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I guess it's not a big change but I can't stand those little rollerskate shoes. Whenever I see a little kid glide by me I think two things. The first being that I could just stick my arm out and make him be more careful around people. The second being a quote from Friends.
"Kids! Roll your way to childhood obesity!" |
Christmas/birthdays are two more big ones for me. When I was little, me and my cousins would start immediately playing with toys and being as noisy as we could once they were unwrapped. Now at Christmas, there were 9 children there last year 10 or under. Once the gifts were unwrapped, they all sat down quietly on the couch with their handhelds & quitly played video games. No interaction between each other at all.
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there is a very distinct style of the last 10 years .. the goatee .. every other guy has a goatee. and the close cropped hair .. not a crewcut - 1 stage longer. in hollywood if you are behind the camera you have crazy ass long hair .. if you are in front of it its that short cut - with a goatee. |
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When I buy gifts for my little cousins I always buy the loudest, most annoying toys. Last year I got this "space" rocker with lights that makes space ship sounds when you rock on it. :cool: |
When I was young a doctor would come to your house if you were sick.
We had a thing called a milkbox at the front door. You put your empty (glass) milk bottles in it and the milkman would come in his truck, take the empties and leave you fresh milk. Halloween was a time when kids escaped from parents and went carousing by themselves, connecting with their inner demon. There was a neighborhood theatre that showed a weekly "kiddie mattinee" on the weekends- showed a double feature (quite often 2 horror movies), cartoons, old serials, newsreels, and gave away prizes! All for $1.25. Comic books were 12 cents and were fun to read. Radio stations played everything from Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee to Led Zepplin and Johnny Cash - on the same station. |
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I actually had noticed this too. Notice how suddenly everyone in the 1800s, 1700s, 1600s.... In movies suddenly started sporting them? I have one for one simple reason: The wife likes it. It itches, i have a weird compulsion to tug at it constanly, shaving around it without screwing up the edges is a bitch, but she finds me more attractive with it, so it aint going anywhere. I have nice SHORT hair, because i am lazy and i cant get the above mentioned wife to agree to me just shaving my head. |
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Nice:cool: That's what I always do. I go down the kids list. Video game, video game, video game, clothes (obviously mom put that there).... Aha! SuperSonic Nerf Rocket Launcher that shoots 200 rounds a second and sounds like Hiroshima. There ya go, ya little bastard! Go break something like kids should! |
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some houses have that little door built into the side of the house leading to a little compartment where they could put the bottles without going outside.. i still see them on the older houses. and you hit on something else ... when we were kids - at 5 years of age we'd go and play in the neighbourhood park by ourselves... shit you'll never see that again. |
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My kid's class has a big ol unabridged dictionary (he told me he looked up "penis, vagina, shit and sex" the other day) AND I pack him a PBJ almost every day |
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the artistic comunity dictate the fashion standards - always have. actors/musicians are portrayed as cool .. the people YOU want to be... so people will try to look like them. this has been going on since forever. lately the trends are lasting longer ... we already went through the cycle of 50's, 60's 70's 80's, then back to 50's, 60's 70's 80's .. the 90's and 2000s show signs that people are getting tired of reinventing themselves .. i just dont think there's any interest in rehashing the cycle again so we settled on safe chic or urban for style.. then there are the rest of us that dont really follow trends... trends are really only followed in the major centres anyway - mostly the very socialite downtown crowd. there are always exceptions in the smaller towns ... but hardly any.. |
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