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Things that ain't the same from when you was a kid.

Consequences for someone running their mouth. Just because someone got a punch in the nose or mouth wasn't because they were being "bullied" and it wasn't cause for it to make the 6 o'clock evening news.

Speaking of which the news told us something happened and it was up to us to determine how we felt about it.

Someone farting on the other side of the country was never even heard about instead of everyone being made aware within minutes to seconds.

Edit: and while in school if it was hot, we opened a window. When it was cold and the radiator in the back of the class was hissing but still cold...we wore our coats. The school wasn't closed because it was too hot or cold or because snow was accumulating on the grass.
 
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I agree with the cartoon^^^^
I loved Tom and Jerry, Speedy Gonzales with his buddy Slow Poke Rodriguez. Now stupid fucks cry about them being racist?:mad3:
 
Paint stripper :mad3: - bring back the formula based on methyl-ethyl-badshit, please


EDIT: and spray paint - the stuff that new paint stripper wouldn't touch. VOCs FTMFW :flipoff2:
 
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2big bronco said:
Really everything is pretty much the same for me and I dont see why my kids wont have similar childhoods
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You turn your nine-year-old kid out at the park and tell him to come home when the lights are on and they will show up in 30 Minutes accompanied by a cop after the Karen down the street called concerned about their safety and well-being.
 
grumpy356 said:
You turn your nine-year-old kid out at the park and tell him to come home when the lights are on and they will show up in 30 Minutes accompanied by a cop after the Karen down the street called concerned about their safety and well-being.
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I didn't grow up near a park and dont live near one now. We ran and built forts in the woods, shot bb guns, or rode dirt bikes till after dark. I made sure I bought a place where my kid can do the same.

And in the town where I grew up a group of 9 year olds playing in town skateboarding or whatever after dark wouldn't be abnormal.
 
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TiTRD said:
I could take off on my bike all day. Do whatever I wanted, as long as I was home at dinner time.

I actually played outside. Street hockey (in the middle of the road). Football. I would always come home scraped or bruised. Built bike jumps, rode quads, ice hockey on the pond. We did shit and would get hurt.
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I would get hurt every single day as a kid. I was literally told to rub dirt in it and walk it off. I literally rubbed dirt in it and walked it off.

I spent entire weeks, multiple summers in a row, only coming into the house to eat and sleep. Many times not even doing that.

Now all of our old paths are overgrown or something is built on them.

Didn't mean this to be a nostalgia thread but I'm Bob Seger age now.
 
evernoob said:
Tuffskin jeans from Kmart. Soft and thick and long-lasting. But that was peak Guess jeans time.
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We got ours at Sears. I dont remember anything "soft" about them. Jeezus, that was over 40 years ago. I remember green and maroon though
 
Most food just doesn't taste as good as it used to after removing all of the ingredients that someone deemed "bad" for us . Another thing food-related is you now get smaller portions for more money, an example is "fun size" candy bars now are what used to be "mini" size.

A majority of clothing isn't as durable as it used to be - lots of cheaper, thinner material is used.
 
R12, used to see guns in a plexi turntable at k-mart and thrifty's, neighbors and family used to can fruit (we still do...kinda), :mr-t::mr-t:'S really wanted equality, and people were used to going home dirty.
 
My mom used to get my brother "Husky" brand jeans. Since he was a little on the pudgy side he hated them.:lmao:

Those probably count as body shaming now.
 
bdkw1 said:
My mom used to get my brother "Husky" brand jeans. Since he was a little on the pudgy side he hated them.:lmao:

Those probably count as body shaming now.
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Was just kmart’s brand. My parents were fucking cheap, I wore those too.
 
Fullsize80cherokee said:
Was just kmart’s brand. My parents were fucking cheap, I wore those too.
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"Husky" was a brand and a size.

Most of this thread brings back memories.

Anyone ever unpeel a styrofoam coke label halfway, pull it down off the end of the bottle and smack it? It made a loud popping sound if you did it right.
 
Popcorn bunnies at Easter with a candy eye.

JIFFYPOP popcorn that was made on a stove top.

Cigarette vending machines

Blocks of ice on one side of the machine and bags on the other
 
Old country variety stores. When I was a kid in the 80’s there was two small towns close to where we lived that had old country stores with the creaky wood floors, smelled like wood stove smoke, tobacco and spices, and had the best selections of hard candy.
 
Who else remembers the old aluminium tray TV dinners that took 45 minutes and tasted like shit? :laughing:
 
Pony_Driver said:
Popcorn bunnies at Easter with a candy eye.

JIFFYPOP popcorn that was made on a stove top.

Cigarette vending machines

Blocks of ice on one side of the machine and bags on the other
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I remember at about 10 years old going into the bar to buy my Aunt cigarettes from the vending machine
 
Thumping said:
Who else remembers the old aluminium tray TV dinners that took 45 minutes and tasted like shit? :laughing:
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They turned into microwavable TV dinners that also were shit. Long before there were aisles and aisles of frozen garbage for sale at the grocery store.
 
stjames151 said:
R12, used to see guns in a plexi turntable at k-mart and thrifty's, neighbors and family used to can fruit (we still do...kinda), :mr-t::mr-t:'S really wanted equality, and people were used to going home dirty.
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somewhere around here I'm pretty sure I've got jc penney and k-mart rollmarked shotguns

one of those deals where you keep running into $70 pump guns, and at that price why not
 
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somewhere around here I'm pretty sure I've got jc penney and k-mart rollmarked shotguns

one of those deals where you keep running into $70 pump guns, and at that price why not
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K-mart and Sears bought guns from H&R, NEF, Marlin, Glenfield etc. All of those ended up owned by Cerebus Capital Management which IIRC loaded Remington Inc up with debt and sold it off.
 
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somewhere around here I'm pretty sure I've got jc penney and k-mart rollmarked shotguns

one of those deals where you keep running into $70 pump guns, and at that price why not
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I had a revelation 30-30 that had sold through Western Auto stamped in the barrel.
 
Pony_Driver said:
K-mart and Sears bought guns from H&R, NEF, Marlin, Glenfield etc. All of those ended up owned by Cerebus Capital Management which IIRC loaded Remington Inc up with debt and sold it off.
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one of them is just a mossy 500 that doesn't say mossberg on it anywhere
 
Thumping said:
Who else remembers the old aluminium tray TV dinners that took 45 minutes and tasted like shit? :laughing:
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They evolved into hungry man dinners which are pretty decent.


Mcdonald's fries were good back in the day. I had husky jeans too.


I think personal responsibility is indeed mostly dead these days.
 
DWT said:
Mcdonald's fries were good back in the day.
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burger king fries used to be even better, real crispy on the outside, I think they mighta sprayed them with sugar or something before frying them

ETA: which is strange because the only other thing on their menu I've ever enjoyed is the croissanwich, everything else is total garbage at a much higher price
 
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