Originally Posted by Chief Pagan (Post 17178381)

And of course every girl they swipe immediately says yes?

I think one of the down sides of the apps is it makes it too weird to flirt with strangers anymore.

And for whatever reason, it seems teenagers/twenty somethings are having less sex than people used to.

Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY (Post 17178482)

There are very attractive teenage girls BTW, WTF? .

Originally Posted by Chief Pagan (Post 17178381)

And of course every girl they swipe immediately says yes?

I think one of the down sides of the apps is it makes it too weird to flirt with strangers anymore.

And for whatever reason, it seems teenagers/twenty somethings are having less sex than people used to.

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish (Post 17178635)

I’m not sure I understand this part. His feelings? For her? Or his feelings for life?

Originally Posted by The Franchise (Post 17178642)

It's just his way of saying that men are more sensitive now.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 17178379)

A few random memories from my childhood, which was mostly in the 1970s.

1. My first phone number (family phone) used letters and numbers. It was something like SU5-1549.

2. My parents' pickup had only AM radio as the sound system.

3. Flat tires were not unusual. Tire technology in the modern world must have arisen from a UFO crash.

4. I walked alone to school and back in second grade, and was a latchkey kid by third grade.

5. Car bumpers were apparently designed to maim pedestrians. They were really hard and metal.

6. My first foray into the computer age was a red LED watch that you lit up by pushing a button. It was pretty awesome. I got it in maybe the 8th grade.

7. The first computer I ever saw was an Apple that my school's calculus teacher acquired for class. We had a little afterschool computer club where we learned to program it.

8. My first video game was an offbrand Pong game, but soon after that Space Invaders came available in the local Godfather's Pizza. I invested significant effort into mastering it.

9. My earliest memories of television were Three Stooges reruns and the Red Skelton Show. Then I discovered cartoons.

10. I remember going to see Dolly Parton in concert as a young child, when she was a local second banana to Porter Wagoner. It was at some relatively small theater in Joplin.

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish (Post 17178629)

Funny thing about those days.

Even after the Saturday night keg parties and sneaking into the house at 0200 to burn a Tony’s pizza to ashes in the oven:

My mom, bless her heart, would force me awake and I’d have go to the early mass. ( had to account for the indulgences of the weekend.)

Originally Posted by ghak99 (Post 17175294)

Makes sense. They're the only generation to have a taste of the old school freedom and live through the transition while still in their developmental stage.

Here, the older millennials are the ones who saw the gun racks disappear from the parking lots and the mental health issues begin to explode in school. Cell phone cameras hadn't quite ruined the craziness and freedom of youth. Then 9/11 showed them similar old school to new school changes within society prior to becoming actual adults. It's easy to see why they'd love to flip the freedom switch back to just before those sweeping changes occurred.

Originally Posted by displacedinMN (Post 17178728)

mass/church

cleaning out the cow pens
Walking beans
Shelling corn from the crib


Good times. Every kid should have to go through it.

Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief (Post 17178833)

walked beans and de-tasseled...

Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief (Post 17178833)

walked beans and de-tasseled...

Originally Posted by displacedinMN (Post 17178850)

two of the worst jobs on the farm

To this day, I cannot stand wet socks.

Did you ever de-tassel hungover?

Originally Posted by BigRedChief (Post 17178470)

I had the Davy Crokett coon skin cap and that rifle too. That cork ball would hurt like a mother ****er. Talk about putting an eye out. Different times.