Things you can't believe used to be allowed/exist

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by wookster

I remember the strap when I was in Junior High School...I never got it but a couple of my friends did.

I come from rural Alberta, our school used to run "slave days" as a fundraiser for trips etc. where kids from the school would go out and do manual labour in the community and the people they worked for would give the school money. Without fail the boys would always get stuck picking rocks for some farmer for the day.

In the winter we used to always wax up an old car hood, I believe it was a buick, and pull it behind a snowmobile. Was a blast actually, you could fit 4 people easy on the hood and the ole Arctic Cat Panther had plenty of power to pull them all....

Junior High? Only had it in elementary when I was a kid, I can't imagine a 13-14 year old taken it.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by jammies

Well, he's just a little older than me, but apparently he's retired and enjoys the common sport of retirees - complaining about gov't inefficiency and waste while slurping down taxpayer money like Timmy's coffee - so it seems like he's from another generation entirely. But yah.

Pickleball?

[McG]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Well. At least I learned that "millennial" is not somebody born at the turn of the millennium. This has been educational.

so it millennials that you can't believe used to be allowed/exist?

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

http://time.com/247/millennials-the-...me-generation/


So definitely.

I just learned I'm a millennial. That grinds my gears

[OutOfTheCube]

Originally Posted by Russic

Are you insane? This is one of the best parts of parenthood. There's a slim grouping of years where you're actually kinda cool and they just watch ghostbusters/Star Wars/Batman on repeat. If you don't get to them early you just end up watching Paw Patrol until you hate everything.

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Yep -- I put on the 90's Spider-Man cartoon on Netflix one time to get a break from Disney Junior. Result? My kid loves Spider-Man, and he's not even 2. Boom.

[Radio]

You could buy guns and ammo with very few questions asked.

When I was 13 I saved my money and bought a brand new Marlin 99C. A semi-automatic .22, that held 18 LR rounds in a tube magazine under the barrel. I would buy boxes of 500 rounds at a time and blast gophers all day long. Sometimes I would splurge and buy a box of Stingers, a hollow point .22 LR round that would just do grotesque damage.

I debated a long time between the Marlin and the Ruger mini .22 with a folding stalk. They had re-loadable clips and a very short barrel. I chose the Marlin because of the longer barrel for accuracy at longer ranges.

But yeah...it was easy to buy guns and ammo back in the day.

[McG]

Lonesome Charlie.

[PsYcNeT]

I'm pretty sure I ate/inhaled a lot of DDT-flavored grass playing baseball and soccer growing up.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by Dion

In my youth we'd grab onto the bumpers of cars and buses and slide behind on our boots

We did that a lot too, we called it bumper hitching.

[DuffMan]

anyone mention fireworks?

[Raekwon]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

I'm pretty sure I ate/inhaled a lot of DDT-flavored grass playing baseball and soccer growing up.

It doesn't show at all.

[Weitz]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

anyone mention fireworks?

That would be silly since you can still legally buy and use fireworks in a lot of places.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

anyone mention fireworks?

Bottle rocket fights

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by Raekwon

It doesn't show at all.

Is my tumor showing?

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by calgaryblood

It still is around and still tastes like soap.

I heard once that Thrills was flavoured with rosewater to taste like soap so you could chew it after drinking and you wouldn't smell like booze when you got pulled over.

We played redass in Montreal too. We called it Butts Up though. There was a period where it was banned from my school so we played a version we called Rebound where the person just sat out rather then have the ball thrown at them.

There was a wall hierarchy at my school as well. Each grade got a wall and you never played on another grades wall. When a new year started, you moved to a new wall.

[Weitz]

We played that when you fumbled the catch you had to run and touch the wall before someone picked it up and threw it at the wall. If that person beat you to the wall they got to throw it at you.

Anyone play that way?

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

We did that a lot too, we called it bumper hitching.

That's what we called it too. I remember my mom telling me how crazy dangerous it was and to never do it. I ignored that because "hey the car is going forward, if I fall, he's not going to turn around and run me over".

But I guess lying on an icy street isn't the best, even if the car you were bumper hitching on just keeps going.

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by Weitz

We played that when you fumbled the catch you had to run and touch the wall before someone picked it up and threw it at the wall. If that person beat you to the wall they got to throw it at you.

Anyone play that way?

When you fumbled yeah or if it was caught off the rebound before it bounced once on the ground you where automatically out.

[Kswiss]

Originally Posted by Barnes

When you fumbled yeah or if it was caught off the rebound before it bounced once on the ground you where automatically out.

Yup, that was probably the exact rules we used. it was always a race of death.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

That's what we called it too. I remember my mom telling me how crazy dangerous it was and to never do it. I ignored that because "hey the car is going forward, if I fall, he's not going to turn around and run me over".

But I guess lying on an icy street isn't the best, even if the car you were bumper hitching on just keeps going.

We did it mostly at a mall, but I do remember actually doing it on city buses and going a few stops. how to save some money as a kid.