RIPZILLA Posted March 22, 2014 Member ID: 9 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 66 Topic Count: 245 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 1239 Content Per Day: 0.23 Reputation: 1230 Achievement Points: 11498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 18, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Sammy, my Catholic school education is something I consider an enormous value. Though the nuns were strict and discipline was foremost, the level, quality and dedication that the nuns gave each day were tremendous by today’s standards. These women dedicated their lives to Jesus and took a vow of poverty. They dressed in layers of fabrics even though there wasn’t even a fan never mind an air conditioner in the classroom when it was in the 90s. Every student in every classroom would always act respectfully. Even if one of us got unruly, the other students glared at the culprit. We all wanted to be the best we could. From time to time punishment was implemented but wasn’t as often as you have been led to believe. The punishment was not always corporal. Most of the time it was a written assignment or a reassignment of your classroom seat. If I told my father that my teacher disciplined me I was punished again. I have the utmost respect for these women even though they gave me my deserved licks. In today’s world, nuns care for the poor, the elderly, and the sick. Why would anyone not hold nuns with the highest regard? Bogleg, Leadfinger, Wild Fire and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sammy Posted March 22, 2014 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 31 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 2.08 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 30, 2023 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Share Posted March 22, 2014 I had the soap in mouth thing once because of language. It didnt change on whether or not I thought swearing was ok. Just not to my grandparents. Did that change my behavior? Or did it simply mean it was the first time I segregated people and put them on a list? Maybe it was just an example that I should always show simple courtesy towards others and err on the side of not using it until I knew whether or not that elder was comfortable with it. Parents and grandparents generally are not. Uncles can be a different story and that is one thing I remember. In any case beyond courtesy or simply being nice, which I show to everybody because thats the kind of person I am, for me respect must be earned. I dont care who it is or how old they are. To be quite rude if someone respects another because of physical harm then he is weak by comparison. Its fear not respect. Also, many fathers like to say never throw the first punch but always throw the last. He doesnt mean the goal is to get the other guy to respect you, but to fear you so it doesnt happen again. Maybe its just semantics but if anything I learned by example not swats to the ass. If an alcoholic parent for example sees his young kid take a swig and spanks him, or worse, that likely wont change much of anything. The kid likely will have an alcohol problem himself by the time he is a teenager. The same can be said for an abusive husband or parent. The kids often are abusive themselves as adults. Kids can see through the usual 'do what I say not what I do' arguments. Or since they are mentioned here go back to those 50's and 60's with religiously intolerant parents, or various clergy, that forbade something as simple as dancing or listening to rock and roll. Teenagers did it anyways. The parents didnt know about it but when they did the teenagers were called 'rebellious' or 'disrespectful' and various punitive measures would be taken. Funny thing... I have been told that my mother would swear like a sailor. But she never did around me. Well, maybe a few times when she was agitated at something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Belted Posted March 22, 2014 Member ID: 1620 Group: ++ COD5 Admin Followers: 89 Topic Count: 161 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1430 Content Per Day: 0.28 Reputation: 928 Achievement Points: 11070 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/28/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 27 Birthday: 03/24/1962 Device: Windows Share Posted March 22, 2014 Great post wildthing!Take care... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sonovabich Posted March 23, 2014 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1534 Topics Per Day: 0.29 Content Count: 5020 Content Per Day: 0.94 Reputation: 5171 Achievement Points: 131490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 13 hours ago Device: Windows Share Posted March 23, 2014 When I was 6 I was horsing around with my younger brother (4) in the hallway of our family's first real house, and he farted. I exclaimed, "You farted!" I got to eat half a bar of soap for that. The soap made my tongue break out into a really painful rash on one side, like it was burned. After that no one had to actually chew the soap in our house anymore. Heh. My dad was mostly into heinous chores for punishment. My older brother and I got into a fist fight one day and ended up having to go out back and cut down then dig up 8 30' tall poplar trees. Another time I got caught sneaking out and smoking cigarettes with some friends of mine and my dad gave me the choice of being