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Title: A new spin on the old, "When I was your age."
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Published: Sep 16, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-09-16 00:03:12 by christine
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If you are 40, or older, you might think this is hilarious!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways. yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that I'm over the ripe old age of forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!

1) I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

2) There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!

3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!

4) There were no MP3 ' s or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?

6) We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!

7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

8) And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids' . Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

10) You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!

11) There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!

12) And we didn't have microwaves. When we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!

13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!

14) And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!

See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before!

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hehehehe.

i got this in email from you. :)

christine  posted on  2010-09-16   1:37:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

YOU DID NOT HAVE TO DIAL ONE FOR ENGLISH - TWO FOR INVADER LANGUAGE!

that's right!!

christine  posted on  2010-09-16   1:37:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

My backyard neighbor got picked up by federal marshals yesterday on a drug warrant out of Fresno. I feel sorry for his wife and kids (the latter not having yet hit puberty -- if we're still near each other when they do, my sympathy will probably be less), but I'm glad he's gone, at least for now.

Can they come get mine?

"Every Person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.
Senator Jacob Howard, Co-author of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, 1866.

farmfriend  posted on  2010-09-16   1:54:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

:))

There's nothing like living in a neighborhood "in transition" to bring back old memories.

I knew the jig was up as soon as the town made one of those "best places to live" lists. My immediate thought was "NO!!! Don't TELL anybody!"

The noblest man will marry the lowest daughter of a base family, if only she brings in money. And a lady will share her bed with a foul rich man, preferring gold to pedigree. Money is all. Good breeds with bad and race is lost. -- Theognis

Prefrontal Vortex  posted on  2010-09-16   1:56:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Can they come get mine?

That depends.

Do they have a boat and new cars that they can't possibly afford and therefore won't really miss?

The noblest man will marry the lowest daughter of a base family, if only she brings in money. And a lady will share her bed with a foul rich man, preferring gold to pedigree. Money is all. Good breeds with bad and race is lost. -- Theognis

Prefrontal Vortex  posted on  2010-09-16   2:09:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Grandpa and his friends would pay the guy a visit. They would beat the guy to within an inch of his life with golf clubs, and tell him he had to move away. The police wouldn't have said hoo ha boo or shit, and in three days the guy would've been gone.

Someone exposed as a child molester, would be in jail (in solitary so the other inmates wouldn't kill him), intensive care, or wrapped in chains at the bottom of the lake.

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-09-16   2:12:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Do they have a boat and new cars that they can't possibly afford and therefore won't really miss?

Piles of junk and an obvious speed habit.

"Every Person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.
Senator Jacob Howard, Co-author of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, 1866.

farmfriend  posted on  2010-09-16   3:06:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

11) There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!

12) And we didn't have microwaves. When we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!

11. LOL! Good one.

12.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace

James Deffenbach  posted on  2010-09-16   8:35:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Someone exposed as a child molester, would be in jail (in solitary so the other inmates wouldn't kill him), intensive care, or wrapped in chains at the bottom of the lake.

Don't know if you saw it or not but there is a series on National Geographic (iirc) called Locked Up Abroad. One episode was about these three guys who, on a promise of something like 50 grand agreed to smuggle some drugs out of Brazil and back into the US. Bad idea. They got caught at the airport and got sentenced to one of the worst hellhole prisons you could ever imagine (Carandiru--I think it was closed down sometime after these guys got out). There was a prison riot some months before these Americans got sent there and over 100 prisoners were killed (that's from memory, if I remember right it was something like 122). And the guards are/were just there to keep prisoners from walking out the doors, the prisoners pretty much ran the inside. And in one scene they brought in a man who they said was a child molester and they beat the crap out of him. Even the guards got in on that, they were putting out lit cigarettes on him.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace

James Deffenbach  posted on  2010-09-16   8:43:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long.

That's not safe anymore.

You're kidding right?

