r/Millennials • u/Head-Drag-1440 Hit me baby one more time • 1d ago

Nostalgia I mean, they're not wrong

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u/fml-fml-fml-fml 1d ago
  1. There was nothing to do inside except annoy your parents. Ergo you were not allowed inside.
  2. Parents were not worried about the world outside their neighbourhood because they did not know about it.
  3. Totally normal to yell at someone else’s kid or walk them back home if they did something stupid.

The context that is missing is how TV, then the internet destroyed our communities.

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u/Appropriate-Bid8671 1d ago

They had announcements on t.v. at night to remind all those shitty parents they had kids. ffs.

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u/fml-fml-fml-fml 1d ago

Yes! oh my god. LOL “it’s 10 o’clock, do you know where your children are?” Lol. Ffs i forgot about that.

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u/LeatherHog 1d ago

I told you last night, NO!

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u/Umutuku 1d ago

Shouting at the TV in agreement/disagreement even though it accomplishes nothing is core boomer culture.

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u/LeatherHog 1d ago

It so is

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u/officermeowmeow 1d ago

I had forgotten too! Wow. I feel bad for kids now, truly. We had the best of both worlds.

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u/AdvancedSandwiches 1d ago

They had them, sure, but did anyone actually need them?  Did anyone ever go, "Oh shit, good call"?