Today's Teen vs. Teen 20 years ago

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  • portalm
    portalm Posts: 201 Member
    DRUMROLL....:smile:

    I would have never guessed this, but the "correct" answer according to the radio DJ is "riding a bicycle".

    That is utter bull****... I freaking go running while my girlfriends kids go bike riding. What station was that? that is completly uncredible and retarded.
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
    All the comments here are much better than the "correct" answer.
    And boy, this thread was one big trip down memory lane!


    *agreed*

    I was going to give an answer that IO knew would be right, but so wrong. And it was buying cigarettes from a vending machine. LOL. That's how I got them if none of my "of age" friends were around to buy them for me.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Waiting for hours for your favourite song to come on the radio just so you can frantically hit *RECORD* on your ca-ssette tape.

    OMG this! I used to get so mad when the radio announcer would talk AFTER the song started... Always ruined my mix tapes!

    HAHAHA
    Yup.
    My mix tape had some poison, INXS and a few others, I forget. But it was a GREAT run mix!

    I actually still have mine. As annoying as it was to have the DJ talk over the songs, all these years later I like that I have that recorded. It takes me back.
  • shendras
    shendras Posts: 46 Member
    Using a card catalog at the library?
  • MFPBrandy
    MFPBrandy Posts: 564 Member
    Leg warmers. Rewinding VHS tapes. Failing at something.

    Hate to tell you this, but Leg Warmers are back. Saw them the other day at Justice for Girls. I looked at my husband and said, "Did we not learn the first time?" LOL!

    No! No! Say it ain't so! :noway:
    Yup--and now there are arm warmers, too.
  • AlmstHvn
    AlmstHvn Posts: 376 Member
    a spanking?
    Having a tv in their room?
    Decent episodes of Saturday Night Live?
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,029 Member
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    Lol I loved this movie since I was a break dancer myself in the 80's. That was Van Damme's first ever appearance.

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  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    All the comments here are much better than the "correct" answer.
    And boy, this thread was one big trip down memory lane!


    *agreed*

    I was going to give an answer that IO knew would be right, but so wrong. And it was buying cigarettes from a vending machine. LOL. That's how I got them if none of my "of age" friends were around to buy them for me.

    OMG! We were watching Mad Men last week and Don and another guy got cigarettes out of a vending machine, and I said, "I haven't seen one of those in years!"

    I never smoked, but I remember those machines EVERYWHERE.
  • sierrajade2012
    sierrajade2012 Posts: 50
    HS graduation?

    SO TRUE!!
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
    Using a card catalog at the library?

    ^^^^this

    I was SO shocked when I walked into my local library - having not been in one for years at the time. They had no card catalog, you have to use the computer to look something up.
  • cdub78
    cdub78 Posts: 88 Member
    Encyclopedias and having to go to the library and look for a book using the Dewey decimal system!!

    Kids today don't bother to actually absorb anything they learn and never will as long as Google exists! I tease my 13 year old about it all the time. Funny thing is he actually thinks he knows everything so it's always a debate at our house and Google is used often to prove that I am correct. :tongue:
  • Busymomshantell
    Busymomshantell Posts: 126 Member
    give the answer already, its clear that all these answers are correct.


    I would have never guessed this, but the "correct" answer according to the radio DJ is "riding a bicycle".

    That is not correct at all. My daughter is 17 and she has ridden a bicycle. All her friends have.

    So true! Both my kids have bikes and ride them all the time. :noway:

    I was thinking the same thing - but after they revealed they said - "What do almost no "teenagers" do". So, maybe they are talking just specifically about teenagers...they all get cars nowadays. Lots of kids ride bikes, but I don't see a lot of teenagers riding them.
  • avir8
    avir8 Posts: 671 Member
    Caller ID boxes,
    CD walkmans,
    land phone lines hehe
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    HS graduation?

    Now that is a blanket statement that is wrong. There will always be people who drop out of high school regardless of the generation. People dropped out when I was in HS and way back when my husband was in HS. To say that teens today will NEVER see High School Graduation is ridiculous.
  • AlmstHvn
    AlmstHvn Posts: 376 Member
    Having to look things up in encyclopedias
    Typing on a typewriter (and using Liquid Paper)!

    Yeah, I don't like the "official" answer, either!
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    give the answer already, its clear that all these answers are correct.


    I would have never guessed this, but the "correct" answer according to the radio DJ is "riding a bicycle".

    That is not correct at all. My daughter is 17 and she has ridden a bicycle. All her friends have.

    So true! Both my kids have bikes and ride them all the time. :noway:

    I was thinking the same thing - but after they revealed they said - "What do almost no "teenagers" do". So, maybe they are talking just specifically about teenagers...they all get cars nowadays. Lots of kids ride bikes, but I don't see a lot of teenagers riding them.

    I disagree with the DJ.
  • Busymomshantell
    Busymomshantell Posts: 126 Member
    I enjoyed remembering the things of my younger years with you all - even though don't neccesarily agree with the "correct" answer - I think the answers on here were much more accurate.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,029 Member
    A type writer. A BOOK encyclopedia collection. Flip open projection screen TV (remember the ones with the big red, green and yellow lights?), the clothes and styles of the 80's.

