Lawn darts were awesome. I also remember when they tried to make them safer by replacing the metal spike with plastic covered cement. Yeah, that was safer. No longer a stabbing threat, now a bludgeoning threat.
You're lucky to be alive! You know Mikey, from the commercial "Hey Mikey! He likes it!"? Yeah, he didn't die in Vietnam like everyone said. He survived 'Nam only to be killed by his little sister with a bad arc on a Jart straight into his eye. Right in the mother fucking eye, man!
In Kindergarten I had 3 kids who bullied me I was told to stand up for myself by my parents and teacher. Loved Mr. T to my little eyes badest man there was. A Team was awesome.
So there I was playing they came up started picking on me grabbed the leader by the throat slammed him to the ground. Did the worst Mr. T impression ever the other 2 ran off scared. Their little leader i let go ran away next. To this day will see the boy and hes scared. Been 30 so odd years ago now.
Stand up to bullys. Teach your kids to stand up to them. This is why the left thinks they can dk whT they want and no one will stop them. Put a fist to their mouths and they will stop.
Yes indeedy. Also solder it yourself Radio Shack electronic kits, lead fishing sinkers we crimped on the line with our teeth and occasionally swallowed and some kid always opened up a mercury capsule from a wall thermostat or similar and we all played with the liquid metal, usually while also shoving our faces full of candy eaten from mercury contaminated hands. Heck, we used to put Bag Balm on cuts, active ingredient ethylated mercury.
In hindsight WHAT THE FUCK WERE OUR PARENTS THINKING?
When I grew up and had kids I would have NEVER handed my kid what is essentially a bigger heavier bolas!
2 classmates got fucked up. One a noggin shot self inflicted and one broken forearm courtesy of his big brother.
I wasn't overprotective either I just wasn't dumb enough to give my kid something that I KNEW was going to cost me money from broken shit in the house to broken shit on the kid!
Clackers were these super heavy balls at both ends of a string, and the middle of the string was looped over a little circle. It's kind of like a dangerous yo-yo. The idea was to move your hand up and down so they'd swing on the arc of a circle and hit each other.
The problem is it was hard to get them started, and if they hit you it hurt like hell, and then they started to come off the ends of the string and fly off and hurt people. The news was filled with stories of them killing people which was probably bullshit. We finally braided ours up and left them together like a weapon to use in case someone broke into the house before my father could shoot them.
Thank you. I do remember those. I didn't know that they were called clackers. I do remember going crazy with them and then getting hit by them in some random body part.
Don't forget BB and pellet guns. Most people I knew had a .22 rifle long before they were 16. Some kind of toy that either got hot and melted plastic or was melted plastic and solvent in a tube (Super Elastic Bubble Plastic!). Oven and drain cleaner that had enough lye in them to melt your face and actually cleaned the oven or drain. Absolutely nothing had an idiot switch. Bicycle helmets were not a thing at all.
Super Elastic Bubble Plastic was made of several different petroleum-based products, including acetone (the main ingredient in nail polish remover). The rainbow colored substance in each tube of Super Elastic Bubble Plastic was actually polyvinyl acetate mixed with acetone, plus a mixture of benzene. The benzene kept the substance malleable until it evaporated, leaving behind that beautiful, rainbow bubble, and according to The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, increasing your risk of cancer, specifically Leukemia.
On a hot day. Yup. Tasted like the hot rubber hose.Probably have cancer from it. Remember the smell of those crappy vinyl holloween costumes. Probably have cancer from that too
I also taught my son to drink from the hose by showing him. That doesn't mean I do it all the time. I instead choose to drink neatly from a cup, with ice and filtered water, because I can make that choice as an adult and I don't mind taking an extra minute to get a nice cold glass of water rather than just drink from the hose in order to get back into whatever game I'm playing as quickly as possible like when I was a kid.
One can make a choice to do something that is comfortable and not be a pussy for choosing to do so. Do you sleep on a dirt floor like an Army Ranger in survival training? No, you sleep in a bed because it's an option you have and you're not trying to prove how tough you are. Hell, the Rangers sleep in beds every chance they get, too.
That doesn't make you incapable of sleeping a night or two under the stars if it becomes necessary, it just makes you smart enough not to place artificial hardship upon yourself just to prove a point.
You could add dirt bike riding before helmets, in my neighborhood, riding the rails, Love's Canal, burning Lake Eire. That would make you my little brother, who lost a child to SIDS, making him tougher than me.
No, we're not afraid of Covid 19. We used to have chickenpox parties because we apparently understood herd immunity better then than "scientists" do now.
Based on what we did, ate, drank, etc., our immune system has its own "Strategic Defense Initiative". :D I hear Millenneals and Gen Z talk about their great grandfather serving in World War II. That was both grandfathers for me, great grandfather was a veteran of the Spanish American War.