ground all Summer (it was in June) or painting the outside of the house that weekend (back when houses had siding that you still painted). I was lucky on the broken bones front. Broke my nose twice - one time when my little brother than my head into an end table, and another time when I caught a hockey puck in the face. I have plenty of scars from knives, fishing hooks, bike crashes, and all the other assorted ways boys like to hurt themselves. Even put a nail through my foot one time. About the worst trouble I ever got it was when my friend Eric and I made a homemade balista and shot an arrow into a neighborhood house's roof a block away. We beat each other up with wooden "katanas" that we carved out of trees we cut down with our pocket knives when we were 9. We got boxing gloves for Christmas one year after Rocky came out and we held boxing tournaments in my friend Eric's back yard every Saturday for all the kids in the neighborhood. Climbing a tree meant going to the last limb that could hold your weight. My mom took us out after dark and taught us how to catch night crawlers and we sold them to the local bait shops for a $1 for every 100 we caught. When we came inside during the summer, our mom would say, "If you need something to do I will give you something to do." And that meant you went back outside and made yourself scarce. The TV was always on my dad's shows - and if you didn't like it you did something else. We always ate dinner at the table as a family until we were all in high school and sports and jobs prevented it, but we still always did on Sunday. My dad told bad jokes, we cleaned up everything on our plates, and after we went outside unless there was thunder and lightning because being inside meant getting put to work. I had about the best childhood anyone ever had IMHO. After you ate the soap and you Farted, did you blow bubbles out of your bumhole JohnnyDos, baldie, wildthing and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy Posted March 23, 2014 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 31 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 2.08 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 30, 2023 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Share Posted March 23, 2014 Not a sight I would like to see. Nor would I want to see pissing liquid soap. But I suppose that way you could clean the toilet while you use it. baldie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Bogleg Posted March 23, 2014 Member ID: 907 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 96 Topic Count: 126 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2731 Content Per Day: 0.52 Reputation: 3928 Achievement Points: 26177 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 19 Birthday: 02/10/1969 Device: Windows Share Posted March 23, 2014 Sono you should know by now that I fart rainbows. Sonovabich and baldie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sonovabich Posted March 23, 2014 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1534 Topics Per Day: 0.29 Content Count: 5020 Content Per Day: 0.94 Reputation: 5171 Achievement Points: 131490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 13 hours ago Device: Windows Share Posted March 23, 2014 Sono you should know by now that I fart rainbows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogleg Posted March 23, 2014 Member ID: 907 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 96 Topic Count: 126 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2731 Content Per Day: 0.52 Reputation: 3928 Achievement Points: 26177 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 19 Birthday: 02/10/1969 Device: Windows Share Posted March 23, 2014 Wild Fire, baldie and Sonovabich 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
wildthing Posted March 23, 2014 Member ID: 36 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 124 Topic Count: 235 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3845 Content Per Day: 0.72 Reputation: 2247 Achievement Points: 34608 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 17 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Monday at 02:57 AM Birthday: 11/22/1968 Device: Windows Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 I grew up the same as most of you and i remember the green army men and having the battles in the bedroom with making all the sound effects for my own war. I remember the days of the 1970's and getting under the desk and covering your head for a nuke attack. ( ) Here is an educational video for all you old timers. JohnnyDos, KingStinger!, baldie and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Leadfinger Posted March 24, 2014 Member ID: 4888 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 56 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2020 Content Per Day: 0.49 Reputation: 3795 Achievement Points: 26312 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 01/12/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 29, 2023 Birthday: 08/29/1962 Device: Windows Share Posted March 24, 2014 This post is a walk down memory lane. Blowing up the little green army men with fire crackers. Gumby Monopoly Doing chores for punishment playing outside with the neighborhood kids until the street lights came on. Riding my bike without a helmet to the beach on a Schwinn 5 speed (45 miles one way) Drive in movies putting coins on the railroad tracks making sling shots and shooting out the glass insulators on telephone poles I guess kids during this era did the same types of things just in a different part of the world. Some how you guys feel like "Kin" . . . . ."Brothers from another mother" . . . . . . @@little_old_man you really busted yourself up LOM SIX MILLION DOLLAR little Old MAN "We can rebuild him . . . . . we have the technology" Wild Fire, little_old_man and baldie 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