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  • Busymomshantell
    Busymomshantell Posts: 126 Member
    Encyclopedias and having to go to the library and look for a book using the Dewey decimal system!!

    Kids today don't bother to actually absorb anything they learn and never will as long as Google exists! I tease my 13 year old about it all the time. Funny thing is he actually thinks he knows everything so it's always a debate at our house and Google is used often to prove that I am correct. :tongue:

    Love it! My husband and I have both told our daughter that she could do her research the old fashioned way when she was grounded from internet access. Oh how she hated us. She waited till she got to school to do her research on the school library computer.
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
    Encyclopedias and having to go to the library and look for a book using the Dewey decimal system!!

    Kids today don't bother to actually absorb anything they learn and never will as long as Google exists! I tease my 13 year old about it all the time. Funny thing is he actually thinks he knows everything so it's always a debate at our house and Google is used often to prove that I am correct. :tongue:

    Sad, but so true. ANYTHING you ask my teen nephew, he just looks up online. We never were able to do that. Also, I have heard of kids being able to bring calculators into math class. We could NEVER do that. The only exception was a rare tiem when we need thos - what are they called? - Texas Instrument ones. Even then, we wre VERY limited as to how far we could use them.

    Also, I hear people say their kids text them from school between classes. Even my nephew texted me a few tiems during the school day once. Um, what? Beepers were all the rage when I was in HS and they were banned. You get suspended if you were caught with one in school.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Encyclopedias and having to go to the library and look for a book using the Dewey decimal system!!

    Kids today don't bother to actually absorb anything they learn and never will as long as Google exists! I tease my 13 year old about it all the time. Funny thing is he actually thinks he knows everything so it's always a debate at our house and Google is used often to prove that I am correct. :tongue:

    Love it! My husband and I have both told our daughter that she could do her research the old fashioned way when she was grounded from internet access. Oh how she hated us. She waited till she got to school to do her research on the school library computer.

    My daughter gets all her "news" from YouTube. Drives me batty!
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    Teens 20 years ago knew what the M in Mtv stood for?

    "Portable" cell phones the size of a car battery, which later got streamlined to the size of a brick?

    A dimebag costing a dime?

    Getting excited over the Sears Christmas catalog?
  • natachan
    natachan Posts: 149
    Using a card catalog at the library?

    This

    along with: talking to a librarian or a real person to find out information, BOOKS
  • littlehedgy
    littlehedgy Posts: 192 Member
    Using a card catalog at the library?

    ^^^^this

    I was SO shocked when I walked into my local library - having not been in one for years at the time. They had no card catalog, you have to use the computer to look something up.

    What is a card catalog? I've never even heard of that.... Is it just a giant list of all the book in the library?!
  • wwk10
    wwk10 Posts: 244 Member
    Drinking alcohol at college
    Yeah I don't think that's a thing of the past, sweetie.

    True that!

    I guess I meant Drinking with impunity was a thing of the past.
    When I was a teen in the 80s, most college students were under age, but most also drank openly in their dorm room.
    Now friends with children at college say police patrol the dorms and underage drinking has to be done on the down low.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Using a card catalog at the library?

    ^^^^this

    I was SO shocked when I walked into my local library - having not been in one for years at the time. They had no card catalog, you have to use the computer to look something up.

    What is a card catalog? I've never even heard of that.... Is it just a giant list of all the book in the library?!

    Poor Dewey and his decimals. :-(

    Basically, yes. In alphabetical order and you could cross-reference author and title. The letters and numbers you see on the books' spines are a leftover of that.
  • lorierin22
    lorierin22 Posts: 432 Member

    Car windows that had to be rolled down (not electric).

    Unfortunately, I still have those. And manual locks on my car also...ugh, to be part of the twenty-first century would be nice ;)
  • lg3703
    lg3703 Posts: 190
    The best movies ever! I STILL watch
    The breakfast club
    Pretty in pink
    16 candles
    Grease
    Dirty dancing
    .... they were AWESOME. LOL
    And I almost forgot - the REAL Footloose!
  • lorierin22
    lorierin22 Posts: 432 Member
    give the answer already, its clear that all these answers are correct.


    I would have never guessed this, but the "correct" answer according to the radio DJ is "riding a bicycle".

    That is not correct at all. My daughter is 17 and she has ridden a bicycle. All her friends have.

    So true! Both my kids have bikes and ride them all the time. :noway:

    I was thinking the same thing - but after they revealed they said - "What do almost no "teenagers" do". So, maybe they are talking just specifically about teenagers...they all get cars nowadays. Lots of kids ride bikes, but I don't see a lot of teenagers riding them.

    Hmm...i was a teenager 20 years ago and I think I actually stopped riding my bike when I was about 12. This is probably just isolated to me because I moved to a different town where the streets were much busier. I still played outside a lot, it just changed to basketball, softball, swimming instead of bike riding. And I didn't have a car until I was 18...
  • Onemoodycuss
    Onemoodycuss Posts: 95 Member
    A smack / belting / wooden spoon etc


    ^^^^^^ THIS. TOTALLY.

    A good old fashioned *kitten* whupping.

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