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Off-Topic => Off-Topic: Talk about anything you want. => Topic started by: paul.karen on January 28, 2011, 04:46:08 AM
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Hilarious! Growing up without a cell phone
If you are 36, or older, you might think this is hilarious!
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; wha...t with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways...yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that I'm over the ripe old age of forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!
1) I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
2) There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!
3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!
4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?
6) We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!
7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.
8) And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen.. Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
10) You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!
11) There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!
12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!
And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before!
Regards,
The Over 40 Crowd
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Also our teachers could smack us. With big wooden paddles with scary names.
Like the splitter, and they would drill holes in the paddle to get extra speed.
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I'm part of that crowd!!! LOL and remember all those things!!
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Oh how i laughed at that , its so true ! (Ahem all though i cant remember it myself , ive read history books on it :rofl;) Im still partial to game of Space Invaders even now , especially at D ! :2thumbsup;
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*chuckles*
I loved taping songs off the radio!
If we were sent to our rooms for being naughty we just had to sit there and twiddle our thumbs ... these days being sent to your room must make your head spin with the frustration of having to choose what to do; watch tv, play games on the xbox or chat online with your friends?!
The kids at school are supposed to hand their phones in but don't because 'what if my mum wants to get in touch with me?' Um, she can ring the school office; if it's that important you'll get the message.
*sigh*
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I can kick butt at Pong. And that was sooooooo cool! Look! You can play a game on YOUR TV SCREEN! Isn't that amazing?
Now go to bed - there's nothing you kids can watch on TV until Wednesday night when the Disney movie is on. Prime time TV is only for adults!
And yes, Bambi's dad gets shot. So what? So does that stupid yellow dog. Toughen up. That's what life looks like.
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p.k. didn't you have the 8 track as a kid to? God we had that in one our cars and at home. It was how I heard the "oldies" my parents listened to. Plus the big 12' records and on occassion those small 45's that were more common before I was born.
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LOL Chris yes i remember those as well as reel 2 reel music and 8MM home movies.
And the big 12" disc movie players years before the CD was even thought of.
Sidenote: I didnt make this list stole it off FB.
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Re: cartoons
Half the time your favorite cartoon got pre-empted by GOLF! This began a long simmering hatred of rich people in sweaters.
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I grew up with no telephone at all, cell or otherwise, no TV til I was 11 or 12 and then only 1 channel from 6-10 at night (the test pattern was fascinating) and wasn't allowed to read comics, only "real" books.
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LOL Love iT!!
We had a black and white TV until I was in High School... I watched Wizard of Oz every year and never knew that it became color when Dorothy got to OZ!!!
OH and remember having to wait an entire year for the special annual TV showing of WIzard of Oz?? LOL
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I remember loving to ride inn the very back of my parents station wagon (no seat belts) hanging out the back window. :angel;
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I remember loving to ride inn the very back of my parents station wagon (no seat belts) hanging out the back window. :angel;
I loved doing that on long road trips, especially when we left at 4 am. Slept on the floor of a car too as a kid
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Oh yeah...we slept in the back of the station wagon.
I remember actually biting a boy in my neighborhood once and my mother took me over to his house and made me apologize to him face to face in front of his mother. No one got sued...no lawsuits were filed. I even think we were friends again the next day.
I am thinking I was about 4 or 5.
I remember eating Honey Suckle...drinking out of the garden hose. Do kids no a days even know what honeysuckle is ?
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Thanks for the laughs, everyone. Add: kids stayed outin the neighborhood to play until the street lights came on or your mom screamed your name for you to come home. I think my kids would run and hide if I screamed anything at them lol. Staying out all day? Oh, my, that would never happen.
