[Treetroit City]

Smear the queer.
Can I still say that?

[paulo73]

How i miss my childhood on the 70s and teenager years on the 80s.
Stones, sticks, slingshots and BBguns made epic seminal gang wars.
Jumping from 3 storage high construction sites to a pile of sand while screaming like tarzan.
Going to the Commandos training course and do it just for kicks...and a few fractured bones i admit.
Making DIY TNT sticks with gunpowder from fireworks and small plastic tubes and blow them in public places.
Do all those stupid games where by lack of brain oxygenation you would get all dizzy, stoned like.
Soon come the first mind altering substances and everything was fresh and new. Booze in all tastes, colors and grades, the smokes, our folks medicine cabinets busted happily every other week, communal sangrias done in a 30lts watering can where everything was allowed on the mix.
The pre-aids juvenile sex and all the miseries involved
Mountain climbing, Mountain biking and then all the road and off-road bikes craziness that took 2 out of every 10 male kids from my age range on the 80s.
Portugal was health&safety free until late 80s and we were a very recent democracy, since 74, so every thing was allowed and few things regulated.
The awesome Rallies Vinho do Porto on the 1st half on the 80s where we would pack up to Sintra and camp by the road side. Touching the side/back of the cars while they wre cruising at full speed on those narrow roads was a must and proof of manly hood .
Train surfing until one of us died :(
Oh man those were sweet&sour days but i wouldn´t swap them for the world.
The worst bit of it is having to keep all this secret from my 10yo kid and many times i need to reprehend him but because of all these memories i find it very hard if you know what i mean.
Good thread that took me down the memory lane.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh a thread after my own heart.....back when boy's turned into men instead of sissy's.
A time when if a dude wore eyeliner and lipstick and skinny jeans he could count on getting his ass beat on general principle...........
A time where we RESPECTED our elders
A time when add was still called lazy
A time when we took responsibilites for our own actions.
A time when being a musician ment you actually played a instrument.....
A time when a dropout with a turntable was a drop out with a turntable not a DJ
A time when integrity ment something
A time when a " lady " ment more than just a female.
A time when made in the usa ment quality
A time when we learned how to amuse our self with some mud and a stick
A time when we believed in pulling our own weight.
A time when you had to actually do something to become famous.
A time when a date was dinner and movie instead of fuck book and a condom
A time when disiplin was disiplin not child abuse.
A time when we knew that hugging it out was not the way to deal with our enimies.........
A time when if you didnt learn you didnt pass.
A time when "mediocrity is not a option" was more than just words It was a way of life.
A time when we treated the disease not just the symptom..........
A time when you could and would be proud to say born in the usa

building go- karts out of the shit that was available!

our first attempt was a 5 horse briggs + stratton, wheels from a fucking baby carriage, and parts from several bicycles (some scrap and others just sacrificed to the jr. gear head gods), and a rear axel made of EMT and all thread

and brakes ..... LOL ..... we don't need no stinking brakes

[diggdugg]

Hell yeah Greenmatter. Me and my cousin spent countless hours building a go-cart out of parts out in the barn with the help of our grandad. He told us to NEVER take it out on the highway. Well of course we did just that to go into town to the store. The next morning we awoke to find our go-cart chop sawed into 1" pieces! It must have taken him all night to teach that lesson.
Also, anyone ever pick up the old "pull" type beer can tabs and make chains out of them?

A time before "jarts" were considered a weapon of mass destruction

[paladin420]

Originally Posted by Homer J Pimpin

A time before "jarts" were considered a weapon of mass destruction

aaaaaaahhhhh about that???? oopesy 'jart reulette' was not a good idea!!! funny as two cops tryin to fuck the same dougnut!! but not a good idea..

Originally Posted by Homer J Pimpin

A time before "jarts" were considered a weapon of mass destruction

and they were not trying to make trampolines safer than the average padded cell

[bruceinpacifica]

Originally Posted by Homer J Pimpin

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh a thread after my own heart.....back when boy's turned into men instead of sissy's.

Well put. But those traits are carried by our offspring as well depending how much freedom we give them. My son was our type, I allowed him to be a boy. My grandsons, now in their 20's were also the same way and I'm sure their sons will be too.
You know the old expression, 'Young & dumb and full of ****, well you know.
In the fifties & sixties in San Francisco I used to wander the city as a kid and also San Bruno Mountain and farmers pastures, hell ride our bikes out of town and be gone from 7 am till dark in the summer wilh just a cheese & bologna sandwhich in a a brown paper bag.
Looks like I have brethren all over the country, Awesome.
Cheers,
bruce

[Harry Gypsna]

Rope swings we always my thing, preferably over water, we had some awesome ones in the countryside where I grew up, the scariest was in a wood, and you had to climb a tree to a pallet that had been mounted up there, when you stepped off, you would drop 10 feet for the rope to go tight before you started swinging.. I climbed that tree 3 times and chickened out before finally taking the leap.
What about toy guns, those ones that fired little red plastic discs, I had a sten gun that spat 30 discs in about 5 seconds-that would never get past the health and safety these days.