the_gooch Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Sorry for this potential wasted thread, but those are pretty abundant up in here.... Has anyone ever seen this comparison list that sort of illustrated growing up "then" and growing up "now". I specifically remember seeing it in the NYC Brickslayers thread but I never saved it. Someone was just running through a list of shit and I wasn't sure if it was taken for somewhere else or if that person made it up. It was well written and on point. It was sort of like: Back then we played in a playground with a concrete floor, we survived skinned knees, cuts and bruises. Today, kids have fancy foam padding for floors and god forbid they get a skinned knee. Something along those lines... If anyone knows what I am talking about, let me know or post it, and yes...I already tried searching for it. But, I guess to avoid making this a total waste of a thread us older cats can have yet another thread devoted to comparing then and now. As always, thanks in advance (if anyone can find that thing I'm talking about) Shit like this: "We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked. Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 50million Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) hahaha....i got into a fight when i was younger, and my mom put mercurochrome on a couple of my cuts.....that shit caused the cuts to scar up....cheap shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMad.GIF Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Lol I got hydrogen peroxide, it's cheap as fuck and foams in the cut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the radiologist Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 I end up amputating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belmonts Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Lol I got hydrogen peroxide, it's cheap as fuck and foams in the cut word! my dad would always say "the foam means it's working":eek: :lol: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drue_Down Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Quit living in the past, man. ...and on that note, for us Old Schoolers, I made this a while back: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMad.GIF Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 TOP BILLIN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClueTwo Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 No clue.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gooch Posted July 13, 2009 Author Share Posted July 13, 2009 not living in the past, just thought it was funny and i actually wanted to use it to make fun of some of my friends who have kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{OneSevenNine.com} Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Nothing wrong with thinking back fondly on childhood memories. I got one. Candy cigarettes. I know they tell us they promote smoking, but god damn, those were so tight when I was little. You got 2 maybe 3 good puffs of smoke out of it. Toy guns that looked real. It made for neighborhood games that much more believable. The red stuff for cuts and scraps? My grandpa would call it Monkeys' Blood. It would sting, but he would tell us it didn't. Lies! The other day I was over at the abuelos house and he was doing yardwork. I ended up getting sweet revenge by applying it to a scrap on his ankle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gooch Posted July 13, 2009 Author Share Posted July 13, 2009 Monkeys' Blood...hahaha. that shit would stain your hands and anything else for days! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drue_Down Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Monkeys? Like Sea Monkeys? How about Magic Sand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gooch Posted July 13, 2009 Author Share Posted July 13, 2009 i always wanted one of these: but instead i was forced to use my brain and make forts out of anything and everything accessible in out apartment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OL'DIRTYGeEEZER Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 word! my dad would always say "the foam means it's working":eek: :lol: wait..this isnt true? my moms a liar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 I got this list in a chain email at work a while ago but it is long since deleted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{OneSevenNine.com} Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 wait..this isnt true? my moms a liar. LIES? I felt my whole childhood was full of lies that adults would tell me to make me feel better. Wasn't there a thread about this? Confirm or I will make one. I have 4 good lies (including said ones above) that I am a little peeved about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KINGSHITOFFUCKMOUNTAIN Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Sorry for this potential wasted thread, but those are pretty abundant up in here.... :lol: and magic sand looks like an abortion in a beaker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMad.GIF Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 I'm pretty sure the foam does mean it's working Also they have candy cigs I see them in some hood stores usually with forigen distributors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Lol I got hydrogen peroxide, it's cheap as fuck and foams in the cut I always thought hydrogen peroxide was a mandatory staple in every home. I never even heard of this murcurochrome shit. I'll be damned if I ever put something that's a combination of the words murcury and chrome into my kids open wounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 word! my dad would always say "the foam means it's working":eek: :lol: The foam AND the sting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Nothing wrong with thinking back fondly on childhood memories. I got one. Candy cigarettes. I know they tell us they promote smoking, but god damn, those were so tight when I was little. You got 2 maybe 3 good puffs of smoke out of it. Toy guns that looked real. It made for neighborhood games that much more believable. Oh snap I forgot about candy cigarettes! Could you imagine the shit storm that would follow if someone tied to pull that shit these days??? :lol: And these days I wouldn't trust these faggot ass cops not to jump out and shoot my kid in the head if he had a toy gun that wasn't orange. Them bloodthirsty pussies jump on any and every excuse to bust shots these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMad.GIF Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Yeah I've never heard of murcurochrome but if it doesn't hurt then it doesn't work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Monkeys? Like Sea Monkeys? I remember something called sea horses, and they were shaped like floating question marks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 I also remember my mom sending me to the store with some money and a note giving me permission to buy her cigarettes. I remember some of my freinds would forge those same type of notes "from their moms" so that they could buy cigarettes for themselves. This was back when we were in elementary school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{OneSevenNine.com} Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 TRIOPS Same principle as the sea monkey, only aliens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triops_longicaudatus http://www.triops.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 wait..this isnt true? my moms a liar. I'm no chemist, but I'm pretty sure that the foam and sting from hydrogen peroxide is a reaction from contact with germs and bacteria, thus a sign that it is working. Or at least that's the way that it was explained to me as a kid. Unless it was all lies. :o 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{OneSevenNine.com} Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 ^^ This is what I was told too. I am going to trust that adults didn't lie about that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 LIES? I felt my whole childhood was full of lies that adults would tell me to make me feel better. Wasn't there a thread about this? Confirm or I will make one. I have 4 good lies (including said ones above) that I am a little peeved about. I refuse to tell my kid that there's a Santa Clause or Easter Bunny or any of that fairytale bullshit. I'm sure my parents will be pissed, but fuckem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{OneSevenNine.com} Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Good, I don't know why they bothered trying to fill our heads with that nonsense anyways. With access to information so readily available for kids now, they ought to know better. Or if you grew up in a multiple kid home, you had asshole older brother to break it to you in the most heartbreaking way possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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