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Thread: Anyone over 30 Might get a kick out of this.

  1. #1
    Creator
    The boards seem slow today so here is something completely unrelated to boats. :rollside:
    The way it used to be...
    My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife , but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.
    My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e-coli.
    Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
    The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
    We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened, because they tell us how much safer we are now.
    Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.
    Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
    We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
    I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
    I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
    Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
    We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked. Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
    We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we got home.
    I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.
    To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that? We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes?
    We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!
    How did we ever survive?
    LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T -- SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED.

  2. #2
    charitycase
    Hell Yeah>thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. #3
    Flashover
    That is all so true!! Nice avitar Charitycase Like it...

  4. #4
    liquidasset
    Aint that the truth !!!! :idea:
    Sometimes I wonder if weren't just a little better off back then.
    Hell,you can even go to jail for spanking your kid now.Man my dad would of been been in jail for life. People wonder why kids are so misbehaved these days . Back then it was seen, and not herd. Just yesterday my neighbors kid was swearing at her ,and he's 8 yrs old. I got my mouth washed out for sayin dang.

  5. #5
    Vada
    Aint that the truth !!!! :idea:
    Sometimes I wonder if weren't just a little better off back then.
    Hell,you can even go to jail for spanking your kid now.Man my dad would of been been in jail for life. People wonder why kids are so misbehaved these days . Back then it was seen, and not herd. Just yesterday my neighbors kid was swearing at her ,and he's 8 yrs old. I got my mouth washed out for sayin dang.
    And I suppose that you think violence is the way to answer to all thats wrong. Both my parents spanked me and all it did was make me resent them and even spank other children in elementary school if they did something I didn't like.

  6. #6
    DCBob
    The boards seem slow today so here is something completely unrelated to boats. :rollside:
    The way it used to be...
    My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife , but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.
    My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e-coli.
    Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
    The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
    We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened, because they tell us how much safer we are now.
    Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.
    Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
    We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
    I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
    I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
    Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
    We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked. Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
    We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we got home.
    I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.
    To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that? We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes?
    We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!
    How did we ever survive?
    LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T -- SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED.
    Jesus...................are you old :hammer2:

  7. #7
    liquidasset
    And I suppose that you think violence is the way to answer to all thats wrong. Both my parents spanked me and all it did was make me resent them and even spank other children in elementary school if they did something I didn't like.
    No that is not the point I'm trying to make. I'm just think that "some" parents are affraid to discipline there kids the way they seem fit. doing nothing at all is definatly not the answer. Heck there are alot of kids these days that truly don't know the differance between right and wrong. I'm sorry you resent your parents . I was tought to respect my elders. What was done may not of always been right . But at least my parents had the choice. For that I love them. I may of resented them now and then, But they were the were in charge not The Child.

  8. #8
    Havasu_Dreamin
    And I suppose that you think violence is the way to answer to all thats wrong. Both my parents spanked me and all it did was make me resent them and even spank other children in elementary school if they did something I didn't like.
    I got spanked when I got out of line and I didn't spank other kids at school. :notam:

  9. #9
    mirvin
    And I suppose that you think violence is the way to answer to all thats wrong. Both my parents spanked me and all it did was make me resent them and even spank other children in elementary school if they did something I didn't like.
    HuH??? :hammerhea

  10. #10
    hoolign
    HuH??? :hammerhea
    Mirvin you turd...this thread is for the over 30's....but not THAT far over

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