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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: El Diablo Blanco on October 30, 2014, 09:05:49 AM
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Was at my nephews middle school bball game last night and was shocked to see that every kid in there had an iphone or some sort of "smart" phone. Is this a requirement now to fit in for kids? When I was in middle school the most expensive thing I owned was my $50 swatch watch. My parents in a million years wouldn't have spent hundreds for me to have a phone and probably another grand a year in the service fees. I was talking to a parent about that and she said that the schools assume kids have phones because they do most of their communication via texts to the students. I assume most of these shits probably have ipads and laptops at home. People wasting their money on useless shit.
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I didn't get my first cell phone until I was around 24.
Only reason I got one is because pay phones started disappearing.
True story.
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Imagine being 12 again and having access to that technology good Lord.
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When I was 16 if you fancied some bird from another high school, you would have to hope you see her on the bus lol and make your move. Nowdays these lucky bastards can just look her up on facebook/instagram and be getting pussy pics within the hour ;D
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Actually, it's an investment of sorts. Parents buy that stuff so they have to spend less time taking care of their kids. Same as putting small kids in front of the TV. The easy way out. I had an appointment yesterday with a potential client who wanted to show me an apartment she and her husband own. The lady shows up with a 6yo daughter and a baby boy in a stroller. The daughter has a smartphone, barely takes her eyes off it to say hello to me. The whole time (walking to the elevator, in and out of the elevator, etc...) she's glued to that thing. Funny thing, the mother leaves her kids outside of the apartment so she won't get bothered by them. mind you, the baby boy is asleep at that moment. The kids are in the corridor and suddenly some loud shitty music starts. That little girl had her "playlist" of shitty tunes (3 tunes max) on her smartphone at maximum volume. Needless to say, her little brother wakes up. Mother seems annoyed but continues to go on with our business talk. That girl was putting the same extracts of those tunes (about 10s of those 3 tunes) over and over again at a volume that would have scared Lemmy Kilmister. I didn't want to be rude but I really felt like telling her mother to take care of this. Not once did she say a thing. That crap went on for about ten minutes 'til i could go.
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People have kids but dont want to take care of them. Next step is they dont want kids at all anymore.
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Shit, I'm still rocking a landline. ;D
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When I was a kid, if I even touched the Thermostat in the house, I would get in shit. I think I was 9 before my parents even let me answer the land line when it rang.
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Im a HS teacher in NYC and the law is no phones-its as enforceable as jaywalking-its a big problem-I like my phone but I am a responsible adult.. these kids are addicted and helpless without their phone-they are robotic phone zombies..and rather get suspended then give up their phone..
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Parents usually buy a phone for their kids in order to keep tabs on them and for safety and convenience. I'm Not sure if you can even buy a dumb phone anymore, and a smart phone is the same price anyway. If parents are buying them a large data package, I think it's not necessary. But being able to contact each other at all times, especially in these times of excess sports involvement, is nice and convenient. Its nice to see parents stay connected to their kids by doing this. Time to get with the times people.
That does not mean I think it is acceptable for them to bury their nose in it when out with the family. You just have to give them boundaries like anything else. Teachers should keep them is a basket during classes IMO too.
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if you were a teenager in the early 90's, carrying a Motorola beeper was very slick and cool and you were considered important.... ;D
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if you were a teenager in the early 90's, carrying a Motorola beeper was very slick and cool and you were considered important.... ;D
I remember those! But they weren't allowed in the school I went to. The teachers said they represented drug dealers. One kid was actually sent home for bringing one to school.
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my parents wouldn't even buy me a cool texas instruments calculator
yet my little brother half my age had a new iphone every year with $400 designer jeans and $300 sneakers :-\
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I remember those! But they weren't allowed in the school I went to. The teachers said they represented drug dealers. One kid was actually sent home for bringing one to school.
Lol....everytime there is a beep, there was a pay phone somewhere around the corner to make that phone call.....damn, that was fun.....
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i would of beat my dick to even more of a death if i had access to porn as a kid
before i would have to find degenerate friend/s on the down low at school to trade and swap vhs pornos that i would dub from my dads collection in the attic , then it was a fucking mission hiding the fucking things so mom and dad wont find them
i would have one or 2 tapes that would last me a year , ever got bored of beating it to the same chick several times a day
now at the click of a button you have access to bilions of scenes and clear history after your done
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My baby mama got my kid one the day before she started middle school (6th grade). >:(
Now she gets pissed when the kid stares at the phone for minutes on end.
The mother should've listened to me in the first place. I'll leave it at that.
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When I was 16 if you fancied some bird from another high school, you would have to hope you see her on the bus lol and make your move. Nowdays these lucky bastards can just look her up on facebook/instagram and be getting pussy pics within the hour ;D
Yup ;D you needed to think fast and make a move or chance losing a shot!
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the club scenes back then were so much fun....people went there to have fun and go wild out.....these days, everyone is a centerfold in the club and they all have an intimate relationship with their smartphones standing somewhere in the corner. everyone is Very Important ;D
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Insuffarable shit.
I got a flip phone for a reason.
Fucking beta males friends the other day, tried to convince me why they needed one.
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Kids do what parents do! Pretty easy!
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Kids do what parents do! Pretty easy!
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Fuck cars, televisions, and smart phones.
If I didn't have to do all my school work in front of one I wouldn't use a computer either.
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if you were a teenager in the early 90's, carrying a Motorola beeper was very slick and cool and you were considered important.... ;D
You ever have beeper races?