The mid-late 1970's (when I was a yoot, not a teenager yet but a yoot) there were drugs every freaking where. You could walk out on your back porch and yell "I need some dope!" and by golly you'd have a dime back and a baggie of cocaine in less time than it would have taken you to ride to the store on the corner and purchase a gallon of whole milk. Motorcycle gangs, at the time, weren't comprised of middle aged rich dudes and didn't "donate time and money to Toys for Tots" like they do today, instead, they were comprised of a bunch of young drifter guys who would knife you or shoot you for looking at them as they passed your car. Parents of these yoot were the "Me Generation" of responsibility schluffing, self indulgent former hippy nitwits who spent most of the 1970's divorcing, drinking to excess and leaving their kids at home alone to be raised by the television.

I could go on.

Point being, no time in history is or ever was safe. If you were a male yoot in the 18th century and earlier, you probably either got to work 14 hours a day and die of disease or lose a leg under dad's plow, assuming you lived past the age of 2, or you got to go off to war and die (yes, as a 12 year old even), unless you got *real* lucky.

There was one idyllic "golden age" for kids I think, from the 1940's to the mid 1960's when life was relatively safe, people were relatively decent and kind and neighbors watched out for each other (note, idyllic age for kids, not for adults, the 1940's through '60's seem unbearably conformist to me). We all seem to base our assumptions of childhood on that when recollectin' I think.

Most kids in my area still play together (electronics are a bane though), ride bicycles for miles to hit the corner store for slushies in summer and all that. The only difference between our childhood and theirs, outside of the well noted technological crap (which I fully agree is crap and is eating their social skills and intellect) is perception.

Just my opinion of course.

"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC

SonOfLiberty  posted on  2010-09-16   8:47:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

It's all true. Every last sentence.

One thing I'll add is that I think the same of todays "music" as my parents thought of mine. But still I remember my dad watching a AC/DC concert tape with us. He laughed out loud when "Rosie" made her appearance.

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The second dumbest creature on the face of the earth is the one who cannot recognize its enemies. The most stupid of all is the one who will defend and collaborate with the very enemies that are destroying it and its own kind. -Ben Klassen

PSUSA  posted on  2010-09-16   8:53:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

One thing I'll add is that I think the same of todays "music" as my parents thought of mine. But still I remember my dad watching a AC/DC concert tape with us. He laughed out loud when "Rosie" made her appearance.

A lot of teenagers in our area have reverted back to 1970's/1980's rock, as strange as that sounds. Apparently rap is rejected around here, and faux-country just isn't their style. This according to the teen aged guys that live near us.

Keep in mind though that the predominant (overwhelmingly, 95%+ so according to demographics reports I've read) hair color around these parts is blond and the predominant eye color is blue or green (if you catch my meaning). The only time I hear the "boom boom boom" of rap in a car is when I hit certain small, very distinct parts of Columbus or OSU campus from an out of stater type. Chances are if you hear a kids music blaring, 8 out of 10 times it's going to be something like Floyd, Zepplin, Rush etc. The other two times it will be either alternative (still a decent venue) or, ugh, rap.

Makes me kind of sad for kids. Corporate crap conformist "rock" destroyed real rock in the early 21st century, nothing left on that front to like. Country ain't country, it's pop-bubble gum machine lyric generated pap, and rap sucks (well, that's nothing new of course). There are still bright spots, but they're semi-underground (Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, some Scandinavian hard metal). Music is so important to teens and they have slim pickins' these days. Meh.

"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC

SonOfLiberty  posted on  2010-09-16   9:07:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

America's permanent youth rebellion and peer culture are actually quite tedious. It's mostly just an excuse to let kids make a lot of trouble for their parents and annoy everyone with pointless behavior.

TooConservative  posted on  2010-09-16   9:44:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I agree. We can thank the 1950's for gearing that one up. :)

Though it is the youth who rebel historically. The Founding Fathers (most of them, not all) were barely old enough to *be* fathers when they started bad mouthing King George. There is a genuine difference between that though, where the rebellion is directed at overbearing authority over matters of well reasoned principle, and now where the rebellion is directed towards...nothing and everything at once, and reasoning skills haven't yet even been developed even by the time a person reaches his early 20's. What's the term I hear, infantilization of culture or something like that? It fits.

