The Big Generation X Nostalgia Thread

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Zimzerveran said:
Bring back my magma pies, damn it!
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Oh yeah! If the apple pie doesn't cause physical damage to you, its not good enough to be a McD's Apple Pie!

For the record, I was really sad that got rid of the magma loaded, boiling hot version. McD's should just go back to serving what they had when I worked there in 87-89. Lots of grease, frying everything, pretty much everything cooked to order, or almost*.

* During lunch and dinner rush, we cooked as fast as we fucking could!
 
I was recently reminded of something that younger generations have no experience with, and in the case of kids today might not believe you if you told them: designated smoking areas for students in high school.

Arguably as much of a cutoff for Gen X as many other dividing lines.
 
Tulpa Girl said:
I was recently reminded of something that younger generations have no experience with, and in the case of kids today might not believe you if you told them: designated smoking areas for students in high school.

Arguably as much of a cutoff for Gen X as many other dividing lines.
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I'm Gen X and I know these areas existed, but they were gone around here by at least the '90s, if not earlier. But being towards the end of the generation, my experience is likely different from earlier members.
 
Dyrnwyn said:
I'm Gen X and I know these areas existed, but they were gone around here by at least the '90s, if not earlier. But being towards the end of the generation, my experience is likely different from earlier members.
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In the U.S. there was a push in the late 80s to try to curb teen smoking, and in '89 most states increased the minimum age to purchase cigs - usually a minimum of 16, but sometimes higher, varying state by state. In Georgia, it had been increased to 17 a couple of years earlier (don't remember what it was before that). I never smoked, but growing up several of my friends did.

A related thing that kids today might not believe was that my parents would sometimes send me to the local convenience store to purchase cigs and/or beer for them. They would give a little extra money so that I could purchase candy or soda for myself (which in my case was actually usually a comic book or two instead), or just pocket the difference instead as some extra allowance money. You had to bring a written note the first time you went to a particular store, but didn't afterwards once the person behind the counter recognized and remembered you.
 
Fenris-77 said:
I finished high school in 95 and at that point the Catholic HS I went to had just banned smoking on campus that year.
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I finished High School in '92 and smoking was positively verboten anywhere on school grounds. Apparently this did not apply to the bathrooms, as I often felt I should have been issued a respirator to safely access a urinal.
 
In the '90s I loved this stuff. Old-school glass bottle and metal cap. I could go for one right now.

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Smoking was prohibited across the board in the UK but there were always places to go for the cool and the delinquents - places which the teachers were well aware of but which were too far away from the staff room to bother policing.
 
Zimzerveran said:
I finished High School in '92 and smoking was positively verboten anywhere on school grounds. Apparently this did not apply to the bathrooms, as I often felt I should have been issued a respirator to safely access a urinal.
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With my high school it wasn't cigarettes polluting the bathrooms but pot.
Now days I suppose it's vaping.
 
Zimzerveran said:
I finished High School in '92 and smoking was positively verboten anywhere on school grounds. Apparently this did not apply to the bathrooms, as I often felt I should have been issued a respirator to safely access a urinal.
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Pretty certain that this was at least part of the reason for having an area (which was almost always outside) where the smoking would be contained, and the bathrooms or other rooms wouldn't get stunk up.

Also, it was a privilege that could be rescinded if you got caught doing something you could be punished for, so a little bit of a stick along with the carrot.
 
Giganotosaurus said:
With my high school it wasn't cigarettes polluting the bathrooms but pot.
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This was my high school as well at the end of the 1970s and start of the 1980s. Can't tell you what happened after that but this nailed mine for sure at the time. We also had a lot of cigarette smoking but it was out in the parking lot.
 
Acmegamer said:
This was my high school as well at the end of the 1970s and start of the 1980s. Can't tell you what happened after that but this nailed mine for sure at the time. We also had a lot of cigarette smoking but it was out in the parking lot.
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It ended at my school as soon as the gym teacher walked in on the sole kid doing it. I suspect it wasn't a more widespread problem because the main bathrooms were directly across the hall from the main offices.
 
Sheesh. At my highschool, the rule was instant expulsion if a teacher spotted you smoking - in or out of school! I have a feeling they probably wouldn't have enforced it that rigorously, but I never smelled cigarettes at school.
 