pwrcrzy52 Posted March 24, 2014 Member ID: 103 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 43 Topic Count: 698 Topics Per Day: 0.13 Content Count: 3298 Content Per Day: 0.62 Reputation: 1604 Achievement Points: 25682 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 01:36 PM Birthday: 07/10/1952 Device: Windows Share Posted March 24, 2014 Can't believe we all made it. The stuff we did. baldie and Wild Fire 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Bogleg Posted March 31, 2014 Member ID: 907 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 96 Topic Count: 126 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2731 Content Per Day: 0.52 Reputation: 3928 Achievement Points: 26177 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 19 Birthday: 02/10/1969 Device: Windows Share Posted March 31, 2014 One time my friend Eric and I made a homemade raft Huck Finn style and floated 10 miles down the river near our house. Of course we didn't tell our parents anything about it - just that we were going down to the river. Man that was a long ass walk back. Found some sweet new fishing holes though, and learned how to swing an ax that day. One of my favorite memories is making a bobsled trail in Eric's backyard. We used buckets of water to make a slick ice track with steep banked turns and everything - had all the kids in the neighborhood using it. We even carted in snow from neighboring yards to keep it going a couple of weeks after most of the snow had melted. Of course the sled run ended in the street and you had to crash into the bank on the opposite side (or the curb) to stop.... Leadfinger, Wild Fire, RIPZILLA and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
RIPZILLA Posted March 31, 2014 Member ID: 9 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 66 Topic Count: 245 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 1239 Content Per Day: 0.23 Reputation: 1230 Achievement Points: 11498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 18, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Bogleg I don't know where your from but I'm on the same page as you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Wild Fire Posted March 31, 2014 Member ID: 5468 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 36 Topic Count: 19 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 674 Content Per Day: 0.16 Reputation: 655 Achievement Points: 6446 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: Monday at 11:37 PM Birthday: 06/22/1965 Device: Android Share Posted March 31, 2014 Wow, Mechano sets, I had a couple of those. Also had Big Jim and a couple of GI Joe's. One of them had a beard so I shaved him, then drew it back on with pen. Never blew up my action figures with firecrackers, but I used to shoot them with my pellet gun. Same with my old car models. Shoot em up then light them on fire. I do remember pulling out some old shotgun shells outta the pail where Dad stored them. We took them to the pond and tryed to pry them open. In hindsight, we were damn lucky none of them ever went off. Pennies on the train tracks all the time and we also walked across the train tressel. It was about a 1/2 mile long and a 100 feet or so high. We used to put our ears to the tracks to see if a train was coming. Don't know if that works, but we never encountered a train. baldie and Leadfinger 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Wild Fire Posted March 31, 2014 Member ID: 5468 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 36 Topic Count: 19 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 674 Content Per Day: 0.16 Reputation: 655 Achievement Points: 6446 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: Monday at 11:37 PM Birthday: 06/22/1965 Device: Android Share Posted March 31, 2014 Had a small sledding hill behind my house. We would slide down the hill, across the alley, then down the middle of the street for 1/2 a block. baldie, Leadfinger and Bogleg 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Leadfinger Posted March 31, 2014 Member ID: 4888 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 56 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2020 Content Per Day: 0.49 Reputation: 3795 Achievement Points: 26312 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 01/12/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 29, 2023 Birthday: 08/29/1962 Device: Windows Share Posted March 31, 2014 we might have been young but there is some serious "balls" swinging in this thread . .. . . damn! walking across a train trestle with no where to go but down if a train comes . . . . . me and a buddy once tied some plastic (when they first started putting milk in plastic) milk jugs together and made a raft took it down to a flood control basin and "set sail" . . .we had a blast till the cops came .. lol .The cops loaded us in the cop car and took us to where the water flowed out of the basin . . it