2007 was 10 years ago. What were you doing at the time?

[Cure]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Mine were strict as hell too, as far as movies and tv went. And I turned out to be a huge pervert, cuss like a sailor, love gay people and experiment with drugs.

Shoulda let me watch Titanic like all the other second graders, assholes!

Eh, I dunno. My parents let me watch whatevs and I still kinda turned out like you. Minus the drugs.

[CyberCubed]

I've never done drugs, don't see why people bother when you know it'll screw you over.

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by Cure

Eh, I dunno. My parents let me watch whatevs and I still kinda turned out like you. Minus the drugs.

I just meant it happened despite their efforts, not because of them.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I've never done drugs, don't see why people bother when you know it'll screw you over.

What does that even mean?

[***First of Two Latin Kings***]

I think he is saying he doesn't understand why people still do drugs despite all the knowledge of the consequences that we have now.

[ToTheNines]

Well, yeah. Don't do ****ing crack or meth, and definitely don't drive.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Mine were strict as hell too, as far as movies and tv went. And I turned out to be a huge pervert, cuss like a sailor, love gay people and experiment with drugs.

Shoulda let me watch Titanic like all the other second graders, assholes!

I don't curse much compared to many people out there. Sure I do curse but that don't tend to be the first adjectives that coem to my mind when I describe something.

I don't think I hear my mother cursing/swearing more than 5-6 times per year. No exaggeration.

Some of my older relatives don't/didn't like gays much and also talk(ed) smack about other races, namely blacks. I think that's common among older folk.

I honestly have never seen Titanic to this day.I just wasn't interested in that movie. But really, you weren't allowed to watch it? I thought that movie was appropriate for pretty much everyone?

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I've never done drugs, don't see why people bother when you know it'll screw you over.

I think TTN is not referring to the heavier ones such as coke and heroin... at least I hope he isn't.

[Utrommaniac]

Originally Posted by Prowler

I honestly have never seen Titanic to this day.I just wasn't interested in that movie. But really, you weren't allowed to watch it? I thought that movie was appropriate for pretty much everyone?

Yes, the movie that discussed the topic of a horrific accident where thousands of innocent men, women, and children suffered terrible deaths is appropriate for pretty much everyone. With a week-long romance between two teenagers defying classism. And ending up with a nude charcoal painting. And sex in a car.

Okay, but I actually did see Titanic fairly young, but that was in 2004, when I was in fourth grade. At my grandma's house on VHS.
And that spawned a massive obsession with wanting to know what really happened, but I'm not sure how much stuck back then. I probably know more now than I did then.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Utrommaniac

Yes, the movie that discussed the topic of a horrific accident where thousands of innocent men, women, and children suffered terrible deaths is appropriate for pretty much everyone. With a week-long romance between two teenagers defying classism. And ending up with a nude charcoal painting. And sex in a car.

Okay, but I actually did see Titanic fairly young, but that was in 2004, when I was in fourth grade. At my grandma's house on VHS.
And that spawned a massive obsession with wanting to know what really happened, but I'm not sure how much stuck back then. I probably know more now than I did then.

But are those death and sex scenes explicitly shown on screen? Because in some anime and cartoons people die as well. Kids also watched DBZ on a religious basis back in the 90s and their parents didn't bat an eye to it.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Cure

Eh, I dunno. My parents let me watch whatevs and I still kinda turned out like you.

Yeah, I was always allowed to watch R-rated stuff. It just wasn't a big deal.

[Jephael]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I was always allowed to watch R-rated stuff. It just wasn't a big deal.

I envy people who didn't have to grow up with an overbearing Jesus-freak for a guardian. I couldn't even enjoy the friggin Beetlejuice cartoon without my mom getting all freaked out.

[CyberCubed]

Soccer Moms and religious parents are the worst. The same type of people who forbid their children from watching TMNT, Power Rangers, Pokemon, Dragonball Z, Harry Potter, etc. because they claimed they were "bad influences" or "the devil."

Goddamn. Thank god our generation learned from our parents mistakes. For the people who have kids here already or will in the future, I'm sure you guys know better than to claim shows/movies are "bad for kids" and let them watch what they want within reason.

[Prowler]

Every kids' fad gets labeled "the devil". But only a vocal minority of parents and guardians are stupid enough to believe that crap.

Hell it's not just children cartoons and video games. Heavy metal music, rock music and jazz music got once labelled as "the devil's music".

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

That's how it is, or how it used to be. It is true that today's younger generation doesn't get married or have kids young anymore, but that's speaking for the people in their early 20's right now.

People born in the 80's like my generation still adhere to the old standards. Maybe mid 90's kids are a bit different. Obviously someone born in the year 2000 is only 17 right now at most.

No we don't. I'm nearly 10years older than you Cubed, and only about HALF of the people I went to high school did this, and they were generally the ones who were more promiscuous to begin with. The rest (smarter ones?) waited and had them later. I myself had planned on NOT having any at all, but even when I did end up having one it wasn't til I was 30- YOUR age. People of our generation are generally more career driven, given that we are the first generation where women were EXPECTED to go out and have jobs of their own. And they took to it in force.....

Originally Posted by Prowler

"80s kids"
"90s kids"

You were born in 1985. What do you even remember of the 80s? The TMNT cartoon debuted in 1987 or so. What wasn the first episode you even watched? One from season 4?

I have an older brother(born in 1983) so I also grew up with the NES, the first ever game Boy and the 87 Turtles(reruns on cable TV here in the late 90s/early 2000s).

I remember VHS tapes and having no cellphones or internet quite well. And no, the first game I bought was not in CD format. Also my family didn't get cable tv until 1998 or so. And we only got internet around 2000-2001.

Growing up with movies like Rambo and Terminator? And you were allowed to watch those movies as an elementary school kid? Also, Cyber, the first ever Rambo movie came out in 1982 and the first ever Terminator film came out in 1985... the year you were born. You didn't watch those movies at the cinema. And even if you had been 7-8 years old at the time they came out, it's not like your parents would take you to the cinema to watch them. Come on now, you've watched those movies several years after they came out on VHS or on TV like I did.

Also, you seem to like lots of things associate with "90s kids" such as Pokémon and all those superhero cartoons and those shounen anime that were popular in the West back in the late 90s/early 2000s.

Sure, there are some differences. You watched some cartoons I didn't get the chance to watch and such but you talk like there's a huge generational gap between you and I.

Also being born in 1990, I don't remember anything before 1996 or so. So you won't see me claiming to be an expert on what being a "90s kid" is.

Originally Posted by ssjup81

I'm older than both of you....I was not allowed to watch those films. ^^ I saw them as a teen.

He didn't but I did. And thankfully I was allowed to watch pretty much anything except "adult" movies. Cubed was still in preschool when I watched Pirhana 1&2 for the first time on cable- at age 8! (Had nightmares for a few weeks due to my parents' fun hobby of going fishing/skiing/swimming at local lakes where "pirhana"(actually the vegetarian but related pacu) were caught...)

I DO remember many of those films as I DID grow up with them. (Born '76, yo!)

Originally Posted by Prowler

Every kids' fad gets labeled "the devil". But only a vocal minority of parents and guardians are stupid enough to believe that crap.

Hell it's not just children cartoons and video games. Heavy metal music, rock music and jazz music got once labelled as "the devil's music".

This is soooo true. In my day it was Dungeons&Dragons roleplaying games, and metal music. Ozzy, Meyallica and Megadeath were all culprits. As were R-rated films like Robocop and the like.