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

[26 Inf]

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

I'm working on using the hairs from my nose, eyebrows and ears in an Orange Man comb over thing.

[Ed L.]

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.

Imagine if Jim Jones had the Internet in his days. Frightening as hell. Look how many followers he got without the Internet.

[Firefly]

Imagine if Jim Jones had the Internet in his days. Frightening as hell. Look how many followers he got without the Internet.

Actually I think if anything the Internet would have saved those people.

Cults were more common because people had no metric beside their own values or judgment. If the internet existed then people would have been trolling them hard.

You could argue about the Heavens Gate cult (the trekkies that killed themselves) but the Internet still wasn’t that big yet

[SteyrAUG]

Imagine if Jim Jones had the Internet in his days. Frightening as hell. Look how many followers he got without the Internet.

What scares me is the Weather Undergroud, various Hanoi sponsored or founded "Veterans / Students against the war", movements and shit like that. That we didn't get the complete RAF / Baader Meinhoff experience is just luck. Bill Ayes and Bernardine Dohrn truly believed they were going to lead the largest 60s revolution in the world. Thank god they and those they recruited were mostly ineffectual dumbasses who killed as many members of their own movement as they did for their victims. When the bombmakers apartments blew up it was like God cared about us for a brief time that day.

The WU declared war on the United States and all of the citizens that supported the United States. They believed, if they killed enough of them, they could spark a socialist revolution. They were in every way no different from Tim McVeigh except Tim McVeigh was actually successful in his attacks. Tim McVeigh was put to death but Bill Ayers was made a college professor and Dohrn became a lawyer.

It's disgusting.

[BuzzinSATX]

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

LOL! If you are like me, it’s not gone, it just moved down to my shoulders, back, and chest...and turned gray! Kinda like NY’ers in FL

[Pi3]

LOL! If you are like me, it’s not gone, it just moved down to my shoulders, back, and chest...and turned gray! Kinda like NY’ers in FL

Eyebrows, nose hair, ear hair. Everywhere except where you want the hair to be.

[Firefly]

Eyebrows, nose hair, ear hair. Everywhere except where you want the hair to be.

.......I have thick black hair and the same hairline I did at 11 but cannot grow a beard....

[Pi3]

.......I have thick black hair and the same hairline I did at 11 but cannot grow a beard....

You may have some native american in your genes.
For years, I couldn't grow a beard, only had to shave every other day or so.

[ThirdWatcher]

I grew up in a small town in Texas where a lot of the old guys were WW1 vets, everybody’s Dad was a WW2 vet (but being the oldest kid in my family, my Dad was a Korean War vet). I pushed broom at the local Ford dealership after school and every now and again all the guys would sit around and tell war stories (and they had the scars to prove it). I just knew that if I didn’t serve I would have to keep quiet when that time came.

I served a hitch in the Army but all those old guys are gone now. Dad (who served 20 years in the Silent Service) has been gone 13+ years but we sure shared some good laughs before he left.

I really miss those guys...

[Adrenaline_6]

You may have some native american in your genes.
For years, I couldn't grow a beard, only had to shave every other day or so.

I don't have native american and I can't grow a beard either...although Firefly is admittedly native american.

My inability comes from a combination of the 1/8 Japanese, 3/16 Chinese, and 3/16 Hawaiian genetics. The Portuguese, Irish, and English took a back seat in that department.

I miss the days of Summer when my Grandfather cooked us (brother and cousins) breakfast, we ate, and told us to come back when we are hungry for lunch. Zero supervision..played with all kinds of dangerous crap, went exploring on a river that went into an ocean on a small boat from Sears by ourselves with a 7.5 HP outboard engine that took all 3 of us to lug it and the gas can into the boat (I was 10, brother 8, cousin 7). Fun times the newer generation will never get a chance to see or experience.