You know you're getting old when things from the past or your past personal life would now seem weird or at the very least quaint.
I made this discovery whilst sorting out some papers, I used to communicate with quite a few of my friends, when we were in our teens and early 20s, by letter, not phone, email, skype, cellphone, but solely by letter !
I just seemed rather odd to find all of these letters, some very lengthy from almost a bygone era. I guess people being away at various colleges and then moving around a bit, meant that letters were practical, at a time when quite a few rented places didn't have phones.
So what did you used to do or experience which might seem odd to our younger board members ?
I was once an outgoing and somewhat personable person.
Quote from: Razgovory on January 11, 2012, 09:36:18 PM
I was once an outgoing and somewhat personable person.
And you still could be. :)
I believe drinking from human skulls would now be considered a tad gauche. :hmm:
Going to the library to use the internet would seem super weird to all but the poorest of kids these days.
Then there's the way getting hold of entertainment unavailable in the UK (largely anime I must say...hey, I was 15) was very difficult and it was a challenge to get even one episode...whilst the spoilt buggers of today can just stream anything they like.
Quote from: Tyr on January 11, 2012, 10:08:57 PM
Going to the library to use the internet would seem super weird to all but the poorest of kids these days.
Then there's the way getting hold of entertainment unavailable in the UK (largely anime I must say...hey, I was 15) was very difficult and it was a challenge to get even one episode...whilst the spoilt buggers of today can just stream anything they like.
Yeah, and I went past a mobile library yesterday, that does seem like a throwback to another age. Nowadays the library can come to almost every house simultaneously.
Children having a higher standard of living than their parents. That must've been weird for grandpa.
I was wondering yesterday when the last time was that I had seen/used a rotary dial on a telephone.
The idea that nobody could reach you when you're not home.
I remember when we actually had a Cloverland milk delivery box on our front porch.
Quote from: Maladict on January 12, 2012, 03:36:54 AM
The idea that nobody could reach you when you're not home.
Ah bliss. :cool:
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 12, 2012, 06:20:59 AM
I remember when we actually had a Cloverland milk delivery box on our front porch.
I can remember the Corona lemonade lorry coming around to your street, so you could by direct.
I also vaguely remember collecting up bottles for the refunds.
Yes, happy times (and profitable) taking all the bottles back after a parental party :cool:
I miss the old money, it was great having loose change from Victoria's reign. One time, an uncle, who was a bus driver, got a fare paid with loose change that included a George III penny :cool:
Do Brits not have bottle deposits? We still have homeless people rummaging through trashcans for bottles to return for their deposits.
Quote from: Barrister on January 12, 2012, 09:32:35 AM
Do Brits not have bottle deposits? We still have homeless people rummaging through trashcans for bottles to return for their deposits.
No, as far as I know returns died out in the early 80s.
No doubt in a couple of more years a government will introduce this as a recycling measure and triumph it as a great innovation. :hmm:
Underage drinking without being challenged for ID :cheers:
Going to tthe drive-in movie in the back of my parents station wagon, then falling asleep for the second feature. It's the trifector of things you don't see any more - drive-ins, station wagons, and a lack of seatbelt legislation.
Pubs that charge different prices in the lounge and saloon bars! :lol:
Quote from: Barrister on January 12, 2012, 09:32:35 AM
Do Brits not have bottle deposits? We still have homeless people rummaging through trashcans for bottles to return for their deposits.
Shit man, I haven't seen a bottle deposit since my mother drank Diet-Rite in those longnecks.
Virtually nobody makes bottles out of glass anymore, and only some states have bottle deposits.
Being in the cargo area of a moving car with a bunch of other kids. No belts or anything and nothing ever happened. Played a game of chess by mail. Leaving the house in the morning and returning home when it got dark as a kid and nobody was worried.
Quote from: syk on January 12, 2012, 11:00:50 AM
Being in the cargo area of a moving car with a bunch of other kids. No belts or anything and nothing ever happened. Played a game of chess by mail. Leaving the house in the morning and returning home when it got dark as a kid and nobody was worried.
or riding in the back of a pick-up truck going down the freeway. Havent seen that in ages.
And how I loved the nervous smiles on certain parents' faces when mentioning the knife my daughter got for her 5th birthday. :cool:
Walking home from school for lunch (my god, it was two whole blocks!)
Waking up early and seeing the Indian Head test pattern on the TV.
McDonalds before the Big Mac.
Quote from: 11B4V on January 12, 2012, 11:04:26 AM
Quote from: syk on January 12, 2012, 11:00:50 AM
Being in the cargo area of a moving car with a bunch of other kids. No belts or anything and nothing ever happened. Played a game of chess by mail. Leaving the house in the morning and returning home when it got dark as a kid and nobody was worried.
or riding in the back of a pick-up truck going down the freeway. Havent seen that in ages.
