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dissentowner · 08-09-2011, 12:04 PM

I was an 80's child and we had it good! Saturday mornings were all about cartoons and not infomercials like today. We had the best cartoons ever! Smurfs, He Man, Thundercats, ect... Our toys were awesome and were made of metal which means they were durable and dangerous. You could knock someone out with your Transformer whereas now they are all made of weak plastic. Even a Rubik's Cube could kill someone and an original Slinky could take your finger right off! We had cool games like Hungry Hippo as well that could break your finger with those big metal mouths. Todays edition of Hungry Hippo has such weak plastic hippo's they break within a few rounds of play. Action figures for the likes of He man were obviously on steroids, even Skeletor was huge! Todays edition of Skeletor looks like a damn cancer patient! The internet was none existant to so you would play outside all the time during summer holidays. Back then your mom had to bitch at you to get in the house, now they have to force kids to get the hell of the computer and go outside. Instead of sitting in front of a screen you went swimming, riding bike, catching bugs and frogs, playing sports, and being healthy. My favorite place in my small town was Skate Estate where you would roller skate every weekend. I would be there every Friday night from 7pm to 11pm by the time I was 8 years old and my parents were never paranoid about somebody trying to snatch me up or anything like that. They ended up closing it and turning it into a bingo hall, b***urds! There was no hands off policy at school, if someone bullied you then you fought him and it was over and half the time you ended up friends. Now kids bully a kid and he either retaliates and gets suspended or kills himself. I think things were better when I was kid but maybe that is just me.

08-09-2011, 12:04 PM	#75
dissentowner Franchise Player Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: SW Ontario Exp:	I was an 80's child and we had it good! Saturday mornings were all about cartoons and not infomercials like today. We had the best cartoons ever! Smurfs, He Man, Thundercats, ect... Our toys were awesome and were made of metal which means they were durable and dangerous. You could knock someone out with your Transformer whereas now they are all made of weak plastic. Even a Rubik's Cube could kill someone and an original Slinky could take your finger right off! We had cool games like Hungry Hippo as well that could break your finger with those big metal mouths. Todays edition of Hungry Hippo has such weak plastic hippo's they break within a few rounds of play. Action figures for the likes of He man were obviously on steroids, even Skeletor was huge! Todays edition of Skeletor looks like a damn cancer patient! The internet was none existant to so you would play outside all the time during summer holidays. Back then your mom had to bitch at you to get in the house, now they have to force kids to get the hell of the computer and go outside. Instead of sitting in front of a screen you went swimming, riding bike, catching bugs and frogs, playing sports, and being healthy. My favorite place in my small town was Skate Estate where you would roller skate every weekend. I would be there every Friday night from 7pm to 11pm by the time I was 8 years old and my parents were never paranoid about somebody trying to snatch me up or anything like that. They ended up closing it and turning it into a bingo hall, b***urds! There was no hands off policy at school, if someone bullied you then you fought him and it was over and half the time you ended up friends. Now kids bully a kid and he either retaliates and gets suspended or kills himself. I think things were better when I was kid but maybe that is just me.