Things from your childhood that no longer exist...

[Blurt]

...making you realize that you've now grown as old as the hills.

-- Milk delivered daily by an actual milkman. Bonus: milk in glass bottles and cardboard tops with pull tabs
-- Scenic wallpaper.
-- Texas Instruments pocket calculators with red filament readouts.
-- Bic four-colour retractable pens.
-- Indian test pattern on television after 11 pm national anthem and station sign-off. Bonus: only six TV channels to choose from. Double bonus: father up on roof adjusting aerial/antenna.
-- AMC automobiles.
-- Mojo mint toffee candy.
-- The word "Sugar" in the name of any Post or Kellog's cereal.
-- Super 8 camera and film rolls. Bonus: family outings caught on 8mm film.
-- Telephone numbers beginning with letters. Bonus: Bakelite phones with a rotary dial. Double bonus: dialing 0 for directory assistance.
-- Mimeographs.
-- Two packs of 25 cigarettes for a dollar. Bonus: unfiltered cigarettes. Double bonus: sale of cigarettes to minors. Triple bonus: tobacco industry ads portraying doctors enjoying a cigarette. Jackpot: the absence of any link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
-- Visits from the Avon lady.
-- Nestlé Quick powder in a rectangular can. Bonus: strawberry-flavoured Nestlé Quick powder in a rectangular can.
-- "Beat the Clock" board game.
-- Dubble Bubble gum pieces that actually tasted like Dubble Bubble. Bonus: Any brand of bubble gum that had its flavour last longer than three minutes.

Fuck, I'm ancient.

[Mad Serb]

[extralegs2020]

Let's play 'Doctor'.
Who wants to go first?

[Lochdubh]

smoking ciggies in British cinemas

[asal]

[extralegs2020]

Since we are going back in time, I thought I'd go back to age 9.
I wouldn't want to play Doctor with Blurt, though.

[Odinson]

Raping chicks and not getting punished for it.

[Odinson]

The finnish mark..

Getting paid as much as you do today but prices were 3 times lower..

Gasoline litre cost like 50 cents.. 2-3 finnish marks.

Independence.

[mimi]

Perfect skin.
Chubby cheeks.
Softer than soft, toes.

[J0E]

I seem to remember Canada used to be more family oriented & was run by and for straight people.

There were no overt displays of homosexuality or transgenderism. Hard drugs were not evident.

People & society seemed a lot more normal back then.

It was better & a much more stable society to be quite frank.

[J0E]

Perfect skin.
Chubby cheeks.
Softer than soft, toes.

Yeah that was the time when girls were girls boys were boys and men were men, eh mimi?

I miss those times.

[mimi]

Perfect skin.
Chubby cheeks.
Softer than soft, toes.

Yeah that was the time when girls were girls boys were boys and men were men, eh mimi?

I miss those times.

Wot?

[mimi]

I seem to remember Canada used to be more family oriented & was run by and for straight people.

There were no overt displays of homosexuality or transgenderism. Hard drugs were not evident.

People & society seemed a lot more normal back then.

It was better & a much more stable society to be quite frank.

I get the sense, that you believe that homosexuality didn't exsist back then. Well...it did. But they had to live a life that wasn't their own. How tragic, to think that people couldn't just be who they were, without the threat of being ostrasized.
It'd be like someone shaving your head, and making you live your life as a bald man. Can you even imagine ?

[J0E]

Perfect skin.
Chubby cheeks.
Softer than soft, toes.

Yeah that was the time when girls were girls boys were boys and men were men, eh mimi?

I miss those times.

Wot?

Frankly you need a shock to your system from time to time, mimi.

You’re often too smug in your self righteousness.

[mimi]

There's so very little that would shock me anymore, Joe. But I suspect a few jolts wouldn't hurt you none. =)))

[cc]

I'm good with electricity ... and totally ruthless with nasties and idiots

[evs]

Yeah that was the time when girls were girls boys were boys and men were men, eh mimi?

I miss those times.

Wot?

Frankly you need a shock to your system from time to time, mimi.

You’re often too smug in your self righteousness.

Another ad hom for no reason by joe, the cretin. In his next post he will state that Mimi now has a meltdown while he was just making a lighthearted joke.

[evs]

I'm good with electricity ... and totally ruthless with nasties and idiots

Ditto.

[extralegs2020]

I'm good with electricity ... and totally ruthless with nasties and idiots

How are you with Hajjis?

[evs]

Read the comment about nasties and idiots?

[Berry Sweet]

Manners and respect.

[Blurt]

Absolutely true.

But tapes still exist today. Just bought half a dozen some months ago.

Lite-Brite still exists, too, Asal.

It's when the stuff of our youth has gone the way of the dodo that thoughts of incipient senior citizenship encroach. Well, for me, anyway.

[evs]

Second hand smoke.

Needless to say - good riddance.

[Berry Sweet]

Going to a restaurant...smoking or non? Thank God those days are gone. I cant understand how people can smoke and eat at the same time.

[9 incher/160 IQ]

scott Weiland.

[9 incher/160 IQ]

Raping chicks and not getting punished for it.

You guys can't do that now in Funland?

[shin]

sea monkeys

my pet rock

Saturday morning cartoons

[9 incher/160 IQ]

That guy who created the sea monkey enterprise made a fortune. They were just natural shrimp like things. He had a plethora of toy patents as well.

[9 incher/160 IQ]

Oops. No. They are hybrid version of brine shrimp.

[asal]

penny candy, soda jerks, penny loafers, sock hops