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Looks like a late 80's Ranger so I'm old enough to have been in that pic. Live Oak isn't safe enough to let kids ride around like that anymore. There was a church van unloading a platoon's worth of TCN's into Walmart a couple of Sundays ago. |
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Quoted: Can't count the number of times I rode in the back of a pickup truck...at highway speeds (50/60 +)...for well over 40 miles or more. And I've ridden sitting down, laying down, and standing up while hanging onto the light bar. Good times. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: No, but I did ride in the back of an El Camino once and shortly after a kid from HS was thrown out of the back of one and died. Can't count the number of times I rode in the back of a pickup truck...at highway speeds (50/60 +)...for well over 40 miles or more. And I've ridden sitting down, laying down, and standing up while hanging onto the light bar. Good times. I remember me, my cousin and my brother riding in the back of my dad’s pickup, standing up in the bed and holding onto the roll bar, the wind in our faces, head and shoulders above the roof. As we approached some railroad tracks, dad would yell through the sliding window, “OK, you kids hold on tight, back there!”, and he’d hit that bump and we’d catch some air in the back of the pickup, laughing and screaming with glee, “AGAIN! AGAIN!”, so dad turned around and hit it again, then turned around back the way we were originally going and hit it one more time. I think we were 8, 9 and 10 (cousin was right between me and my older brother, in age, and in the back of the pickup). |
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Quoted: Did you ever get to ride in one of these? https://en-academic.com/pictures/enwiki/49/1931_Ford_Model_A_roadster_rumble_seat.JPG View Quote As a matter of fact, yes, I have. One of Dad's friends had restored a Model A and drove it in local parades. I've also driven a Model T. It's not as hard as it sounds once you've "shifted the gears" a few times. |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/466249/AEGateway_1983ArcadeBar_E_ByKelseyLawson-3171110.JPG View Quote The arcade scene in T2 always brings back memories of those days. Hanging out at the arcade with friends. Chilling at the mall… Haven’t had any desire to go to a mall since the 90s. |
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Quoted: It think it's just more of humans thinking the grass is always greener and never being happy with what they have. People wanted to be connected. Pagers sold like crazy and then cell phones changed the world. They were not forced upon us. There is was no law passed that said you had to buy a cell phone. We WANTED them...a lot, most everyone who could buy one did and those wouldn't couldn't, they didn't celebrate that. They wished they could. Being "disconnected", when it wasn't optional, sucked. If not having cell phones was truely better, we would just do that. It's not like we didn't have a choice and we can certainly still make that choice right now. If I were to bet though, you are going to not throw your cell phone in the trash after reading this and you are going to plug it in tonight when you go to bed, to make sure it's working for you tomorrow. I would bet this because in reality, for reals and not arfcom GD talk, it's a lot better with than without. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I agree, but I think it's deeper than that. I think a lot of it stems from feeling kind of boxed in by the world. It feels a LOT smaller than it did before the internet and cell phones existed. You have to plan it out and then force yourself to be "disconnected" now when it was just the standard way of living 25-30 years ago. People wanted to be connected. Pagers sold like crazy and then cell phones changed the world. They were not forced upon us. There is was no law passed that said you had to buy a cell phone. We WANTED them...a lot, most everyone who could buy one did and those wouldn't couldn't, they didn't celebrate that. They wished they could. Being "disconnected", when it wasn't optional, sucked. If not having cell phones was truely better, we would just do that. It's not like we didn't have a choice and we can certainly still make that choice right now. If I were to bet though, you are going to not throw your cell phone in the trash after reading this and you are going to plug it in tonight when you go to bed, to make sure it's working for you tomorrow. I would bet this because in reality, for reals and not arfcom GD talk, it's a lot better with than without. Yeah, no shit. People want a lot of things that aren't necessarily good for the human spirit. There are good sides and bad sides to all human advancements. |
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Quoted: How many scars do you have on your shins from these: https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.bmxmuseum.com/user-images/26696/e7cb5ebe-47d8-4510-a245-e758d1a8ae6c5e949991ec.jpeg View Quote I'm pretty sure my tibia are permanently pocked by those. |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/119852/getting-gas-in-mid-1970s-ezgif_com-webp--3171085.jpg View Quote I remember 18.9 cents at ESSO. |
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Quoted: Last summer I discovered that my chimney was falling down. I had a HELL of a time finding a mason who would bother even giving me a quote. Most were so busy they didn't even bother returning my call or giving me an actual quote that I could sign. I basically waved my money at anyone with "mason" for a title that would listen to me. The guy I finally got to fix it had a cell phone but it was not a smart phone and as far as I can tell, had no internet. It only made phone calls and sent texts. He accepted no credit cards, payment was check or cash only. He was crazy busy and I got lucky that he was in my area already doing a larger job and made time after to swing by for a few days and knock out my problem. I am a software developer that works from home with a college degree and many years experience. I did the math and old guy brick layer out there with his freakin flip phone and no social media presence....I had to pay him more per hour than I make per hour. Go tell him you can't make good money and have a family, life etc without modern tech. I don't think he knows. View Quote Oh sure. I'm sure this young man and his new business has used no technology made after 1985 to start this business and raise his family that he started in the modern world. Right? |
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Quoted: The arcade scene in T2 always brings back memories of those days. Hanging out at the arcade with friends. Chilling at the mall… Haven’t had any desire to go to a mall since the 90s. View Quote I miss roaming the mall with my friends in the 80s Wouldnt go near one these days Attached File |
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Quoted: ...If I were to bet though, you are going to not throw your cell phone in the trash after reading this and you are going to plug it in tonight when you go to bed, to make sure it's working for you tomorrow. I would bet this because in reality, for reals and not arfcom GD talk, it's a lot better with than without. View Quote I retired before cell phones became available. I did buy a flip phone and have never upgraded to a smartphone and I don't leave home without it in my pocket. Too many things can go wrong these days. It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. |
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How to talk to girlfriend fo free. If you had the tools, or access to the back of somebody's house and a butt set. That was a very valued gift to me by a mentor of mine, had the full keypad including the 4th row on the right for special functions. Just clip onto wires and good to go as long as whoever wasn't home and it was a local call, no logs. No caller ID back then, either.
