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21 Weird Things That Were Widely Acceptable 20 Years Ago, As Shared By People Online
Years go by, and things constantly change. Something that was acceptable decades ago is no longer considered normal, which means that the things we are doing now will probably be uncanny to our kids and grandchildren. Who knows what the future will be like – maybe we'll go back to the no technology times, or maybe those flying cars will finally show up and bless our ordinary lives. In this article, we'll be looking at Reddit users who were asked to share their opinions on weird things that were normal and widely acceptable 20 years ago.
The thread received almost 40K upvotes and 17.7K comments, alongside an engaging discussion where people occasionally reminded each other that 20 years ago is 2001 and not somewhere in the '80s.
Let us know in the comment section if there's something on your mind that you would like to add regarding the theme's question. And besides, what things that we're doing nowadays do you think will be viewed as strange by the future folks?
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#1
Being at home at your TV at a certain time to catch a show, and expecting everyone to leave you alone so you could watch it with no interruptions.
You could be out with friends and you'd look and say "oh it's 7:30 I got to get home to catch my show!" And nobody looked at you like a strange social outcast.
Missy Corron 4 years ago
SNL (during college) we'd leave wherever we were.... get to one of our homes Tune in to SNL... then head back out. No one missed SNL cuz it was LIVE....
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
Thankfully, some streaming sites are going back to airing only one episode of a new show every week. It gives people time to process and actually enjoy talking about it with others for a week, instead of binging the entire show in one go and forgetting most of what happened ten seconds afterwards.
Felicia Murphy 4 years ago
I remember being in grade school and being OBSESSED with The Ricki Lake Show. I still remember... Mon-Fri 5:00 p.m on channel 13 lol
Brooke Harris 4 years ago
If I couldn't make in time to watch my shows, I'd just pop a tape in my VCR and set up the time record. 💗
Michelle Cox 4 years ago
Tuesday nights.. Buffy & Angel, y'all better not have an emergency until after 10 PM because I was not ansering the door or the phone
Blue 4 years ago
I actually miss those days. At work the next day people would be talking about the latest episode and what happened. It was fun. I still watch the 11 oclock news every night before bed and people think I am nuts when I could just get instant news updates on my phone. The internet , social media, and streaming does not necessarily make life better.
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#2
Leaving your young kids unsupervised most of the time.
I remember at 5 years old sitting in the parking lot of the bowling alley in my dads car for 3 hours while he was inside bowling. Also, most of the time, my parents had zero clue as to where I was. I would leave the house in the morning on my bicycle and be home for dinner. Suited them just fine.
deathrose 4 years ago
I kinda feel bad for kids nowadays. My sister and I use to go into the woods with our neighborhood friends and just run around and play, ride our bikes around the neighborhood or to the corner store. Our pitbull would accompany us unleashed and everyone would just stop and pet him as they passed by.
deathrose 4 years ago
We talk a lot about overweight children and I think making your children stay indoors so just you can watch them is part of the problem. I could only play video games after dinner and if my homework was done. I want expected home until the street lights came on. I pretty much spent my summers in a pool. Entertaining ourselves behind screens has really put us on a decline with our general health.
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Mia D 4 years ago
I was going to a grocery store by myself to get some milk and bread at the age of 6. That was at the end of 80s. And it was totally normal thing to do for a kid back then in my country ( mot USA). I also stayed at home for a week when I was 11 with my little sister when my parents were gone to the funeral in the other country. I did all the cooking and grocery shopping. Imagine this kind of stuff in 2021 in the USA!
Ivana 4 years ago
Why don't people still do this? Crime rates have actually drastically fallen since I was a kid running around unsupervised. Use to go to the store, ride my horse, ride my bike, run in the woods, I even use to read fairy tales in the cemetery at 2am. A plague or something hit the town in the late 1800s and there was a huge section full of kids that died during that time so I would go tell them bedtime stories when I was 10. I was a smart kid though, I hid if anyone else came around.
