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Whatever happened to...
OP - October 18, 2011, 02:01 PM

<insert random nostalgic reference (anything you remember growing up as a kid that no longer exists or isn't heard much about today) here>

I'll start.

toys in cereal boxes?

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Reply #1 - October 18, 2011, 02:24 PM

Kinder surprise eggs.. oh wait, they're still here brb

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Reply #2 - October 18, 2011, 03:10 PM

Meccano....

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Reply #3 - October 18, 2011, 04:23 PM

Robot Jones.

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Reply #4 - October 18, 2011, 04:32 PM

Bazooka Bubble Gum

Real metal tinsel

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Reply #5 - October 18, 2011, 04:36 PM

Chief Whip cigarettes

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Reply #6 - October 18, 2011, 04:38 PM

*Kids riding in the back of pick-up trucks.

*Being able to smoke in supermarkets and on airplanes.

*Kids making homemade bombs for fun without being expelled from school and having a SWAT team descend on their house.

*Shooting BB guns at other kids that weren't airsoft pellets and you'd bleed if you got hit in the BB gun war.

*Carrying a knife to school and not worrying about being permanently expelled for it.

*Good commercial music on the radio and TV.

*MTV playing music.

*Pay phones.

*Cheap clubs.

*When the club scene was new and it was easy to score drugs and you didn't have to get searched coming in.

*Candy cigarettes.

Will think of some more later.

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Reply #7 - October 18, 2011, 04:54 PM

Vivienne Westwood.
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Reply #8 - October 18, 2011, 04:57 PM

^She's having fashion shoots in the slums of unspecified African cities.

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Reply #9 - October 18, 2011, 04:58 PM

Exactly.
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Reply #10 - October 18, 2011, 05:01 PM

-Cadbury's Old Jamaica chocolate

-Spangles

-Vice Versas

-Clacker balls

-Playing conkers - do kids still do that at playtime?

-Sixpence in the Christmas pudding

-The Magic Roundabout
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Reply #11 - October 18, 2011, 05:04 PM

- Steam locomotives

- The old red LU tube trains

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Reply #12 - October 18, 2011, 06:19 PM

Powerpuff Girls, i completely forgot it exist

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Reply #13 - October 18, 2011, 06:36 PM

Quote from: Colonel Q-Daffi on October 18, 2011, 04:38 PM
*Good commercial music on the radio and TV.

*MTV playing music.

I miss those times

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Reply #14 - October 18, 2011, 06:44 PM

playing outside, skinning knees, swinging, playing tag,
hide n seek, riding bikes, roller skating (not blading lol) etc.

When it was safe for kids to play outside all day, until dusk.

Hitchhiking, with NO FEAR of being assaulted or killed!

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Reply #15 - October 18, 2011, 07:55 PM

Quote from: Jinn and Tonic on October 18, 2011, 06:44 PM
playing outside, skinning knees, swinging, playing tag,
hide n seek, riding bikes, roller skating (not blading lol) etc.

When it was safe for kids to play outside all day, until dusk.

Hitchhiking, with NO FEAR of being assaulted or killed!

Bring back growing up in the 70's

Lego kits only coming without specialised parts that can't be adapted to fit in just about any creation.

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Reply #16 - October 18, 2011, 08:15 PM

when you had to turn the teli on manually lol.
No cable or satellite tv, only 5 or 6 channels,
that all signed off at midnight lol.

When cable TV didn't have commericals!

Walking instead of driving to the corner store.

Strangers would greet you with, "hello! how are you today!"
and it wasnt weird!

Mr. Sanity. Yep, my teenage years were in the 70s.

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Reply #17 - October 18, 2011, 08:31 PM

Quote from: Jinn and Tonic on October 18, 2011, 06:44 PM
When it was safe for kids to play outside all day, until dusk.

Hitchhiking, with NO FEAR of being assaulted or killed!

JNT, that's just called being young. Things weren't that much safer in the 70s-- very high violent crime rates in a lot of areas and plenty of serial killers and rapists about-- but you were younger so weren't thinking about it then. Kids have little fear, teenagers almost none. As we start getting older we might get wiser but we also get more fearful and look back to the "good old days" which weren't actually so good but we were young and fearless and full of energy and life.

Quote from: Jinn and Tonic on October 18, 2011, 08:15 PM
Walking instead of driving to the corner store.

And that's just called livin in the boonies. Move to Philly and you'll have no problem finding a shop within walking distance. Mine is literally on the corner of my block and there are probably over a dozen or two more within a mile's radius.

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Strangers would greet you with, "hello! how are you today!"
and it wasnt weird!