Phreaking got progressively more difficult into the 90s, where coding became the workaround and then VOIP in early 00s now it's all cloud bullshit with crappy security for personal data/accounts but great security to prevent people using it without paying or being tracked, that's where their effort goes. Photoshop is seemingly half anti-copy code, it'd be a happy $100 to spend on program if they stopped trying to stop hackers from creating keygens and putting the price closer to $500 because of it (thus creating that area). As it is half their staff is writing self modifying code thinking they'll one up the hacks on free use. The latest phone home and verify subscription to function (and track all usage) is a total PITA but CS 3 is fine for me and zero reason to upgrade/buy a sub when it works fine and paint.NET is catching up for the free side. Screw renting software. |
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Yep. Riding in the back of my uncle's Ford to go fishing at a country lake that has long since been filled-in and the land converted to a suburban business park. Progress and time march on. |
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Quoted: I miss roaming the mall with my friends in the 80s Wouldnt go near one these days https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/466249/1ck7pmlk7xp81_jpg-3171137.JPG View Quote The theater also gives no fucks about what you bring in. You can show up with a cooler of soda and whole cooked chicken to carry to your seat and I don't think they would blink an eye. It's all very weird and I don't understand how they are keeping the lights on. I suspect it won't be for much longer. |
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1984 was a hellishly great year to be a young guy in his 20s.
But, Orwellian 1984 started hitting around 2001 (Patriot Act) and was cemented in place by the advent of social media. The two youngest generations right now don't have any concept of, or much belief in, privacy; it's a foreign notion to most of them, a stupid thing that old people believed. It only took about 20 years for Americans to be brainwashed out of ever uttering the statement "because it's none of your effing business." |
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Beat. Only I had a steel pot in basic |
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Quoted: There is a mall nearish me that has a movie theater attached to it. The theater is still in business and playing new releases but the mall itself is mostly closed. The main big hallways are open but the stores themselves are all gated, lights off and empty shelves. So you can go see a movie and walk around an "open" but deserted mall. The theater also gives no fucks about what you bring in. You can show up with a cooler of soda and whole cooked chicken to carry to your seat and I don't think they would blink an eye. It's all very weird and I don't understand how they are keeping the lights on. I suspect it won't be for much longer. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I miss roaming the mall with my friends in the 80s Wouldnt go near one these days https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/466249/1ck7pmlk7xp81_jpg-3171137.JPG The theater also gives no fucks about what you bring in. You can show up with a cooler of soda and whole cooked chicken to carry to your seat and I don't think they would blink an eye. It's all very weird and I don't understand how they are keeping the lights on. I suspect it won't be for much longer. They were big and thought to be "The Future" in the late 70s and a lot got built in the 70s and 80s, then.. something changed. Mid 90s they all started dying. It wasn't he Internet that killed them, though that was the final blow. We have one here that has a theater and an anchor Kohl's with an Applebees on the other end. Now and again a start up company like a used CD and game shop would show up but then vanish since nobody knew they even existed, or didn't want to walk into that empty mall just to get to the inconvenient spot he could afford to rent as a start up. There's a few documentaries on malls but none really explain how/why they died off so quick around y2k. Internet shopping wasn't big until the later 200s with Amazon being the death knell for lots of local commerce, especially niche stores. |
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Quoted: I agree, but I think it's deeper than that. I think a lot of it stems from feeling kind of boxed in by the world. It feels a LOT smaller than it did before the internet and cell phones existed. You have to plan it out and then force yourself to be "disconnected" now when it was just the standard way of living 25-30 years ago. View Quote I have posted about it before, but I know a Ukrainian woman who, when I lost spoke with her in late 2022, was in western Russia somewhere near the border with Ukraine, her, her son, mom and brother. I worry for her, knowing what has been happening to people like her there, being thrown into prisons over things as small as using the word war for the war. I never would have found her again if not for finding her Facebook page. We were able to talk in real time, from half a world away, and pretty much whenever we were both awake, thanks to having smartphones. I am so glad I found her, but could also be living in blissful ignorance if I never knew she was there. I wonder what World War II would have been like, just if they had smartphones and internet access, not even considering the ability to spy and gather intelligence such things afford, but just from the perspective of people with friends/family overseas, and how it would have been if you knew someone in Poland or France or someplace that would become a battlefield. It’s also interesting to think how it may have changed the perspective of people in the US on foreign intervention. Lots of massacres and of course the holocaust didn’t come to light until usually years after they had occurred. To an extent that has likely been happening now, but it’s harder to hide such things in the present time. |