Fabian Meresse 4 years ago
Remembering having only a few rules during hollydays at grandparents home : being there for eating time, and not being late at the time assignated in the evening for coming back home. Great Times!
Rachel Brekhus 4 years ago
Free the kids. For goodness' sake. -Gen X kid who nothing bad ever happened to even after the 1980s panic about kidnappings, even without a phone to call home on. Eyeroll.
Les Izmore 4 years ago
Thus is a normal thing. Not allowing children to play and explore is the weird thing. Anxiety disorders are common because we don't allow children to have personal freedom that develops coping mechanisms
ADumpsterFire 4 years ago
I was an unsupervised kid who ran around the neighborhood and still have anxiety soooo
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Lara Verne 4 years ago
We just went outside and returned before dinner. I went to school myself at age 6, went by train to visit granma who lived in another town at age 8. My cousin has 6 years old daughter, she can't go alone anywhere.
Joran Quinten 4 years ago
We moved specifically for this to our new home. It's a collection of homes on a rural dead end street. We've been letting our kids roam free ("as long as you don't cross the big street") since they were 3 & 6
#3
Having a binder full of CD's in your car.
ojjunior 4 years ago (edited)
Me! Please don't ask me how many Information Society vynils, cassettes and CDs do I have as well.
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M O'Connell 4 years ago
Ha! My car has cassette tapes in the center console.
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Steve Riddle 4 years ago
Oldies Forever! I still have a binder of CD's in my car & 100's in the house.
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
I still do that. My car is the "basic" model, so it doesn't have Spotify or Sirius. It has a CD player.
#4
Going on road trips without a phone.
Kookamunga 4 years ago (edited)
Yup, had to use paper maps, too, no GPS....I remember stopping at gas stations so many times to get help with directions. And hoping they weren't sending me on a wild goose chase.
Robert T 4 years ago
I used to write my route out on a piece of paper and tuck it behind the sun visor. Worked great unless you missed a turn. I remember once heading off out into the cold dark night in Sweden and following signs for Oslo, and being glad I found my turn off for a little village. I also remember being glad of the studded tyres when it snowed on the third day!
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Vicky Z 4 years ago
Me too and to be honest i was very nervous traveling before phones and gps! I'm so glad of this technology! Was never able to manage with paper maps
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buttonpusher 4 years ago
Going anywhere without a phone. Actually up until about 4 or 5 years ago I never really bothered with phones. I forgot to have it with me most of the time (I'm in my early 30s). Now since I don't really use my PC anymore I have it on me 24/7.
Synsepalum 4 years ago
I don't have a cell phone. When I leave the house I am internet-less. My boyfriend works with people who have cell phones, but no internet access at home. Not because they can't afford it, but because they don't want it. Life in Montana.
#5
Dial Up internet.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
And the curses at the house when someone picked up the phone while someone else was downloading!!!
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The Claustrophobic Turtle 4 years ago (edited)
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#6
Being able to take a look in the cockpit of a plane.
The stewardesses would activly ask some kids on the flight if they wanted to take a look in the cockpit. I remember when I stepped in the cockpit of a Boeing 747 I decided I wanted to become a pilot someday.
Robert T 4 years ago (edited)
When I was a kid, I used to have a little book that the pilot would sign on each flight and would usually get invited up to the cockpit to get it signed. You could only stand back behind the pilots seats, and not touch anything, but if you were lucky the pilot would show you some of the controls and instruments. Used to love it. Real shame that kids these days will never expeience that.
