Remember when..

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You could smoke cigarettes in grocery stores??








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elvistheking44

Only kids who won the game got trophies.....

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hedonist

Swore I knew everything.

(now I know better)

elvis, I get your comment, fully.

And Tree, I used to be able to smoke cigs at my desk AND imbibe at lunch.

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hedonist said:

Swore I knew everything.

(now I know better)

elvis, I get your comment, fully.

And Tree, I used to be able to smoke cigs at my desk AND imbibe at lunch.

that is funny! I remember my mom worked at a really nice office, and their break room had a whiskey, Bourbon, and Scotch vending machine!

Ps. I CANNOT be the only one that remembers those things!

eeriepadave

InHiding80

Nic Cage, Johnny Depp, Robert DeNiro made good movies and weren't selling out for the paycheck?

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InHiding80 said:

Nic Cage, Johnny Depp, Robert DeNiro made good movies and weren't selling out for the paycheck?

hauntingfamiliar

You could buy cigarettes at the Waffle House vending machine.

SD48277

You could smoke in restaurants, movie theaters, and on airplanes.
You weren't required, by law, to wear a seat belt.
Lawn darts were legal (and fun!).

Wma31394

You were young???
You shone like the sun....

pjhawks

when inconsiderate people smoked anywhere and everywhere making us non-smokers suck in their cancerous second hand smoke and made us smell like an ash tray ( come on you guys deserved that one )

when banks weren't open on weekends and no ATMs so you had to get all your money for the weekend by Friday

when Columbia House would send you 14 cassettes for a penny if you agreed to buy a 15th, then sent you one every month which you had to send back if you didn't want it

when beer was beer and didn't have fruit in it

mcgruff10

block buster
emergency break throughs
answering machines

dankind

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pjhawks said:

when inconsiderate people smoked anywhere and everywhere making us non-smokers suck in their cancerous second hand smoke and made us smell like an ash tray ( come on you guys deserved that one )

when banks weren't open on weekends and no ATMs so you had to get all your money for the weekend by Friday

when Columbia House would send you 14 cassettes for a penny if you agreed to buy a 15th, then sent you one every month which you had to send back if you didn't want it

when beer was beer and didn't have fruit in it

To our credit... at the time we had no idea that they were as dangerous As we now know them [cigarettes] to be.

Got 3 yrs not smoking, ( cigs at least.. still smoke pot) as of Feb. 22nd.

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When you had to write checks out "to the order of CASH" to withdrawal monies, as ATMs/cards had not been invented yet.

Malroth

.......a friend would push you down a hill in the back of a yellow, metal Tonka dump truck?

chadwick

pjhawks,
columbia house... got myself many cassettes through them.


you felt good & weren't as stiff as frankenstein with all the aches & pains.

the green rotary house phone hung on the kitchen wall with a short cord.
it was kick ass the parents hooked up a phone & a rotary dial television in your bedroom... that was living.

mrussel1

... you had to read in a car to entertain yourself.
... you were left guessing at lyrics rather than being able to look it up

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mrussel1 said:

... you had to read in a car to entertain yourself.
... you were left guessing at lyrics rather than being able to look it up

You also had to learn to read maps..( which they taught in school); there was no GPS.
You as well, had to learn how to utilize reference materials to study; Google was a far fetched idea!
But saddest of all..
I remember when it was important to learn proper grammar, punctuation, and communication skills. You were taught manners in the home, you sat around an actual table to eat meals; only the rich had televisions.

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Malroth said:

.......a friend would push you down a hill in the back of a yellow, metal Tonka dump truck?

We used old abandoned shopping carts!!

Hobbes

You laughed when someone said "duty".


Yeah, that was last week.

mrussel1

...you could actually print something? God knows I can't hand write for shit anymore. It's some sort of weird cursive-print bastardization that looks like it's straight from a serial killer.

mrussel1

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mrussel1 said:

... you had to read in a car to entertain yourself.
... you were left guessing at lyrics rather than being able to look it up

You also had to learn to read maps..( which they taught in school); there was no GPS.
You as well, had to learn how to utilize reference materials to study; Google was a far fetched idea!
But saddest of all..
I remember when it was important to learn proper grammar, punctuation, and communication skills. You were taught manners in the home, you sat around an actual table to eat meals; only the rich had televisions.

And you had a giant Rand-McNally in your trunk at all times.

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mrussel1 said:

whispering hands said:

mrussel1 said:

... you had to read in a car to entertain yourself.
... you were left guessing at lyrics rather than being able to look it up

You also had to learn to read maps..( which they taught in school); there was no GPS.
You as well, had to learn how to utilize reference materials to study; Google was a far fetched idea!
But saddest of all..
I remember when it was important to learn proper grammar, punctuation, and communication skills. You were taught manners in the home, you sat around an actual table to eat meals; only the rich had televisions.

And you had a giant Rand-McNally in your trunk at all times.

In Cali we had Thomas-Brothers guides.. same thing though.

RogueStoner

You had to find a pay phone to check your messages and then actually call and speak to people.

You had to write a letter on actual paper and wait a week for it to be delivered.

Getting charged for toll and long distance calls (I remember a $1400 phone bill from March 1997).

mrussel1

RogueStoner said:

You had to find a pay phone to check your messages and then actually call and speak to people.

You had to write a letter on actual paper and wait a week for it to be delivered.

Getting charged for toll and long distance calls (I remember a $1400 phone bill from March 1997).

These are painful memories... especially when you were paging 'your guy'.

Remember when you could have an actual interesting argument about something, rather than someone just saying "google it" in the first 20 seconds...ending heretofore interesting argument?

SmallestOceans

Remember when it used to take like 5 minutes to connect to the internet...
https://youtu.be/gsNaR6FRuO0

KC138045

You had to get off the couch to change the channel

Saturday morning cartoons

PJ_Soul

There were no dog poop bylaws and there was dog shit all over the fucking place and stepping in it was a fairly regular event (not all change is bad, lol!).

InHiding80

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InHiding80 said:

Nic Cage, Johnny Depp, Robert DeNiro made good movies and weren't selling out for the paycheck?

Some of the bad Cage movies are campy fun, though, like Wicker Man.

"HOW'D IT GET BURNED?!"

Jason P

PJ_Soul said:

There were no dog poop bylaws and there was dog shit all over the fucking place and stepping in it was a fairly regular event (not all change is bad, lol!).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1iH7vhoUxo