfect for sexually confused adolescents!
27. JK - April 23, 2009 1:13 PM
that thing is so f ucking creepy looking...
28. ME - April 23, 2009 1:25 PM
FAKE
first of all the shadows are all wrong....
29. B - April 23, 2009 1:56 PM
Am I the only one wondering what the hell's up with that robot's face? It's clearly the face of a slightly older lady. Being a kid in 70s clothing on a 35mm bad quality camera shot in the future is one thing, having a robot friend is another, but it being after the image of a 50-year old woman! That's SICK!
30. David - April 23, 2009 2:02 PM
shouldn't we have better looking robots by the year 2120. And have robots by then lost all sense of shame. Just look at it, flaunting its bare roboparts all over the place.
31. SiGee - April 23, 2009 2:10 PM
zomfg... so creepy.
(running fast in opposite direction)
32. Erica - April 23, 2009 2:58 PM
The image of the African tribesboys was a tad non-sequitor.
33. J - April 23, 2009 3:10 PM
Isn't that cute? A robot and its pets.
34. BOB - April 23, 2009 3:24 PM
I think the second picture are real people
35. QUASIMODEM - April 23, 2009 3:58 PM
DONT ASK MY HOW TO I GET IT, BUT I DONE THE PICTURE AND NOW I AM ACQUIRED SO NO MORE QUESTION
36. Quik - April 23, 2009 5:03 PM
@ 17, 20, 26 haha
This is not from the future. It's just a childhood shot of Nicole Richie and the two guys she was banging back in tha day.
37. warpman - April 23, 2009 8:01 PM
i love how we have warping fences in the future :O
38. Tuscan - April 24, 2009 7:20 AM
Gonna be really geeky now and say just cause a picture is faded doesn't mean its from 35mm. Its the ink and paper that causes fade not the source :-P
39. jazzman - April 24, 2009 12:03 PM
ah come one... where the hell is daisy!!!
40. jazzman - April 24, 2009 12:03 PM
ah come on... where the hell is Daisy
41. Phaine - April 24, 2009 1:42 PM
omg is that joseph mazzello on the left?
42. dodo - April 24, 2009 6:38 PM
This is shopped, I can tell from the pixels. And it's old too.
43. Bee - April 26, 2009 3:33 AM
I seen this picture before, pretty creepy
Too funny to let it go!
http://www.epiclosers.com/load/8-1-0-252
44. bribios - April 26, 2009 3:41 PM
Pretty sure this is actually alternate reality 1978. Which I guess shows that the razing of the Great Library of Alexandria wasn't a bad thing.
45. A Gay - April 27, 2009 2:49 PM
Why are kids from the future wearing clothes from the '90s?
46. claire - April 27, 2009 2:58 PM
is that kid wearing cheetah print pants? Not very from the future, is he?
47. namakemono - April 28, 2009 3:06 AM
Any idea who took this picture?
48. mike - April 28, 2009 8:48 AM
hey that child on the left of the robot looks really familiar. hey thats my f**king sister before she was a chick
49. jp - April 28, 2009 2:58 PM
"Why are kids from the future wearing clothes from the '90s?"
Technology will be at a standstill from the nuclear wars.
And fashion, too.
50. Bee - April 28, 2009 8:23 PM
@ 47. this pictures was drawn digitally!
Too funny to let it go: Human Pinata
http://www.epiclosers.com/load/8-1-0-273
51. jay - April 30, 2009 7:17 AM
this is weird...im black, and black people dont play with stuff like this
52. Turbo187 - May 1, 2009 5:30 PM
this looks like it was taken in Croatia, in the future! Or it is a sad excuse for propaganda - a warning of kinds, robot revolution! "With a single button press the HK will destroy both these human boys by smashing their skulls into one another until a bloody brain stem is all that is left". I'd pay to see it.
53. McCracken - May 3, 2009 9:50 PM
O my this is creepy
54. Mahtiel - May 4, 2009 3:25 PM
Such cloth I was wearing when I was a child (before cca 15 years). I was wandering where such fence is in USA, because such fences are by us. There is slovak flag. I am neighbour from Czech Republic. I am suprised, how a monster from Star wars appeared in Slovak republik before ages. :)
55. lia - May 5, 2009 3:27 PM
Please, to the photoshoper: The first picture: is too obvious that it was altered with photoshop. Check the floor, it is blur, and the grass between robot's legs, it is the same grass in the left. And the left hand of the boy at the left side is too thin. It's a good one anyways.
56. Captain - May 7, 2009 12:49 PM
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57. Wolf King Nightmare - May 13, 2009 9:28 PM
being part robot can be prity cool, although if you see somthing that dose not compute it can sometimes cause you to crash, thats why I always keep a back up disk.
also that robot should be ashamed of itself not killing the humans before they took a pickture, they dont make them like they will in 8098370473930 and 4/9. if it was me when i was on a rampage their wouldnt be a picture
58. Catnip - September 5, 2009 4:37 AM
RE: In the future we'll dress like it's the 80's?
That's a scarier thought than any creepy robot.
Will we have our hair in a mullet too?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
The Horror!!!!!
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60. dadd - October 29, 2009 12:09 PM
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