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06/07/2007 07:40:51 PM · #1
And to the 150,000 a day that didnt make it.....
06/07/2007 07:37:58 PM · #2
Originally posted by colorcarnival:

Originally posted by skylercall:

I know that I am still pretty young for this crowd but I have to mention this:

My wife keeps telling me how much she wants to got swing on a swing set at the park. Well, we have driven all over the place and can't find any! All the local parks and schools are getting rid of them.

I remember jumping off a tire swing once at school and getting stitches just below my hair line on my forehead.


You're kidding! Why are they getting rid of them? All of our parks have them. What a shame.


They are getting rid of them all over TX, too...why you ask? Because some little kid jumped out of the swing (like millions before them) and got hurt...SLIGHTLY and the parents sued!!! Now everyone is afraid of a law suit. Let the little s*&^ learn from his mistake, but don't punish the rest of the kids for one kids "learning process". That in itself could spawn an entirely different thread, so I'll stop now before I make myself mad!!!

For the record...the local pool where I grew up STILL has the high dive. It's wonderful! We were all so proud when we went off the high dive doing tricks, etc. We thought we were pretty cool, rofl!!

06/07/2007 01:06:15 PM · #3
...then came all the multitude of Lawyers and Lawsuits. That destroyed some innocence and put fear into their wallets.

Yes in some areas good knowledge has been also gained.

In my city there is no place to dive off a diving board, other then a low board. We have 2 parks with city pools, but evywhere, they're afraid of lawsuits.

Yes we are in a more restrictive age, people don't protest things like in the past. Although, does protesting really get anything accomplished. Media either takes Closed-In photos or avoids any videos of it altogether. The news media has learned to downplay any such occurences.
06/07/2007 12:41:18 PM · #4
Originally posted by skylercall:

I know that I am still pretty young for this crowd but I have to mention this:

My wife keeps telling me how much she wants to got swing on a swing set at the park. Well, we have driven all over the place and can't find any! All the local parks and schools are getting rid of them.

I remember jumping off a tire swing once at school and getting stitches just below my hair line on my forehead.


You're kidding! Why are they getting rid of them? All of our parks have them. What a shame.
06/07/2007 12:32:07 PM · #5
Originally posted by hipychik:

Originally posted by Rae-Ann:

We actually got up and walked over to the tv to change the channel...


and you didn't have to change it much because you only got 2 channels!

LMAO....I remember that. At my grandmothers summer home, we only got 1. Thanks to the 'rabbit ears'....lol

Message edited by author 2007-06-07 12:34:24.
06/07/2007 09:06:44 AM · #6
Hogan's Heroes was hilarious!

Message edited by author 2007-06-07 09:07:02.
06/07/2007 08:50:50 AM · #7
Yep, I remember when we got our first COLOR TV. We watched so much at first, our eyes hurt. Lassie, Bonanza, and OMG Disney in COLOR!!! (Still only two channels - and yes, us kids were the remote)
06/07/2007 08:09:23 AM · #8
Originally posted by Rae-Ann:

We actually got up and walked over to the tv to change the channel...


and you didn't have to change it much because you only got 2 channels!
06/07/2007 04:14:38 AM · #9
I know that I am still pretty young for this crowd but I have to mention this:

My wife keeps telling me how much she wants to got swing on a swing set at the park. Well, we have driven all over the place and can't find any! All the local parks and schools are getting rid of them.

I remember jumping off a tire swing once at school and getting stitches just below my hair line on my forehead.
06/07/2007 03:42:13 AM · #10
Originally posted by heatherd:

lol...block of ice. Where we lived, cardboard was safer because grass grew here and there, there was plenty of sharp grasses, dirt and gravel (In Brisbane)

We learned how to ride a bike that had poor brakes, an oversized bike, we couldn't reach the ground when the bike was at a standstill,we had to tip it over when we wanted to stop.

Oh, does anyone remember walking with wooden stilts?