"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC

SonOfLiberty  posted on  2010-09-16   9:50:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

It is convenient to promote a youth culture of pointless rebellion.

It staves off more dangerous kinds of rebellion against social norms at a later age when it would be much more effective.

So the object is to channel this to create a permanent culture of Rebels Without A Cause.

TooConservative  posted on  2010-09-16   10:53:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I know a guy who a garage full of 8-track tapes.

"Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force dictated by an élite, enforced by thugs, uniformed or not, and upheld by a willful ignorance and stupidity on the part of the very majority whom the system oppresses." -- Richard K. Morgan

Turtle  posted on  2010-09-16   10:59:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

That was one great itemized rant, christine.

I'll agree, it was a lot harder to be a kid back in the day.

But then again, I think it was much more fun to be an adult back then too.

I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy cork-soakers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves. - Roman Moroni

randge  posted on  2010-09-16   11:00:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

A very enjoyable read - thanks.

Lod  posted on  2010-09-16   11:03:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I know a guy who a garage full of 8-track tapes.

Yes, I bet you do. His name is Bob. : )

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations

abraxas  posted on  2010-09-16   11:12:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

You're kidding right?

No, I'm not.

Do you lock your doors to your car and your house?

If you don't, you don't know what you're talking about.

If you do and don't remember a time when you didn't, you still don't know what you're talking about.

The noblest man will marry the lowest daughter of a base family, if only she brings in money. And a lady will share her bed with a foul rich man, preferring gold to pedigree. Money is all. Good breeds with bad and race is lost. -- Theognis

Prefrontal Vortex  posted on  2010-09-16   11:17:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I never had an 8-track tape in my life. Back when I had a turntable, receiver, etc., they were all Bang and Olufsen.

8-tracks were for hoosiers and hicks.

"Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force dictated by an élite, enforced by thugs, uniformed or not, and upheld by a willful ignorance and stupidity on the part of the very majority whom the system oppresses." -- Richard K. Morgan

Turtle  posted on  2010-09-16   11:18:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

the 1940's through '60's seem unbearably conformist to me

I'm not surprised.

The noblest man will marry the lowest daughter of a base family, if only she brings in money. And a lady will share her bed with a foul rich man, preferring gold to pedigree. Money is all. Good breeds with bad and race is lost. -- Theognis

Prefrontal Vortex  posted on  2010-09-16   11:19:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I'll agree, it was a lot harder to be a kid back in the day.

But then again, I think it was much more fun to be an adult back then too.

Damn, amen to that sir. And that's the way it should be. Light up your cigs, drink your drinks at work, have adult parties that don't involve sports themes (meaning, parties with adults, not xxx rated parties), flirt with women who enjoyed being flirted with, hunt with your boss from work (because most men hunted), go fishing with buddies (in a way that doesn't involve you getting "punished" by the ever nagging modern wife for daring to not be taking care of the kids 24/7), weekly poker games...

Man, good times....good times. And now, here we are, not doing any of those things in any real quantity, chained to sterile workplaces where no pleasure is condoned and most will get you fired, stuck in 24/7 "soccer mom approved" activities (for those married guys out there, where you're demanded to coo and croon over your childrens' every whim at all hours of the day), forbidden to smoke except on patios outdoors like chattel, facing legal prosecution if you do flirt with a chick...man oh man, we've really fallen. :(

But hey, kids are having a great time, don't have to earn or achieve anything, everybody gets a trophy if they bother to walk away from their video games, all restaurants and venues cater to "family fun" and none to "leave the kids at home" fun any longer (excepting Vegas, but even there they're trying the "family fun" crap). And God help you if you want to stop at the bar after work a couple of times a week and hang with some buddies instead of rushing home to taxi Junior around to his 200 activities.

Heh. Yeah, great world.

"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC

SonOfLiberty  posted on  2010-09-16   11:22:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Chances are if you hear a kids music blaring, 8 out of 10 times it's going to be something like Floyd, Zepplin, Rush etc. The other two times it will be either alternative (still a decent venue) or, ugh, rap.

On one hand that's a good sign. OTOH, like you said, it's sad. If this was truly business oriented, there's a huge demand for this style of music. But it's run by kikes for the most part, and they'd rather destroy us than make money. Then they can have it all.