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recently in oz,facebook took a break for a few hours and crashed
the concencus was after the catastrophe on talkback
OMG how are the youngsters gonna contact any one if this happen again
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*chuckle* every so often these sorts of things do the rounds.... and I laugh, but then I realise I'm also sitting there texting and accessing the net on my phone with the rest of them!! :rofl;
Of course it wasn't always that way. I work in IT - one of the most tech indulgant industries. For many years (until around I guess 1999 oir so) I *refused* to own a mobile/cell phone. My justification was if I'm not at my desk I'm either doing something important like deep into fixing a server or something, or I'm at lunch and I can't help you anyway. This used to piss people off no end - specially job recruiters who expect you to be at their beck and call all day (of course this rule does NOT apply the other way around!). When I needed to go to working contracts and often got calls I caved in and got a phone, and admit I haven't looked back, but I did resist for many years and was seen as a bit of a luddite by my co-workers who had to have the latest and greatest the minute it arrived. Indeed I only just upgraded from a bare bones "talk and text" phone to a smartphone with 'net access etc about a month ago (when I was stuck in hospital post my transplant and I had no way to get on FB, or to IHD to update people that's when I knew I needed something like that!). So even still I don't jump onto the bleeding edge.
As a child I grew up in the 1970's. My that was a time. Like others have said if it was the weekend we were encouraged to leave the house in the morning and don't come back till it gets dark. Nobody would know where we were unless we happened to have some kind of arrangement to go to Timmy's house or whatever. Of course we may leave Timmy's and go wherever and nobody would know! More to the point nobody really cared as long as you got home safe and sound. Oh if you had some scrapes.. well hey you're a kid that's what happens. No big deal. band aid it up and kiss it better!
And yes stranger danger and all that was just the same back then, but somehow we lead a much more liberated lifestyle compared to today's kids. Somehow all the xboxes, smartphones (and kids having their own phones younger and younger.. wtf?) and internet plus a fear of letting your kid out means they really don't get exercise (apart from organised sports, and it seems less are going if they can sit in their rooms and play WoW or something) and experience lifes ups and downs. Sure, I had a few hairy experiences when I was let out there - got lost a few times (wound up at a strange station once, but I went and told the stationmaster who called my home and they came get me!). And you know I'm reasonably well adjusted and nothing too serious happened to me.
Yep things were simpler back then, but at the same time more difficult in some ways. I guess you can see pros and cons. I do worry about the kids of today but I think most of that is due to their parents, who are MY generation, who somehow seem to think that respect and discipline is something that isn't requred these days. Some of the behaviour I see out in public that is tollerated or mollycuddled or excused (or simply ignored) by their parents is mindblowing. I would have got my backside belted for even a hint of what some kids get away with out there.
Anyhoo I best get off my soapbox now....
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When I was little (early 1980s) we used to go out on our bikes to play, and mum was very insistent that we never go beyond such-and-such a place. We always went way beyond such-and-such a place. Just recently we had a conversation and I mentioned that not only were we always going beyond such-and-such a place, but we went all the way to Witches Wood (across fields and all sorts). 'I know!' she said. 'But I was aware of who you were with and where you were so I just let you think you were pulling a fast one on me' (that's paraphrased, my mother is nearly seventy and doesn't talk like that!) I can't imagine my sister-in-law being like that with her three boys and yet they live in a delightful little secluded Welsh village.
Some of the behaviour I see out in public that is tollerated or mollycuddled or excused (or simply ignored) by their parents is mindblowing. I would have got my backside belted for even a hint of what some kids get away with out there.
But children have 'rights' now. And they know it. I do sometimes wonder if it's fear of accusation which stops some parents correctly disciplining their children these days. I'm not sure what it's like in other countries, but in the UK it sometimes seems as though the 'fear culture' is prevalent; it makes for an easier life to let little Trixibelle-Lollipop-Lolita do that thing she shouldn't be doing, or give in to her demands, than have Mrs. Mangle ring the poilce and social services just because you told her off in the supermarket when she was screaming and playing up.
I'd like to think that when (if) I have children I'll be one of those mum's who is firm but fair, loving but not stifling. But I know it won't be so; I worry about my cats when they bugger off for a few hours and don't come home when I call them ... I'd be frantic with a child who did that! (But perhaps that goes back to 'fear culture' - we're now programmed to expect the worst because the media lets us think that bad things are going to happen the moment we turn our backs.)
