View Full Version : A little perspective for the younger crowd...
wingnut
11-11-2012, 05:13 PM
...got this in the email today, had to share :p
Just in case you weren't feeling too old today .........
The people who are starting college this fall were born in 1992.
They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.
Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
The CD was introduced two years before they were born.
They have always had an answering machine.
They have always had cable..
Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.
Popcorn has always been microwaved .
They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.
They never heard: 'Where's the Beef?',
'I'd walk a mile for a Camel ' or
'de plane Boss, de plane'.
McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.
They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
onebadmollafolla
11-11-2012, 05:47 PM
Heh, yeah...those damn youngsters. -_-
Snook
11-11-2012, 06:01 PM
Hold on now, I'm 18. I remember (the most recent) space shuttle incident, my granny taught me how to use a typewriter and I was raised on pink Floyd and Stevie Ray Vaughan records and tapes. Then again, I do live in middle of no-where Kentucky. I was forced to grow-up quick and work the farm. :P
CoopKill
11-11-2012, 06:25 PM
Pine cone wars, a glass jar insect war, hide and seek, tree forts, or a number of other things done before video games existed...
Snook
11-11-2012, 06:32 PM
BB gun wars, and you made fun of the kid who wore safety goggles.
CoopKill
11-11-2012, 06:43 PM
We actually wore football gear
wingnut
11-11-2012, 06:55 PM
Ah yes, forgot the BB gun wars...we didnt wear any safety gear at all :D
dbest671
11-11-2012, 07:50 PM
Hold on now, I'm 18. I remember (the most recent) space shuttle incident, my granny taught me how to use a typewriter and I was raised on pink Floyd and Stevie Ray Vaughan records and tapes. Then again, I do live in middle of no-where Kentucky. I was forced to grow-up quick and work the farm. :P
I believe the space shuttle blowing up was in reference to the Challenger in 1986... I barely remember that one. You are thinking of the Columbia, which was only nine years ago.
Snook
11-11-2012, 07:54 PM
Probably. I just got him on a technicality.
Mikes2nd
11-11-2012, 08:04 PM
Arcades... real college bars(everything is a sports bar now)...
No political based news stations... just the news...
TV that wasn't just non stop commercials(esp football)...
No traffic, no idiots wrecking all over.
green-lantern
11-11-2012, 08:11 PM
Arcades... real college bars(everything is a sports bar now)...
No political based news stations... just the news...
TV that wasn't just non stop commercials(esp football)...
Word!
93STLTH
11-11-2012, 09:21 PM
One thing that seems to have disappeared is kids walking home from school. I live across the street from a middle school and it seems like EVERY kid is getting picked up by their parents or by some sort of service. None of them walk home.
wingnut
11-12-2012, 12:33 AM
One thing that seems to have disappeared is kids walking home from school. I live across the street from a middle school and it seems like EVERY kid is getting picked up by their parents or by some sort of service. None of them walk home.
And along with that is the parent(s) going to each and EVERY sports practice...
...when the F did that start, my parents were lucky to show up at homecoming game :lol:
i started on the typewriter, skipped the electric typewriter, and moved directly to the word-processor.
other things that these whipper snappers don't remember:
1993 trade center bombing
chernobyl
nelson mandela being freed from prison
the fall of the berlin wall
the birth of the CIS (i doubt they even know what that is)
Desert Storm
MTV with actual music videos
Apple when it was a GOOD (moral) company
cursing the names of "David Hastings" and "Stephen Meek" (MAJOR props if you know what game i'm talking about)
the birth of rockapella and the entire run of "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" on TV
would barely (if at all) be able to remember oklahoma city bombing
they also probably think that the greatest "Game Show" ever is probably whatever fox dreamed up this week--NOT double-dare
have no idea what "being slimed" is, or why people would get slimed
haven't a clue who john hughes was--let alone the "brat pack"
onebadmollafolla
11-12-2012, 04:03 AM
I am on a fine line of this border being discussed. I find this rather interesting.
i'm sure some of the old guys in here could throw in 3-mile-island, iran hostage crisis, oil embargo, and watergate. milt will throw in the kennedy assassination, the moon landing, and days when women couldn't show their navel on tv..
Hold on now, I'm 18. I remember (the most recent) space shuttle incident, my granny taught me how to use a typewriter and I was raised on pink Floyd and Stevie Ray Vaughan records and tapes. Then again, I do live in middle of no-where Kentucky. I was forced to grow-up quick and work the farm. :P
You're gonna go far. :)
i'm sure some of the old guys in here could throw in 3-mile-island, iran hostage crisis, oil embargo, and watergate. milt will throw in the kennedy assassination, the moon landing, and days when women couldn't show their navel on tv..
Milt is older than I am, and I remember Kennedy being shot like it was yesterday.
Milt remembers the HUAC hearings, though. :)
Snook
11-12-2012, 08:19 AM
And along with that is the parent(s) going to each and EVERY sports practice...
