Medusa's Quesion du jour (the year of the horse edition!)

[Malflick]

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What is something you experienced in your youth that kids today will never experience?

People picking up the phone when you're on the internet. Developing film (for most of them). The Decipher Star Wars and WARS trading card games :P

[Ophidia]

Re: Medusa's Quesion du jour (the year of the horse edition!)

What is something you experienced in your youth that kids today will never experience?

Playing on delightfully dangerous equipment over asphalt in school playgrounds.

[Denarius]

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Milk used to be delivered along with ice cream and other dairy products Gleb...even bread could be gotten by delivery..but those time are gone..sad face...

Pretty soon you could get all those things delivered once again... By unmanned aerial vehicles.

[Munin-Hugin]

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Pretty soon you could get all those things delivered once again... By unmanned aerial vehicles.

You already can have this done, since Stop and Shop offered their Peapod service, so you can order your entire grocery shopping, and have it delivered. Of course, it isn't by unmanned aerial vehicles.

[Hawkfeathers]

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What is something you experienced in your youth that kids today will never experience?

Being seen and not heard. Living in a home with one rotary dial telephone, AM radio, and a manual typewriter in the time before the Beatles.

[B. de Corbin]

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What is something you experienced in your youth that kids today will never experience?

Privacy.

Ladedadeda...

[ChainLightning]

Re: Medusa's Quesion du jour (the year of the horse edition!)

What is something you experienced in your youth that kids today will never experience?

Everyone has been providing such great answers...

"Normal" wasn't so encased in all this safety equipment. We rode our bikes, without a helmet, all day long. We'd use skateboards without elbow and kneepads, and nail a wooden milk crate to one end, to make a scooter. Some of us would even design a seat, to nail to the things, so we could sit while riding it down the steepest hill in the neighborhood. Their were no personal computers, smartphones, ebooks and most families didn't have (or couldn't afford) a microwave or a VCR. "Go outside and play," was an extremely common phrase, and it would be done with no adult supervision. It was still pretty easy to "go exploring" in some woods, somewhere, and find the remains of an abandoned house, in an advanced stage of decomposition - there'd be evidence that the house never had electricity, or it's water was brought to the house by buckets (no plumbing), and if one was truly lucky, they might stumble across an old Studebaker, out back, with trees growing up through it.

Today's kids will never, ever experience my youth. Lucky bastages.

[Rae'ya]

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What is something you experienced in your youth that kids today will never experience?

Playing unsupervised out and about in town for hours on end.

Sitting next to the tape deck on Friday nights with the radio on, waiting until your favourite songs came on the Top 100 so that you could press record real quick, then stop it just as the song ended... only to wait until the next one came on. Then being annoyed when the radio host started talking before the end of the song so the last bit was all messed up.

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Growing up, we had an outhouse.

So did we, though that's probably more a reflection of living in an older country house than my age lol. My grandparents and my aunt lived in 100year old houses that had outhouses. Ours was built in the 60's but still had an outhouse. At least ours was plumbed. My aunt had a long drop most of the way through my childhood!

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Putting a cassette in a radio/cd/tape player and recording music onto it.

Also, 3 for 5c lollies.

OMG YES!! Finding 5c on the ground at school and going to the canteen to get 3 gummy bears. Or when you really lucked out and you had 50c or $1 to go to the corner deli while you waited for the bus and you'd get a WHOLE BAG of lollies that you could pick and mix from the counter.

[Medusa]

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What normally happens in movies that rarely happens in real life?

[Malflick]

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What normally happens in movies that rarely happens in real life?

I feel like all the answers I could give to this I can think of would just sound pathetic and silly right now (happy endings. True love!) blah blah blah..... Which both answers and doesn't answer the question.

[Torey]

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What normally happens in movies that rarely happens in real life?

I can't say that I know this from firsthand experience, but I can't imagine that female characters trip and fall when running from zombies as often as they do in moves...

[Denarius]

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What normally happens in movies that rarely happens in real life?

Subtitles when someone speaks a language you don't know. Plot resolution. BGM.

[Heka]

Playing unsupervised out and about in town for hours on end.

Sitting next to the tape deck on Friday nights with the radio on, waiting until your favourite songs came on the Top 100 so that you could press record real quick, then stop it just as the song ended... only to wait until the next one came on. Then being annoyed when the radio host started talking before the end of the song so the last bit was all messed up.

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So did we, though that's probably more a reflection of living in an older country house than my age lol. My grandparents and my aunt lived in 100year old houses that had outhouses. Ours was built in the 60's but still had an outhouse. At least ours was plumbed. My aunt had a long drop most of the way through my childhood!

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OMG YES!! Finding 5c on the ground at school and going to the canteen to get 3 gummy bears. Or when you really lucked out and you had 50c or $1 to go to the corner deli while you waited for the bus and you'd get a WHOLE BAG of lollies that you could pick and mix from the counter.

We had the same childhoods by the looks!

[Heka]

What normally happens in movies that rarely happens in real life?

People not turning on the lights... *sigh* or going around unarmed.

[Rick]

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What normally happens in movies that rarely happens in real life?

Large fireballs in space battles... space battles, period... cars crashing through gates and stuff with no damage... people being hit with bats and tire irons and not having broken bones or being dead... car chases where the pursued actually elude the police... etc, etc, etc...