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Would living in the 50s be worth no AC?
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:28 am
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:28 am
Maybe it's because I've always lived in a rural setting, but I have always thought I was born a few decades too late. The world today is so fast paced and so information saturated that it seems like we're spiraling toward a future where evil is dominant and there's nowhere to go to avoid it.
I always look at heh 50s and 80s as being two decades that were generally positive period of Americana, where things were simpler, there was an optimism and patriotism that permeated society, and you could just live your life and enjoy it.
We probably don't have many people on the OT that could comment on living in the 50s, but if you could trade the present for living in the 50s, would you do it? My ONLY hesitation is air conditioning. Living in Louisiana makes AC a modern day necessity.
I always look at heh 50s and 80s as being two decades that were generally positive period of Americana, where things were simpler, there was an optimism and patriotism that permeated society, and you could just live your life and enjoy it.
We probably don't have many people on the OT that could comment on living in the 50s, but if you could trade the present for living in the 50s, would you do it? My ONLY hesitation is air conditioning. Living in Louisiana makes AC a modern day necessity.
This post was edited on 8/22/20 at 8:29 am
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Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:29 am to Dawgwithnoname
They didn’t have global warming back then so yes sign me up
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:30 am to Dawgwithnoname
I would take the ‘80’s all day.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:31 am to Dawgwithnoname
Are you black?
Are you a woman?
If “no” to both of these, you good. Go for it
Are you a woman?
If “no” to both of these, you good. Go for it
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:32 am to Dawgwithnoname
I’m pretty sure they had AC in the 50s.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:34 am to Dawgwithnoname
Funny you should ask. My electricity just went out so I’m living with no AC in 2020.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:35 am to Dawgwithnoname
As much as I have said 50s New Orleans was probably GOAT, it would be unbaeable without AC. My ancestors were some hardy folk.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:35 am to Dawgwithnoname
Look at a population density map. Go where the people aren’t. Don’t buy cable. Stay off the internet.
Congratulations, the “evil” can’t get you.
You also seem a bit unhinged, but hey.
Congratulations, the “evil” can’t get you.
You also seem a bit unhinged, but hey.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:36 am to Dawgwithnoname
If you never had it, you wouldn’t miss it. I’m in, as long as my memory of A/C would be wiped. Great time in America to be alive, but as a matter of record, A/C was around in window units back then, but few people had them.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:37 am to Dawgwithnoname
People adapt man. You don't know what you are missing until you have it. Not to mention, today people are in offices all day where the temp is set pretty cool and thats what our bodies adapt to so we are not able to handle the heat as well as older generations. But even with AC I wouldn't really want to go back to the 50s.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:37 am to Dawgwithnoname
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Would living in the 50s be worth no AC?
Well, look at it this way. Most people in the 50s had gone their whole life without AC. They were acclimated to life without it.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:39 am to OweO
quote:you’d have been culled from the herd at birth in the 50s. Rightfully so
People adapt man.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:41 am to Dawgwithnoname
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The world today is so fast paced and so information saturated
You can control this yourself. As someone else said, unplug, put the phone down, and go do something else.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:43 am to Dawgwithnoname
Trust me...if you didn’t have it, you didn’t miss it !
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:44 am to Darth_Vader
quote:
Well, look at it this way. Most people in the 50s had gone their whole life without AC. They were acclimated to life without it.
The A/C is responsible for a large segment of Northern population moving south over the last 30 years.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:45 am to SuperSaint
quote:
you’d have been culled from the herd at birth in the 50s.
You would have probably OD'd and died in the 50s since there really wasn't a "war on drugs" plus, not nearly as many places available to get help so if I were you I wouldn't be so quick to criticize others.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:45 am to lsufan1971
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The A/C is responsible for a large segment of Northern population moving south over the last 30 years.
Knowing that, I'd rather just not have A/C and they all move back up north.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:46 am to lsufan1971
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The A/C is responsible for a large segment of Northern population moving south over the last 30 years
60 years.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:48 am to Dawgwithnoname
Frick no - No AC, no deodorant, could you imagine the female problems women would have.
Have to go out to an outhouse to take a crap
Work in a field all day
Have to go out to an outhouse to take a crap
Work in a field all day
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