| 6ixStringJack: I keep reading stories about the kids who grew up with them and didn't know any better that make me have hope for the future... Just saw another one today here: How switching to a flip phone deepened my friendships: [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Oh man... I feel for you on the Mahjong and cell phones. There should be a no-text/emergency call only rule in place. Games like that and Chess and Scrabble can already take way too long if you're playing with somebody who just sits there for 5 minutes before taking a turn. That would drive me nuts having my concentration broke like that all the time in a game. |
6ixStringJack: Let me know about Moose Jaw. That's a good one. Haha. A funny sign I'd always see was the "Bong Recreation Center" when I was driving in Wisconsin a lot. Some of my friends came up for a weekend for SummerFest and they saw that and he's got a picture of himself lighting up his bong next to the sign.  |
| Brenda: I am glad that you guys are able to disengage from a screen while you are together. My friend will stop using hers now after having it for over a year or so when we are together. That's why I hate them. And when they go off in a mah jong session. Oy! That really drives me batty. |
Brenda: Well, I did say that my dad said it was a medicine man. But when he said it it sure did make me wonder. Now, in Western Canada you can get some odd town and city names. Like Moose Jaw.  I should look that up out of curiosity and see where it comes from. |
| Brenda: It does because neither of my aunts had hair on their arms or legs. Neither does this First Nations lady that I know. Cousin of mine who is older than me doesn't either. Neither did my grandmother from what you can see of her arms. You have to remember this was the day of dresses that went to the floor. |
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| 6ixStringJack: Yeah. That's why I have to hang out with my dad more, and my younger brother. They watch way too much TV when we do, but when we go out only one of us has a smart phone and doesn't play with it at all. We can sit for a few hours and bullshit over coffee, meanwhile, like you said, no matter the age, everyone else is looking at those damn screens while they got people 3 feet away from them doing it too. |
| 6ixStringJack: I can't even imagine the days where you just left a hat somewhere and they named a town after that act. Imagine what you would have to do to get your town to change its name today. And then the chaos that would cause the post office, or anyone doing any sort of business with the town. But it was like, nah... I put my hat down between these trees. From here on out this land will be known as Medicine Hat! |
| 6ixStringJack: No hair on the legs too??? I hope that goes for women as well or y'all got a raw deal on that one and the universe has a sense of humor. |
| Brenda: That's why I won't have a cell phone. I hate them with a passion. And I find now it doesn't matter the age, someone always has to be whipping them out and playing with them. I hear ya believe me. I hear ya. |
| Brenda: Yeah, I get you. My dad could answer most questions I had or maybe that is just my memory wanting to think he did. That is true too and things were worse in my grandfather's day because of less information. I know the tippy toeing gets tired and old very fast. |
| Brenda: I understand now. Nope, my dad was always straight up with me when I had a question. Though he could tell the odd joke with a straight face that left you wondering what he meant. Though he didn't do that very often. Like the time I asked him, how is home town of Medicine Hat got it's name. And I swear, he said, "It got its name from a medicine man leaving his hat in the area." |
| Brenda: I did start thinking about the whys of why not. But I should have added not just arms but legs and chest as well. Facial hair is grown at least now a days. Back when the white man arrived from my understanding is most First Nations men in Canada or the US were clean shaven. Well, I think probably as humans developed some of the hair was left over from the great apes. Then most of it was lost over time. You could be right climate may have played into why some people have more body hair than others. |
| 6ixStringJack: Maybe that's the real problem. They've got everyone so wound up like tops all the time, and everyone is always walking around eggshells around everyone else. Everybody has a camera in their pocket that's more impressive than any of the cameras on the set of The Godfather was, just ready to whip right out and get a video to put on youtube if you say something they didn't like hearing. What kind of way is that to live life all the time? Always behaving because even if you're not on camera this second (as far as you're aware) that doesn't mean you won't be 30 seconds from now. I think it all just robs us of our personality over time. No wonder why so many people are just blowing up and doing dumb and even hurtful things to each other. People need release valves. Can't be wound up all day every day. |
| 6ixStringJack: My old man would do it because he didn't like to not have an answer for everything. My grandpa on the other hand got his rocks off of making me think stupid shit when I was too young and dumb to know better. Nothing harmful or anything. Just pranking... and back in his day they didn't worry about things like "developmental years" or what kind of damage people were doing to kids when they said stuff in front of them. I miss those real days. When people were real with themselves and each other. Even if that meant they weren't all on their best behavior most of the time. |
| 6ixStringJack: Maybe you don't know what I mean about things your dad said. Maybe he was always straight up with you. It was just my experience that I grew up thinking quite a few things that weren't true just because of some dumb one off comment an adult in the room said when I was young and impressionable. I can't think of a specific example now (I never can in the moment), but sometimes I'll be talking to the old man and a memory will get triggered and I'll say "Hey... you remember that time when I asked you X and you told me some bullshit?" We get some good laughs out of that sometimes. |
| 6ixStringJack: Maybe you don't know what I mean about things your dad said. Maybe he was always straight up with you. It was just my experience that I grew up thinking quite a few things that weren't true just because of some dumb one off comment an adult in the room said when I was young and impressionable. I can't think of a specific example now (I never can in the moment), but sometimes I'll be talking to the old man and a memory will get triggered and I'll say "Hey... you remember that time when I asked you X and you told me some bullshit?" We get some good laughs out of that sometimes. |
| 6ixStringJack: Makes you think what the reason would be for no arm hair (or in reverse, what would be the reason FOR having arm hair). Hard to imagine in 2025 what it's good for other than collecting debris if you work for a living. I'm sure there's got to have been some benefit both to having it and not having it depending on where you were and what you were doing at the time. Life is crazy. Even the little things can make you think. |
| Brenda: I must have also asked my dad a question and that was his answer. |