The Crusher Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 16 minutes ago, slats said: My brother had that one. I had… On my dorm room wall! Haha 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgb Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 59 minutes ago, Bugg said: Can remember being told in the summer GET THE F___ OUT OF THE HOUSE NOW. Go play, NOW. And don't come back until dinner. That was until we all started working at like 12 or 13. This was my childhood. Get out and come back for dinner unless you can sucker a friend’s parents to feed you and call from there. First job at 14 been working since. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post jgb Posted January 18 Popular Post Share Posted January 18 PS everyone on this board is “the older crew.” Jets haven’t generated new fans in over a decade 1 1 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsFanatic Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Lyndon Johnson was the President of the United States when I became a Jets fan. Nuff said. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Larz Posted January 18 Popular Post Share Posted January 18 Basically 2 1 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonny Werblin Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 41 minutes ago, Alka said: I once climbed a tree about 30 feet high, and fell out when I was a kid. I actually thought fast and fell straight on one leg, thinking that I would mess up the one leg, but the other leg would be okay. Well, I was about a 1/4 mile away from home, my leg was badly sprained, and I crawled the entire way home. I never went to the hospital, never got X-rays, and just sucked it up until it healed. I don't remember my exact age, but I was probably somewhere between 7 and 9 years old when it happened. I broke my arm falling out of a tree in fifth grade. My dad hated doctors. He always said people do fine until they go treat with a doctor, and then they die. Eventually, John Wayne became his prime example for his theory. Anyway, he insisted it was just a sprain and wouldn't take me to the E/R or family doctor. My brother trying to be helpful, said it would feel better if we wrapped it tight with ace bandages. That did help a little, but my hand turned blue and went numb, When my dad finally took me to the hospital we learned it was indeed broken and the doc had to pull hard on my hand to separate the bones and reset it. I can still feel the pain thinking about it. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kolchak Posted January 18 Popular Post Share Posted January 18 Action Park anyone? Any parent today letting their kid ride the Alpine Slide? 3 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trotter Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Playing kickball in a parking lot - I am 6 or 7. Of course I trip and fall into the fin of a 62 cadillac. Top of the fin goes into my eyebrow. Best part is my brother walks me home and instead of just opening the door as blood is running down my face - he knocks on the door and my grandmother opens it to find me with blood all over. My father drives me to the hospital and these geniuses decide to drop iodine drop by drop into the opening in my eyebrow and then stitches - no pain killer - nothing. I dont even know if they sell iodine anymore but I would advise never ever put it on an open cut. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Matt39 Posted January 18 Popular Post Share Posted January 18 10 minutes ago, Larz said: Basically Ehh Gen Z makes millennials look like they stormed Normandy 1 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Rode my bike to buy baseball cards and caps at the Cumberland farms at age 7, mom wouldn’t let me in the house until I faced the bully, got a BB gun for Christmas, although we considered being inside border line punishment are also the OG video game generation and saw Star Wars in the theaters and couldn’t believe the special effects lol. Was an actual latch key kid. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warfish Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 2 hours ago, 68JET11 said: If I could actually understand what that really means, I'd respond lol... Something we ole folk learned very early in life. How to make complete sentences. On point. No question my own generation (Gen X, grew up in the 80's primarily) suffered far less from the "obsessive helicopter parent" thing so prevalent these days, and most of us didn't do the "play dates and every minute must an organized, planned activity" thing also seemingly prevalent these days. But we also were very much a latchkey generation, perhaps the first real, true latchkey generation, left mostly alone while both parents worked, for better but mostly worse. Also started working jobs at 15, and haven't stopped since, which definitely does not seem the way these days, as I know several youngsters now well over 20 who still live at home and barely or do not work. Seems work ethic died somewhere after the 90's.... I don't know, every generation thinks the ones after them suck, I'm probably no different. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zachtomims47 Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 39 minutes ago, jgb said: PS everyone on this board is “the older crew.” Jets haven’t generated new fans in over a decade Hey - I'm 37. Speak for yourself, grumpy old men. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgb Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 3 minutes ago, Warfish said: I don't know, every generation thinks the ones after them suck, I'm probably no different. And they are all correct 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post freestater Posted January 18 Popular Post Share Posted January 18 I can still remember the day my dad gave up trying to warn me of the "bad influnces" around. The day he realized that I was the bad influence. 