Rather attractive babes back then too.
Ol fuzzy britches
A trip down memory lane for those 40+
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Ol fuzzy britches
I forgot -
Child abuse - publicly accepted
Gay bashing - that as well
Acceptance of only what you know - Standard operating procedure
Smoking - healthy
Sex - repressed
If you're old and proud, great. But it was no great era.
Seems like a pretty good time to be a white guy with a job, though. Wife always in the kitchen. Kids outside kicking the can or catching fireflies. Kick back in your chair and have a drink.
We played cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, and fought Germans and Japs. We spent time in church and conservation camps.
We watched Westerns, war movies and The Wide Wide World of Sports.
Then we’d argue about whose turn it was to get up and change channels.
We farmed, fished, hunted and drank beer. We married our high school sweethearts and survived the Great Recession.
We are.........The Luckiest Generation.
We watched Westerns, war movies and The Wide Wide World of Sports.
Then we’d argue about whose turn it was to get up and change channels.
We farmed, fished, hunted and drank beer. We married our high school sweethearts and survived the Great Recession.
We are.........The Luckiest Generation.
Ha! Is this Old Man Dougan? My dad is into astronomy. He’s always complaining about light pollution.
I’ll say I miss being able to call a co-worker a “f*g” when he complains about working too late without fear of being fired.
And according to everybody I know in their 50’s, sex was not repressed in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.
Well that settles that! You may be the first person that views their childhood and childhood times more favorably than other people's childhoods.
I'm convinced race relations, at least among high school kids, was better in the 90's than it is today. Back in the day, if a racial incident occurred (e.g., a bad joke, a slur, etc.), it was well-contained. Maybe the kids in the class heard about it, maybe it even got out to the overall school, but it was usually quickly contained. And the principals, at least where I went to school, did a great job of not making it more than what it was - usually some dumbass kid making a dumb decision. They'd punish the kid, but everybody moved on very quickly.
Now, it seems like it's national news if a minor racial incident occurs. And it doesn't even make sense in the grand scheme of things. One kid could knock another kid out - no big deal. Racial slur - Ahhhhhhh!!!! The world is coming to an end. We have NO TOLERANCE for this! Banish the kid. I'd argue it makes things worse.
Now, it seems like it's national news if a minor racial incident occurs. And it doesn't even make sense in the grand scheme of things. One kid could knock another kid out - no big deal. Racial slur - Ahhhhhhh!!!! The world is coming to an end. We have NO TOLERANCE for this! Banish the kid. I'd argue it makes things worse.
For white hetero men who are racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and misogynistic
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No, but who I voted for is irrelevant and none of your business.
I could give you a hint - Friedman.
How any of that is relevant to me not waxing nostalgic about an era during which we had the commie witch hunt, Jim Crowe laws, sent pregnant young girls away in shame, forced women to stay in bad (and often abusive) marriages due to economics and societal oppression, beat the hell out of kids, and there was no Slayer?
I can have an opinion without it giving you an idea of my political ideology.
Spoiler alert - I love free markets pumpkin. We weren't in the halcyon days of Hayek and Smith and Raynd and Smith then.
I remember my Red Ball Jets, couldn't afford Converse, or so Mom said. I found out in later years she was just a tight wad. Did anyone else tie a balloon on their bicycle spokes to make it sound like a motorcycle? Mom or Dad would kill a chicken on Sundays for dinner.
Loved the good 'ol days, but glad they're gone. No A/C and one TV channel sucked.
Loved the good 'ol days, but glad they're gone. No A/C and one TV channel sucked.
You seem to be quite angry. So what are you 25 or 26? Gracious.
Well, I'm none of those, so that theory goes out the window.
This is what I was aiming for since my youth and the times changed..... Dammit!
same and I'm 35. That was pretty much my childhood except the tableside jukeboxes...
Raised by a single mom so I spent most of my days with my Grandma while my mom was at work. I wasn't allowed indoors on a nice day except for lunch and cartoons at 3. from 8-12 and 1-3 I was required to stay outside.
Yepp. That’s why I hate winter so much. During the summer my 3 boys will play outside till like 930pm. It’s awesome. They’ll come in for lunch / snacks / to cool off with some Cartoons or video games or something but they’re outside playing 85% of the day.
We used to play in a pretty ****** basement when I was a kid. There was this black support pole that was flaking off and kind of rusty that was the epicenter of a lot of games we played, including ring around the rosie which, if you weren't an idiot, you "played" about twice in a row before you got bored as hell.
Kid that lived in the house got a staph infection that the doctor said was likely from that pole and his mom proceeded to go into great detail about the origins of that song. That pretty much dominated the early summer that year. Also that mom got pregnant again at age 49 and slapped a random neighbor man in the face in front of us all, her kid screaming "I HATE YOU" and cannonballing into a pool. What a year to be alive! That kid is a surgeon now.
Kid that lived in the house got a staph infection that the doctor said was likely from that pole and his mom proceeded to go into great detail about the origins of that song. That pretty much dominated the early summer that year. Also that mom got pregnant again at age 49 and slapped a random neighbor man in the face in front of us all, her kid screaming "I HATE YOU" and cannonballing into a pool. What a year to be alive! That kid is a surgeon now.
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