Valentine`s Day confusion...

[ghost19]

I guess it wasn't this type of thong?

We used to call flip flops "thongs"

I'm Canadian too and I remember it being a day where we all exchanged little Valentine's cards but it was all pretty innocent.

At the risk of sounding like a fossil here - yup - some kids are growing up way too fast!

You don't sound like a fossil....unless I'm a fossil too...which I guess I pretty much am now that I think about it, but yeah kids in early grades nowadays seem to be under a lot more pressure to do a lot of things that I hadn't even considered in 5th or 6th grade. Holding hands with a girl in 5th or 6th grade was the equivalent nowadays of shacking up with someone for the weekend. Everyone in the school knew about it within half an hour...

 

[Hill lover35]

I guess it wasn't this type of thong?

We used to call flip flops "thongs"

I'm Canadian too and I remember it being a day where we all exchanged little Valentine's cards but it was all pretty innocent.

At the risk of sounding like a fossil here - yup - some kids are growing up way too fast!

No kidding wtf in the world. I rember in highschool. Like ages 16-18 you where lucky if one couple gave gifts, and I rember they where either teased by the guy friends, or the girls where jelous or something. I did not even celebrate a romatice v-day untill I was 31 or 32 with my then boufirnd, and I got him a bear from build a bear..

 

[Hill lover35]

You don't sound like a fossil....unless I'm a fossil too...which I guess I pretty much am now that I think about it, but yeah kids in early grades nowadays seem to be under a lot more pressure to do a lot of things that I hadn't even considered in 5th or 6th grade. Holding hands with a girl in 5th or 6th grade was the equivalent nowadays of shacking up with someone for the weekend. Everyone in the school knew about it within half an hour...

Oh my god, does it really mean sex like actuall sex with real body parts,I hope not.. how the hell did this happen..

 

[ghost19]

Oh my god, does it really mean sex like actuall sex with real body parts,I hope not.. how the hell did this happen..

Social media happened...lol The world has moved on....

 

[Out of Order]

You don't sound like a fossil....unless I'm a fossil too...which I guess I pretty much am now that I think about it, but yeah kids in early grades nowadays seem to be under a lot more pressure to do a lot of things that I hadn't even considered in 5th or 6th grade. Holding hands with a girl in 5th or 6th grade was the equivalent nowadays of shacking up with someone for the weekend. Everyone in the school knew about it within half an hour...

I used to hear rumors about me and "so and so" that I had wished I'd started!

 

[ghost19]

I used to hear rumors about me and "so and so" that I had wished I'd started!

Yeah, same here. That's how it used to work instead of nowadays when a person who sees you talking to a girl instantly posts a pic of you having a conversation with a girl, which is then uploaded to the universe, which is then seen by said girl's boyfriend, which immediately results in a social media war and/or a fight at a location to be decided later. Hey, no reason to get any details about the conversation, just get that instant gratification need out of your system by pounding someone into the pavement because 3k people commented on your page about some other guy talking to your girl...lol

 

[Kurben]

Just read this thread..... The world is crazy. WTH is going on. And now sweden is beginning to adopt the valentins day tradition but it was never a children thing here. Hope it never will be. Your exemples sound terrifying.

 

[Out of Order]

Yeah, same here. That's how it used to work instead of nowadays when a person who sees you talking to a girl instantly posts a pic of you having a conversation with a girl, which is then uploaded to the universe, which is then seen by said girl's boyfriend, which immediately results in a social media war and/or a fight at a location to be decided later. Hey, no reason to get any details about the conversation, just get that instant gratification need out of your system by pounding someone into the pavement because 3k people commented on your page about some other guy talking to your girl...lol

Things were a lot easier when we used to just sneak in the girl's house after the boyfriend had left for the night........ Nobody knew a thing unless you spilled the beans or were caught by her parents!

 

[ghost19]

Things were a lot easier when we used to just sneak in the girl's house after the boyfriend had left for the night........ Nobody knew a thing unless you spilled the beans or were caught by her parents!

I wouldn't know, I wasn't ever that popular with the ladies...lol... unless they needed a paper written or to copy my homework...lol

 

[Hill lover35]

Social media happened...lol The world has moved on....

Wow if it is actual private parts the this is sooo sad

 

[Anduan Pirate Princess]

But, Ali (5th grade) came home the other day and said so and so and so and so from her class, who are "going out," the girl and boy's parents got together and rented them a limo and it was there to pick them up after school. I said, Oh, brother! I think social media has a bunch to do with the ridiculousness...I would bet anything the parents were right there recording it on their phones to post on facebook.

WHAAAAAAAAT?!?! That's insane. And I think you're right. Now, not only can parents go nuts with what they do for their kids, but they can post evidence of it all over Facebook. The pressure over kids' birthday parties these days is nuts. I don't envy parents in the era a social media at all.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I think,we did some type of craft, and the room was decorated in green

My mother, born and raised in Ireland, always disliked the green thing associated with St. Patrick's Day. She said no one wore green 'back home.' It was merely a religious day there. I never wore green on that day while she was alive... because I always thought she invented the term 'Irish Temper.'

 

[Neesy]

My mother, born and raised in Ireland, always disliked the green thing associated with St. Patrick's Day. She said no one wore green 'back home.' It was merely a religious day there. I never wore green on that day while she was alive... because I always thought she invented the term 'Irish Temper.'

I just recorded "The Quiet Man" with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara

sorry for the thread hijack - we started out on V-Day and now we're into St. Paddy's Day!

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I just recorded "The Quiet Man" with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara

sorry for the thread hijack - we started out on V-Day and now we're into St. Paddy's Day!

My mom was an extra in that movie in the horse race scene. She also watched over Wayne's kids during filming and was sorta Wayne's and O'hara's unofficial assistant as they didn't trust the assistants Ford provided them.