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We're old, and old people like to reminisce. Particularly about how today's kids are missing out. In particular, people who grew up in the 70, 80s, or 90s are good at this because it's still relatively fresh in our memories. A lot of these things happen to be deemed "unsafe", like this example below:  whereas others just fell out of style and are ridiculous these days, such as most fashions. Other things, like buying cigarettes for your parents, obviously don't happen anymore either. What things do you remember? Why do kids have it bad nowadays?
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Dec 25, 2015 04:48
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The innocent comedy stylings of Bill Cosby.
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Dec 25, 2015 05:34
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 Oversized shoulder pads with undersized jerseys
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Dec 25, 2015 09:05
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pogs
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Dec 25, 2015 10:20
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Granddad
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Dec 25, 2015 10:46
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Woods/dumpster porn, specifically print pornography.
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Dec 25, 2015 10:56
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The feeling that your government or employer was looking out for you and that everything would be OK.
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Dec 25, 2015 11:19
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Let me take a stab at this
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Dec 25, 2015 12:36
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mum and dad 
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Dec 25, 2015 13:44
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Physical cables that you connected from your gameboy to another gameboy for rad Pokemon battles. Also purple Nyko gameboy lights.
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Dec 25, 2015 15:17
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Rocko's Modern Life. Well I mean you can still watch it but new episodes aren't made anymore. That show was far more brilliant than it ever got credit for.
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Dec 25, 2015 15:20
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 There was also another line of drinks that came out about the same time that were "international" flavors and I remember one being made with yuzu fruit that I really liked. Also,  I know they still make it, but it's no longer available in the states. Went to Europe last year and gorged myself.
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Dec 25, 2015 15:52
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I don't know what it was called, but it was a big metal pole sticking out of the ground and two swings were attached to a pole that went through the top of the other pole. There's definitely a better way to describe it -- the swings weren't really normal swings and it spun in a circle. It was in the corner of the playground in a sorta dark spot so there were always a ton of daddy longlegs. That has nothing to do with the dynamics of this thing. Or maybe it does. Has anyone seen this? Now I want to ask my mom if she remembers it. I didn't especially like it, but maybe because I could never figure out how it worked or was too small or something. e: OK, well, I Googled "weird spinning swingset dangerous" and this came up --  So, imagine that, but no face and the 'arms' are longer and turn on a central single pole. I'm gonna ask my mom. I.C. has a new favorite as of 16:08 on Dec 25, 2015 |
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Dec 25, 2015 15:56
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I.C. posted:e: OK, well, I Googled "weird spinning swingset dangerous" and this came up -- I like the orange in the corner. What the hell.
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Dec 25, 2015 16:36
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Eeyo posted:I like the orange in the corner. What the hell. If that thing was in my neighborhood I'd offer it sacrifices too. Sometimes, though, all you have is a piece of fruit. You just kind of lay it down and hope you can find something more appeasing before it smites you.
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Dec 25, 2015 16:38
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NarwhalParty posted:
My mouth started watering when I saw this. Fire and Rain were god-tier beverages, and I somehow completely forgot they existed.
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Dec 25, 2015 16:57
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Mimeograph/Ditto machines, the purple-texted papers that were produced from said machines, and that certain smell 
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Dec 25, 2015 17:54
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peter gabriel posted:mum and dad Same. Merry Christmas everybody!
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Dec 25, 2015 18:25
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Discovery zone and it's kin. We had an awesome local one that was like 3000sq ft of tubes and slides and ball pits and foam poo poo to climb on.... Probably all closed due to lawsuit concerns, since there was no way in hell that poo poo could be sanitary, plus I know I wound up bruised and battered from jumping from great Heights into the ball pit
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Dec 25, 2015 18:27
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Got to go with Mom. Happy holidays!!!
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Dec 25, 2015 18:51
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Transformers. The good ones that were made of metal and turned into real cars not like made-up 'space cars' or whatever You could knock your little brother's teeth out super easy with those
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Dec 25, 2015 18:56
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 I never actually liked the stuff, but I appreciate that it existed.