They do in my neighborhood sometimes. Despite being heavily urbanized and having a high violent crime rate Grays Ferry (and other similar ghettos in Philadelphia) is actually quite friendly. Guys in the neighborhood bars (and there are a lot) regularly buy the whole bar a round and will buy you a drink if you're new in town too just to be friendly, or sometimes they'll lock the door and smoke you up. I've had a few nights where I got wrecked off my ass on less than 20 bucks just cause people came in and kept buying round after round.

You should move to NO, JNT-- sure they got all that and more. Of course you'd know better than I.

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Reply #18 - October 19, 2011, 03:05 AM

Quote from: agentwar on October 18, 2011, 02:01 PM

toys in cereal boxes?

I think your taste in cereal may have just changed.

I still find those infernal pieces of plastic in my cereal. Should probably stop eating frosted sugar flavored honey bombs.

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Reply #19 - October 19, 2011, 08:02 AM

I already know what happened to things I miss, but one question I still need to know..............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGBlEo2NlsY&ob=av2e

Whatever happened to them....

Inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit.
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Reply #20 - October 19, 2011, 08:42 AM

Whatever happened to... ah, fuck it, nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B4bsqYxwo0

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Reply #21 - October 19, 2011, 03:03 PM

Quote from: BerberElla on October 19, 2011, 08:02 AM
I already know what happened to things I miss, but one question I still need to know..............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGBlEo2NlsY&ob=av2e

Whatever happened to them....

Cool song.

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Reply #22 - October 19, 2011, 05:01 PM

Crashing concerts

Getting stoned at concerts and no cops were around to bust you lol.

78 LPs

EIGHT TRACKS, VW Vans, and lots of long hair on men and women lol.

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Reply #23 - October 19, 2011, 05:24 PM

Brown ribcord suits...

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Reply #24 - October 19, 2011, 10:04 PM

Black ceilings...

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Reply #25 - October 19, 2011, 10:04 PM

scooby doos and yoyos.
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Reply #26 - October 19, 2011, 10:12 PM

Power Rangers
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Reply #27 - October 19, 2011, 10:50 PM

Quote from: Jinn and Tonic on October 19, 2011, 05:01 PM
78 LPs

You gotta hang around more young hipsters and punk rockers-- they got more vinyl than the old hippies nowadays (who've all switched over to CDs)-- even Peppermint was talking about starting up a vinyl collection and I don't even think she's got a record player yet. But who can blame her? Vinyl is cool. Just the covers are great-- don't get that big cover art with CDs or digital tracks.

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EIGHT TRACKS, VW Vans, and lots of long hair on men and women lol.

Ugh-- thank God those things have disappeared for the most part.

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Q.. . I am NOT FROM here! I only moved here to be close to my
sister, and that bombed big time...

Oh I know but you live in the sticks now and, if I recall correctly, had been living in the burbs for some time before that. Just sayin that you haven't lived in a truly urban environment in a long time and if you did you'd find a lot of that stuff you pine for still exists-- especially in the Northeast.

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While in NO, I actually started
thinking of moving closer down that way TBH.

Oh I bet.

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When I win the
powerball lotto, I probably will!

You and me both, sister.

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the teletubbies

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UPlVM1fSiw

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Reply #28 - October 19, 2011, 11:05 PM

Decent cartoons
An orange juice called beebo or something

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Reply #29 - October 19, 2011, 11:58 PM

Quote from: Colonel Q-Daffi on October 19, 2011, 10:50 PM
You gotta hang around more young hipsters and punk rockers-- they got more vinyl than the old hippies nowadays (who've all switched over to CDs)-- even Peppermint was talking about starting up a vinyl collection and I don't even think she's got a record player yet. But who can blame her? Vinyl is cool. Just the covers are great-- don't get that big cover art with CDs or digital tracks.

lol

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Ugh-- thank God those things have disappeared for the most part.

noooooooooo!!! Alot of "fun" was had in the back of VW buses

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Oh I know but you live in the sticks now and, if I recall correctly, had been living in the burbs for some time before that. Just sayin that you haven't lived in a truly urban environment in a long time and if you did you'd find a lot of that stuff you pine for still exists-- especially in the Northeast.

too much snow for me LOL I remember growing up, falling asleep to the sounds of
traffic and sirens. Looking back, I wonder how I ever managed to get a good night
sleep lol. But being in a city, it never goes to sleep, and I kinda miss that, especially
when i have bouts of insomnia... the sidewalks close up at 9pm here LOL

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You and me both, sister.

yes, i have been praying very hard to myself to win
Got the idea from that "pray to a milk jug" video, and decided
I was a better bet than a milk jug, PLUS! all my promises of
lifelong praise to myself are more realistic than thanking a milk jug lol.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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