I remember when.....

[Shokei Marcsui]

"I remember when....." Rules

- Only one "I remember when..." per posting. So for you nostalgic people that walked to school in 6 feet of snow, you cannot ramble. :p

For example: I remember when..... <insert funny remembrance here>.

- Can be about anything. Gas prices were a dollar a gallon, bread was a nickel, etc.

- Have fun!

I remember when.... I watched Star Wars for the first time on BETA cassette!

[sandman]

I remember when:

... a summer day used to seem to last forever!

[yoshukai]

I remember when:

I actually got to sleep past 6 o'clock...

[ushideshinidan]

I remember when... I was 8 years old, running to school as fast as I could (about a mile away from home) without feeling out of breath...

[Evergrey]

I could stay up all night and still go to college the next day. What happened? D:

[Dent]

Osu!

I remember when I weighed 20% of what I weigh now! :D

Osu!

[sandman]

I remember when...

I used to type with a type writer, and my phone was attached to the wall with a cord.

[ushideshinidan]

Shokei, I had to rep you for that Feel good thread...:D
Thank you!
Osu!

[Shokei Marcsui]

To add to Sandman's....

I remember when I had to ban my parents from using the phone while surfacing the internet on our dial up AOL connection.

@uchideshinidan Thank you for the commendation!

Osu!

[meguro]

I remember when friends were made face to face and people you corresponded with in writing were called pen pals.:D

[ushideshinidan]

I remember when I was playing street hockey with my neighbours and that each period would end by the city bus passing in front of our houses every 20 minutes… :)

[Candyman]

I remember when my brothers and I would play Karate in the back yard. They won't play with me any more . . . OSU!

[smoothsake]

I remember when I could eat 2 foot long turkey sandwiches at Subway for a mid afternoon snack.

[supergroup7]

I remember when:

I could buy a bottle of Coke, a bag of chips, AND a chocolate bar for only $25

My parents could bribe us kids with just a nickel then because it bought you a bag full of candy.

[Dent]

Osu!

$25!!!!!! :eek: Supergroup7???!!! I hope those were Zimbabwean dollars!

Osu!

[FredInChina]

LOL - Good catch Dent!


I remember when America was the envy of the world... :)


Osu!

[supergroup7]

OOOOPS :eek:

Not $25... 25 cents.. :o

[Hangtime]

I remember when I could waste my day away riding my bike, playing basketball or playing video games...

*meeeeeeeem-or-eeeeeeees....*

OSU!

[Monty]

I remember when....

Someone would come to your car and put the petrol in for you :)

(Obviously I was a passenger at that time, I'm not that old you know ;))

[ushideshinidan]

I remember when you didn't have to lock the doors of your home during the day and that the neighour would ring the bell to borrow a cup of sugar... :)

[Monty]

I remember when you didn't have to lock the doors of your home during the day and that the neighour would ring the bell to borrow a cup of sugar... :)

I remember when our neighbour would simply open the back door, walk in, announce herself(usually with an ooh-ee June(my Mum's name)) and then ask for a cup of sugar.

[FredInChina]

I remember when the paved roads ended 10 Km outside of Shanghai and became corrugated dirt roads, or you had to take the ferry to cross a river... :cool:

Now, it is 6 lanes highways & bridges 2,000 Km out in all directions... :rolleyes:


OSu!

[Spirit]

I remember when:

The only thing you had to program on your new car was your AM Radio... "pull out button, push in ... set, listen

[Spirit]

"I" do remember when the moves cost .50 cents

[Dent]

Osu!

I remember when we listened to Neil Diamond on 8-track! :D

Osu!

[Candyman]

I remember when there were only 6 channels on the television, and there was actually something worth watching.

[jcarmello]

I remember when you drove through New Jersey and your eyes, nose and throat burned SEVERELY!!!! Now its different......but I remember!!!!

