Oh man, I forgot all about McOrange Drink. That crap used to be a staple.
I can still envision the huge yellow cooler.
My friends and I used to dare each other to drink the concentrate before it was safely diluted into the big containers. If I end up full of terrible cancers I'll know the cause.
In suburban Toronto in the 80s, we used to toboggan in the hydro fields near our neighbourhood. Tried to steer our sleds through the hydro towers, even as they sometimes sizzled above us.
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The dreaded bamboo duster... omg that hurt. Myself, my cousin and I saw the long end of many beatings with that among others. Leather belt, wooden spoon, hand. And even if one of us was innocent, we both still got it. We laugh our heads off now about it, and bug our parents still about it. They don't feel bad, and we turned out perfectly fine.
This is going to sound very 'Old man yelling at clouds' and I might be in the minority, but i think corporal punishment within reason is still acceptable. I'm not old by any stretch, but I see a alot of kids and even 'adults' in their 20s nowadays that should have gotten a good smacking a few times in their lives.
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I remember my brother losing it and grabbing the wooden spoon from my mother and snapping it in half when getting hit for something.
One thing I also remember is the absolute amount of snow balls that were created and used throughout the winter. in particular, anything that was happening outside was immediately stopped upon the cry of "bus!!!". The city bus would drive down the street to be pelted with as many snow balls as could be created and chucked. I can only imagine what it must have sounded like on the bus as snowballs came from all sides.
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....
In elementary there was a movie for the safety patrols - the theater was downtown and me and my friend were allowed to make the trip from Willow Park to downtown by ourselves. Think we took a couple of buses - using the old transfer ticket which was a piece of paper rippeed off at the expiration time
My buddy and I were in grade 5 when we took public transit downtown by ourselves for the first time, to watch a double-feature of Watership Down and Lord of the Rings at the Grande Theatre. There's no reason not to let kids do that today. I plan on teaching my kids to use public transit by themselves to go the mall, movies, etc. in a couple years.
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This is going to sound very 'Old man yelling at clouds' and I might be in the minority, but i think corporal punishment within reason is still acceptable. I'm not old by any stretch, but I see a alot of kids and even 'adults' in their 20s nowadays that should have gotten a good smacking a few times in their lives.
Given the fact corporal punishment is still the norm among most immigrant groups to Canada, I guess we'll find out if it results in a generation of monsters. I doubt it.
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My buddy and I were in grade 5 when we took public transit downtown by ourselves for the first time, to watch a double-feature of Watership Down and Lord of the Rings at the Grande Theatre. There's no reason not to let kids do that today. I plan on teaching my kids to use public transit by themselves to go the mall, movies, etc. in a couple years.
Given the fact corporal punishment is still the norm among most immigrant groups to Canada, I guess we'll find out if it results in a generation of monsters. I doubt it.
I'm assuming that your talking about the animated Lord of the Rings right?
I used to love those kind of adult animated movies.
I still remember seeing Wizards which should be must watch viewing for college students
Or the first heavy metal movie which featured a ton of SCTV alums.
for some reason while animated movies today are brilliant to look at and watch, they sometimes seem to be pretty soulless.
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I had an interesting experience at our Safeway a few months ago. Ahead of me at the checkout was a black man who turned to me and said, "You people pay way too much for organic vegetables. Where I come from in Africa, all of our vegetables are organic, as we only put manure on our fields".
I thought for a moment and told him his comment reminded me of a cute joke my Grandfather told me back in the 40's, and he said, "Go ahead, I can take a joke".
the joke:
A black boy was walking down the road with a wheelbarrow full of manure.
A white boy came up to him and said, "Whatcha going to do with that?"
The black boy said, "We puts it on our strawberries".
The white boy responded "We put cream and sugar on ours".
The black man burst out in laughter, and when he had finished checking out he came back and shook my hand.
IMO today many people are taking things far too seriously, and should be less judgmental on us old folks.
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My buddy and I were in grade 5 when we took public transit downtown by ourselves for the first time, to watch a double-feature of Watership Down and Lord of the Rings at the Grande Theatre.
This is going to confuse the hell out of people who don't remember that there was ever an animated LOTR movie.
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I've heard it's possible for people to know about stuff from before they were born. I've even tried an experiment with my own kids: I put on the original Star Wars for them, the one where Han and Leia aren't old people. At first, they were astonished such a movie existed. Once they got over their shock, they thought it was garbage, and got up and walked away. Still, I think it might be worth pursuing further. The original Jurassic Park, without the guy from Guardians of the Galaxy in it, is up on Netflix. This time, I think I'll trick the kids into thinking it's a sequel. Maybe they won't get up and walk away again.
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I wish millennials would stop forcing their kids into liking things they liked as kids. When little snotty Johnny and smelly Sally find Star Wars on their own they'll probably love it.
I'm hoping that 30 years in the future this thread will feature prominently the extinction of Hipsters.
We'll discuss the great thinning out of 2021 where 5 out of every 10 Hipster was humanely put down because no you didn't discover that band and your beard and hat and pointy shoes looked ridiculous so we had to kill you.
And then the accidental on purpose hunting license mistake made by the government where the word deer was replaced by Hipster and for seven glorious days Hipsters were hunted and mounted over fireplaces.
So in 30 years the thread "Things you can't believe used to be allowed/exist"
The first response will be hipsters.
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I assume Lawn Darts with actual points were mentioned on page one. We would even sharpen ours as the points would dull. We used to toss them straight up and see who could stand still the longest.
We also played Murderball in gym. The teachers even called it that.
I worked at Safeway in the late 80s and one of the older cashiers got on the intercom one day and asked for a price check on Brazil nuts. The problem was she didn't say Brazil nuts, she used the other, non PC version "____ Toes". The entire store stopped for a few seconds and you could almost hear everyone thinking "she said what?!?!" Lucky for her there was a union.
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