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AOL connection...beep beep boop boop shhhhhhhhh Click chick errrr errrr beep
"You've got mail"
Fuck that shit, straight to Netscape Navigator, open that up and type in "pussy"
I would have my dick in my hand waiting for pictures to load.
Usually I could be done by the time it got to her breasts...that anticipation!
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AOL connection...beep beep boop boop shhhhhhhhh Click chick errrr errrr beep
"You've got mail"
Fuck that shit, straight to Netscape Navigator, open that up and type in "pussy"
I would have my dick in my hand waiting for pictures to load.
Usually I could be done by the time it got to her breasts...that anticipation!
I remembering discovering "asians" thought I was the first dude to wack it to asians, shit couldn't be found anywhere back than.
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Was at my nephews middle school bball game last night and was shocked to see that every kid in there had an iphone or some sort of "smart" phone. Is this a requirement now to fit in for kids? When I was in middle school the most expensive thing I owned was my $50 swatch watch. My parents in a million years wouldn't have spent hundreds for me to have a phone and probably another grand a year in the service fees. I was talking to a parent about that and she said that the schools assume kids have phones because they do most of their communication via texts to the students. I assume most of these shits probably have ipads and laptops at home. People wasting their money on useless shit.
You had a Swatch?? You spoiled bitch ;D
I remember in high school this joo kid got a new Cuda 340 six pack for his 16th birthday. Ha! I got a shirt.
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Im a HS teacher in NYC and the law is no phones-its as enforceable as jaywalking-its a big problem-I like my phone but I am a responsible adult.. these kids are addicted and helpless without their phone-they are robotic phone zombies..and rather get suspended then give up their phone..
You admitted to being addicted to your phone as well, so don't be a hypocrite.
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Finally in a place where I don't feel so old. Lol.
To the poster who made the comment regarding AOL. Yeah, I remember that. Lol. And since we're all guys here, I can remember my parents leaving the house, me trying to look up some quick porn, but not being able to because it took so fucking long to load ! Haha !!
Kids don't know how well they have it !
But kids will never truly know the joy I had as a kid playing " The Streets Of Rage " trilogy on the Sega Genesis growing up ! 8)
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Nothing like a bunch of westerners talking about the misery they suffered living in their suburban child hood homes
;D
My goal is that my kids suffer more hardship as child than they do as adults, so they can gloat over the pussyeque nature of generation nothing's spawn.
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Finally in a place where I don't feel so old. Lol.
To the poster who made the comment regarding AOL. Yeah, I remember that. Lol. And since we're all guys here, I can remember my parents leaving the house, me trying to look up some quick porn, but not being able to because it took so fucking long to load ! Haha !!
Kids don't know how well they have it !
But kids will never truly know the joy I had as a kid playing " The Streets Of Rage " trilogy on the Sega Genesis growing up ! 8)
I don't thinks do have it that good to be honest. I would be outside from 3-9 everyday playing with my friends. Running, laughing having fun. Sitting on their asses with a phone texting doesn't sound better to me
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Nothing like a bunch of westerners talking about the misery they suffered living in their suburban child hood homes
;D
My goal is that my kids suffer more hardship as child than they do as adults, so they can gloat over the pussyeque nature of generation nothing's spawn.
stfu you re -hopefully- never ever going to have kids.
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I don't thinks do have it that good to be honest. I would be outside from 3-9 everyday playing with my friends. Running, laughing having fun. Sitting on their asses with a phone texting doesn't sound better to me
Subjective though. You tell kids that, and it goes one ear out the other. In THEIR eyes, they have it better than we ever did. And I, for the most part, agree with them.
Lungren can think whatever he wants, but I grew up poor. Didn't have a pot to piss in. Very far removed from suburban life. Hardship is all I know. No lie.
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AOL connection...beep beep boop boop shhhhhhhhh Click chick errrr errrr beep
"You've got mail"
Fuck that shit, straight to Netscape Navigator, open that up and type in "pussy"
I would have my dick in my hand waiting for pictures to load.
Usually I could be done by the time it got to her breasts...that anticipation!
BWHAHAHHAH...... ;D ;D ;D.....I abused netscape back in the days
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You admitted to being addicted to your phone as well, so don't be a hypocrite.
Why are you tracking the movements of a gimmick?
And a shitty gimmick at that....
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Subjective though. You tell kids that, and it goes one ear out the other. In THEIR eyes, they have it better than we ever did. And I, for the most part, agree with them.
Lungren can think whatever he wants, but I grew up poor. Didn't have a pot to piss in. Very far removed from suburban life. Hardship is all I know. No lie.
Then you are truly very fortunate in this day and age.
Hardship to todays generation means not having a computer or a television.
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You all sound like a bunch of old fucks yelling at kids to stay off your lawn!!! If any of you were 12-18 right now every single one of you would have a smart phone in your hand at all times.
Times have changed folks learn to evolve. I swore I would never get a cell but my wife got one for my road trips and I used it. Swore I'd never text, well shit now that's all I do. Swore I'd never have a smart phone, well guess what I got one of them to. My wife, my kids (18 and 15) plus myself all have smart phones and it is nice! Quick text where you at what you doing and boom I know who is where and whats going on. BUT.................I can still talk to my kids and carry a conversation face to face with them, even if they think Dad aint cool no more.
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Hardship to todays generation means not having a computer or a television.
I couldn't agree more.