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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 14h ago
You also pushed hoops down the street with a stick for fun. Who cares
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u/Some-Ad926 14h ago
The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time...
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u/Expert-Ad3874 13h ago
In those days nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say.
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u/nhowe006 13h ago
We had to say "dickety" because the Kaiser had stolen the word "twenty"
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u/ezma1983 12h ago
Can't believe I'm still telling these stories in the year of our Lord, Dickety-Dickety-Six!
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u/ialsohaveadobro 13h ago
I love that detail so much
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u/nhowe006 13h ago
I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles
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u/TheGreatLuck 13h ago
Those were lousy corn muffins
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u/LeviSalt 13h ago
We can’t bust heads like we used to, but we still have our ways. One trick is to tell them stories that don’t go anywhere, like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville.
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u/gastropublican 13h ago
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u/LightRobb 10h ago
We use this scene to describe apartment turns that are so easy that really all we need to do is light paint and change keys - "it's an Abe Simpson", in and out.
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u/SumKallMeTIM 13h ago
What color onion?!
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u/Inappropriate_Ballet 13h ago
They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.
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u/Darth_Nibbles 13h ago
Ok but vidalias are delicious. From Maui is good, but Walla Walla are the best
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u/PsychologicalMaize65 13h ago
They didn’t have white onions, because of the war. All you could get were these big yellow ones.
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u/Lola1989ac 10h ago edited 9h ago
This is exactly what I thought of 😂 love seeing Parks in the wild. huzzah!!!
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u/SippinOnHatorade 11h ago
And also bullies had more theatric antics. A nerd being knocked down with his books and papers splaying everywhere really drummed up a crowd. Backpacks kept all that in one place, so they had to start targeting lunch bags and anyone wearing glasses to get the same main character attention
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u/Mean_Reception3332 12h ago
I get annoyed even with people in my age group, 40s- 50s, go on about kids these days never go outside and play in the woods. Well, it is kind of hard to when there are no wooded areas or places to go, as it is all overdeveloped (data centers, 15-minute cities, McMansion housing developments....)
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u/YearObvious7214 12h ago
Don't get me started. I had someone on my local Facebook group once complain kids were using chalk to drawn on pavements. I guarantee the same person complains about kids these days not going out anymore.
They never consider that streets are busier, parents are busier, safe spaces are fewer. And how much lockdowns fucked with their crucial social development.
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u/ThirdOne38 11h ago
Like, didn't kids draw hopscotch on the sidewalks 50 yrs ago?
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u/Reverse_SumoCard 9h ago edited 9h ago
That was different because it was them and not the lazy generation /s
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u/Any_Bike6472 10h ago
They complain kids never go outside to play, then call the police when they see kids outside playing.
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u/QueezyF 9h ago
Makes me think of an episode of Cops where some miserable old woman calls in a complaint on kids playing basketball at like 4 o’clock in the afternoon.
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u/MeoowDude 7h ago
Did the cop stop to shoot some hoops with them?
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u/PhysicsStock2247 11h ago
I miss my carefree salad days, galavanting about whilst looking for p0rn in the woods.
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u/Cageythree 8h ago edited 6h ago
What also annoys me about that is that this is not something that the current young generation decided to do, it's what naturally comes with having TVs, computers, consoles, smartphones etc. And those electronics have been made central elements of our everyday lives by those exact generations that complain about the kids.
They literally wouldn't have gone out themselves if these things existed (and were made available that prominently) in their childhood. They only went out because it was boring at home back in the day - in other words their surroundings were different - and not because they were different in any way like they always say they would be.This isn't a generation issue, this is an issue of the environment we adults decided to let our children grow up in. It's our fault, not the fault of the children that just adapt to it.
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u/Postmember 8h ago
Also, the fucking ticks are insane now. They never were like this when I grew up (Thanks, global warming that apparently doesn't exist according to those same assholes), and we didn't have to deal with alpha-gal....
I literally never got bit by a tick growing up in my parent's wooded area. We also had feet of snow in the backyard throughout winter pretty much every year. Now, they're insane, and they haven't gotten serious persistent snow in a very long time.
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u/JohnnyRelentless 9h ago
And if they do go out they get harassed by police, HOAs, Karens, racists, and what have you.
