biafra
El Dandy
Biafra Who?
Posts: 7,617
|
Post by biafra on Nov 26, 2009 9:25:32 GMT -5
Lot more white people running around now then when I was a kid.
Back then you could go days without seeing a single white person, but due to incessent breeding and inter immigration you can't throw a brick without hitting one.
Which I do, all the time.
|
|
|
|
Post by angryfan on Nov 26, 2009 9:36:18 GMT -5
If you had cable, you used to have to pay extra for the Disney Channel. Disney, hell, ESPN and the Comedy Channel (which was pretty much just stand-up specials 24/7) were both premium channels. I also loved the first cable remote we ever had, back in like 1985 or so. It was a giant box that had a long cord that ran to the TV. We'd get those little cards every once in a while with updated channel lists that would slide into the box's display window. |
|
|
|
Post by strykerdarksilence on Nov 26, 2009 9:50:36 GMT -5
A huge difference from my perspective is how kids act. I'll take my old school as a case in point.
When I started there, you didn't DREAM of badmouthing a sixth former because of what would result. I actually don't know what would have happened if we had done it, but the fear/respect was too great for us to risk it. Fast forward from 13 years ago to 6-8 years ago when I was in the sixth form, and the obnoxious verbal abuse you received from kids you didn't know and had never seen before was disgusting, and if we were to have taken action, you bet we would have been the ones in trouble.
Now present day, my step daughter and my friends' kids are in that school, and there is absolutely no discipline anywhere, and we make sure our kids are in school sports clubs etc that keep them away from that element which is even more prevalent now. Pretty much all the good teachers in that school retired or left as soon as they could pretty close to the end of my time in that school because the place was deteriorating rapidly.
|
|
|
|
Post by Ash Kingston on Nov 26, 2009 9:58:05 GMT -5
Well, when I was a wee lad (chronologically), the playground at my school used pure gravel for the 'cushioning' if you fell off the monkey bars or the good ol' tire swings. And damn if those things weren't a hazard to the extremely stupid; I should know, considering I got beaned upside the back of the head once by one (and the 6th Grader swinging on it). Oh, and I dunno if it was just our playground, but they had a house that you could climb up on except during school hours, because the teachers were a bit... um... concerned about kids jumping off. Oh, and bouncy wooden bridges where the game was to climb onto the railings of the bridge, jump down, and send the other kids flying. My fat ass was great at this.Oh, hey, remember when you could dress up for Halloween in elementary? That was fun. Then they banned it in Grade 6, but you could go to a special dress-up day as your favorite book character and parade through the classes with the six other kids who actually did it! Dumbest idea ever, and another one I'm glad I didn't get involved it. And then you had assemblies in December to sing Christmas carols and not do homework. And dammit, they canned this the same year! It's like they knew I was graduating, so they made it suck as hard as possible!Um... water gun fights were more popular. As was running through the sprinkler! Oh, and finally, wrestling was widely regarded as awesome in those years, and then that radically changed around... late 2000 for some reason. Oddly enough, in Junior High! Wut u say 2 me? >=O i shuld kik ur ass Oww! It burns to type like that! Q_Q |
|
default
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Blames Everything On Snitsky. Yes, Even THAT.
Posts: 17,056
|
Post by default on Nov 26, 2009 10:00:09 GMT -5
If you had cable, you used to have to pay extra for the Disney Channel. Disney, hell, ESPN and the Comedy Channel (which was pretty much just stand-up specials 24/7) were both premium channels. I also loved the first cable remote we ever had, back in like 1985 or so. It was a giant box that had a long cord that ran to the TV. We'd get those little cards every once in a while with updated channel lists that would slide into the box's display window. I remember Disney well (my cable TV company was crappy... and still is to my knowledge... no PPVs). In fact, I remember there was a magazine out that gave you a card or code or something for a free month of Disney Channel (wanna say Good Housekeeping). Needless to say, no kids were outside that month really. I was, because we had a descrambler box so we had the channel. Heck, even my grandparents got the month and were watching it. |
|
Grendel
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
But ... why is all the rum gone?
