What is something you did as a kid - that youth today just wouldn’t understand

[Pimike]

Played outside with friends…..

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This!!!

Amen

 

[ttwarrior1]

playing smear the queer

 

[Pimike]

playing smear the queer

Lol

We played that to.

Great football action.

Haha

 

[jjgold]

Played electric football

 

[Tanko]

Got my first "real" job that was not mowing lawns, shoveling snow, walking beans or detasseling corn when I was 13 y.o.. I mean the kind of job that you show up at 8 and leave at 5 (on weekends) and 4-8 (weeknights). They had laws back then about child labor if you < 15 y.o. that were pretty much ignored, thank god.

 

[quantumleap]

Actually walking up to the TV to change the channel. Checking all 3 of them to see what's on

Turning the antenna on the roof to get TV to work.

Using the "Color" knob, "Tint" knob, "Brightness" knob and the "Contrast" knob on the back of the TV to get the picture just right.

Also, the "Vertical Hold" and "Horizontal Hold' knobs.

 

[roofer]

I have two 11 year olds and what breaks my heart is that kids today are not being taught the important things about our country's history, identity, etc. I am having to teach them independently. They had no idea what the Revolutionary War was all about. When I was a kiddo, our school would put on an American history play for parents and I remember playing the part of Patrick Henry. I'd spend the next summer sporting a tricorner hat and shooting my daisy bb gun at anything that moved. I'll never forget some neighbor kids hopping the fence to retrieve their baseball and I shouted red coats and shot their ass. I sincerely hope that other parts of the country are doing a lot better than Washington State.

 

[roofer]

Delivering the newspaper in the evening after school. Was such a great job as a 12 year old. I had two routes and I'd spend all money on legos, baseball, and basketball cards.

 

[drunkenhorseplayer]

Rode a bike without a helmet and never worried about it one bit.

 

[djefferis]

History is not being taught at all.

The brilliant minds in our education departments have deemed it non essential.

They are more concerned with STEM - they see the success Asian countries have had and want to emulate it. Funny thing is - by ignoring history - you are encouraging it to be repeated.

Look at any once great society and what lead to its downfall. We are so concerned with what others are doing to advance theirselves that we gave up on what made the USA great and are changing course to try to emulate their society. Of course it will never work as you cannot make our population think as a society the way they think.

STEM works great when the research you are developing benefits the society as a whole - but we are capitalist and their education only benefits their employers - the ultra rich who continue to profit on a public education systems investment in talent.

 

[JDS]

I used to get spanked on my ass with a belt from my pops when I misbehaved when I was a kid. If you do that today, your parents can go to jail. If any of you heard my dedication speech to my parents for their 50th wedding anniversary you would know that whenever my pops did that to me I never took it as abuse, just a lesson learned.

 

[JDS]

I’ll post that speech again, it was well received. I spoke in front of about 100 people and I did not stutter. This version below is a practice version.

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[Archie]

ride a bike without a helmet

 

[Tanko]

I used to get spanked on my ass with a belt from my pops when I misbehaved when I was a kid. If you do that today, your parents can go to jail. If any of you heard my dedication speech to my parents for their 50th wedding anniversary you would know that whenever my pops did that to me I never took it as abuse, just a lesson learned.

This is a great one.... Whenever you saw dad coming you turned your a$$ to the wall because you knew you were either getting the belt or the boot.

 

[send_it]

Dog pile

 

[send_it]

Blockbuster. Driving to the store to rent a video game or a movie

 

[JDS]

Blockbuster. Driving to the store to rent a video game or a movie

Good call.

 

[djefferis]

Yea - remember when owning a video store was a license to print money.

Even better - the “back room” selections - nothing like going into a store and renting porn.

Still sadly remember 2005ish - buddy of mine was getting ready to quit the job we worked at - and had a plan. He had like 6k in the 401k unvested - but would vest in a year. Our 401k allowed us to buy stocks and options using a broker account.

Buddy bought 6k worth of short term options in XM - right before the Stern announcement. 6 became 60 overnight. Dude had to stick around a year to make 2x what our base salary was at the time in profits on his 401k - otherwise they would be forfeited. He kept pushing me to buy into Netflix with him as that is what he bought after selling XM on the run up. Stupid me said the DVD via mail was a fad and the streaming would never work as took too much bandwidth. Hey - I was half right I guess.

 

[Wagerallsports]

Said “Please” & “Thank You”

 

[Archie]

wore a 3 piece suit on the airplane After knocking out a good tree fiddy pullups and then smoked half a pack on the plane