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There are appx. 250 homes in our subdivision. There isn't one hotrod, maybe a couple motorcycles, I've seen one dirt bike and possibly three sleds around. Hardly see kids outside playing either. I'm thinking a lot of this goes back to the onset of home computers and video games plus cable TV and the parents hand down the same interests. I have a number of friends in their 50's and they don't have a clue how anything in thier household works.
Couple times a year I trailer the boat home and people look in amazement like WTF is that monolith I'm dragging down the street.
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Originally Posted by bwd (Post 4230350)

I grew up hanging out in my neighbor's garage tinkering with cars , boats, sleds and even the lawnmowers. Every time the Billy's door opened I would drop what I was doing and go over. I could be swimming in the lake with my friends, I would jump out and in 1 minute, be standing ,dripping wet at the door asking if I could help. Things are certainly more money these days, but I just don't see young people ( kids ) having that interest. They would rather play video games. My neighbor has a teenager, nice kid from what I know. On terrific sunny days I never see him except to mow the lawn which his Grandfather makes him. I know that sour look well. When my garage door is open its not the kid that comes over to check things out its the grandfather and its the neighborhood adults. I just don't see any John Milner types growing up anymore.

Right on. Me too. But there was a great unknown at work when we grew up and it was television. Our parents had no idea the entire effect it was having on us. Today's great unknown is video games and social media. There is a much deeper link that occurs between the brain and programming when its done on computer because it is interactive, something TV never was. The ideas, influences and nuances implanted in the brain are even more powerful and deeper when it is interactive. Ever wonder how many college students stay home with pornography on a weekend instead of going out on a date or planning a marriage? A professor friend of mine in Austin (University of Texas) says this effect is huge but no one is talking about it.

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Originally Posted by Wildman_grafix (Post 4230414)

I figured it was coming, back in the mid ninties I worked at a large medical device company. The young engineers I worked with used to look at my "old" Chevy and ask why would I want something so old?

It was a 1969 427 vette. :picard1:

That's just plain disgraceful.....

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Originally Posted by Mr Maine (Post 4230422)

For that much, it must either be a really nice vacation home, or the town is giving you some really good reach arounds....:drool1:

Its for two houses both in nice areas. But still too much. We have been paying for a long time and property values in these areas have gone up.

The sad thing is the vast majority of society chooses entertainment over adventure. It's always been this way. In the past we only had a small selection of TV channels, no internet, and no video games. So, we were forced to leave the house to find entertainment which in most cases would lead to adventure. Now, you do not have to leave the house to be entertained. You have countless hours of it availiable to you through a wide variety of media choices and most of it is interactive. This leaves the crowd that wants adventure out in the real world doing activities such as boating.

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Originally Posted by redwhite (Post 4230533)

I couldn't move a Pack-men left to right, but I can pretty much drop in and out a SBC or BBC with blindfolds. I removed nuts and bolts where no fingers and tools gone before, yet I refuse to text on my dumb phone. My entertainment have a different meaning then "interactive videos", whatever that means. Anyone request some FB games to play, I have words.

Ah, yes... Heading out at night, looking for adventure. I found it in a girl named Fonda. Fonda Peters. :whistle:

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Originally Posted by 1989mach1 (Post 4229739)

It is 30° here can u guys stop bragging about the sun and wind in your face. Dam n it to he ll ohio winter's suck

Ronnie, quit *****ing about winter. Buy a cheap sled and head north on the weekends, or take your boat and go south. Either one will make winter an Ohio fly by at an unimaginable rate. Our seasonal industry will make for some long drunk painful winters if you don't get off your ass and do something fun to maintain your sanity.

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Originally Posted by Wildman_grafix (Post 4230414)

Whaaaat?

Really? I would assume somebody with mechanical aptitude would appreciate classic cars.... Especially big block classics.

I wonder how many could take apart there whole boat , drop it in a couple 5 gallon buckets and know where all the bolts go? Its a lost art of mechanical curiousity And pride of building something or taking care of it. It could be a house or car too.