was awesome . . my buddy started crying cuz we probably woulda died . . . .I wished I was dead when my folks found out wildthing and Wild Fire 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Unchileno Posted March 31, 2014 Member ID: 101 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 109 Topic Count: 764 Topics Per Day: 0.14 Content Count: 8133 Content Per Day: 1.52 Reputation: 6747 Achievement Points: 61498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 15 Birthday: 01/23/1974 Device: iPhone Share Posted March 31, 2014 This shit is been posted 4 times now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Leadfinger Posted April 1, 2014 Member ID: 4888 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 56 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2020 Content Per Day: 0.49 Reputation: 3795 Achievement Points: 26312 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 01/12/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 29, 2023 Birthday: 08/29/1962 Device: Windows Share Posted April 1, 2014 This shit is been posted 4 times now.. your point being? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
little_old_man Posted April 1, 2014 Member ID: 1194 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 436 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6692 Content Per Day: 1.29 Reputation: 11691 Achievement Points: 53094 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 76 Joined: 02/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16, 2023 Birthday: 04/15/1960 Share Posted April 1, 2014 I must have missed the first three times it posted. I'm enjoying this thread. baldie and Leadfinger 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Bogleg Posted April 5, 2014 Member ID: 907 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 96 Topic Count: 126 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2731 Content Per Day: 0.52 Reputation: 3928 Achievement Points: 26177 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 19 Birthday: 02/10/1969 Device: Windows Share Posted April 5, 2014 It's a miracle that me and none of my friends ever drowned. And only one of my friends had his eye shot out with a BB gun. Heh. That's true. His older brother did it though, so I consider it a family squabble and not really a normal thing. Only got picked up by the cops once myself - when I fell into the river fishing in the middle of town by the dam in March one year. My friends and I lit a fire on a small island in the middle of the river, pretty much under the main street bridge. Had a neighborhood kid climb so high in a tree once he was afraid to get down and the fire department had to send their big ladder truck to rescue him. That kid was a tool. Wild Fire, little_old_man, Leadfinger and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
wildthing Posted April 5, 2014 Member ID: 36 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 124 Topic Count: 235 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3845 Content Per Day: 0.72 Reputation: 2247 Achievement Points: 34608 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 17 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Monday at 02:57 AM Birthday: 11/22/1968 Device: Windows Author Share Posted April 5, 2014 (edited) To think that this post would get under chile's skin. What is the matter remembering how old you are @@Unchileno? Edited April 5, 2014 by wildthing JohnnyDos, Leadfinger and baldie 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Ricko Posted April 5, 2014 Member ID: 138 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 63 Topic Count: 474 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 4470 Content Per Day: 0.84 Reputation: 2925 Achievement Points: 30749 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 14 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 17 Birthday: 07/01/1974 Device: Windows Share Posted April 5, 2014 (edited) posted this ages ago hahaha Edited April 5, 2014 by Ricko Unchileno 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BarmyArmy Posted April 10, 2014 Member ID: 522 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 132 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 1 Achievement Points: 731 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 16, 2021 Birthday: 04/08/1966 Share Posted April 10, 2014 I am so glad I grew up when I did, I hated the 3 or 4 days a year the weather was so bad that I could play outside and it had to be bad!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hxtr Posted April 10, 2014 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.17 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted April 10, 2014 It I made it but I think the Led paint did some damage. Leadfinger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonovabich Posted April 10, 2014 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1534 Topics Per Day: 0.29 Content Count: 5020 Content Per Day: 0.94 Reputation: 5171 Achievement Points: 131490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 13 hours ago Device: Windows Share Posted April 10, 2014 Hell we used to rip Asbestos of roofs in old factory buildings etc and then put it on fires and wait until it exploded, hope that one isn't coming back to bite me in the arse in the future. baldie and Leadfinger 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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