Byron said:

yeah, I wrote my essays by hand, twice

give it a few years and kids wont even know how to write without using a keyboard. They need to limit technology in schools, i mean the internet is easy mode for assignments and everything. I remember going to the school library to do assignments and you see shitloads of books but you dont go there to get the info out of them, you get it off the bloody internet! What a waste

kcwm said:

There really are a lot of studies that reveal how much the quality is reduced in research that is all internet.

I have a lot of professors both grad and undergrad that only allow two Internet and four from journals and books.

Byron said:

Yeah, and you guys didn't have dramatic praire dog either.

coolcat said:

it was a chipmunk!!!!

KatSkrizzle said:

yeah but im mainly talking from a high school perspective where you arnt given 50 text books to read through and the likes

ZombieKitten said:

You made him mad!

ZombieKitten said:

Is that like from the Church of the Prairie Dog or something?

coolcat said:

I don't know, but I just googled and it turns out chipmunks have stripes!

NSFW http://vantage.shackspace...ipmunk.jpg

KatSkrizzle said:

eh, it depends. i use the internet to search scholarly databases (like JSTOR) for research, and the only difference is that it's easier & i can do it anytime. i still use the library plenty, though.

ZombieKitten said:

evenstar said:

To take a nap, right?

Byron said:

once when i was too lazy to walk back to my dorm but only once!!

Byron said:

@ This


I remember telling my daughter about having to write 15-20 page papers on a typewriter or having NO microwave or NO cable.


Kids are REALLY missing out on Saturday morning cartoons, then American Bandstand and finally, Soul Train.....then you can go outside and PLAY. NO video games....get your ass outside and kick a damn ball around.....

Rhondab said:

I remember allll of that!

Did she look at Mom like she was talking about frontier pioneer days when you told her how we used to live?

Rhondab said:

My two favourites. Cartoons were not my thing, but I could not live without AB and Soul Train!!!

Boring oldies, I'm going to listen to my 10000GB ipod while wearing oversized sunnies.



Most of y'all forget that us "kiddies" were around in the 90s...which didn't have a lot of the comforts today does.

I remember the time before cable TV, DVD players, iPods, the internet, Bratz, Paris Hilton and digital cameras.

Wow...now I feel old.

Your generation basically invented all this shit. Maybe if you'd have worked a little harder at it you could have gotten to grips with it yourselves sooner before the kids took it and ran with it to places your old-fashioned ass could never follow.

Fauxie said:

Oooh, burn!

Fauxie said:

Byron, you sound like a boring old fart and your reasoning is subjective.

Ottensen said:

I remember when the Kid was about 8 or 9 and she was watching Grease. She asked ME if this was the stuff I used to wear in high school.

I was like....um.....NO kid, your GRANDMOTHER wore that stuff.



I remember my mom having a microwave but only using it to defrost food. She still would heat up most of her food on the stove. You just get use to stuff I guess. I do have a cousin who had NO idea what vinyl records were. Even my kid was like....
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Rhondab said:

JDInteractive said:

Rhondab said:

Omg lol

OK, this is funny because I was just talking with one of my friends because we're planning a road trip and our friend's car doesn't have a connector for mp3 players -- and none of us has a connector among us. So everybody's like, "uhhh, anybody got CDs?" And everybody's like "Nah." I swear everybody just got all deer-in-headlights.

If I had my camera phone ready @ that moment... *____*

And I told him we could bump my CDs on the trip because I was the only one who had real, full-fledged albums among the 4 of us [CD cases and all] -- and it was stuff that all of us listen to regularly, but I was the only one who went out and bought the album if I liked it. He was like "WHOA! now that's really something." Just the way he said it tripped me out. Like I did EXTRA for getting a CD when in his rationale, you can just get the shit for free -- like it was a 100% given. It just blew his mind. lol

That made me realize how times had changed.

Also, the fact that we even NEEDED music @ all and no one wanted to listen to the radio. And NEVER ONCE thought about it. lol
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Mara said:

Hell, road trips should be about trying to find just THE right radio station that will give you a signal for at least 45 minutes lol...start driving around a huge hill, lose the station, and the only ones you can pick up are news stations, country, and a food talk show lol. It's pretty sad when not having an MP3 adapter can throw the entire trip into uncertainty.

Wow Byron, I didn't know you were this judgmental There are people,under 30 that didn't have all those things, but I understand what you're saying