Childhood Memories.

[FuseFX]

Inspired by my friend Jasmine at InternetX, this weekend I went through my old childhood albums and scanned some of them. Dang, those memories.

Here are some of the pictures I scanned and uploaded on facebook -- http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=62850&l=9b004&id=506095268 (you can see these even if you are not a FB member or a friend).

 

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That's pretty crazy man - such different cultures. Nice pics. Your face hasn't changed at all

 

[Tia Wood]

Wow, I never realized you grew up in a different culture, Lord Brar. I never really pay attention to the country tag unless the english isn't that great, which yours is.

It's weird seeing you as a kid holding a gun. Here in the United States, our kids don't grow up with guns and if that picture was a USA kid, the country would go nuts.

 

[FuseFX]

That's pretty crazy man - such different cultures. Nice pics. Your face hasn't changed at all

Thanks!

Wow, I never realized you grew up in a different culture, Lord Brar. I never really pay attention to the country tag unless the english isn't that great, which yours is.

It's weird seeing you as a kid holding a gun. Here in the United States, our kids don't grow up with guns and if that picture was a USA kid, the country would go nuts.

Well, two reasons -- I was raised in an Army Family. My dad was a Colonel in an Infantry Unit in the Indian Army. In one picture that I am posing with a real gun -- that was just for a few minutes. Apart from that, they are all toys.

I am not sure about how you have it in US, but in here guys are expected to be playing with macho toys -- especially in the part of country I was born and raised in.

 

[Tia Wood]

I am not sure about how you have it in US, but in here guys are expected to be playing with macho toys -- especially in the part of country I was born and raised in.

Oh, we encourage our boys to play with dolls. Just kidding.

No, back about 10-20 years ago there was such a thing as toy guns. But you hardly see them in stores anymore. There was a big drive (don't really know who started it, when or why). Parents make a huge deal of them, especially if they look real. The idea is to keep real guns locked away and hidden from children. But if a child were to bring a water gun to school and it looks real, it would cause chaos in school or even in a neighborhood.

I'm too young to know the whens, whys and hows of our gun society so if someone who was there can explain, that would be great.

 

[DomainMagnate]

Come on Tia, it wasn't a real gun... or was it?

 

[tekz999]

Very precious pictures.

 

[draggar]

Nice pics, LB. I don't think that we'd see pictures like that, even from an army family.

Oh, we encourage our boys to play with dolls. Just kidding.

You are? G.I. Joe, Transformers, boys do play with dolls here, oh, wait, we call them "action figures".

No, back about 10-20 years ago there was such a thing as toy guns. But you hardly see them in stores anymore. There was a big drive (don't really know who started it, when or why). Parents make a huge deal of them, especially if they look real. The idea is to keep real guns locked away and hidden from children. But if a child were to bring a water gun to school and it looks real, it would cause chaos in school or even in a neighborhood.

I'm too young to know the whens, whys and hows of our gun society so if someone who was there can explain, that would be great.

I had plenty of toy guns, some looking very real including a rather convincing water gun I had until the late 1990s (which was actually used as a prop in some college plays).

It's responsibility that wasn't taught to a lot of people. My father in law is a big NRA person, he has more guns than I can count and 4 kids. Each kid was taught (by the age of 12) how to use, load, clean, maintain, etc.. a gun. They were not allowed to play with toy guns because he believes that guns are not toys (rightfully so). None of them ended up in trouble or robbing banks, etc..

It is fascinating seeing other cultures and not from a "tourist" perspective.

 

[GAMEFINEST]

They must have been strict, I know my family is, not as much now, but at one time, zero tolerance for anything or else you got a wooopin..

 

[FuseFX]

Mine? Hell no. Being the only kid in the family -- and one born after a generation -- sure has a lot of advantages.

 

[PRED]

cool
thanks for sharing Lord
Love that kind of thing :yes:

 

[Ownager]

You still into pink?

 

[Tia Wood]

You are? G.I. Joe, Transformers, boys do play with dolls here, oh, wait, we call them "action figures".

I played with my brother's G.I. Joes.

 

[FuseFX]

You still into pink?

Depends on what type of pink you are talking about.

 

[PRED]

Depends on what type of pink you are talking about.

:cheers: LOL :lol:

 

[Sonny Banks]

Thanks for sharing.
Many "keep it real" pictures.