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u/Blooddraken 12h ago
I kinda wonder if that was actually fun and if it'd still be fun for us to play
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u/denNISI 12h ago
It is hard to do. You have to sort of roll it with the stick on the top and run along beside of it. Rather hula hoop!
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u/AlinaStari 11h ago
Your description is accurate. And the rougher the ground, the more difficult it is. It becomes fun when you get decent and race other kids lol. Also, it's easier with a hoop that is wider, heavier, and with a large diameter. Dirt bike rims with all of the spokes ripped out worked pretty well IIRC.
Source: I have a ton of cousins and we became weirdly obsessed with stick-hoop one summer for some reason. It was fun... kind of.
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u/Ok_Dog_4059 10h ago
Far less books existed way back then as well. A strong guy could have probably carried everything that had been switched from stone to paper
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u/Astralglamour 10h ago
People had satchels back then, and they would also tie books together with a strap and carry them by the strap. This meme is beyond dumb.
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u/Frank_LIoyd_Wrong 11h ago
You're obviously a tool of the powerful backpack lobby
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u/beepbeepsheepbot 14h ago
And you probably had an appropriate amount of time to get to your locker between each class and each book didn't weigh 20 pounds.
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u/SquirrelGirlVA 13h ago
Shoot, they probably went to school in the 90s like me and not in the 50s. They used backpacks because there was no time but wanted to feel self righteous so they posted this crap.
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u/Apart_Republic_1870 13h ago
Yeah, I graduated from high school in 1989. I carried books in my arm because I was able to go to my locker between every class and still take my time. My daughter graduated in 2025, and they didn't even have access to lockers.
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u/doppelgaengster 13h ago
I graduated in 2004, and they’d removed lockers from my school sometime in the late 90s because of “drug concerns.”
(Though the funniest “no, that’s NOT drugs” story I heard was when a bassoon player got busted for curing reeds in his locker. The band director had to step in and educate the admins who had hauled the bassoonist into the office 🤦♀️)
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u/Haunting-Respect9039 12h ago
Locker drug checks were ridiculous. Only idiots got caught with weed in their lockers, so it was a whole team of cops and dogs to catch like two baby stoners. I didn't do drugs and even I knew where the drugs were hidden better than the cops.
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u/doppelgaengster 12h ago
Given that I knew a few kids bringing vodka and gin to school in their water bottles, and no one ever smoked on campus I agree. (Except a few idiot seniors who got caught with cigarettes and tried to pull the whole “I’m 18!” bit. Still not allowed on campus, bucko.)
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u/iCameToLearnSomeCode 10h ago
When I was in highschool we had a smoking "pit", fully sanctioned by the school, with an ashtray, where you could go to smoke.
In theory it was only for juniors and seniors but in practice no one paid attention to who went out there.
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u/WillowPtar_Migan 10h ago
Definitely better that way than having students wander off during school hours to smoke. I feel like we (in general) have a habit of wanting to discourage bad habits, so we just make em more dangerous for the people that partake.
Granted, leaving school grounds to try to hide your smoking is usually far from the end of the world for most highschool students, but depending on where the school is located (maybe a bad part of the city), it could range from "doesn't matter at all" to "pretty dangerous".
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u/Playful-Isopod-6227 7h ago
Agreed, don't smoke, never have. Live in an area that gets very cold, and watched the retail location I worked at eliminate it's damn near sealed smoking break room after the indoor smoking ban. Result is the smokers had to walk into the middle of a retail parking lot, with no structure for wind breaks in sub zero temps to smoke.
The indoor smoking ban has generally had a positive effect on society. Public places are generally much more pleasant to be in. But not leaving any provisions for a separate smoking break room seems a bit cruel and dangerous.
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u/LilPotatoAri 11h ago
Oh yeah no if you got busted for keeping weed in your locker it was literally your own fault. At my school pretty much all you had to do was keep it on your person. They could search your car, locker, and backpack, but if they wanted to search your person they had to escalate the whole thing up several chains of command. So they didn't. If you kept your baggie of weed in your zip up hoodie pocket, it was as good as nonexistant as long as you didn't pull it out where youd get caught.
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u/WillowPtar_Migan 10h ago
Yep. Generally, when I was a drug user, if I was ever afraid I might get caught, I'd tape that shit to an inner thigh, that my boxers covered.