My parents had the you'll grow into it philosophy so, yes, I had an oversized bike that I had to tip over initially to get on. I just wish they wouldn't have had the same philosophy with pants. Maybe my parents were just way ahead of their time and didn't know it.
06/07/2007 03:10:03 AM · #11
Originally posted by heatherd:

We learned how to ride a bike that had poor brakes, an oversized bike, we couldn't reach the ground when the bike was at a standstill,we had to tip it over when we wanted to stop.


i had a bike that doesn't have brakes when i was little.
i made it, but i might sue my parents.
06/07/2007 03:00:05 AM · #12
lol...block of ice. Where we lived, cardboard was safer because grass grew here and there, there was plenty of sharp grasses, dirt and gravel (In Brisbane)

We learned how to ride a bike that had poor brakes, an oversized bike, we couldn't reach the ground when the bike was at a standstill,we had to tip it over when we wanted to stop.

Oh, does anyone remember walking with wooden stilts?



Message edited by author 2007-06-07 03:05:13.
06/07/2007 02:48:07 AM · #13
Cardboard is what we used when we were little and ignorant. Then we discovered the joys of ice blocking during the summer. Large grassy hill, 50 cent block of ice, and a towel if you wanted to be prissy. So much faster and more fun than a piece of cardboard.
06/07/2007 02:41:52 AM · #14
Aww the good ole' days?? We had a dunny in the back yard, and you had to check it for spiders before you sat down. We were happy the day it got demolished.

Anyone slide down grass hills with bits of cardboard, with barefeet, or walk through cow paddocks, stepping in cowpats if you weren't careful (again, with no shoes)

Dem were the days :-)
06/07/2007 02:09:20 AM · #15
Originally posted by TooCool:

LAWN DARTS RULED!


...and now I'm scouring the internet to find out if it's possible to purchase them. A grand total of three people died nationwide and they banned them. How many people die in cars, and we still have THOSE... @#$^.
06/07/2007 02:02:56 AM · #16
Yeah... I'm only 29 (born in 77) and all of that is very true for me. It's really sad.
06/07/2007 01:28:31 AM · #17
oh yeah when I was a kid the only reason parents had kids was so they didn't have to get up to change the tv channel...of course we only had like 7 without the UHF ones lol. I remember one of my friends in the neighboorhood was always the first to have stuff in his house. I remember watching cartoons with his dads hi-fi system hooked to the tv...too cool lol. Remember the hand strain you would get from trying to use that huge cable box remote thing lol. 3 levels of buttons to push and a tuner knob to lose the static. I also rode my bike while hanging onto the side of a pickup truck and a sled tied to the back of a snowmobile (sucked for the first guy lol).

We also had a cabin in the mountains with an outhouse and no running water, well except for the stuff we brought up in 5 gallon jugs and poored into an old hot water heater my dad had rigged up to gravity could do the work. Still had to boil it before using and empty the drain "bucket" before leaving for the week. It's walls were covered with signs from hippies that used to frequent the area. I remember one large one just said "Peace man, thanks for the bed". We also had an old schwin bicycle that had no rubber on the wheels, just staight rim, we'd ride that thing down the mountain onto the road to see who could go the farthest without falling lol...my dads buddy didn't make it very far before he eat dirt lol. Awww the good ole days. :D
06/07/2007 01:28:19 AM · #18
Originally posted by Rae-Ann:

We actually got up and walked over to the tv to change the channel...

Can't argue that!! It was B&W to boot!! and I for one looked forward to the Friday night Creature Feature!!! But I wouldn't trade my DVD player for the anything!!! LOL.
06/07/2007 01:21:20 AM · #19
We actually got up and walked over to the tv to change the channel...
06/07/2007 01:14:22 AM · #20
Originally posted by crayon:

i wonder how us younger folks would be telling the next generation (say, 40 years later) about our childhood :)

"we had to type on a computer using this thing called a keyboard and select things using a device called a mouse. now you kids only need to say what you want the computer to do!"


