For better or worse- things from your past you won't ever see again.

[LuckyDuck]

I was thinking about how the world has changed and came across some examples from my own life... I'll start the thread with just one example though, hopefully others will chime in...

I remember being in grade school and visiting the Gettysburg Battlefield on one of the regular field trips. The field trips did require several parents to jump in but what now seems to be... unusual, I remember literal scores of grade school children going back on the bus with "Civil War Sabers" picked up from the gift shops and not a single complaint was raised by either the teachers or "parental chaperons".

Anyone else have a similar story?

-LD

 

[Darryle]

I won several rifles and a couple of pistols selling magazine subscriptions for FFA

 

[Snipe260]

I remember the hustler magazines with the scratch and sniff centerfolds. Dang I miss the old days

 

[mosin46]

i remember going to wash dc and to nassau with my parents on 2 vacations. in my memory,they had not the slightest concern about crime. i was way too young to know anything about that. most of the caribbean is now 3rd world and has been for awhile. dc is a few levels below 3rd world even if you removed the corrupt pols and bureaucrats.

 

[Milf Dots]

I hope to never see big hairy bush, "wool underpants", ever again. Trim or wax those beautiful vaginas, ladies- it's a hygiene issue!

 

[Milf Dots]

King Vitaman cereal from the 70s, with full sugar content.

 

[458win]

Over the counter tags

 

[Milf Dots]

Reisman pretzels (was a family owned pretzel maker in the Philly/SouthJersey area).

 

[MrSmith]

Elementary school duck and cover drills.

Thank you.
MrSmith

 

[SigSauerM7]

I remember threatening to attack the Calgary Stampede (Same size as the Iowa or Texas State Fair) with a fire team equipped with x2 8mm Serbian M-53 Sarac- modified to shoot at 1800 RPM in extreme Enfilade with thousands of rounds.

I got badly arrested and totally embarrassed.

Live and learn.

Don't be a shithead.

 

[SigSauerM7]

I guess Vietnam vets did the same thing. But in real life.

At least nobody physically got hurt in my case.

 

[SigSauerM7]

Kyle Lamb advised me to make amends with Fire, EMT, Police, and Military.

 

[theLBC]

they used to sell bullwhips at six flags magic mountain.
squirt guns weren't a bad call, but bullwhips?

/of course we bought them, lol.

 

[6.5SH]

they used to sell bullwhips at six flags magic mountain.
squirt guns weren't a bad call, but bullwhips?

/of course we bought them, lol.

Imagine the carnage if they had a Devo concert

 

[Hayden#69]

Hondas 200 and 350X and a 250R 3 Wheelers. I miss them all

Hayden.

 

[Sean the Nailer]

Respect,
Regard,
Dignity,
Responsibility,,,,

 

[Eggman]

I remember threatening to attack the Calgary Stampede (Same size as the Iowa or Texas State Fair) with a fire team equipped with x2 8mm Serbian M-53 Sarac- modified to shoot at 1800 RPM in extreme Enfilade with thousands of rounds.

I got badly arrested and totally embarrassed.

Live and learn.

Don't be a shithead.

 

[gunjunkie45]

they used to sell bullwhips at six flags magic mountain.
squirt guns weren't a bad call, but bullwhips?

/of course we bought them, lol.

We see this guy every summer. He holds about every world record involving whips, and he's pretty entertaining. Adam Crack.

 

[LuckyDuck]

Elementary school duck and cover drills.

Thank you.
MrSmith

Gotcha there friend.

-LD

 

[n2ishun]

Grape Nehi, Orange Crush, Simba, Vernors, sodas.
Beemans gum.
Levis bush jeans.
Local Mom and Pop burger joint owned by Greek people that over feed you.....and know how to make a GOOD damn Pastrami sammich.

More:
Penton
Hodaka
CZ/Jawa
Maico
And my genuine Harley Davidson moped that like a dumbass I restored to perfection and sold it for only $5500 when I could probably get 15k now.

It was this one, and at least as nice.....if not nicer.
Damn was it fun to roll up to a biker bar and park it out front with all the hogs and just step back and watch the lads start to smirk and then go "oh....well fuck me, that's cool as shit".

 

[gunjunkie45]

I remember having a literal sess pool in the middle of a country neighborhood when I was 6 or 7. We don't need to bring that back. The bigger bully kid would push other kids in from time to time. Atari is in my brain for the same memory.

