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Post by IceCoffin on Oct 25, 2009 11:50:32 GMT -8
Everyone knows the stereotypical "back in the good old days" old folk's rant, right? Right!
Well this is a chat... or rather forum game (shudder!) that is based on the old folks' nostalgic spiels. I'll start with a short rant, and then provide a topic for the next "old person"/poster to rant about and compare to the hard times they faced "back in the good old days"! Be as ridiculous as you want. ^_^
Now... start posting!
"Because y'see, back in the good old days, we didn't have these fancy keyboard things you whippersnappers got to post with! Why, back in my day, we had to hand-write our posts, an' send'em in by carrier pigeon to the forums!"
Next Poster's Topic: Refrigerators
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Post by turkoizdog on Oct 25, 2009 15:50:29 GMT -8
"In our day, we didn't have refrigerators. We had to tie our bottles of milk (that's right, glass bottles, not plastic jugs) to a rock in the river and hope they didn't float downstream! That's why we built our house at the end of the river. Sure the milk was a little old by the time we got to it (it was a long river and the dairy farmers lived at the other end) but stinky milk builds character!"
Next topic: Phones
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Post by IceCoffin on Oct 25, 2009 17:49:36 GMT -8
"Back in my day, we didn't have these fancy telly-phone-whatchamacallits! If we wanted to talk to someone, we just hiked 20 feet or so up the nearest hilltop, and then faced the direction of our target. Why, we hollered to one another from hill to hill! Sure, sometimes whoever we were callin' wasn't always there to hear us, but that's what echoes were for! Yep, if you didn't hear a hollerin', sometimes the echoes would come bouncing off the hillsides back to you. Things got a little better when my cousin Frieda decided to tie some strings to those old bean cans she was cooking with..."
Next Topic: What we called "vacation"!
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Post by danime91 on Oct 27, 2009 20:41:41 GMT -8
"Wuzzat? You wanna go where?! Hawaii?! Now where in tarnation is that?! Oh, I see how it is. You young folk these days, with yer timeshares and yer aeroplanes. Back in my day, we called it a vacation if we walked to the next town over to see the annual corn-shucking festival! What? You'd rather drive a car?! Now don't even get me started, ya whippersnapper. Back when me and my friends wanted to take a roadtrip across the country, ya know how we went? Horses! That's right, we hitched up our trusty steeds and galloped across the damn country. And when's we ran out of food, we ate 'em!"
Next topic: Birth Control (I couldn't resist)
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Post by turkoizdog on Oct 27, 2009 23:26:45 GMT -8
Me and my friends? Did they have grammar back in the day? (Well I suppose they didn't have Microsoft Word to correct them... Birth control? I think I'll take this one...  "You're on the pill? Bah, back in my day, all we had was the good ol' in-n-out. No not the fast food chain... if we was gonna have premarital sex, we just stuck it in and pulled 'er out before she blew, an' that was good enough. We didn't have any o' them con-damns or those stickers that make you magically not have babies. No, if you didn't want a baby, you had to work for it! It was all about the timing an' strategy, I'm tellin' yeh. If you were in there for one second too many, BAM! You got yerself a seventh son on the way. Besides, all these fancy-schmancy vibrating glowing lets-not-have-babies machines aren't nearly as reliable as the ol' in-out. I mean, you might as well slap a volleyball net on your woozle..." Next topic: Terrorism (well I figured if we're gonna be controversial, might as well go all the way, right?) |
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