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2012-01-24 08:14:35 AM
Drinking, lots of drinking.
 
2012-01-24 09:06:28 AM
Do people not still amuse themselves by taking pictures of themselves? Isn't that 90% of facebook right there?
 
2012-01-24 09:33:56 AM
1. Attending Public Dissections

Junior Mint?

mimg.ugo.com
 
2012-01-24 10:20:35 AM
I always imagined the streets were just filled with this

frankfradella.com
 
2012-01-24 10:21:01 AM
List fails without mentioning public executions
 
2012-01-24 10:22:14 AM
I think we still do all of those things in some form. Well, except escalator riding.
 
2012-01-24 10:24:55 AM
DjangoStonereaver: List fails without mentioning public executions

Damn. Beat me to it.
 
2012-01-24 10:30:25 AM
4. Taking Pictures of Themselves

photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net
 
2012-01-24 10:34:29 AM
wildcardjack: Well, except escalator riding.

concerned:
images1.makefive.com
 
2012-01-24 10:38:52 AM
I love that two of those quints are like inches away from falling 4 feet onto the floor. Cause you know, 1 year olds never roll over unexpectedly.
 
2012-01-24 11:18:01 AM
Flogging off to the Sears catalog is missing.
 
2012-01-24 11:28:39 AM
Let's see,
Before TV: average family size 8.
After TV: average family size 2.5

Yes, your horny great grandpa spent most nights banging your great grandma.

Deal with that mental image.
 
2012-01-24 11:54:42 AM
BigBooper: Let's see,
Before TV: average family size 8.
After TV: average family size 2.5

Yes, your horny great grandpa spent most nights banging your great grandma.

Deal with that mental image.


Except there's less banging when a woman is mostly pregnant. But your dad was totally banging your mom to the light of Carson. Because your mom was on the pill.
 
2012-01-24 12:07:22 PM
huh. 5 silly things, with pictures, and all on one page. take a hint, CRACKED.
 
2012-01-24 12:29:46 PM
DeaH: BigBooper: Let's see,
Before TV: average family size 8.
After TV: average family size 2.5

Yes, your horny great grandpa spent most nights banging your great grandma.

Deal with that mental image.

Except there's less banging when a woman is mostly pregnant. But your dad was totally banging your mom to the light of Carson. Because your mom was on the pill.


Parents, grandparents, etc. were good Irish and German Catholics. So every sperm was sacred.

Everyone in my generation on the other hand is certainly going to hell. Of course since we're completely modern, once we got married and spawned our second crotch fruit, sex with my wife got effectively cut off. I don't know when women gained the right to control sex, but it was a dark day for men. Dark indeed.

I still have the memories of when we were living in sin though, .... morrning sex, waking her up or getting woken up for sex in the middle of the night, nooners, and weekend vacations that were mostly about shacking up in a hotel and shagging and laying in bed naked together.... nothing can take away those memories....

/I'll be in my bunk
//then I'll be in the corner quietly weeping
 
2012-01-24 01:45:53 PM
BigBooper: Everyone in my generation on the other hand is certainly going to hell. Of course since we're completely modern, once we got married and spawned our second crotch fruit, sex with my wife got effectively cut off. I don't know when women gained the right to control sex, but it was a dark day for men. Dark indeed.

That's why God invented mistresses.
 
2012-01-24 04:01:36 PM
Ishkur: BigBooper: Everyone in my generation on the other hand is certainly going to hell. Of course since we're completely modern, once we got married and spawned our second crotch fruit, sex with my wife got effectively cut off. I don't know when women gained the right to control sex, but it was a dark day for men. Dark indeed.

That's why God invented mistresses.


And that's why ex-wives get half of everything
 
2012-01-24 08:10:14 PM
Public masturbation.
 
2012-01-24 10:52:28 PM
plutoniumfeather: huh. 5 silly things, with pictures, and all on one page. take a hint, CRACKED.

Cracked.com is a ripoff of Mental Floss, speaking of which.
 
2012-01-26 05:01:25 PM
Except for #1, I know people still do all those things.

So, #6, Actually did research on a subject before speaking about that subject. That seems to be something people Used to Do.
 
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