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Re: Post a childhood memory
« Reply #75 on: July 02, 2009, 05:15:07 PM »
Young boys are said to have a spike in testosterone production around age 4, and another at the onset of puberty, so there are fluctuations there as well, even if it's not cyclical the way it is in girls. Girls must get testosterone surges too; some of the teenage girls I've met have got more alpha-male characteristics than the boys do. O_o

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Re: Post a childhood memory
« Reply #76 on: November 12, 2018, 08:09:46 PM »
Mum and I were talking about what shopping was like when us kids were young. She and Dad would leave all four of us in the car while they went shopping. Our bickering would escalate into full-on punch-ups. All inside the car.

The bags the shopping came in were paper with no handles. The cats used to love them.

I remember one of my sisters taking Mum's keys before school and starting the car. She was just "helping".
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« Reply #77 on: November 12, 2018, 08:53:43 PM »
There used to be a place at the supermarket where you could pick through the boxes and select one to put your shopping in. There were paper bags available as well.


Our front yard used to slope down to the street. It seemed like a huge hill when we were kids. I was a huge kid, so I must have been very young when this happened. No older than about 2 or 3. Car tyres were smaller in those days as well. My sister sat me inside a car tyre with my legs tucked up and rolled me down the hill, and the experience was terrifying and painful, particularly the skidding crash at the end. She dragged me back up the hill, still crying, and tried to force me (screaming) to go back inside the tyre for another go. My mother came running out of the house and asked what was wrong and my sister (who would have been maybe 5 years old) said "he doesn't want to get back in the tyre" as if she was expecting our mother to help convince me to get back in.

My sister remembers the incident as well, she was obsessed with a cartoon on TV where the heroes rode around in high speed tyres. Sorry, I couldn't find a pic so you will have to imagine it. She was trying to recreate the cartoon in real life.
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« Reply #78 on: November 12, 2018, 09:52:45 PM »
^^^ This explains a lot.   :M

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« Reply #79 on: November 12, 2018, 10:29:11 PM »
^^^ This explains a lot.   :M

Looking back, using my head as a brake wasn't such a great idea.
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« Reply #80 on: November 12, 2018, 11:12:03 PM »
Well, yeah, your head has a much lower coefficient of friction than your hands and feet. 

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« Reply #81 on: November 13, 2018, 08:46:09 PM »
The Summer I was 5 they had a Disney special every week at the movie theater in the town North of mine and my sister took me to almost every one
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« Reply #82 on: November 27, 2018, 08:14:15 PM »
^The very first movie I saw was in the city and we had to take the train to get there. Old diesel train. The windows could even be opened. I wonder how there weren't injuries.

Anyway, the movie was Popeye, a live-action movie. I don't remember much of it. I think my sister and I were 5.
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Re: Post a childhood memory
« Reply #83 on: November 28, 2018, 12:17:27 AM »
Thinking the first movie I ever saw in a theatre was Aristocats.
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« Reply #84 on: November 28, 2018, 12:44:06 AM »
Lucky - so much better than Popeye. :green:
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« Reply #85 on: November 28, 2018, 03:01:30 AM »
The first on I remember was Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory there were probably others before but I remember this one clearly, my sisters babysat me while my mom worked second shift at the hospital so if they wanted to go somewhere I did too.  I also remember seeing The Poseidon Adventure when I was 5
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« Reply #86 on: November 28, 2018, 11:46:33 AM »
Thinking the first movie I ever saw in a theatre was Aristocats.

My first was Wizard Of Oz. Loved it!

A few weeks later we saw Lady And The Tramp.
Now I was OK with a flying monster monkey army, but singing Siamese cats scared the fuck out of me and I had nightmares.
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« Reply #87 on: November 28, 2018, 12:25:30 PM »
I also saw one of the original Pippi Longstocking films very earle on. I must have been three or four.
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« Reply #88 on: November 28, 2018, 03:27:25 PM »
The first movie I remember seeing was American Graffiti, although I didn't see it when it was released.

It was shown at the theater at Vandenberg AFB a few years later. At first I thought it was a Happy Days movie because Ron Howard and Cindy Williams were in it.

This was a common practice at theaters at military bases, it was less costly for them to get old movies back then.

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Re: Post a childhood memory
« Reply #89 on: November 28, 2018, 05:21:49 PM »
The first movie I remember seeing was American Graffiti, although I didn't see it when it was released.

It was shown at the theater at Vandenberg AFB a few years later. At first I thought it was a Happy Days movie because Ron Howard and Cindy Williams were in it.

This was a common practice at theaters at military bases, it was less costly for them to get old movies back then.

You never saw a movie in a theater until you were an adult?
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