[seienchin]

I remember when there were these funny little black and white striped boxes printed on all the packages in supermarkets, but nobody knew what they were for. When we were told that "one day" these would be used to scan grocery prices, and our job as checkout operators would disappear, I thought they were having a joke!

[FredInChina]

I remember the first TV program I ever watched on the B&W tv my parents had just purchased............... Humanity was taking a giant small step on the moon!


Osu!

[ushideshinidan]

I remember when I was 7 years old, before my first Judo competition my Mom told my Sensei that I was not eating my veggies… So Sensei Kenzi told me that I should eat my veggies and that it would help in my Judo… I have been eating my veggies since then…;)
So to all Shihan, Senseis and Sempais, never underestimate the influence that you can have on a young student… :)

[s_naka]

I remember when........

.........there was bottled water and batteries available in any store and I didn`t have to worry about radiation!

[FredInChina]

(...) I have been eating my veggies since then… (...)
so, truthfully, did it help your judo? :D



I remember when I was immortal...


Osu!

[Dent]

Osu!

I remember my country before television.

Osu!

[Evergrey]

I remember when Oregon Trail was fun!

[seienchin]

I remember when........

.........there was bottled water and batteries available in any store and I didn`t have to worry about radiation!

:( Sort of puts the nostalgia in perspective, doesn't it>

[kanku]

i remember when i first stood for a minutes silence as a boy:

Friday 21st October 1966

[FredInChina]

(...) Friday 21st October 1966
Either it was the Aberfan mud slide that buried a school & 148 kids & people, or the death of Gertrude Hoffman, actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie) at 95. (thanks Google!)

I guess the former? :)


Osu!

[kanku]

Either it was the Aberfan mud slide that buried a school & 148 kids & people, or the death of Gertrude Hoffman, actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie) at 95. (thanks Google!)

I guess the former? :)


Osu!

yes, the former:

the first time pain and suffering was understood by a young boy.

[bingo]

I remember when you fought with your fists not knifes or guns

[KvW]

Osu!

I remember my country before television.

Osu!

Me too :D

I remember when I could fix my own car. These days I can't even find the dipstick :rolleyes:

Osu!

[kanku]

I remember when you fought with your fists not knifes or guns

that`s one tough dojo you belong to bingo!:D

[bingo]

we looking to bring in grenades and RPG's soon

[cpuman]

I remember when the news was a source of information and certain issues were talked about minimally. I remember where not everything was released to the media and no one was in competition with each other, but rather ONLY showing the news around their area, not the whole world.

I remember when the radio was entertaining, way before the internet evolved in the late 1980's.

[Dent]

Osu!

I remember when I could fix my own car. These days I can't even find the dipstick :rolleyes:

I think that's the individual charging you mad cash to have a computer look at your car. :cool: :D

Osu!

[sandman]

I remember...

... my mom locking my sister and I out of the house on Christmas afternoon because she looked out the window and saw us wrestling in the mud in our new Christmas clothes.

Incidentally, I look forward to locking my own kids out of the house when they do it :D

[Spirit]

I remember only black and white TV, 5 stations ...the stations would sign off each night and sign-in in each morning playing the American National Anthem i.e the star spangle banner
Oh, say! can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:
Oh, say! does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
and singing along

[FredInChina]

I remember writing (and receiving) letters on paper... Yes, real paper!
........... and having the time to think of a response.

osu!

[DharmaDesigns]

I remember when we rode in the car with our parents, and there were no seat belts. We just climbed around the station wagon as they drove. We always ended up sitting in the back part of the station wagon like bags of groceries, and we would look out the back window and sing, "We're going backwards! We're going backwards!" :)

OSU-EN2

[Spirit]

I remember when we rode in the car with our parents, and there were no seat belts. We just climbed around the station wagon as they drove. We always ended up sitting in the back part of the station wagon like bags of groceries, and we would look out the back window and sing, "We're going backwards! We're going backwards!" :)

OSU-EN2
HAHHAHAHAHA
Us too....
Much simpler time back then

[Hangtime]

I wasn't around back then, but I miss the "simpler time" (when I was growing up)...

