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re: What was it like growing up in America in those days
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:58 pm to Buddy Garrity
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:58 pm to Buddy Garrity
My first day of 2nd grade was different with the new integration laws. I didn't think it was a big deal but the grown ups sure did.
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Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:02 pm to weadjust
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My first day of 2nd grade was different with the new integration laws. I didn't think it was a big deal but the grown ups sure did.
Yep, as kids we didn't know, or care.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:04 pm to Buddy Garrity
Back in the day, all the young druggy types were into the Grateful Dead, ABB, etc.
Now it's this geed EDM shite
Now it's this geed EDM shite
Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:06 pm to RedRifle
If a group of kids were in the street, slowing you down on your way home today, it would piss you off.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:07 pm to RedRifle
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Nixon Tapes
It's good of you to post this for the benefit of those who didn't experience the Nixon years. As for me, I did, and just thinking about those times is stirring up a savage headache. I should never have brought up his name, but I couldn't let the assertion that "The 60's Were the Beginning of the End" go by without pinning it on the donkey who led the cart: Richard M. Nixon.
This post was edited on 4/3/14 at 2:10 pm
Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:10 pm to Buddy Garrity
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you think music was better before the late 60s?
Totally. Today, it's just noise. Loud noise. Prior to the mid 60s, there was music, melody, especially in the big band era.
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Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:17 pm to justlookin
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Up to the mid 60s, it was wonderful. Then everything began changing, the economy, family structure, music, religion, ect. All for the worse. Today is worse in so many ways.
People began to think for themselves, black people started going to college, you had to drink from the same water fountains. The horror!
Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:26 pm to RedRifle
I liked it as a kid. No complaints.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:31 pm to Dale Murphy
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There was no internet in the 60's. Meaning no facebook, snap chat, POF, and most importantly TD.com.
Half of our current population would still be virgins.
Now that's a good one.
This post was edited on 4/3/14 at 2:33 pm
Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:32 pm to RedRifle
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Today it seems all about guns, race, sex etc. Seems like it really was a better time.
Yeah. The cold war, cuban missile crisis, the vietnam war, jkf assassination, violent crime on the rise
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After World War II, crime rates increased in the United States, peaking from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Violent crime nearly quadrupled between 1960 and its peak in 1991. Property crime more than doubled over the same period. Since the 1990s, however, crime in the United States has declined steeply.
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The 1960s was also associated with a large increase in crime and urban unrest of all types. Between 1960 and 1969 reported incidences of violent crime per 100,000 people in the United States nearly doubled and have yet to return to the levels of the early 1960s.[23] Large riots broke out in many cities like Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, Newark, New Jersey, Oakland, California and Washington, D.C.
, Robert Kennedy assassination, race riots, MLK assassination, Bay of Pigs fiasco, the Stonewall riots...
But hey! They music was good and I feel really nostalgic about that time so of course it was the best decade in the history of the world!
Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:36 pm to colorchangintiger
Hey guys! Remember that fun game we used to play, pretending nuclear bombs were being dropped on our city? Fun times those were. Let me tell ya!
This post was edited on 4/3/14 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:37 pm to TigerPanzer
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You can't have a meaningful discussion about this without putting the Richard M. Nixon Administration front and center under the interrogation light. Hunter S. Thompson delivered a revealing snapshot view of the man in his eulogy of America's most frightening politician and most disgraced president:
If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.
You should probably caveat that by mentioning that Hunter S Thompson was a very miserable human being and that LBJ was likely the most disgusting person to serve as POTUS.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:37 pm to colorchangintiger
Well shite, who would have predicted this would turn into a generational pissing match on the OT?
Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:38 pm to RedRifle
I grew up in the 90's and was outside in the summer with nothing but a bathing suit on from sunup to when the streetlights came on. And let me tell you it was glorious.
frick the 60's, you can live that life anytime you want
frick the 60's, you can live that life anytime you want
Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:40 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Well shite, who would have predicted this would turn into a generational pissing match on the OT?
I'm not saying the 80s 90s or 00s were great decades by any stretch. I'm only saying that believing "it was a better time back then" is mostly bullshite.
ETA: I didn't even mention the draft. what a fricked up situation that was.
This post was edited on 4/3/14 at 2:42 pm
Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:40 pm to OMLandshark
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People began to think for themselves, black people started going to college, you had to drink from the same water fountains. The horror!
Yes, now the streets are dangerous, welfare is killing the country, music is noise with filthy lyrics, the family unit is broken and the pill pushers are prospering because of the stress level of living in this society.
Yep, so much better isn't it?
Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:40 pm to RedRifle
I was born in '89. I thought growing up in the 90s was great. Internet was still pretty rare. Cell phones were still somewhat rare. No social media. I still was outside a lot during that time. I too was locked out of my house at times so I would play outside.
It is as if 2000 hit and everything changed dramatically.
It is as if 2000 hit and everything changed dramatically.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:41 pm to RedRifle
Well, am I white or black?
Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:42 pm to RedRifle
frick the old times..if you don't like modernization then there's only one thing left to do.....kill your self.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 2:43 pm to colorchangintiger
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I'm not saying the 80s 90s or 00s were great decades by any stretch. I'm only saying that believing "it was a better time back then" is mostly bullshite.
30 years from now you'll be nostalgic about your youth, and 20 somethings will be laughing at you about it.
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