What Did You Grow Up With That Is Gone Forever...?

[Pi3]

The late 80s for me in a nutshell. Except I alternated between my Jam pants and my old man’s old jungle trousers. The old green poplins that felt like silk after a while.

All I cared about was skating, Nintendo, hair metal, and other stuff. It was a carefree time. I kinda blame gangster rap for the societal decline. One week the black kids are skating and blasting Prince and the next week they are wearing starter jackets and running their suck about guns they don’t have and the “West Side”

Oh yeah West Side Story. I saw that too.

It was pretty lame. Mumble rap lame.

I actually wanna get back into skating. I took one of my old boards out and went up and down the street a few times today. My trick days are behind me but it’s a liberating feeling

I was skateboarding starting in the early 60's and finally gave it up after about 35 years off and on. We had hills too steep to go down from the top, but we tried anyway. Would be going faster than I could run, so when it started to wobble, would have to jump off and slide. The boards & wheels were tiny at first and gradually started getting bigger as time went along. This might be worth its own thread.

https://www.skatedeluxe.com/blog/en/...skateboarding/

[jsbhike]

The baggy clothes skate boarder reminded me. Gym I went to in the early 90's was owned by a cool cop who picked up an FFL so the display wall behind the front desk had workout baggies, T shirts, lifting belts, along with whatever was hot on the import market at the time. MAK90, several SKS variants, Tokarevs, Makarovs, and so on.

[the AR-15 Junkie]

My #12 tooth I grew up with, its gone forever.

[Pi3]

My #12 tooth I grew up with, its gone forever.

If we are going to get anatomical, The hair on the top of my head. I especially miss it in this cold weather.

[CAMagnussen]

How about just being able for my parents to let me go all over my neighborhood, several square miles, until the street lights came on without worrying about some pervert kidnapping me? Or doing that with my pellet gun plinking away at whatever I wanted to as long as it was not unsafe? Those days are gone.

[jsbhike]

If we are going to get anatomical, The hair on the top of my head. I especially miss it in this cold weather.

Here too. I always thought the claims of heat loss without a hat on was ridiculous until I went from a lot of hair to none.

[THCDDM4]

General sanity among the whole of our population. It's gone forever it would seem...

[SteyrAUG]

General sanity among the whole of our population. It's gone forever it would seem...

I think if we had the internet in 1969 people would arrive at basically the same conclusion. Hell growing up in the 80s I met grown ups who genuinely believed the moon landing was faked. The internet has allowed fringe / crazy / radical elements of society to not just promote their views / beliefs but let them gather together in support groups which allows them to feel mainstream and normal.

Kind of like being a pedophile at a giant NAMBLA convention. If everyone is as bad as you or worse, you start to think there is actually nothing wrong with you and it's simply a sexual preference that must be accepted. And if that group is large enough, they can seek and demand mainstream acceptance and the general population has been so conditioned that to "judge or despise" is wrong that they eventually capitulate so they aren't viewed as a hater or racist.

[Firefly]

Everything is a trade off. I miss some of the (perceived) innocence of the times of my youth but I’m sitting in la casa del Firefly in my Adidas sweats posting on an iPad, watching anime on my flatscreen TV, and listening to music on my bluetooth headphones with some Glocks and nice ARs in the safe.

In my day you had a VCR, a walkman, FM radio, and 3 channels unless you had cable (we didn’t until the 90s. I relied on friends in town to record a full days worth of HBO or MTV.

I mean I can argue with people across the world over nothing when I remember in 4th grade having to write to kids in Soviet Russia and being told by the teacher not to brag about my toy guns, my Nintendo, my Transformers, or my tape deck because communists didn’t have stuff. Which is kinda BS. They were closer to Japan and nobody asked them to be Communists.

Everything a trade off.

[Diamondback]

If we are going to get anatomical, The hair on the top of my head. I especially miss it in this cold weather.

Amen, brother. Amen.