I remember when He-Man was on nightly (6PM on USA!) and Saturday mornings were for watching cartoons!

[ushideshinidan]

I remember when I was about 6 years old, a couple of times during the summer my uncle would bring my 2 sisters and myself for an ice cream in his convertible. We would sit on the folded top, feet hanging on the back seat, obviously no seatbelts… I remember how much fun it was :)

[Spirit]

I remember when I was about 6 years old, a couple of times during the summer my uncle would bring my 2 sisters and myself for an ice cream in his convertible. We would sit on the folded top, feet hanging on the back seat, obviously no seatbelts… I remember how much fun it was :)

Back then people also stopped at stop signs, yeilded at yeild signs and did not get all angry at you for doing the speed limit.... (i remember when)

[Dent]

Osu!

I remember when I could hitchhike not just across country, but across borders.

(That's one I didn't expect to affect me as much as the memories did..... Interesting.)

Osu!

[DharmaDesigns]

I can remember sitting on my Daddy's lap in church when I was about 3 years old and looking at his hands the whole service. I was fascinated by how big and strong they were. I felt so safe and content sitting there, like nothing in the world could ever hurt me. I used to find the big, lumpy veins in his hands, push them down flat and watch them pop back out again when I moved my finger. It was my favorite way to spend church. :)

OSU-EN2

[ushideshinidan]

I can remember sitting on my Daddy's lap in church when I was about 3 years old and looking at his hands the whole service. I was fascinated by how big and strong they were. I felt so safe and content sitting there, like nothing in the world could ever hurt me. I used to find the big, lumpy veins in his hands, push them down flat and watch them pop back out again when I moved my finger. It was my favorite way to spend church. :)

OSU-EN2
Hummm.... My 5 years old daughter does that with me...Hopefully she'll remember those moments the same way you do...:)

[FredInChina]

I remember when I did not have kids to worry about!


Osu!

[Spirit]

Per Dent's request

I remember when
we would try to chop the horns off the goats that ran freely around the dojo.
They would always head but us in the butt, when we walked away unsuccessfully that is....

[DharmaDesigns]

I remember Friday nights when I was young (probably 2-7 years old) were my favorite nights of the week. Daddy would spend every Friday night with me doing something he called "Concerts". He would play all his favorite records and sing them at the top of his lungs while he carried me around dancing with me. Those concerts were how I learned about The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, The Eagles, The Commodores, The BeeGees, America, Neil Young, Harry Nilsson, Fleetwood Mac, Chicago, Elton John, and Earth, Wind, and Fire. When I got too big to carry, he would hold my hands and dance me around and around. Sometimes he would crawl around on the ground and pretend to be the bull, while I performed the part of matador. His concerts lasted for hours and hours--long passed my bedtime, and they were the best memories I have in my heart forever. Daddy taught me what it was to love music and feel music and enjoy life. I can still hear him singing "Welcome to the Machine" by Pink Floyd at the top of his lungs or "To Be Stuck Inside a Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" by Bob Dylan. :) My dad was the coolest. :cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ9LDBEtKK4


OSU-EN2

[Shokei Marcsui]

I remember when....

going home on a Friday meant wondering what I was going to do that weekend.

It is very nice to have your dance card filled from here to eternity.

Osu!

[jcarmello]

I remember....

Penny Candies
Hookers watching us as we walked to school (I had no idea what they did!)
The BMT,IND, IRT and .30 subway rides.
Punchball in the school yard and climbing down into the subway to retrieve our ball.
Houses being built on Long Island and stealing wood to build a Fort
Tar Balls rolling ashore from sewage pumped out into the ocean.
Bonfires on Rockaway Beach (Cops didnt bother us then
Rockaway Playland
The smells of fried food in Coney Island
And Giant waves at Jones Beach
Gas Lines with odd and even days
The smell of regular gasoline
Mason Reese
Hiding Under Desks and against walls in school as part of preparedness drills
A neighbor tuning me up for being a hooligan
A couple of police officers throwing me around for throwing asphalt at cars from the pot holes........

