name a thing u must have in your adult life cuz u didnt have it as a kid?

[mopinko]

i’ll start- dogs. we had an almost magic boxer from age 4-6. took in a fox terrier for a minute, but when it snapped at me, he was gone. took in a neglected 6 mo old puppy when i was 13. it was 7 yrs of my begging, whining, and dragging home every loose dog i came across.
my 1st house didnt allow dogs, so i was 25 before i could get a dog. have had at least 2 ever since.
i will always pity my da, animal lover he was, who only had those couple of yrs w biff.

[llashram]

1. well

peace, safety and cats-dogs

[mopinko]

2. that's part of the dog thing, tbh.

it wasnt a terrible home, but it was chaotic and tough enough. i didnt get beatins, but my brother did. didnt get that many spankings, cuz i was a pretty good kid.
but the last spanking in my house was when my da went to spank me, and that dog stopped him. came up behind him, took him by the wrist, stared right at him, and told him ‘no’.

i suspect a lot of dog lovers have that in common.

[cloudbase]

3. Scotch whisky. n/t

[mopinko]

6. i pretty much cant stand whisky, poss due to sneaking my da's cutty sark.

and jb at xmas time. /so much worse coming back up.

i can take an irish mixed drink, esp irish coffee, but straight? and i love bitter shit. dark chocolate, thick coffee, hoppy beers.
and bourbon? i just dont get it.

[Ocelot II]

4. Freedom from adult supervision.

I never liked supervision, and now that I'm retired I have none at all. It's great.

[2naSalit]

9. +1

[patricia92243]

5. The internet.

[jcgoldie]

7. booze

[eppur_se_muova]

8. A Selmer saxophone.

Could have bought a Selmer Mark VI alto for $642 when I was in high school. Loved to just hold one; it felt like it wanted to be played. When I went off to college (w/ no good horn of my own) I set music aside, and only sporadically tried to take it up again. But there's no substitute for all those lost years when I could have been practicing and learning. Will probably never be better than a medium-talent sax player now; I've even lost much of my sight-reading ability, which was my only real strength. But for a while there, I could afford my choice of sax and bought, um, at least one. Now I never have the time and the energy I need simultaneously to work at it. Haven't even participated in Community Band for most of the pandemic, even though I'm now Omicron-boosted.

One of these days, someone's likely to get a good deal on very lightly used Selmers at an estate auction.

Parents who encourage and nurture their children's talents deserve real credit for doing so. Parents who pinch pennies and expect their kids to pay their own way in a town with few jobs, not so much.

[2naSalit]

10. Pot!

It's kept me sane my entire adult life!

[RainCaster]

11. Coffee

This is "the nectar of the gods"

[Mr.Bill]

12. Staying up late

and eating in the living room.

[hunter]

13. Supercomputers.

I can now easily emulate any supercomputer of the 'sixties or 'seventies on my Linux desktop computer, which I built from junk otherwise headed to the e-waste bins.

For example, the CDC 6600 was the world's fastest computer from 1964 to 1969 and cost $2,370,000 (equivalent to $20,710,000 in 2021.)

The computer history museum in Mountain View California has one.

It had up to 982 kilobytes memory and processed three million instructions per second.



A $35 computer of today could run circles around it.

The first formal computer class I took was Fortran and we entered our programs using punched cards. Thankfully that's not the way its done anymore. I might have a mile high stack of punch cards to lug around.

[mopinko]

14. i used a commodore 64 w a terminal emulator, and a 1500 baud phone modem w a handset cradle,

dialing in to the loyola mainframe, stealing printing for the non-rofit i was starting. early 80’s.
sat in my pantry w a book on my lap, laying out pages in script.

think it spit out on punchcards 1st, but not sure. students def did their homework on punchcards.