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Things my kids will never know about

RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
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Rolodex, pay phones and pagers to name a few. Your turn.I remember when my dad's pager would go off and he'd have to pull over to use a pay phone.
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  • Jetmech_63Jetmech_63 Posts: 3,451 ✭✭✭
    How to read a map, balance a checkbook, develop film, use encyclopedias, mail a letter.
  • jd50aejd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Black and white TV.
    Dial phones.
    Coal shoots.
    Walking to school.
    Pea shooters.
    House calls by doctors.
  • clearlysuspectclearlysuspect Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭✭
    TV Dials and antennas, TV Guide, House Fuses, Parachute Pants
  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    I'm tempted to add family dinners to this, but I'll hold off.
  • Ken_LightKen_Light Posts: 3,537 ✭✭✭
    Dodgeball, football, ice cream cone cupcakes in school for birthdays
    ^Troll: DO NOT FEED.
  • smoke_em_if_you_got_emsmoke_em_if_you_got_em Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Floppy disk, cassette tapes
  • dandin1dandin1 Posts: 175 ✭
    Why it is referred to as "roll down the window"
  • honorknight7honorknight7 Posts: 523 ✭
    clearlysuspect:
    TV Dials and antennas, TV Guide, House Fuses, Parachute Pants

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  • blutattooblutattoo Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭
    8-tracks, 78's, B sides, rotary phones, VHS and Betamax, unlocked front doors
  • Puff_DougiePuff_Dougie Posts: 4,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Riding a bike without a helmet
    Riding in a car without a seat belt
    Lawn Darts (a.k.a. Jarts)
    Candy Cigarettes
    "When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  • blutattooblutattoo Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭
    Puff_Dougie:
    Riding a bike without a helmet
    Riding in a car without a seat belt
    Lawn Darts (a.k.a. Jarts)
    Candy Cigarettes
    Don't forget riding in the back of a truck too
  • brianetz1brianetz1 Posts: 4,134 ✭✭✭
    Ken Light:
    Dodgeball, football, ice cream cone cupcakes in school for birthdays
    they still play dodgeball and football at my son's school.....
    blutattoo:
    Puff_Dougie:
    Riding a bike without a helmet
    Riding in a car without a seat belt
    Lawn Darts (a.k.a. Jarts)
    Candy Cigarettes
    Don't forget riding in the back of a truck too
    my kids have rode in the back of a truck and rode a bike without a helmet..........ok maybe i am just a bad parent. I look at it like my parents lived and i lived if they grab the bike without a helment, oh well. If they are going a mile to a friends house and want to ride in the back of the truck oh well.

    and everyone who is talking about music media, all things become retro.....the mixtape is still a huge cultural phenomenon, and look at how big vinyl is in this day and age.
  • smoke_em_if_you_got_emsmoke_em_if_you_got_em Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭✭✭
    brianetz1:
    Ken Light:
    Dodgeball, football, ice cream cone cupcakes in school for birthdays
    they still play dodgeball and football at my son's school.....
    blutattoo:
    Puff_Dougie:
    Riding a bike without a helmet
    Riding in a car without a seat belt
    Lawn Darts (a.k.a. Jarts)
    Candy Cigarettes
    Don't forget riding in the back of a truck too
    my kids have rode in the back of a truck and rode a bike without a helmet..........ok maybe i am just a bad parent. I look at it like my parents lived and i lived if they grab the bike without a helment, oh well. If they are going a mile to a friends house and want to ride in the back of the truck oh well.

    and everyone who is talking about music media, all things become retro.....the mixtape is still a huge cultural phenomenon, and look at how big vinyl is in this day and age.
    Just got me a record player for xmas and my kids love it!
  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    reel to reel audio tape and for that matter, reel to reel video tape
    after school fights
    duck hunting before school
    Dinner at the dinner table
    Sunday school
    Ruler across the knuckles by the teacher. (and it wasn't abuse, it was discipline)
    Having to do actual chores.
    Having to turn the wipers on and off, cause there was not intermittent wipers.
    Knowing how to check your oil on your car.
    Having to actually be home to watch a movie or cartoon, cause there was no recording it.
    And if there was something that pre-emted it [president or Dad had some show he wanted to watch], you were screwed.
    Having to adjust the color on your TV with a color wheel. (now I'm really dating myself.)
    mimeograph paper.
    pens that leaked all over.
    ashtrays on shopping carts.
    Buying cigarettes out of a cigarette machine.

    Just a small bit that I can think of off the top of my head.
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,711 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oh yeah, That reminds me.

    Tiny ashtrays built into the armrests on planes and buses.
  • RBeckomRBeckom Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭
    This thread amuses me for it reminds me so much about my own past.
  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Liberty.
    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
  • honorknight7honorknight7 Posts: 523 ✭
    does having to go "Pick" your own branch to get whipped with count ? Damn i still have nightmares about poplar trees, oh and and leather straps

    And I also grew up with "Radio night" instead of the TV
    and Pop used the old Victrola for our "music" time around the house
    why yes I did grow up on a ranch :D
  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    Going to the store to pick up smokes/beer for their parents.
  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bob Luken:
    Oh yeah, That reminds me.

    Tiny ashtrays built into the armrests on planes and buses.
    And on the armests of cars. I remember many times having the indent on my arm from those things.

    The records remind me of when I was younger and my sisters waiting at the store for a new record to come out. It was a big deal back then.
    Rain:
    Going to the store to pick up smokes/beer for their parents.
    With a note from your parents. LOL!
    Funny how their hand writing was so similar to mine.
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • RBeckomRBeckom Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭
    Rain:
    Going to the store to pick up smokes/beer for their parents.

    Smoking in Jr. High with your parents permission slip. Not that I smoked way back then but a lot of my friends did.
  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    RBeckom:
    Rain:
    Going to the store to pick up smokes/beer for their parents.

    Smoking in Jr. High with your parents permission slip. Not that I smoked way back then but a lot of my friends did.
    Schools with "smoking areas".

    Which reminds me. Having to find a dime to call home from the pay phone, only to have no one home to answer the phone.
    Which brings up the lack of answering machines.
    Or having to leave a message with the phone operator to let your folks know you'll be late getting home or to pick you up.
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    Hmm, this is a maybe. Putting the car in neutral to coast down the street when you are sneaking out.
  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    Wait, you could leave a message with the operator?
  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Rain:
    Hmm, this is a maybe. Putting the car in neutral to coast down the street when you are sneaking out.
    They could still hear my truck down the road. So we pushed for quite some time.
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Rain:
    Wait, you could leave a message with the operator?
    yup. And we had 5 digit phone numbers and party lines.
    Well, they were regular phone numbers, but you just dialed the last number of the prefix and the number.
    For that matter, I remember telling the operator west seattle 4 and the number or CH4 and the number.
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    "Give me the 4-1-1"
  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Rain:
    "Give me the 4-1-1"
    Hello, directory assistance.
    Or calling a number (used to be 555-1212 in our area) and getting, "at the tone, the correct time will be........"
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • BigshizzaBigshizza Posts: 15,659 ✭✭✭✭✭
    An honest to God Service Station
    Gas at .50/gallon
    Concert T-Shirts for $5.00 and tickets for $8.00
    The Arcade
    not wearing seatbelts
    Not knowing the ingredients in food etc
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