...when the F did that start, my parents were lucky to show up at homecoming game :lol:
I'm pissed my generation gets mad if everyone gets a trophy. Only winners get trophies. If your complaining that everyone didn't get a trophy, you aren't a winner.
wingnut
11-12-2012, 10:10 AM
Ok, so name three of your favorite TV shows as a kid...
the muppet show...
http://tvseriesfinale.com/assets/muppetshow32a.jpg
airwolf...
http://knovelblogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/airwolf.jpg
And of course, the fall guy...
http://media.il.edmunds-media.com/gmc/ns/gmc_actf34_ns_110111_717.jpg
Why the fall guy you ask? Cause heather thomas put daisy duke to shame...
http://www.8ung.at/filminfo/pictures/colt/jody.jpg
...im not quite old enough for howdie doodie, but whatever :D
I was only a kid for 3 years...:huh:
dbest671
11-12-2012, 01:18 PM
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R/T93
11-12-2012, 02:12 PM
Silverhawks does own
From the phone.
onebadmollafolla
11-12-2012, 03:32 PM
When I was a kid I watched...
http://spinningplatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/weird_science-show.jpg
When I was a kid I watched...
http://spinningplatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/weird_science-show.jpg
vanessa angel should have done a LOT more nude modeling. :)
When I was a kid I watched...
http://spinningplatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/weird_science-show.jpg
Hell, I'd have watched the shit out of that. :p
dbest671
11-12-2012, 05:13 PM
http://gullscomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Barth.jpg
CoopKill
11-12-2012, 06:39 PM
GO Beeker!
Let us not forget Erin Gray/Tweeker/Buck Rogers, Andy & Opie, and HR Puff n Stuff
AND!
http://samluce.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/urbanlegends_poprocks_coke_03_10.jpg
stealthee
11-12-2012, 07:48 PM
http://gullscomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Barth.jpg
You can't do that on television.
$$$PIT
11-12-2012, 07:55 PM
Riding horses ALL day, horse turd fights in the barn and building a fort on the creek bank and then throwin' rocks at whoever was in the fort. When kids were outside and doin' somethin'. :)
stealthee
11-12-2012, 08:16 PM
My cousin was telling me about his neighbors this weekend. He said the kids are always outside playing. He was sitting out on his porch and the kids were playing kickball or something andthe ball kept going over the fence into his yard. One of the kids apologized for the ball going into his yard and he told them, "I don't care one bit. You are outside playing and that's all that matters."
bluefox1081
11-13-2012, 10:59 AM
...got this in the email today, had to share :p
Just in case you weren't feeling too old today .........
The people who are starting college this fall were born in 1992.
I haven't read through this thread all the way so I don't know if anyone said this yet, but this email seems to be about 2 or 3 years old. Most people don't start college when they're 20.
One thing that seems to have disappeared is kids walking home from school. I live across the street from a middle school and it seems like EVERY kid is getting picked up by their parents or by some sort of service. None of them walk home.
In my area, the school buses pretty much pick them up and drop them off directly in front of their houses. I'm so glad my commute doesn't involve any back-roads anymore, because I used to get stuck behind a school bus that would make 3 stops on the same road, all within a 500 foot stretch of road, and two of those stop were like 4 houses down from each other. Bunch of paranoid pansies.
In my area, the school buses pretty much pick them up and drop them off directly in front of their houses. I'm so glad my commute doesn't involve any back-roads anymore, because I used to get stuck behind a school bus that would make 3 stops on the same road, all within a 500 foot stretch of road, and two of those stop were like 4 houses down from each other. Bunch of paranoid pansies.
+1.
Safety is one thing, but they treat all kids these days as if they're handicapped...net result is stunted development.
Valhallaz
11-13-2012, 11:41 AM
I remember FULL service gas stations, when you got gas, you also got your windows washed, your tires checked, fluids under the hood checked and topped off and then they thanked you for stopping by.
And we had a milkman...
wingnut
11-13-2012, 11:51 AM
I haven't read through this thread all the way so I don't know if anyone said this yet, but this email seems to be about 2 or 3 years old. Most people don't start college when they're 20.
Hey now, we're on page 4 of the reminiscing...dont get all fun police on us :p
I remember FULL service gas stations, when you got gas, you also got your windows washed, your tires checked, fluids under the hood checked and topped off and then they thanked you for stopping by.
And we had a milkman...
Never had a milkman, but my uncle was a post man that actually walked to each individual house, instead of going to these new fangled multi-boxes...
...and i actually worked part time in one of them "full service" stations back in the 80's :D
HilbillyHomeboy
11-13-2012, 01:28 PM
I miss Looney Toons. :( How in the world they think those cartoons are worse than the anime garbage is beyond me.
Jeremy
I miss Looney Toons. :( How in the world they think those cartoons are worse than the anime garbage is beyond me.
