The Isolated Blurt BDSM Thread

[the captians wench]

(price references here - scroll down to the "Hershey Bar Index" about halfway down the page),

I think that index is either off or I live in a cheap neighborhood.

I don't remember paying less than 50 cents for a candy bar, and I still can get them for that, but mostly pay 69-79 cents.

That index is saying $1.10! I love my reese cups, but I wouldn't pay $1.10 for 2 cups.

 

[the captians wench]

You *are* just a pup.

I know, but people my age make me feel so much older.

 

[Keroin]

OK, I haven't reached "Old Codger" yet but I'm definitely beyond "pup" status.

I remember watching TV on our crappy, old black and white set. There were a couple of channels that required extra help to come in clearly. We'd take turns. You had to hold the antenna in one hand and stretch out with a metal coat hanger with the other.

I also remember when TV programming ended for the day. Hard to imagine now.

 

[catalina_francisco]

LOL, I remember earning $21.08 for a 5 1/2 day week working, no home phone, no TV at home, and vinyl albums that would melt and warp in the heat as you stood waiting for the bus to go home and discovered the damage when you got there.

Catalina

 

[BiaTcHiNFiRe]

So I got a wee cleaning job in the bar downstairs. Just two hours per day (every day), but thank God for that! It's payed shit, just 1 pound per hour or so, but better than nothing I guess.

 

[Cattypuss]

OK, I haven't reached "Old Codger" yet but I'm definitely beyond "pup" status.

Me too.

I remember watching TV on our crappy, old black and white set. There were a couple of channels that required extra help to come in clearly. We'd take turns. You had to hold the antenna in one hand and stretch out with a metal coat hanger with the other.

Me too. I also remember when there were a grand total of THREE TV channels.

I also remember when TV programming ended for the day. Hard to imagine now.

Me too!

 

[seela]

Me too. I also remember when there were a grand total of THREE TV channels.

I'm whopping 27 years old and I can remember the time, when there was only three TV channels.

Ok, ok, there were the cable and satellite channels, but they were of very little comfort for someone who only had access to network channels.

 

[Cattypuss]

I'm whopping 27 years old and I can remember the time, when there was only three TV channels.

Ok, ok, there were the cable and satellite channels, but they were of very little comfort for someone who only had access to network channels.

OK I must be ancient. There WAS no cable or satellite TV in the UK when I was young.

 

[seela]

OK I must be ancient. There WAS no cable or satellite TV in the UK when I was young.

I don't really know when it became a norm to have cable or satellite. I know I sometimes went over to a friend's place after school to watch Fort Boyard and some horrible French soap on a cable/satellite channel, and that must have been around 1993/1994.

 

[Cattypuss]

I don't really know when it became a norm to have cable or satellite. I know I sometimes went over to a friend's place after school to watch Fort Boyard and some horrible French soap on a cable/satellite channel, and that must have been around 1993/1994.

I was the age you are now in 1994

(and btw I'm not saying that when I was young it was not the norm to have cable or satellite; I'm saying that when I was young, cable and satellite DID NOT EXIST in the UK!)

 

[the captians wench]

I'm having too much fun to go back to work.

 

[seela]

I was the age you are now in 1994

Yeah, I know my experiences don't really match yours, but the difference between how things were when I was a kid in comparison to how things are now... it's just huge! Sometimes it feels alien, even. So I can't even begin to understand how it must feel for older generatios.

And come to think of it, I had access to internet from my own bedroom before I had access to cable channels.

 

[Cattypuss]

Yeah, I know my experiences don't really match yours, but the difference between how things were when I was a kid in comparison to how things are now... it's just huge! Sometimes it feels alien, even. So I can't even begin to understand how it must feel for older generatios.

And come to think of it, I had access to internet from my own bedroom before I had access to cable channels.

ha ha - the first time I touched a computer was after I graduated from university! I kid you not - I wrote my 15,000-word dissertation on a borrowed typewriter and the rest of all my coursework was done with paper and pen!

 

[seela]

ha ha - the first time I touched a computer was after I graduated from university! I kid you not - I wrote my 15,000-word dissertation on a borrowed typewriter and the rest of all my coursework was done with paper and pen!

The development in technology's been really fast. I'm currently writing my dissertation and I can't imagine doing that with pen and paper, and then on a typewriter. Although I think that maybe pen and paper / typewriter would force people to think more about what they write and how they word things, because editing would be so much more difficult. Maybe it would actually make the thought process more indepth, or something.

 

[Cattypuss]

Hardly a novel thought, but I miss pre-email days.

