Things the next generation won't know about that we'll always remember

ah, the 5.25" floppy. even still im more comfortable saving something on a 3" floppy than on a 'memory stick'
the card catalog, and how to use it.
toys that dont take batteries (yay etch-a-sketch)
cartoons that were not primarily ads for some toy/ action figure
ah, the vhs tape. "be kind, rewind" we still have a lot of those from when i was a kid.
playing with sticks. and losing, ala George Carlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rIPe5akN48&feature=related"]YouTube - George Carlin - Children

making food from scratch. this is making a comeback in some areas, but not everywhere. even cookies have been prepackaged. is it that hard to measure some ingredients? the only acceptable prepackaged dough is the sugar cookies with pictures (slice-able, like with pumpkins etc) but those never fucking come out right anyway.

we can grasp what old timers told us growing up. we could grasp that animals lived on farms and farmers worked hard to bring us food, that people grew up in small houses, shared rooms with their 10 siblings, they remembered when they got electricity, or telephone, or tv, or color tv even. now, there is no grasp of that, of what it is like without tv, computer, phone. its a wretched disconnect with the past. its like in Wall-e, where the captain guy is learning about dancing, and everyone depends entirely on the computers for everything. scary crap.

i feel old fashioned.

 

pumping the pedal to start the car....locking each door by hand ...and having to wait for them to warm up so you can kick the choke off fast idle

 

Phones you have to CARRY IN YOUR POCKET. (Theirs will be screwed directly into the brain)

 

lol man I remember that sound to from when I was a lil dude. Damn growing up feels wierd with technology.

 

Analog clocks.

 

sprite remix

 

Bill Clinton's famous blow job

 

I agree. It's sad. There are not many things better than the smell of books, old and new.

I saw a while ago on the news a new "blackboard" that will apparently be in classrooms over the next decade. It's a giant screen that sort of acts like a computer screen. New windows open up and kids can touch words on it to see what they mean, it's totally interactive. Seems unnecessary to me.

All technology that people have come to rely on; cell phones, computers, email, etc, may very well crash one day and due to the way people have come to wholly depend on them, and are teaching our kids to be even more dependant on them, if something were to ever happen to them people would be fucked.

 

even though I dont smoke...he totally ruined cigars for me

 

when the saints sucked.... katrina, the bp oil spil...ipods maybe iphones probably..

 

Why's that? I don't remember a cigar being involved in the scandal.

 

Nobody remembers Fred Penner or Sharon, Lois and Bram anymore.

 

Being able to walk up to any body of water and just swim or drink from it.

Not having to check smog advisories.

A world before Ritalin for children.

Seeing kids playing outside.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Lewinsky

 

"She later testified that the relationship involved fellatio in the Oval Office and other sexual contact, but that sexual intercourse did not occur."


Close but no cigar I guess, huh. Oh......wait a minute.

 

Yes, I find this one very sad. When I was young I was outside from sunrise to sunset. Playing with sticks and rocks and dirt and animals. I firmly believe the decline of this in childhood is directly related to the increasing number of problems in children that are related to poor immune systems. Allergies, constant colds and flus, asthma, etc.

 

Then you get the few who wish to, for example play road hockey and the community tells them they can not do so on the streets!

Idiot adults.

I rarely see kids today playing outside. Sad.

 

I know, it is very sad. People today scare their kids into staying inside; "there's pedophiles outside, there's germs, there's snakes, you could get cut, you could drown."

So, kids don't get tetanus shots anymore for stepping on broken glass or rusty nails (my brother and I have done both), but the trade off is that kids are becoming obese and even morbidly obese from staying indoors and playing their goddamn video games. Oh, but drowing rates among 5-10 year olds have gone down. Meanwhile waistlines and premature AVOIDABLE deaths have gone up.

The government wants people to be scared, they want us to order food over the phone or internet, have it delivered, you can now do everything (including order groceries) from your home. This way people don't have to interact as much anymore. They can't have that, people might have similar interests and band together.

People continue to sterilize and over sterilize, we might one day face the same fate as the aliens at the end of War of the Worlds. Our bodies won't be able to handle germs anymore.

 

It is easier to park your kids in front of something rather than get off your duff and supervise them outside.

We are a society of convenience. In theory that is not such a bad thing but in every day life it has not been for our betterment.

We have also lost the community feeling. Everyone minds their own business and there is not community for kids. You do not know your neighbours and they do not know you.

We are one messed up lot.