Jeremy
Looney Tunes = Best Ever, by far.
ictponder
11-13-2012, 03:29 PM
+1.
Safety is one thing, but they treat all kids these days as if they're handicapped...net result is stunted development.
We currently live about 3 blocks from the middle school and I have no intentions of ever letting my kids walk there or to high school.
We currently live about 3 blocks from the middle school and I have no intentions of ever letting my kids walk there or to high school.
I'm referring more to the train of thought that leads to outlawing 'tag' at recess, Isaac, but I take your point. :)
stealthee
11-13-2012, 06:05 PM
When I lived in Las Vegas I walked to school in 2nd and 3rd grade by myself. The school was about a mile away and I had to cross a 6 lane blvd to get there.
When I lived in Las Vegas I walked to school in 2nd and 3rd grade by myself. The school was about a mile away and I had to cross a 6 lane blvd to get there.
I hear the crossing guards in Vegas are mobbed-up. :wink:
bluefox1081
11-14-2012, 09:55 AM
We currently live about 3 blocks from the middle school and I have no intentions of ever letting my kids walk there or to high school.
Why? And especially why not high school if it's close enough? Hell, I walked to elementary school by myself or with a friend if we happened to leave around the same time and meet up at an intersection. The only reason I didn't walk to middle school or high school was because they were too far away (high school I took a bus, but still had to walk 4 blocks to the bus stop).
stealthee
11-14-2012, 08:15 PM
I had to walk 1/2 mile to get to my bus stop in high school. Bus stop is still in the same spot today.
anyonebutme
11-14-2012, 09:14 PM
anyone else remember Tang, lol
Snook
11-14-2012, 09:37 PM
Oh my god that tasty drink.
93STLTH
11-14-2012, 11:57 PM
Do they still do fire drills during school?
I still remember doing bomb drills in elementary school. Can you believe they actually thought you'd be safe during a nuclear strike by hiding under your desk? :w00t:
fire drills. tornado drills. and i walked to school. a mile. uphill. both ways. seriously.
onebadmollafolla
11-15-2012, 03:49 AM
I grew up in the era of guns in schools... Had a dumbass bring a pistol to one of the dances even. :/
DocWalt
11-15-2012, 11:12 AM
I'm a youngin, but I still walked uphill both ways, in every condition imaginable. Still remember a day in freezing rain and getting to school with my pants frozen solid and my backpack taking all day to thaw, just to walk home in the rain. Good times. Kept me in shape at least :)
I'm a youngin, but I still walked uphill both ways, in every condition imaginable. Still remember a day in freezing rain and getting to school with my pants frozen solid and my backpack taking all day to thaw, just to walk home in the rain. Good times. Kept me in shape at least :)
fuck i remember days when i'd get to school and my hair almost resembled coolio's...it was frozen solid.
green-lantern
11-15-2012, 11:31 AM
Anybody remember the assassin game? A bunch of people would sign up and you would get a name of the person you were to take out. Somebody else would get your name so you would have to watch your back while you were plotting your way of getting your guy. They used dart guns with the suction cup on the end. I can’t remember all the rules but you had to get them without witnesses or something. That shit would never fly today. A plastic dart gun would get you expelled. :(
DocWalt
11-15-2012, 11:50 AM
fuck i remember days when i'd get to school and my hair almost resembled coolio's...it was frozen solid.
Yeah, good times. nose icicles were awesome.
Anybody remember the assassin game? A bunch of people would sign up and you would get a name of the person you were to take out. Somebody else would get your name so you would have to watch your back while you were plotting your way of getting your guy. They used dart guns with the suction cup on the end. I can’t remember all the rules but you had to get them without witnesses or something. That shit would never fly today. A plastic dart gun would get you expelled. :(
They have leagues for that game for grown-ups :p
green-lantern
11-15-2012, 12:00 PM
They have leagues for that game for grown-ups :p
I haven't heard about it in 30 years. Edit: more like 25 years actualy, it got big for a while.
HilbillyHomeboy
11-15-2012, 12:17 PM
Anybody remember the assassin game? A bunch of people would sign up and you would get a name of the person you were to take out. Somebody else would get your name so you would have to watch your back while you were plotting your way of getting your guy. They used dart guns with the suction cup on the end. I can’t remember all the rules but you had to get them without witnesses or something. That shit would never fly today. A plastic dart gun would get you expelled. :(
Gotcha! (1985) - IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089222/) is what started/popularized that. Loved that movie.
Jeremy
I haven't heard about it in 30 years. Edit: more like 25 years actualy, it got big for a while.
our crew did it on deployment once. sharpies were the weapon. single tap to the neck was a kill.
green-lantern
11-15-2012, 05:40 PM
Gotcha! (1985) - IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089222/) is what started/popularized that. Loved that movie.
Jeremy
There it is, I couldn't remember the movie. I knew they made one about it.
DocWalt
11-16-2012, 09:27 AM
I'll have to check that movie out, looks ridiculous :lo5l:
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