In my loft I have boxes and boxes of letters from friends and family and lovers, dating from the mid-80s to the mid-90s. In the mid-90s we all started emailing. I haven't saved a single email.

 

[Etoile]

I save all email from loved ones, actually.

 

[Lizzie_Borden]

I'm whopping 27 years old and I can remember the time, when there was only three TV channels.

Hehehe

You know, the teens of today have never known life without the Simpsons. There's a scary thought.

 

[Kojote]

OK I must be ancient. There WAS no cable or satellite TV in the UK when I was young.

Mee too!

ha ha - the first time I touched a computer was after I graduated from university! I kid you not - I wrote my 15,000-word dissertation on a borrowed typewriter and the rest of all my coursework was done with paper and pen!

I remember being in awe about an electric typewriter.
And for the first mobile phone my stepfather brought home. Sponsored by his company.
It was HUGE.

 

[catalina_francisco]

Hardly a novel thought, but I miss pre-email days.

In my loft I have boxes and boxes of letters from friends and family and lovers, dating from the mid-80s to the mid-90s. In the mid-90s we all started emailing. I haven't saved a single email.

I miss this too. First the anticipation, the sometimes something extra enclosed, being able to hold it in your hands and read anywhere, sometimes the scent, and for some reason letters were always a lot longer and informative than emails. I also find with emails there is often an expectation you will respond the minute you receive one, whereas with letters a reply was done usually after time to read and reread and do some things that needed doing, rarely the same day, thus allowing for news to develop....and then posting it and for the recipient the wait for it to arrive in the post.

Catalina

 

[Cattypuss]

I miss this too. First the anticipation, the sometimes something extra enclosed, being able to hold it in your hands and read anywhere, sometimes the scent, and for some reason letters were always a lot longer and informative than emails. I also find with emails there is often an expectation you will respond the minute you receive one, whereas with letters a reply was done usually after time to read and reread and do some things that needed doing, rarely the same day, thus allowing for news to develop....and then the wait for it to arrive via the post.

Catalina

Yep, I agree on all points.

Also, I recently was reorganising my loft and came across a box of letters from the early 1990s from an old friend (who is still a close friend, with whom I am in daily email and text message contact). Just opening the odd envelope and rereading those old letters - and especially seeing his handwriting - made me so nostalgic I had a little cry!

 

[wicked woman]

And because of the use of email versus letters, I find it's rare to see someone's handwriting. More than once I've been thrilled to see someone's handwriting...instructions for my behaviour for a weekend together....the few recipes that my Mom wrote versus typed.

 

[the captians wench]

I miss this too. First the anticipation, the sometimes something extra enclosed, being able to hold it in your hands and read anywhere, sometimes the scent, and for some reason letters were always a lot longer and informative than emails. I also find with emails there is often an expectation you will respond the minute you receive one, whereas with letters a reply was done usually after time to read and reread and do some things that needed doing, rarely the same day, thus allowing for news to develop....and then posting it and for the recipient the wait for it to arrive in the post.

Catalina

This is why I love that Jounar and I got into the habbit of sending cards. It started with me just being silly, and morfed into sending each other cards for all kinds of occations. Stll maybe only 3-4 times a year, but I'm always thrilled to see his hand writing, and read the clever little card.

Last year he found me a Twilight birthday card. He was so proud of the find he bugged me for days asking if it had arrived yet.

 

[Kajira Callista]

You are human, and with that comes all the failings and frailties we humans have.

Catalina

Today is not as sad and yes you are right. It is now my job to figure out why I am doing the stuff I am doing.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Today is not as sad and yes you are right. It is now my job to figure out why I am doing the stuff I am doing.

You already know why: You're human, and thus not perfect. What you really should figure out is how to moderate your behavior to meet his expectations and your *actual* needs.

 

[graceanne]

Me too.



Me too. I also remember when there were a grand total of THREE TV channels.



Me too!

I remember that, but only cause my babysitter had a tv. We might have had a TV, but we never watched it. Mom wouldn't let us.

Hardly a novel thought, but I miss pre-email days.

In my loft I have boxes and boxes of letters from friends and family and lovers, dating from the mid-80s to the mid-90s. In the mid-90s we all started emailing. I haven't saved a single email.

While the convenience of email is nice, I VERY MUCH miss letters. I had tons of pen pals as a child and teenager, because I LOVE getting mail. Now, my pen-pals and I email each other. We facebook with each other, etc. I feel like we're losing something important, as a society. My aunt, the other day, found a whole bunch of letters my grandma wrote to her sister in the 40's. She got them out and read them out loud and it was AWESOME. Talk about a trip down memory lane!