Remember when?

[Miss Meow]

Originally posted by jonza
...So I'm afraid if there are any kids out there that think they're having a hard time nowadays, I have little sympathy! Admittedly it's a tough world, but as far as I can see, the majority of problems we have nowadays are self inflicted or what I call "luxury problems".

John, I couldn't have said it better myself.

My grandfather on my mother's side was a prisoner of war in Changi for several years, leaving my grandmother with a child to struggle on her own and dealing with the trauma when he returned.

My Dutch grandfather was a member of the Dutch Resistance against the Germans and was captured by the enemy. Meanwhile, my grandmother was traipsing around Europe with five children, trying to keep them alive.

My generation and the ones following don't really know what hard times mean!

My mum had one of those hose-connected hair dryers mentioned in a previous thread. It scared the pants off me whenever it came out

[tuxluvr]

Originally posted by Miss Meow
John, I couldn't have said it better myself.

My grandfather on my mother's side was a prisoner of war in Changi for several years, leaving my grandmother with a child to struggle on her own and dealing with the trauma when he returned.

My Dutch grandfather was a member of the Dutch Resistance against the Germans and was captured by the enemy. Meanwhile, my grandmother was traipsing around Europe with five children, trying to keep them alive.

My generation and the ones following don't really know what hard times mean!

My mum had one of those hose-connected hair dryers mentioned in a previous thread. It scared the pants off me whenever it came out

No doubt there are new stresses today, but I would have to agree a lot are not real "problems" when you put them against what our ancestors dealt with. My mother was telling me about her grandmother, and how she booked passage on a ship from somewhere in Germany to the US with 10 children. Her husband had died a year before - she did not know where she would live once she got here, only that it would be a vast improvement on the then-tyrranical rule of her country....my own paternal grandparents traveled thousands of miles by horse and buggy to settle "somewhere in the midwest"....but again had no real idea of where they were going and what it would be like once they got there.

There was no running water or electricity. My mother grew up in a dirt floor cabin.

However, I do see extraordinary strength in the young men and women willing to put their lives on the line for freedom today, so I don't think all is lost in the "guts and gumption" department of our youth!

[Miss Meow]

Originally posted by tuxluvr
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However, I do see extraordinary strength in the young men and women willing to put their lives on the line for freedom today, so I don't think all is lost in the "guts and gumption" department of our youth!

Yes, you're right. I temporarily forgot about that when "my Playstation's broken", "I'm not getting a BMW for my first car" and "I have to pay for my education" thoughts came to mind

I'm sure today's young people of Afghanistan, Iraq, China, Israel, Palestine and many other countries can fairly say they have problems.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by tuxluvr
and remember "Knockers"???

I do remember the real ones.....

I have to do a double take these days.

Originally posted by tuxluvr
making the surface of the breast take on the shape and feel of a stale cornmeal muffin. (Mental note: breasts are not supposed to be "crunchy")

Stale cornmeal muffin? Crunchy???

[RedHedd]

Originally posted by moosmom
Anyone remember Spoolies??? They were little pink rubber things that you curled your hair with.

I'm loving this thread. I was born in '51 and feel like I'm in good company here.

Spoolies! Those weird pink rubber things!

Had the go-go boots, the bouffant hair dryer (they still sell those!), remember ratting my hair, the white lipstick, smoking banana peels, the summer of love here in S.F., the mini skirts, the mods 'n rockers, Mary Quant, girdles, garter belts - pantyhose weren't invented yet, Tame creme rinse, pedal pushers, bloomers, culottes, rotary dial phones, telephone number prefixes, those foam swimsuit cups ...

Remember those torpedo cup bras? The playtex ones with the round stitching?

[sirrahbed]

Originally posted by RedHedd
Remember those torpedo cup bras? The playtex ones with the round stitching?

OMG!!! NOW I remember. Guess I had put that far out of mind They were best worn under a pastel knit sweater! Some the girls has to put toilet paper in to make sure the points didn't collapse How about "Cross Your Heart" Lifts and Separates ?