My HS didnt have an officially recognized smoking section, but there was a spot behind the gym where the goth kids smoked during the lunch break, the rest of the time it was in the bathrooms. Teachers made no effort to stop it from what I recall, it was just sorta ignored.
 
I graduated in '94 in New Mexico where 16 was the legal age. Being a rural school, snuff was a bigger thing than cigarettes , I had friends who would get their cans pinched by teachers needing a dip.
 
Tulpa Girl said:
In the U.S. there was a push in the late 80s to try to curb teen smoking, and in '89 most states increased the minimum age to purchase cigs - usually a minimum of 16, but sometimes higher, varying state by state. In Georgia, it had been increased to 17 a couple of years earlier (don't remember what it was before that). I never smoked, but growing up several of my friends did.

A related thing that kids today might not believe was that my parents would sometimes send me to the local convenience store to purchase cigs and/or beer for them. They would give a little extra money so that I could purchase candy or soda for myself (which in my case was actually usually a comic book or two instead), or just pocket the difference instead as some extra allowance money. You had to bring a written note the first time you went to a particular store, but didn't afterwards once the person behind the counter recognized and remembered you.
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OMG, you and I lived parallel lives! My dad would send 9-10 year old me, on my bike, down to the local liquor store a few blocks down the street to buy beer, cigarettes, and whatever candy I wanted (for the record, my dad was an alcoholic, and smoking eventually led to COPD, which killed him :thumbsdown: ) I'd go get his beer out of the fridge, grab the candy I wanted, then go to the counter and tell them I wanted a pack of Marlboro's. The Iranian guys behind the counter looked at me like I was crazy the first time I did this. They asked, "Is this for you?" I'm like, "No, its for my dad. The candy is for me" And they were like, "Ok" and rang it up. Insane...
 
Back when everything and everyone was covered in creosote. :shade::coffee: I remember smoking and non-smoking sections on airplanes not working so well, we were separated by an aisle curtain.

And I survived 1.5 story metal slides in the hot Arabian sun! :sun::grin: Don't wear shorts! Round smooth rungs with zero traction, kids deck shoes with zero traction, the slide isolated in naught but tarmac for cushioning, thigh high striped athletic socks being your only defense against riding the ladle of flaming doom... Good times, good times! :shade:
 
Godfather Punk said:
Aka The Mare of Steel!
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You know what's funny, when I watched that thing in the movie as a kid I laughed at first because it really did have a similar height as those slides. But there's more platform security measures in the Mare of Steel to allow multiple people at the top. :wink:

Oh yeah, this was life before PG-13 and parents taking their media guidance role seriously. :hehe: "Jaws" is a PG movie. "Return to Oz" is for children. What? :blah: They're not bleeding, they'll be fine... :music: Mmmm, now with lower tar per cigarette pack.
 
opaopajr said:
You know what's funny, when I watched that thing in the movie as a kid I laughed at first because it really did have a similar height as those slides. But there's more platform security measures in the Mare of Steel to allow multiple people at the top. :wink:

Oh yeah, this was life before PG-13 and parents taking their media guidance role seriously. :hehe: "Jaws" is a PG movie. "Return to Oz" is for children. What? :blah: They're not bleeding, they'll be fine... :music: Mmmm, now with lower tar per cigarette pack.
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"rub dirt on it and take a lap."
 
Zimzerveran said:
I finished High School in '92 and smoking was positively verboten anywhere on school grounds. Apparently this did not apply to the bathrooms, as I often felt I should have been issued a respirator to safely access a urinal.
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I graduated in 93' and our school still had a smoking area. It's where all the hot goth and metal girls hungout.
 
bleys21 said:
OMG, you and I lived parallel lives! My dad would send 9-10 year old me, on my bike, down to the local liquor store a few blocks down the street to buy beer, cigarettes, and whatever candy I wanted (for the record, my dad was an alcoholic, and smoking eventually led to COPD, which killed him :thumbsdown: ) I'd go get his beer out of the fridge, grab the candy I wanted, then go to the counter and tell them I wanted a pack of Marlboro's. The Iranian guys behind the counter looked at me like I was crazy the first time I did this. They asked, "Is this for you?" I'm like, "No, its for my dad. The candy is for me" And they were like, "Ok" and rang it up. Insane...
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My Mom would send me to the corner store for cigs when I was around 10 years old but she did give me a written note for the clerk the first few times.
 
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