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Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 11:51 am
by Gnomad
Oral sex sure is a lot more fun when you don't have your mouth full of hair.
Goes for both sexes.

I am not complaining. Then again, I shave my legs too (its a cyclist thing) besides other shavature.
Thou I make up for that with plenty of facial hair and a bushy moustache...

On topic - movie rental places have pretty much disappeared.

Kids playing out for hours with no adult knowing where exactly they are, except very vaguely? When I was 12, we were allowed to bike to places up to 10 km away on our own, and just had a time to get back home. All kinds of interesting places and small adventures. Not to mention that of course someone fell off a cliff now and then, or took an unintended swim in the river.

Spending hours at the library, every couple of weeks at least, reading all the interesting papers and borrowing a huge pile of books to read. Today Im happy if I get a few books read in a year.

Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 2:19 pm
by NeonLX
Handkerchiefs. I used to get them for Christmas!
Lighters with dice floating in the fluid compartment.

On edit: Waiting expectantly for cool shit. I used to order books by mail and it would take six weeks to have them delivered to my very rural abode. I'd run to the mailbox down the road everyday, hoping against hope that my book would be there. Now, everything is "overnight"--or sooner.

Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 2:37 pm
by yathrib
Straight guys who wore shorts or bathing suits mid thigh or shorter

Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 2:41 pm
by norton ash
yathrib » Mon Aug 29, 2016 1:37 pm wrote:Straight guys who wore shorts or bathing suits mid thigh or shorter


I know some French Canadians you should meet.

Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 2:25 am
by Nordic
Tube socks.

Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 3:47 am
by 82_28
Tube socks with rad stripes.

Those vinyl Halloween costumes.

Underoos.

Afrosheen.

Parachute pants.

Creepers. I wore 'em!

Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 7:39 am
by semper occultus
......motorcycles with side cars....

Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 7:53 am
by lucky
My wife, who I met in 1997 had a shaven haven plus three piercings 'down there' - I have to say smooth is better : )

Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 9:09 am
by divideandconquer
identity » Mon Aug 29, 2016 12:04 am wrote:Human females no longer having pubic/body hair will certainly make their (hairless) robot or cyborg replacements more readily acceptable to the male of the species!


Perfect Match’: A Quarter of Young People in the UK Would Date a Robot

The survey, conducted in the UK by research company ComRes and published by Nesta, found that 25% of people aged 18 to 34 participating in the questionnaire would date an android if it looked human, and was programmed to act like their “perfect match.”

"Our bodies, our identities and our senses are enhancing thanks to technology and societal shifts," Ghislaine Boddington, co-founder and creative director of East London design unit body>data>space, said, in an interview with the Mirror.

"Indeed, intimacy as we know it is expanding its boundaries — enabling us to experience love and affection beyond the physical and into the virtual."

The research was done as a promotion for the FutureFirst festival in September, a weekend-long event including interactive performances, immersive experiences, and speakers who aim to challenge perceptions of the future.

The robot-love study wasn’t the only promotional survey conducted to bring attention to the event.

A research team found that 50% of those Brits surveyed that use bank cards would agree to be implanted with microchips to use for any number of tasks, including opening doors, paying for lunch or accessing computers.

Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 1:11 pm
by NeonLX
Buicks that actually looked like Buicks (Electra duece-and-a-quarter, anyone?).

Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 1:53 pm
by Jerky
Yaaas on the Buicks!

Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 2:13 pm
by 82_28
I do have to say that the 80's was Buick's fanciest era.

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Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 2:56 pm
by PufPuf93
NeonLX » Tue Aug 30, 2016 10:11 am wrote:Buicks that actually looked like Buicks (Electra duece-and-a-quarter, anyone?).


My Mom had a Buick Electra 225 convertible, white with blue leather interior in early 60s. It was used on several occasions in the local "Old Timer's Parade" (and picnic) that still take place on Father's Day weekend in my home town. It had a buzzer on the speedometer if one drove over speed limit. She would have a car load of young kids and deliberately speed and we would all add to the buzz. A drunk woman ran into my Dad in Santa Rosa, CA and totaled the Electra 225 in 1965.

We had a green Buick convertible that pre-dated my birth. The top was broken and the family called it the "broke car" and it sat dead in a barn longer that it still operated as "summer utility" car in my life. My parents bought it when my Dad got home from Europe in WWII.

We had two different 4 door Buicks, both red when I was a small child. One had a dent in the metal dash that my parents said was from my head hitting it but I am not sure if it was a tease or an actual event. Then my Mom got a white 1961 Buick station wagon with wide tail fins that was later traded in for the Electra 225.

After the Buick Electra 225 my parents and then Dad bought Oldsmobiles. They always had an assortment of pick ups and 1955 Willys Jeep, a 1975 CJ-5, and a 1984 CJ-5. I still have the 1955 Willys buried in a patch of wild blackberries.

Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 3:22 pm
by Cordelia
My dad drove a butterscotch colored Buick Riviera

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that my brother and I nicknamed 'Bittersweet'. (It was later stolen from a parking garage.)

Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 3:26 pm
by Cordelia
Remember.....

Affordable vet care for pets
Selling Girl Scouts cookies door-to-door
Large family gatherings after church services
Drinking was considered uncool
Flushing weed down the toilet during the Paraquat scare
Smoking at work
Dentists smoking while working