Mickard 4 years ago
When I was around 10 years old, which is approximately 50 years ago, my dad was in charge of getting medical supplies shipped to Guam during the refugee crisis. They landed a C-5 at the airport, a regional hub. This plane was beyond huge. Since my dad was in charge of the airlift, I got to go into the aircraft to see the cockpit. I still have a picture of that massive control setup (lots of dials) in the plane. But what I remember the most was on the navigator console the flight engineer had a Mickey Mouse pocket watch. I asked about it, and he smiled and said that he kept that on his console and it was set to local time where he lives so we always knew what time it was at home with his kids
Peppermallow 4 years ago
I decided I wanted to become a pilot, so I took a crash course. Turns out that wasn't what they were looking for.
NOLAHusker 4 years ago
They still do this before takeoff during boarding. I see kids doing it all the time. I also fly a lot, so there's that, too.
Kevin Hickey 4 years ago
20 years ago was December of 2001. I doubt if anyone was looking in any cockpits. Most of the things on this list would be more likely 30 years ago.
Gelato Cat 4 years ago
I am only in my early teens and I have seen the inside of a cockpit on a commercial flight? Maybe it's just America that has banned this because of 911
#7
Paying $1.29, so 9 seconds of a song played when your phone rang.
fuggnuggins 4 years ago
No they weren't. They were a compromise. And a bad one. Either ugly ringtone or badly digitised theme song. I mean, you could have the same thing on your f*****g front door now if you wanted, and I know that you don't.
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Reynard 4 years ago
Anyone remember that strange noise that would happen sometimes if you had your cell phone next to a speaker?
buttonpusher 4 years ago (edited)
And then having your credit wiped out by f****n Jamster. Oh and crazy frog!
#8
People would go to carnivals and shove their face in the same water barrel to grab an apple with their mouth. Completely bonkers in 2021.
tuzdayschild 4 years ago
I always thought this was gross. On the few occasions I played, I made sure I went first.
September Meadows 4 years ago
I thought that was completely bonkers in the 70s and 80s. I'd never do it.
#9
That every computer on the planet was going to go nuts on New Year’s Day.
Robert T 4 years ago
Ok, that was bit cryptic for most folks, sorry. Has to do with the way we represent time in computer's internal clocks. Currently we use a 32-bit number to store the number of seconds since the 1st January 1970, and this will "wrap" on that date. The solution is to use 64-bit numbers instead. The problem is that some of these are embedded in hardware clocks... See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
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NOLAHusker 4 years ago
I had to do firmware updates for 500 or so computers at a credit union in 1998 to be Y2K compliant. There were serious concerns on the banking end. Just because it was handled well doesn't mean it wasn't a concern. There was a massive global push to get everything ready, especially on globally referenced timekeeping platforms.
fuggnuggins 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah, for bigger businesses it was a problem because when large databases are involved they frequently have the same machines in service for ages. I remember working at a large manufacturer in Sydney prior to 2000, just as a storeman, and they'd upgraded their database while I was there. We had to help move the old one out. With forklifts. It was like 30 years old or something, and it was a monster. And the only reason they hadn't upgraded was the risk of downtime while transitioning. So business panicked, and naturally large media organisations would get caught up in that whilrwind, but the notion that "every computer" would be affected was never a reality and a notion that only people who didn't understand computers - most people, then and now - and/or who had a predisposition for melodrama could have entertained. Many of use who did understand computers gamed on through the night on Dec 31 1999. I mean, even if you had any doubts it was as simple a matter as setting your clock forward to see what happens... So, there was never any reason to fear a digipocalypse, even though people in the know understood that some businesses would need to spend money to avoid themselves having big problems. People are always talking about things they know nothing about as though they are stating facts. As for finance and so forth, it was a valid consideration, but the general fear was instilled, not because of something understood. I remember there being at the same time a kind of held breath of hope for a change of direction. A lot of people had their fingers crossed, but then 2000 came and then anticlimax. Thanks a f*****g lot.
