Now, when I was a young boy...

[Boneasse]

... "we had to walk 10 miles to school, barefoot, in rain and snow, and uphill both ways!"

The above is something many kids have heard from their grandparents at some point or other, (though maybe with a tad bit more truth to it).

So this begs the question:

What kind of advice, and/or anecdotes will you be passing on to your children if you ever get any?
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[emeraldrafael]

When I was a lad, we didnt have to this Kinects or moves or really wiis (I was in my late teens by then). We had to hold a controller and play games, and we liked it damnit!!

actually, to be more topical and completely honest, I'd probably say when I was lad, we never imagined that anyone besides a white male would be president of the United States.

 

[Boneasse]

When I was a lad, we didnt have to this Kinects or moves or really wiis (I was in my late teens by then). We had to hold a controller and play games, and we liked it damnit!!

actually, to be more topical and completely honest, I'd probably say when I was lad, we never imagined that anyone besides a white male would be president of the United States.

Nah that's fine man, I liked the first one! Though the second one has a grand amount of truth to it!

 

[Ziggy]

when i was a kid realisem never got in the way of fun.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Snip

yeah... Damn, I feel old and bigoted saying that but thats not even being mean. I'm democratic and all for anyone competent (whihc was a lose lose situation, but thats not a topic for this thread) to run office, it just surprised the hell out of me.

Also, probably another thing is when I was a lad, I never thought a sequel to tron would be released. Or a 3D movie about furry blue people would be the top grossing film ever.

 

[Jedamethis]

As I posted in a thread a while ago:

"Back in my day HURBLEDY GURBLE WURBLE"
Because when you're old, making sense is optional.

So that, and various bits of 'advice'

Don't eat corn if there are maybe no sheep in the goosehouse.
Always eat into your stockings, don't never not put nothing in them.
When you're older than the cows are purple, don't eat yellow potatoes.

 

[Gizmo007666]

When I was a youngster we had to go through a game in one sitting, or use passwords if they were available. None of this save anywhere you like and if you die just reload the last save malarkey!

 

[Daveman]

Hooray!!!

 

[FalloutJack]

"Never listen to anything MY father told me. His advice only works for him."

 

[Boneasse]

Snip

Ah yes, we have it good these days!

 

[Thedayrecker]

When I was a young boy we had to hide our weed, and when we wanted to have sex we had to go out and meet people, instead of programming a robot!

 

[Queen Michael]

1. If something has a decent chance of going wrong, and the results you'll get if it does will be horrible, don't do it.

2. If you're wondering how something could have happened, you shouldn't discard the possibility that it was because of human stupidity.

3. You don't regret the stuff you did nearly as much as you regret the stuff you didn't do.

4. When all else fails, try Pocky.

 

[V TheSystem V]

When I was a young boy, we barely had any snow in the winter, and if we were lucky we would have it for one day and it would have melted by 12pm! We also gathered several people in one house to play first person shooters, none of that online multiplayer lark! Goldeneye and Perfect Dark were the definitive shooters, not your Call of Duty and Halo!

 

[Eggsnham]

Because I'm still relatively young, I'll have to look into the future a bit:

"When I was your age, we had to be cautious crossing the roads, there wasn't any of this "cloning" nonsense!"

When I was your age, controllers were mainstream and motion detection was just being developed, now there's all of this "Virtual Reality" malarkey!"

"When I was your age, we had to shit in a can and wipe ourselves, now you can just shit yourself and a package of nanobots is released by your pants to consume your mess."

"When I was your age, the world wasn't ravaged by atomic weapons."

"When I was your age, The Escapist was just an awesome gaming company, not the worlds' dictator."

And I could go even more ridiculous than that, but I have to go do stuff. Stupid waking up, always making me complete my rituals.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Oh, thought of another. SOrry, this is just kinda fun.

When I was a lad, 60 was new 40.
When I was a lad, your classmates didnt come in and shoot you up, and if they did it wasnt till college.
When I was a lad, a hurricane's microburst didnt stop you from going to school, even if the power was out.
When I was a lad, our second life was videogames, and socializing was done outside of the game, not online.
When I was a lad, we were smarter then our phones.

 

[Shock and Awe]

When I was a lad, we had women where we couldn't see their ribs, and we fucking loved it.

 

[Boneasse]

When I was a lad, we had women where we couldn't see their ribs, and we fucking loved it.

You speak the truth!

 

[teqrevisited]

When I was a lad, you could make a convincing videogame with a dozen or so colours and 16 Megabytes - yes they came that small! - of space. So think yourself lucky with all your bloody XXXXXXXHD 4D TVs and your 256bit processors!

 

[Mrrrgggrlllrrrg]

Back in my day zombies were the number one threat to global security.

and some essentials.
Like hippies arent people
Kids that arent homeless begging on the streets dont deserve their shins
Alcohol abuse bad, occasional drink okay
Illicit drugs are bad m'kay
Hippy blood is filled with acid
If WoW is still around elves and gnomes arent peoples
Forsaken are evil things wanting to kill the living
regardless they will be brought up on Tauren and orc lore stories
Cant forget stories from warhammer 40k
Sexuality doesnt matter
How to identify the hippy
Burning Man is really a dirty hippy rally
A brief run through of my zombie contingency plan, yaaaaay
In the apocalypse, whether zombie or otherwise, slavery will be fine just be nice 'cause they can poison your food
Dont screw with people that handle your food
agriculture, yay
skin color doesnt matter, being a hippy does
California should break off sometime in june
and of course the wonders of the amazing Thorium!

I think thats a good gist of what I'll teach all my kids.

 

[Count Igor]

Well son, when I was a boy, we didn't get any of these 'X Stations' and.. and.. 'Play Boxes'
Hoh no! What we had was our imagination. All we could do is THINK of things. Not see them and those scantily clad ladies playing volleyball.
PAH! Volleyball! The closest thing we ever got to volleyball was pig testicles on a Thursday.
Oh! And don't even get me STARTED on christmas! Pff. Nowadays you're all getting these Mobeel Fones and the such like. Huh. If we were lucky we'd get a satsuma. Possibly an Apple. Oh! And I remember one day I woke up to find a walnut in my stocking! That certainly was a treat and a half, I can tell you.
Now.. What was it you wanted? Oh. I think it's about half 4.