When I was a kid....

Monica Lewinsky · 05-14-08, 10:19 PM

When I was a kid, "D" batteries just got invented, back then they were the rage and cool to have/own.

Way back then there was the adventure series BOOKS - yea you were FORCED to READ a book, by Tom Swift. "Tom Swift and the Nuclear Caves of Fire" was my first book- was a COOL thing to do in 1959 - READ and imagine an adventure. Now considered - boring.

bookworm_020 · 05-15-08, 12:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Monica Lewinsky

Way back then there was the adventure series BOOKS - yea you were FORCED to READ a book, by Tom Swift. "Tom Swift and the Nuclear Caves of Fire" was my first book- was a COOL thing to do in 1959 - READ and imagine an adventure. Now considered - boring.

Be careful what you say next about books and reading. I'm a librarian and I'm not afraid to SHHHH! you!

Platapus · 05-15-08, 05:06 AM

Kids, I don't know what's wrong with these kids today

Kids, who can understand anything they say

Kids, they are so ridiculous and so immature

Noisy, lazy, sloppy crazy loafers, and while we are on the subject

Kids, you can talk and talk to your face is blue

Kids, they only do what they want to

Why can't they be like we were

Perfect in every way

What's the matter with kids these days

<bowing>

Rhodes · 05-15-08, 05:30 AM

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Sure, we had cable television, but back then that Was only like 15 channels And there was no on screen menu and no remote Control!

In your contry, since this in mine, at the same time we got 2 Tv channels, and the second only opened at 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon...

But at 6 we got the dukes of hazzard....

Tchocky · 05-15-08, 05:31 AM

Kids today are always troublesome :p

kurtz · 05-15-08, 05:47 AM

Away from my books at the moment but their is a record of a guy in the 14th/15th centuries going on about the introduction of chimneys as he thought the smoke cured diseases and that was why kids in (his) modern times always had coughs and sneezes. My Parents blamed it on central heating:hmm:

AVGWarhawk · 05-15-08, 08:47 AM

I had to laugh the other day. My 10 year old daughter was explaining to me a device she saw on TV. She said it went tap, tap, tap and the paper was in this thing that went to one side and a bell would go off. At that point, the user pushed the paper holder to the other side and started tap, tap, tap again. I fell off my chair....I said it was a typewriter honey. :rotfl: This is what I used in college but I was ahead of the game. It was a Smith Corona and electric

.

TV, we had about 10 stations that came in good with the rabbit ears. Yes, cartoons were for Saturday morning. However, I did get to watch the Three Stooges before school. Cable did not show up until I was about 14 years old.

I could go into the druggist and get my Mom cigarettes without being ID'd. It was $1.00 for two packs of cigarettes. However, model glue was a different story. Mom and Dad had to be called by the store owner if kids were buying model glue. Apparently the stuff was darn potent back then if sniffing it was your thing.

The internet was a group of books called encyclopedias. A guy would sell sets from door to door.

There are numerous others but most covered in the first post.

clive bradbury · 05-15-08, 11:09 AM

Talking of ATMs, does anyone else remember the first designs? It would be the late 1970s, and Barclays introduced an ATM which used paper vouchers. They were about six inches by three, and worth (I think) about £10 each. To use it you pulled open a drawer, placed the voucher on two lugs, and push the drawer back in. If you were lucky and didn't crease the paper, you got a ten pound note back.

Anyone else ever use them?

ReallyDedPoet · 05-15-08, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I could go into the druggist and get my Mom cigarettes without being ID'd. It was $1.00 for two packs of cigarettes.

He, he, my Dad would get me to go up street and get him pipe tobacco

Still remember the brands: Irish Mead, Borkum Riff were a couple.

RDP

StdDev · 05-15-08, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Tchocky

Kids today are always troublesome :p

Troublesome!!!! Thats got to be THE understatement of the year!!!

bookworm_020 · 05-15-08, 06:50 PM

My Parents complained when there dryer died a month or two back. It only gave 25 years service!

They got twenty out of a frying pan (then they gave it to me when I left home and I got another 5 years out of it till my wife demanded a new one!

