Back in my day


Spam was lunch meat not email. Social networking was called going outside. Add your own

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There were no 'playdates'
Your Mom threw you out of the house and you played with whichever kids you ran into on the block

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And who’s ever house you were in front of took care of bleeding noses and lemonade

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Indeed
And every Mom and Pop in the neighborhood was free to scold you for your jackassery...it kept us little goofballs in line

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Garages were dented from street hockey

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Your folks would constantly yell at you about looking both ways before you crossed the street (and other safety tips) but they had no problem with your pellet gun and the shoebox of fireworks under your bed

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We lost so many tennis balls in storm drains

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That's what "It" should've been about. A monster comprised of dozens of rotting, soggy Penns, Dunlops and Wilsons.

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I'd watch this...it sounds creepy and just in time for Halloween!

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moving the nets for the stupid cars.

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And they would honk at you

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And we would flip them off...We were feral little bastards

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We didn't have computer games. When we wanted to play war we actually threw rocks at each other and fought with sticks with the intent of striking each other. We didn't start crying and demand safe places or counselling either.

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Wrestling in general actually showed some matches and not just a never ending soap opera of big men posturing at each other.

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"woman crush wednesday"

Back in my day we didn't need Urban Dictionary.

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Had to type up term papers on a mechanical typewriter. I remember once in junior high I virtually typed out the whole US Constitution on a manual typewriter.

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And liquid paper was the best thing since, well there wasn't anything as great as liquid paper.

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It was supposedly invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith from the Monkees.

I remember using these little plastic sheets with white coating on one side and inserting it in between the paper and the hammer and then retyping the letter you wanted to erase.

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Never used those, just had the little bottles. I heard the same story about Nesmith's mother inventing it.

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"It's all fun and games, until someone loses an eye" was just a Saturday playing lawn darts

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I remember lawn darts, they were sold under the name 'Jarts' (javelin darts) and they stopped the sale of them when some kid got hit in the face with one...poor kid!

Fun game otherwise

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Did you spy on me? I had a similar discussion about spam earlier today!

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He wasn't spying on you, I was outside your window the whole night and I never saw the guy;)

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A phone cost ten bucks.

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I think when I was a kid you couldn’t just go to the store and buy a phone. I think you had to rent it from the phone company. I think it wasn’t until the 80s that stores started selling them.

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That is correct.

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Drop a dime for a phone call. when you were away home.

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And pay phones were available in most places.

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You used to give a round of applause, now you have to do jazz hands in case someone is triggered with anxiety.

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I thought that jazz hands was how deaf people showed applause.

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It’s now mandatory in several UK universities. I’m not joking.

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This is also happening in some universities in the U.S.

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I had to google jazz hands.

https://hotair.com/archives/karen-townsend/2019/10/25/oxford-university-bans-loud-clapping-favor-jazz-hands/

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The world’s gone bloody mad.

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I am glad not to have kids in schools anymore.

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Wow! I thought the article was a joke. What in the world is going on?!

I have kids in school but somehow all the PC things common on TV and the internet have not gone wild there yet.

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In Illinois they're going to start teaching preschoolers to celebrate transgenderism starting in 2020.

Schools are nothing but propaganda machines. If I had little ones, I'd have to homeschool them.
The public schools in Seattle are now claiming math is racist.

Everyone's gone mad.

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I know I’m going to regret asking this, but in what way is Maths racist?

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It isn't. They're claiming it's oppressive to certain people πŸ™„ because they find math hard.

I'm sure someone here would be thrilled to spin it for you with a goofy explanation.

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Oh good grief πŸ™„ Everyone’s a victim nowadays.

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Everyone my dear!

That is unless you're white, straight or male, especially a white, straight male! Those are THE worst! πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„

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In Illinois they're going to start teaching preschoolers to celebrate transgenderism starting in 2020.


It doesn't really matter since we're also legalizing weed starting in January here. Someone will start talking about transgenders and the response will be "That's cool, man. Pass me another one of those cheddar baked chalupas."

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We have a child care centre in my workplace building. They have all sorts of bullshit propaganda up on the walls. It is sickening to think what they are doing to babies brains.

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Only a few of us sane ones leftπŸ€ͺ

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Whatever next? No chanting at football matches? No cheering at Rock concerts?

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I'm going to chant and cheer just to piss off all of the idiots...I'm sure you'll be right there with me Andy

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This whole thing just makes me shake my head.

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Your head shaking has triggered me...I'm going to my 'safe place' now and I may have a good cry!

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I apologise that my thoughtless actions had a negative impact on your wellbeing and I hope that our future interactions produce a more favourable outcome.

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I now feel like I have agency again...thanks!

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I honestly had to Google that phrase. I can’t keep up.

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I'm not even sure what it means lol...It just sounded like something a dumbass college kid would post😬

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You used to give a round of applause, now you have to do jazz hands in case someone is triggered with anxiety.


A whole auditorium or stadium of people doing that must look pretty damn stupid lol

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Couldn't agree more but it would be a funny thing to see:)

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