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[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 105 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Best old school perk is doing all your stupid kid shit at a time where cameras weren't ubiquitous.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 27 points 7 months ago

Or at least not permanent.

I grew up in the early 2000s and while starting somewhere around 2005 cameras and the first social sites became a thing, nothing of that exists today. Myspace and SchülerVZ (German Facebook clone) were super popular, but don't exist anymore. Camera phones didn't have an easy way to export photos and most hard drives from back then just died at some point. There's hardly anything left. And that's a good thing.

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

I do feel bad about the younger generations of today. It seems like every part of their life is recorded or streamed now. I'm not sure how comfortable I would have been with that, when I was their age.

[–] odium@programming.dev 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

The bikes are non negotiable. Also there's some sort of bully involved.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

And a golden retriever

[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Bully becomes a friend at the end though

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 31 points 7 months ago (8 children)

That's absolute bullshit. I've never met anyone who turned their bully into a friend while they were still in school together.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

I did. Okay, not so much a friend, as a guy who would talk to me regularly and treat me and my friends with respect, occasionally tagging along with us. He's still in my Facebook friends list to this day.

Back in elementary school there was a kid who was easily twice as big as everyone else. He'd push his way around and demand he get whatever he wanted. He finally crossed me one day, and I punched him as hard as I could right in the stomach. When he stood back up, I did it again. He never crossed me or my friends again, and became generally friendly with us. Bullies don't concede without force.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

I had a bully chill the fuck out once we made it to high school, but it turns out that was because of all the drugs.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 5 points 7 months ago

I turned an eighth grade (Catholic elementary school) bully into a ninth grade (public jr high) "we're pretty cool now," likely because he was scared as fuck to be in this rough public middle school, and I'd been getting bullied my whole life so it was nothing different for me.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago

It's more realistic to realize a friend is actually a bully.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 4 points 7 months ago

You’ve obviously not lived inside an American high school movie

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Mine tried, I was too nice to tell him to fuck off. He was a conservative shitheel by my high schools standards, and that's a place I took some shit for voting for Obama (class of '13). I ditched all those fuckers when I went to college and came out though so idk. I hope he got better, I didn't say hi when I ran into him between my fwb's place and my classes in college though.

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[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Not Henry Bowers

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[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Or kissing Wendy Peffercorn

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Nostalgia is bittersweet & I love it as much as anyone but the bigger picture is this: capitalism grows like a weed or a vampire & every generation had freedom without cameras like that until gen-Xers, who were the last, which is why it feels like such magic now even tho then it was just life & being outside

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (7 children)

I’m a millennial. I remember a time without cameras everywhere. I also grew up in the poorest part of WV and I’ve seen my own childhood home in like 10 documentaries on poverty so…

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[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I agree for the most part, but as an early millennial, we had that freedom too. Society didn't truly go crazy until some time after 2000 in my opinion. I turned 16 that year.

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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

I have repeatedly felt like taking some emery cloth to my neighbors ring door bell camera, which records me when ever I am in my front yard. There is an expense to replacing cameras and they seem like easy targets, if you go about it right.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When you're sold a version of nostalgia for something you never experienced.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No... But I've been a 13 year old boy in the 1990's and had the same experience.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 3 points 7 months ago

Same but 80s and only discovered cannabis and motorbikes

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You'll never be a middle-aged accountant in the 80s either, just fyi.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My grandfather was, but it does seem rather unlikely he'll be able to do it again now that you mention it.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like banana.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or on skateboards, running from rent-a-cops.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Hell yeah. Running from real cops too. This leads directly to the beginning of me becoming radicalized.

A cop came up while we were skating on an unused building's loading dock. He had his hands kinda up like hey I just want to talk to you guys.

He did. He threatened us. He said he was the boss and if we crossed him he'd take our boards, beat us up, and take us to jail. He brought out a paper pad and a pen, and I quote to the best of my memory- "This is my magic pen. Why is it magic? Because whatever I write with it is what happened."

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

One of my most memorable experiences skating on "no skateboarding allowed" property in Jr. High, where a RAC came up and one of my friends said "Um, excuse me, suck my dick sir." I thought "omg we are fucked" and just ran.

Another time in HS I wasn't even skating, I just had my skateboard with me, and had climbed up onto a wall outside a mall loading dock. I saw the RAC's coming and got worried they'd be dicks like always and ran into a Walgreens in the mall. I thought they weren't following me and I'd kill time, so I stopped to do my blood pressure check at the machine, then went to piss. On my way out an undercover RAC slammed me up against the wall and said into his radio "we got him!" Another RAC came and started patting me down, and when he got to the back of my Alternative Tentacles record company shirt, right where the words "Stop Skate Harassment" were printed, I looked back at him, and he said "yeah I see your shirt." They then said I was a cocaine dealer who had just gone and flushed my stash down the toilet. I was like 16, had never done drugs, and was like "whaaaat? Are you crazy?" They let me go but told me not to come back for 3 months. I worked in that mall though so I ignored them.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Good for you. I forgot about Alternative Tentacles!

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Maybe I'm just well adjusted but at 30 years old I can't imagine deciding to lord my power over teenagers

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Fine. I won't be that boy again.

[–] BuckWylde@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

That's all I did during summer breaks as a kid. My friends and I practically lived on our bikes.

[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

True I was sitting inside by myself without friends before it was cool.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just play Kids On Bikes, bout the closest you'll get.

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 4 points 7 months ago

Bikes were, and still are involved. Revo-Lution

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 points 7 months ago

It was fun and I feel sorry for anyone who didn't get to have that kind of childhood. But we almost died so many times. I still have flashbacks to times I was trapping in mud or climbing a huge cliff. I was so lucky I made it past 20

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

How old are you? Makes perfect sense to me but I think that's because of my age.

[–] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Stand by Me was set in the 1950s though

[–] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago

Good point. Well, it is an 80's movie

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Get out of my headcanon.

Take your facts with you!

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