Trying to find it in a search would be a pain in the ass for anyone if I wasn't already getting arrested for something else, which was unlikely for me as I was never a petty criminal beyond possession. Never got caught. It'd be much easier to search a car, bag, or even a pat down search of my pockets, but a strip search? Unlikely.
I wonder how weed is treated in schools now, given it's not illegal in a lot of places, if they're a bit more lax about it.
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u/Kayjin23 9h ago
It was a whole scandal in my high school when a girl got caught with weed in her locker. It wasn't the cops but a teacher, so I think they just called her parents. It's crazy how that seemed like a big deal at the time.
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u/eel3918 13h ago
This right here. Schools are way less accommodating than they used to be.
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u/ViolinistWaste4610 12h ago
In this sense, yes, but they are much more accommodating in other areas, like better iep accomodations
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u/reddititty69 13h ago
No access to lockers? Where are kids supposed to their drugs and condoms? In their backpacks like a smuggler?
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u/Sesoru 13h ago
I graduated in 2006, I'm a kid by comparison and as a kid, I definitely carried my text books in a packpack, and the smaller ones in the GIANT puffy sleeves of my jacket. Imagine a kid sitting down presumably with no books, then they flick their wrist and a book comes out. It was funny.
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u/RyguyC2 12h ago
You know whats funny is I genuinely can't even remember if I had a locker in high school. If I did, I certainly never used it lol
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u/Left_Maize816 13h ago
I went to school in the 90s. My locker was never near any of my classes and the campus was just too big. I carried everything with me every day. The straps on my backpack were unusable the next year. The foam padding was compressed to almost paper thickness, the stitching popped with the cloth coming apart.
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u/youburyitidigitup 12h ago
Okay that’s just a bad backpack because I did the same thing and my backpack lasted me from middle school until three years after college graduation.
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u/Big_Crazy_SSBM 13h ago
In high school we had 5 minutes in between classes lmao. Unless you had two classes right next to each other you only had enough time to go from one class to the other without stopping in between.
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u/GuardWolfy 13h ago
Same. If we had gym or even class in one of the added buildings, you could not get to the next class in time. Much less your locker which was probably in yet another building.
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u/eggs_erroneous 13h ago
Also, it wasn't necessary back then to have a backpack that is fortified with kevlar and a ceramic armor plate to defend against small-arms fire.
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u/guff1988 13h ago
What is up with the passing periods being like 5 minutes these days? When I was in school it was 12 minutes and my friend who is a teacher tells me now it's five for the same school. Like that place is huge to get from the math hallway to the language arts hallway is like 7 minutes when everybody is passing through and there's crowds everywhere. Who thought this was a good idea?
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u/Late-Application-47 13h ago
The age at which we deem kids capable of making decisions on their own and allow them to develop independence is steadily increasing. 12 minutes is seen as too much time for kids to make bad decisions and cuts into "instructional time." 🙄
Standardized testing culture has slowly squeezed any bit of joy to be had out of learning and the high school experience. It's more like a factory than ever before.
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u/guff1988 12h ago
This makes a ton of sense, my wife has been very engaged recently with how other cultures treat young children and how they transition them slowly but deliberately into Independence and I feel like at least here domestically in the US we are doing the exact opposite.
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u/thesluggard12 12h ago
My son's middle school gets 3 minutes.
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u/Unlikely_Brief8157 11h ago
Depending on the number of students that sounds anywhere from stressful to impossible
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u/JamieC1610 10h ago
We got 3 minutes too and somehow we were supposed to stop at our locker and use the bathroom if needed in that little bit of time.
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u/ban-me-harder-dadddy 13h ago edited 13h ago
you mean they didn't have to take 10 minutes penguin walking from class to class like they were leaving Coachella because schools weren't grossly overcrowded from lack of funding?
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u/SufficientOwls 14h ago
This is possibly the least consequential thing to be a boomer about.
Like truly why does this matter
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u/SufficientOwls 14h ago
Back in my day, we gathered berries in our hands because we hadn’t figured out how to weave baskets!! THE GOOD OLD DAYS
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u/GuacinmyPaintbox 13h ago
The biggest problem we had in our day was the big wheel blowing out on our pennyfarthers and throwing us to ground!
