Thing of the past

[MadJack]

http://objflicks.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

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[BUCKY1]

The pussification of america.

 

[Cricket]

Honesty and respect for others

 

[SixFive]

I think a huge luxury that has changed the mentality of many and has made it a big problem is instant gratification. What would people do if they had to wait for tomorrow's paper for sports scores, news, closing prices at the market, etc? Everything is at ur fingertips now. Do most kids even know what an encyclopedia is? Remember how hard it was to research things at the library and find pertinent journal entries for writing papers? Remember when you had to call around to older smarter people (on your landline once you got home) to get answers to questions or for advice on how to do or fix something? How many of us now don't even like to talk on the phone and would much rather text? What would a kid do now if u told him to write a letter?? Remember how awesome it used to be to get a letter in the mail from a friend or relative? Remember what a privilege it used to be to call somebody "long distance"?

Instant gratification with everything has made our society different.

 

[hawkeye]

Good stuff Jack

 

[kickserv]

Jack did a lot of typing:scared


I remember when you actually had to win something to get a trophy. Now a kid gets a fucking trophy for participating.

Some sports games they don't even keep score. Just pathetic:facepalm:

 

[the addict]

How Did We Survive?



Looking back, it's hard to believe that we've lived this long...

As children we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

Our baby cribs were painted with bright colored lead based paint. We often chewed on the crib, ingesting the paint.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day.

We played dodge ball and sometimes the ball would really hurt!

We played with toy guns, cowboys and Indians,army, cops robbers, and used our fingers to simulate guns when the toy ones or the BB gun was not available.

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda, but we were never overweight; we were always outside playing.

Some students weren't as smart as others or didn't work hard so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. That generation produced some of the greatest risk-takers and problem solvers.

We had the freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pool, the term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors.

I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.

Every year, someone taught the whole school a lesson by running in the halls with leather soles on linoleum tile and hitting the wet spot. How much better off would we be today if we only knew we could have sued the school system.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and the pledge (amazing we aren't all brain dead from that), and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention for about the next two weeks.

Schools didn't offer 14 year olds an abortion or condoms (we wouldn't have known what either was anyway) but they did give us a couple of baby aspirin and cough syrup if we started getting the sniffles. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I just can't recall how bored we were without Computers, PlayStation, Nintendo, or Cable TV. I must be repressing that memory as I try to rationalize through the denial of the dangers could have befallen us as we trekked off each day about a mile down the road to some guy's vacant 20, built forts out of branches and pieces of plywood, made trails, and fought over who got to be the Lone Ranger. What was that property owner thinking, letting us play on that lot? He should have been locked up for not putting up a fence around the property, complete with a self-closing gate and an infrared intruder alarm.

Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played king of the hill on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites and when we got hurt, mom pulled out the 48 cent bottle of mercurochrome and then we got butt-whooped. Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics and then mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got butt-whooped there too... and then we got butt-whooped again when we got home.

Mom invited the door to door salesman inside for coffee.

Our music had to be left inside when we went out to play and I am sure that I nearly exhausted my imagination a couple of times when we went on two week vacations. I should probably sue the folks now for the danger they put us in when we all slept in campgrounds in the family tent.

Summers were spent behind the push lawnmower and I didn't even know lawn mowers came with motors until I was 13 and we got one without an automatic blade-stop or an auto-drive.

How sick were my parents? Of course my parents weren't the only psychos. I recall a neighbor coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop just before he fell off. Little did his mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that we needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes?

We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?????

we woulda made great friends...

sounds like a great childhood and great memories...

 

[the addict]

we ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda, but we were never overweight; we were always outside playing.


Mom invited the door to door salesman inside for coffee.

those two things really made me think...


kids are fat...and it is directly related to technology...i dont care what anyone says....and beleive me i know i work with over 200 of them....


and most people dont even invite their neighbors inside....i am forutnate, my neighbors rock....but my brother, says he has never talked to his one neighbor in 2 years living there....and my brother is a fairly outgoing person....

 

[Mully]

my 1st stereo

my 1st video game

my 1st cell phone


kind of off topic, but it just goes to show you how each generation has it so much better. Im only 40 and it amazes me how everyday life has changes so much since i was born.