I remember so many things......this is a great thread!!!

[FredInChina]

(...) Hookers watching us as we walked to school (...)
You went to night school? :D

osu!

[ushideshinidan]

I remember when at 9 years old I got for my spring BDAY my first boys's bike (always used bigger sister bike) a beautiful high handles with long metal flakes red banana seat, 3 speeds red "mustang"... It was sooo beautiful and I wanted this bike for so long...
The next day went to buy some candies (I had 10 cents in my pocket) and got the bike stolen... I had to wait a full year before I got the bike replaced... I had to learn a lesson...;) Next bike was a 10 speeds :)

[jcarmello]

You went to night school? :D

osu!

hahahaha...no, no! There was a flop house down the street where they would all gather in the morning, that we passed on the way to school over by Port Authority. Lots of freaks and skelz that we would make fun of and run away from and the Hookers would yell at them if they said anything to us. We were told to walk another way to school, but being kids........we couldnt resist!!



a beautiful high handles with long metal flakes red banana seat, 3 speeds red "mustang"... It was sooo beautiful and I wanted this bike for so long...


Did this have the shifter in the middle on the bike frame????

[FredInChina]

(...) The next day (...) got the bike stolen...
Oh no! :(

How dreadful!

Osu!

[ushideshinidan]

Did this have the shifter in the middle on the bike frame????[/quote]


Yes jcarmello it did!
I had that bike for one day and I had a lot of bikes since but I have to say, it's been my favorite LOLL :)

[Rocket]

I remember when I first see Danny Larouzo pull off the crane kick.

[ushideshinidan]

Oh no! :(

How dreadful!

Osu!
LOLL, I learned a very valuable lesson that day... ;) and a few decades later, I remember that day and how I felt when I had to announce the news to my Dad just like if it was yesterday... LOLL

[ushideshinidan]

I remember when watching UFC1 fighters were allowed to bite, pull hairs, kick in the groins, poke the eyes... Now that was real fighting!!! LOLL ;)

[FredInChina]

I remember when watching UFC1 fighters were allowed to bite, pull hairs, kick in the groins, poke the eyes... Now that was real fighting!!! LOLL ;)
Man... why did it stop???
Was there nobody left standing? :D

Osu!

[polarbearfighter]

Since we are talking about being the victim of biketheft.

When I was about 9 or 10 my older brother got a new bike, and I got his old bike (a BMX), but when I had used it for some while that bike got stolen one day. I then had to save money for a new bike for some amount of time.
One day I finally had enough money to buy a new bike but it wasn't that much money and I bought one of the cheapest bikes in the shop. Then when I was around age 11-13 I had to repair my bike very very frequently.
I learnt a lot about how to repair bikes, but it was very frustrating to have such an unreliable bike (I often had to walk home long distances with my broken bike) and I grew a hatred for repairing bikes, and today I never repair my own bike, and rather choose to pay a professional to do it.

[Shokei Marcsui]

I remember when... I was a very, very, very young kid watching the WWF in my undies thinking how cool these guys are!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF4ZTcuhixc

After watching this... I still think it was awesome!

[ushideshinidan]

LOLL!! Shokei Marcui, have you noticed the change of sizes in the different clips...;)
Good memories :D
Osu!

[Shokei Marcsui]

ushideshinidan,

Now that you mention it. YES! HAHAHA!

Something was definitely running through his veins. Still a little warrior.

Osu!

[Spirit]

I remember when
we would go to the hardware store and bring our vacum tubes to check which ones worked to fix the radio or TV...

[Dent]

Osu!

I remember our phone number having 3 digits, and needing to crank the handle to get an operator.

Osu!

[jcarmello]

I remember when
we would go to the hardware store and bring our vacum tube to check which ones worked to fix the radio or TV...