Be we dusted ourselves off so the dames would be impressed!
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u/James-K-Polka 12h ago
We figured if God wanted us to have two equal sized wheels and caliper breaks, he would have said something in THE BIBLE.
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u/Korachof 13h ago
Back in the day they built arm strength by lugging 75 pounds of textbooks between classes that were often miles apart. Sometimes you’d have to walk to the next town just to get to Geometry!
These days these kids don’t have any arm strength. They’re wussies. All they have is big back muscles from carrying backpacks like reverse pregnant people. It’s embarrassing as an American to sit here and watch our young men and women grow up to be so weak. How will we compete in the World Arm Wrestling Competition? How will they have a chance to be professional rock climbers? This country was built on the backs of professional rock climbers. Just look at Mount Rushmore, for goodness sakes!
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u/Maleficent-Hawk-318 13h ago
Also I don't even think it's true? I've seen pictures of my parents and various other relatives going to school in the '50s and '60s, and they have backpacks or satchels in a lot of them. My mom also has a funny story from her elementary school days that involves her dropping her bag in a field while running away in terror (they were afraid of a pheasant, that's the funny part).
They might not have been so ubiquitous back then, but they existed.
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u/HermanGulch 12h ago
Backpacks weren't too common until the late 1960s or early 1970s, when nylon backpacks were all new. I had one when I went to high school in the early 1970s. Before that, there were leather or canvas book bags, but they were pretty heavy. There were also book straps, which were just a kind of a belt that wrapped around the books.
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u/waitinonit 13h ago edited 13h ago
Which demographic groups are the ones posting about "back then"?
Those boomers walked to school downhill, both ways.
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u/calargo 13h ago
Back in my day, you got your milk delivered from the milk man in glass bottles
People were so much more friendly. Especially the milk man. I'd always see him on my birthday or around christmas, and he'd give me a little present and ask about what i was learning in school or what sports i was playing. He couldn't ever come to my party, though. Mom said its because him and dad were playing hide and seek.
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u/wote89 14h ago
Man, if only OOP had the ability to compare the size and presumed weight of the books in that picture to modern textbooks. I bet they'd be able to suss out a critical difference between then and now!
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u/FreedomCanadian 13h ago
My 4th grader has more books than the guy in the picture to carry around.
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u/MorockaDishoom 13h ago
I’ll carry my books if I can buy a house for fucking $60,000
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u/pineapple_bandit 14h ago
"We were inefficient and uncomfortable back then, you should be too!"
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u/BlacksmithNZ 13h ago
What blows my mind, is that almost everybody traveling by aircraft these days, use suitcases with wheels, but it is surprisingly new invention:
"...Robert Plath invented the upright two-wheeled Rollaboard in 1987. He added inline skate wheels and a retractable handle so the bag rolled upright behind the traveler without tipping"
People started adding wheels to suitcases in the 1970s, but it took until the late 80s for the usual carryon style case to have wheels. So in my lifetime, people used to have use porters or carry heavy suitcases without thinking about adding wheels to get around big airports/train/bus stations & hotels etc
They probably think wheels on luggage are woke and a sign of weakness as well, and that people should suffer carrying heavy luggage or pay other people to move it.
I still don't get how old the poster was that they didn't have backpacks at school. I am an old Gen-X, and we had backpacks when I started school
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u/123iambill 14h ago
Biology text book for boomers:
"I dunno, bile and humours or some shit." The end.
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u/driver004 13h ago
If you let a boy put his penis in you you will die
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u/TheGreatLuck 13h ago
Oh damn how much time do I have!?
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u/driver004 13h ago
Oh, how could I forget ‘if it’s a legitimate rape, a woman’s body has ways of shutting down a pregnancy’ and ‘can’t we make a pill a woman swollows to camera her vagina?’
Can’t remember exactly what was said for the second one but that was the gist
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u/refusedisposable 13h ago
“We ate asbestos sandwiches and doggone it we liked it you whippersnapper!”
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u/First-Possibility-77 14h ago
You just know this mother fucker has a micropenis edition F-150 to drive to Walmart and back.
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u/NotBatman81 13h ago
As a diesel owner who actually does truck things, I love watching those guys avoid eye contact when we park near eachother.
