Things Your Kids Will Never Know

[RDU Irish]

Red Rider BB gun

Lawn darts

playing with friends spontaneously, not exclusively through play dates

Wander the earth unattended as long as you are home for dinner.

 

[FLDomer]

Getting in a lil neighborhood scuffle and no lawyers or charges involved.

 

[IrishSteelhead]

Fine, I'll say it:

Using Sears catalogs, turning the Spanish Channel on "mute," and clinging to one (two if you were lucky) Playboy back issues from the 70's just to get through puberty.

Obviously the internet has pampered that regard significantly.

 

[greyhammer90]

Fine, I'll say it:

Using Sears catalogs, turning the Spanish Channel on "mute," and clinging to one (two if you were lucky) Playboy back issues from the 70's just to get through puberty.

Obviously the internet has pampered that regard significantly.

 

[WaveDomer]

Fine, I'll say it:

Using Sears catalogs, turning the Spanish Channel on "mute," and clinging to one (two if you were lucky) Playboy back issues from the 70's just to get through puberty.

Obviously the internet has pampered that regard significantly.

Heh. When cable was first out they used to have those boxes where you would push down a button and it had a lever on the side for 3 levels of channels. If you pushed 3 buttons at once (like 3,5,9) you would get the Playboy Channel. But, but, you would get it in photo negative, so all the colors were backwards. You would still watch it though.

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[Irish Houstonian]

That communism sucks.

Having 1 family vehicle.

Having heroes who are actually "good guys" as opposed to just "bad-asses".

That you don't have to start at age 3 with private tutors just to play youth baseball, or play sports in high school, or go to a good college.

 

[IrishSteelhead]

Heh. When cable was first out they used to have those boxes where you would push down a button and it had a lever on the side for 3 levels of channels. If you pushed 3 buttons at once (like 3,5,9) you would get the Playboy Channel. But, but, you would get it in photo negative, so all the colors were backwards. You would still watch it though.

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YES! We used to call that "squigglevision."

 

[Mr. Larson]

Full-on bush.

Landing strip maybe, but no chance of seeing full-on bush.

 

[greyhammer90]

Full-on bush.

Landing strip maybe, but no chance of seeing full-on bush.

I'm tellin' ya! It's coming back!

 

[Mr. Larson]

Fine, I'll say it:

Using Sears catalogs, turning the Spanish Channel on "mute," and clinging to one (two if you were lucky) Playboy back issues from the 70's just to get through puberty.

Obviously the internet has pampered that regard significantly.

LOL! I was more of a JC Penney guy, but Sears worked too.

 

[Irish Houstonian]

Full-on bush.

Landing strip maybe, but no chance of seeing full-on bush.

Feminism Time of Death -- 10:25 October 16, 2012.

 

[Mr. McGibblets]

1. Newspapers
2. Fullbacks
3. 300 Win Pitchers
4. B10 National Champions
5. Maps
6. Globes
7. Compasses
8. Phonebook
9. AOL IM
10. Coin Currency (I Hope)
11. Soccer as an after thought to other sports

 

[eNDzone]

Tennis ball canons made from pop cans. A little rubbing alcohol and a match and BOOM.

 

[goldandblue]

Full-on bush.

Landing strip maybe, but no chance of seeing full-on bush.

I'm fine with this one... LOL.

 

[Veer option]

Going into a porn store to get porn.

Newspapers, made out of paper.

A time when you actually had to succeed to get a trophy.

Whats its like to drive a high horse power, gas guzzling, internal combustion car.

When kids stood up to bullies, instead of making an emo gonna kill myself facebook/youtube video.

The amazing Johnny Carson.

When the Simpsons were good.

The appreciation for an automatic movement Swiss time piece.

What is was like to wear a beeper.

 

[sportallyr]

A Thomas Guide...old school navigation system.

 

[goldandblue]

Waiting to get home before calling someone or putting 25 cents into a payphone.

 

[peoriairish]

The correlation between a pencil and a cassette tape.

A cassette tape.

 

[greyhammer90]

God I hated waiting on this thing:

 

[IrishSteelhead]

Drinks

1. Crystal Pepsi
2. Coke II
3. Hubba-Bubba Cola
4. Jolt Cola
5. Like Cola
6. Pepsi Free
7. Surge Pop
8. Red Dog Beer
9. Red Wolf Beer
10. Bartles & James wine coolers
11. Bud Dry
12. Miller Beer (red label)
13. Billy Beer
14. Everlast Sports Drink
15. Iced Tea flavored Gatorade

 

[peoriairish]

Drinks

1. Crystal Pepsi
2. Coke II
3. Hubba-Bubba Cola
4. Jolt Cola
5. Like Cola
6. Pepsi Free
7. Surge Pop
8. Red Dog Beer
9. Red Wolf Beer
10. Bartles & James wine coolers
11. Bud Dry
12. Miller Beer (red label)
13. Billy Beer
14. Everlast Sports Drink
15. Iced Tea flavored Gatorade

 

[irishog77]

Southpaw

Icehouse

 

[Irish4Life09]

Yeah, I am sure no one ever worried about national security during the cold war.

Why have you gotta be a douche?
None of our kids will understand the difference our country was pre-9/11 vs post-9/11. They just won't.
What I was saying was that pre-9/11 our country was set in itself and felt very safe, where we will probably never feel that again.Something they will never know.

 

[peoriairish]

Southpaw

Icehouse

Nope, that's still around. I had some a few weeks ago.

 

[irishog77]

Seriously?? Icehouse lives!!

 

[sportallyr]

Drinks

1. Crystal Pepsi
2. Coke II
3. Hubba-Bubba Cola
4. Jolt Cola
5. Like Cola
6. Pepsi Free
7. Surge Pop
8. Red Dog Beer
9. Red Wolf Beer
10. Bartles & James wine coolers
11. Bud Dry
12. Miller Beer (red label)
13. Billy Beer
14. Everlast Sports Drink
15. Iced Tea flavored Gatorade

Why ask why...

 

[IrishSteelhead]

You can still find All-Sport too. At least I could in the barrio.

 

[Mr. Larson]

Nope, that's still around. I had some a few weeks ago.

Seriously?? Icehouse lives!!

Icehouse lives, but ZIMA is dead. Where's the justice?

 

[Veer option]

When restaurant menus didn't have a vegan/allergen/gluten free option.

When McDonalds had the glorious Supersize.

Cars without traction control

Finding your destination with a map rather than a navigation unit.

 

[woolybug25]

Why have you gotta be a douche?None of our kids will understand the difference our country was pre-9/11 vs post-9/11. They just won't.
What I was saying was that pre-9/11 our country was set in itself and felt very safe, where we will probably never feel that again.Something they will never know.

Look in the mirror. He made a totally rational, pretty accurate statement without insulting you and you have to call him a douche? He was absoutely correct about the cold war. Kids had daily atomic bomb prepareness drills. There was a real belief that Russia would try to destroy us at any moment.

You may want to believe you live in some kind of scary world, but people have it easier and are more safe than many of the proir periods of our country.

If you want to debate something like this, then take it to a political thread or something. No reason to screw up a funny thread with your BS. Also, take your baseless insults somewhere else as well. Your insult was unwarranted and rude.