)

There original Colour TV gave close to 35 years of service!

clive bradbury · 05-16-08, 11:36 AM

Tell the kids of today and they wouldn't believe that:

1. To change TV channels you had to get up and walk to the box
2. You had to wind car windows down by hand
3. You could not afford 'designer' clothes - which didn't exist anyway
4. Not everyone on the planet wore a baseball cap
5. You had to eat proper food - not burgers
6. To become a celebrity you actually had to achieve something first
7. You had to buy your first car yourself, instead of having Daddy and Mummy buy one for you
8. Almost everybody smoked
9. If you talked back to an adult, they would be very likely to hit you, and all the other adults would approve
10. Trains were still cheaper than air travel.

05-14-08, 10:19 PM	#1
Monica Lewinsky Grey Wolf Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 845 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	When I was a kid, "D" batteries just got invented, back then they were the rage and cool to have/own. Way back then there was the adventure series BOOKS - yea you were FORCED to READ a book, by Tom Swift. "Tom Swift and the Nuclear Caves of Fire" was my first book- was a COOL thing to do in 1959 - READ and imagine an adventure. Now considered - boring. __________________ Sink them all!

05-15-08, 05:06 AM	#3
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,373 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Kids, I don't know what's wrong with these kids today Kids, who can understand anything they say Kids, they are so ridiculous and so immature Noisy, lazy, sloppy crazy loafers, and while we are on the subject Kids, you can talk and talk to your face is blue Kids, they only do what they want to Why can't they be like we were Perfect in every way What's the matter with kids these days <bowing> __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

05-15-08, 05:31 AM	#5
Tchocky Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,874 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Kids today are always troublesome :p __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

05-15-08, 05:47 AM	#6
kurtz Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Leighton Buzzard,England Posts: 660 Downloads: 39 Uploads: 0	Away from my books at the moment but their is a record of a guy in the 14th/15th centuries going on about the introduction of chimneys as he thought the smoke cured diseases and that was why kids in (his) modern times always had coughs and sneezes. My Parents blamed it on central heating:hmm: __________________ War without Fire is like sausages without mustard-Henry V. http://www.myvintagelife.co.uk/

05-15-08, 08:47 AM	#7
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,261 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	I had to laugh the other day. My 10 year old daughter was explaining to me a device she saw on TV. She said it went tap, tap, tap and the paper was in this thing that went to one side and a bell would go off. At that point, the user pushed the paper holder to the other side and started tap, tap, tap again. I fell off my chair....I said it was a typewriter honey. :rotfl: This is what I used in college but I was ahead of the game. It was a Smith Corona and electric. TV, we had about 10 stations that came in good with the rabbit ears. Yes, cartoons were for Saturday morning. However, I did get to watch the Three Stooges before school. Cable did not show up until I was about 14 years old. I could go into the druggist and get my Mom cigarettes without being ID'd. It was $1.00 for two packs of cigarettes. However, model glue was a different story. Mom and Dad had to be called by the store owner if kids were buying model glue. Apparently the stuff was darn potent back then if sniffing it was your thing. The internet was a group of books called encyclopedias. A guy would sell sets from door to door. There are numerous others but most covered in the first post. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

05-15-08, 11:09 AM	#8
clive bradbury Captain Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: stoke-on-trent, UK Posts: 492 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 0	Talking of ATMs, does anyone else remember the first designs? It would be the late 1970s, and Barclays introduced an ATM which used paper vouchers. They were about six inches by three, and worth (I think) about £10 each. To use it you pulled open a drawer, placed the voucher on two lugs, and push the drawer back in. If you were lucky and didn't crease the paper, you got a ten pound note back. Anyone else ever use them?

05-15-08, 06:50 PM	#11
bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	My Parents complained when there dryer died a month or two back. It only gave 25 years service! They got twenty out of a frying pan (then they gave it to me when I left home and I got another 5 years out of it till my wife demanded a new one!) There original Colour TV gave close to 35 years of service! __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"

05-16-08, 11:36 AM	#12
clive bradbury Captain Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: stoke-on-trent, UK Posts: 492 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 0	Tell the kids of today and they wouldn't believe that: 1. To change TV channels you had to get up and walk to the box 2. You had to wind car windows down by hand 3. You could not afford 'designer' clothes - which didn't exist anyway 4. Not everyone on the planet wore a baseball cap 5. You had to eat proper food - not burgers 6. To become a celebrity you actually had to achieve something first 7. You had to buy your first car yourself, instead of having Daddy and Mummy buy one for you 8. Almost everybody smoked 9. If you talked back to an adult, they would be very likely to hit you, and all the other adults would approve 10. Trains were still cheaper than air travel.

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