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re: The 1980s were a decade of neglect
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:30 pm to lsu777
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:30 pm to lsu777
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Bunch of fatties on the OT complaining
What's up, Mingo?
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sure as frick aint a travel ball thing
To me, the travel ball thing is a "status" thing. I played Dixie Youth but it was at a local ball park. Not all this stupid arse driving 4 states away to play in the World Series of the Week.
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Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:30 pm to DemonKA3268
quote:By 9 I was removing the blades and taking them to get sharpened on my bmx (no helmet of course).
Damn, I started at 9
None of that self-propelled bullshite either.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:31 pm to DemonKA3268
People these days are nuts. Children SHOULD be out exploring the world, not holed up in some room staring at a screen.
Ruining daddy's boner.
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“Do not run in and out of this house all day with your friends,” Mom said sternly. “I don’t want you in here ruining everything.” It was never clear to me what we might ruin
Ruining daddy's boner.
This post was edited on 7/14/21 at 1:34 pm
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:32 pm to northshorebamaman
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By 9 I was removing the blades and taking them to get sharpened
Nice
quote:What the hell was a helmet?
on my bmx (no helmet of course)
quote:I was lucky there, my dad did have a self propelled one that he let me use. Didn't get a riding mower until after I left for college.
None of that self-propelled bullshite either.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:44 pm to Alt26
People also had a lot more tolerance for kids being wild in the 1980s and 90s.
I’ll never forget one summer day we decided to just randomly chop down small trees in these thin woods in the back of the neighborhood. We were probably in 5th or 6th grade. After about three trees fell, a sheriff’s office showed up - the land owner had called. He looked at us, called us “assholes” and told us to get the hell out of there.
Not sure that would go down that way today
I’ll never forget one summer day we decided to just randomly chop down small trees in these thin woods in the back of the neighborhood. We were probably in 5th or 6th grade. After about three trees fell, a sheriff’s office showed up - the land owner had called. He looked at us, called us “assholes” and told us to get the hell out of there.
Not sure that would go down that way today
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:44 pm to Stealth Matrix
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Ruining daddy's boner.
Actually made a mistake of going in one day and walking in on my parents. Have never been thrown out of the house so fast in my life. The visual of that unfortunately didn't go away for a long time.Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:45 pm to TigerCoon
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Merthiolate felt like you were getting branded.
I remember when i got splinters, my mom would make me walk to my grandpas. He would put on this welding hood with magnifying glasses, light up his blow torch, and sterilize a needle until it was glowing red. Then he would dig the splinter out and douse it with merthiolate.
Im still not exactly sure what the purpose of the blow torch was other than to "make a man out of me"
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:46 pm to jamiegla1
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Im still not exactly sure what the purpose of the blow torch
Get rid of the bacteria on the needle. Poor man's sterilizer.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:48 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Only after you got checked for ticks.
I totally forgot about that. When I would get home at the end of the day from roaming the fields and woods, mom would make me take off my shirt, sit on a bar stool and she would check my hair, behind my ears and my back for ticks.
The best days were when I got my first 3 wheeler. All the kids got one or had access to one where I lived around the same time. We would just venture off deep into the woods and not return for hours.
This post was edited on 7/14/21 at 1:49 pm
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:49 pm to jamiegla1
We just used the gas stove…I like your grandpas method better…
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:49 pm to DemonKA3268
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Get rid of the bacteria on the needle. Poor man's sterilizer.
Oh he had rubbing alcohol and apparently a crate of monkey blood. Maybe thats what his parents did when he was a kid and it just stuck
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:50 pm to jamiegla1
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Oh he had rubbing alcohol and apparently a crate of monkey blood. Maybe thats what his parents did when he was a kid and it just stuck
My dad did it with a lighter.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:51 pm to A Smoke Break
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I'm not going to get into a debate as to why I dislike reagan.
Why?? You scared you will lose???
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We haven't had a decent president since Nixon and that's a fact.
OK.... You have it all figured out...
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:53 pm to A Smoke Break
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We haven't had a decent president since Eisenhower and that's a fact.
FIFY
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:53 pm to Jake88
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Children were not to be seen nor heard, and we were definitely not supposed to complain about any injuries sustained during the 15 hours a day we roamed the streets
This is bullshite.
It's an exaggeration for comic effect, but it is accurate as far as I'm concerned. If we didn't leave the house by about 9 AM we were kicked out and told not to come home until lunch.
We got our water from neighborhood homes' hose bibs, pissed in bushes, threw rocks at trains (or jumped them), played ball in the street or in empty lots, stole eggs from a nearby henhouse and egged cars and houses. If you had to take a dump you sat on the curb in a way that shut your arse until the need passed.
We collected and returned recycleable bottles for the nickle deposits. We'd get about 50 cents that way and buy a soda and some candy. If we couldn't find bottles we'd rip off the candy. The one thing we were relentless about was fire. We were always trying to set something on fire.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:53 pm to OldHickory
A life of freedom that few today will ever know....seriously
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:54 pm to GoAwayImBaitn
Good ole monkey blood
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:54 pm to DemonKA3268
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My dad did it with a lighter.
My 8 yo daughter's earring came out while she was sleeping last night. I had to convince her to let me push it back in. I can imagine the look on her face if i torched it right before her eyes
Which brings me back to another 80s/90s memory. My friends and i decided to pierce our ears. We just shoved an earing into our ear with as much force as it took to break through both sides.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:56 pm to DemonKA3268
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Actually made a mistake of going in one day and walking in on my parents. Have never been thrown out of the house so fast in my life. The visual of that unfortunately didn't go away for a long time.
Friend and I walked in on his parents one day. His dad had come for lunch and he saw his car in the driveway as we were riding by on our bikes. He thought something was wrong because his dad never came home for lunch. We walk in and his dad had his mom bent over the kitchen table. Mom never saw or heard us and his dad just waved his hand at us to leave so he could finish.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:58 pm to The Spleen
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Friend and I walked in on his parents one day. His dad had come for lunch and he saw his car in the driveway as we were riding by on our bikes. He thought something was wrong because his dad never came home for lunch. We walk in and his dad had his mom bent over the kitchen table. Mom never saw or heard us and his dad just waved his hand at us to leave so he could finish.
Much better outcome than mine. My dad stopped, grabbed me and threw me out of the house. Wasn't a pretty sight.
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