Back in my day, we didn't stop the game unless a bone was broken
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Cold water inside was pretty good.
We played at my buddies house. He was Asian descent, so taking shoes off everytime to get a drink was too much work for us. Just grab the hose and get that drink. Pour some on your head too, cool off a bit.
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I am so fucking tired of this generational tribalism shit.
Back in the day you could book computer time at the local library in my town. I would walk to the library by myself so I could play Oregon trail on an apple iie.
Honestly I'm glad that kids have access to the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria in their pocket, but I do miss the days of pre social media and the 24 hour news cycle. -
I’m not saying the person you’re replying to isn’t being a bit obtuse, but the water in your house that you drink should be running through copper or in newer homes, PEX which is HDPE, not PVC.
Carry on.
How am I being obtuse? Eat citations:
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/7/10/641
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13201-022-01751-y - this one's for household pipes
Plastics are bad for us, no matter how you slice it. Even seemingly stable ones carry risk
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And we have to dodge bullets at school. What's your fucking point, old timer?
- Gen Z and Gen Alpha
wrote last edited by [email protected]Point is your too slow to dodge because you spend all your time on your ass watching tiktok.
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God I want to like him so bad! Like he tests all the stuff that's right up my alley. But I can not stand his voice and jumpy editing.
Just looked him up. He reminds me too much about the tv-shop salespeople. Kinda yelling at me, speaking really fast and stopping just a bit too long after the end of a sentance.
Idk, might be super cool though.
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How am I being obtuse? Eat citations:
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/7/10/641
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13201-022-01751-y - this one's for household pipes
Plastics are bad for us, no matter how you slice it. Even seemingly stable ones carry risk
I was speaking from a western viewpoint. I had no idea that the Middle East used uPVC in their treated water systems. I will point out that uPVC isn’t PVC. It’s a coated pvc that has different properties which seems to be what the researchers are studying.
In any case, very sorry you have to deal with that over there. We use copper in all western countries I’ve heard of (though lead is still in existing systems in places like Chicago).
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I was speaking from a western viewpoint. I had no idea that the Middle East used uPVC in their treated water systems. I will point out that uPVC isn’t PVC. It’s a coated pvc that has different properties which seems to be what the researchers are studying.
In any case, very sorry you have to deal with that over there. We use copper in all western countries I’ve heard of (though lead is still in existing systems in places like Chicago).
I'm not middle eastern, but plastic pipes are really common in new builds in north america now too. Garden hoses are largely made out of PVC so the same risks apply
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And we have to dodge bullets at school. What's your fucking point, old timer?
- Gen Z and Gen Alpha
wrote last edited by [email protected]That Boomers are to blame for almost all of the current state of affairs
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Well, as a garden hose drinker from back in the day, I'm here to tell you that it was run through a filter. It's just that that filter was back at the water treatment plant. Same thing with public water fountains, which were everywhere. We're not that goddamned tough. We weren't slurping pond water through a straw or something like that.
Yeah, drinking from the hose was a lot less problematic than just breathing the air, which was full of tetraethyl lead.
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Garden hose filters prevent lime scale from destroying whatever is attached to the hose.
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I am so fucking tired of this generational tribalism shit.
Yeah. Have all the hate you want for it. 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.
Fact is, younger generations have different challenges than older generations.
When I was growing up, there were no cellphones and caller ID wasn't really a thing either. That's how old I am. We had to look up numbers in a book and call people's houses blindly, then ask if the person we were looking to speak with was even there. Now, anyone can chat, text, directly call (no party lines), or otherwise connect with almost anyone and everyone at any time for any reason. I'm not saying that's entirely a benefit, because it's not, there's definite downsides to that as well, but the challenge was different.
You'll never experience having to do what I did, just to speak to and plan to meet up with your friends. That part will be easier.
What you don't know now, that you will realize later is that these memes are a way for the older generations to cope with the fact that we are indeed, getting older. It's a form of nostalgia, to remind us of the activities of our youth and the things we had no other option than to do, that younger people may never have to do.
IMO, it's not intended to be tribalism, it's intended to invoke a sense of community and nostalgia in those that experienced it.
I'm sorry that you feel like you're being attacked or left out or segregated by tribalism because of our incessant need to have some measure of solace in our rapidly deteriorating bodies by having a moment of nostalgia in the form of a funny, ha ha, meme. -
Point is your too slow to dodge because you spend all your time on your ass watching tiktok.
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If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a
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Back in the day you could book computer time at the local library in my town. I would walk to the library by myself so I could play Oregon trail on an apple iie.
Honestly I'm glad that kids have access to the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria in their pocket, but I do miss the days of pre social media and the 24 hour news cycle.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.
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There was a gen x?
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And we have to dodge bullets at school. What's your fucking point, old timer?
- Gen Z and Gen Alpha
Hey us millennials had to do that too. Just not as often
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I drank from a water hose many times when I was young. I assume this is a bad thing?
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Yeah. Have all the hate you want for it. 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.
Fact is, younger generations have different challenges than older generations.
When I was growing up, there were no cellphones and caller ID wasn't really a thing either. That's how old I am. We had to look up numbers in a book and call people's houses blindly, then ask if the person we were looking to speak with was even there. Now, anyone can chat, text, directly call (no party lines), or otherwise connect with almost anyone and everyone at any time for any reason. I'm not saying that's entirely a benefit, because it's not, there's definite downsides to that as well, but the challenge was different.
You'll never experience having to do what I did, just to speak to and plan to meet up with your friends. That part will be easier.
What you don't know now, that you will realize later is that these memes are a way for the older generations to cope with the fact that we are indeed, getting older. It's a form of nostalgia, to remind us of the activities of our youth and the things we had no other option than to do, that younger people may never have to do.
IMO, it's not intended to be tribalism, it's intended to invoke a sense of community and nostalgia in those that experienced it.
I'm sorry that you feel like you're being attacked or left out or segregated by tribalism because of our incessant need to have some measure of solace in our rapidly deteriorating bodies by having a moment of nostalgia in the form of a funny, ha ha, meme.wrote last edited by [email protected]First number I remember as a kid was “Belmont 3 6316”. Can’t remember what it meant though.
Edit forgot an “
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I drank from a water hose many times when I was young. I assume this is a bad thing?
Depends where you live, where I am you might get typhoid by doing that
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Every generation is tougher than the next, but ever generation is responsible for the next.
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Depends where you live, where I am you might get typhoid by doing that
Was in Toronto in 60’s and 70’s.
