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this thread was another grandpa-beating good time. *sigh

Underpants? wrote:this thread was another grandpa-beating good time. *sigh

Shut up, you're next.

*thrusts foreward and backward while simultaneously urinating and deficating all over the place*

Weeeeeeeee!!!

Go practice your pickup lines elsewhere, Gayenema.

so you can spell 'simultaneously' but not 'forward' or 'defecating'...

And you are quite young.
When I was your age, I was working at a dry cleaner emptying pockets at 1.40$/hour.
There were no Nintendo nor PCs. My friends were all playing hockey in the street or sitting on the sidewalk. When the week end came, I was partying with my friends over a pizza or chicken and we had a real fiesta fun.

So no Mario Party?

Captain Mazda wrote:So no Mario Party?

This was around the 1970's I was 13. At the time we have had a color TV only in 1967. It's tought to imagine for the youngster in here but... WEird compare to what we have today.

So no 'shrooms?

pete wrote:And you are quite young.
When I was your age, I was working at a dry cleaner emptying pockets at 1.40$/hour.
There were no Nintendo nor PCs. My friends were all playing hockey in the street or sitting on the sidewalk. When the week end came, I was partying with my friends over a pizza or chicken and we had a real fiesta fun.

pete wrote:

Captain Mazda wrote:So no Mario Party?

This was around the 1970's I was 13. At the time we have had a color TV only in 1967. It's tought to imagine for the youngster in here but... WEird compare to what we have today.

Stop wasting your breath Pete. Even the stuff "YourGrandpa" posted had some merit, but it's all falling on deaf ears. You can tell by the amount of protests. I understand that a lot of it comes from past experience, but hell, he wasn't completely wrong.

I was born in 1962 and I didn't start completely wasting my life until 1997 when I got the internet and quake 2

It's hard for me to think back and remember what I did to fill my time before then. Golf had a more prominent role!

Old people shut up real fast when you point out how much easier they had it compared to their ancestors.

The trump card for this would he holding a history degree.

And that logic seems lost on the younger ones, who have it even easier.

what a load of old bollocks. all these people who - like me - were born in the 1960s (or before in some cases) and grew up without internet or computer games just wasted their time in some other ways

all the prematurely senile coots in this thread blathering on about all the really awesome shit they were doing 24/7 are having an attack of selective memory if they think otherwise

Horseshit. Maybe you wasted your time. I read tons of books, learned to play an instrument, learned to work on cars, Went fishing/hunting/motorcycle riding/camping/drinking etc. with friends. Doesn't sound like wasted time to me. Yeah I wasted some time too, but not nearly as much as you might think.

seremtan wrote:what a load of old bollocks. all these people who - like me - were born in the 1960s (or before in some cases) and grew up without internet or computer games just wasted their time in some other ways

all the prematurely senile coots in this thread blathering on about all the really awesome shit they were doing 24/7 are having an attack of selective memory if they think otherwise

ahem! I believe I said I couldn't remember what I did to fill my time. I speculated golf was more prominent.

The point I was making is I didn't spend it on the internet.
You could find ways of wasting your time, but it didn't include spending countless hours communicating, flaming or trolling countless people you had never met before. Right?

I probably spent mine in front of the TV

yet you think we (youngsters) now do not learn how to play instruments, go fishing, drinking with friends, et al.

you only see one side here, much like your elders only saw you wasting time and prolly thought the same thing as you do now :icon32:

When I was a youngster everything was harder to do and everything sucked and WE LIKED IT!!

MKJ wrote:yet you think we (youngsters) now do not learn how to play instruments, go fishing, drinking with friends, et al.

you only see one side here, much like your elders only saw you wasting time and prolly thought the same thing as you do now :icon32:

Not at all. Seremtan said we oldsters wasted our time when we were younger as well. I was just pointing out that I don't consider that wasted time then or now.

Me personally, I couldn't care less if anyone wastes thier time or not. It's not my time.

oh ok. i thought it was supposed to be a retort.
carry on :[

I didn't start wasting my time on places like this until I registered here in 2000. This was the first forum I was a member of and still one of the few. I think I've registered at maybe 5 other sites to post on a forum over the last 6 years and I might post on one other besides this one today.

The internet has been around for awhile now and really big since 1993/94. I would have never spent my time chatting with strangers in my early 20's. I was too busy with real life things like girls, water sports, club hoppin, paint ball, fishing, ect...

I feel sorry for the kids that have become consumed by the internet. It's a huge waste of time for most and unfortunately a waste of the best years for today's youth...

Fuck you if you don't like my opinion. It's just that, an opinion. I'd like qualify my opinion by saying, "Not everyone on the internet is always wasting there time". I know some of you nerds are chomping at the bit to reply with some incredibly stupid misconception of what I said and needed a starting point, so there you go.

GL.

its opinionated allright :icon32:

YourGrandpa wrote:I didn't start wasting my time on places like this until I registered here in 2000. This was the first forum I was a member of and still one of the few. I think I've registered at maybe 5 other sites to post on a forum over the last 6 years and I might post on one other besides this one today.

The internet has been around for awhile now and really big since 1993/94. I would have never spent my time chatting with strangers in my early 20's. I was too busy with real life things like girls, water sports, club hoppin, paint ball, fishing, ect...

I feel sorry for the kids that have become consumed by the internet. It's a huge waste of time for most and unfortunately a waste of the best years for today's youth...

Fuck you if you don't like my opinion. It's just that, an opinion. I like qualify my opinion by saying, "Not everyone on the internet is always wasting there time". I know some of you nerds are chomping at the bit to reply with some incredibly stupid misconception of what I said and needed a starting point, so there you go.

GL.

jesus christ, you bagged half the internet in this thread.

MKJ wrote:its opinionated allright :icon32:

My opinion can't be opinionated.. :icon27:

its more a thesis than anything

God, I do wish there was something to do around here.