TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's:

[Sasaki Kojiro]

And there I was assuming that "scat" meant something completely different. Like get away from there. A term my grandmother used to use when wanting us to leave her alone.

Good thing I am at work - so I am not willing to try a search on the internet for that term. (I am sure it brings sites up that will get me in trouble at work - given the nature of your warning.)

It has another meaning. Oh the things you learn when you live in a college doorm. This was a popular one for resetting someones wallpaper when they were out of the room.

[Ianofsmeg16]

I go out most days and i'm the rip old age of 15!!! i stay out until the last bus comes (10:40) and even in summer thas beyond dark...i seem ok, but then again i live on the isle of man, which is basically the UK 50 years ago :) (it is one of the safest places in britain)
personally i think that us kids should get out more as a general rule, i do! and i still find time to play on RTW.
And about walking everywhere, and to those who object.....try having a party, doing some under-age drinking and then decide to walk the five miles from Castletown to port erin at 1:00 in the morning, we did it in about half an hour....it was great, pity the chinese was closed hmmm.
so maybe some modern conviniences do make us fatter, prettier and darn it wussier than the days of yore, but we also get out, have fun and learn about life in our own unique way. Anyway, in the 1950's did you want to go back to the nineteenth century?

p.s If anybody asks, It wasnt my party we were at Ok?
:)

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Originally Posted by Redleg
And there I was assuming that "scat" meant something completely different. Like get away from there. A term my grandmother used to use when wanting us to leave her alone.

Good thing I am at work - so I am not willing to try a search on the internet for that term. (I am sure it brings sites up that will get me in trouble at work - given the nature of your warning.)

I believe its short for skedaddle.

[Byzantine Prince]

Am I immature for finding post #4 funny?

I mean, I don't agree with all of it. And I didn't spit my coffee at my monitor or anything. But I did laugh.

Common, that was a good post. I think I made some pretty good points. Worms are yummy etc.


PS. Yes, don't EVER type scat on google or anywhere, because it most likaly will lead you sh#t porn.

[discovery1]

On scat:People have very strange notions of what is 'fun'

On topic: Good for you. Pitty younglings these days are so shielded. Even when I was little I ran around, got brused, only one sprain though.

[Red Harvest]

Byz don't forget your in Canada and everyone knows we have much more attractive women folk than those unlucky yankees.

Too bad you can't see it underneath all that clothing...remembering back to the pasty white people around me when I worked up north in Alaska. And don't get me started on New York, much better looking ladies on average as you head south...at least compared to my trips to New York and New Jersey.

[lars573]

It's only like that for 8 months of the year. But I know some women who don't wear pants regular like until november (but she's crazy as the day is long, a hotty though ).

[Sigurd]

I know some women who don't wear pants regular like until november (but she's crazy as the day is long, a hotty though ).

*struggles to remember what that word translates to; looks in an English-Norwegian dictionary*

[_Martyr_]

I think he means trousers...

[Sigurd]

I think he means trousers...

Oh...

[Slyspy]

Er... you do relaise that the kids you are describing are the ones who grew up to make the world we live in today right? The world you don't seem to like much. For example, its all very well decrying the "kids of today" but they are your kids, so what have you done wrong?

[Azi Tohak]

Shhhh...Slyspy, you aren't supposed to mention that part...

Remember, we are all screwed up because of Mario and Link and Rap. It has nothing to do with negiligent parents.

(Just to make sure, this is not directed at any forum patrons. God knows all of you that are old enough seem to be smart enough to raise good kids. I am talking about the parents of the sociopaths that give my friends and I a bad name.)

Azi

[Proletariat]

Not to mention it's idiots who were born in the 50's-70's that are coming up with "No Failure" policies for today's children. So great lot of good the lack of video games did you.


We must've peaked in the Victorian Age. Let's send today's children back into the coal mines.

[Don Corleone]

I'm all for it. My kid should be out of the oven in about 6 months, I nominate we start with him. He'll have 9 months of freeloading to work off already, let alone the expenses will incur at the hospital on his behalf. Assuming it's a boy. I actually think it's a girl, in which case all bets are off. My darling princess shall never lift a finger in toil in her life.

[Shaka_Khan]

There was a time when a kid could walk alone in Manhattan.

[lars573]

Yeah and that time was 1690.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Yeah and that time was 1690.

Try 1960.

Most of you people cannot imagine how different the US has become in the last 50 years. To me its a different country than the one I grew up in. Its hard to believe that I have actually wittnessed personaly one quarter of this nations history.

[lars573]

No, that is a myth.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

No, that is a myth.

Maybe thats what youve been led to believe. I actually have lived throught it. Dont go trying to tell me it was a myth. If you werent there you cannot imagine the difference.

[lars573]

I can, and it's a myth. Any parent who let a child walk alone threw a city any city in any time is a neglegent parent. I really would like to know where these myths about safety of the 50's and early 60's came from. My mom says her parents never locked the doors at night when they were home. But my dad says they did and they couldn't leave cloths on the line over night cause half of them would be gone by morning.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

I can, and it's a myth. Any parent who let a child walk alone threw a city any city in any time is a neglegent parent. I really would like to know where these myths about safety of the 50's and early 60's came from. My mom says her parents never locked the doors at night when they were home. But my dad says they did and they couldn't leave cloths on the line over night cause half of them would be gone by morning.

