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Saw this and thought I would post it.
Add some others.
Kids today will never experience.
Spam as just a meat product.
Starbuck being a man.
Privacy.
Typewriters.
Trig tables and log tables.
Finding books in a card catalog at the library.
Swimming pools with diving boards.
Writing a check.
Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
Playing music on an audio tape
Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room.
Television without remote control.
8-track cartridges.
Vinyl records.
Betamax tapes.
Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations.
The scream of a modem connecting.
The buzz of a dot-matrix printer
5- and 3-inch floppies.
Using jumpers to set IRQs.
Booting your computer off of a floppy disk.
Finding information in a printed encyclopedia.
Doing bank business only when the bank is open.
Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.
Phone books and Yellow Pages.
Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it.
Carrying on a correspondence with hand written letter.
Sending that film away to be processed.
CB radios.
Rotary-dial telephones.
Pay phones.
Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.
Toys actually being suitable for the under-3s.
Relying on the 5-minute sport segment on the nightly news for baseball highlights.
Looking out the window during a long drive.
Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall.01-13-10 03:54 PMLike 0 -
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Most of those suck anyway. Thank god...Saw this and thought I would post it.
Add some others.
Kids today will never experience.
Spam as just a meat product.
Starbuck being a man.
Privacy.
Typewriters.
Trig tables and log tables.
Finding books in a card catalog at the library.
Swimming pools with diving boards.
Writing a check.
Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
Playing music on an audio tape
Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room.
Television without remote control.
8-track cartridges.
Vinyl records.
Betamax tapes.
Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations.
The scream of a modem connecting.
The buzz of a dot-matrix printer
5- and 3-inch floppies.
Using jumpers to set IRQs.
Booting your computer off of a floppy disk.
Finding information in a printed encyclopedia.
Doing bank business only when the bank is open.
Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.
Phone books and Yellow Pages.
Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it.
Carrying on a correspondence with hand written letter.
Sending that film away to be processed.
CB radios.
Rotary-dial telephones.
Pay phones.
Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.
Toys actually being suitable for the under-3s.
Relying on the 5-minute sport segment on the nightly news for baseball highlights.
Looking out the window during a long drive.
Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall.01-13-10 04:02 PMLike 0 -
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sadly they will also never experience a good swift swat on the backside when they are acting like little brats when out in public, because it will get DHS called on the parents. Tragic01-13-10 04:20 PMLike 0 -
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They Will Also never experience loosing at a sporting event while they are kids, everyone is a winner, way to raise a bunch of nancy pants kids who don't understand work is a challenge, and a contest.01-13-10 05:27 PMLike 0 -
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my kids listen to what my wife and i listen to on the radio while driving and they get there little hands and butts smacked if they act up....come sports time they will learn that some are better than others and that losing is a part of life that is neccesary.....they also are treated as part of a whole and not gods gift to earth...01-13-10 05:39 PMLike 0 -
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1. innocense
2. solving problems without adult supervision
3. creativity---creating and playing a game for 6 other kids with a jack and a marble
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Actually working to get the stuff they want
Oh and my favorite, gettin slapped when they smart off or say something disrespectful
Am I the only one that felt old realizing I grew up with most of that stuff
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amazinglygracelessRetired ModNope, I'm right there with you Rob.
Writing letters by hand.
Doing math in their heads or on paper.
Real R&B
News at 6:00pm and 11:00pm ONLY
Data storage via cassette tape (TRS-80)
Gasoline for less than $1.00 p/gal
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Walking out the front door and going to play with friends, not coming back until dinner time. No planned play dates weeks ahead.
Trick or treating with a pillow case.
Having no school because of snow, and going out to make money shoveling neighbors driveways and making snow angels.
Writing thank you notes when someone gives a gift
Playing board games
Singing "1000 bottle of beers on the wall" on a road trip
Never getting something taken away when being punished, because we had nothing to be taken away
Sitting down to dinner and talking.01-13-10 09:42 PMLike 0 -
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I miss alot of those things. Life was simple and carefree. Kids today have so many concerns and worries that have been created by advancements. They have to grow up so fast and keep up with it all. It is a shame.01-13-10 09:47 PMLike 0 -
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Amen to that! Oh, but spanking your child turns them into Charles Manson, ain't ya heard?
...I'm only going on 22 and that list made ME feel old. -_____-;;; I know allllll about allllll of that stuff and it was cutting edge.01-14-10 06:32 AMLike 0 -
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For me some of this I still do lol and use
Pumping the brakes
Starting a flooded car (carburetor) - 4ft flames was a bonus
Not worrying about buying winter tires
Bumper Jacks
manual chokes
Hearing the pops and crackles of a record - The Joshua Tree was my fav for that , the intro for "Where the streets have no name" . To this day I still remember the time and place when I heard that for the first time .
Taping music off the radio or in my later years taping it off of Much Music
Watching Much Music or MTV and seeing actual music vids all day
Watching sports when athletes still played for the sport of it not the salary
Camping without power and all the comforts of a modern RV has these days
nickey nickey 9 doors
Astro pop's
Cool toys in cereal
Oh so many more I could add lol . Kids today missed out on so much good stuff when the world was a safer place .01-14-10 11:17 AMLike 0 -
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getting done with the chores in the morning so you could fish all day......
not having to be home till the car lights came on in the summer
knowing your neighbors
hoping those neighbors fences to play with the neighbor kids
gates between neighbors houses (ignoring those gates to hop the fence)
knowing, respecting the cop that patrolled the neighborhood
walking to school
being excited for sat. morning cartoons
building bike ramps ( i had to do this for the neighbor kids, and 2 2x4's on top was too high)01-14-10 11:44 AMLike 0 -
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Getting kicked out of the house during weekends, holidays and summer vacations by 9am to go outside and play till lunch, then back out till dinner.
Actually knocking on someones door to ask them to come out instead of a week long planning for a "play date".
Having to really work to get a girl to take her clothes off! Lol jk (kinda)
Having to do stuff to get stuff
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