Things your kids will never experience

[snemmy]

Using two VCRs to copy a tape. XD

[whiterabbit]

How about corded phones? You know, the kind where the handset is attached to the phone body with a curly cord?Used to drive me nuts dodging the mile long cord my sisters used all over the house.

MTV actually playing music videos! What a concept!

CRT monitors and TVs? Good riddance, I say. Was a pain in the butt lugging those things around.

Yeah, Saturday morning cartoons was my temple, my synagogue, and my church. From 6am to noon, you could find me planted in front of the biggest TV in the house with a bowl of unhealthily sugared cereal like this one, watching transformers, G.I.Joe, or Kidd Video.

[alphatroll]

or in my previous school's case, they will get suspended for getting caught reading the book on the premises like i did.

naw, that's the past, dude, we're talkin' 'bout the FUTURE! Y'know, when everything will be polished chrome and Aaron will take his rightful place next to Shakespeare. 'Cause, i mean, they both go without saying, right?

Well, for one thing it can't be *much* longer until the very last '80s car wheezes its way into a scrap pile somewhere, that can't be bad!

[williamthebloody]

How about corded phones? You know, the kind where the handset is attached to the phone body with a curly cord?Used to drive me nuts dodging the mile long cord my sisters used all over the house.

i STILL HAVE those! i have 2 phones with curly cords and one remote phone. i adamantly refuse to get a mobile phone. why would i want people calling me up when i'm out at the grocery store or restaurant? and yet, people STILL ask me when i answer "where are you?" um... on my COUCH where did you think? i can't go very far when i'm on the phone on account of it being plugged into the wall and all, genius.

maaan i remember the old phone my grandmother used to have. it was one of those big, black rotary dealies. you could REALLY stun a burglar with that thing.


oh and anyone else here remember having milk delivered to their house by a Milk Man? i do!

[alphatroll]

How about corded phones? You know, the kind where the handset is attached to the phone body with a curly cord?Used to drive me nuts dodging the mile long cord my sisters used all over the house.

i STILL HAVE those! i have 2 phones with curly cords and one remote phone. i adamantly refuse to get a mobile phone. why would i want people calling me up when i'm out at the grocery store or restaurant? and yet, people STILL ask me when i answer "where are you?" um... on my COUCH where did you think? i can't go very far when i'm on the phone on account of it being plugged into the wall and all, genius.

maaan i remember the old phone my grandmother used to have. it was one of those big, black rotary dealies. you could REALLY stun a burglar with that thing.

I still got one o' the official-tan jobbies, all big & heavy, tho it gots buttons. Not usin' it now, since I *tried* to move last year, figured I'd better go cellular at least for the "maybe things aren't all working yet" phase.

I resisted a long time too. Y'know what? Turns out it's a very handy memory enhancer/substitute brain (like that perfect PDA they never made), & whaddya know? I can call people with it too, if I want!

oh and anyone else here remember having milk delivered to their house by a Milk Man? i do!

Wow, my *mom* talks about that, & even for her it was only while they were living in England courtesy USAF. (as in, exactly as old as me.)

Tho come to think of it I have a cousin who gets it delivered *now*. But really, that's more like a post-comeback thing I guess.

[Squeek]

I remember my grandmother used to have one of those big boxed-in phones up on her wall..
yanno, the ones where there's a tube-like thingy you talk into
and another that you hold to your ear?
kinda like this one:



She used it too! I guess she had it rigged somehow to be able to dial specific #s..
I dunno...it was awesome though.

What about record-players? my mother and aunts used to have them when I was younger..
and we actually own one right now...it doesn't work very well, though..

The reason why I broke down and got a cell-phone was b/c I've been out somewhere and broken down...
that shit sucks if you don't have a cell.
I DESPISE talking on the phone...or even hearing one ring...
so I usually only answer my phone when I'm out somewhere..
My logic is if I'm at home, I'm trying to relax or I'm working on art..
if it's important enough people will call Ban. lol
and I always forget about it and leave it in the room where I can't hear it ;

I drop my cell-phone a lot....I needs me this phone:
it's heavy-duty, used by construction workers n shit.
I'm technologically-incompetent so a simple phone like the Rugby is all I would need.
The iphone's pretty...but I'd end up killing it to death.

ANYWAY! Wandered off topic there...

hmmmm.....alrighty...(this is for U.S. peoples) How about snow in excess of 2-6"....like when we were kids and we got so much snow it came up to our parent's waist! When we actually had to go and dig out the vehicles..
and when we could tunnel through it!

and that 1993 blizzard?
I think it's interesting how back then school was rarely canceled for even 10+ inches of snow...
and now if places get even a few inches they're canceling....craziness!