Load More Replies... Krazy Kat 4 years ago
The big problem was the date formatting. Only 6 digits were allowed, 2 each for day, month and year. Forward thinking and financially capable companies started trying to correct the future problem in the '70s and '80s but too many companies didn't even think about it until the new century was only a year or 2 away. Any organization that needed birthdays, banking dates or contract dates was faced with a major problem. 1998 and 1999 were a major panic. By the last quarter of 1999 programmers were living on caffine and sleeping on the floor of their cubicles. It was hell. The entire data processing world held its collective breath at midnight Dec. 31, 1999. Mostly, the world survived.
Elizabeth Butler 4 years ago
As a programmer for a utility in the 70's, I realized this was going to be a problem with the 6-digit date format (in ALL the programs because every character counted, to save space on the 80-character punch cards used for everything). I asked him if we shouldn't be doing something about it and he just said, oh all those programs will be obsolete way before then. NOPE we spent lots of effort fixing those programs and had to get a different mainframe.
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Softball05 4 years ago
My mom talked to me about that! She said that in 1999 there was this huge thing where the internet might go down, and some of her parent's friends were sooo worried... sounds insane now, but idk
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
Who downvoted this? It's absolutely true. I worked for the federal government in DC and it was a very real fear.
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Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
Ohhh I had a friend who bought an assault rifle in preparation for the Y2K crisis.
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 4 years ago
There was a guy commenting on bored panda recently who worked on the computers day and night to fix it 😂 the story was amusing but also showed / highlighted the misunderstanding of the general public’s fears as well.
Daisychain 4 years ago
I went into labour December 31, 1999 wondering if the hospital was even going to work when I delivered. All was well and I had my second son January 01, 2000.
fuggnuggins 4 years ago (edited)
Lucky kid. I was also born on a year with a round number, and so I almost always know how old I am during any particular year.
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#10
My highschool had an area where we were allowed to smoke. A designated smoking area for kids under 18.
Kookamunga 4 years ago
You could smoke EVERYWHERE back in the day - malls, planes, hospitals, offices. What was weird then was being told you COULDN'T smoke somewhere.
Nupraptor 4 years ago
I remember restaurants asking if you wanted the smoking or non-smoking section and my dad telling them "whatever's available first." It's not like the smell didn't travel over from the smoking section anyway.
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Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
We shared a smoking hut with the teachers. Also remember our family doctor smoking in the examining room.
WildBerry 4 years ago
In banks and in shoe stores, there were ashtrays that were on stands placed every few spaces.
Load More Replies... Mermaid Elle-Jaye 4 years ago
Our school used to do this too, you had to have special written parental permission first and then you were escorted with smoking teachers etc 😂 2003
Pezor Zass 4 years ago
A pal of mine was on a JAT plane to Yugoslavia when non-smoking was starting to be a thing. Enough passengers complained during his flight that the pilot came on the PA with a solution: the right-hand seats will be smoking, the left-hand non-smoking
Bonnie Sinclair 4 years ago
lol We didn't need permission. We just had a designated area out front. No age was checked.
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#11
Not having airport security.
Fabian Meresse 4 years ago
Also : smoking both on the airport and the plane! It was 1997, a flight to Dakar
8Yorkies-and-63cats 4 years ago (edited)
A very famous case in Greece was about a man from Egypt, who died during his flight in an Olympic Airways airplane, because he was severely allergic to second-hand smoke. He and his wife sat in non-smoking seats, but, pretty soon the smoke got to them. Even though they begged and begged the stewardesses to have the passengers put their cigarettes out, he suffered a fatal asthma attack and died right there. His wife sued the airline and won. No cigarette was ever smoked again in an Olympic Airways plane!
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Nupraptor 4 years ago
I miss being able to walk all the way to the gate to see off a loved one.
Elsie 4 years ago
Yeah that was great and just going to watch the planes come and go
Load More Replies... William Teach 4 years ago
They had plenty of security 20 years ago. In fact, it was drastically ramping up at this time 20 years ago. Go back 21 years, and there was still security, it just tended to be closer to the gate, usually down in the walkways to the terminals. Where you could also meet the people coming off the plane.
