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[bubosquared]

Is anyone else being mocked by the y!groups website? It keeps telling me there's a "zero sized reply" for 90% of the pages I'm trying to access. It's driving me insane. Is this just me? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

(Argh, I'm quoting Eighties movies! Help me, Obi Wan Friends List, you're my only hope.)

(I've just been accused of having grown up in the fifties, becuase we used to play with things like marbles and spinning tops and skipping ropes rather than game boys and pokèmon cards. And the person accusin me was older than I am! Why, yes, Carole, I did grow up in the most ass-backwards town in the Western world. Thanks for reminding me. Argh.)

In other, even less exciting news, I've tried to start some discussions on the femgeeks boards. Come join me?

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[nafio.livejournal.com]

*blink* because of that you grew up in the fifties? Erm. Ok then. *adds 20 or so years to my own age* Marbles, skipping ropes, hopscotch, tops... both before and people started playing with Gameboys. And um. Pokemon. Yes, Pokemon has been around for EVER so long. Really. *rolls eyes*

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Yes! Thank you! I mean, flippin' hell, people. I'm talking late Eighties, very early Nineties here, which I realise wasn't that long ago, but. Jeez. We weren't that exceptionally backwards, were we?

Were we?

(I dunno, Carole was really surprised that we not only still played with those, but that I could still name all of the kinds of marbles and stuff.)

[pelicanzed.livejournal.com]

Nein - or at any rate, things were about the same here. We had a computer, but it was a BBC Master. Then we had an Acorn. My family didn't acquire a games console until 1998 or a PC until 1999. Skipping, pretending to be horses, riding bikes, counting traffic (seriously!), hacking our way through brambles and making magazines were the order of the day.

[nafio.livejournal.com]

*checks profiles* I'm all of 4 years older than you, so er... nope.

Frankly, I don't want to live to see the day no child knows how to play with a skipping rope.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Or know all the names to various marbles, and how to bargain with them. (Business instincts were fostered in those day. Heh.)

[meacoustic.livejournal.com]

Help me, Obi-Wan Friends List, you're my only hope...

*dies laughing* Don't do that to me while I'm at work!!

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

What? Oh, come on, that's not that funny!