How has the world changed?

[Tigger]

Kids would be pissed off at being called in rather than kicked out.

 

[PhilM]

Kids would be pissed off at being called in rather than kicked out.

I was fortunate to grow up between homes in Toxteth and Smithdown. I literally had Princess Park or Sefton Park on my doorstep.

Come the weekend I was out as soon as I had been fed and watered, and wouldn't come back until I was hungry again. Could be hours on end.

Parents weren't concerned in the slightest unless it came to darkness and I wasn't in. Now kids are afraid if they are separated from their Xbox.

 

[Moomin]

Kids these days don't know their born, the nightmare we had loading games on our Spectrum 48k. Took forever for them to load, and it used to crash just before it finished loading.

Porn videos, if you had one you were a legend in school.

Fingering was the thing back in the day, kids these days have access to the likes of bukkake on mobile phones. We will have a generation of proper deviants soon.

 

[Hellerad]

Magic Johnson cured AIDS.
Michael Jordan retired from baseball.
OJ Simpson won double jeopardy.
Chumbawumba.
David Beckham married himself.
Jet fuel melted steel beams.
Harry Potter committed suicide.
Harry Potter was resurrected.
Liam Neeson killed a lot of people.
Elton John was legalized in America.

 

[rascal]

I'd suggest current events are a lot more boring now as it would seem nobody has the desire to stage a coup d'état in mainland Europe anymore . Oh for the days of Napoleon .

 

[Moomin]

Mobile phones and google have destroyed many a argument/discussion. You could have many an argument with mates over anything for hours, now we just frigging google it.

Spoils it.

 

[The Cowboy]

For me, it's the whole spontaneity of life that's been lost. Popping round your mates unannounced, arranging to go down the pub with your mates that evening, or the 'whole ringing around to organise a game of football' thing.

Nowadays, nights out are arranged weeks, even months in advance, everyone has to call or text ahead before popping round, it's all too formal.

 

[harris78]

Magic Johnson cured AIDS.
Michael Jordan retired from baseball.
OJ Simpson won double jeopardy.
Chumbawumba.
David Beckham married himself.
Jet fuel melted steel beams.
Harry Potter committed suicide.
Harry Potter was resurrected.
Liam Neeson killed a lot of people.
Elton John was legalized in America.

But "we didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the worlds been turning, we didn't start the fire"

 

[mythbuster]

Can't give a kid a gentle boot up the arse anymore and tell them to get off ya lawn.

 

[ilikecheese]

It's hotter now.

 

[mythbuster]

One of your mates being out, and not knowing where he was for like a whole day, because hardly anybody had a mobile.

 

[The Cowboy]

Going on bike rides. I'm guessing kids don't really do this anymore.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Going on bike rides. I'm guessing kids don't really do this anymore.

Didn't know you had bikes around Cowboy times?

 

[The Cowboy]

Didn't know you had bikes around Cowboy times?

Aye, I'm more your urban street cowboy.

 

[COYBL25]

An old school friend of mine is a PhD in Neuropsychology who is pretty high in education circles and all that jazz.

He regularly tells me that a huge change in child development is causing Western society to sleepwalk into real social issues within the future.

And this isn't just social skills like interaction between individuals because of their reliance on devices such as phones and texting.

Rather, it's real physical issues with gross and fine motor skills that aren't developing because children are being stuck in front of iPads etc.

He waffles on about the inability to focus their eyes correctly, maintaining natural postures etc. or writing straight without paper being slanted.

All because they aren't utilising them during key stages in their development. May all be waffle, but he says it's pandemic in many schools.

Oh and I remember when I was a kid, everyone use to have a drink and drive. My ol' man would take us the pub and have nine pints then drive.

Drink driving was the absolute norm when I was growing up. I remember a few Sunday mornings when my arl man had actually " lost " his car as he'd been that drunk he couldnt remember where he'd parked it.

Another massive one, was everyone seemed to smoke. I remember the first place I worked was like a gas chamber due to the smoke, plus they had porno calendars all over the walls, despite women working there too.