I'll be going back in time...

[Erinwilcox]

Hello all!

Just a quick thread to let you all know that I will be away next week at my grandparents. About going back in time, they have no computer and no internet! (not to mention no dishwasher ) So, I will miss everyone immensely.

As an aside, if ya'll would please pray that the VBS would go well and be a blessing to all involved and that I would make some friends as I know relatively few young people up there (I know many of the adults and some of the children), I would appreciate it.

 

[lmnop9876]

what is VBS?
i have no computer and no internet in my flat, i have to use the stuff @ uni.

 

[HiredGoon]

Hello all!

Just a quick thread to let you all know that I will be away next week at my grandparents. About going back in time, they have no computer and no internet! (not to mention no dishwasher )

Ah, the 1980s. That's really far back in time. How did people live without all these necessities? Oh, wait. They're not necessities. I remember it like it was yesterday.

 

[cygnusx1]

Ah, the 1980s. That's really far back in time. How did people live without all these necessities? Oh, wait. They're not necessities. I remember it like it was yesterday.

some of us still think it is 1611

 

[lmnop9876]

i'm going to take a few stabs at what VBS is...
Virgin Birth Society
Visiting Baptist Society
Veritable Blessing Society
Very Bad Savages
Village of Baptist Students

am i getting warm?

 

[calmcoolandelected]

i'm going to take a few stabs at what VBS is...
Virgin Birth Society
Visiting Baptist Society
Veritable Blessing Society
Very Bad Savages
Village of Baptist Students

am i getting warm?

Vacation Bible School!

Vacation (as in summer vacation). Usually, VBS is a week-long program, for elementary aged children. The curriculum is usually themed and different portions of the theme are studied each day along with lots of crafts, games, food, song and fun.

CC&E

 

[calmcoolandelected]

Hello all!

Just a quick thread to let you all know that I will be away next week at my grandparents. About going back in time, they have no computer and no internet! (not to mention no dishwasher ) So, I will miss everyone immensely.

As an aside, if ya'll would please pray that the VBS would go well and be a blessing to all involved and that I would make some friends as I know relatively few young people up there (I know many of the adults and some of the children), I would appreciate it.

When I was growing up, I used to beg my parents to get a dishwasher. My mother always replied, "why do we need to buy a dishwasher when I have two perfectly good dishwashers already?" (my sister and I).

Have a great time at VBS and with your grandparents!

CC&E

 

[cygnusx1]

When I was growing up, I used to beg my parents to get a dishwasher. My mother always replied, "why do we need to buy a dishwasher when I have two perfectly good dishwashers already?" (my sister and I).

Have a great time at VBS and with your grandparents!

CC&E

we still haven't got a dish washer ............. the dog licks the plates

 

[McWilliams]

The dishwasher I could do without, even the computer and the internet but no way could I survive without air conditioning and books!

 

[Erinwilcox]

Um...they don't have air conditioning either! They have a couple of window units, but not in our room! We get the big ancient fans from eons ago...they whir and rattle and shake all night long. Almost not worth the effort.

And Phil, all of your Baptist guesses were way off the mark since it's OPC.

 

[lmnop9876]

Village of Baptist Students

not a bad guess, even if i don't mind saying so myself. it's pretty close to vacation bible school.
if it were in australia, we might call it something like gtlbomhtttb... get those little brats off my hands and teach them the Bible. or, tdohagpgrot... two days of holidays already gone, please get rid of them. or something a tad simpler... sok. sick of kids.
or, wlokptttbfu. we love our kids, please teach them the Bible for us. or, kwthfwltb, kids wanting to have fun while learning the Bible. or, the last one, "summer holiday Bible camps" (definitely the most common)
nothing as simple as vacation Bible school.
although we do have "youth camp," and "family camp" every year or two years.

 

[calmcoolandelected]

Um...they don't have air conditioning either! They have a couple of window units, but not in our room! We get the big ancient fans from eons ago...they whir and rattle and shake all night long. Almost not worth the effort.

And Phil, all of your Baptist guesses were way off the mark since it's OPC.

Yeee owww! Our a/c was down for two days this week. Thankfully, the repairman came yesterday and it didn't do too much damage to the pocket book. Also, today was 95 degrees so I am doubly thankful it is running again.

CC&E

 

[lmnop9876]

Yeee owww! Our a/c was down for two days this week. Thankfully, the repairman came yesterday and it didn't do too much damage to the pocket book. Also, today was 95 degrees so I am doubly thankful it is running again.

CC&E

95 degrees! ouch, is that, like a world record or something? i think the hottest it's ever been in australia is 52 degrees, and that was out in the middle of the outback somewhere. how do human beings survive at 95 degrees. that's like, two and a half times a human's body temperature, that's nearly boiling point, that would be absolutely ferocious!
oh, i forgot, you americans still live in the dark ages and measure temperature in fahrenheit.

 

[Calvinist Dark Lord]

Hello all!

Just a quick thread to let you all know that I will be away next week at my grandparents. About going back in time, they have no computer and no internet! (not to mention no dishwasher ) So, I will miss everyone immensely.

As an aside, if ya'll would please pray that the VBS would go well and be a blessing to all involved and that I would make some friends as I know relatively few young people up there (I know many of the adults and some of the children), I would appreciate it.

Well, congradulations on the moderator thingy...now i'll have to ask for adult supervision when we butt heads

Second off: Yer gettin off light. My maternal grandparents had neither running water nor indoor plumbing. Water was supplied by a well that was drawn by a hand pump on the kitchen sink. The "facilities" consisted of a one hole outhouse in the front yard. During winter it supplied a new definition of COLD. Of course we will NOT discuss the smell when it wasn't cold. Hot water was nonexistent, and one had to heat it on a stove. The entire house was heated only by a coal stove in the kitchen/dining room area.

The place did have electricity, but as i remember back, it is not something i would have trusted today without massive rewiring. As for television, i haven't owned one in 20 years, (though from time to time, i do visit friends to watch the new Battlestar Galactica on SciFi, at least until i purchase the DVD's). When one was available, i grew up in the era where one only had to turn to four channels on VHF and one on UHF to realise that there was nothing on worth watching...remember test patterns??? (Naw, you're too young to remember test patterns, i think they became extinct in the 80's).

Just out of curiousity dear, what is your definition of "roughing it"?

 

[calmcoolandelected]

Well, congradulations on the moderator thingy...now i'll have to ask for adult supervision when we butt heads

Second off: Yer gettin off light. My maternal grandparents had neither running water nor indoor plumbing. Water was supplied by a well that was drawn by a hand pump on the kitchen sink. The "facilities" consisted of a one hole outhouse in the front yard. During winter it supplied a new definition of COLD. Of course we will NOT discuss the smell when it wasn't cold. Hot water was nonexistent, and one had to heat it on a stove. The entire house was heated only by a coal stove in the kitchen/dining room area.

The place did have electricity, but as i remember back, it is not something i would have trusted today without massive rewiring. As for television, i haven't owned one in 20 years, (though from time to time, i do visit friends to watch the new Battlestar Galactica on SciFi, at least until i purchase the DVD's). When one was available, i grew up in the era where one only had to turn to four channels on VHF and one on UHF to realise that there was nothing on worth watching...remember test patterns??? (Naw, you're too young to remember test patterns, i think they became extinct in the 80's).

Just out of curiousity dear, what is your definition of "roughing it"?

I remember when they put a toilet in my grandfather's house. I even remember the days before they invented those plastic things you stick in an electrical socket to keep children from sticking things they shouldn't in there. I remember because I stuck a hairpin in one!
Shocking! CC&E