Megavapatron
Well-Known Member
30 Here. Grew up in the 80s and 90s just in time to see the world change from the good old simple analog days to the busy digital age. I remember telling my friends we will have tvs that can be used as phones. Who knew it would come so fast and in 4kHD!!
NickDlow
Log Hog
I'm 27 and have been on FC for over a year now and many more to come. Besides my IG for MJ and knives this is my only form of social media and I wouldn't have it any other way. I can't take the commercialization of social media, it not to stay connected to family n friends. It's so corporations see your interests and flood you with advertisements and bullshit. Plus the endless amounts of drama and bullshit.
Thankfully none of that is here at FC! Just a bunch of friendly informative people looking to help one another. The amount of sincerity and kindness found here is unmatched!
Thankfully none of that is here at FC! Just a bunch of friendly informative people looking to help one another. The amount of sincerity and kindness found here is unmatched!
Havelock Vetenari
Patrician
Looks like i'm not alone in being from the summer of love!
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Love)
But surely you all already knew that, right?
Just look at that happy face<...
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Love)
But surely you all already knew that, right?
Just look at that happy face<...
Mr. Gweilo 420
Dude
Atari 2000? yeah mine too. It was awesome.My first console
Mr. Me2
Well-Known Member
Must be Willie Nelson
WakeAndVape
VapeLife X
I'm so damn old I had to think about it...lol. 34!
1980 best damn DECADE EVER!This shit was a kids show...
1980 best damn DECADE EVER!This shit was a kids show...
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flotntoke
thoroughly vaped
50, and what a long strange trip it's been!
Find as I get older I'm turning into a grumpy old man even faster! Damn, kids today!
They are so spoiled and have it so easy. Things just aren't the same as when I was a young'n. But, they never have been, have they? Sometimes wonder if this is brought on by nostalgia, or jealousy I wasn't born in the 21st century. Probably the latter, but certainly not worth worrying about!
Am the oldest of my generation in my family born to young parents, which had some perks. Cousins (5 - 10 years older) looked up to parents as the cool older ones, and I definitely benefited as I came of age and they were the cool older ones. Growing up in the late 70's early 80's was weird in a way. Got to see how amazing some things were, and got to watch them start to shift - especially with illegal substances. Still glad I caught at least the end of those times and watch how things have progressed. I remember when I first started getting high as a young teen I refused to smoke marijuana. I'd been warned about it and its horrors by grandparents and others. But, I'd gladly smoke pot like a fiend as long as we had enough for a joint! Was a couple months before I figured it out, and no way I was turning back by then.
Somebody already posted an 8-track (still have a few somewhere in a box around here!), so went and found this.
Our ONLY video game! My brother and I had to beg for more than a year to get one, and had to split it as a Christmas gift when we finally did. IIRC it was around $100 - big money in those days - and worth every penny to a 12 year old in the late 70's! Scary thing is how many hours we spent knocking that electronic "ball" back and forth across the screen.
Find as I get older I'm turning into a grumpy old man even faster! Damn, kids today!
They are so spoiled and have it so easy. Things just aren't the same as when I was a young'n. But, they never have been, have they? Sometimes wonder if this is brought on by nostalgia, or jealousy I wasn't born in the 21st century. Probably the latter, but certainly not worth worrying about!Am the oldest of my generation in my family born to young parents, which had some perks. Cousins (5 - 10 years older) looked up to parents as the cool older ones, and I definitely benefited as I came of age and they were the cool older ones. Growing up in the late 70's early 80's was weird in a way. Got to see how amazing some things were, and got to watch them start to shift - especially with illegal substances. Still glad I caught at least the end of those times and watch how things have progressed. I remember when I first started getting high as a young teen I refused to smoke marijuana. I'd been warned about it and its horrors by grandparents and others. But, I'd gladly smoke pot like a fiend as long as we had enough for a joint! Was a couple months before I figured it out, and no way I was turning back by then.
Somebody already posted an 8-track (still have a few somewhere in a box around here!), so went and found this.
Our ONLY video game! My brother and I had to beg for more than a year to get one, and had to split it as a Christmas gift when we finally did. IIRC it was around $100 - big money in those days - and worth every penny to a 12 year old in the late 70's! Scary thing is how many hours we spent knocking that electronic "ball" back and forth across the screen.
lwien
Well-Known Member
until you can only see the whites of their eyes. 
ginolicious
Well-Known Member
About to be 27 in 2 weeks or so.
TomC1315
Well-Known Member
57 ... my wife turned 61 this past Monday ... we smoked a couple of bowls before and after our dining out to celebrate.
When I started up again after a 9.5yr hiatus, she climbed on board too (she hadn't "enjoyed" since her early 20s) ... it's my 3rd marriage, and when we met back in '08, I'd been 3 years without by then ... It came as quite the surprise to her then, when I came home from work one day high, with a couple of grams of primo bud that my co-worker gave me (sort of out of the blue).
We figured that we'd wait a while to invest in a vaporizer ... wait and see if I'd establish a more reasonable and responsible relationship with the MJ (it was basically my "ball & chain" from 1975 thru 2005) ... I can understand her not wanting me to (1) get high every day (2) thus making it too much of a priority - ask my first wife about that. Is it still tempting to 'wake-n-bake'? Of course, but I need to keep those inclinations in check, and only do that once in a while.
