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Re: remember when
« Reply #45 on: March 31, 2011, 10:52:41 AM »
I remember when we had only a single TV channel in Finland. The second was up and running but their broadcasts were too weak for us to receive. On a good and clear day, we could see static resembling Sweden's TV1.
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Re: remember when
« Reply #46 on: March 31, 2011, 11:27:34 AM »
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Re: remember when
« Reply #47 on: March 31, 2011, 11:35:09 AM »
Our Mercedes back in the 60s didn't have seat belts installed. When I was three or four my dad used to take me with him into town. I would sit in the front, next to him, without any kind of protection. Back then it was the normal state of things but today the naysayers would get their knickers in a twist and my dad would probably be jailed for endangering my life. :laugh:
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Re: remember when
« Reply #48 on: March 31, 2011, 11:37:56 AM »
Quote from: odeon on March 31, 2011, 11:35:09 AM
Our Mercedes back in the 60s didn't have seat belts installed. When I was three or four my dad used to take me with him into town. I would sit in the front, next to him, without any kind of protection. Back then it was the normal state of things but today the naysayers would get their knickers in a twist and my dad would probably be jailed for endangering my life. :laugh:
Kids are required to wear helmets to ride bicycles in most states now.
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Re: remember when
« Reply #49 on: March 31, 2011, 11:38:24 AM »
I think it's the same here.
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Re: remember when
« Reply #50 on: March 31, 2011, 11:40:35 AM »
Quote from: odeon on March 31, 2011, 11:38:24 AM
I think it's the same here.

Yup, up to 15.  :-\
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Re: remember when
« Reply #51 on: March 31, 2011, 12:44:21 PM »
Quote from: PPK on March 31, 2011, 11:37:56 AM
Quote from: odeon on March 31, 2011, 11:35:09 AM
Our Mercedes back in the 60s didn't have seat belts installed. When I was three or four my dad used to take me with him into town. I would sit in the front, next to him, without any kind of protection. Back then it was the normal state of things but today the naysayers would get their knickers in a twist and my dad would probably be jailed for endangering my life. :laugh:
Kids are required to wear helmets to ride bicycles in most states now.

I never learned to ride a bike because we had no sidewalks on our street and weren't allowed to go far from the house unsupervised.   :dunno:
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Re: remember when
« Reply #52 on: March 31, 2011, 12:50:43 PM »
Quote from: couldbecousin on March 31, 2011, 12:44:21 PM
Quote from: PPK on March 31, 2011, 11:37:56 AM
Quote from: odeon on March 31, 2011, 11:35:09 AM
Our Mercedes back in the 60s didn't have seat belts installed. When I was three or four my dad used to take me with him into town. I would sit in the front, next to him, without any kind of protection. Back then it was the normal state of things but today the naysayers would get their knickers in a twist and my dad would probably be jailed for endangering my life. :laugh:
Kids are required to wear helmets to ride bicycles in most states now.

I never learned to ride a bike because we had no sidewalks on our street and weren't allowed to go far from the house unsupervised.   :dunno:
We used to hike in the hills around Pittsburg CA trying to find Garter snakes and King snakes while avoiding Rattlesnakes. Once we found a dead decomposing Fox, I was surprised at how small it was.
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Re: remember when
« Reply #53 on: March 31, 2011, 12:58:53 PM »
Quote from: PPK on March 31, 2011, 12:50:43 PM
Quote from: couldbecousin on March 31, 2011, 12:44:21 PM
Quote from: PPK on March 31, 2011, 11:37:56 AM
Quote from: odeon on March 31, 2011, 11:35:09 AM
Our Mercedes back in the 60s didn't have seat belts installed. When I was three or four my dad used to take me with him into town. I would sit in the front, next to him, without any kind of protection. Back then it was the normal state of things but today the naysayers would get their knickers in a twist and my dad would probably be jailed for endangering my life. :laugh:
Kids are required to wear helmets to ride bicycles in most states now.

I never learned to ride a bike because we had no sidewalks on our street and weren't allowed to go far from the house unsupervised.   :dunno:
We used to hike in the hills around Pittsburg CA trying to find Garter snakes and King snakes while avoiding Rattlesnakes. Once we found a dead decomposing Fox, I was surprised at how small it was.

Growing up I would spend at least 2 hours a weekday and 8 hours or more every Saturday and Sunday hiking around the old logging roads in the forest behind the house I grew up in outside Seattle.  Birds, squirrels, all kinds of things.  I once found the head and legs of a poached Elk and watched them decompose over several weeks.
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Re: remember when
« Reply #54 on: March 31, 2011, 01:04:05 PM »
That ^^^ is good education.  :thumbup:
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Re: remember when
« Reply #55 on: March 31, 2011, 01:12:36 PM »
Quote from: PPK on March 31, 2011, 01:04:05 PM
That ^^^ is good education.  :thumbup:

By the time I was in college I was defleshing and disarticulating dog and cat skeletons.  A good education, but not one that screams "normal".  :evillaugh:
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Re: remember when
« Reply #56 on: March 31, 2011, 01:15:26 PM »
Quote from: MidlifeAspie on March 31, 2011, 01:12:36 PM
Quote from: PPK on March 31, 2011, 01:04:05 PM
That ^^^ is good education.  :thumbup:

By the time I was in college I was defleshing and disarticulating dog and cat skeletons.  A good education, but not one that screams "normal".  :evillaugh:
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Re: remember when
« Reply #57 on: March 31, 2011, 01:21:45 PM »
Birthday cakes with coins baked inside. You got to keep any money that you found in your piece of cake. Nothing says safety like baking choking hazards inside food. Gotta love the 70's.  :thumbup:
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Re: remember when
« Reply #58 on: March 31, 2011, 01:21:56 PM »
Quote from: MidlifeAspie on March 31, 2011, 01:12:36 PM
Quote from: PPK on March 31, 2011, 01:04:05 PM
That ^^^ is good education.  :thumbup:

By the time I was in college I was defleshing and disarticulating dog and cat skeletons.  A good education, but not one that screams "normal".  :evillaugh:

Was that in the context of your college courses, or was it just your hobby at the time? Should I be afraid?   :hide:
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Re: remember when
« Reply #59 on: March 31, 2011, 01:37:18 PM »
Quote from: Celticgoddess on March 31, 2011, 01:21:45 PM
Birthday cakes with coins baked inside. You got to keep any money that you found in your piece of cake. Nothing says safety like baking choking hazards inside food. Gotta love the 70's.  :thumbup:

Oh, I remember some bonbons that I ate in the 70's. They were read and made my shit look like blood. We were on vacation, but my dad drove me over 100 kms home to town to the hospital to find out that it was nothing wrong with me. They don't make any nice colourants that colours your piss and shit anymore either.
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