1 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetPotato Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 2 hours ago, Dunnie said: @Sonny Werblin... I think we grew up in the same era ... At 7 I was walking to and from school (1.5 miles) ... at 8-9 sometime alone. Spent the majority of my off school hours outside playing sports or dirtbomb wargames with my buddies. Sometimes climbing fifty foot trees in the woods without a net. Multiple trips to the ER for stitches or broken bones playing ice hockey on ponds (without any town/parent oversight).. even fell through the ice one year. . Street football and/or pad less tackle football until the sun went down. I was expected to be home for dinner. No cell phones. Homework was on me to complete without supervision... and without the internet to plagiarize. Today's reality for kids is completely backwards from where I stand. Learned how to handle not getting selected for certain sports (basketball) .. played beanball and dodgeball without rules ... the list goes on and on .. so many fond memories, some not so fond memories .. but learned from them all. Wasn't quite Stand By Me times , but definitely resembled a John Hughes movie or Caddyshack. Some of us plagiarized, but only if your parents had bought a set of encyclopedias from a door-to-door salesman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 She’s not particularly hot but I had this one on the wall 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sarge4Tide Posted January 18 Popular Post Share Posted January 18 6 minutes ago, Larz said: She’s not particularly hot but I had this one on the wall NOT PARTICULARLY HOT? 3 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Peteo Posted January 18 Popular Post Share Posted January 18 I turned 76 yesterday so yes if it wasn't pouring out that is where we were. Once an adult I got drafted and the Army trained to be an infantry man which is to say learned how to kill. Used said skills in Vietnam. I have zero use for this woke generation that thinks they know everything. 4 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE BARON Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 This does not quite do justice to the edge that us latchkey kids have, but I appreciate the sentiment. I'm 55 btw, so this is right up my alley. A quick story from those bygone days that will show just how much things have changed.... I grew up in a Bergen County town that I will not name here in order to protect the innocent from the guilty reactionaries. When I was in high school, on Friday and Saturday nights, the group of close friends that I was a part of would hang out at a local park. We'd have a boom box or two and we'd listen to our favorite stuff. And... We'd have beer. Yep. The town cops, most of who were Vietnam vets would cruise by the park and see us enjoying ourselves. Wanna know what they did ??? They said, don't play the music too loudly after midnight and make sure you don't break any bottles on the street or leave them lying around the park. Always put the empty bottles in the garbage can. You have some idea of what would happen today if that occurred ??? That was us. Gen-X. And for the reactionary element in here. Every single one of those kids that was in our group living the latchkey kid life turned out to be a solid person. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysticalJet2 Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Funny, yet some real truth deep within this! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
56mehl56 Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 39 minutes ago, Kolchak said: Action Park anyone? Any parent today letting their kid ride the Alpine Slide? Oh man I think that ride was sponsored by a Hospital. It was good for at least a few scrapes and bruises at minimum. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the Claw Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Also, some of us were raised by controlling narcissists who were permanently engrossed in the act of preserving the appearance of their personal version of 1950’s America so that no one would notice their alcoholism, child abuse, moral bankruptcy and impossible standards. So yeah—the 80’s man—good times, good times. 1 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JTJet Posted January 18 Popular Post Share Posted January 18 3 hours ago, TokyoJetsFan said: Saw this and thought it would resonate with a bunch of us here lol Hell yeah. New generations cant possibly know. ... If I wanted to get somewhere? Uber? Wtf is that? Walk my ass there or grab the bmx bike. Wanted to learn to drive? Taught myself to drive stick off of the Knight Rider Knight2000 playset. Wanted to watch porn? Better hope you have time to watch the fuzzy Spice channel, hoping to see the occasional tit. Play Video games online and pay for all the good sh*t? LMAO. Better hope your buddy had a monthly subscription to a gamer magazine to hope someone wrote a cheat code article! Be dumb enough to die from a TikTok challenge drinking Draino or eating a Tide Pod? Nah, we knew better than that if this bad boy sticker was on that bottle!!! Yuck Man represent. Want to sext with a girl and exchange nudes? I wish. We had to call a 1800 number and listen to some 300lb woman with 1 leg talk like a Penthouse model to us. ... ... Chumps. Grow a pair. You cant hang with a Gen Xer. 