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Nov 27, 2015 10:32:44   #
Elwood Loc: Florida
 
Going the e-mail rounds.


Black and White TV
(Under age 40? You won't understand.)
You could hardly see for all the snow,
Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
'Good Night, David.
Good Night, Chet.'
My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.
My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli.
Almost all of us would
Have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
We all took gym, not PE... And risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.
Flunking gym was not an option... Even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.
Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
Oh yeah... And where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.
Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either; because if we did we got our butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again when we got home.
I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off.
Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house.
Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.
To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family.
How could we possibly have known that?
We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes.
We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even
Notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!
How did we ever survive?
LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA; AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING!
Pass this to someone and remember that life's most simple pleasures are very often the best.

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Nov 27, 2015 10:38:15   #
JMHO Loc: Utah
 
Elwood wrote:
Going the e-mail rounds.


Black and White TV
(Under age 40? You won't understand.)
You could hardly see for all the snow,
Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
'Good Night, David.
Good Night, Chet.'
My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.
My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli.
Almost all of us would
Have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
We all took gym, not PE... And risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.
Flunking gym was not an option... Even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.
Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
Oh yeah... And where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.
Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either; because if we did we got our butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again when we got home.
I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off.
Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house.
Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.
To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family.
How could we possibly have known that?
We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes.
We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even
Notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!
How did we ever survive?
LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA; AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING!
Pass this to someone and remember that life's most simple pleasures are very often the best.
Going the e-mail rounds. br br br Black and Whit... (show quote)


I recently ran across a video version of this.

http://objflicks.com/WhenLifewasInBlack&White.htm

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Nov 27, 2015 11:02:55   #
jimahrens Loc: California
 
I was raised in a Children's Home I remember sitting around the T.V. and watching Sky King Amos and Andy Lone Ranger. Heckle and Jeckle. Your right would not trade for all the money in the world.
Elwood wrote:
Going the e-mail rounds.


Black and White TV
(Under age 40? You won't understand.)
You could hardly see for all the snow,
Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
'Good Night, David.
Good Night, Chet.'
My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.
My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli.
Almost all of us would
Have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
We all took gym, not PE... And risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.
Flunking gym was not an option... Even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.
Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
Oh yeah... And where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.
Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either; because if we did we got our butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again when we got home.
I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off.
Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house.
Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.
To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family.
How could we possibly have known that?
We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes.
We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even
Notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!
How did we ever survive?
LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA; AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING!
Pass this to someone and remember that life's most simple pleasures are very often the best.
Going the e-mail rounds. br br br Black and Whit... (show quote)

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Nov 27, 2015 11:29:12   #
Parrothead Loc: In front of my laptop
 
You will probably never see Amos and Andy re-runs. It would offend somebody. I'm surprised they show the old "Andy Griffith Show" since it was all white. No network would risk "All in the Family" these days. Blacks would probably protest "Sanford and Son" these days. I watch about three hours of the boob tube a week excluding college football. That will drop to about to zero since the season finale of "The Blacklist" and "Blindspot".

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Nov 27, 2015 11:34:56   #
jimahrens Loc: California
 
Those shows were all in fun nothing racist about them. I am sick of political correctness. It's outlawed in my house and among my friends. Don't care how you dress a Duck is still a Duck.
Parrothead wrote:
You will probably never see Amos and Andy re-runs. It would offend somebody. I'm surprised they show the old "Andy Griffith Show" since it was all white. No network would risk "All in the Family" these days. Blacks would probably protest "Sanford and Son" these days. I watch about three hours of the boob tube a week excluding college football. That will drop to about to zero since the season finale of "The Blacklist" and "Blindspot".

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Nov 27, 2015 11:45:53   #
Parrothead Loc: In front of my laptop
 
I got a Daisy BB gun when I was six. Today I would be considered a terrorist or at least be put into therapy. :roll:

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Nov 27, 2015 11:49:13   #
Parrothead Loc: In front of my laptop
 
jimahrens wrote:
Those shows were all in fun nothing racist about them. I am sick of political correctness. It's outlawed in my house and among my friends. Don't care how you dress a Duck is still a Duck.


I'm the same way. The only way to not offend someone these days is to join a monastery and take a vow of silence.

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Nov 27, 2015 11:52:41   #
jimahrens Loc: California
 
You extremist you. Yes what have we become. Spoiled brats want it all for free on your and my backs. Well they will keep it up and the world as they know it will change, then they will have something to whine about.
Parrothead wrote:
I got a Daisy BB gun when I was six. Today I would be considered a terrorist or at least be put into therapy. :roll:

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Nov 27, 2015 13:32:32   #
Elwood Loc: Florida
 
JMHO wrote:
I recently ran across a video version of this.

http://objflicks.com/WhenLifewasInBlack&White.htm


:thumbup: :thumbup: Thanks. :-D

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Nov 27, 2015 13:33:14   #
Elwood Loc: Florida
 
jimahrens wrote:
I was raised in a Children's Home I remember sitting around the T.V. and watching Sky King Amos and Andy Lone Ranger. Heckle and Jeckle. Your right would not trade for all the money in the world.


:thumbup: :thumbup: :-D

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Nov 27, 2015 13:34:51   #
Elwood Loc: Florida
 
Parrothead wrote:
You will probably never see Amos and Andy re-runs. It would offend somebody. I'm surprised they show the old "Andy Griffith Show" since it was all white. No network would risk "All in the Family" these days. Blacks would probably protest "Sanford and Son" these days. I watch about three hours of the boob tube a week excluding college football. That will drop to about to zero since the season finale of "The Blacklist" and "Blindspot".


:thumbup: :thumbup: True. Can't wait for January when The Blacklist resumes. Hopefully Blindspot will have similar timing. :-D

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Nov 28, 2015 08:02:30   #
pappadeux Loc: Phoenix AZ
 
sixty of my TV watching is B/W mostly TCM. However I have a huge selection of B/W tapes and born again history CD's

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Nov 28, 2015 10:52:11   #
hedgewm
 
We all had BB gun's and had BB gun fight's. BBs sting! That all ended when we got pellet gun's. They HURT!

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Nov 28, 2015 10:53:05   #
hedgewm
 
We all had BB gun's and had BB gun fight's. BBs sting! That all ended when we got pellet gun's. They HURT! :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown:

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Nov 28, 2015 12:20:02   #
BearK Loc: TN
 
Elwood, thanks for the memories. That was a time of real living. We could play in the street after dark, and no worry about perverts. Rode our bikes without protective head gear.

Back then, you either passed a grade or the teacher failed you, and cut-ups were sent to the principal's office so not to disrupt the rest of the class from learning.

No wonder it was referred to as the "Greatest Generation." Without a cell phone in hand, how do today's kids find their way home from school - we walked, and sometimes several miles. Thinking for ourselves, and trying to figure things out was left to us to use our brain. We didn't need instructions to tell us not to stand on the top of a step ladder.

If we needed a job, we took what work we could find, happy to have it, and did it well. Today's kids will survive - somehow, hopefully not as slaves being ordered as to what work they are told they have to do.

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