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re: Old Bastards Question: What do U Miss most from the 70s 80s 90s or think kids will miss
Posted on 5/11/23 at 4:17 pm to Tammany Tom
Posted on 5/11/23 at 4:17 pm to Tammany Tom
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I miss not being tied to a phone or computer. I miss privacy. I miss the fact that if someone couldn’t reach you by phone in a few days it was no big deal.
This is a big one for me. Ever since I was in college, the expectation was that you checked your email daily. If some professor forgot to give you the assignment before the end of class, they would send an email. Mind you, this is different than online modules.
You were, and are in the professional world, essentially on the clock all day. I had a-hole professors send emails over the weekend with assignments due for the first day the following week.
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Posted on 5/11/23 at 4:21 pm to TexasTiger08
Fun Fair Park (Wild Mouse)
Globe's and Howard Bros
Buckskin Bill
Space Port
Hopper's Drive Inn
Drinking from an outdoor hose pipe (and not thinking twice about it)
Globe's and Howard Bros
Buckskin Bill
Space Port
Hopper's Drive Inn
Drinking from an outdoor hose pipe (and not thinking twice about it)
Posted on 5/11/23 at 4:24 pm to TutHillTiger
Being able to do stupid and embarrassing shite without the whole world knowing about it within a day and it living forever on the internet. Also, not having to deal with a whole generation of sociopaths bullying people for internet clout on worldstar and tiktok. I know kids were bullied and killed themselves pre-internet, but it seems worse today with the influence of social media.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 4:24 pm to TutHillTiger
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This post was edited on 5/18/23 at 4:09 pm
Posted on 5/11/23 at 4:28 pm to TexasTiger08
This is a great thread. I lived in a Neighborhood in the late 70s early 80's with 12 boys around the same age so there was always.
Fights over treehouses
Football, basketball or baseball games
ramps being built to jump with your bikes
Fishing tourneys in the Cahaba River behind our subdivision
Finger banging a girl in a dark movie theater
Going fishing with my Dad every Sat
Some of us getting beat with a belt just to come home to eat dinner
Driving the golf cart while my grandad played golf
Putting on one of my dads VHS porn tapes trying to get the babysitter horny
Shooting our BB guns and roman candles at eachother
Around 13 stealing our parents cars when they would go out to eat with eachother and going cruising
ringing and running
crank phone calls
Playing Marco Polo at the pool and grabbing titties and arse on purpose
Fights over treehouses
Football, basketball or baseball games
ramps being built to jump with your bikes
Fishing tourneys in the Cahaba River behind our subdivision
Finger banging a girl in a dark movie theater
Going fishing with my Dad every Sat
Some of us getting beat with a belt just to come home to eat dinner
Driving the golf cart while my grandad played golf
Putting on one of my dads VHS porn tapes trying to get the babysitter horny
Shooting our BB guns and roman candles at eachother
Around 13 stealing our parents cars when they would go out to eat with eachother and going cruising
ringing and running
crank phone calls
Playing Marco Polo at the pool and grabbing titties and arse on purpose
This post was edited on 5/11/23 at 4:38 pm
Posted on 5/11/23 at 4:32 pm to MUMFORD
I remember all of those
Posted on 5/11/23 at 4:40 pm to TutHillTiger
Riding bikes to your friends house to play games instead of online
Posted on 5/11/23 at 5:30 pm to 21JumpStreet
And those too skipjack. We had epic bottle rocket wars
Posted on 5/11/23 at 5:46 pm to LoneStarRanger
quote:
Knowing that men are from mars, and women from Venus
Men are from Mars, and Women want a penis. Either honor or inner.
There fixed it.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 5:47 pm to TutHillTiger
After reading this thread, thank. fricking. God I grew up in the 2000s
This post was edited on 5/11/23 at 5:48 pm
Posted on 5/11/23 at 6:06 pm to TutHillTiger
quote:
We had epic bottle rocket wars
Ah yes. How could I forget about these. Every 4th of July and Christmas/New Year's holiday season. Bottle rockets and Roman Candles were the weapons of choice (short stemmed firecrackers for up close combat).
We also came up with some rather sophisticated "delivery systems" to shoot the bottle rockets with a fair degree of accuracy. 20-25 kids/side were among the largest battles. Just thankful I was never arrested by the sheriffs who occasionally scared us off and made it to adulthood with both eyes intact.
This post was edited on 5/11/23 at 6:07 pm
Posted on 5/11/23 at 6:23 pm to TutHillTiger
knowing Evel Knievel, Elvis and John Wayne were the coolest guys alive
Posted on 5/11/23 at 6:25 pm to TutHillTiger
I miss the smell of creosote pillings when a new house was being constructed.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 6:25 pm to CurDog
Panchos take-out got me through college. For 3 bucks, you could get a dozen flautas and a burrito the size of a football.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 6:28 pm to skipjackbama
quote:
Playing Marco Polo at the pool and grabbing titties and arse on purpose
was the only reason to play Marco Polo after age 8
Posted on 5/11/23 at 6:30 pm to TigerCoon
Lack of cell phones and internet, by a very large margin.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 6:31 pm to TutHillTiger
Video game arcades.
Give me $10 worth of quarters and I’d be set for hours.
Sure, gaming is better now, with PS, XBox, etc but you’re sitting at home and not getting out in a social environment and seeing other people. Today’s kids are extremely socially awkward because they are growing up in a time where face to face interaction is dying.
Give me $10 worth of quarters and I’d be set for hours.
Sure, gaming is better now, with PS, XBox, etc but you’re sitting at home and not getting out in a social environment and seeing other people. Today’s kids are extremely socially awkward because they are growing up in a time where face to face interaction is dying.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:03 pm to TutHillTiger
Riding my dirt bike as a kid, swimming in creeks and bayous, and football practice.
I even miss being a paperboy, I actually enjoyed it.
I even miss being a paperboy, I actually enjoyed it.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:34 pm to TutHillTiger
Not having cell phones was great
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:53 pm to TutHillTiger
Freedom.
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