[evilmidget]

my mom has one of those things. she dropped it on the ground about three times, in the toilet five times, and it got run over once and still kept on fighting.

seriously, those things really do work. and i don't think that vinyl records, despite their impracticality, have really gone too much out of style. they still have their cult following. and by cult following, i mean a group of about, say, 15 people all holding their vinyl records in the air whilst destroying MP3s with their feet.

when you walk around at 1 am by my local Waffle House, you see things...

[williamthebloody]

i have a record player. and it works. i had bought one about 12 years ago, but then it broke about 5 years ago and finding a new one was a bitch! it's almost all DJ equipment for records these days, it seems. it cost about 80 USD for the turntable and well worth it to hear Abbey Road the old fashioned way!

both of my grandparents had record players. i remember my mom buying her mom a CD player for the first time. grandma was STACKING the CDs on top of each other and wondering why the one on top wouldn't play... oh memere...

[Slinker]

When I was young it was this tv-show called "Ika i rutan" translated by me as: "Ika in the square". She was a dancer and kinda of a crazy girl that told children her views on stuff and then danced. If Vicious had her own tv show for children, this is probably very close of what it would look like.

I seriously think I knew as 3 year old that this girl was amazingly wicked. And I better watch carefully cause soon some angry parents will blame this show for "making their children go completly loco"

Heres a clip from one of her dances:

http://www.youtube.com/v/6svXfpjRMGY

The awesome introduction video:

http://www.youtube.com/v/p3We9p4Q ... re=related

Heres clip with her talking. I'll give you a quick translation of the first parts so you can enjoy an inch of her awesome talking. Seriously read it and then see her act:

http://www.youtube.com/v/dgHPNBNiGJ8

The clip is called "Ika on being naughty" And it does not impy anything sexuall. :S

Translation:

-I'm so kind, so kind, so kind. The most kind-hearthed girl in the whole wide world. I'm so kind, and so well-behaved. Yeah, I clean the windows, and the floors. And look after children, and carrys old ladies over the street. And gives away all my money!

-But sometimes... *looks serious* I become naughty. And there is nothing I can do about it. It just comes right over me.
*disapears from the tv-screen and then comes back with a pirate hat*

-And then I become the most naughties girl ever existed! Then I do all those things that are forbidden. Everything you are not allowed to do. Now it's time to be up to mischief!

*goes away to the phone and makes a prank call to an old lady claiming that the police is watching her moves and will get her eventually.*

In the rest of the clip she walks on "the forbidden grass". Then she calms down and decides to be nice again. And go to the library. There she soon becomes naughty again.

Hope that gave you an idea how awesome that show was to children to watch.

If I had children this is what I would have wanted them to watch.

[alphatroll]

DUDE! That is one *powerful* hat! I like the show already.

Awesome costumes too. I suspect you've got a genuine proto-V there

[williamthebloody]

i'd you swedes are weird, but i can't because we americans had pee-wee's playhouse.
http://www.youtube.com/v/BKcYGOIJhqo

just kidding, slinky! she is way better dressed than pee-wee....

[Slinker]

i'd you swedes are weird, but i can't because we americans had pee-wee's playhouse.
http://www.youtube.com/v/BKcYGOIJhqo

just kidding, slinky! she is way better dressed than pee-wee....

Thats a extremly long introduction. Was it half the show?

I know Pee-well though, have just watched the movie. But I've stubble upon the subject before. But seriously, he is kinda weird. But what has he to come with today in these Square pants times?

But I would not turn Ika in that way. She was more weird because she brought stuff up that may for some be unsuitable. It was a lot of argues about that. But I kinda like it because she somehow knew what children can deal with, but socity protects them for it anyway.

[evilmidget]

Pee Wee was just timeless. definitely what i would describe as the perfect kids show. i still watch it every now and then just to see Morpheus with the jerry curl (makes me giggle every time). its really too bad what happened to Paul Ruben.

[alphatroll]

Pee Wee was just timeless. definitely what i would describe as the perfect kids show. i still watch it every now and then just to see Morpheus with the jerry curl (makes me giggle every time). its really too bad what happened to Paul Ruben.

I dunno, I think Paul's doin' okay. Embarassing for a little while, but it blew over, and he still gets cool roles and respect where it counts.

*Recognizing* some of his recent roles can be tricky though.... he's really got quite a range. Pretty much covers the whole imaginable gamut of odd (a word which means, in this context, something along the lines of "interesting") characters.

[Squeek]

ah, pee wee....yes...I too watched that show..

and that Ika is an interesting one! She's pretty too!
I like watching her exaggerated facial contortions. makes me smile.
There were a few shows, that I remember that had main characters that
dealt with "deviant" acts that parents today try to hide their kids away from..

The only one that immediately comes to mind is that thar "Fraggle Rock"

http://www.youtube.com/v/j7TTk_0XYn4