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re: People born around 1900 had it pretty bad
Posted on 10/10/25 at 6:40 am to EphesianArmor
Posted on 10/10/25 at 6:40 am to EphesianArmor
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Starting with the Boomers , we all have NO idea how lucky most of us are to have avoided the human calamity for the most part. SO FAR.
That’s because the world elite are saving the best for last. As this simulation winds down over the next 100 years we are going to witness horrors that generation couldn’t have imagined. Billions more people on the planet with access to technology that helps us witness and create carnage on a scale never imagined before. Better buckle up.
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Posted on 10/10/25 at 6:52 am to LSUTANGERINE
quote:<——Has a 1901 gf here
People born around 1900 had it pretty bad
quote:What a difference one or two birth years make.
World War I (Nope, in HS in Nov. 1918)
Spanish flu epidemic (Nope, didn’t get it)
Great depression (Worked continuously for a RR)
World War II (Nope, vital industry employee)
Korean war (Ditto)
Vietnam war(Retired, too old)
Posted on 10/10/25 at 6:55 am to TexasTiger89
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I guess we should remind ourselves when bad things happen today. Bad things have always been happening.
And yet we see people posting on TD that "things have never been as bad as they are now."
Posted on 10/10/25 at 9:09 am to South21
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Just think if you were a Russian or German born in 1900. Yikes!
Yep. That German Jew had every problem the other Germans had except reconstruction after WW2 - because he had been gassed. A Ukrainian farmer would be another bad bet.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 9:52 am to LSUTANGERINE
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World War I
Spanish flu epidemic
Great depression
World War II
Korean war
Vietnam war
Add:
- Cold War threats
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- JFK assassination
- Watergate
- Riots related to Civil Rights and Desegregation
- Inflation under the Carter administration
I always laugh at people when they say "the world is ending" or "how bad things are". And tell them someone born 1900 would laugh at them.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:16 am to LSUTANGERINE
Yeah but they didnt have to deal with social media, so thats a plus.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 12:33 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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Yes. I’m disappointed that I did not ask my grandparents enough questions before they passed away. I know before they had AC they used to put my dad and his siblings on the floor to sleep and let the attic vent fan run. They said the wooden floors were always cooler even with blankets.
At the time, we lived in cross lake in Shreveport. She told me she remembered when the lake was a stream and indians lived by it. Her grandson was a pioneer heart surgeon. He came up with a artificial heart model. She also had a locket of hair from a realitive that died in the civil war.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 12:38 pm to LSUTANGERINE
People used to get worms all the times.
My dad says that my grandpa used to talk about throwing up hundreds of maggots one time as a kid. They lived in the Camden New Jersey Irish slum that would be considered a lower class third world conditions now.
My grandpa went on to parachute behind the front lines of the D-Day invasion with the 101st and become a school superintendent.
My dad says that my grandpa used to talk about throwing up hundreds of maggots one time as a kid. They lived in the Camden New Jersey Irish slum that would be considered a lower class third world conditions now.
My grandpa went on to parachute behind the front lines of the D-Day invasion with the 101st and become a school superintendent.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 12:38 pm to LSUTANGERINE
I thought the OT all wanted to go back to 1900 bc back thurn men had to walk 25 miles urphill both ways and change their own earl in their cars. When it truly comes down to reality, I would not want to be born then. AC wasn't widespread I think until 1930 or 1940 I think.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 3:15 pm to Demonbengal
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My grandfather was born in 1902. When I was in 5th grade they asked us to interview a family member who had lived through the Great Depression so I chose to interview him. He told me he didn’t know things were that bad because in NorthLa they were all poor so nothing really changed. He didn’t find out until the textbooks started talking about it in the 50’s that it had been a big deal.
Well, somebody told us Wall Street fell
But we were so poor that we couldn't tell
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall
But Mr. Roosevelt's a-gonna save us all
Posted on 10/10/25 at 3:21 pm to SirWinston
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On the bright side, they had submissive women
How about the one who was with the author of that gif you posted?
Posted on 10/10/25 at 3:37 pm to LSUTANGERINE
One measly championship in Football in 1958 and unless you made it until a 100 years old you never saw another one 
Had to make to your 90's to see Skip do his thang in baseball and start the dynasty
Make it to your 80's to watch those Dale Brown teams but at least got to see the Pistol Pete. I am jelly about that one.
I will say being a Gen Xer is where it's at for the Tiger fan
Had to make to your 90's to see Skip do his thang in baseball and start the dynasty
Make it to your 80's to watch those Dale Brown teams but at least got to see the Pistol Pete. I am jelly about that one.
I will say being a Gen Xer is where it's at for the Tiger fan
Posted on 10/10/25 at 4:02 pm to SirWinston
people said they cant beat there wives into submission and be racist openly. What an America!!
Posted on 10/10/25 at 4:05 pm to LSUTANGERINE
1200s they were born in shite, lived with shite all around them, and probably died after back-breaking labor with even more shite around them.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 4:10 pm to EphesianArmor
Except, you know: Vietnam War, Jim Crow, Nuclear Panic, McCarthyism, and the assassinations of both Kennedys and MLK.
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