Old things youngins might like to know

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I was trying to teach my 13yo niece to cook a steak. She complains, "but I'm only 13!"
What do you mean "only 13?" I was cooking on my own by the time I was 7.

To be fair, way too few adults know how to cook now too. Personally I learned young just by mimicking Japanese steak house hibachi chefs.

[Julia1996]

In the medical field Wheel chairs were made of wood, Mercury was used as a cure for syphilis STD,  heroin was used to cure coughs, Trepanation (drilling holes in to a skull) was used to cure seizures,  hysterical paroxysm was a practice by doctors to massage a female sex organs to orgasm to treat these symptoms faintness, nervousness, sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, bloating , shortness of breath, irritability.

OMG! The Dr would play with a woman's muffin and give her an orgasm?? That's awful!  Well maybe not if the Dr was really cute.......

[Julia1996]

My Dad was born on Sept 18, 1924 and my Mom was born on Sept 18, 1926.  I was born in Sept 1952. That past is closer than you think.

My parents were both born in 1978 and that sure seems like a LOOOOONG time ago! My grandpa was born in 1955 and that seems like an incredibly long time ago. I have no clue what year my grandma was born. She's totally weird about her age. I doubt my dad even knows how old she is. If you ask her age she will just say " old enough" or " past the age of consent " we do celebrate her birthday but her cake has always had 1 candle. There is never any mention of exactly what birthday it is. I think maybe I know where my dad's stress outs over his age come from. Once I asked her how old she was and she gave her usual old enough answer. My grandpa said " for god's sake Marta, you're an old lady now so what does it matter what age you actually are?"  She went off on him! I don't know what she said because she went off in German. I asked my dad what she had said and he said it was nothing that needed repeating so it must have been nasty.  Lol. People are so silly about age!

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OMG! The Dr would play with a woman's muffin and give her an orgasm?? That's awful!  Well maybe not if the Dr was really cute.......

That's nothin'. The other extreme was even weirder. (And involved corn flakes.)

The field of medicine used to be really dumb for a while.

[Sarah_P]

My parents were both born in 1978 and that sure seems like a LOOOOONG time ago!

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Anyway, yes, there was a charming time when if a woman started having opinions or thoughts, she was obviously hysterical and needed immediate treatment.

To be fair, way too few adults know how to cook now too. Personally I learned young just by mimicking Japanese steak house hibachi chefs.

So, you'd try to flip shrimp into people's mouths?  Just family, or people on the street, too? 
I actually can cook (or could), but just didn't care for so long & subsisted on take out and frozen dinners. I'm wanting to start cooking again, but it'll have to wait until I have my own kitchen.

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So, you'd try to flip shrimp into people's mouths?  Just family, or people on the street, too? 
I actually can cook (or could), but just didn't care for so long & subsisted on take out and frozen dinners. I'm wanting to start cooking again, but it'll have to wait until I have my own kitchen.

I wasn't willing to risk the shrimp! I did try the egg flip into the hat and the onion volcano a few times though!

[natalie.ashlyne]

My parents were both born in 1978 .

Now I feel old your parents are only 5 years older than me i was born in 1983

[Julia1996]

Now I feel old your parents are only 5 years older than me i was born in 1983

Lol, you're not old. My dad was acting so silly about his age on his last birthday I told him if he didn't stop I was going to get him some pants that came up to his chest, bright yellow socks and some white old man shoes. My brother told him he was going to put a rocking chair out front and give him a cane he could shake at kids while yelling at them to stay off his damn lawn.

[Cassi]

Lol, you're not old. My dad was acting so silly about his age on his last birthday I told him if he didn't stop I was going to get him some pants that came up to his chest, bright yellow socks and some white old man shoes. My brother told him he was going to put a rocking chair out front and give him a cane he could shake at kids while yelling at them to stay off his damn lawn.

Try 1953

[Julia1996]

To be fair, way too few adults know how to cook now too. Personally I learned young just by mimicking Japanese steak house hibachi chefs.

Isn't that where they use big really sharp knives and chop stuff up right in front of the people? I can just see you as a child wielding huge knives. Your poor parents. Lol

[KathyLauren]

My parents were both born in 1978 and that sure seems like a LOOOOONG time ago! My grandpa was born in 1955 and that seems like an incredibly long time ago.

Damn, that makes me older than dirt.  Older than your grandpa, anyway.  When your parents were born, I was flying jets in the air force.  Yes, we actually did have jets way back then.