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
The first metal detectors were so sensitive that my underwire bra set it off. The agent had to grope me to make sure that's what it was. I told he could at least have bought me a cup of coffee first.
Irishwoman abroad 4 years ago
This happened my aunt back in the 70s, she was mortified!!
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I'm glad we have that now but I'm not glad that I'm not allowed to carry my hair gel or my toothpaste if it's bigger than it should!!!
8Yorkies-and-63cats 4 years ago (edited)
Or a bottle of water! And having to throw in the bin the sealed bottle you just bought a minute before, only to pass security, and then buy another one at the other side, literally a few meters away.
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Curious, in the UK we've had security and bag scanning for decades, especially in what was Terminal 1 at Heathrow with direct flights to & from Ireland. All the tech a result of terrorism threats. Always a bit unnerving when you're used to Police only armed with a baton & taser to see them walking around with MP5's LHR-Police...e20f94.jpg 
WildBerry 4 years ago (edited)
Being able to fly at a young age unaccompanied by a parent. At age 19, I took my 14 year old brother with me to Florida. This was in 1975 and I don't recall being asked for ID at all.
Daisychain 4 years ago
My son did this when he was 8 & 10 this century. And I flew from Honolulu to St. Louis by myself when I was 12 in the 90's.
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Toni Carroll 4 years ago
Oh there was airport security since the 70s. Maybe not as strict as now, but there was security in airports.
Ronald Morrison 4 years ago
And everyone got a meal as soon as they went wheels up on even short flights.
#12
People riding in cars without seatbelts plus four or five kids seated in the back.
WildBerry 4 years ago
more than 20 yrs here in the US too. Seatbelt laws were enforced in most places 20 yrs ago.
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Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
My father was strict about seat belts well over 20 years ago. He said they should be called "life belts." I religiously buckle mine.
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Ben Steinberg 4 years ago
Twenty years ago? Twenty years ago it was 2001. You can bet your ass people were wearing seat belts regularly. Fifty years ago ('71) not so much but twenty years ago? Yeah, they were wearing them...it was the law, even back then.
Robert T 4 years ago
Can still ride in a car in the UK now without a seatbelt if I wanted to. The only prerequisite is that the car must've been built without seatbelts (i.e. an historic vehicle). Completely legal to do so. However if you retrofit seatbelts to it, they must work and must be worn. I have fitted racing harnesses to mine and do wear them.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
That was certainly not normal 20 years ago where I am. It was normal 35 years ago because a lot of the cars had no seatbelts for the back row.
#13
People spending thousands of dollars on Beanie Babies.
Emme K. 4 years ago
those are actually super popular with the little girls nowadays too, all the little sisters of my friends love them lol :D
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yellowphantom 4 years ago
That was over 30 years ago. My kids were too young but I remember the women with older girls in my office strategizing about where cabbage patch dolls were in stock. Mine were beanie baby and ninja turtle age. It was hard to find turtle merch around the holidays.
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Anna Banana 4 years ago
As a non-American I've googled this before and I still don't understand what the craze was about. What's so special about them?
Adam 4 years ago
Nothing really, I heard the story was they were marketed as "collectibles" at the height of when people were realizing that, for instance, first edition comic books were generally poorly preserved and so collectors were paying top dollar. But it didn't turn out as everyone and their mom ended up getting them so it didn't have the scarcity value. For what it's worth I thought they had a nice feel to them, a nice heft you don't get with cotton plushes, but that also kind of limited their size.
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Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
When they were in McDonald's happy meals. Adults having to be limited the number they could buy at one time. Also overhearing a conversation on how to use the nuggets from the Happy meal in a casserole as to not waste the food.
Hiker Chick 4 years ago
A couple of my coworkers would go to McDonalds every day for a Happy Meal to get those beanie babies!
