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From my Facebook memories 7 years ago….
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Wish I didn't wake up from that dream. Gen x'rs were tough and we fought it out if we had issues and then came together for lunch. We put devils spit on our wounds (Merchurchrome or merthiolate) and were told to shut or and not cry or we would be given something to cry about. We hung from jungle jims, had rock wars, rode bicycles wothout helmets, rode the circle of death I.e. the playground carousel, slid down a slide that was made of tine and was hotter than a devils fart, and played smeer the queer. SNACKS AND DRINKS...don't even think about it...garden hose and a peanut butter sandwich handed to you through the door cusee we weren't allowed back in till the barn lights came on. We were the tough generation that weren't offended by anything...heck we had yo momma jokes etc. Wish we could go back there sometimes.
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Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth
Maj Kim Patterson - That stuff was hotter than devils piss but youdidn't dare scream or cry...you swallowed that emotion and went back out to play!
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LTC Trent Klug
A badge of honor on the playground was mecrurochrome tinged skin and the bandaid it covered!
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Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth
LTC Trent Klug - If and I say if you were lucky you got neosporing witha bandaid thenext day or that night after a bath but the orange skin lasted like a tattoo.
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Must have been back when folks had the common courtesy not to say such things as might offend.
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SFC Casey O'Mally
MSG Stan Hutchison when was this mythical time? Going back to Chaucer, Shakespeare, Goethe, Machiavelli... you know before America even existed, offensive cimments were not only common, they were celebrated.
Of course, back then, the best response was either to show you were "above such low tactics" or to give as good as you got. Not to whinge.
Of course, back then, the best response was either to show you were "above such low tactics" or to give as good as you got. Not to whinge.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
SFC Casey O'Mally - I was raised by the old standard; "if you cannot say something good about someone, don't say anything at all."
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SFC Casey O'Mally
MSG Stan Hutchison That may have been YOUR standard. But it was not, and never has been, the UNIVERSAL standard.
Pretending there was ever a time when people didn't routinely say offensive things is Pollyannish.
Pretending there was ever a time when people didn't routinely say offensive things is Pollyannish.
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Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth
Wish I didn't wake up from that dream. Gen x'rs were tough and we fought it out if we had issues and then came together for lunch. We put devils spit on our wounds (Merchurchrome or merthiolate) and were told to shut or and not cry or we would be given something to cry about. We hung from jungle jims, had rock wars, rode bicycles wothout helmets, rode the circle of death I.e. the playground carousel, slid down a slide that was made of tine and was hotter than a devils fart, and played smeer the queer. SNACKS AND DRINKS...don't even think about it...garden hose and a peanut butter sandwich handed to you through the door cusee we weren't allowed back in till the barn lights came on. We were the tough generation that weren't offended by anything...heck we had yo momma jokes etc. Wish we could go back there sometimes.
--- Older millennials hung from jungle *gyms, rock wars (mostly I ever saw boys do that go figure), ride bikes without helmets (kids still do that today), the merry go round, etc, etc. That wasn't just Gen X. Lol.
Now "smeer the queer" definitely is ridiculous and is from a time when it was considered negative to be gay or queer. You don't see a problem with that now? Probably not.
You can say you "were" the tough generation but you don't seem to be very tough now. I mean I was born in 82 and I grew up doing those things (minus rock throwing and smear the queer). But yes people were, even kids, offended by things even back then.
Did some of you ever think that perhaps, just maybe, Gen Z and Gen A are just learning from our mistakes and a little more enlightened? Oh add in that they're continuing the breaking of generational trauma that Millennials and some Gen X started because some of us know that beating kids isn't a good thing and the way we were raised wasn't really the best for mental health perhaps.
I'm sure I'll get an onslaught of being told I'm "wOkE" or something.
Wish I didn't wake up from that dream. Gen x'rs were tough and we fought it out if we had issues and then came together for lunch. We put devils spit on our wounds (Merchurchrome or merthiolate) and were told to shut or and not cry or we would be given something to cry about. We hung from jungle jims, had rock wars, rode bicycles wothout helmets, rode the circle of death I.e. the playground carousel, slid down a slide that was made of tine and was hotter than a devils fart, and played smeer the queer. SNACKS AND DRINKS...don't even think about it...garden hose and a peanut butter sandwich handed to you through the door cusee we weren't allowed back in till the barn lights came on. We were the tough generation that weren't offended by anything...heck we had yo momma jokes etc. Wish we could go back there sometimes.
--- Older millennials hung from jungle *gyms, rock wars (mostly I ever saw boys do that go figure), ride bikes without helmets (kids still do that today), the merry go round, etc, etc. That wasn't just Gen X. Lol.
Now "smeer the queer" definitely is ridiculous and is from a time when it was considered negative to be gay or queer. You don't see a problem with that now? Probably not.
You can say you "were" the tough generation but you don't seem to be very tough now. I mean I was born in 82 and I grew up doing those things (minus rock throwing and smear the queer). But yes people were, even kids, offended by things even back then.
Did some of you ever think that perhaps, just maybe, Gen Z and Gen A are just learning from our mistakes and a little more enlightened? Oh add in that they're continuing the breaking of generational trauma that Millennials and some Gen X started because some of us know that beating kids isn't a good thing and the way we were raised wasn't really the best for mental health perhaps.
I'm sure I'll get an onslaught of being told I'm "wOkE" or something.
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