Probably because all the people who did it have since fallen off the truck and died.
Back when I lived in Soviet Union, it was having some of our neighbors come to use our phone. They didn't have one of their own, since it took years of waiting on the line to get hooked up. We had ours mainly because my grandmother was a switchboard operator and had connections.
Quote from: 11B4V on January 12, 2012, 11:04:26 AM
or riding in the back of a pick-up truck going down the freeway. Havent seen that in ages.
I see it all the time-- but then again my morning & evening commute is through Kentucky :)
Quote from: Barrister on January 12, 2012, 09:53:07 AM
Going to tthe drive-in movie in the back of my parents station wagon, then falling asleep for the second feature. It's the trifector of things you don't see any more - drive-ins, station wagons, and a lack of seatbelt legislation.
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:thumbsup:
Its a dump now but it is
my hometown dump.
My folks had some station wagons. I never thought about it, but yeah, you don't see those anymore.
Quote from: DGuller on January 12, 2012, 11:45:30 AM
Back when I lived in Soviet Union, it was having some of our neighbors come to use our phone. They didn't have one of their own, since it took years of waiting on the line to get hooked up. We had ours mainly because my grandmother was a switchboard operator and had connections.
:lol:
Beeb, you just had to mention drive-ins. Now I can't stop looking up the old ones. YOU ASSHOLE.
http://www.roadsidepeek.com/roadusa/midwest/mwdrivein/index.htm
Sigh.
Quote from: PDH on January 12, 2012, 11:16:24 AM
Walking home from school for lunch (my god, it was two whole blocks!)
Waking up early and seeing the Indian Head test pattern on the TV.
McDonalds before the Big Mac.
Ditto over here.
Y'know, I don't think I've ever eaten a Big Mac.
There's still a working drive in in my town.
Going to a theater to see a porno.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 12, 2012, 04:35:30 PM
Going to a theater to see a porno.
How does that work? :unsure: Do you get a box of Kleenex with your ticket?
Quote from: DGuller on January 12, 2012, 05:33:59 PM
How does that work? :unsure: Do you get a box of Kleenex with your ticket?
If you were a black guy you just sprayed all over the seat back. If you were a older white guy you sprayed on the inside of your raincoat. If you were a white college guy you had stiffie for the whole movie and went home to take care of business.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 12, 2012, 06:37:06 PM
Quote from: DGuller on January 12, 2012, 05:33:59 PM
How does that work? :unsure: Do you get a box of Kleenex with your ticket?
If you were a black guy you just sprayed all over the seat back. If you were a older white guy you sprayed on the inside of your raincoat. If you were a white college guy you had stiffie for the whole movie and went home to take care of business.
:pinch:
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 12, 2012, 10:07:53 AM
Quote from: Barrister on January 12, 2012, 09:32:35 AM
Do Brits not have bottle deposits? We still have homeless people rummaging through trashcans for bottles to return for their deposits.
Shit man, I haven't seen a bottle deposit since my mother drank Diet-Rite in those longnecks.
Virtually nobody makes bottles out of glass anymore, and only some states have bottle deposits.
You guys don't recycle aluminum cans?
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 12, 2012, 06:37:06 PM
Quote from: DGuller on January 12, 2012, 05:33:59 PM
How does that work? :unsure: Do you get a box of Kleenex with your ticket?
If you were a black guy you just sprayed all over the seat back. If you were a older white guy you sprayed on the inside of your raincoat. If you were a white college guy you had stiffie for the whole movie and went home to take care of business.
There's a porn theatre about 10 blocks from my house. They've got a very faded signed picture of Ron Jeremy in the ticket office.
Today's porn theaters are pretty much exclusively for cruising, though, even if they're playing straight porn.
Games on cassettes/tapes and pirating them with hi-fi systems.
Working at a place that has landline phones.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 12, 2012, 11:05:53 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 12, 2012, 10:07:53 AM
Quote from: Barrister on January 12, 2012, 09:32:35 AM
Do Brits not have bottle deposits? We still have homeless people rummaging through trashcans for bottles to return for their deposits.
Shit man, I haven't seen a bottle deposit since my mother drank Diet-Rite in those longnecks.
Virtually nobody makes bottles out of glass anymore, and only some states have bottle deposits.
You guys don't recycle aluminum cans?
WHAT THE NIGGER FUCK DO ALUMINUM CANS FUCKING HAVE TO DO WITH FUCKING BOTTLE DEPOSITS, YOU STUPID FUCKING NIGGER??????