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post peebag Posted January 18 Popular Post Share Posted January 18 2 hours ago, Sarge4Tide said: Wow, the amount of times I held up that poster with one hand... 1 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jimmy 2 Times Posted January 18 Popular Post Share Posted January 18 36 minutes ago, Larz said: She’s not particularly hot but I had this one on the wall I had that one and the Fall Guy chick the pink toe kept me busy for a long time. 1 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaJet Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 3 hours ago, Anthony Jet said: I forget who said it. But people late late 30s and up are the last generation to not have their parentsknow where they are as kids playing in the street. They know they’re in the neighborhood and had an idea where they were. There were no phones barley beepers. No way to track. Just a simple be home when the street lights come on or listen for the whistle, something to that effect Up until the age of 10, the 7:30 church bells were my signal that it was time to go home. Got that bumped up to 9 from the age of 10-13 after 13 it was midnight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trotter Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 a bunch of us have been asking about him but we need @munchmemory in this thread. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kolchak Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 23 minutes ago, 56mehl56 said: Oh man I think that ride was sponsored by a Hospital. It was good for at least a few scrapes and bruises at minimum. Guaranteed scrapes and bruises! There was a documentary about the place on HBOMAX named Class Action Park. Must view for anyone who went there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitonti Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 1 hour ago, jgb said: This was my childhood. Get out and come back for dinner unless you can sucker a friend’s parents to feed you and call from there. First job at 14 been working since. my first job was at 16 I was pumping gas for the Hess refined dinosaur bones company I had my choice of all the businesses near or inside the mall. Maybe even Sam Goody. Yet I chose to wear the white pants my thinking? I enjoyed handling a wad of cash and as a ridiculous Jets fan it felt good to wear green and white "it's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine" 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTJet Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 14 minutes ago, JTJet said: Hell yeah. New generations cant possibly know. ... If I wanted to get somewhere? Uber? Wtf is that? Walk my ass there or grab the bmx bike. Wanted to learn to drive? Taught myself to drive stick off of the Knight Rider Knight2000 playset. Wanted to watch porn? Better hope you have time to watch the fuzzy Spice channel, hoping to see the occasional tit. Play Video games online and pay for all the good sh*t? LMAO. Better hope your buddy had a monthly subscription to a gamer magazine to hope someone wrote a cheat code article! Be dumb enough to die from a TikTok challenge drinking Draino or eating a Tide Pod? Nah, we knew better than that if this bad boy sticker was on that bottle!!! Yuck Man represent. Want to sext with a girl and exchange nudes? I wish. We had to call a 1800 number and listen to some 300lb woman with 1 leg talk like a Penthouse model to us. ... ... Chumps. Grow a pair. You cant hang with a Gen Xer. I'm still on a tear about this lol.. Does a kid today know pain? TF you talkin about? You dont know pain until this ****er racks you in the shin. Want to impress a girl at school by your Social Media follower count? Please. You've never had more bitches in your life line up to sit with you at lunch when you whip out the best lunchbox in class. Stay safe in your neighborhood? Amber Alert around to protect you? LMAO, back in the 80s your ass just got kidnapped and learned to grow up with your new fam dawg. ... ... End rant. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaJet Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Oh...I got a good one. Does anyone remember WHT? It was like over the air HBO...not sure how you got it cause we never had it, but I remember it showed "dirty" movies at night. The thing is, you could still tune to the channel (I think it was up in the 60s like channel 68 or 69) and get a scrambled version of the signal. If you adjusted the antenna just right it would be unscrambled just enough that you could make out the boobs. Long story short....I was a perv at a young age. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Crusher Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 1 hour ago, jgb said: PS everyone on this board is “the older crew.” Jets haven’t generated new fans in over a decade @JiFields 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Crusher Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 1 hour ago, Sonny Werblin said: I broke my arm falling out of a tree in fifth grade. My dad hated doctors. He always said people do fine until they go treat with a doctor, and then they die. Eventually, John Wayne became his prime example for his theory. Anyway, he insisted it was just a sprain and wouldn't take me to the E/R or family doctor. My brother trying to be helpful, said it would feel better if we wrapped it tight with ace bandages. That did help a little, but my hand turned blue and went numb, When my dad finally took me to the hospital we learned it was indeed broken and the doc had to pull hard on my hand to separate the bones and reset it. I can still feel the pain thinking about it. HAHA, "Rub some dirt on it Sonny!" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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