Time was, you could recognize a guitarist just by hearing one small riff because they worked so hard at it that they can't help but create their own styles. Now they just bang out chords, and that does not take any talent.

Now it's style over substance. And that style means that they dress like emos, whores, or clowns, and/or they love to show off their brand new transparent panties as they exit their limos.

It's all interchangeable, and there will be no more supergroups. .

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The second dumbest creature on the face of the earth is the one who cannot recognize its enemies. The most stupid of all is the one who will defend and collaborate with the very enemies that are destroying it and its own kind. -Ben Klassen

PSUSA  posted on  2010-09-16   11:25:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Do you lock your doors to your car and your house?

Where I live, taking the keys out of the car while parked at Walmart is completely optional.

TooConservative  posted on  2010-09-16   11:25:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I'm not surprised.

You shouldn't be. It was a conformist time. Falling right after WW2 when everybody got all hopped up on militaristic FDR statism, they carried that enthusiasm through to everyday life, saluting every flag and uniform they could find, ensuring that every home looked like every other home, and becoming entrapped in symbolism over substance. Somebody from 1880 or 1780 would have choked on how anti-individualist these people were (in a true individualist sense, not the fake 1960's/70's atomistic faux-individualism). A mind numbing conformity at pretty much all levels, which did a lot to destroy the pioneering rugged individualism of classical Americans, even prior to the dirty hippy "rebellion" of the later 1960's which simply sealed the deal.

"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC

SonOfLiberty  posted on  2010-09-16   11:27:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

No, I'm not.

Then you're being blind to human history.

Do you lock your doors to your car and your house?

Depends. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. We often leave the garage door up and go to bed (attached garage).

I've also checked, get this, a car from 1944 and it had locks on it. I wonder why, if the sole determination for a decadent society is locking them or not?

If you don't, you don't know what you're talking about.

If I don't lock my doors that means I don't know what I'm talking about when I state that it was no more nor less dangerous "back then" than it is now? What amazing logic bro.

If you do and don't remember a time when you didn't, you still don't know what you're talking about.

Well isn't that fun? If you do, you don't know what you're talking about, if you don't you don't know what you're talking about. If you're so inclined, you may want to consider changing your sig line to "I'm right on all issues, don't bother replying". It might save you some time. :)

You lack context and your assertions of do/don't do not take into account the location of the target of your derision. Lots of folks in Marysville, Ohio (just down the road from my home) today in 2010 don't lock their doors at all and will tell you so plainly. Lots of people in 1920 New York city religiously locked their doors due to the crime rate. People in 19th century London were hard pressed not to get pick pocketed, beaten up or stabbed by hooligans. Huh.

Apparently, it's a matter of location and culture, not time period. There's never been a demonstrably "fully safe" time period across the nation. You have to consider the locals as well. Go figure.

I don't know what pissed you off about me, but lately you seem very snippy. If I've said something to tick you off, I apologize, but get the chip off your shoulder guy, we agree on far more things than we disagree on.

"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC

SonOfLiberty  posted on  2010-09-16   11:38:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Then you're being blind to human history.

Everybody I know agrees with me; some Jew on a discussion board says I'm blind to history.

The time the author of the article was talking about was not some other time.

It might save you some time.

It might save you time, since you obviously can't read. But maybe you are pretending not to.

Lots of folks in Marysville, Ohio (just down the road from my home) today in 2010 don't lock their doors at all and will tell you so plainly.

Marysville sounds safe.

The noblest man will marry the lowest daughter of a base family, if only she brings in money. And a lady will share her bed with a foul rich man, preferring gold to pedigree. Money is all. Good breeds with bad and race is lost. -- Theognis

Prefrontal Vortex  posted on  2010-09-16   12:01:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Everybody I know agrees with me

Confirmation bias.

some Jew on a discussion board says I'm blind to history.

Oh? I didn't know you were discussing things on a board with a Jewish person. Go figure. Is this your way of sneering? Just asking for information.

