For the "30-something" crowd... the old farts can look too

[BoatBuoy]

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Walked to school barefooted; 3 miles; uphill both ways; in the snow; carrying bread & water for a lunch; and 50 lbs. of books.<br /><br />Who had it worse?

 

[gonefishie]

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dude! right on about the popcorn, cartoon, and the tv guide. Bring back lots of memories, I would really hate it if I don't have on screen tv guide now.

 

[QC]

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How about TV dinners on a TV tray on Sunday night watching Disney.<br /><br />Oh wait, we still have that.<br /><br />I think things are much more the same than we tend to believe. I think kids hate homework, want to play after school, biatch about doing chores and can't wait 'til they can drive . . .<br /><br />And, oh yeah, even big music loving parents can't stand their new stuff (sound familiar?). What is it with the flippin' screamin'? And I don't mean screamin' like a hard rock singer, I mean the guys who actually are called screamers. There is not a musically recognizable note in the voice track, it is simply white and pink noise mixed together with no use of the vocal chords just air rushing through their throat with some phlegm mixed in for good measure and it makes a very irritating screaming noise. Who is actually entertained by that? It feels like when you turn the TV on and somebody has left the volume all the way up and the cable is disconnected. Yeeecccchhhhh . . .

 

[bubbakat]

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Awh. you guys don't know what rough life was or is. When I was a young boy, I not only walked to school barefooted , 3 miles both ways and uphill in the snow. (It snowed year round you know).<br /> I got my first pair of shoes when I was 18 and that was when I was drafted and I wore those suckers out walking backwards looking at the tracks. (never saw anything like that in my life) <br />We were so poor we would have beans one day and rinse the sack out for the soup the next day.<br />Now I can tell you about having it rough.<br />Oh excuse me a few my neighbor just came out and I gonna go over and see if he has any left overs.

 

[TilliamWe]

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The TV Guide didn't actually list the cable stations for quite some time! So you had to get your cable provider's guide, or worse, turn on the TV and change the channel to see what it was! Or you were like me, who didn't live where you could get cable, so you had the three channels until 1995!

 

[KilroyJC]

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I'm just glad that when I was growing up they didn't have Ritalin!

 

[fixin]

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What about getting in trouble?<br />At school--ya got a Paddling.<br />At home-ya got beat(AKA The woodshed)<br />My friends mom would take a belt after me if I got out of line.<br />It didn't matter if you were in a store or at church ,you did what you were told or ya got smacked.

 

[snapperbait]

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At school--ya got a Paddling.<br />

Ah yes!... Don't tell me corpral punishment did'nt work... did'nt need ritalin either...<br /><br />

Oh, wait a minute, you're in Florida.... nevermind!<br /><br />Maybe you could adapt it to something like... "we walked to school in Hurricanes".

Hurricanes?.. almost.. next day, for sure.. No power?.. no problem!.. many classrooms at my elementary skool did'nt have A/C anyway... we had windows, that would OPEN.. imagine that... <br /><br />And...... We walked 5 miles to school, barefoot, over hot sugarsand, thru sand-spur patches... (Boys.. you ain't lived until you walked barefoot thru that sand-spur patch)

 

[BLU LUNCH]

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I'm 48 and we had to shake the popcorn.....

 

[eurolarva]

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We used to have to get up a half hour before we went to bed. We were too poor to buy one of them 100 dollar calculators that could add, subtract, multiply and divide. Had to do math the hard way. Was real tough in chemistry with all them very small numbers.<br />Late night entertainment was turning out the lights and watching the small phosphor dot on the black and white tv after you turned it off.<br /><br />It wasnt called child abuse back then and because of it my brother and I have never spent a single day in jail or in court. Being kids our worst enemy was the weeping willow tree in the front yard. Dad would send us out to get the whip to woop us with.<br /><br />Never had sarmanilla, or ecoli or any of that other fancy stuff. I was probably 18 before I could have pepsi or any other type of soda when ever I wanted it. It was always warm water, Tea or milk.

 

[Fly Rod]

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Now that you are over 30 Snapperbait, have you started to make arrangements with your favorite funeral director and if you pre-pay at todays rates look at the money your family will save if you live to a ripe old age of 70!!!!

 

[milmat1]

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I Walked 10 Miles to get to School UPHILL BOTH WAYS !

 

[skargo]

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I'm not THAT old

I'm 43 too and owned plenty 8-tracks when I was a kid.

 

[ENSIGN]

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I still got my 8 tracks.go ahead and laugh

 

[Bart Sr.]

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5 year old thread

 

[Dave Barnett]

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It's not often that I "sound off" but I don't see it as the young generation having it "better" than we did. They are soft. They are hooked and addicted to the tech worlds gadgets. They are rude, insensitive and disrespectful for the most of them (not all). When I was a kid our manners and respect was protocol for all matters not just when we were in public. Assumed familiarity was was was a crime that could get your hind end peeled with a switch. If you wore a hat it was removed upon entrance to a home or building and tipped to the ladies. Television was watched sparingly after all work was done of an evening usually as a family and for only a couple hours at most. Meals were taken as a family. Kids worked and helped out and were expected to give 100%. Dating was done with moral values in place with only a small percentage of "wild child" mishaps. Kids became self sufficient at earlier ages and were for the most part trustworthy. By the time I was 9 my older sister and I were expected to take care of most of the chores on our dairy farm while our father worked his day job. I come from an old school home. I was born late in life to parents who survived the great depression. My dad served in WWll. Both he and my mom worked hard and together they raised 11 of us kids into productive adulthood. At early ages any of us kids could be self sufficient survivors. Sadly most of today's generation could not lay claim to that. Today's kids receive a spanking or grounding and they are "traumatized" When I was a kid I have had my back side switched till blood run. I was not traumatized, I simply learned to do right. I thank God and my parents and elders for my upbringing. I love everyone but there are some I don't like. I think a lot of our youth today have been truly wronged by the deterioration of old school values and moral teachings. My own children have a lot of trouble identifying with their own peers. This is sad and in my opinion not a better life than yesterdays generation. God Bless all. Dave

 

[thrillhouse700]

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I had a bike when I was a kid, got my first car when I earned enough to buy it. Had to "Check in" with either a phone call or come home every 30 mins when i was out until i was 18. (military family). Yeah kids these days are punks.... cell phone at 12, car at 16, paid college even tho all they do is party and smoke weed.

 

[kenmyfam]

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Ah those were the days.
8 tracks, 33 rpm LP's, 45 rpm singles. The cassette was a thing of the future.
Uphill 5 miles each way to school. Single speed bicycle, car when you had saved enough to buy one. Motor cycle same thing......Now boat !!!!! we were always out on Dad's boat !!!

 

[Limited-Time]

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He!! I was young when this thread started.

 

[kenmyfam]

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Fun one to bring back to the top though !!!