*climbs off Richard's soapbox too*
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I also belong to the over 40-crowd.
I have had a cell phone in my hand-bag for many years (in case of emergency) and I have never used it,
hopefully I won’t need it either. I am amazed about people in the streets running into each other whilst they are on the phone.
I find it much more interesting to study buildings, people etc. whilst walking.
I only started to get interested in the Internet around two years ago
to find a better diet & keep my pre-dialysis kidney function going for as long as possible
& thanks to the Internet and IHD it has worked so far.
A wonderful side-product of being on the Internet is the fact that
“in the old days” whenever I was researching I was lost
when I could not find certain reference books to continue my research
& Public Libraries were not open in the evenings,
so the Internet is wonderful in that respect.
Whenever I have an idea, I can look it up.
As a child I only had two hours of TV per week
& I made my decisions very thoughtfully, to get as much out of it as possible.
Laurel and Hardy always won, they were half an hour each episode,
so I could watch them four days a week and I just loved their escapades.
I also wonder about children these days because when I was a child
I was able to walk around for many hours on my own without meeting or seeing anyone.
I was in the woods, in the meadows, climbing up little hills etc., investigating plants, observing animals etc.,
I was always on my own, sometimes with a book to read & nothing ever happened.
I don’t think that would be so easy for children now
and it may be more hazardous?
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Didn't the Over 40's Crowd have it cushy?
I was a kid in the 1940's:
No television;
No tapes, only 10-inch shellac gramaphone records that broke as soon as you looked at them;
No bananas or other exotic (for the UK) fruit & vegatables;
No swings and kids' amusements on a Sunday, they were all locked up by laws kowtowing to the church;
No shops open on a Sunday.
There were exciting bomb craters to play in though.
I remember a plane got shot down in our village; I wanted to play on it but my mother wouldn't let me.
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Aww Poppy sweetheart U kujed seeing you on my soapbox. You look so cute up there!!!! :)
I understand what you mean about the "fear culture" - it's like all these child locks and kid proof this and that for fear something might happen to the little dears. Yes, I understand that but I think there gets to be an overcompensation which can be just as unhealthy for all concerned. The end result, as we're seeing, is a bunch of teenagers and now into their 20's generation of kids who have (again, in general - there are some fantastic young people out there) an entitlement complex but also have little or no respect for the law, older people, society in general.
It's when I heard schools were accepting ENGLISH essays in "txtspeak" that I knew we were well and truly doomed. I figure imagine these kids getting out into the workplace (if they can put in a job application that would be accepted!) and wondering why they don't perform well? But then no, it's not their fault, it's clearly ours and we need to make alloweances for them, blah blah blah.
I also worry that poor behaviour left uncorrected at a young age (oh we'll let Johnny scream till he's done, Suzy's got ADHD-we can't do anything, Jack likes to pull the cat's tail.. oh that's harmless) can lead to more disturbing trends later on in life - like bullying of others, cruelty to animals(soon tail pulling is not enough for Jack... :( ) and then of course, violence to their fellow man. In a way the "fear factor" is directly leading to the kind of situation we're most afraid of where it really IS unsafe for kids to go for a ride and play in the local area.....
Maybe this view seems a little extreme - like I wrote above there are plenty of well adjusted(in my view), respectful and well mannered young people out there doing all they can to find their place in this world, but there's also those who expect it all on a plate and if they don't get it they either sue you for neglligence/divorce their parents or simply beat you up out of frustration. If I make it to 60+ these are the folks who will be looking after me... *shudder*
Poppy... hold me?! :rofl;
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Having been a single mother of 3 kids, of course I had one that actually would have lost his head if it was not attached to him. The thought of having to buy cell phones and X-boxes and WII games to entertain them is indeed frightening. My kids always ran off to play and returned at a mealtime. ( those kids never missed a meal ). At that time we never had to worry about them beign outside and playing, but if I were young now and starting a family, I dont think I would want to do it. Too scary nowadays.