We used to go to the local drug store for the same thing!!! LOL!!!

[seienchin]

I remember when my post count was higher than Dent's!!!!!:eek: (but it didn't last for long.....I am sure he employs lots of helper-elves)

[FredInChina]

Osu,


I remember bicycle traffic jams in China... :D


Osu!

[Spirit]

I remember when it didn't hurt to wake up

[Dent]

Osu!

I remember when kids got actual school work instead of craft projects............ :cool:

Osu!

[tmd]

I remember when:

everyone I cared about in my whole world was alive and within a half hour walk of home.

I got a smack for falling out of granddads (moving) car and scaring them!

I first got beaten up

I was skiving off school and thinking what fun it was until it started raining and couldn't do to school or home!

you had to try and make yourself invisable so you could stay up past 9pm and watch the Profesionals/ the Sweeney/ Minder and all sorts of other non suitable TV.

petrol got to £1.00 a gallon and the forces that be decided we should buy in liters (as it sounds cheaper???)

I got bared from the local pub for refusing to pay £1.00 for a pint.

I first got properly beat up

my baby girl was born, all pink and ginger so Irish it hurt to look at her as I was not on speaking terms with the Irish (mum) side of my family at the time.

my first boy was born/ the day my Nana died (was also my 26th birthday)

my youngest child was born and I was elated to be free to tell everyone I knew including my family!

since then it's been a bit of a blur :D sure I've got lots of old memories, but most that come quick are negative rather than positive, no psycho analysis please so want to think on the more positive aspects of my childhood and re-post.

[FredInChina]

Osu,


I remember Checkpoint Charlie


Osu!

[SteveK]

I remember when a "Gay Time" was my favourite Ice Cream :)

[jcarmello]

I remember when the canvas tore at the rubber toe guard, on my sneakers, we would fix them with duct tape wrapped around the toe. couldnt afford now ones, but felt really good with the shiny duct tape on them!! LOL!!

Osu!

[SteveK]

I remember when policemen were your friends and 'peace officers' not 'law enforcement officers' and they would let you off with a warning because they did not have quotas to meet

Osu

[Spirit]

I remember when policemen were your friends and 'peace officers' not 'law enforcement officers' and they would let you off with a warning because they did not have quotas to meet

Osu

Were did you grow up???
They would kick your ass rather than hauling you of to jail were I grew up.

[wullie]

Were did you grow up???
They would kick your ass rather than hauling you of to jail were I grew up.


got to say i preferred taking the kicking, easier to hide that from the parents than the phone call from the local nick.

[jcarmello]

Were did you grow up???
They would kick your ass rather than hauling you of to jail were I grew up.

And sometimes, after you getting "tuned up" they would bring you home to your parents and watch the fire works all over again!!!

[Spirit]

And sometimes, after you getting "tuned up" they would bring you home to your parents and watch the fire works all over again!!!

Now that is for sure!!!!!!!
Specially if your drunk dad worked for the city and knew all the cops>>>>

[jcarmello]

I remember Buster Brown Shoes, TSS-Time Square Stores, and how "Rickle's helps you do it better".

[Hangtime]

I remember "Members Only" jackets :cool:

[Spirit]

I remember "Members Only" jackets :cool:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaah I had one, to funny !!!!

[tmd]

I remember how huge my first mortgage seemed.....it's 5 times that now!

[SteveK]

I remember how huge my first mortgage seemed.....it's 5 times that now!

Looks like a college degree is the new mortgage in America - I found this quite disturbing and I don't live there but Australia is heading the same way

If you are a parent in America you should watch this - I remember when education was free

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZtX32sKVE&feature=player_embedded

[knuckleheader]

I remember when people weren't afraid to operate an internal combustion engine......:rolleyes:

[FredInChina]

Osu,


I remember, as a kid, when the year 2,000 looked like close enough to get a feel for it, but with enough time ahead for humanity to fix its problems...
That was during the first oil shock, Chad famine, immigration & unemployment issues, US military adventures turning bad in Viet Nam, China was not on the radar, but India and over population was, South America dictators were blowing up faster than nuclear plants in Japan, a war on poverty and on drugs had just been initiated...

