We don't do that no more

[Bigtanker]

Slamming a phone down when you're good and pissed.

I truly, truly miss this.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Watching scrambled channel on TV hoping to get a glimpse of a naked female body part.

I signed up for cable myself while I was still living with the rents. They wouldn't pay for TV but there was stuff I wanted to watch. I took the box open and descrambled the signals myself. It was actually easy (for engineer quantities of easy), they were just suppressing the sync. So I put a detector and sync stabilizer on it, and had all the pay channels, HBO, Show****, Skinemax. I used a lot of VHS tapes for a couple of years there

 

[Rookie]

Getting into fights on the playground without having the cops called.

 

[actaeon277]

Kill a commie for mommy.
Can't do that now. They run for office.

 

[chocktaw2]

Pushing a button on the floorboard with your foot to dim or brighten your headlights.

Slamming a phone down when you're good and pissed.

My ex tried this with my current employer 25 yrs ago. It didn't work out well for her.

 

[chocktaw2]

Close this thread now, before the talk turns to sheeple and goats.

 

[marvin02]

78 RPM records. The first record I ever listened to was a 78 of Maybelline by Chuck Berry.

 

[actaeon277]

We no longer have a "break" from politics between elections.
24/7/365 politics on 100 channels.

 

[marvin02]

Being able to buy a used car for $500 or less. Some if the best cars I ever owned cost $200.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

OMG yes, the 78s. I have a couple of 78s of Moran and Mack, The Two Black Crows, which was I think the last blackface act in Vaudeville. Yes, yes they were. I'm pretty sure these were wax, but the 78s were originally slate. Lost technology; I don't have a record player that can spin a record that fast. I haven't even seen one for probably 15-20 years.

ETA: My uncle worked for RCA and had 45s in all the colors they made, hanging on the wall down in their family room.

 

[El Conquistador]

Hanging out with your friends after school (in person), not in front of a video game wearing a headset.

 

[KokomoDave]

Everybody having gun racks with real guns in them at school in the parking lot in the back window of your pickup truck.
Every kid carrying a "pocket knife".
Clapping the erasers of chalk.
Smelling the methanol coming off of fresh copies for tests.
'E' was all of the above and 'F' was none of the above on multiple guess questions.
"Latch key kids" - I was one.
Reading and writing in cursive.
Sewing, home economics and shop.
Driver's ed in school.

 

[target64]

Getting a new cassette to save your computer file. Hunting for night crawlers for fishing. Cutting the grass with no gas or extension cord. Penny candy at the local store. All adults were sir or maam

 

[target64]

Hunter safety in school. Shooting trap or practicing archery in gym class. Student / teacher pranks that did not involve a restraining order or swat call out.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Watching scrambled channel on TV hoping to get a glimpse of a naked female body part.

Lol, been there! I've never seen an actual episode, but I know what "Electric Blue" is.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Johnny Carson, National Anthem, Color bars

 

[Super Bee]

- Using an actual map. Now we just punch up Waze on our phones.

- Using a "boom box" stereo.

- Using a tape recorder.

 

[deo62]

Lick a stamp

 

[marvin02]

......

- Using a tape recorder.

Christmas 1968 I got a 3 inch reel-to-reel tape recorder. I remember recording the WLS Big 89 countdown with it on New Year's Eve. Fire, by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown was a big hit that year.

 

[Nazgul]

Be home when the street lights come on.

Mom ringing a school bell to call us to dinner.

Waiting 5 minutes for the tv to warm up.

Shoveling snow for money. [grew up in Western NY].

Don