My family is protestant Christian, by the way. Always have been (well, at least since there were Protestants in Scotland and England). I'm agnostic but I'm leaning strongly towards readopting Christianity. Sorry dude. :)

It might save you time, since you obviously can't read.

Oh my, more snippiness. I assume then that you consider ideological disagreement to mean that somebody hates you and that you must hate them back? Difference of opinion or ideas = "attack personally!". Is that correct?

The time the author of the article was talking about was not some other time.

The time YOU were talking about, however, was another time "It's not safe to do that today" to paraphrase. Implying, it was safe "some other time". Hope that clears it up for you.

Marysville sounds safe.

It is safe (as safe as can be reasonably expected). Lots of places are, now and "then". Lots of places are not, now and "then". The relevant context of course being location/culture, not a simple time-line "then" as you imply.

"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC

SonOfLiberty  posted on  2010-09-16   13:18:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Heh. Yeah, great world.

We were living in paradise and didn't know it.

I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy cork-soakers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves. - Roman Moroni

randge  posted on  2010-09-16   13:28:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

That's the problem with paradises. You never realize you were in one until you no longer are. :)

"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC

SonOfLiberty  posted on  2010-09-16   13:37:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

10) You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!

If the author is the age he claims to be, and this was written recently, then he is wrong about point number 10.

Remotes did exist but they were a lot simpler. A remote control was a metal box with five buttons. They were, channel up, channel down, volume up, volume down and power. The buttons made an audible click when you pressed them.

Nowadays a remote is an 8 inch long strip of cheap plastic with about 40 or 50 tiny buttons on it. If you push the wrong button you get some confusing menu thing that you can't figure out how to back out of.

strepsiptera  posted on  2010-09-16   16:34:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

People think children were safer "way back when" but that is not really true, it is just that population and population density was lower which made it hard on the poor perverts. When my mom had to run an errand at night she took the neighbors dog with her - 130 pounds or so of German Shepherd. One night coming home from going to the store for her mom she was walking a lonely and isolated stretch of street and noticed a man following her. When she sped up he sped up. When they hit a dip where they went down into a depression he began closing on her rapidly. So, she sic'ed the dog on him and then ran like hell. She said the last thing she saw before she went over the top of the hill was the dog launching itself in the air for the pursuer's throat. She said the dog came home later, but she never did find out what happened to her pursuer.

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-09-16   18:15:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Makes me kind of sad for kids. Corporate crap conformist "rock" destroyed real rock in the early 21st century, nothing left on that front to like. Country ain't country, it's pop-bubble gum machine lyric generated pap, and rap sucks (well, that's nothing new of course).

You mean you don't like Obama's theme song, the one he sings to Manchelle?

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace

James Deffenbach  posted on  2010-09-16   18:31:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I can relate to all of that.
Heck, I still have a 1981 "Commodore Vic-20" computer in storage under my bed.
It had 20 kilobytes of memory and no hard drive.
I still have an Atari 2600 and an 8-track player somewhere.

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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
-Carl Sagan.

Armadillo  posted on  2010-09-16   19:57:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Remotes did exist but they were a lot simpler.

And a lot more expensive because mostly they were RF transmitters rather than infrared LEDs. You must have been rich.

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-09-16   20:54:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

hey...when my sister and i were kids, we were my father's remote control. he'd lie himself on the sofa in the basement then call us from upstairs to change the channel for him. i hated when he did that.

christine  posted on  2010-09-16   21:02:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I'm so happy to report, that I don't know that song and my kids don't either. :)

"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC

SonOfLiberty  posted on  2010-09-16   23:03:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Nice! I cut my programming teeth on a Vic 20. Didn't know anybody even remembered them!

POKE! PEEK!

"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC

SonOfLiberty  posted on  2010-09-16   23:04:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Nice! I cut my programming teeth on a Vic 20. Didn't know anybody even remembered them!

POKE! PEEK!

Yep, me too. I've PEEK'ed and POKE'd quite a bit.
And lets not forget the ever vague "SYNTAX ERROR".
I also had a C64, C128, and Amiga.

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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
-Carl Sagan.

Armadillo  posted on  2010-09-17   4:28:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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