Posts: 17,593
|
Post by Grendel on Nov 26, 2009 10:11:39 GMT -5
Ah, you young whippersnappers ... When I was a kid, we had dangerous toys. Metal Law Jarts, Tonka trucks that you could beat someone to death with on the playground, and chemistry sets came with actual radioactive material so you could test out your geiger counter. I didn't have one, but I remember people who did ... And as far as home video game consoles went, you felt damn lucky when you got to hook up the damn thing to the back of the television set using the antenna screws and play pong. Oh, and my first computer had a whopping 5K of memory, and you could only use around 3200 of it. My second computer had 64K of memory, but you could only use about 39K of it since the rest ran the system. My best friend's first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000, so I was better off than him at the time. Of course, he went on to become a software engineer so he is doing much better than me ... We had 3 channels when I was a kid, and those were the CBS, NBC, and ABC feeds. I was ecstatic when I got we were able to get the 2 public television feeds and then later on an independent channel came into being. During my teen years, two more indy channels were added and I was in heaven. Then this upstart Fox network offered a few shows of programming I really liked (Married with Children, 21 Jump Street, and Werewolf) and imagine my surprise when they jumped to another channel when the indy channel they were on refused to carry all their programming. Hell, when I was a kid NBC and CBS carried the football games, NBC carrying AFC and CBS doing the NFC games. Oh wow ... I feel old ... this seems appropriate at this point ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKJ0QHLm1Uw |
|
|
|
Post by silentrage on Nov 26, 2009 10:18:40 GMT -5
Lot more white people running around now then when I was a kid. Back then you could go days without seeing a single white person, but due to incessent breeding and inter immigration you can't throw a brick without hitting one. Which I do, all the time. These types of posts are allowed, why? |
|
|
|
Post by Lenny: Smooth like Keith Stone on Nov 26, 2009 10:26:45 GMT -5
I was a kid in the 80's, and things were a lot different.
We had no cell phones or twitters or facebooks. We had no INTERNET. Which means if you wanted to let your friends know how you were doing, you had to go to your house and call them on your house phone. Or.... you had to go ride your bike over to their house and see them in person.
Likewise having no internet meant it was harder to find porn. If you wanted to see boobs, you couldn't just go on the computer and type in 'boobs'. You had to stay up until 3AM, sneak out to the TV room without waking your parents, and watch whatever 70's softcore flick Showtime or Cinemax was playing that night. Those movies were 80% sideburns and bellbottoms anyway, so you usually had to watch it for a long time before you actually got to see anything.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2009 10:46:47 GMT -5
Dirt baseball fields were replaced by a fine gravel; sliding face-first was no longer an option because your hands would catch in the gravel and bend your hand back to your elbow. The only place where it was safe from errant foul balls was right behind home plate. If you sat on the bench, you were in the line of fire.
Scores were kept. Standings were posted in the paper. If you lost, you just sucked it up for the next game and try to play better. (Unless your team was loaded with kids from the Christian school who always picked the middle of the season to go on a week-long retreat, causing you to forfeit games cause only 5 kids were available.)
Skateboards were about the size of a banana; plastic but durable. If you had big feet, that wasn't the sport for you; your toes would hang over. Helmets? Pads? Shoes? Surely you must be joking. Bikes too; what kid has never come home whimpering because they scraped their toes on the concrete?
Play until the street lights came on; longer when your parents were on the front porch drinking and keeping an eye on you.
Your friends' parents had the right to discipline you if you did wrong at their house. That was just the understanding.
Then after you'd get a spanking there, you'd go home and get another one from your own parents.
The most fear-inducing words any kid over 30 has heard:
"Wait until your dad gets home."
If you screwed up to the point your mom won't get it over with and threaten you with that, you're in some deep doo-doo.
|
|
|
|
Post by Mr. Emoticon Man, TF Fan on Nov 26, 2009 11:10:35 GMT -5
I just turned 30 a week ago. I have three decades worth of change I could rant about. I'll just start by saying Transformers were made out of better material and easier to transform when I was a child. Toys as a whole were a lot more simple back in the 80s. |
|
biafra
El Dandy
Biafra Who?
