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DXS Operative
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Joined: 2 Aug 2014
Gender: Male
Country: Finland
SAK owned: Various
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Season: season 3
Episode:Passages
Vehicle: Jeep
Jacket: Brown bomber
House: House boat
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We didn't need no boyscouts. We went to forrest, built treehouses and had some war there or treasure hiding. During night we had flashlights and played hide and seek. Cops and robbers with bikes, soccer & ice hockey tournaments, building ice castles, digging tunnels, adventures to old abandoned houses etc. I mean we did all kinds of things together in the outdoor. There were many times when parents were searching for us as we runned around the town, sometimes missing a whole day, but we never felt scared to be out there.
Nowadays it's so different. You definitely don't walk into neighbours house just like that. Now you hardly even know your neighbours and everybody keeps their doors locked. Back in the old days, everybody knew eachothers and we spent lots of time together, both parents and kids. Someone always had a party or barbeque where we gathered to have some food and spend time together. I really miss those moments and I don't think the times are getting back as we're so cautious and isolated nowadays.
Harry Jackson: There was a time when I could run all day without breaking a sweat. I tell ya: it's hell getting old. MacGyver: Age is only in the mind, Harry. Harry Jackson: Well, my mind tells me I'm gettin' old.
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Wheeljack |
Posted: 15 September 2014 - 07:21 PM
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DXS Agent
Posts: 485
Joined: 11 Nov 2010
Gender: Male
Country: IL, United States
SAK owned: Adventurer
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Season: season 4
Episode:Gold Rush, Invisible Killer
Vehicle: Jeep
Jacket: Brown bomber
House: House boat
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I literally did whatever I wished as a kid. Within reason of course, I wasn't allowed to make fires near the house or outbuildings for instance. Just about anything besides that was fine and looking back it was great to have such freedom. I don't think it would be boring living in the past, although I would probably miss a few things. Eventually I'd get over it and find stuff to take it's place, I'm sure. And less people in the world would've meant more solitude and quiet for me. Me, my cat, a comfy chair, a pile of books, and sitting in front of a fireplace with no one around for miles. Disconnected down time forever. Ya know, I've the same thing about not locking your doors in the olden days soooooo many times I kinda wonder if that's somewhat of a myth. I think leaving your house open to any passing hooligan in any era was a pretty dumb idea. I like the idea that there's at least some measure of barrier between me and a thief or creep while I'm sleeping. Also coming to mind is a time I forgot to lock the door when a girlfriend was over and my mom dropped by. : :
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Fly_airdalton |
Posted: 16 September 2014 - 09:15 PM
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Special Forces Agent
Posts: 168
Joined: 6 Sep 2014
Gender: Male
Country: United States
SAK owned: w/ the lighter
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Season: season 2
Episode:Phoenix Under Siege
Vehicle: Nomad
Jacket: Brown bomber
House: Loft
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Oh wow. I can relate. I do remember those times before the net came along. I empathize with my children. I just wanted them to have a vivid, and very active childhood like me.Sometimes I look around the world I live in now...*shakes head in disbelief*
It wasn't all fun and games. However, some kids don't know how to be a kid anymore and that's a waste. We got into scrapes and scuffles with each other, but came back another day. Bike racing, mountain climbing, playing sports, trick or treating,after school activities. Not to.mention scouts, choir, church, swimming in the summer. I was the king of my kingdom. Maybe a laugh to some, but my room became my castle, defending it against anything that went bump in the night. My parents would have get togethers with famil,friends, and sometimes conducted business with dinner and a handshake. It was really "connecting" with people.I remember. holidays were a great time with extended family. We would play board games, cards and relax. I miss that interaction. Now its all about safety? Expensive security systems ,cameras everywhere; what happened to everybody? Luxury and consumption. Me,me,me.Crazee. I'll take my vinyl records, hot wheels, baseball cards,books, and the like any day. Now, I only use e-mail, internet when I have too. Kids don't get online unless it's homework related, and even then, only an hour. And no phones for them.No social media here .