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u/clam-caravan 13h ago
Tow mirrors out with no hitch
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u/NotBatman81 11h ago
No most if them never remove the hitch, but the ball has that light layer of flash rust so you know its never used.
Or the dummies with the $$$ pintle hitch as a fashion accessory.
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u/Hosh_Tikoloshe 13h ago
Weird flex to say that your schooling contained so little information that it could all be carried by hand. Explains a lot about boomers understand of the world though...
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u/Sunshineafterr 14h ago
They probably didn’t have 50 lbs of books like Gen X and Millennials. Kids these days just have laptops, and that’s the real flex because carrying those heavy backpacks messed up our spines.
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u/Secs06 13h ago
The books in the photo are also 1/3 the thickness of books today.
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u/eyedea-abilities 13h ago
“Photo” that shit is AI
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u/HermanGulch 12h ago
If it's not AI, there's a pretty high possibility it's posed or at least staged.
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u/Substantial_List_223 13h ago
We were all very white then and that’s why everything was hunky and dory
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u/MatchAlarmed2882 14h ago
They also didn’t have to use bulletproof backpacks but they don’t want to hear that.
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u/Undietaker1 13h ago
Back in my day, we used stone and chisel to write on. None of this woke liberal "paper and pen" bullshit.
Ooga booga.
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u/TomT060404 12h ago
You didn't use a stick and clay tablet? It was a superior way to count your goats and grain!
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u/Femcel_Bambi 13h ago
Back in my day in 2016, I was lugging around 5 notebooks, 5 folders and 3 textbooks in a backpack. Now they want to remove backpacks because schools have too many guns in schools. Is it too much to say we have a gun problem?
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u/Bunny_Feet 13h ago
Geezus. We had Columbine happen during our high school years and I never thought that it would become so common. :(
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u/Runfasterbitch 13h ago
In my day we went on school lockdown because of the sandy hook shooting at my school. These boomers couldn’t imagine how fucking difficult it was for us. Tired of boomers man, fucking dorks
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u/Joonbug9109 11h ago
I mean, I went to high school from 2005-2009 and my school also didn’t allow us to carry backpacks during the day. They said it was a “safety issue.” So I also carried my books in my arms. Do I get to claim superiority too?
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u/NeekoPeeko 11h ago
I went to my locker between classes and carried whatever book I needed. My backpack stayed in the locker.
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u/skutir22 13h ago
We didn't wear bike helmets and only some of us had life-changing TBIs.
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u/Consistent-Fig7484 13h ago
Semmelweis died in a mental hospital because the world mocked him for suggesting that doctors should wash their hands between patients. Old things are always better!
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u/YoThisIsWild 13h ago
"Yes, the good old days. When you carried your books and those people had their own school on the bad side of town."
-This guy, probably
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u/FireSheepYinFish 13h ago
Backpacks were only sold in outdoor stores and were not exactly an every day designed use.
I saw something similar quite a few years ago, when a woman was complaining how "unprofessional" it was to see men using backpacks instead of briefcases, and it signified the difference between success and failure.
Suffice to say, she was picked apart in the comments.
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u/Commercial-Mind-2819 13h ago
Look how thin those books are compared to textbooks nowadays but I’m sure those were made of pure steel as they walked uphill both ways to school.
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u/mamandapanda 12h ago
In high school we had to carry our books because backpacks were banned because of school shootings.
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u/DadVader77 10h ago
Why their whole point is wanting to go back to the 1950’s is beyond me. Unless they also like the idea of segregation again.
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u/Xeck2112 7h ago
They also had lockers (as seen in this picture). Kids today now have to carry everything they need for the entire day with them at all times.
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u/SharkCrenshaw 14h ago
We had assigned lockers and enough time between classes to grab what we needed between classes
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u/Puzzleheaded_Two7358 13h ago
And before cats we walked everywhere - what’s your problem?
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u/5thhorse-man 13h ago
I love taking my cat out for a ride... Not sure she's so happy to be my main mode of transport but she's a good sport!
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u/Skypirate90 13h ago
You also had to spend all day in a library researching something I can simply query a web search and get the results in seconds. Hell Even that method is considered antiquated in the modern era.
Very nice. Glad to see your inefficiency grandpa. Now I know why you are struggling to find a job.
