You kids have it made!

[Double J]

Anyone with cable have the big box to change channels. This thing was 1' long X 6 (8)" wide and about 4" thick. And if you could get two of the buttons pushed in the right way you could get a soft porn channel and watch through the swiggly lines and get to see a breast if you were lucky.
You could also walk around town with out having a cop come buy and ask what you were doing.
Do they even have any arcades. That's where you would go and play cool cames like pacman and tron. I think the last time I actually saw one was in 1993.
How about chores.. We just did them as we were told.. Now I tell my kids they have to do chores and they ask how much $$ they get. NO you eat, sleep and snit in my house you can do chores. "Well my friends don't have to and if they do something they get $50 for it" NOT IN MY HOUSE. Not unless you are going to pay the electric bill.
We have a society of lazy As*es cant even get them to go out and ride there $200 bikes. I actually sold one last year and they haven't even noticed yet.

 

[dezfan]

Yup, we have a bright future.:neutral: I guess I need to learn to speak Chinese!:shock:

 

[Mr Glassman]

The good ol days of riding bikes without helmets and who can't forget STOMPERS!

 

[dezfan]

Stompers! **DROOL**

 

[K_B]

I work for the school district. Every day at about 3, I see quite few mohawk'd turds where I think, "your parents must be proud". And the spelling skills of some of the kiddies on this site is just depressing.

I have a quick horror story about Stompers. I got one for my birthday when I was about 5 or so and no sooner did I get the battery in, I decided to "drive" it on my friend's head. That little sucker wound up what seemed to be every inch of that kid's hair; and just kept on winding. (those things had some torque! worm gears!)

Panic ensued, kids screaming, my mom trying desperately to get the battery out as this kid is freakin' out. It was so stuck in his hair my mom had to cut it out. He looked like he lost a fight with a weed wacker after that. Haunts me to this day

 

[Double J]

OH I had stompers. I had the yellow jeep and my brother had the bronco.
I had mine caught up in my sisters hair. She had hair to her legs that thing rolled half way up before I turned it off. had to take the tires off to get it out. My mom was pissed. told me to figure out how to take it out with out cutting my sisters hair. About an hour later it was free to roll again. My sister didn't play with me and my cars after that.

 

[JasonInAugusta]

I still have one of my Stompers.

Back in my day we read about the Spanish-American War.

Now that I have kids it seems were tip-toeing into another one. :shock:

 

[dezfan]

Did you ever do the 9 volt battery "mod" to your Stomper?:shock: Talk about cool!:lol: I guess were all still kids, just got better toy's now!:twisted:

 

[Cloak]

Did you ever do the 9 volt battery "mod" to your Stomper?:shock: Talk about cool!:lol: I guess were all still kids, just got better toy's now!:twisted:

When it comes down to it, we just have bigger stompers with remotes now.

 

[microgoat]

I think I've still got my Stompers Audi Quattro somewhere :lol:

 

[Mr Glassman]

The stomper I remember most was a blue 57' chevy Nomad. Does anyone remember the stompers with the paddle wheels that floated on water?

 

[K_B]

Does anyone remember the stompers with the paddle wheels that floated on water?

Hellz yeah! I had the green one! It was awesome!

I also had that exact same white bronco that DJ posted. But it had the foam tires and it was the infamous stomper that chewed up my buddy's hair.

 

[EeePee]

Oh my god, STOMPERS. Holy ****, I was addicted to those things.

I hate todays youth. I wanted to throw that out there.

 

[dezfan]

I don't hate them. But I am worried for their future!:?

 

[Got Rocks?]

I don't hate them. But I am worried for their future!:?

thats because you talk to or, crawler and ILRCRC too much:mrgreen:

 

[mulchman]

Stompers RULED !!!! Just wanted to say that. Oh memory lane, how sweet you are. Remember Stretch Armstrong. Or who remembers these: You put a buggie or motorcycle in a wind up station, wind it up which spun the back wheels, stop winding and the vehicle took off like a bat out of *ell. I can't remember the name of them. Somebody help me!

 

[donkeykong]

Dont hate the youth...teach them. The reason the youth is so screwed up is because the parents forgot to teach them what thier parents taught them. I understand the whole concept of wanting better for your kids, my dad working in the fields since he was 3, I never worked in the fields, but I did work as a janitor, stockboy, grunt for every friend of my dad that owned his own business, and fastfood. I learned the meaning of a hard earned dollar and put my self through college. Now I work easy as a network admin, pay taxes keep my yard neat and am a good citizen to all....why....becuase my dad taught me better. I am not saying that the kids should be givin excuses for being spoiled brat, but some one spoiled them. I have a cousin who complains that his sons wont where anything but nike......they are both under 10....who buys the shoes....whos fault is it that they are that way. If you dont like the youth smake the parents and tell them both to straighten all this generation slacker crap out.

I am 24 and yes I am a horrible speller. I always have been I have no excuse but I try, just thought I would add that before someone picked me apart on my grammer

 

[Double J]

I would have to agree with donkeykong (fun game in the 80's as well). But this is where I will have to disagree. When I screwed up my dad nocked my As* into the middle of next week. Now when you discipline all you can do is send them to there room or time out. Sh!t that doesn't work. I have spanked my kids and they threaten to call the cops. I tell them what will happen if they do. They will go to foster care where some child molester will be happy to have them around. I think corporal punishment should be allowed back in the home as well as schools. (as long as you don't go over board) Kids know that no one can do anything to them.

EVIL KNEVIL - He would also be around that time. (mid to late 70's ??)
Superman - 1,2,3 etc.

 

[BMSMA]

Board games... Monopoly, Risk, Battleship, Othello, you name it, we played it.

 

[donkeykong]

Find something that works and stick to it. I have a 2 yr old niece. Here parents tell her to do things till they are blue in the face and nothing...why...cause they dont follow through. "Stop that or you are going to get it..." "If you dont share I am going to take it away" but nothing. Everyone in the family will tell you that they got no control, but ....guess who she listens to...ME, and it is very simple I dont beat her or even hit her at all. I make her stop by picking her up and taking here to a room that no one is in without any of here toys and I hold her sitting in front of me and talk to her. I dont leave that room for at least 5 minutes and I make sure after she leaves the first thing she does is apolagize to who ever it was she was being mean to or who ever was being effected by her. When I am around and she is miss behaving all I have to do is stand up and she stops. BUt is she affraid of me..no...she will run to me and give me a hug...she respects me, thats what kids need boundres and someone to respect. Now I am not saying that exact thing will work with each kid, but each kid has something that will work, you just have to find it.....and most importantly...STICK TO IT AND DONT BACK DOWN.



And on a lighter note........LEGOS rule. I am alittle younger than some and only some what remeber frogger and pong and such, but I always played with legos, and not the fancy crap now-a-days that all the peices already look like something, and have all the speciality piece that make things easy to build. The good stuff back inn the day when all you had where blocks and wheels.....Legos ruled