Big Changes I've Seen In My Lifetime

[Despare]

I guess it's not a big change but I can't stand those little rollerskate shoes. Whenever I see a little kid glide by me I think two things. The first being that I could just stick my arm out and make him be more careful around people. The second being a quote from Friends.

"Kids! Roll your way to childhood obesity!"

[The Flayed One]

Christmas/birthdays are two more big ones for me. When I was little, me and my cousins would start immediately playing with toys and being as noisy as we could once they were unwrapped. Now at Christmas, there were 9 children there last year 10 or under. Once the gifts were unwrapped, they all sat down quietly on the couch with their handhelds & quitly played video games. No interaction between each other at all.

[urgeok]

Originally Posted by Vodstok

Something i thinkis funny is how styles have been changing for decades, with each having a few distinct looks, then suddenly, in the middle-late 90s, EVERYTHING became acceptable. Leather, bell-bottoms, big hair, MULLETS, stonewash.... They are everywhere now.

there is a very distinct style of the last 10 years .. the goatee ..
every other guy has a goatee.

and the close cropped hair .. not a crewcut - 1 stage longer.

in hollywood if you are behind the camera you have crazy ass long hair .. if you are in front of it its that short cut - with a goatee.

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

Originally Posted by The Flayed One

Christmas/birthdays are two more big ones for me. When I was little, me and my cousins would start immediately playing with toys and being as noisy as we could once they were unwrapped. Now at Christmas, there were 9 children there last year 10 or under. Once the gifts were unwrapped, they all sat down quietly on the couch with their handhelds & quitly played video games. No interaction between each other at all.

hand held? my aunt wishes I got him a hand held!

When I buy gifts for my little cousins I always buy the loudest, most annoying toys. Last year I got this "space" rocker with lights that makes space ship sounds when you rock on it. :cool:

[neverending]

When I was young a doctor would come to your house if you were sick.

We had a thing called a milkbox at the front door. You put your empty (glass) milk bottles in it and the milkman would come in his truck, take the empties and leave you fresh milk.

Halloween was a time when kids escaped from parents and went carousing by themselves, connecting with their inner demon.

There was a neighborhood theatre that showed a weekly "kiddie mattinee" on the weekends- showed a double feature (quite often 2 horror movies), cartoons, old serials, newsreels, and gave away prizes! All for $1.25.

Comic books were 12 cents and were fun to read.

Radio stations played everything from Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee to Led Zepplin and Johnny Cash - on the same station.

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by urgeok

there is a very distinct style of the last 10 years .. the goatee ..
every other guy has a goatee.

and the close cropped hair .. not a crewcut - 1 stage longer.

in hollywood if you are behind the camera you have crazy ass long hair .. if you are in front of it its that short cut - with a goatee.

Hey....


I actually had noticed this too. Notice how suddenly everyone in the 1800s, 1700s, 1600s.... In movies suddenly started sporting them?

I have one for one simple reason: The wife likes it. It itches, i have a weird compulsion to tug at it constanly, shaving around it without screwing up the edges is a bitch, but she finds me more attractive with it, so it aint going anywhere.

I have nice SHORT hair, because i am lazy and i cant get the above mentioned wife to agree to me just shaving my head.

[The Flayed One]

Originally Posted by X¤MurderDoll¤X

hand held? my aunt wishes I got him a hand held!

When I buy gifts for my little cousins I always buy the loudest, most annoying toys. Last year I got this "space" rocker with lights that makes space ship sounds when you rock on it. :cool:

Nice:cool:

That's what I always do. I go down the kids list. Video game, video game, video game, clothes (obviously mom put that there)....


Aha! SuperSonic Nerf Rocket Launcher that shoots 200 rounds a second and sounds like Hiroshima. There ya go, ya little bastard! Go break something like kids should!

[urgeok]

Originally Posted by neverending

We had a thing called a milkbox at the front door. You put your empty (glass) milk bottles in it and the milkman would come in his truck, take the empties and leave you fresh milk.

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some houses have that little door built into the side of the house leading to a little compartment where they could put the bottles without going outside..
i still see them on the older houses.

and you hit on something else ... when we were kids - at 5 years of age we'd go and play in the neighbourhood park by ourselves... shit you'll never see that again.

[Roderick Usher]

Originally Posted by urgeok

1) I still cant get my head around how swiftly the internet rendered most reference books obsolete. You cant even give encyclopedias away anymore.
Dictionaries, Thesaurus, all found online. I dig the practicality but at the same time it makes me a little sad ... i remember early schooling activities where we had contests to see who could find a certain word first in the dictionary.
I remember how much i loved the old science and nature Time-Life series of books (which i still have and will always keep) but i doubt my son will look at them much longer. No more door to door encyclopedia salesmen ! (ok - i guess it's not all bad)

2) When you sent your kids to school with lunch - and on those odd days you didnt have (or they didnt want) balony, etc, for their sandwich - the old school standby was peanut butter and jam sammies.
Now - you cant take peanut butter to school so you dont kill someones kid.
Death by sandwich. you cant tale anything with peanuts - or any other nuts in them. boys are forced to wear hermetically sealed asbestos underwear !!
They're taking no chances !

they dont even want you eating it at home before school incase you have trace amounts on your hands, etc..


I dont remember s single solitary kid having a peanut allergy when i was a kid .. whats going on ??!!


I think of some more later .. i'm not thinking things so obvious as the CD/DVD and the generation who never knew any differently .. i'm thinking of the wierder more subtle changes i've seen.

My kid's class has a big ol unabridged dictionary (he told me he looked up "penis, vagina, shit and sex" the other day)

AND

I pack him a PBJ almost every day

[urgeok]

Originally Posted by Vodstok

Hey....


I actually had noticed this too. Notice how suddenly everyone in the 1800s, 1700s, 1600s.... In movies suddenly started sporting them?

I have one for one simple reason: The wife likes it. It itches, i have a weird compulsion to tug at it constanly, shaving around it without screwing up the edges is a bitch, but she finds me more attractive with it, so it aint going anywhere.

I have nice SHORT hair, because i am lazy and i cant get the above mentioned wife to agree to me just shaving my head.

the artistic comunity dictate the fashion standards - always have.
actors/musicians are portrayed as cool .. the people YOU want to be...
so people will try to look like them.

this has been going on since forever.

lately the trends are lasting longer ... we already went through the cycle of 50's, 60's 70's 80's, then back to 50's, 60's 70's 80's .. the 90's and 2000s show signs that people are getting tired of reinventing themselves .. i just dont think there's any interest in rehashing the cycle again so we settled on safe chic or urban for style.. then there are the rest of us that dont really follow trends...

trends are really only followed in the major centres anyway - mostly the very socialite downtown crowd. there are always exceptions in the smaller towns ... but hardly any..