Flareonflare, back in my day of growing up that was considered normal discipline. I was born in 1966 and I am 57. A gen X. We are the one's that rode in the back of trucks,rode bicycles without helmets, most cars didn't have air conditioning as well as houses! A lot of cars trucks didn't have power steering especially imported smaller vehicles. I learned to drive a truck with a thing called manual transmission and a third foot pedal LOL 😆 a clutch! As far as the discipline methods back then you can ask any generation X'er, they will most likely tell you that was normal. The discipline of the 70s and earlier would get a parent put in prison as you stated basically in this day and age. If we (kids) we're with mom in a public department store and misbehaved, you got an ass beating right there in the store! Generally we learned our lesson and never did it again. We respected adults. If you even looked like you were going to throw a tempur tantrum you'd get the same discipline. Besides that most parents would ridicule you in front of everyone for acting like a baby! That alone, made every kid not want to be embarrassed in front of other kids,and making yourself look like an idiot. So you didn't behave that way,or risk being teased in school. There were no safe spaces to run to.
To bring a folding pocket knife to school was about equivalent to bringing a gun to school nowadays. Maybe even more strict having a knife in school back then. It could get you expelled. Something else we never had back then besides cellphones and TVs 📺 you can hang on the wall like a picture, was, SCHOOL SHOOTINGS never was a thought in anyone's mind and probably wasn't even a thought in a mentally challenged person's mind!
Times have changed big time. I've been in the consumer electronics industry ever since a kid. I remember the tube television technology just before the transistor was invented. In the beginning 1970s televisions were called hybrid models because they were half tube circuitry and half transistor circuitry. Also called solid state. Shortly after was analog IC chips and LSI technology. Large Scale Integration. Basically the chip running an LCD wrist watch was equivalent to 2000 transistor and some outrageous number of diodes and other components. If one was to make a wrist watch with individual discrete components. That kind of thing was a major break through in the electronics world 🌎 Now we've got 1000 times plus the capability in the palm of our hands that just 30 years ago was a PC computer that had less than a megabyte of memory and clock speeds way less than a gigahertz!
No way possible to listen to MP-3 and even have an animated thing on the side bar at the same time! It would suck up all resources back then!
As far as that discipline, that was the norm. I think we all came out normal! It seems like common sense has disappeared in the latest generations. Basic common sense, like how to determine whether you're a boy or a girl. Those things us gen X people can't and will not understand what has happened with all that!
But, it is what it is!
I know, you're not supposed to start a sentence with "but!"
Hell, I heard they aren't going to be teaching kids how to read an analog clock 🕑🕝⏱️🕰!!!
Also, cursive handwriting! The Constitution Of The United States was written and signed in cursive. I wonder, how are you going to have a signature 🤔 if you can't do cursive handwriting?
Maybe that's where that chip embedded into your arm with all your information SSN come into play! LOL 😆
Next there will be people cutting arms off for a new identity!
Anyway, I appreciate your concern. Like I was saying things have changed a lot. Some for the good and some for the bad. One thing as you mentioned it possibly affecting my life. Well, it doesn't in the aspect as a younger person would vision it. I think mainly because it's nothing to dwell upon, get over it and go on. That's how we learned and lived. We didn't need directions on toothpaste and shampoo containers. We also knew not to lay in a puddle of water and arc weld a trailer frame! We didn't get butthurt. Butthurt ointment wasn't available until recently, it's for sale on Amazon now!🤣 People that dwell on something over and over end up mentally unstable driving themselves into public/self danger and destruction!
Take care my friend! 👍👍👍
Yes,you're right. Although years ago, the way they dissected it was the word "politically" just means government. So you're saying government correct. Nowadays it's used as a polite way to express the correctness of basically anything. Years ago it was considered a misnomer. Most often when it's used, it's in a context that has absolutely nothing to do with government or any reference thereto. It's now like you are saying something is up to government standards, as more of a figure of speech. Most people figure, government standards are at a higher level. Also believed to be accurate and correct.