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#14
Not password protecting your devices.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I miss the times when they didn't request you one capital letter one number one symbol for a password!!! I don't f*****g remember my passwords when they are so complicated!!! A hacker will still find a way and I'll be locked out anyway
Pezor Zass 4 years ago
My work has stopped making us change our passwords constantly. The way they did this was to have us make 16-digit passwords. No part of that makes sense to me.
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Twodogsandapicnictable 4 years ago
Deviices? What are devices? In the 90s, pagers were the most advanced anything anyone carried around with them.
Aurora Garrison 4 years ago
The world when people didn't give a crap if you had the internet or not
buttonpusher 4 years ago
People being amazed if you did have the internet.
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John Baker 4 years ago
I live alone. No one has access to any of my devices except me. Why do I need passwords?
CJ Kelly 4 years ago
Hackers use the web to access and break into your devices. They don't need to see/hold/handle them to steal everything they need.
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Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Now we're changing our passwords every couple of months to stay ahead of the hackers.
Denny Cwiek 4 years ago
Passcodes drive me crazy. I want to access sites both at home and at work, but it never fails that I forget what I last changed it to, the passcode is written down where I'm NOT! I have a work computer, desktop at home, cellphone, and tablet. As soon as I make up a new passcode I'm somewhere else and don't have it so have to change it again....Might as well become a hermit and live off the grid to not have to have passwords.
Steve Riddle 4 years ago
Short words like CAT or TOP plus Numbers are an easy way to create passwords.
#15
Frosted tips.
Suz66 4 years ago
My ex had me frost his blonde hair with platinum blonde spikes. Totally 90's.
Kelly Hartle 4 years ago
My sister in law once asked how I got that "reverse frosting" in my hair. I'm just turning gray, Donna.
Samantha PandaNotBored 4 years ago
I onece went out with a guy who said he was going to the salon where I worked .. strange I thought, I’d do your hair for free… No I Want A Perm 🥴
buttonpusher 4 years ago
After that came the stripe. Just a stripe, usually red, across the middle of your head. It was everywhere!
Lily bloom 4 years ago
I made a dude cry when I told him it looked like he had fallen headfirst into a freshly painted wall
#16
Justin Timberlake’s dried up, uncooked, ramen noodle looking hair.
Kookamunga 4 years ago
Come on, lazy panda, you could of found a photo of the ramen hair! timberlake...ee9d6d.jpg 
Ebony Rose 4 years ago
Me neither. Justin Timberlake is what happens when you get your Michael Jackson from Wish.
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MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
I saw a girl at my school with that kind of hair style. she was a big time bully.
#17
Boots with the fur.
Karin Jansen 4 years ago
Got to be careful with those boots. Next thing you know, shawty will get low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low.
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Kookamunga 4 years ago
I see them all the time - You look like a Yeti from the mid-shin down.
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MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
These haven't gone anywhere. We call them mukluks in Canada.
The Queen Of Upper Butt Crack 4 years ago
I had white one that I would comb out when they got messy. I loved those boots.
#18
Shutting down Napster.
fuggnuggins 4 years ago
Soulseek was better, and still exists. So do torrents.
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McSydney 4 years ago
I tried to download the song, The End ( The Doors). Napster estimated it would take about 4 days.
Raena Celis 4 years ago
I remember acting like a computer hacker genius the first time I downloaded a song
#19
The Playboy Mansion.
Rat 4 years ago
Seriously though. These kinds of observations make it sound like we were all unenlightened chimps, all completely ok with all the creepy crap. A lot of us never liked it either, we just didn't have any way to do anything about it.
