What ever happened to....

[hardnox71]

Ok, this is the "What ever happened to" thread where you can ask, tell, inform, or advise on questions, board related or not, that are posed here.

So, obviously, I will go first....

Going through some old ass posts of mine, I started wondering whatever happened to befsquire and Dr. Deaf? They still around?

Again, you're question doesn't have to be board related. Ask anything. Somebody's got an answer. Maybe not what you were looking for but amusing at the very least.

[TurdBerglar]

whatever happened to kids playing outside all day long without any supervision?

coming home with grass stains, scrapes and bruises and brand new friends that you invited to dinner without asking mom? riding bikes in the woods without helmets and knee pads? making forts and having turf wars with kids from neighboring neighborhoods? playing hide and seek well past dusk till your parents went to bed and forced you to come in?

whatever happened to being a kid?

[hardnox71]

Not to be a smart ass, my friend, but as I heard it once said....youth is wasted on the young.

You may not be as old as me, Turd, but we are both older than the kids.

And, yes, I know, it really does suck.

[TurdBerglar]

when i go biking i go through the same neighborhoods i grew up in. i never see kids out side playing ANYWHERE. there use to be mobs of us playing and just being kids. now they're no where to be seen. what the fuck are they doing?

i use to spend so much time outside i'd get so tanned that people thought i was a puerto rican.

now you see all these pastey, scrawny, well dressed kids that look depressed at fucking ten years old.

[hardnox71]

when i go biking i go through the same neighborhoods i grew up in. i never see kids out side playing ANYWHERE. there use to be mobs of us playing and just being kids. now they're no where to be seen. what the fuck are they doing?

i use to spend so much time outside i'd get so tanned that people thought i was a puerto rican.

now you see all these pastey, scrawny, well dressed kids that look depressed at fucking ten years old.

Funny you should bring this up. My wife and I were talking about this not too long ago in relation to her eight year old son. He lives with his dad but stays with us every other weekend. In any case, the kids hates going outside. Even when we got a new puppy, he would go outside for five minutes tops and then run back in the house. All he wants to do is play his damn Nintendo DS thingmajiggy. Nothing else.

Now, I'm no expert but I think that's where a large portion of the problem lies. There is way more shit for a kid to do inside the house than there was when you and I were growing up. Sure, we had Atari but look at the shit they got now. And the internet? Forget about it. That wasn't even around back then. There used to be just HBO and Showtime. Now some cable packages have 9 hundred some odd channels. Why should a kid go outside when he can just plug in and see it on a screen?

[TurdBerglar]

we had super nintendo growing up. that shit was much more addicting than current video games. it's just that now you don't have to pack a house with kids to play video games with each other. you can play against your friends while not leaving your room over the internet. so now parents are all like... little johnny is so quiet up in his room! lets leave him alone!!!. back then if you were playing video games with a bunch of your friends you had to cram yourself into someone elses living room and eventually whoever's parents it was would kick you out of the damn house for being shittly loud little kids.

[hardnox71]

you can play against your friends while not leaving your room over the internet.

Pretty good point. I never even thought about that.

[kll]

Doesn't this come back to the parents? I mean, if you are letting your kids stay plugged into the internet, video games and/or cable tv that much, then you have created the problem.

Try going camping these days - with the fancy RV's they have, you just hear a generator going and never see kids at all. Again, seriously parents???

I wonder how many kids even who even know how to ride a bike anymore.

Don't know about befsquire and the Dr. though, Hardknox.

[Adam]

Is this thread now about moaning about the youth?

At the weekend, me and gf went for a walk - we saw an apple tree, we picked apples, filled our pockets and then made an apple crumble.

Whatever happened to foraging for food?

To be fair to youth, peers have them growing up way quicker than they did just 10 years ago. When you was a teen, it was the same thing for you as the generation 10 years older than you. Culture is probably mainly to blame and parents have it hard balancing that with trying to keep their children children.

It won't change but we can steady the curve by putting safeguards in place; like stopping all advertising to non-teens (ie targeted under 13s). If you want to see kids playing outside then you need to lobby your local representatives to not allow cars in certain areas. That includes your car. When you see groups of youths you can't assume they are up to no good. When you was young you also wanted to hang around in a pack (don't deny it) as it felt safer in a crowd with an identity than to be on the outside looking in. Kids don't want to do the same as you did, they'll have their own variation and it's scary for adults that we can't control that although we'll try our best to but then get frustrated that we can't.

[Myu-to]

Whistling is a lost art.

[MC Moot]

Drive in movie theaters...man the youth don't know what they missed...Drive ins were the shit...double features...the first one kid or family oriented and the second would be rated R..the idea being that the kids would be asleep for the second feature...we used to go in our PJ's...there was a playground and the snack bar that had everything...fried chicken,pizza,foot long hot dogs...but we wuz poor so we had premade popcorn in a huge brown bag and apple juice...whatever it was so freakin cool...it's where I learned to love film...(y)

[hardnox71]

there was a playground

The playground was the best part. Nothing special. In fact, the ones I went to were always kind of run down but nobody cared, it didn't matter.....we were PLAYING AT THE MOVIES!! YAAAAAAAAAY!! (y)

[Myu-to]

HA!

Lookie at what's close by...SUCKAS!!! (http://www.theshowboatdrivein.com/welcome.html)

And there is a playgroud.:cool:

[Myu-to]

Whatever happened to predictability... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fI_jdOrYPc)

[MC Moot]

HA!