They've got a bunch of words listed that are recommended for people to remove them from their vocabulary. LOL. As far as keeping it on the tech side of things since that's what this site is about. It may have an effect on AI programming too. Words like "master & slave" are being phased out of the computer lingo. You may see "Main & primary or secondary" in place of those.The terms, whitelist and blacklist are also to disappear soon. It wouldn't surprise me that you will no longer call electrical connectors male/female. In the automobile industry you will not be able to call transmission fluid, "trans fluid." 😆 🤣
That's interesting. When I was in elementary school back in early 1970s,the teachers would scold us for using the word "ain't". This is in the USA, California to be exact. Wasn't just one teacher,all of them.
Thanks for the reply and information. 👍
Personally, I prefer a 2×3 about 3 feet long. You can get a better grip and it tends to swing faster through the air. Has the right amount of momentum weight without being too much like I find using a 2×4.
LOL😆
I find this funny because it reminds me of when I was a kid always getting in trouble. One time while dad was overseas for 9 months, mom got the teak wood paddle dad made out of a 3/8" thick piece of teak. He cut it into the shape of a paddle! Mom kept it on top of the refrigerator. She beat my ass so hard onetime, that the handle broke off! So when dad came home, he made a new one out of much thicker 3/4" mahogany with a paddle surface about 2-1/2 times the previous model. Well, when it was used, basically it knocked you across the room and didn't really hurt like the stinging pain of the prior model. I told my sister, "when mom hits you with that paddle start bawling!"
Cause mom would beat you till you were crying! I didn't want her to know the new paddle wasn't that bad! LOL😆
It's all in physics,momentum,surface area,aerodynamics,and,swing speed. LMAO 😅 🤣
Like the phrase/term "politically correct." Technically doesn't go together, although has been used so much and everyone knows what is meant by it, that it's now considered an acceptable English language phrase/term. Remember in school, how teachers preached about the word, "ain't?" Ain't a word!"LOL! Ain't is not a word the teacher would say.
Now, it's in spellchecker, it just came up when I typed it here above, as a suggested word in my text app. So it must have been adopted as a normal word in English dictionary most likely.
Once was considered slang and improper English. Amazing how things have changed. This makes me wonder, was that word made into legal English simply, because of laziness and/or lack of proper education?
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Flareonflare, back in my day of growing up that was considered normal discipline. I was born in 1966 and I am 57. A gen X. We are the one's that rode in the back of trucks,rode bicycles without helmets, most cars didn't have air conditioning as well as houses! A lot of cars trucks didn't have power steering especially imported smaller vehicles. I learned to drive a truck with a thing called manual transmission and a third foot pedal LOL 😆 a clutch! As far as the discipline methods back then you can ask any generation X'er, they will most likely tell you that was normal. The discipline of the 70s and earlier would get a parent put in prison as you stated basically in this day and age. If we (kids) we're with mom in a public department store and misbehaved, you got an ass beating right there in the store! Generally we learned our lesson and never did it again. We respected adults. If you even looked like you were going to throw a tempur tantrum you'd get the same discipline. Besides that most parents would ridicule you in front of everyone for acting like a baby! That alone, made every kid not want to be embarrassed in front of other kids,and making yourself look like an idiot. So you didn't behave that way,or risk being teased in school. There were no safe spaces to run to. To bring a folding pocket knife to school was about equivalent to bringing a gun to school nowadays. Maybe even more strict having a knife in school back then. It could get you expelled. Something else we never had back then besides cellphones and TVs 📺 you can hang on the wall like a picture, was, SCHOOL SHOOTINGS never was a thought in anyone's mind and probably wasn't even a thought in a mentally challenged person's mind! Times have changed big time. I've been in the consumer electronics industry ever since a kid. I remember the tube television technology just before the transistor was invented. In the beginning 1970s televisions were called hybrid models because they were half tube circuitry and half transistor circuitry. Also called solid state. Shortly after was analog IC chips and LSI technology. Large Scale Integration. Basically the chip running an LCD wrist watch was equivalent to 2000 transistor and some outrageous number of diodes and other components. If one was to make a wrist watch with individual discrete components. That kind of thing was a major break through in the electronics world 🌎 Now we've got 1000 times plus the capability in the palm of our hands that just 30 years ago was a PC computer that had less than a megabyte