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Horrible things have always happened to children and adults alike since the beginning of time. It's just that we hear more about the horrible things since we live in such a electronic (internet) age.
A lady I work with told me about a tombstone she saw in a cemetery. It was for a little girl about 8 years old. It said she was murdered on her way to school. The year she died was 1897. You wouldn't think stuff like that happened back then....but it did.Just like it happens today.
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Yes, BrightSky69, you are correct. Still, I am happy that I grew up in the 50"s, the age of Innocence. While my children were quite normal then, I did have them under control in public, unlike the kids of today. A temper tantrum was out of the question as far as I was concerned, and I am grateful they both grew up to be responsible adults.
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LOL, wow this brings back memories. I grew up in the 70s/early 80s - no TV, small neighbourhood, no shops within walking distance, pizza a mystery, malls unheard of, Drive Thru - what's that? We were indeed sent out to play until dark, and play we did. Be it beach, mountains (we lived at the coast in a fairly mountainous area) or the like, we were driven home by hunger rather than any desire to watch nonexistent TV. Friday was an enormous highlight, because it featured "Squad Cars" at 19:00 - the entire child population would gather to listen with eager anticipation..... And then - WINTER, out of sheer boredom we all learned to read at age four, and never stopped....!!!
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Caller ID ruined the fun I use to have making prank phone calls!
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I was born in the early 60's and remember a lot of what u guys are posting. I lived in a small town in Connecticut without any street lights or sidewalks. We did not have any mass transit and if you wanted to do anything like a movie or bowling you had to go a town or two over. We used to hitchhike all the time. Imagine that. Getting into strangers cars on purpose.
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Poppy... hold me?! :rofl;
Oh, go on then, but don't tell Blokey, k? *ssshhh*
I actually agree with everything you've written. I work with behaviourally, mentally, emotionally and socially challenged poppets, but do know that there are some amazingly well-adjusted and fantastic kids out there who really will be of huge benefit to society one day. There just don't seem to be as many of them as once there were. Perhaps I should just removed these blasted rose-tinted spectacles.
English essays in text-speak? Pfffttt! Ridiculous! What is the world coming to?
*shakes head in disbelief*
Horrible things have always happened to children and adults alike since the beginning of time. It's just that we hear more about the horrible things since we live in such a electronic (internet) age.
A lady I work with told me about a tombstone she saw in a cemetery. It was for a little girl about 8 years old. It said she was murdered on her way to school. The year she died was 1897. You wouldn't think stuff like that happened back then....but it did.Just like it happens today.
'Tis true indeedy. One of the most prolific serial killers ever was allegedly a well educated woman in the sixteenth century.
I saw a programme on the BBC (so it must be factually correct 8) ) where an expert claimed that the crime rates (for murder, rape, burglary, etc.) were actually decreasing in the UK, but the media reporting of such events was increasing, thus making the ordinary public perceive crime rates to be getting worse.
Idiot media! ;D
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When I was a kid, a "home-theater" was a console black & white TV. The town where I grew up only had 2 television stations, so there wasn't much need for a TV Guide.
The "home-entertainment center" was a massive console stereo in our living room. Although it took up a significant amount of space, it had a dinky vacuum-tube based amplifier, and wto cheap speakers. A "playlist" meant that you had several 33 1/3 RPM LPs stacked on the turntable, which would allow you to play almost an hour of non-stop music (assuming that the records weren't scratched).
Since my dad worked at a nuclear facility, we had a "compute" in the house: a slide rule. He taught me how to do basic arithmetic on it, but he forbade me from using it for homework--that would've been cheating. The first real calculator came in the house in the early 70's. It did the 4 basic arithmetic functions and percents. Cost: Over $100.00.
We didn't have video games; instead we played with guns. At first, these were "BB" guns. Then as we got older, we started using .22 rifles and 410 shotguns. Nobody was the least bit concerned seeing a gang of children walking the neighborhoods with firearms. If a Sheriff's Deputy came up on a group of kids shooting at bottles or targets, the most he'd do is remind them to make sure to aim away from traffic or people. I know this is probably shocking to some people, but that's how things were in rural areas of the Southern US during the 60's. People drove around with shotguns and rifles mounted on racks in their trucks, and boys played with guns and knives.