We had the oil crises, no home video game system, "banker hours" telephone etiquette (none of the 24 hour stuff), we were the remote control to a TV with a knob and three channels. At 10/11 PM, the national anthem played, then the programming ended. We had Saturday morning cartoons and a good old fashioned butt "whoppen" was a part of the instructional tool kit that our parents had. Many thought that when the year 2000 rolled around, we'd be living as if it were a space themed science fiction movie.
And now many of us are in our 50s. :D
I started following the news in 1982, the first presidential election that I followed was the one for 1984, when Ronald Reagan won re-election. I saw many of the same things back then, with regards to excitement and support towards Ronald Reagan, and Geo-strategic, Geo-economic, and geopolitical realities, that I'm seeing now with President Trump.
Unless something major happens that shifts the tide towards Biden, this parallel will continue into Election night and there will be wailing and gnashing of the teeth among the left followed by an uptick of election night and post election memes on this site and on other conservative sites.
When MTV had music
The very first video played was The Buggles "Video Killed the Radio Star" and for a while that seemed prophetic. Not so much now.
We'd split into teams and lob the jarts over the house and dodge the incoming. Somehow nobody ever got hurt. Lots of fun though.
Lawn darts were awesome. I also remember when they tried to make them safer by replacing the metal spike with plastic covered cement. Yeah, that was safer. No longer a stabbing threat, now a bludgeoning threat.
Cleaned out my grandparents' garage a few years ago. Found my dad and uncles' old lawn dart set, so my kids will know the joy of lawn darts.
You're lucky to be alive! You know Mikey, from the commercial "Hey Mikey! He likes it!"? Yeah, he didn't die in Vietnam like everyone said. He survived 'Nam only to be killed by his little sister with a bad arc on a Jart straight into his eye. Right in the mother fucking eye, man!
My father stuck a bow and arrow target in the back yard, and a pellet gun target in the basement. We were never supervised.
We didn't have bike helmets or sage spaces.
We learned to punch bullies in the mouth.
In Kindergarten I had 3 kids who bullied me I was told to stand up for myself by my parents and teacher. Loved Mr. T to my little eyes badest man there was. A Team was awesome.
So there I was playing they came up started picking on me grabbed the leader by the throat slammed him to the ground. Did the worst Mr. T impression ever the other 2 ran off scared. Their little leader i let go ran away next. To this day will see the boy and hes scared. Been 30 so odd years ago now.
Stand up to bullys. Teach your kids to stand up to them. This is why the left thinks they can dk whT they want and no one will stop them. Put a fist to their mouths and they will stop.
Your mom's cool. I bet she was a dispenser of the Sunny-D liquid crack!
Might I add: Pop Rocks, wood burning kits, pellet guns, water rockets and chemistry sets.
And they were REAL chemistry sets; not whatever fake-ass garbage they're selling now.
Yes indeedy. Also solder it yourself Radio Shack electronic kits, lead fishing sinkers we crimped on the line with our teeth and occasionally swallowed and some kid always opened up a mercury capsule from a wall thermostat or similar and we all played with the liquid metal, usually while also shoving our faces full of candy eaten from mercury contaminated hands. Heck, we used to put Bag Balm on cuts, active ingredient ethylated mercury.
Yet somehow, we survived.
Ahem. Creepy Crawlers and EZ-Bake ovens.
Cap guns, bottle rockets and those little chocolate bottles candles filled with real liquor.
Clackers!
Okay, I remember all of the rest. But what the hell are "clackers"?
Hard plastic balls on a string that bopped many a fren in the noggin.
You where lucky if the noggin is where you got bopped.
In hindsight WHAT THE FUCK WERE OUR PARENTS THINKING?
When I grew up and had kids I would have NEVER handed my kid what is essentially a bigger heavier bolas!
2 classmates got fucked up. One a noggin shot self inflicted and one broken forearm courtesy of his big brother.
I wasn't overprotective either I just wasn't dumb enough to give my kid something that I KNEW was going to cost me money from broken shit in the house to broken shit on the kid!
Clackers were these super heavy balls at both ends of a string, and the middle of the string was looped over a little circle. It's kind of like a dangerous yo-yo. The idea was to move your hand up and down so they'd swing on the arc of a circle and hit each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLHftISLNHE
The problem is it was hard to get them started, and if they hit you it hurt like hell, and then they started to come off the ends of the string and fly off and hurt people. The news was filled with stories of them killing people which was probably bullshit. We finally braided ours up and left them together like a weapon to use in case someone broke into the house before my father could shoot them.
Benwa balls for kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a04UAoV3j88&feature=emb_title&ab_channel=MyCoolNostalgia
Thank you. I do remember those. I didn't know that they were called clackers. I do remember going crazy with them and then getting hit by them in some random body part.
Was just coming to post this! I loved my collection of clackers! They were awesome. ;-)
Arguments were settled outside.
Women took pride in acting like women.
