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re: Growing up in the 80s
Posted on 9/27/18 at 8:10 pm to fallguy_1978
Posted on 9/27/18 at 8:10 pm to fallguy_1978
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mullet
*Sigh*, I wish I had hair for a mullet
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Posted on 9/27/18 at 8:12 pm to patnuh
Growing up in Shenandoah in the 80’s and 90’s was pretty awesome from what I remember. You always knew where everyone was hanging out by the bikes in the front yard. Smear the queer, king of the ring matches(royal rumble) at the kids house with the trampoline, Homerun derby with tennis balls and metal bats, kickball tournaments at recess, summer camp at ymca and brec parks, go karts, sketchy arse ramps for our bikes, Nintendo, sega, shootin pellet guns, reruns of saved by the bell, Major League, riding your bike to school, I could go on and on...
This post was edited on 9/27/18 at 8:18 pm
Posted on 9/27/18 at 8:15 pm to the paradigm
I lived in the country. I would disappear into the woods for hours and hours at a very young age. School friends begged to come stay over because we were always building forts and bridges in the woods. Once we grew up and all got four wheelers we would disappear for days. If our parents knew how far away we went they would kill us!
Posted on 9/27/18 at 8:32 pm to fallguy_1978
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A lot of other guys did
I carried a modified version into the 90s
Posted on 9/27/18 at 9:45 pm to fallguy_1978
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Service Merchandise
Wow! I completely forgot that store existed...
Posted on 9/27/18 at 9:51 pm to RDOtiger
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Wow! I completely forgot that store existed.
Imagine walking out of the mall with a shotgun today. You'd probably be surrounded by a swat team
Posted on 9/27/18 at 9:56 pm to BlacknGold
quote:That's celiac disease and it was around in the 1980s. What he's talking about are the people with no real symptoms who think they have gluten issues.
they were. they just werent diagnosed and probably couldnt figure out why they were in constant pain from certain foods.
Posted on 9/27/18 at 10:03 pm to patnuh
All I remember was it always reset - take an arse whipping, next day was a new opportunity and nobody got killed, hit a home run, next day was a chance for a new one, missed out on the girl at the pool party, next week. Bottom line is that there seemed like something to always look forward to. If it got fricked up last week, by next week it would be forgotten and we would be focused on who did something stupid that week. Most importantly of all, nobody was worried about being killed in some chicken shite shooting or their puking at a key party being broadcast to the world for enternity.
ETA - that's when shite you did was still your fault - no blame game like now.
ETA - that's when shite you did was still your fault - no blame game like now.
This post was edited on 9/27/18 at 10:05 pm
Posted on 9/27/18 at 10:05 pm to patnuh
I'm not advocating for this in today's age but we didn't have the same gun safety awareness around kids. My dad had loaded guns all over the house. I just knew that if I touched them that was my arse
Most of my friends' dads did too. Or at least an unlocked glass case full of weapons and ammo.
Most of my friends' dads did too. Or at least an unlocked glass case full of weapons and ammo.
Posted on 9/27/18 at 10:21 pm to patnuh
That means some weird chemical since the 80s has caused peanut allergies. Peanut allergies ain’t fictional like that gluten stuff. They actually do exist now. So what’s the cause?
Posted on 9/27/18 at 11:53 pm to Celery
Like I said, the two kids at my girls school who are allergic have parents who look like freaks. I'd imagine the parents did something weird during pregnancy or afterwards. I'll feed my kid motor oil if she will eat it.
Posted on 9/28/18 at 1:00 am to patnuh
our house was in walking distance to the baseball and football fields in our hometown.
my brother and i would go up there all the time and play pick up games of baseball or football with other neighborhood kids.
when there weren't any kids up there or not enough for teams we'd usually come back and play Tecmo Bowl or Double Dragon on Nintendo.
also had a trail to the woods and the end of our street and built several forts within those woods over the years.
most of those woods are gone now and there are more neighborhoods there.
my brother and i would go up there all the time and play pick up games of baseball or football with other neighborhood kids.
when there weren't any kids up there or not enough for teams we'd usually come back and play Tecmo Bowl or Double Dragon on Nintendo.
also had a trail to the woods and the end of our street and built several forts within those woods over the years.
most of those woods are gone now and there are more neighborhoods there.