We also rode bicycles all over the county. Our parents would kick us out of the house in the morning during summer months, and they wouldn't know where we were until sunset. Somehow or other, we'd all make it back home before the street lights came on, relatively undamaged.
Even though we didn't have video games, we were too busy to miss them: we were out in the woods hunting squirrels, raccoons and rabbits for lunch, which we cleaned dressed and cooked ourselves; or we would spend the day fishing. Or we'd have a pretend war at a tree house or fortress somewhere. Regardless of what we did, we'd barely get home before our "curfew." We'd usually be dirty from head to toe, and we smelled like we were homeless people, but we did have fun!
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We didn't need cell phones when I was 13 up, I was born in 1960. Most of my friends and I kept in touch by way of the citizens band radio. I had a 100 watt linear amp, and could talk as far away as Florida on good weather weekends from my bedroom. My friends and I had both mobile and home base stations, so we were just a yell away. Only bad thing then was anybody was able to listen in on your conversations, so we stepped up to the "slider channels", which were upper or lower frequencies of the regular channels. That was great fun back in our day, always had ways around the general public, and the system. There was no thing such as the 800 MHz the Police use today, you could buy a scanner for less then 100.00, and know if something was going on that might involve friends, or, some family LOL. Met many good people back then, most of them truckers, or trucker wanna Be's. Hometown Police were known as "local yokels", State Police were smokies & Ambulances were the Meat Wagons. Only dialing then was to scan channels on the C.B. That's my trip down memory lane, hope you enjoyed a glimpse into my life, growing up without a cell phone.
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Watch out for those bear traps, JP! We had a CB for all our trips to Texas to visit my grandparents. We all had handles and chattered with all the truckers all the way the there.
Remember when you could make that pulling motion out the back window of the station wagon as you passed a semi and they'd blow the air horn for you?
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Watch out for those bear traps, JP! We had a CB for all our trips to Texas to visit my grandparents. We all had handles and chattered with all the truckers all the way the there.
Remember when you could make that pulling motion out the back window of the station wagon as you passed a semi and they'd blow the air horn for you?
Oh yes, those air horns!! My Family and I spent most of the 70s into early 80s, traveling from Pittsburgh to Florida for our yearly vacations. People had to have thought us kids were insane, 4 of us, all hanging out the side and rear windows of the station wagon, pulling on an imaginary chain trying to get them truckers to toot those horns. I manned the C.B., watching out for them bear traps, and yappin away to the truckers to make sure it was safe to put the peddle to the metal. Yep, in spite of no cell phone, I wouldn't trade those memories for anything in the world!
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When our son was in JR.HIGH SCHOOL a few years ago, the 1st thing we did to punish him was take away the TV. You would have thought the world was coming to an end. He would SCREAM at the top of his lungs. We would unplug it, until his "time" was over.
He thought he was slick, and would sneak it and plug it in at night, but the smart little angel, didn't realize that he was casting shadows under the door into the hallway. So, I cut off the breaker to his room! NO ELECTRIC AT ALL. End of problem!
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When our son was in JR.HIGH SCHOOL a few years ago, the 1st thing we did to punish him was take away the TV. You would have thought the world was coming to an end. He would SCREAM at the top of his lungs. We would unplug it, until his "time" was over.
He thought he was slick, and would sneak it and plug it in at night, but the smart little angel, didn't realize that he was casting shadows under the door into the hallway. So, I cut off the breaker to his room! NO ELECTRIC AT ALL. End of problem!