2,000 has come and gone...

As a result of believing that tomorrow, or the next crisis is a better time to get to fix the mess, I, and my generation missed the chance!

What will history remember of us?
That we could not do it? ................ because we had to pay the mortgage?


Osu!

[tmd]

Why so glum Fred, our generation invented or massively improved just about EVERYTHING the next one will take for granted, sure we burnt up some Ozone figuring it out but where would we be with out all the modern conveniences? Oh and our generation are the ones looking to harness the renewable techs that could help solve the problems, look up and smile for tomorrow it could all be gone (and that will probably be our fault too :))

[jcarmello]

Why so glum Fred, our generation invented or massively improved just about EVERYTHING the next one will take for granted, sure we burnt up some Ozone figuring it out but where would we be with out all the modern conveniences? Oh and our generation are the ones looking to harness the renewable techs that could help solve the problems, look up and smile for tomorrow it could all be gone (and that will probably be our fault too :))

Well Fred...AKA..."Donny Downer".....I think TMD just smacked the back of your head with a "Happy, Happy, Joy,Joy".......hows your focus now??? LOL!!!:p

[FredInChina]

Why so glum Fred, our generation invented or massively improved just about EVERYTHING the next one will take for granted (...)

(...) TMD just smacked the back of your head with a "Happy, Happy, Joy,Joy".......hows your focus now??? LOL!!!:p

Osu both,


yes, smacked in the head by the first world view... and a bit of a refocus...

Indeed, more humans are being well fed today on spaceship earth than at any other time in history... We see it as a progress, yet it is perfectly okay to have 15% of the population starving - as it always was!

Exponential growth in all areas are hitting the boundaries of a finite world and led to an overshoot of the carrying capacity of the spaceship. We are running out of room to hide the trash behind the neighbor's backyard fence!

Energy (not the spread of democrassy(*)) has been the cause of wars for a century... Depletion of resources and scarcity of fresh water are the next step "forward"; watch the South China sea war for oil develop, and the Indo-Chinese war on water as the 9 rivers of the Himalayas are diverted.

Decisions are made by special interests, the focus is next Friday! Who is asking where humanity will be in 600 years?

A generation of humans are in a race to........... a job to pay the mortgage! Seriously, is that all there is?

What have we invented?
- means to get more petrol out of the deep seas to burn more of the balance sheet, i/o harnessing our sun provided eternally regenerated energy income?
- TV, so kids can enjoy violence at home and have their minds formed into buying the obsolescence planned products of large corporations?
- Antibiotics, so we can misuse them and genetically select resistant strains of superbugs that even our own remarkably adaptable immune system cannot deal with?
- Financial derivatives, so an economic mishap in a country will have worldwide ripples, and foolish pensioners lose all they have?
- Airport security, so 6 years old kiddies and 94 years old grannies can see fat undereducated, recently landed in America, immigrants abuse unearned power?
- etc.......

- Internet? D'OH! so we can have facebook???
----------------------------------- Yet it brought us K4L... and a reason to have hope.


It is my conviction that the next generations we saddled with debt and from which we stole resources (including disappeared species!) to satisfy our immediate desires will look back at all the things WE take for granted and shake its head in desperation, wondering what we were thinking!


Osu!


(*) not a typo!

[jcarmello]

Osu!

So what you are saying there Fred.....is that kids should just hang back and make no effort since their future has been consumed by us and our fathers....and learn how to Mug and Thug???

Or hold onto hope and be driven to a higher goal, one that transcends all current visions??? hmmmmmm......I know what I share with my youngens......doesnt mean they listen!!