of memory and clock speeds way less than a gigahertz! No way possible to listen to MP-3 and even have an animated thing on the side bar at the same time! It would suck up all resources back then! As far as that discipline, that was the norm. I think we all came out normal! It seems like common sense has disappeared in the latest generations. Basic common sense, like how to determine whether you're a boy or a girl. Those things us gen X people can't and will not understand what has happened with all that! But, it is what it is! I know, you're not supposed to start a sentence with "but!" Hell, I heard they aren't going to be teaching kids how to read an analog clock 🕑🕝⏱️🕰!!! Also, cursive handwriting! The Constitution Of The United States was written and signed in cursive. I wonder, how are you going to have a signature 🤔 if you can't do cursive handwriting? Maybe that's where that chip embedded into your arm with all your information SSN come into play! LOL 😆 Next there will be people cutting arms off for a new identity! Anyway, I appreciate your concern. Like I was saying things have changed a lot. Some for the good and some for the bad. One thing as you mentioned it possibly affecting my life. Well, it doesn't in the aspect as a younger person would vision it. I think mainly because it's nothing to dwell upon, get over it and go on. That's how we learned and lived. We didn't need directions on toothpaste and shampoo containers. We also knew not to lay in a puddle of water and arc weld a trailer frame! We didn't get butthurt. Butthurt ointment wasn't available until recently, it's for sale on Amazon now!🤣 People that dwell on something over and over end up mentally unstable driving themselves into public/self danger and destruction! Take care my friend! 👍👍👍
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Yes,you're right. Although years ago, the way they dissected it was the word "politically" just means government. So you're saying government correct. Nowadays it's used as a polite way to express the correctness of basically anything. Years ago it was considered a misnomer. Most often when it's used, it's in a context that has absolutely nothing to do with government or any reference thereto. It's now like you are saying something is up to government standards, as more of a figure of speech. Most people figure, government standards are at a higher level. Also believed to be accurate and correct. They've got a bunch of words listed that are recommended for people to remove them from their vocabulary. LOL. As far as keeping it on the tech side of things since that's what this site is about. It may have an effect on AI programming too. Words like "master & slave" are being phased out of the computer lingo. You may see "Main & primary or secondary" in place of those.The terms, whitelist and blacklist are also to disappear soon. It wouldn't surprise me that you will no longer call electrical connectors male/female. In the automobile industry you will not be able to call transmission fluid, "trans fluid." 😆 🤣
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That's interesting. When I was in elementary school back in early 1970s,the teachers would scold us for using the word "ain't". This is in the USA, California to be exact. Wasn't just one teacher,all of them. Thanks for the reply and information. 👍
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Personally, I prefer a 2×3 about 3 feet long. You can get a better grip and it tends to swing faster through the air. Has the right amount of momentum weight without being too much like I find using a 2×4. LOL😆 I find this funny because it reminds me of when I was a kid always getting in trouble. One time while dad was overseas for 9 months, mom got the teak wood paddle dad made out of a 3/8" thick piece of teak. He cut it into the shape of a paddle! Mom kept it on top of the refrigerator. She beat my ass so hard onetime, that the handle broke off! So when dad came home, he made a new one out of much thicker 3/4" mahogany with a paddle surface about 2-1/2 times the previous model. Well, when it was used, basically it knocked you across the room and didn't really hurt like the stinging pain of the prior model. I told my sister, "when mom hits you with that paddle start bawling!" Cause mom would beat you till you were crying! I didn't want her to know the new paddle wasn't that bad! LOL😆 It's all in physics,momentum,surface area,aerodynamics,and,swing speed. LMAO 😅 🤣
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Like the phrase/term "politically correct." Technically doesn't go together, although has been used so much and everyone knows what is meant by it, that it's now considered an acceptable English language phrase/term. Remember in school, how teachers preached about the word, "ain't?" Ain't a word!"LOL! Ain't is not a word the teacher would say. Now, it's in spellchecker, it just came up when I typed it here above, as a suggested word in my text app. So it must have been adopted as a normal word in English dictionary most likely. Once was considered slang and improper English. Amazing how things have changed. This makes me wonder, was that word made into legal English simply, because of laziness and/or lack of proper education?