She really likes the idea of conserving the stash (and not spending $), and the ExQ, by all accounts, will do that for us ... and of course the healthy alternative that vaping offers is a no-brainer, IMO.
And hopefully, the ExQ won't be too complicated for her ... 4 months ago, I bought a small steam roller when I started up again ... alas, it proved to be too complicated for her (for real), with the open end needing to be covered up and all ... then a wooden bowl, but with that, I always needed to get it going for her and that was OK, but after reading this thread and how much better the vaping experience is, the idea of firing up the bowl has lost almost all of its appeal.
Anyway, according to FedEx, the ExQ will arrive sometime today ... I'm looking forward to seeing how long the 3g I have will last, and how it will compare to the way I'm used to.
When I started up again after a 9.5yr hiatus, she climbed on board too (she hadn't "enjoyed" since her early 20s) ... it's my 3rd marriage, and when we met back in '08, I'd been 3 years without by then ... It came as quite the surprise to her then, when I came home from work one day high, with a couple of grams of primo bud that my co-worker gave me (sort of out of the blue).
We figured that we'd wait a while to invest in a vaporizer ... wait and see if I'd establish a more reasonable and responsible relationship with the MJ (it was basically my "ball & chain" from 1975 thru 2005) ... I can understand her not wanting me to (1) get high every day (2) thus making it too much of a priority - ask my first wife about that. Is it still tempting to 'wake-n-bake'? Of course, but I need to keep those inclinations in check, and only do that once in a while.
She really likes the idea of conserving the stash (and not spending $), and the ExQ, by all accounts, will do that for us ... and of course the healthy alternative that vaping offers is a no-brainer, IMO.
And hopefully, the ExQ won't be too complicated for her ... 4 months ago, I bought a small steam roller when I started up again ... alas, it proved to be too complicated for her (for real), with the open end needing to be covered up and all ... then a wooden bowl, but with that, I always needed to get it going for her and that was OK, but after reading this thread and how much better the vaping experience is, the idea of firing up the bowl has lost almost all of its appeal.
Anyway, according to FedEx, the ExQ will arrive sometime today ... I'm looking forward to seeing how long the 3g I have will last, and how it will compare to the way I'm used to.
stickstones
Vapor concierge
47
TomC1315
Well-Known Member
That ^^ also reminded me of this:
And if we want to go a bit further back.....
Wow ... the Discwasher image took me back (as well as the 45 adapters) :-) How about the after-market, plastic-lined record sleeves that would replace the paper record sleeves ... now digital music!
To think of all the smoking paraphernelia I've gone thru ... now vaporization!
woolspinner
Well-Known Member
43.
Grew up in oregon, but did not have my first joint until 25 from a friend who was the first person I knew to use medicinally - endometriosis and related pain. Was always told mj was Oregon's largest cash crop. Smoked seldom until recently, and now using as part of long term campaign to get off several pharmaceuticals.
Our first family computer was an Apple II and my first private computer for college was an 8086. I had a dot matrix printer that used the paper with the holes punched in the edges to feed it. My first monitor had an amber screen....which means the type was amber.
Grew up in oregon, but did not have my first joint until 25 from a friend who was the first person I knew to use medicinally - endometriosis and related pain. Was always told mj was Oregon's largest cash crop. Smoked seldom until recently, and now using as part of long term campaign to get off several pharmaceuticals.
Our first family computer was an Apple II and my first private computer for college was an 8086. I had a dot matrix printer that used the paper with the holes punched in the edges to feed it. My first monitor had an amber screen....which means the type was amber.
67 last March ... smoked my first joint in NYC during Thanksgiving break sophomore year in college in 1967.
this summer marks 50 years of fucking around with computers. i go back to card punch days - submit the deck and wait 24 hours or more to find out about the missing comma, resubmit, repeat.
by far, the best computer ever was the PDP-11. i think about all these companies that were born, sprang up, changed the world, and died.
now, when i look around, i just see people competing to keep people distracted from the real world ... i mean all the worthless junk on TV and cable. endless distraction with banner ads. i am amazed that selling ads is such a monster business. it seems it is the ONLY business model. and i know that can't be right.
ain't never gonna retire ... i built a web-based business in 2000 which i can run from my basement ... and i live exactly where i want to be ... now i want to see if i can do this another 20 years or so.
this summer marks 50 years of fucking around with computers. i go back to card punch days - submit the deck and wait 24 hours or more to find out about the missing comma, resubmit, repeat.
by far, the best computer ever was the PDP-11. i think about all these companies that were born, sprang up, changed the world, and died.
now, when i look around, i just see people competing to keep people distracted from the real world ... i mean all the worthless junk on TV and cable. endless distraction with banner ads. i am amazed that selling ads is such a monster business. it seems it is the ONLY business model. and i know that can't be right.
ain't never gonna retire ... i built a web-based business in 2000 which i can run from my basement ... and i live exactly where i want to be ... now i want to see if i can do this another 20 years or so.
up in here!
Likes2vape
Well-Known Member
41 on Saturday. Grew up in the eighties and early nineties. I remember when you were automatically a drug dealer if you had a beeper. Just say no was just getting started. I tried mushrooms and whip it's before ever trying weed as the just say no program had me freaked out about weed. lol