Dont worry so much Fred......the President of the United States has arrived and is fixing everything so that none of us will ever have to pay a mortgage......for ever ever!!! Its all good!!

[FredInChina]

So what you are saying there Fred.....is that kids should just hang back and make no effort since their future has been consumed by us and our fathers....and learn how to Mug and Thug???

Or hold onto hope and be driven to a higher goal, one that transcends all current visions??? hmmmmmm......I know what I share with my youngens......doesnt mean they listen!!

Dont worry so much Fred......the President of the United States has arrived and is fixing everything so that none of us will ever have to pay a mortgage......for ever ever!!! Its all good!!

Osu,


LOL - Have I said that?
.................................................n o...

But you are right in a sense that I do not offer solutions... and this is much more depressing than the assessment of where we are at!

The first line of the introduction of Bucky Fuller's book "Critical Path" reads:
"HUMANITY IS MOVING EVER DEEPER into crisis --- a crisis without precedent..."
He then goes on to explain what the crisis is about and what makes it unprecedented...
"99% of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do. ..."
Optimism or pessimism don't matter... We have a chance to "make it", the final outcome, "utopia or oblivion" will be a race to the finish and if it happens, it will always be "in the nick of time"

Bucky wrote this book in 1981, two years before he died... His timeline was a transition period of 10 years, between a humanity where evolution is either you or me, to an understanding that we can all make it at a higher standard of living than ever before... it can be you AND me!

That is what I meant two posts ago when I said that our generation let this opportunity slip by...


Yes, we'll likely all have mortgages that are never repaid ------> and, as long as we can service the debt (pay the interest), it is perfectly okay... it is precisely where the banks have maneuvered to put us all! (Governments and citizens alike!)


Osu!

[FredInChina]

osu,


Sandman sent me a picture that illustrates my point:

http://i994.photobucket.com/albums/af67/FredInChina/Gaia1.png
http://i994.photobucket.com/albums/af67/FredInChina/Gaia2.png

No problem, Gaia loves us the way we are... ;)
.................................................. ................................. WHAT?


Osu!

[tmd]

Nice pic! That is exactly what I tell people when I talk about Global Warming etc and they say it's a myth or man will work around it, The WORLD will work around it, Nature will find a way, MAN will suffer, but what I say is to do a bit, don't say sorry for something that is either out of your control or historical, just make a difference to your bit, do your bit and know it helps.

[Evergrey]

I feel bad for horses and tigers though. D:

Oh and polar bears, they're already screwed.

[FredInChina]

I feel bad for horses and tigers though. D:

Oh and polar bears, they're already screwed.

Horses??!!?? Wassup with horses? :confused::confused::confused:


Osu!

[polarbearfighter]

Horses??!!?? Wassup with horses? :confused::confused::confused:


Osu!

http://i25.tinypic.com/2vvqe6t.jpg

[FredInChina]

LOL Polarbearfighter, you got me ROFL! :D:D
Now I understand.........


Repped! Yet, I am not sure the pics will stay on because of the words used...
We'll see.


Osu!


Oooops, sorry the rep police was on duty!

[sandman]

I tried to help you with the reps Fred, but I got blocked too...

Good one PBF! :)

[Hangtime]

Got it Sandman.

Good one PBF!!

[FredInChina]

Osu,


Thanks Sandman & hangtime for stepping up.
I tried to rep Sandman (for the picture he sent me posted above), but could not...


Osu!

[Hangtime]

Taken care of Fred!

OSU!

[polarbearfighter]

Thanks for the rep. United you/we can do anything (in this case, beat the rep police).

[sandman]

Ha ha! Thanks Hangtime, and thank you Fred for the intent. :)

[wullie]

LMAO! Good one PBF! Hope I get a chance to show them to my wife, she's a riding instructor and will love them! Osu!

[Spirit]

I can remember when you could sneak into a nightclub at 15 an see a great Boston band play.
Now I have to find "classic alternative radio station" to hear that music.