 

[nockhunter]

Velcro fly (jeans)

 

[LuckyDuck]

A staple that was sold in concession stands to children while I played little league baseball.... Defiantly wouldn't fly today....

-LD

 

[SigSauerM7]

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Velcro fly (jeans)

I have never heard this.

Sounds good.

 

[SigSauerM7]

I like Egyptian symbols.

 

[Im2bent]

M80s

 

[SigSauerM7]

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A staple that was sold in concession stands to children while I played little league baseball.... Defiantly wouldn't fly today....

-LD

2024 is completely inferior to 1965-1999 in "most" ways from nutrition, to testosterone levels, to Christian values.

Only thing better is cheap treats (junk food) cheap computers, and t.v.s

Big deal.

Corrections will happen every century or two.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Bulk ammo and brass prices from Cabelas 2004-2007 catalogs. Dry storage lock boxes packed with Winchester bulk and Olin (milsurps also made by Winchester) OO shotshells going like hotcakes. I had so many of these boxes that I gave some to my coworkers so they can store all their tools in them with ease. I use 2 of them like that as well. No need for a specialty DeWalt tote rig when I got 2 virtually indestructable ammo cases and a collapsible skeleton steel dolly to carry them around in that can also be converted into a backpack.

 

[db2000]

gun rack in the truck in high school and nobody ever got shot in parking lot fights

 

[db2000]

Hondas 200 and 350X and a 250R 3 Wheelers. I miss them all

Hayden.

Big Red
Dangerous AF

 

[akmike47]

Cheap diesel

 

[EddieNFL]

Conservative teachers, smoking area at high school, primers $0.89 per hundred, powder $7-8 per pound, SS reloading press $20.

 

[roostercogburn98]

gun rack in the truck in high school and no buddy ever got shot in parking lot fights

Hell, our school gave us a week off for deer season way back when

 

[Darryle]

M80s

FTR, you can still get the originals in Missouri(maybe elsewhere), along with some more potent firecrackers at a fireworks stand, I was like WTF

I hadn't seen them in a very long time

 

[LuckyDuck]

Hell, our school gave us a week off for deer season way back when

Dang, a whole week? I thought PA was doing pretty good with the 1st day of buck season still being an official day off from school.

 

[Bantam1]

1000 round cases of Russian white box 7.62x39 for $60, nuclear and earthquake drills in school (CA), gas under a dollar a gallon, rotary phones...lots of things for me

 

[Milf Dots]

Kuwahara bicycles.

 

[Milf Dots]

Jarts.

 

[DangerDave]

I grew up in a south Indian city called Hyderabad.
For better - the traffic:

For worse - Authentic Biriyani (Chicken and rice dish - the Indian restaurants here just can't get it right) and KFC's Chizza (shocked that they don't have it here)

 

[SigSauerM7]

FTR, you can still get the originals in Missouri(maybe elsewhere), along with some more potent firecrackers at a fireworks stand, I was like WTF

I hadn't seen them in a very long time

Oh wow that's cool. Love M80s.

Canada has banned firecrackers the Socialist Scum.

 

[hlee]

I won’t be seeing SigSauerM7 again.

 

[DOA]

People playing smear the queer in playgrounds, Sambos restaurants, playing cowboys and indians with cap guns or even bb guns. People not being offended by every little thing.

 

[EddieNFL]

I won’t be seeing SigSauerM7 again.

What’s five or six thousand? That won’t even cover the deprecation on a new vehicle.

 

[Ronws]

8-track cassettes.

 

[waveslayer]

Yamaha Banshees

 

[Ledzep]

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A staple that was sold in concession stands to children while I played little league baseball.... Defiantly wouldn't fly today....

-LD

Saw those for sale in Estes Park 2 weeks ago.

 

[jbuck88]

M80s

Go to any reservation around the 4th of July. The guy keeps them in a paper bag under the counter. We have a boom city around these parts, they go upto basketballs. Ping-pong balls are plenty with the occasional tennis ball thrown in. I've never bought any or lit any of course.

 

[hlee]

What’s five or six thousand? That won’t even cover the deprecation on a new vehicle.

The vapid SH poster, not the firearm…

 

[EddieNFL]

The vapid SH poster, not the firearm…

Ah. Never knew him.

 

[salks]

Government Cheese.