Back in my day, we didn't stop the game unless a bone was broken
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First number I remember as a kid was “Belmont 3 6316”. Can’t remember what it meant though.
Edit forgot an “
Sadly, I've had enough experience with phone systems that I do.
Sounds to me like this was a phone number, specifically: 3 6316
But at a time when phone systems were not all interconnected. So you had to be in the "Belmont" area phone system in order to call it.
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The thing I find amusing about these specific memes - regarding drinking from a garden hose - is that I'm an elder millennial, my sibling is gen X, we grew up on a farm, and neither of us EVER drank from a garden hose, it just tastes fucking disgusting. I've drank from countless sketchy-ass sources, and still will never drink from a garden hose. like, why would you even do that? just unscrew the hose from the spigot at least and use that FFS
I get you. I mostly didn't either, I'm also an "elder" millennial. I grew up in a relatively small city. The city water from the garden hose was fine, for the most part. I don't remember any specific instance where I drank it though.
That's an issue specific to this statement from OP. I was trying to speak more generally, but setting that aside, I think the garden hose thing was a boomer/post boomer thing more than Gen X/millennial. ... Back then, from what I understand, it wasn't uncommon to send the kids outside to play and lock them out there... Probably so the parents can go fuck or at least get a moment of peace and quiet from their fuck trophies.
I don't really know, since I wasn't alive then, and I don't know that I care enough to look into it any more than I already have.
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When you realize that shit you had to go through as a kid, nobody else will ever have to experience… You’ll be the same.
No, actually, I won’t. I’m in my 40s, not some kid. If your opinion is that future generations should have to struggle as much as you did or they’re somehow not as good, then a solid fuck you.
wrote last edited by [email protected]how do you manage to read that in. that's your narrative.
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My school was 20 minutes from one of the most deadly school shooting in the early 2010s. I went to high school with survivors of the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre. But gen z is too sensitive is all I hear. We are literally surviving a war that takes place in classrooms and cafeterias, in our developmental years. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
wrote last edited by [email protected]We had nuclear bomb drills. Go to a cinder block corridor in the middle of the building. Sit on the floor with your pelvis pressed against the wall behind you. Curl up in a ball with your arms covering your head. Keep your eyes closed so you don't go blind from the flash. The world is going to end, the world is going to end, the world is about to end. Okay, now go back to class!
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neither of us EVER drank from a garden hose, it just tastes fucking disgusting.
100 percent!
Dumb kids of all generations drink from the garden hose.
The smart ones go inside and get it from the kitchen (or disconnect the hose and drink directly from the tap which tastes perfectly fine)
It wasn't that we never went in to get a drink. The problem was all your friends were outside. If you went in the house you run the risk of getting a chore or task to do. By the time you get back your friends may have moved on somewhere else. With no way to contact them you'd have to search the streets. And if you couldn't find them again, you would be alone for a few hours. Drinking from the hose happened, but not as common as these memes suggest. At least for me.
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I don't. No. Future generations can, will, and bluntly, should, have it easier. Often it's not, because the challenges change, they don't go away, which is the great tragedy of it all.
I guess I don't understand what you meant by the part I quoted. Sorry for this misunderstanding.
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Sadly, I've had enough experience with phone systems that I do.
Sounds to me like this was a phone number, specifically: 3 6316
But at a time when phone systems were not all interconnected. So you had to be in the "Belmont" area phone system in order to call it.
Neato. You triggered a memory. Be in the area. I rem now that it was B-2 E-3
Pretty sure that was from the 3 letters on each number key.
So the number was 233-6316
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I'm gen z and I did this, this whole gen vs gen stuff is dumb imo.
Just another way to divide the working class.
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The thing I find amusing about these specific memes - regarding drinking from a garden hose - is that I'm an elder millennial, my sibling is gen X, we grew up on a farm, and neither of us EVER drank from a garden hose, it just tastes fucking disgusting. I've drank from countless sketchy-ass sources, and still will never drink from a garden hose. like, why would you even do that? just unscrew the hose from the spigot at least and use that FFS
the fuck are you people doing with your garden hoses that they get dirty inside??
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the fuck are you people doing with your garden hoses that they get dirty inside??
Even if you buy a brand new garden hose, it's not clean; they're made from materials that leach chemicals into the water. Once you get them out into the yard, they might be left partially empty with one or both ends open, allowing bacteria and mould to grow, letting insects in, etc.
If you go to a hardware store, you will find there are potable water hoses, they're usually white with a blue stripe. They are made from food-safe materials and meant to transport potable water. Care still needs to be taken to not allow bacteria growth, but not really any more than a re-usable straw.