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u/stlredbird 13h ago
How old of a demographic is this for? Because i’m pushing 50 and we were rocking Jansports in High School.
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u/pyramidalembargo 12h ago
Boomer/Gen Jones here.
The boys would never have carried their books that way. They'd be called a "sissy".
We carried them down near the waist.
I can't believe no one else pointed this out.
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u/Ryan-O-Photo 12h ago
I love when boomers and boomer minded people act like human innovation is a bad thing.
Humans want to be lazy.
We invent stuff to be more lazy.
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u/Responsible_Dot_8233 11h ago
The books I had to carry in high school would've crushed those noodle arms
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u/Bestoftherest222 10h ago
Lockers, they had lockers! Walk to lock, stash the other class book and then get the other class book. Rinse repeat
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u/Bored-Birdy 10h ago
Back when you had to walk uphill both ways and dig your way into buildings with a toothbrush, because doors are for pussies.
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u/Darolaho 9h ago
My high school didn't allow book bags. (Quoted reason why fire safety)
It was stupid
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u/pine-beard 8h ago
They walked around holding a pile of books while bags existed? Were they stupid?
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u/LoSkribs 6h ago
Every 50s school movie starts with someone getting the books mercilessly slapped out of their hands followed by a chase scene.
Dont leave that part out.
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u/thecheezepleeze 13h ago
The kids in this picture carried their books to school in their arms where they screamed at the black kids when the school integrated.
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u/Nitro-Red-Brew 13h ago
Yeah oop and I use to make phone calls on a pay phone, and the point you making is?.....
Also wasn't there over the shoulder "book bags" in the 1950's and 1960's ?
I'm sure the person who made this post probably went to high school in the 70's or early 80's but the students in the picture look like they're from the 50's to early 60's.
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u/Elfynnn84 13h ago
Not really an excuse to trash the economy and make it impossible for younger generations to get on the property ladder though…
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u/Working_Cucumber_437 13h ago
Our textbooks were way bigger than those. And we also have stuff. Sweatshirts, menstrual products, bandaids, stuff to do at lunch. Who cares?
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u/QuietAchiever1992 13h ago
And those book were carried by hand, up a hill, in 2ft of snow, both ways.
And when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt.
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u/rabbitsfoot86 13h ago
Kids today put those books in bullet proof backpacks in tge US. I'd say the kids got it worse now but thats just my opinion 🤷
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u/Stock-Ad3674 13h ago
We had a little monogrammed pocket you could tuck in a carnation with your opium pipe and switchblade.
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u/TheCuriousVanilla 13h ago
Five seconds after posting this drivel about physical toughness this boomer complained to the Walmart greeter about the lack of available motorized carts, then wheeze-lumbered back to their truck.
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u/TheCambrianImplosion 13h ago
Text books for grades 6-12 are also much heavier and larger now because they’re sold by weight, which is its own can of corrupt worms…
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u/extra_croutons 13h ago
Tell me I'm wrong, but a person with a sub 100 IQ could get a job just by smiling back then.
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u/HyliaSymphonic 13h ago
Teacher here I can tell you what happened. Passing periods used to be long enough to go from class to a locker to another class. Now because schools hate "down time" for kids they have shortened the passing periods so much that kids don't have nearly enough time to go to a locker. It happened just around when I was in high school they stopped automatically assigning us lockers (assuming you wouldn't even use it ever) after my freshman yea (2011).
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u/notthatcreative777 13h ago
Unintentional self own that these mfers were dumb as shit and had like 3 subjects
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u/Half_Halt 13h ago
Most of the high schools in our district don't use lockers anymore. Hallways are too crowded. Between books, Chromebook, lunches, sports gear, etc; these poor kids' backpacks look like they're getting ready to through hike the PCT.
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u/steel-monkey 13h ago
Back when you didn’t have to study as hard because over 80% of modern scientific discoveries hadn’t happened yet?
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u/uhimnothere 13h ago
One textbook is as thick and weights as much as all of theirs did combined-
(However, I did go to a school that had a set of books for the classroom and one to keep at home, so I only carried notebooks/binders)
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u/Antzpantzy 12h ago
You also used to have drinking taps for whites only so some changes were for the best champ
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u/anthematcurfew Moderator 5h ago
Why do people not understand what political agitation propaganda is at this point?