I turn 43 this year and also lived in hinterlands, so our childhood cultures are probably similar.
I don't recall anyone drinking beer, though. But that's probably because I come from a family of staunch tea-totaling middle class methodists. Poor people drink beer. Rich people drink wine. They only drink iced tea as the lord intended.
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"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
TPRJones wrote:I turn 43 this year and also lived in hinterlands, so our childhood cultures are probably similar.
I don't recall anyone drinking beer, though. But that's probably because I come from a family of staunch tea-totaling middle class methodists. Poor people drink beer. Rich people drink wine. They only drink iced tea as the lord intended.
Grew up 3 miles from the shore of Lake Erie with a grandfather who was a fishing boat captain (Lake Erie used to have commercial fisheries before the sturgeon were annihilated). Living next to a bar. With a family of drinkers and smokers. I am sitting about 150 yards from that house right now, and my mother now owns that bar.
So, beer cans.
The "Schlitz" cans in the above link strike the biggest memory chord.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I remember when this thread was about boobies. Now it's just boobs.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
TPRJones wrote:I turn 43 this year and also lived in hinterlands, so our childhood cultures are probably similar.
I don't recall anyone drinking beer, though. But that's probably because I come from a family of staunch tea-totaling middle class methodists. Poor people drink beer. Rich people drink wine. They only drink iced tea as the lord intended.
It's 'teetotaling'. Unless you were being intentionally wry.
My grandmother on that side was severely alcoholic (later recovering). It never occurred to me before, but that probably had a lot to do with the attitudes about alcohol on that side of my family.
Huh. And now it seems completely obvious and I am dumb. They fooled me with all the god talk.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
As an added bonus, I think that's a banded sea krait ...
... it's catching. Rather venomous when they decide to bite.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Oh shit, wait, I think that's the picture of the in-law who'll be living with you shortly...
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."