"It's funny how, when you want time to move along, it never does. But when you're running out of time, it disappears much too soon."-MacGyver (Phoenix Under Siege) "It's a shooting gallery MacGyver, and we have no guns!"-Murdoc (Halloween Knights) "We'll never be able to out run it".-Dr.Ludlum "Come on, where's your sense of adventure?"-MacGyver(The Human Factor) Last.fm
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Barry Rowland |
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Phoenix Field Agent
Posts: 2,136
Joined: 20 Dec 2012
Gender: Male
Country: USA/PA
SAK owned: Swiss Champ
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Season: season 1
Episode:Twice Stung
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It's funny, but my wife and I have had this conversation a good bit. She is cell-phoneless, and could get by very well without the internet. I have a cell phone, initially because of my job, but it has grown to be as big a part of my EDC as one of my SAK's. I like the internet, probably mainly because it's like having a library at home and I love to learn, as well as an escape. I've found myself leaving my phone at home and going out into the woods, fishing, hiking, or just enjoying the disconnect time. I can easily understand where Mac was coming from. You need the time to regroup or you just start to fall apart. He was WAY ahead of us I guess!
Barry
"The bag's not for what I take. It's for what I find along the way!" "EXACTLY!"
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Phoenix Operative
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I think it's easier nowadays in many ways. Although, having said that, I don't have a cellphone or any other mobile communications device. No minute to minute urgency in my line of employment. So, when I leave the computer, I leave the communications world. When I get back, there are all my messages and 'calls' listed in chronological order ... and I can get to them when I please. The evening news & newspaper has already become yesterday's news by the time it arrives and thus time saved there as well. And email saves a ton of time & money. No more heading to the post office and bank each day/week. Also, I have some legal proceedings going on ... and email saves so much trouble and time-wasting snail mail correspondence. Sure, it's all addictive like any stimulant that hits the same part of the brain ... but all worth it and better in the long run.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Whether you think you can or you can't .... you're probably right!
"Nature often addressed our problems much better than the doctor." - Henry Miller
"So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry." - Jack Kerouac
"No one is remembered for being normal" -- Albert Einstein
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Season: season 3
Episode:The Widowmaker
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I've been able to limit the 'social networking' to a single bulletin board at any one time and only ever two in total (currently this one - much nicer folks here than the last one). No Twitter (ever), no FB (Ever) etc. and I run LinkedIn for business use only. I have a Flickr account, but its just for me. I have a PAYG mobile and only top-up for calls no (data package), I shouldn't think I take more than 2 calls a month and the only text's tend to be from/to my kids - possibly 10 a month. The mobile is for me and mainly for urgent stuff/getting the kids sorted. I tend to carry it switched on, but occasionally it runs out of battery ad sometimes I don't notice, sometimes I forget it. My brother who had a mobile surgically inserted in his back pocket at birth rants when on the rare occasions he needs to call me if I don't have it and gets most put out when I tell him that I don't carry it for anyone, but me!
I use my tablet occasionally for maps in cities, keeping up with the footy scores when my son is at a match and need to be aware of the result when I collect him), and for reading - I do use it at night before going to sleep - I do occasionally post on here from it, but it isn't that easy to type on and I prefer my portable or PC for proper typing (as now). My worst addiction is emails and I do often check for these, but very few people write to me and I guess I respond to a couple a week that aren't work. I switch work-work off at 5pm, but my own work often runs into the night so then I am using IT until late.
In terms of growing up, my kids haven't had the freedom I did. Now the fields I played on all have houses on them, my old riding school is built on, but the old tree I used to climb is still there. I also had neighbours (lived on the outskirts of a town) and all us kids played outside in the square and as we got older, yes, we roamed the local streets on our bicycles.
I was pleasantly astonished to visit friends in Canada in the summer and find that their estate had front facing garages and the whole community still enjoyed a kind of 'open garage' mentality and everyone sat at the front of their houses and still knew everyone - a bit like my growing up area 30 years ago. I don't think it would happen in the UK now.
My kids have no neighbours, we live in an separate house in the countryside, but I have always let them have friends round when they have wanted it. However, they have had our land to grow up on and spent much time outside when younger. I let them have phones and portables when they went to school (everything at school seems to be done online - this change in education can't be good - they would struggle without a PC for school work which is incredibly bad I think for anyone that can't afford this luxury for their kids as they would have to do it all after school in the library!). Daughter is good with them, I have to watch my son who is a bit addicted to cerebral type games (not shoot 'em up), they also have PAYG phones with no data package - I pay so they have to watch the text bill with their mates. They also have no social media accounts so far. I am a mean mother?
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