What is missing from your childhood?

Name something that used to be that you do not see any more.

Or something that is just different.

Mine:
When I was a kid in the 60's, we had a milk man.

You do not see Milkmen around any more.

What is missing or different with you?

Pine Brothers Wild Cherry Cough Drops, just about the best candy that has ever existed

P.S. A friend of mine in high school was named after the milk man....

internet

Worthy, I'm noticing a pattern to your recent posts...

saturday morning cartoons that didnt suck

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Saturday morning?!?!? What about Cartoons after school?

I used to lover Transformers and G.I. Joe and stuff, even tolerated the Disney years. Somewhere in the last ten years, its all turned into talk shows. What happened?

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"People sometimes say that ideas cannot be stamped out by force. The Albigensian Crusade proves them wrong. Ideas can be stamped out by the elimination of everyone who holds the ideas." - Quote :"Middle Ages" by Morris Bishop.

Hot Blonde Teachers who wanted to have sex with their super manly teenage student

IE me !!

General toughness of athletes from HS to Professional level. Now someone gets a hangnail in a game and they lay down on the field like their dying.

Your right.

The board has been pretty dead.

I am just trying to find friendly interactive ways to bring some life back to it.




That goes in all levels.
Localy, kids are not allowed to dress up for Halloween in school for fear of offending someone, or, you hear on the news that they cannot play games like Tag or anything that someone might lose, for fear of making them feel bad.

In school? What happened to getting up on Saturday. Watching cartoons, then going out ‘til almost night fall and playing. Parents sight unseen? NO supervision. NO Cell phones? If you hit something or fell off she swing or crashed your bike you got the fuck up and moved on. not screamed to mommy and went to the doctor.

A lot of that, I think though, has gone away with the net, console games, and cell phones. That and the excessively “sue happy” culture.

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"People sometimes say that ideas cannot be stamped out by force. The Albigensian Crusade proves them wrong. Ideas can be stamped out by the elimination of everyone who holds the ideas." - Quote :"Middle Ages" by Morris Bishop.

My kid started asking me about this a few years back. The biggest difference was during the summer when school was out I would take my 22 and head out at about 10a with my buddy. We would come home at about 7p. Sometimes with something to eat but usually not. I lived in a town of about 2k so it wasn't like no one saw us. We hunted or fished all day every day. Oh yeah, and Mr Ed was on tv.

Gone are the days of scouring the newspaper TV guide for the glorious N for Nudity. I now have the world's porn at my fingertips.

I remember playing all damn day long like gwiber does and never coming home until dark. Playing tag in the neighborhood running all over everyone's yards and not getting crap about it. Hell, I walked to school since kindergarten. Now, I won't even let my 4th grader go by herself cause of all the shit around.

What a mean thing to say about todays Pros.

You were talking about the pros I assume?

Television was black and white, we had a milkman, there were no computers for the general public. No such thing as velcro. Oh God. there are too many to mention. Ya. Old fart here.

Steele

When I was a kid, our old TV had a roof antenna that had a control on top of the TV that you would dial to make a motor reposition the antenna so you could get better reception.

This was in the 60's/70's. Before Cable and VCR's.

I was bored shitless. Constantly.

Television had 3 channels that went off air overnight. (overseas military compound)

Our family had a video camera, but in order to use it you had to lug around the giant piece of shit, and be physically wired into the recording unit (essentially a betamax in a backpack)

In order to do a report for school you had to arrange a trip into town so you could use the library. And another if you actually wanted to check out a book. God I wish Gore invented the internet sooner.

Atari graphics were fucking awesome!

Or in our house in 1992.

Even with that, we still only got about 3 channels. I remember being happy as shit when FOX came around with the Simpsons.

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Saturdays used to have Godzilla Movies. Saturday night was Creature Features, with a lot of the old black and white scary movies.

That is also when and where I first saw THIS:

Every shitty corner store having a ratty ass Streetfighter 2 machine of some version or another. Arcades in general are pretty much gone. Console can't replicate that atmosphere and wow I feel old all of a sudden.

I had both a Record Player and an 8-Track player.
In high school I had a CB radio at home and my dad had one in the car.
He made me go to the CB club meetings with him. They were called Breaks.

in the summer we'd get up, get on our bikes, and go play all day. When the shadows got short we'd come home for lunch. When the lights came on we would be home.

We would be in the woods, playing in the creek, fishing in one of the local lakes, playing ball in one of the nearby fields, or riding trails.

No computers, no cell phones but there was the Mom Network. All of our mom's seemed to have telepathy to one another as if one mom knew that we had done something "wrong" then all moms would know. If one mom called for one of us, then all of us knew it was time to go.

There were no organized "play dates" just our parents telling us "GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY"

Birthday parties were not a super sized event at some entertainment place that specializes in kid birthday parties. The best we could hope for would be a sleep-over or the king of all parties, a swim party. Still, those each of those parties would consist of us bringing a gift and eating cake and ice-cream.

All of us kids knew that we had to answer a grown-up's questions with yes/no sir/ma'am and if any parent told us to do something while at their house we knew that we'd better do it or we'd not only get a whipping there but when we got home.

If we were lucky to get to go out to dine with our parents we were expected to sit at the table and be quiet. We were not allowed to run around, scream or be disruptive while out. If we did we were punished when we got to the car and were not 'invited' to go again for a while.

I remember constantly leaving my bike at various houses around the neighbourhood; when you left a location hours later, you sometime forgot how you go there in the first place!

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Hunter of Memento Reejeryn
Champion of Faydark

I remember considering buying an Apple computer I think, and one of the options I was looking at was buying a GREEN monitor for it because it looked cooler than a black and white one.

Transformers didn't suck.

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A lot of that sounds about right!

It's shocking to me sometimes to see how little some parents care about what their kids are doing. Especially working in a library, it's amazing how parents will let their kids just run around, make all sorts of noise, tear books off the shelves and leave them anywhere. And if we say anything the parents give you that attitude where you know they're thinking the standard, "Don't tell me how to raise my kids!" stuff.

That and the fact that every kid seems to have a cell phone, iPhone, MP3 player, laptop, etc. People can blame childhood obesity on McDonalds all they want, but McDonalds was around a long time before this "epidemic" as they call it came about. Get the darn kids off their ass now and then.

Word.

I remember playing Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2 all the time in the arcade. What made it cool was that winning MEANT something - the loser had to pay another $0.25.

It all ended for me when I was 18 and got a summer job at that arcade before college. I knew how to free-play the machines and beating people was no longer any fun. I can't imagine the point of playing on a console now - there's no skin in the game.

"Transformers didn't suck."

Nostalgia can make even the worst smelling turd, smell like roses.

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"People sometimes say that ideas cannot be stamped out by force. The Albigensian Crusade proves them wrong. Ideas can be stamped out by the elimination of everyone who holds the ideas." - Quote :"Middle Ages" by Morris Bishop.

No way sir.

I still see some of those old cartoons (Transformers, Thundercats, etc) from time to time and they're still pro as hell.

You heathen!

Being able to ride my bike 3-4 miles to get icecream without a helmet or being molested.

Or at least the perception of what will happen if I do ride my bike that far at age 9.

Cameras has Flash Cubes.
4 shots a cube.