I swear to Christ and my mother, if I ever meet you I am popping you right in the motherfucking face and shoving your nasal cartilage into the back of your fucking skull, right off the motherfucking bat. You fucking gimpfuck.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 13, 2012, 09:33:59 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 12, 2012, 11:05:53 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 12, 2012, 10:07:53 AM
Quote from: Barrister on January 12, 2012, 09:32:35 AM
Do Brits not have bottle deposits? We still have homeless people rummaging through trashcans for bottles to return for their deposits.
Shit man, I haven't seen a bottle deposit since my mother drank Diet-Rite in those longnecks.
Virtually nobody makes bottles out of glass anymore, and only some states have bottle deposits.
You guys don't recycle aluminum cans?
WHAT THE NIGGER FUCK DO ALUMINUM CANS FUCKING HAVE TO DO WITH FUCKING BOTTLE DEPOSITS, YOU STUPID FUCKING NIGGER??????
I swear to Christ and my mother, if I ever meet you I am popping you right in the motherfucking face and shoving your nasal cartilage into the back of your fucking skull, right off the motherfucking bat. You fucking gimpfuck.
Dude, you gonna blow.
Also aluminIum cans are bottle deposit. God, damn it.
Quote from: Grey Fox on January 13, 2012, 09:41:39 AM
Also aluminIum cans are bottle deposit. God, damn it.
Where the fuck in my post did you see any reference to aluminum can recycling? Please, fucking point it out to me, Professor. I'd really like to see where, within the context of my description of glass bottle deposits, I MENTIONED ANY FUCKING THING ABOUT ALUFUCKINGMINUM CANS. I REALLY WANT YOU TO TELL ME.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 13, 2012, 09:47:00 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on January 13, 2012, 09:41:39 AM
Also aluminIum cans are bottle deposit. God, damn it.
Where the fuck in my post did you see any reference to aluminum can recycling? Please, fucking point it out to me, Professor. I'd really like to see where, within the context of my description of glass bottle deposits, I MENTIONED ANY FUCKING THING ABOUT ALUFUCKINGMINUM CANS. I REALLY WANT YOU TO TELL ME.
No where but then Timmy ask it has a question, illustrated by the ? he used.
How do you guys recycle beer bottles then? Like Wine bottles?
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Aside from the bottles, definitely there's a deposit on aluminum cans. You completely forgot about those Seedy. Maybe too early in the morning or something.
Quote from: Grey Fox on January 13, 2012, 09:50:27 AM
No where but then Timmy ask it has a question, illustrated by the ? he used.
If you're going to post an accusatory question from out of your ass, at least make it fucking relevant to the discussion at hand.
QuoteHow do you guys recycle beer bottles then? Like Wine bottles?
How the fuck do I know, I don't drink.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 13, 2012, 09:51:20 AM
Aside from the bottles, definitely there's a deposit on aluminum cans. You completely forgot about those Seedy. Maybe too early in the morning or something.
Now you're just trying to induce an aneurysm.
Quote from: Brazen on January 12, 2012, 09:47:27 AM
Underage drinking without being challenged for ID :cheers:
Indeed. I feel sorry for underagers today :(
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 13, 2012, 09:58:37 AM
Now you're just trying to induce an aneurysm.
Everybody else gets the allcaps and I get this little shit fag post. What's up with that? :mad:
Quote from: Sheilbh on January 13, 2012, 10:11:10 AM
Quote from: Brazen on January 12, 2012, 09:47:27 AM
Underage drinking without being challenged for ID :cheers:
Indeed. I feel sorry for underagers today :(
It's pretty counter-productive as well. In my day the police used their judgement and cracked down on teenagers who were being a nuisance; this meant that if you behaved yourself and could plausibly possibly be 18 then you were free to go to the pub.
No payment for recycling in the UK, just a fine if the councils spots you putting recyclable stuff in the regular waste and oodles of middle-class guilt othersie. Householders generally get a recycling bin they have to put out for collection once a week, or communal facilities in flats - ours fills up two days after it's been emptied. These days it's usually all in one container rather than having to divide paper/card/glass/plastic/tins etc.
At least it's evolved a little. Initially you'd have to take recycling to the supermarket or rubbish dump and put it in the relevant bin one bottle or paper at a time.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 13, 2012, 10:16:44 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 13, 2012, 09:58:37 AM
Now you're just trying to induce an aneurysm.
Everybody else gets the allcaps and I get this little shit fag post. What's up with that? :mad:
I refuse to let Yi out-Yi me. You magnificent bastard, I read your book.
Seedy was channeling BRIAN BLESSED. In fact, from now on, I will imagine all of Seedy's post to be read by BRIAN BLESSED.