Posts: 7,617
|
Post by biafra on Nov 26, 2009 12:15:30 GMT -5
Lot more white people running around now then when I was a kid. Back then you could go days without seeing a single white person, but due to incessent breeding and inter immigration you can't throw a brick without hitting one. Which I do, all the time. These types of posts are allowed, why? Because it's pretty obvious to everyone who knows anything about me I'm joking. |
|
Cavs for Mavs Mafia
Dennis Stamp
U may h8 rebecca black, but she luvs u!gronemeyerJakeGronie
Posts: 4,144
|
Post by Cavs for Mavs Mafia on Nov 26, 2009 12:23:10 GMT -5
The most fear-inducing words any kid over 30 has heard:
"Wait until your dad gets home." If you screwed up to the point your mom won't get it over with and threaten you with that, you're in some deep doo-doo. Oh yes, I remember that. I think its progress that this has gone the way of the dodo. If your Mom can't discipline her kids w/o Dad as the punisher, the kids are going to run right over Mommy. I'm oldest of 4 boys each about a year apart, and it's a wounder my mom still has her sanity intact. |
|
TuneinTokyo
Hank Scorpio
The Mountain from Stone Mountain
Posts: 6,431
|
Post by TuneinTokyo on Nov 26, 2009 12:26:04 GMT -5
I remember having seven channels for TV. 2-4-5-7-20-26(all Chinese station)-36-44. Wrestling was on 44 then 20 when AWA came town.
rotary dial phones. (No cordless).
The Record Factory.
the days and weeks leading up to the Atari 2600
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2009 13:47:16 GMT -5
Oh geez.
Recalling my earliest years in Kentucky...
- Rotary phones
- School playground made of freakin' wood (and I got hurt on it once!)
- And if you fell, you fell onto gravel
- It also had a tire swing
- Homes with actual basements (and an elevated front porch, where I once rode my tricycle down the steps. Yes, it hurt like a bitch) - seriously, our front porch was the equivalent of 1 story high
- Cable was a luxury
- Disney Channel cost extra
- Our cable company hadn't gotten on the PPV bandwagon at the time
- My birth city has a park called Central Park, modeled after the more famous NYC landmark. It had 4 different playgrounds, each one for a different age level
- When I played Little League, our field was made of crushed bricks, not dirt
|
|
|
|
Post by Next Level was WRONG on Nov 26, 2009 14:10:57 GMT -5
Well, there wasn't any autotunes or HD-ready LCD plasma home entertainment systems, and I'm pretty sure women weren't allowed to vote. My memory's fuzzy.
|
|
Fiddleford H. McGucket
El Dandy
My Mind's been gone for 30-odd years! Can't Break what's already broken!
Posts: 8,748 
|
Post by Fiddleford H. McGucket on Nov 26, 2009 14:11:02 GMT -5
I remember people wore more neon, that cable was a bigger deal to have, and that gameboys the size of a brick were kickass. ;D Definitely more casual homophobia, on the negative side. I resent 1 point from all of this.... Game Bricks are STILL Kickass |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2009 14:16:40 GMT -5
Cheaper movie tickets. Less summer blockbusters. The dot.com bubble burst was really exciting.
|
|
4real
Wade Wilson
Posts: 28,709
|
Post by 4real on Nov 26, 2009 14:27:28 GMT -5
Back in my day we didn't have iNets and Interpods, FaceSpaces and Twitbooks oh no. In my day we had cassettes, pay phones, cheap cinemas and bowling alleys, decent television, gameboys and commodore 64s.
Saturday night T.V consisted of entertaining family T.V. not this reality T.V rubbish. Heck hand dryers were real hand dryers none of this fancy suck your hands off crap. When we had Sky T.V. you had about 30 channels and that were it, and one of them was the bloody Country music Channel. Kids today? You don't even know you're born.
|
|
Malcolm
Grimlock
Wanted something done about the color of his ring.
May contain ADHD
Posts: 13,505
|
Post by Malcolm on Nov 26, 2009 17:15:18 GMT -5
When I was a kid, the world seemed less, I dunno, douchey?
Anime wasn't so big, playgrounds used to have sand in them, and you could find a stray dog without trying back in my day.
Daytime network television was somewhat worth watching back in the day as it consisted of things other than infomercials and judge shows.
|
|
|
|
Post by Young Game on Nov 26, 2009 17:29:48 GMT -5
I remember Saturdays when Soul Train was my cue to go outside and play. You would miss out on the awesome that was Don Cornelius and his Solid Gold Dancers? The most fear-inducing words any kid over 30 has heard:
"Wait until your dad gets home."Yeah. If I were 31 and still living at home, I imagine my pops would be pretty pissed. |
|