God bless alien technology!!

 

[zoomer]

this is a question directed at the older population who use this great site :toast:

always hear my grandparents talk about "the good ole days", when things were great...when they were raising their family...


i only know the world we live in today.


if there was one thing you could go back and bring with you to current day, what would it be?



Good jobs?

A commisioner who likes contact in the game of football?

Those restaurants that have sexy girls on rollerskates?

No complicated technology overtaking the population?

TV shows?

Hippies?


just trying to get a feel for what I am missin living in the world I do today. I feel I would've enjoyed living in the 60's-70's much more then i do now...



I would gladly give up cell phones and big screens if it meant job security, friendly neighbors, the Fonz, etc...


curiouus to see what some of your favorite memories are from things of the past....



i am young, but i can honestly say I am starting to hate the world we live in.

Violence, corruption, poverty....


i know they all existed in previous era's, but not compared to what it is today...


anyone have something that sticks out that they would love to bring to this day and age?

I'd like to bring back 1970 prices to spend with 2011 money.

I wonder what it would be like to be able to GO BACK to that time, knowing what I know now but didn't then.

 

[MadJack]

Only AM radio

Outside for games

The whole family played the inside games together.

We had one phone on the kitchen wall for everybody to use for local calls only.

Our lawnmower

 

[the addict]

what were gas prices when you first got your drivers liscense?



about a $1.40 for me...


was only born in 86, so wasnt that long ago....




wish it was still that price...i can remember thinking how outrageous it was considering my parents were paying 30 cents a gallon...


and then it hit $4.00 :facepalm:

 

[MadJack]

what were gas prices when you first got your drivers liscense?



about a $1.40 for me...


was only born in 86, so wasnt that long ago....




wish it was still that price...i can remember thinking how outrageous it was considering my parents were paying 30 cents a gallon...


and then it hit $4.00 :facepalm:

30-35 cents a gallon. Got my license in 1971.

Drove a 69 volkswagon. It wasn't unusual to get one dollars worth.

 

[zoomer]

30-35 cents a gallon. Got my license in 1971.

Drove a 69 volkswagon. It wasn't unusual to get one dollars worth.

and take up a collection amongst three guys to pay for that dollar's worth of gas too.

 

[the addict]

30-35 cents a gallon. Got my license in 1971.

Drove a 69 volkswagon. It wasn't unusual to get one dollars worth.

can u imagine the money saved if it was still that price...


i spend 40 dollars to fill up my jeep liberty...i hate it...fuckin wife picked it cause it was "pretty"....its a newer one, so figured they would be ok on gas....

 

[kickserv]

"It wasn't unusual to get one dollars worth."

:0039

 

[MadJack]

and take up a collection amongst three guys to pay for that dollar's worth of gas too.

Yup :lol:

 

[MadJack]

can u imagine the money saved if it was still that price...


i spend 40 dollars to fill up my jeep liberty...i hate it...fuckin wife picked it cause it was "pretty"....its a newer one, so figured they would be ok on gas....

I've never filled my truck because the gas stations only allow $75-$80 on credit card purchases. I guess I could run it through again but never did.

 

[BUCKY1]

Bout $1.10 for me. Born in '73. Raised old school though. Almost everything in Jacks post I can relate to. Tryin to raise and teach my kids that sort of way too,(respect for elders, working for what they want, etc.) but also tryin to live like they do with the technology. I'm usually a good year behind.:sadwave:

 

[the addict]

Bout $1.10 for me. Born in '73. Raised old school though. Almost everything in Jacks post I can relate to. Tryin to raise and teach my kids that sort of way too,(respect for elders, working for what they want, etc.) but also tryin to live like they do with the technology. I'm usually a good year behind.:sadwave:

i feel i am the same way...

i can remember doing a lot of what jack talked about...

my family is old school...

i mean really old school...


we go to the mountains to camp and have no technology for days at a time, and i have never seen em happier...they love living free and being with family...

family, friends, fun are the things they live for....and i love it and feel fortunate to have lived like i did growin up....



and you said it perfect. i am trying to be the best father i can be with my daughter, but it is going to be hard i am afraid with so many tempations and evils out there today. I am going to teach her all the morals and values that my father taught me, and pray she learns them and lives them....