Load More Replies... buttonpusher 4 years ago
Young kids going around in Playboy merch too. Clothes, schoolbags, stationary. Little kids wearing trousers with "Sexy" and "Juicy" stamped across the a**e. 😐
Goose2008 4 years ago
ive seen a few people in my school wearing hoodies with the playboy logo on them 😬
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Cameron Rose 4 years ago
Few people remember Sugar N Spice. It was a supplement that was sometimes sold with the magazine. It featured girls around age 10. COMPLETELY NUDE. Brooke Shields posed for it at age 10. You can still find images of her NUDE at age 10. She's wearing a face full of heavy makeup. Yes hugh hefner DID THAT
Diane Aguilar 4 years ago
You're conflating one thing that happened during the publication of a long-time supplement with frequent practice. Also, the only reason why someone was able to take photos of a nude Brooke Shields at that age is because her mother allowed it to happen. It didn't do what an actual pedophilic pornographer would do, which is groom a child to basically force said child to pose for pornographic photos without said child's parent(s)' permission or knowledge. Shields's mother also allowed her to play a preteen prostitute at a very young age in Pretty Baby, in a very different portrayal of a preteen prostitute than the one Jodie Foster played in Taxi Driver (where Foster's character was meant to be a sad condemnation of the society portrayed in the film and there was nothing overtly lurid about her).
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Annie Bieber 4 years ago
I worked for Playboy at the Sunset Bldg in 80-83 and went to the PBM numerous times. It wasn't the Den of Iniquity most thought. The grounds were GORGEOUS & I took my Grandmother, Mother, Aunt & on tours. The only Dodgy thing was trying to explain to Gramma what those "chairs" were for inside the Grotto...Errrr...Exercise said I 😶
Annie Bieber 4 years ago
Side note...Working at the Sunset Bldg where Playboy Studio West was it was amusing , irritating and UBER Creepy when men would approach me w/the BS line "Has anyone told you you could be a model? I work for Playboy..." No you don't azzhat...I do. I was not Miss Any Month, rather the West Coast Sr Acct Clerk. It was a VERY interesting job to say the least as PB was in its full throttle heyday at the time & I got some 🤯 Stories. You haven't lived til you've been yelled at by a Playmate in full studio makeup wearing a just a robe, hot rollers because one of the other "Singing 🤢 Playmates" gets a bigger check...Hello Sparky...she's sleeping with the Boss!!🙄🤣🤣
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Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago
My ex's family lived within sight of it. It overlooks the L.A. country club whom her dad was a member of. She actually grew up in Jean Harlow's house. Haunted as all get out according to her. Very interesting stories.
#20
The Patriot Act.
Louis Beltcher 4 years ago
It was overridden by the USA FREEDOM Act in 2015 to help curtail the government's invasive power
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Alex Barnett 4 years ago
Law passed after 9/11. It used to be illegal to spy on American citizens.
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Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Still find it strange how folx with cell phones are so worried about being spied on via other methods. Ditch your ever-spying phone if your so worried.
#21
JNCO jeans.
Kaleb Bush 4 years ago
I pulled out a pair for my kids to see and damn it they just started laughing
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BasedWang 4 years ago
me too. even a pair thats ductaped back together and spray painted on from back when I was backyard wrestlin.. good times
Load More Replies... yellowphantom 4 years ago
My kid got tangled up in his pants while getting out of the car and fell onto the ground in front of the school. The leg openings were about the same size as the waist opening.
Kari Marine 4 years ago
YES! I argued with my mom for what seemed like an eternity in the dressing room. Still makes her shudder lol
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Stoopham McFernybabes 4 years ago
Was discussing this with my husband today: trampolines with NO safety net, no buried in a pit so it’s ground level, no spring guards - nothing. Just an incredibly bouncy platform high off the ground that 12 kids between the ages of 1 and 27 would all go on at once.
Ross Warren 4 years ago
The neighbor kid and I would jump off his roof onto the trampoline. That's how I lost 3 of my baby teeth.
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MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
Getting the wrong number and then ending up having a delightful conversation with someone, or politely letting them go with a laugh.
