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haha, i feel bad for all you old people kidding but seriously, i heard this all the time. times change, what can you do? [Edited 10/2/08 14:35pm] | |
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obsessed said: I know one thing for sure we used to get outside
and play, run, rollerskate, iceskate, make snowmen and have snowball fights, play marbles, and the list goes on. lol My point being, that we didn't have the electronic gagets to keep us inside....and I'm really glad I got to grow up that way. And I did have to walk to school We didn't have school buses where I grew up...so it was 3 blocks to elementary school, a mile to junior high school, and 2+miles to senior high school. Nevertheless, I think kids today still have it tough in many ways.... the amount of work that's expected from them in school for one thing. All that work to learn nothing. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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BSK3478 said: NDRU said: These poor kids watch porn on the internet whenever they want. They'll never know the joys of watching an R rated movie and seeing a breast, or trying to unscramble channel 81 in their minds!
or try to look for their daddy's pr0n stash... didn't you find it? I found my dad's but I was only 5 | |
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RenHoek said: My kids will probably NEVER use a PAYPHONE!!
They won't know what a cassette is... How about a phone with a dial... They barely know VCR's it's nuts... my grandmothers had that phone forever before that moved up to the green slimline phone. | |
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My kids got shown 45s playing on a gramophone, by a pair of ladies who had them as youngsters in a museum
my kids weren't particularly interested | |
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My neighbours had one of these in their car
quadrophonic, baby | |
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there were no 'dishwashers' ... and some don't know what an 8-track is either... | |
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ZombieKitten said: My neighbours had one of these in their car
quadrophonic, baby I could have bought one at a huge yard sale last month. They even had tapes for sale, too. Something like $2 a shoebox-full. Unfortunately most of them were country, though. | |
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ZombieKitten said: BSK3478 said: or try to look for their daddy's pr0n stash... didn't you find it? I found my dad's but I was only 5 heck yeah! he was bad at hiding it. every time i found the new place he hid his stash, he'd hide it from me again...and i'd find it...he'd hide it again, i'd find it again, and it went on and on like that. | |
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paintedlady said: SCNDLS said: When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning . Uphill... barefoot... BOTH ways
Yadda, yadda, yadda > > > >but atleast you guys have diligent social workers that will show up with police if you get beat up too bad, in my day mom's would hit you with anything in the street and even use weapons and never worry about the police getting called on them. > > > > > > and you guys have automated little cute plastic debit cards so you don't have to pull out old wrinkled weird looking food stamps in a store to buy chips and soda for school lunch and have all the neighbors immediately know your mom's is a broke-ass bitch. > > > > > > Now you guys have discount retail stores by the boat loads, so if you needed new clothes you don't have to shop at a church and in old bins at the Salvation Army. Knock offs a plenty too, you can still be broke and in style. > > > > > > Now you can't buy liquor for your parents or lottery tickets, those bitches used to make us do that shit for them, and then complain when we told them we was hungry. > > > > > > Back then we didn't have home relaxer kits, just s-curls, everyone was greazy that didn't go to a salon. Using Vaseline as a styling product. > > Now you guys have weave, back then if you had no hair, you just walk around looking like Sidney Pointier, no dating for you if you was too "short n nappy". > > > > > > Back then we had to run from our bullies, now a days, people are afraid of wimps because of the fear of them going postal. > > > > > > > > You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980! Regards, The over 30 "Hood Rat" Crowd [Edited 10/2/08 14:23pm] | |
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BSK3478 said: why TY.... [Edited 10/3/08 11:59am] | |
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i'm so old that i still don't understand the convenience of a dishwasher. you still have to rinse the dishes in the sink before you put them in, so why not just finish the job and wash them by hand? dishwashers just add more steps and they take longer to get the job done. i don't get it. me like palmolive, ungh.