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I remember being put out in the morning, and not expected back except for meals. It was done by my grandmother, and everyone in the neighborhood would watch me and my cousin, as we were the only kids in the neighborhood. we'd run around pretending to be He-Man and She-Ra.. *L* We'd play in the brook, go sledding in the winter time. We used to play in the graveyard at the bottom of my grandmother's hill too. That was probably the only place we'd go where we couldn't be seen by either my grandmother or his (my grandmother and his grandfather were brother and sister)
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My sister and I used to walk to the local swimming pool in summer after dinner to watch telly before we had one at home. The telly was set up on one of the picnic tables. Dad used to come and pick us up in the car though, as it would be dark by the time we were ready to come home.
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I always hung around with the boys when I was little, so I was out riding my bike, and building forts, playing cops and robbers, looking for worms, or catching tadpoles.. and this was in the 80s. We had video games, we just didn't spend all day and night playing them.
I have no idea what girls did then. There were no girls in the neighborhood my age at the time. All the girls were older, and I got in their way, I think.
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I remember when Bonanza and Gunsmoke were still in black and white and have a vivid memory of my dad saying that he didn't think they'd look all that much better in color.
My parents used to tell me stories about how they'd take me out on a drive around town, and I'd be STANDING UP between the front bucket seats. We didn't know what seat belts were!
When was the first time you remember using sunscreen? When I was growing up, we used baby oil to encourage a tan!
Summer was mosquito season, so my dad would get on my big turquoise colored bike with me on the back, and we'd ride around the neighborhood, chasing the mosquito truck. Picture "Cloverfield" but with a mosquito truck.
This thread is making me cry. My parents are dead now, my son is disabled and I have CKD. What the hell happened? I wish I could be 8 years old again...
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Ahh.....Bonanza...we got that one our 1 channel in Jamaica...we had horses on our farm and my sister and I loved the show BUT just one problem. Show came on at 8 pm. Our bedtime was 8:30 and we never got to see the endings!!!!!! Maybe that's why I can handle a certain level of frustration????
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When was the first time you remember using sunscreen? When I was growing up, we used baby oil to encourage a tan!
My grandmother used to do that. She'd put on a baby oil and iodine mixture and lay out in the sun and 'bake.' She did it for years. She still goes out in the sun, but she doesn't 'bake' anymore. She'll be the first to put sunscreen on, and she'll bug us to do it too. hehe, most of us grandkids are adults now, but I don't think it matters to her. She changed all our bums at one point.. *LOL*
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Ah, standing up in the front seat of the car - or rolling around in the back of the station wagon! The only passenger who got buckled in was Gram's little dog, so he wouldn't squirm his way under the gas pedal or the brake.
When we cleaned out Gram's garage, we found a slim spring-loaded tension, still in it's packaging from the late 50's. It was meant to wedge across the open back window of the station wagon so the kids and the dog wouldn't hang out the window too far!
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Henry,
You've given me a large dose of the nostalgias!
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hey, im 27, and all of this rang true for me too! I didnt have a cell until I had my son, only deciding to get one for emergencies, now that I had this tiny thing to be responsible for.
Now, I did have a very lucky life, I did have internet the first time when I was 13, but I still prefered the library method for research for long after. Also had an atari, pong is the best game ive ever played! Frogger! Then we got a nintendo and a sega, both, i still say are better than all that new fangled stuff hehe they were simple and fun.
Maybe I am a bit old fashioned for my age, but being a mother, for the first few years, i didnt allow my son to watch tv, now I do, and I fear it my biggest mistake thus far as a parent. Furthermore, he will NOT have a cell phone, or be allowed to surf the web endlessly when he gets older. He will know what a card catolog is, and how to use it. He will know how to ride a bike, swim, and all that other jazz my parents blessed me with. :) If I had my way, the only "new" invention id have in my home (besides the net, for myself of course mwahahha) would be air conditioning! (ok, ok and the microwave, im lazy...sheesh)
One thing this forgot.... children of this generation will never know is dialing the telephone with the long dial method.... 2....1.... or how about dialing without the whole damn number!
OH and typewriters???? whats that???????????????????? :sarcasm;
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hehe.. dialing... I was playing with a dial phone in a pawn shop recently.. the guy behind the counter was looking at me funny... he was younger than me, by at least 10 years.. I don't think he got it..