Pa4040 4 years ago (edited)
Back in the day, they sold sim cards on newspaper stands. No one asked for an ID. You would go to the provider outlet only if you wanted a paid subscription. All went downhill when phone scams sckyrocketed and old people were getting scammed out of their savings. *EDIT* Also cigarettes and alcohol were sold to anyone, at any age. My dad would send me off to buy him cigarettes and beer at the age of 5. I couldn't even count yet. Also no receipts were given after a purchase. Anywhere. You would eat, and a breakdown hand written on a paper tab would be given to you. People would just compare if the prices matched the ones in the menu. Also no one flew. Only businessmen. A regular airplane ticket cost well over your average monthly wage, sometimes two. At least the above was true in the early 90s back in Bulgaria.
Theresa Kettner 4 years ago
My Mom gave us a note to take to to gas station to pick up cigs 🙄
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Summer Mason 4 years ago
Having a cell phone you could smash with a brick and it still worked.
N000dle 4 years ago
Having a designated meeting spot and HAVING to be there on time because if you were too late the other person would just leave.
Pa4040 4 years ago
Remembered another one: there used to be a number you could dial on your (stationary, rotary ) phone, and you could listen to fairy tales. Used to crank up the phone bill a lot for my folks, but I loved listening to Little Red Riding Hood, the 7 little goats etc.
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
Where can't you wear a scarf to school? That's a staple of winter wear in Canada.
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Amy Stone-Chandler 4 years ago
Thought of another one. In Canada growing up, as example: our house phone numbers were 7 digits on full. Like 519-1382. BUT we only had to dial "9-1382" to connect. 12 digit phone numbers (plus 1 at the front) were only for long distance. Which tbh was anywhere 15 minutes outside our city.
Stoopham McFernybabes 4 years ago
Was discussing this with my husband today: trampolines with NO safety net, no buried in a pit so it’s ground level, no spring guards - nothing. Just an incredibly bouncy platform high off the ground that 12 kids between the ages of 1 and 27 would all go on at once.
Ross Warren 4 years ago
The neighbor kid and I would jump off his roof onto the trampoline. That's how I lost 3 of my baby teeth.
Load More Replies... MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
Getting the wrong number and then ending up having a delightful conversation with someone, or politely letting them go with a laugh.
Pa4040 4 years ago (edited)
Back in the day, they sold sim cards on newspaper stands. No one asked for an ID. You would go to the provider outlet only if you wanted a paid subscription. All went downhill when phone scams sckyrocketed and old people were getting scammed out of their savings. *EDIT* Also cigarettes and alcohol were sold to anyone, at any age. My dad would send me off to buy him cigarettes and beer at the age of 5. I couldn't even count yet. Also no receipts were given after a purchase. Anywhere. You would eat, and a breakdown hand written on a paper tab would be given to you. People would just compare if the prices matched the ones in the menu. Also no one flew. Only businessmen. A regular airplane ticket cost well over your average monthly wage, sometimes two. At least the above was true in the early 90s back in Bulgaria.
Theresa Kettner 4 years ago
My Mom gave us a note to take to to gas station to pick up cigs 🙄
Load More Replies... Summer Mason 4 years ago
Having a cell phone you could smash with a brick and it still worked.
N000dle 4 years ago
Having a designated meeting spot and HAVING to be there on time because if you were too late the other person would just leave.
Pa4040 4 years ago
Remembered another one: there used to be a number you could dial on your (stationary, rotary ) phone, and you could listen to fairy tales. Used to crank up the phone bill a lot for my folks, but I loved listening to Little Red Riding Hood, the 7 little goats etc.
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
Where can't you wear a scarf to school? That's a staple of winter wear in Canada.
Load More Replies... Amy Stone-Chandler 4 years ago
Thought of another one. In Canada growing up, as example: our house phone numbers were 7 digits on full. Like 519-1382. BUT we only had to dial "9-1382" to connect. 12 digit phone numbers (plus 1 at the front) were only for long distance. Which tbh was anywhere 15 minutes outside our city.
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