and i'm old enough to remember the first time people wore popped collars. it was a way to identify uncool preppies. | |
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BSK3478 said: ZombieKitten said: didn't you find it? I found my dad's but I was only 5 heck yeah! he was bad at hiding it. every time i found the new place he hid his stash, he'd hide it from me again...and i'd find it...he'd hide it again, i'd find it again, and it went on and on like that. we moved to a house that had drawers with locks My sister and I tried every key we ever found without luck I'm sure they knew we were trying, we scratched the shit out of the wood around the lock trying | |
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Gawd! I'm 23 but I didn't grow up with half of the things you listed in the initial post! My child/teen-hood was very non-techy
but I have them now, and I quite enjoy them...yayyy! If you will, so will I | |
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I'll take a chill pill when you let people know what you did or didn't write on her, mm-kay? I'm chill, no worries at all there. Just sayin'...
SCNDLS said: eaglebear4839 said: Please just speak for yourself, and not sign "the over 30 crowd". I don't think kids have it as good as you do. They have the gadgets and what-not, but look at all that kids today have to face in school, plus look at the future they're going to inherit.
Uh dude, why don't you relax. This was an e-mail i got today. I didn't write it and it's SOOOOO obviously tongue in cheek so take a | |
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eaglebear4839 said: I'll take a chill pill when you let people know what you did or didn't write on her, mm-kay? I'm chill, no worries at all there. Just sayin'...
SCNDLS said: Uh dude, why don't you relax. This was an e-mail i got today. I didn't write it and it's SOOOOO obviously tongue in cheek so take a What the fuck evah. I thought it was pretty gatdamn obvious it was from an e-mail. Regardless, your original post was taking issue with the Under/Over 30 part, which you still need a for if you took it that serious. | |
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LET A WOMAN BE A WOMAN AND A MAN BE A MAN | |
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Genesia said: 30? Shoooo...that's nuthin'.
We didn't have a color TV 'til I was 5 years old. I walked a mile home from school every day from the time I was 8. My mother set the route - and the time limit to walk it. If I wasn't home within a half hour of school letting out, she tanned me but good. Same if I deviated from the approved route. We were not allowed to watch TV after school (we had to play outside or do homework). We all ate dinner at the same time - and my mom only made one meal. If we didn't like it, we went hungry. There were no microwaves, so we couldn't just pop something in. Dinner had to be prepared from scratch. We didn't have a typewriter for papers - they were hand written 'til I was a junior in high school. Everybody took typing - and learned to set margins on a manual typewriter. If you wanted a copy, you made a carbon. If you wanted to listen to music, you had two choices: AM radio or a vinyl LP. All gas had lead in it. People who want to complain about air pollution now need to suck on that for awhile. I could go on and on... | |
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NDRU said: Anxiety said: if i wanted to see full bush, i had to wait until my parents were fast asleep and sneak into the living room and watch cinemax after dark with the volume all the way down! you're so jaded! I never had Cinemax! My porn consisted of Sam & Diane's sexual tension. | |
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Ahh, my generation. It's so funny explaining to PEOPLE MY AGE what an 8-track player is/was. No I didn't grow up with it either and it was before my time, too, but damn. | |
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Genesia said: obsessed said: I know one thing for sure we used to get outside
and play, run, rollerskate, iceskate, make snowmen and have snowball fights, play marbles, and the list goes on. lol My point being, that we didn't have the electronic gagets to keep us inside....and I'm really glad I got to grow up that way. And I did have to walk to school We didn't have school buses where I grew up...so it was 3 blocks to elementary school, a mile to junior high school, and 2+miles to senior high school. Nevertheless, I think kids today still have it tough in many ways.... the amount of work that's expected from them in school for one thing. All that work to learn nothing. ...FLORIDA... i could've skipped 2 grades coming from NY to FL... 'why y'all trying to say goodbye? I didn't go anywhere, I'm right here, im all around you,always..'
in a line from my dream, I heard a voice and saw a silhouette in a chair.. | |
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