Things you did as a kid that your kids will never do

[El Barto]

shush Sal Shush!!!!!

Used a dial-up modem.

Fu ck off .....

 

[Sal]

gah thanks for the imagery Sal!!!!!!

wrote that in a fairly graphic manner...just think that happened over 50 years ago and it is just that etched in my mind...

 

[El Barto]

wrote that in a fairly graphic manner...just think that happened over 50 years ago and it is just that etched in my mind...

leave me out of it brrrr
now to go see some dialup porn .... be back in 2 hours

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

omg that is so humiliating, so terribly sad... and they were adults

No, they were just trying to teach us to be good Christians. I'm being an ungrateful, filthy savage.

 

[55Mercury]

British Bulldog!

 

[DaSleeper]

me too. awesome chewy mints


yeah this guy is from up North from a little town...but the school I am currently working in had a rifle range in the old days....that shocked me


fuk you are wicked....lmao

Our local secondary school had an indoor rifle range (two shooting positions only) for the army cadets to practice. (in the '60s)
We had those old Enfield's look alike in .22 cal single shot to make it more realistic.

 

[Locutus]

Used a rotary phone, wind-up clock, phone book and yellow pages, Perlys, and defrosted the freezer.

 

[Sal]

Our local secondary school had an indoor rifle range (two shooting positions only) for the army cadets to practice. (in the '60s)
We had those old Enfield's look alike in .22 cal single shot to make it more realistic.

yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what they had too at the school where I am...

 

[55Mercury]

buy a porn magazine?

 

[Locutus]

adjusted the tint control knob and also the tracking control feature.

 

[Sal]

No, they were just trying to teach us to be good Christians. I'm being an ungrateful, filthy savage.

beyond sad... really, really sad...

my saving grace was my parents...great sense of humour, they had to push me so I could survive but push me they did...man I cried about every little hurt anyone had and they taught me to survive my nature

that's why i would have the instinct to rip that little pony off of my kid's back...it's a solidarity thing... there was the school and the church and the family, I learned different behaviours could be my friend...home was where I could be real...out there was where I had to survive...I am still that way actually... I still like harmony...I will only fight when pushed to the wall and then, wow, I don't even recognize what comes out of that corner but I don't lose...

 

[gerryh]

Used a dial-up modem.

1200 baud?

 

[Locutus]

14.4 eh...enough to connect my free AOL disc to their portal via a 486 with 8 megs of ram. Thought it was pretty exciting at the time. :lol:

 

[55Mercury]

walk a mile for a camel

ok, I never did that.

 

[gerryh]

14.4 eh...enough to connect my free AOL disc to their portal via a 486 with 8 megs of ram. Thought it was pretty exciting at the time. :lol:

1200 baud, hooked through an 8086 with 1 meg of ram and a 20 meg hard drive. Paid a whopping $400 to upgrade to a HUGE 40 meg hard drive. Told my wife I would never need anything bigger...roflmfao

 

[Locutus]

1200 baud, hooked through an 8086 with 1 meg of ram and a 20 meg hard drive. Paid a whopping $400 to upgrade to a HUGE 40 meg hard drive. Told my wife I would never need anything bigger...roflmfao

Hahaha...1 meg...man oh man.

My ICQ was 5 digits I think.

 

[gerryh]

Hahaha...1 meg...man oh man.

My ICQ was 5 digits I think.

and then, I bought a 2400 baud modem and started a BBS. Had one of the Fire Departments in Richmond hooking up to me with a 300 baud modem to play online games. Their Captain felt sorry for them after about 3 months and bought them a 2400 baud modem...lol

 

[Locutus]

300 baud...would have been faster to play chess by mail. :lol:

 

[gerryh]

300 baud...would have been faster to play chess by mail. :lol:

even sitting at my end, watching them, it was torture...lol

 

[JLM]

via Fark:

Waiting in line for a pay phone, scantrons, drinking from lead laced garden hoses...kids these days don't know what they're missing

We used to ride our bikes behind the bloody mosquito fogger on the bases. Yikes.

Play with sharp pointy sticks, caps, wood-burning toys, indian rubber balls, homemade rickity go-carts, wicked curved hockey sticks and such.

Danger Will Robinson. :lol:

When I was 6 years old my dad bought me a hatchet and every day after school it was my job to split the kindling and keep the box filled beside the kitchen range in preparation to start a fire in the morning. When I was a little older I would bring in buckets of sawdust to keep the hopper filled for mother.