This post was edited on 9/28/18 at 1:02 am
Posted on 9/28/18 at 5:16 am to patnuh
Yep we camped out on sandbars Fighting mosquitoes and snakes all while fishing. Fist fights after school was common but it was never two on one , if you knocked someone down you didn’t kick them in the head.
Posted on 9/28/18 at 5:30 am to patnuh
Riding some pretty long distances in the back of a pickup truck at a fairly young age.
Posted on 9/28/18 at 5:35 am to patnuh
WGN was the only channel guaranteed do have some baseball on it back then. I remember the summer of 1986, as a 7th grader riding my bike through a few bad intersections just to get to the 7-11 so I could get a few packs of baseball cards...those were the days!
This post was edited on 9/28/18 at 5:36 am
Posted on 9/28/18 at 5:38 am to whit
quote:Smear the queer...man I forgot about that game. Not sure how you played it but the queer had the football and would run for his life as the rest of us took off after him tackling him as hard as you could...didn't want to be the queer in that game.
Smear the queer,
This post was edited on 9/28/18 at 5:39 am
Posted on 9/28/18 at 5:57 am to patnuh
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Random 80s thoughts...looking back as a kid I never knew anyone allergic to peanuts. I can't recall anyone being autistic...we did have a special ed class, but I think those kids were more handicapped than autistic. I used to take my 410 and go squirrel hunting by myself at my grandma's house when I was surely not a teenager yet. As a parent I can not fathom this now.
Any other memories from you guys?
all of these. Except my first gun was a 20 gauge single barrel my granddad gave me.
Road dirt bikes and three wheelers, and fixed them if they wouldn't start. went all over the place in boats on bayou manchac, amite river, false river.
my uncle would put my brother in a milk crate bungeed to the handlebars of his dirt bike and I'd be on back, hauling arse down MS mud roads.
we roamed the now-developed woods and swamps of BR, built forts and tunnels (even in BR with shallow water table), found porno mags and books, organized neighborhood pickup games, played star wars at the 7-11. Hit my little brother in the head with a lawn dart. Road our bikes from southeast BR to the mall--space port. record stores. spencer's gifts, and free video games in the dept stores- and to downtown and campus. i fell on my head (explains a lot) when my gymnastics ring broke. my brother flipped his bike on a ramp and fell on his head (same). built skateboard ramps. fricked shite up on boy scout camping trips.
I'll be days away from 44 when we have our first kid, and I don't know what i'm going to do with pussy-assed parents these days. this is the main reason i want to raise them in the wild (MT).
Posted on 9/28/18 at 6:12 am to McLemore
First kid at 44? Geez, have fun in your 60s paying for a college freshman.
Congrats on the new baby. Hope you can share all the good experiences with your kid that brighten the winter of your life.
.410 crack barrel was my first shotgun. Had to cock the hammer for it to fire. Widgeon drake was the first duck I ever killed. Before that it was mostly rabbits. Lots of good times with my dad and brother in a duck blind missing way more than I hit.
Congrats on the new baby. Hope you can share all the good experiences with your kid that brighten the winter of your life.
.410 crack barrel was my first shotgun. Had to cock the hammer for it to fire. Widgeon drake was the first duck I ever killed. Before that it was mostly rabbits. Lots of good times with my dad and brother in a duck blind missing way more than I hit.
Posted on 9/28/18 at 6:17 am to tigerinthebueche
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? Geez, have fun in your 60s paying for a college freshman
No shite huh? Scholarships and in-state tuition or nada. I have a feeling higher education is going to see a fundamental change by then. We may be truly living in the wild.
Posted on 9/28/18 at 6:22 am to LSUwag
Got my drivers license at 15 in 1979. Could go to a club/bar at 18 and girls never showed more than they do now. Also don't remember Car Insurance being as demanding then as it is now.
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