'Remember when' or 'these kids today' nostalgia thread for old fogies like me

[CapricornFarm]

Can't understand this younger generation and their "lighters" ...

I twirled a stick, my daddy twirled a stick, my granddaddy twirled stick and that's how we liked it! ... good enough for me and my kin!

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Um, no, at least matches for me. Maybe if i were lost in the wilderness.

 

[N F C]

No animated imported cartoons in our house...parents could let you watch tv without parental warnings

 

[User395221]

You in the US got puppet kangaroos, we got the real thing

 

[Mace Gill]

Alright ... NOW were cookin' with some nostalgia from us old curmudgeonly folks! Keep 'em coming all y'all!

 

[WVduckchick]

Alright ... NOW were cookin' with some nostalgia from us old curmudgeonly folks! Keep 'em coming all y'all!

Wait, didn't you say you were born in the 70's?? That's way younger than many many members on this site. And most of your references are far older than that!
Still a neat thread, and I'm loving all the posts, but please be careful of how "old" you call yourself. I was born before you were.

 

[Mace Gill]

Wait, didn't you say you were born in the 70's?? That's way younger than many many members on this site. And most of your references are far older than that!
Still a neat thread, and I'm loving all the posts, but please be careful of how "old" you call yourself. I was born before you were.

That's the point ... read my first post ... about folks getting weepy and nostalgic over the 1990's for heaven's sake!

Most the nostalgia I am posting pre dates most folks on this site ... if not from before they were born, then at least from before they were old enough to remember, except from fond memories of visiting grandparents and listening to them be nostalgic about it

Calling myself 'old' because I remember when we built Stonehenge should help ANYONE on this forum remember that we're all young at heart

These days I feel most young when I watch the baby chicks learning how to forage with their mother, and that cycle keeps renewing, just like us

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

Picture this, 1970 Southern California, I am 5 years old and find a dime! Brother and i walk the mile to Thrifty drug store and we both walk out with an ice cream scoop!

I'm not old tho, 50 is the new 40. Its new math.

Gary

 

[Mace Gill]

"interweb forums" or whachya call 'em ... BAH!

Back in my day we had to check the hieroglyphics for expert chicken advice!

 

[User395221]

"interweb forums" or whachya call 'em ... BAH!

Ok, so showing my age a bit, but......

I used to BE the internet, or the nearest thing they had to it. I worked at the telephone exchange and people would ring up sometimes and ask questions they couldn't remember the answer to. If one of us knew, we'd tell them.

I also got to work a switchboard that had plugs and cords.

The thing I find a bit strange and sometimes amusing is the pronouncements that people make about "how things were" before they were even born. I've had people say "everyone did this back then" and I've gone "don't be ridiculous, no they didn't". Of course, even if you were about, you only know what it was like where you were. A lot of what we think things were like in, say, 1950s USA comes from movies and TV. What it was really like is probably very different.

At least the people going nostalgic over the 1990s are appreciating how quickly things change. I don't think people really realise how quickly things move on. Even within that time frame the internet has gone from something optional to something just about everyone has.

I'm not completely ancient, but older people when I was little had old stuff. The lady next door used to boil her sheets in a wood-powered copper. She had one of those washing machines that didn't spin, you had to run the clothes through a ringer attached to the top. I used to LOVE going to her house to help with the washing, I thought it was much more fun than the fully automatic modern washer we had at home. Stirring the sheets with a stick, feeding the things through the wringer, it was entertainment for me.

Anyone today would be horrified to think of the work involved in some of the things people even had to do within a generation or 2 older than them. None of it's ancient history.

They don't realise that not too far down the track they could be the person turning a cd over and getting laughed at because they haven't yet been exposed to some new technology. (yes, I really did that)

 

[WVduckchick]

That's the point ... read my first post ... about folks getting weepy and nostalgic over the 1990's for heaven's sake!

Most the nostalgia I am posting pre dates most folks on this site ... if not from before they were born, then at least from before they were old enough to remember, except from fond memories of visiting grandparents and listening to them be nostalgic about it

Calling myself 'old' because I remember when we built Stonehenge should help ANYONE on this forum remember that we're all young at heart

These days I feel most young when I watch the baby chicks learning how to forage with their mother, and that cycle keeps renewing, just like us

Ok, i admit, i missed a bit of the sarcasm.