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Dec 25, 2015 19:19
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Honey crunch corn flakes
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Dec 25, 2015 19:20
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I was gonna say that program pizza hutt used to do where you get a free pan pizza for reading or whatever, but apparently it still exists. I would've figured it'd be discontinued by now since it promotes fast food to kids. I used to love that poo poo cause I already loved reading so it was like free pizza all the time (New version obviously)
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Dec 25, 2015 22:34
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Also related to books in elementary school, a few times a year we'd get catalogs of books to choose from where some of the proceeds went to the school and you got prizes the more books you bought and my parents would always get me a ton. It was like a minor version or Christmas or a birthday to me. Probably like a Scholastic program Kinda looked like this but it was like 30+ pages long 
Aesop Poprock has a new favorite as of 22:40 on Dec 25, 2015 |
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Dec 25, 2015 22:38
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Aesop Poprock posted:Also related to books in elementary school, a few times a year we'd get catalogs of books to choose from where some of the proceeds went to the school and you got prizes the more books you bought and my parents would always get me a ton. It was like a minor version or Christmas or a birthday to me. Probably like a Scholastic program If you didn't have your gymacafetorium (are those even still a thing? My nephew's elementary school had all three separate. With an auditorium with cloth seats. :gronk:) turned into the giant scholastic book Fair once a quarter then you totally missed out.
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Dec 25, 2015 22:53
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AA is for Quitters posted:If you didn't have your gymacafetorium (are those even still a thing? My nephew's elementary school had all three separate. With an auditorium with cloth seats. :gronk:) turned into the giant scholastic book Fair once a quarter then you totally missed out. We definitely had a gymcafetorium in my school but for some reason the scholastic bookfairs were in the main school entrance/lobby. I'm assuming it was just less work than folding up all the big long lunchtables with built in seats. Also halfway through my elementary school years they built an add-on that turned into the main indoor gym, presumably for the same reason, which made it just a cafetorium Aesop Poprock has a new favorite as of 23:23 on Dec 25, 2015 |
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Dec 25, 2015 23:20
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25¢ chips. When I was a child you could buy a bag of chips, a Day's soda, and a Tastykake Chocolate Junior for a dollar. Now that's like 2$. Kids just can't start their journey towards obesity for cheap anymore.
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Dec 25, 2015 23:28
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Lonely Virgil posted:25¢ chips. When I was a child you could buy a bag of chips, a Day's soda, and a Tastykake Chocolate Junior for a dollar. Now that's like 2$. Kids just can't start their journey towards obesity for cheap anymore. I can do you one better. When I was a kid in the early 70s, you could get a 12oz canned soda and a bag of chips for a quarter. 
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Dec 25, 2015 23:49
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My innocence.
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Dec 25, 2015 23:50
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Intact intervertebral disks. Also rhinoceroses
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Dec 26, 2015 00:18
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A head of lettuce that didn't cost over 50 cents.
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Dec 26, 2015 01:53
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Orbitz Gross drinks with little balls of wax gelatin. gently caress I miss them.
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Dec 26, 2015 04:17
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Inzombiac posted:Orbitz Rarely was I so disapointed with something as a kid. How could a drink that looked that cool be so bad. They're still the most 90s drink I can think of next to Surge
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Dec 26, 2015 04:21
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looking forward to positive things
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Dec 26, 2015 04:26
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Positive thing: Leaded gasoline
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Dec 26, 2015 05:21
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Inzombiac posted:Orbitz I was on TV TWICE about those stupid things. The worst thing, the little gobs of goo weren't the gross part, it was how sugary the drink itself was. Action figures that were not intended to be collectibles.
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Dec 26, 2015 06:15
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I think I know maybe two school librarians who actually like Scholastic Book Fairs. Sometimes the fair kits come with Scholastic reps/vendors who are all about selling products and services to staff, sometimes the kits come on their own for the librarian to set up and take down solo. Plus Scholastic has all sorts of rules about when and where and how to run the thing. As a cataloger....gently caress book fair books and their "intended for the school market" bullcrap and making a new MARC record for a title because Scholastic's the publisher instead of Macmillan or Harper or whoever. I wish I could still find these in a vending machine:  (I know they're sold as TGIFridays' chips but not the plain ones.)
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Dec 26, 2015 07:39
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