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Isn't that where they use big really sharp knives and chop stuff up right in front of the people? I can just see you as a child wielding huge knives. Your poor parents. Lol

Even as a kid they didn't worry about me doing it because I was obsessively safe about everything. I was safer with the knives and heat than they were. (I can't count the number of times I've yelled at people for leaving stoves and ovens on or for handling knives incorrectly. It's my santoku knife, I don't want their blood all over it.)

[Cassi]

Even as a kid they didn't worry about me doing it because I was obsessively safe about everything. I was safer with the knives and heat than they were. (I can't count the number of times I've yelled at people for leaving stoves and ovens on or for handling knives incorrectly. It's my santoku knife, I don't want their blood all over it.)

Oh stop it, you're making me want to watch female ninja movies now

[Kendra]

> My parents were both born in 1978 and that sure seems like a LOOOOONG time ago!

My high school diploma is from 1979.  That year I went into the back room of the Arlington Times an hour north of Seattle - traffic hadn't been invented in this part of the world.  There was a person surrounded with strange set of little metal pieces - looked like a huge board game.  He was building next week's newspaper using cold set type.  Picking each metal letter off the rack with tweezers, positioning them onto a tray which would become a page of text, carefully adjusting the space between every word for margin justification.  He had very thick glasses - a career fiddling with tiny blocks of metal to create a newspaper.

[BeverlyAnn]

Try 1953

Try 1949. 

[Sarah_P]

Even as a kid they didn't worry about me doing it because I was obsessively safe about everything. I was safer with the knives and heat than they were. (I can't count the number of times I've yelled at people for leaving stoves and ovens on or for handling knives incorrectly. It's my santoku knife, I don't want their blood all over it.)

Unless it's one 'o them sacred knife that can't be sheathed without drawing blood!

Oh stop it, you're making me want to watch female ninja movies now

::Puts on nerd glasses:: The term you're looking for is 'Kunoichi'. ::Takes off nerd glasses:: Sorry. 

[Julia1996]

My high school diploma is from 1979.  That year I went into the back room of the Arlington Times an hour north of Seattle - traffic hadn't been invented in this part of the world.  There was a person surrounded with strange set of little metal pieces - looked like a huge board game.  He was building next week's newspaper using cold set type.  Picking each metal letter off the rack with tweezers, positioning them onto a tray which would become a page of text, carefully adjusting the space between every word for margin justification.  He had very thick glasses - a career fiddling with tiny blocks of metal to create a newspaper.

Are you telling me they printed papers by writing out the paper one tiny letter at a time?? That is beyond crazy! I assumed they had some kind of copy technology even back then. I once had one of the older office ladies at school tell me at one time they had a "ditto" machine. A machine that used a rotating drum to make copies in purple ink that took a few minutes to dry. That's just sad.

[Julia1996]

Unless it's one 'o them sacred knife that can't be sheathed without drawing blood!

::Puts on nerd glasses:: The term you're looking for is 'Kunoichi'. ::Takes off nerd glasses:: Sorry. 

There are female ninjas?? Why?

[Dena]

Are you telling me they printed papers by writing out the paper one tiny letter at a time?? That is beyond crazy! I assumed they had some kind of copy technology even back then. I once had one of the older office ladies at school tell me at one time they had a "ditto" machine. A machine that used a rotating drum to make copies in purple ink that took a few minutes to dry. That's just sad.

Until the late 70's, Typesetting was done by placing lead type in the proper location and making prints off it. The company I worked for produced a computer that was used in one of the early typesetting processes. Now it's a photographic process where metal is exposed to the pattern and then etched creating the printing plate.

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There are female ninjas?? Why?

Ninjas were mostly spies, sometimes assassins. Despite the James Bonds, the greatest spies in history are always women. Women were viewed as not a threat, and overlooked. Women would literally be brought in to pour tea in top secret meetings, only to report back every last bit of intel to someone else. When coupled with the fact many were able to play the role of seductress and pry information out of men in high positions, or set them up for compromising situations in order to blackmail them outright, women are far more suited to the job!

From wiki: "The eighth volume of the ninja handbook Bansenshukai written in the late 17th century describes Kunoichi-no-jutsu (くノ一の術). This can be translated as "a technique to use a female" and was employed for infiltration purposes."

Also, female ninjas are sexy.