We never locked our doors when we were home. Now my dad even has a deadbolt on his bedroom door. I used to walk around Brooklyn all the time when I was like 8. I mean you were only allowed up to the coner store or the nearest park but by the time I was 11 or 12 I could go pretty much where I pleased.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

13 of us all shared 1 of those bavarian sized beers once. So ha!

[Ianofsmeg16]

We never locked our doors when we were home. Now my dad even has a deadbolt on his bedroom door. I used to walk around Brooklyn all the time when I was like 8. I mean you were only allowed up to the coner store or the nearest park but by the time I was 11 or 12 I could go pretty much where I pleased.

This aint just in the Sixties man, come to the isle of Man....it ROCKS!!! theres almost no serious crime (we get like one murder for two years or sumitng like that) you can go out all night with no worries, and theres no speed limit outside of towns and we STILL have a low car accident death rate. I'm tellin ay, if you want the good old days then come here, but there are some old grannies that are terrified by whats going on in Enlgand etc where kids mug them and stuff, so now if i where a hoodie then i get dirty looks from all the adults...i'm tellin ya there are some kids out there that are giving the ret of us a bad name...BLOODY CHAVS!!!!!!!

[Gawain of Orkeny]

This aint just in the Sixties man, come to the isle of Man....it ROCKS!!! theres almost no serious crime (we get like one murder for two years or sumitng like that) you can go out all night with no worries, and theres no speed limit outside of towns and we STILL have a low car accident death rate. I'm tellin ay, if you want the good old days then come here,

Wow and I get to watch the TT also. Im packing my bags.

WE are far less free today than we were in the 50s. People just dont realise how the government has crept into society and has their finger in everybodies buissiness.

[Ianofsmeg16]

Wow and I get to watch the TT also. Im packing my bags.

I'll See ya there next year then Gawain
Look uot for me, i'll be the guy thats getting shouted at by the police for looking at someone funny....lol actually its better to watch the TT on television, you see more of it, but the atmosphere on the Island is great...the population doubles (from 78,000) and there is still no violence or crime like what it's like on the mainland....you should come!! same with all of you, then we can rant at each other in person ;)

[ichi]

Right on kiwitt , I can't believe I survived but am so thankful that I wasn't born 20 years later.

So, you want a medal or a chest to pin it on?

Unfortunately you probably took pride in taking this cheap shot. Sorry for you.

Face it my friend. We are a lot smarter and more daring then any other generation. Yeah we have more obesity etc, etc..., but if we choose to we can do whatever. A choice the preveous generation didn't have, and if they did, they'd end worse then us, because they wouldn't be able to deal with it.

Actually, you seem to have a lot of problems. Today I see a lot of your 'smart' generation who are unable to make change, don't have a clue about anything other than PS2 and Lindsay Lohan, and show an incredible lack of wisdom.

Case in point, when kiwitt wrote a post celebrating all of the things that made our generation stronger, you replied with a series of (unfunny) smartass comments that highlighted your ignorance. Proved him right you did. Not only did you miss the entire point of his thread, but you came off looking like a child, unable to appreciate anything other than himself.

I think Byzantine Prince has a little generational inferiority complex...

LMAO

ichi

[lars573]

Unfortunately you probably took pride in taking this cheap shot. Sorry for you.
ichi

And if you think that was a cheap shot you have much to learn padawan. You see most of what kiwitt said applies to me and I was born in 1981.

Exceptions being
-My mom never drank or had any desire to until my younger brother was in his teens
-My mom refused to feed us 3 kids white bread, it was always whole weat (better for ya.)
-It's been illegal to ride in a car with out a seat belt in Canada (federal law) for nearly 40 years
-I've always hated playing outside, I prefered to be in my sandbox building castles and only for an hour
-I grew up in the city so there were limits to how far I could roam until I was a teen
-We didn't get a NES in my household till I was 9
-We were never alowed a BB gun 1 because mom didn't like them and 2 because she knew little brother would try and kill me with it

[ichi]

LOL

By 1981 I was married, had a college degree, and was years into a career.

That was a very cheap shot, they're easy to spot.

ichi

ps please don't call me padewan, not only is it condescending, but in this case its inappropriate

[lars573]

LOL

By 1981 I was married, had a college degree, and was years into a career.

I assumed as much hence the padawan crack.

That was a very cheap shot, they're easy to spot.

Again you call it a cheap shot. Where I'm from it is a perfectly reasonable response to kiwitt's comments. And it was much more umm polite than anything else that came to mind after reading it.

[ichi]

So, you want a medal or a chest to pin it on?

Lars, I don't expect you to understand, but that comment is rude, mean, insulting, and essentially added nothing to the discussion. As a matter of fact, it took a nice nostalgic piece and turned it to rancor.

You can make excuses about where you're from or the quality of your upbringing, but it is was wrong.

Think about it, please

ichi