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Quoted: I did get to deliver Sunday newspapers out of the back of one of these... https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/334993/1988_Ares_K_Wagon_jpg-3171067.JPG View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Did you ever get to ride in one of these? https://en-academic.com/pictures/enwiki/49/1931_Ford_Model_A_roadster_rumble_seat.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/334993/1988_Ares_K_Wagon_jpg-3171067.JPG Did you ever take your date to the drive in and park on the back row with her in one of these? How I didn't end up a High School Dad - I'll never know. If we wanted to find the action or who has having a party, we'd cruise to find out friends. Phones had cords or you had coins. Now kids never get off line and miss so much of the Real World. Bigger_Hammer |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/69748/relatable-90s-memes-64f9cd94b7141__700-6-3171300.JPG View Quote Or camped out at night on the weekends and rode to town at night |
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Quoted: How many scars do you have on your shins from these: https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.bmxmuseum.com/user-images/26696/e7cb5ebe-47d8-4510-a245-e758d1a8ae6c5e949991ec.jpeg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: https://i.imgur.com/VLyRilb_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=grand No internet, freedom in the summers, people weren't fat, and communication between people was very intentional (and desired). Her parents were probably crappy parents thus she probably went on to become a crappy parent. Why, because she really should have been wearing proper foot wear to protect her feet and toes from the bicycle chain and the possibility of stepping on broken glass from those evil glass bottles of the day. How many scars do you have on your shins from these: https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.bmxmuseum.com/user-images/26696/e7cb5ebe-47d8-4510-a245-e758d1a8ae6c5e949991ec.jpeg Too many. On shins and calfs. |
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Y’all act like running water has always been a thing and Indian attacks were just stuff that happened on TV |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/119852/getting-gas-in-mid-1970s-ezgif_com-webp--3171085.jpg View Quote I bought a Ford F250 with the new 7.3L powerstroke when it first came out in 1995. (I loved that truck and was really sad to see it go away, all rusted out). But the first time I filled those tanks up, diesel was just $0.95 a gallon. It was actually cheaper than regular 87 octane in PA then. |
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View Quote That faggot ruined our country. |
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View Quote I was only 9 when it happened, but every time I see the twin towers in pics or movies I get goosebumps. |
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Quoted: There was nothing quite like getting frisky with some young lady in the back of a pickup (under a blanket) while your buddy hauled ass down the road.... knowing that if he got in a wreck, you were gonna end up as pavement pancake. Oh well.... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Can't count the number of times I rode in the back of a pickup truck...at highway speeds (50/60 +)...for well over 40 miles or more. And I've ridden sitting down, laying down, and standing up while hanging onto the light bar. Good times. There was nothing quite like getting frisky with some young lady in the back of a pickup (under a blanket) while your buddy hauled ass down the road.... knowing that if he got in a wreck, you were gonna end up as pavement pancake. Oh well.... Or you are banging a hot chic in the back of a pickup with your buddy driving and he gets pulled over for spending. DPS Trooper walks up the truck and he is the hot chic's uncle. I really at that time though I was going to get killed. |
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Quoted: It’s ironic that in no time in human history has there been a higher standard of living yet people seem to more unhappy than ever before. If we would all learn to appreciate the simple things in life and stop worrying about every single headline and social media post we’d probably be better off View Quote Modern social media has been detrimental to our society. |
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View Quote LOL at the fat kid on the left. |
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Quoted: I miss roaming the mall with my friends in the 80s Wouldnt go near one these days https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/466249/1ck7pmlk7xp81_jpg-3171137.JPG View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: The arcade scene in T2 always brings back memories of those days. Hanging out at the arcade with friends. Chilling at the mall… Haven’t had any desire to go to a mall since the 90s. I miss roaming the mall with my friends in the 80s Wouldnt go near one these days https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/466249/1ck7pmlk7xp81_jpg-3171137.JPG One by me just closed it's doors for good. No idea what's gonna happen to the property though. |
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Quoted: Early 70's. I remember my Dad being angry when they started making expensive unleaded gasoline mandatory. He bought an adapter so our newer car could use the leaded gas pump with the bigger pump spout. Newer cars were made with a smaller gas filler hole to force you to use the more expensive unleaded gas. We thought 80 cents a gallon for premium was outrageous. https://i.postimg.cc/gjTJVGJ4/69e59c17d0400cc34d0f3d275b52316e.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/kMy9kQQC/gt.jpg View Quote I took this at a southern AL/MS station in June of 2020. Attached File |
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Quoted: LOL at the fat kid on the left. I hated Putt Putt golf, my dad would drag us to that every Sunday after church. I guess he thought just because he loved playing golf us kids did too. |
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