Lookie at what's close by...SUCKAS!!! (http://www.theshowboatdrivein.com/welcome.html)

And there is a playgroud.:cool:

wow...cool...an actual reason to go to Texas...who would have thought?

My drive in lament... (http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x265/mcmoot/corral4.jpg)that’s all that’s left...actually I think its all condo’s now...it used to have four screens on 4 acres of land...the cover of Ill Com always reminds me of the speaker you hooked to the window...which also gets me thinking of A & W drive in burger joints were the girls on roller skates,hung the tray on the window...frosty mugs of rootbeer...mmmmmmmm...root beer...

[trailerprincess]

I was thinking about this the other day in relation to skipping. So I skipped down the alleyway I have to take to the train station - if someone was looking out at 7.30am they would have cracked up at me in a black suit skipping to work but it was fun.:p

[ms.peachy]

Don't know where the heck you people live that you never see kids playing out. I see them all the damn time. Biking, skating, scooters, playing ball, on the swings, climbing the monkey bars, all of it.

[hardnox71]

wow...cool...an actual reason to go to Texas...who would have thought?

No offense, Myo-to, but that's some funny shit right there!

I was thinking about this the other day in relation to skipping.

I haven't seen a kid skip anything but school since I was about seven.

Don't know where the heck you people live that you never see kids playing out. I see them all the damn time.

Instead of asking us where we live, why don't you tell us where your utopia is?

[silence7]

whatever happened to kids playing outside all day long without any supervision?

coming home with grass stains, scrapes and bruises and brand new friends that you invited to dinner without asking mom? riding bikes in the woods without helmets and knee pads? making forts and having turf wars with kids from neighboring neighborhoods? playing hide and seek well past dusk till your parents went to bed and forced you to come in?

whatever happened to being a kid?

I think I may have posted this before, I know I've mailed it to Family.....

How children lost the right to roam in four generations (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children-lost-right-roam-generations.html)

Great article..... Sucks to be a kid nowadays, we used to be able to roam as far as we wanted as long as you're "home before it get's dark."

I really feel bad for sheltered kids who aren't allowed to go out, get cuts and bruises, catch snakes, and lizards, break bottles, throw rocks, try and catch fish with their hands, ride their bikes miles from home, etc etc, all WITHOUT adult supervision..

[Adam]

I saw a hopscotch painted on the ground on a walk yesterday, so I did it. People were around but I didn't care.

[MCAadROCKMiKEd7]

I have a real good one.

What ever happened to the little rascals?

They should be on where are they now.

[hardnox71]

...Saturday morning cartoons? Getting up at 6 am used to be so worth it. :(

[silence7]

...Saturday morning cartoons? Getting up at 6 am used to be so worth it. :(

The cartoons are still there, we're all just too tired to get up and watch them now. That, and today's cartoons just aren't the same.


What ever happened to....
People being polite? Holding doors, saying thank you, etc... I see politeness, but it's pretty rare, most people seem to have been raised by a pack of wolves, me first, get out of my way, looking out for No. 1 types...

[kll]

The cartoons are still there, we're all just too tired to get up and watch them now. That, and today's cartoons just aren't the same.


What ever happened to....
People being polite? Holding doors, saying thank you, etc... I see politeness, but it's pretty rare, most people seem to have been raised by a pack of wolves, me first, get out of my way, looking out for No. 1 types...

I had a man hold the door for me last week as I was walking into my building at work. I thanked him, of course. He then caught up to me to say, "Chivalry isn't dead after all." I laughed politely. He then continued to go on about how he was raised. I started to feel like he was using his polite gesture as a way to start up an awkward conversation. Which is fine, I guess. By the end of the long elevator ride up 17 floors, I had wished I had opened my own door.

On a different note, along with the catching lizards, etc., I was hiking with my dad a few weeks back and we were noticing all of the butterflies out - as kids, we used to "collect" them, but up until the hike, I hadn't been able to recall seeing butterflies in years! It was nice to be reminded of them!

[Myu-to]

^ *sighs*

The burden of being so sexy.

I loved SchoolHouse Rock! That's why I got up on Saturday mornings. I bought the DVD collection for Noah which I now use in my class.

"3 is magic number!"

Anyways, I am amazed how much kids are not into the outdoors until they get in them. Scouts complaining about not being able to bring eletronics on camping trips, and then it's like "Wow! Look at all of this cool stuff!"

[MC Moot]

School House Rock made my Ma angry when we were kids...we had no idea of how our own parliamentary system worked but we were totally knowledgeable as to how a bill became a law in the U.S...:rolleyes:

http://www.amazon.com/Schoolhouse-Rock-Rocks-Various-Artists/dp/B000005J80

^Pavements cover of "No More Kings" is particularily wicked...(y)

[Myu-to]

Hahahahaha...but today I am only a bill.

How does the parliamentary system work? Is there a song about it?

Blind Melon's version of "3 is magic number" is on my iPod.

[ToucanSpam]

What ever happened to Devil Sticks?

[MC Moot]

How does the parliamentary system work? Is there a song about it?

Well mostly it doesn't...as we have a 3 party tier and legislation is difficult to pass without without crossing party lines and forming alliances...however currently we have a majority conservative government which means they have carte blanche to do whatever the hell they please...(n)

Parliament (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XQYy4BYG70)