Bingo!!! I heard the exact same thing I am hearing now when I was a kid in the early 70's..."you damn kids don't know what it was like when we were kids, why in my day we rode horses to school!!!" yeah okay, good for you!! Was it better?? no, just different, I remember the days before microwave ovens, and cable TV (don't get me wrong I don't watch TV these days as I am too busy and don't find much appealing on TV now but still) I remember seeing the hippys hitchhiking on our way to Key West (I was born in Lakeland FL. in 1963 and we went on vacation sometime in 69' to Key West) and hearing my parents talk about how the "damn hippys" would destroy the country, LOL. Well I don't think they did, it's just a changing of the guard, here we are in the new century talking about how kids today don't understand what we went through...nope they don't....thank god!!! every thing that is going on today went on then too....it was just more hush hush, covered up...we had drugs and sex and violence...we just didn't bring it out in the open like we do today!!! SO was it better in the "Good ole days" nope!! just different!! As for video games...give a few of them a try...they for the most part really make you think, The roll play games are the ones I am most familier with like elder scrolls for X-Box and GTA III for PS2, they have complex problems to figure out before you can move to the next level....good mental exercises...great problem solving challenges. Give one a try sometime and then post about how easy and mindless they are.... Okay off my soapbox now...good night everyone!!!
06/07/2007 01:00:36 AM · #21
They are beyond "say what you want" already in limited ways.
We drove to school in swamp buggies and cut down cars and pickup trucks with shotguns in the back window, and left the windows open so it would not be so hot when we got back in the truck.
We had the run of the area as far as you had gas enough to get back from where ever you happened to go.
When we broke or poked something, we would go to the local doctor for a tetnus shot, and a setting or sewing it up party.
We could roam around and get lost when we were pre school, and someone who knew our parents would bring us home.
We didn't have air conditioning, even at school, except the last year for the band room. No wonder band was so popular. (Oh, and the long dark bus rides from football games away.)
We could go camping all weekend and we were still expected to go to school Monday.
We could go down to the local Seminole camp and play real cowboys and indians, and the cowboys didn't always win.
A puddle of mercury is a lot of fun in the pencil holder, and it feels heavy and just too cool in the palm of your hand.
The list goes on.
It was a lot of fun. Most of us survived, especially the ones who didn't get drafted.
I am happy to live long enough to see both worlds BC and AD (before computers and after digitalization), and have a son and grandson who are both happy to live in the country. How good can it get. : )

Message edited by author 2007-06-07 01:02:51.
06/07/2007 12:54:17 AM · #22
Originally posted by RayEthier:

Originally posted by crayon:

i wonder how us younger folks would be telling the next generation (say, 40 years later) about our childhood :)

"we had to type on a computer using this thing called a keyboard and select things using a device called a mouse. now you kids only need to say what you want the computer to do!"


You mean you don't have one of those already!!! GASP... you poor thing

:O)
Ray


i gotta get out shopping more, lol
06/07/2007 12:50:02 AM · #23
Want to make a 19-20 year old mad. Call them a kid. Then remember when you were 19-20, looking at old geezers like us (ok, like me), thinking 'Boy, is he/she old'.

Message edited by author 2007-06-07 00:51:00.
06/07/2007 12:46:08 AM · #24
Originally posted by crayon:

i wonder how us younger folks would be telling the next generation (say, 40 years later) about our childhood :)

"we had to type on a computer using this thing called a keyboard and select things using a device called a mouse. now you kids only need to say what you want the computer to do!"


You mean you don't have one of those already!!! GASP... you poor thing

:O)

Ray
06/07/2007 12:40:00 AM · #25
i wonder how us younger folks would be telling the next generation (say, 40 years later) about our childhood :)

"we had to type on a computer using this thing called a keyboard and select things using a device called a mouse. now you kids only need to say what you want the computer to do!"
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