[Martin H]

I remember when the big icecream cones was actually BIG. Nowdays they are tiny :-(

[Martin H]

we looking to bring in grenades and RPG's soon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gKDpY8gMAI

[FredInChina]

I remember when the big icecream cones was actually BIG. Nowdays they are tiny :-(

Osu,


I remember when I could finish an ice cream in the USA.....
Now, the portions are sooooo bloody LAAARGE! :D:D


Osu!

[senshido]

I remember when??... I remember when???.... crap! too many kicks to the head!!

I remember when I thought 'Muffin the Mule' was quite normal!!

[Hangtime]

For you, Gary...


...I remember when parents were allowed to encourage and cheer their children! :D

OSU!

[Spirit]

I remember when the big icecream cones was actually BIG. Nowdays they are tiny :-(
Martin,
you sure its not your belly that got bigger????? so the cones look smaller..

[polarbearfighter]

Martin,
you sure it not your belly that got bigger????? so the cones look smaller..

Talking about that...

I remember when they started to broadcast more boring children's programmes but Baywatch became much more interesting.

[Deaken]

I remember when in games at grade school and in youth sports there were winners and loosers.

[Deaken]

I rememeber when there was just one Kyokushinkaikan.

[jcarmello]

I remember when Television stations signed off for the night, and closed their broadcast day with the American National Anthem. Now its infomercials!!

[tmd]

I remember when I was too skinny for light weight :D

[jcarmello]

I remember when I would sit in front of the radio with a tape recorder waiting to record my favorite songs.

[FredInChina]

Ahhh, I remember that too... :)


osu!

[slaine]

I remember when I would sit in front of the radio with a tape recorder waiting to record my favorite songs.

So I wasn't the only one :D good times Jcarmello plus I remember when you had that really excited feeling when you went to the record store to buy a new album you had been waiting for months to be released :) .

[jcarmello]

So I wasn't the only one :D good times Jcarmello plus I remember when you had that really excited feeling when you went to the record store to buy a new album you had been waiting for months to be released :) .

Yes, yes, yes.......well, when we had some money that is. But buying the latest 45 was always a thrill as well.......until you couldn't find the insert for the record player to play the 45!!

[slaine]

Yes, yes, yes.......well, when we had some money that is. But buying the latest 45 was always a thrill as well.......until you couldn't find the insert for the record player to play the 45!!

Yes the money was always scarse but that's what made the wait and the purchase all the more sweet and had a good laugh about the 45 insert :D oh the memories .

[Spirit]

I remember when it was a Honor to train at the Dojo that had no heat or a/c, bathroom or running water, with nailheads sticking out of the floor...and the bamboo stick was your motivator and friend?!?

[knuckleheader]

I remember when it was a Honor to train at the Dojo that had no heat or a/c, bathroom or running water, with nailheads sticking out of the floor...and the bamboo stick was your motivator and friend?!?

Those were the days they didn't care about "student retention".......Lol

[slaine]

I remember when it was a Honor to train at the Dojo that had no heat or a/c, bathroom or running water, with nailheads sticking out of the floor...and the bamboo stick was your motivator and friend?!?

You mean some people have moved on from this ? jeeez we really are behind :eek: .

[senshido]

I remember when you took your empty bottles back to the grocer for a penny

[tmd]

I remember when you took your empty bottles back to the grocer for a penny

reckon there were a few empties in Oban this morning :)

I remember my first drink.... recalling it today while my older lad recovers from his first 18th Birthday party..... it's 5:30PM here and he still looks a bit 'tender' :o:D

Mine was with a bunch of lads from the factory I'd just started an apprenticeship at, they were all oder and I think the aim of the evening was to make the new guy pass out.... it didn't work out that well, out of the 8 of us i was about 6th to go although what I hadn't experienced before was the hangover, that what SO not pleasant, and yet the next weekend...

[Spirit]

Sadly a wee bit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You mean some people have moved on from this ? jeeez we really are behind :eek: .