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The other night Smackie, Wolfie, Mama and I were chatting a bit about the good ol' days.

You know, when Wolfie used to walk 7 miles through the snow to school and back... uphill both ways.
And Smackie used to disregard all health and safety standards by riding his bicycle without a special little sissy helmet.

These are things the younger generation will never understand.


And now this...









Figure it out!





#brainiacs

Ever watch any of Stefan Molyneux's yt videos? He has a good one about children today and the fact that unsupervised play has become a thing of the past with many kids and that it is a very, very bad thing.

We old fukkers all had fairly similar childhoods in that we would spend most non-school days wandering the neighborhood like feral dogs. We would make our own fun and we would learn how to deal with our peers, all by ourselves. As a result, most of us have reasonable interpersonal skills. Your average 20 year old today have completely missed out on this. The result is high levels of suicide and various forms of mental disorder. We're fuct, basically.

Softball Bat wrote:The other night Smackie, Wolfie, Mama and I were chatting a bit about the good ol' days.

One of many reasons why TuneTown should be THE place to be on Friday nights. Oh, and there's the whole music thing, too.

And now this...

I'm gonna cut the youngsters some slack. I never learned Morse code or how to use a slide rule because I never needed to. There are probably dozens of everyday products the generations before ours knew how to use that we'd have trouble figuring out today because technology rendered them obsolete. Today's kids never learned to dial a phone because they never had to. I imagine in 30 years or so the kids in that video will be lamenting that their kids don't know how to use cell phones. Nothing really sad about it. It should be expected.

smackaholic wrote:Ever watch any of Stefan Molyneux's yt videos? He has a good one about children today and the fact that unsupervised play has become a thing of the past with many kids and that it is a very, very bad thing.

We old fukkers all had fairly similar childhoods in that we would spend most non-school days wandering the neighborhood like feral dogs. We would make our own fun and we would learn how to deal with our peers, all by ourselves. As a result, most of us have reasonable interpersonal skills. Your average 20 year old today have completely missed out on this. The result is high levels of suicide and various forms of mental disorder. We're fuct, basically.

Give it a rest, Chicken Little.

To high school, my shortest route was over a hill--sooooo---uphill both ways. And I had the early version of voice-operated channel changing on my TV---my kids: "turn, turn, keep" was the command sequence.
I had a Pocket Pickett slide rule. My older son found it and asked me what it was. I showed him how to use it. He thought it was cool. Works even with a power outage and needs no batteries.

Wolfman wrote:To high school, my shortest route was over a hill--sooooo---uphill both ways. And I had the early version of voice-operated channel changing on my TV---my kids: "turn, turn, keep" was the command sequence.
I had a Pocket Pickett slide rule. My older son found it and asked me what it was. I showed him how to use it. He thought it was cool. Works even with a power outage and needs no batteries.

I would definitely want you on my side during the zombie apocalypse...

...unless you yourself were a zombie...

When I was in college, and hacking was something medieval soldiers did, there were people known as “phone phreaks,” probably the societal ancestors of today’s hackers. We had one living in our dorm during my freshman and sophomore years. He always wore either all black or all white clothes and was a computer science major way before IT was even a thought. Pretty smart, too, as he went on to help in the development of a major programming language and, from what I hear, made big bucks in the industry.

Anyhoo, this was also way before cell phones and this guy was a bona fide phone phreak. I don’t know all the tricks he had in his bag but he had a little electronic box he could hook up to a pay phone and make free calls. No doubt he had the tools to put a tap on somebody’s line if he wanted to.

One thing he taught me is that a phone dial just puts a series of pulses in the line. You could dial a phone without the dial by just tapping on the button in the receiver cradle once to dial a 1, twice for 2 etc as long as you had the timing close enough. I don’t know if that still works on today’s phones but knowing Ma Bell, I wouldn’t be surprised.

Smackie Chan wrote:I'm gonna cut the youngsters some slack. I never learned Morse code or how to use a slide rule because I never needed to. There are probably dozens of everyday products the generations before ours knew how to use that we'd have trouble figuring out today because technology rendered them obsolete. Today's kids never learned to dial a phone because they never had to. I imagine in 30 years or so the kids in that video will be lamenting that their kids don't know how to use cell phones. Nothing really sad about it. It should be expected.

So, you're just normal old, like me. You can use a dial phone, improve TV reception with aluminum foil, that sorta stuff. Wolfie and Goobs have that seriously old fukk knowledge.

Things like how to start a model T without breaking your arm (retard the spark).

Screw_Michigan wrote:

smackaholic wrote:Ever watch any of Stefan Molyneux's yt videos? He has a good one about children today and the fact that unsupervised play has become a thing of the past with many kids and that it is a very, very bad thing.

We old fukkers all had fairly similar childhoods in that we would spend most non-school days wandering the neighborhood like feral dogs. We would make our own fun and we would learn how to deal with our peers, all by ourselves. As a result, most of us have reasonable interpersonal skills. Your average 20 year old today have completely missed out on this. The result is high levels of suicide and various forms of mental disorder. We're fuct, basically.

Give it a rest, Chicken Little.

Do you deny this is a major problem which will worsen as these disfunctional kids eventually leave mom's basement and get out into the world?

The push button phone produces a multi-frequency tone that is pretty difficult to reproduce. My son, the wizard made one of those phone dialer thingies and I had to disavow any knowledge of it when he called long distance. On our old ANTRC-27 radios in the Army we could "dial" by whistling a certain frequency.I think it was 1.6 KC. In college my senior year dorm pay phone was the older model where the money return did not have that lttle pull out thingy. You could put wire coat hanger up inside it and trip the catch latch that sent the coins into the coin box and they would drop right back to you. One quarter run several times got you a long distance call. Sadly when the phone company guy came to empty the coin box and it was empty---they removed the phone and that was that for us.

Wolfman wrote:The push button phone produces a multi-frequency tone that is pretty difficult to reproduce.

I'm thinking that the system may still accept the pulse dial, otherwise all dial phones will be obsolete and unusable. Probably depends on the carrier.

Remember fukking with the dial knob cable box where if you put it between channels you could watch partially descrambled softcore pron? That is our generation's version of walking barefoot through the snow uphill both ways.

Damn kids got it easy today?

smackaholic wrote:Remember fukking with the dial knob cable box where if you put it between channels you could watch partially descrambled softcore pron?

hell

YEAH

Show me a man that hasn't spanked it to Adrienne Barbeau's partially scrambled tiddays in Swamp Thing...and I'll show you a man that hasn't lived.

Knob cable box? They never had those around here. Is there a place to put your knob whilst watching all that soft-core pron?

smackaholic wrote:Remember fukking with the dial knob cable box where if you put it between channels you could watch partially descrambled softcore pron? That is our generation's version of walking barefoot through the snow uphill both ways.

Damn kids got it easy today?

Even better, when the cable went out you should have about a 1-2 hour window where none of the pay channels would be scrambled. Rack post thunderstorm Playboy after Dark.