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I am SO glad I grew up when I did.

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  • MikM Offline
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    Mik
    wrote on last edited by Mik
    #3

    That’s how I grew up too, 89th. It was great.

    β€œI am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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    • RainmanR Offline
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      #4

      Great fun, thanks for posting the link!

      Darwin would approve, it all makes sense (or makes sense if you lived through it all).

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        #5

        If I grew up with today's restrictions I think I would have been committed or died. Not because I was that crazy or anything, just a combination of how terribly not okay some of my shenanigans were, and how helicopter parenting likely would have driven me insane. What saved my parents and I in high school was my starting work in restaurants with older guys, some of whom were on work release. After being told for hours on end how much of a sociopathic miscreant I was, it was nice to hang out with actual sociopathic miscreants telling me how lame I was. They also gave me a ton of awesome CDs to borrow.

        Please love yourself.

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          Wait, you weren't committed?πŸ˜„

          β€œCry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". β€” Buck Sexton

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          • JollyJ Jolly

            Wait, you weren't committed?πŸ˜„

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            Aqua Letifer
            wrote on last edited by Aqua Letifer
            #7

            @Jolly said in I am SO glad I grew up when I did.:

            Wait, you weren't committed?πŸ˜„

            πŸ–•πŸ˜

            My folks threatened to do so more than a few times. I remember very clearly a drive back from my grandmother's with my dad: he threatened to drop me off. He was simultaneously threatening and actually considering it. I even remember thinking at the time, hell, you're that mad? I've done tons worse shit than this.

            I wasn't really that bad, actually. (Not by past standards.) My folks just had a ton of stress at the time.

            Please love yourself.

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              Catseye3
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              In addition to what I've already said about my freedom to run around unsupervised, I have always been grateful for my parents' uninterest in what I redd.

              They themselves were not great readers, although my father occasionally redd historical fiction. He especially liked Thomas B. Costain. I think it never occurred to them to vet what I was reading. Thank god.

              Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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              • George KG Offline
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                George K
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                "Where you going?"

                "Out to play."

                "OK. Come home for dinner when the streetlights come on."

                "Will do. See ya!"

                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                  Nah, there were no wireless Internet, no smartphone, no Minecraft back then.

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                  • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                    @Jolly said in I am SO glad I grew up when I did.:

                    Wait, you weren't committed?πŸ˜„

                    πŸ–•πŸ˜

                    My folks threatened to do so more than a few times. I remember very clearly a drive back from my grandmother's with my dad: he threatened to drop me off. He was simultaneously threatening and actually considering it. I even remember thinking at the time, hell, you're that mad? I've done tons worse shit than this.

                    I wasn't really that bad, actually. (Not by past standards.) My folks just had a ton of stress at the time.

                    MikM Offline
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                    wrote on last edited by Mik
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                    @Aqua-Letifer said in I am SO glad I grew up when I did.:

                    @Jolly said in I am SO glad I grew up when I did.:

                    Wait, you weren't committed?πŸ˜„

                    πŸ–•πŸ˜

                    My folks threatened to do so more than a few times. I remember very clearly a drive back from my grandmother's with my dad: he threatened to drop me off. He was simultaneously threatening and actually considering it. I even remember thinking at the time, hell, you're that mad? I've done tons worse shit than this.

                    I wasn't really that bad, actually. (Not by past standards.) My folks just had a ton of stress at the time.

                    If my dad could have sold me into white slavery he'd gladly have done it in the teen years. And not without cause.

                    β€œI am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                      #12

                      I was always told that if I wasn't in bed by 10pm.....

                      To just come home.....

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