Ill meet you at the Flagpole !
Sandwiched between 2 huge cuck generations
Our grand parents were the WWII generation and we could tell they were on a whole other level than our parents
Greatest Generation
Then we got the Greatest Cuck Generation
I always remember the grandparents the ones calling you out on BS.
"But that box (atari controller) down and go outside.
Don't forget BB and pellet guns. Most people I knew had a .22 rifle long before they were 16. Some kind of toy that either got hot and melted plastic or was melted plastic and solvent in a tube (Super Elastic Bubble Plastic!). Oven and drain cleaner that had enough lye in them to melt your face and actually cleaned the oven or drain. Absolutely nothing had an idiot switch. Bicycle helmets were not a thing at all.
I grew up with a dad that loved to hunt. Bought me a single shot 20 gauge for my 12th birthday. By then, I had been hunting rabbit for three years.
I remember walking 3 miles to my friend’s house when I was 9. If you let your kids do that now they throw you in prison.
We used to get all of the neighborhood kids together and have Roman candle wars and shoot them at each other.
Shit we didn’t have airsoft, but we did shoot BB guns at each other. Just wear sunglasses and a sweatshirt, you’ll be fine.
and Y2K an global warming and a myriad of other hoaxes
Global Cooling as well, acid rain, civilization ending was just around the corner!
Acid rain was really a thing though. They decided to fix it when new cars were getting spots on them while waiting to be shipped from the factory.
https://archive.vn/9xS5l
I'm good, thanks, but you do you.
I was born in 85 and remember drinking from the hose. Currently Married to the sister in-law of Satan's sister. Her brother married that bitch.
Cause it has that hose taste. You know what im talking about.
On a hot day. Yup. Tasted like the hot rubber hose.Probably have cancer from it. Remember the smell of those crappy vinyl holloween costumes. Probably have cancer from that too
You gotta let it run for a minute
Yes, but car seats now give kids cancer, so we are all even
Only if you lived in California.
Because you're not 8?
I also taught my son to drink from the hose by showing him. That doesn't mean I do it all the time. I instead choose to drink neatly from a cup, with ice and filtered water, because I can make that choice as an adult and I don't mind taking an extra minute to get a nice cold glass of water rather than just drink from the hose in order to get back into whatever game I'm playing as quickly as possible like when I was a kid.
One can make a choice to do something that is comfortable and not be a pussy for choosing to do so. Do you sleep on a dirt floor like an Army Ranger in survival training? No, you sleep in a bed because it's an option you have and you're not trying to prove how tough you are. Hell, the Rangers sleep in beds every chance they get, too.
That doesn't make you incapable of sleeping a night or two under the stars if it becomes necessary, it just makes you smart enough not to place artificial hardship upon yourself just to prove a point.
Hypercolor shirts -! Fuck me drunk, remember that shit?
I think I am related somehow
You could add dirt bike riding before helmets, in my neighborhood, riding the rails, Love's Canal, burning Lake Eire. That would make you my little brother, who lost a child to SIDS, making him tougher than me.
God, I miss lawn darts.
No, we're not afraid of Covid 19. We used to have chickenpox parties because we apparently understood herd immunity better then than "scientists" do now.
I'm gen x and I was born 1980
Kinda. I'm '78, and I've heard us ('77-'83) called us a microgeneration between X and Millennial.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/12/20/xennials-millennials-generation-x-microgeneration/2369230002/
Interesting. 78’ also.
we're
I’m one of the older millennials. My brother is gen x. He gave me his lawn darts. Somehow we both survived those insane as fuck toys
Leather daddy suspenders?
Captain! We're reaching a clacker speed that until now has been theoretically impossible!
Based on what we did, ate, drank, etc., our immune system has its own "Strategic Defense Initiative". :D I hear Millenneals and Gen Z talk about their great grandfather serving in World War II. That was both grandfathers for me, great grandfather was a veteran of the Spanish American War.
We had the oil crises, no home video game system, "banker hours" telephone etiquette (none of the 24 hour stuff), we were the remote control to a TV with a knob and three channels. At 10/11 PM, the national anthem played, then the programming ended. We had Saturday morning cartoons and a good old fashioned butt "whoppen" was a part of the instructional tool kit that our parents had. Many thought that when the year 2000 rolled around, we'd be living as if it were a space themed science fiction movie.
And now many of us are in our 50s. :D
I started following the news in 1982, the first presidential election that I followed was the one for 1984, when Ronald Reagan won re-election. I saw many of the same things back then, with regards to excitement and support towards Ronald Reagan, and Geo-strategic, Geo-economic, and geopolitical realities, that I'm seeing now with President Trump.
Unless something major happens that shifts the tide towards Biden, this parallel will continue into Election night and there will be wailing and gnashing of the teeth among the left followed by an uptick of election night and post election memes on this site and on other conservative sites.