Fake eyelashes? I wore them for years. I can look at old pictures that look like I have bugs on my eyes. Even had a special applicator to get them on just right! They were black and looked so cool with my long blonde hair -parted down the middle, blue eyeshadow, frosted lipstick, and my granny glasses!!!

I spent Sunday with my son and daughter-in-love and her mom. We got to singing some oldies and giggling after I told her about this place (PT) and remember when thread. We would forget the words and DIL would help us out! Guess her mom played these oldies when she was growing up and they were oldies then! We were singing

*I was out on a date in my daddy's car....we hadn't driven very far...."

bet I have some of YOU singing now!!!

[tuxluvr]

Originally posted by sirrahbed
OMG!!! NOW I remember. Guess I had put that far out of mind They were best worn under a pastel knit sweater! Some the girls has to put toilet paper in to make sure the points didn't collapse How about "Cross Your Heart" Lifts and Separates ?


v

LOL Actually, I was thinking of the "torpedo bras" and forgot to include those - the "circular stitching" that made the female form look a lot like the tail lights of a vintage automobile....and you are right, those "mammary divots" were embarrasing!! ..imagine the tensile strength of those undergarments! Twas like stuffing your breasts into pastry bags, the "ice cream cone look"....the only time when the female form came with the timeless warning "you'll put your eye out" (Richard, that one was for you, baby!)

[sirrahbed]

Originally posted by tuxluvr
timeless warning "you'll put your eye out"

Wasn't that the Red Ryder BB Gun?
...unless you are RICHARD!!!! of course

[tuxluvr]

Originally posted by RICHARD
I do remember the real ones.....

I have to do a double take these days.




Stale cornmeal muffin? Crunchy???

heh heh....nice to meet you Richard - one warped sense of humor over here (me) in the middle of the great unwashed midwest!

[sirrahbed]

Originally posted by tuxluvr
Twas like stuffing your breasts into pastry bags,

Didn't your mum teach you the proper way to put them on? Over the shoulder, fasten, then lean over at the waist, do a little *jiggle* to put everything into proper place within the pastry bag and there ya go!

[tuxluvr]

Originally posted by sirrahbed
Wasn't that the Red Ryder BB Gun?

LOL...not to change the subject, but that movie was the best! Did you see the sequel movie "It Runs In The Family" by the same author? It follows a summer story

Actually, it's sort of on topic because it deals with a lot of those "olden day" things...see it if you haven't

[Vio&Juni]

Probably, none of you know what it means to grow up in the communist (socialist) system. No worries in the world (REALLY!), many things were for free, I never had inferiority complexes that my parents had only a 6 room house, instead of a castle. But... the things that were for free depended on people and in our school cafeteria, for a while, we had an AWFUL cook. I was a very thin little girl and my teacher, who ABSOLUTELY loved me, couldn't bear the thought that I am not eating, when she knew war and harder times. So she tried to force feed me. And I b....d in the plate!!! That's what you would call a spoiled child!

Not that I am dreaming of those times, but it really is a lot harder for us now! My brother would not be able to afford education if I couldn't help.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by tuxluvr
heh heh....nice to meet you Richard - one warped sense of humor over here (me) in the middle of the great unwashed midwest!

You don't have to come from California to be easily amused!!!!

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Hot pants.

Pet Rocks.

The sew-on edging for bell bottoms.

8 tracks.

The 'nuclear war' poster.........'put your head between your knees and kiss.....'

[sirrahbed]

I had forgotten 8 tracks!! How about reel to reel?? My dad STILL listens to those!!! He will soon be 80 Did anyone play "Pong"?? We ran right down to Sears-Roebucks and paid $30 for that high tech marvel of a game to play at home!!!

[trayi52]

Didn't your mum teach you the proper way to put them on? Over the shoulder, fasten, then lean over at the waist, do a little *jiggle* to put everything into proper place within the pastry bag and there ya go!

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!