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re: Stuff I learned in Elementary School in the 70s
Posted on 7/7/20 at 11:13 am to Auburn80
Posted on 7/7/20 at 11:13 am to Auburn80
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mosquito Truck
We called it the fog machine growing up
It was better than the ice cream truck or the bookmobile. Kids all over the neighborhood flying out of their houses running for the fog before it dissipated. You couldn't mistake that klak klak klak sound put off by the fogger for any other vehicle!!
Bonus for those of us on a dead end street because we got a double dose when it came back up the road!
This post was edited on 7/7/20 at 11:18 am
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Posted on 7/7/20 at 11:25 am to ljhog
Born in 1973 so grew up with Schoolhouse Rock! Bugs Bunny and all the glorious things we got to do in the late 70's into the 80's. When you went outside to play after breakfast, came home for lunch and dinner and then when the street lights came on.
People think things are so bad now. Go watch the opening credits to Sesame Street in the 70's. Kids playing on rusty mattress springs on the street corner. Litter everywhere.
The problem is this younger coddled generation is so bored they make crap up to get outraged about. Life has been way to easy for them, so much so they invent struggles.
The only thing I can agree with them on are lack of good paying middle class jobs and the extreme cost of higher education. The rest of their beef is BS. Racism? They don't know what real racism is.
People think things are so bad now. Go watch the opening credits to Sesame Street in the 70's. Kids playing on rusty mattress springs on the street corner. Litter everywhere.
The problem is this younger coddled generation is so bored they make crap up to get outraged about. Life has been way to easy for them, so much so they invent struggles.
The only thing I can agree with them on are lack of good paying middle class jobs and the extreme cost of higher education. The rest of their beef is BS. Racism? They don't know what real racism is.
Posted on 7/7/20 at 11:26 am to Wednesday
7 Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Posted on 7/7/20 at 11:26 am to CAD703X
it is why we are so brilliant. 
Posted on 7/7/20 at 11:48 am to CAD703X
quote:
Who does 99% of people born after 1980 think started the war?
A: Nixon
Never once heard or saw this and how would
anyone come to this conclusion?
Doesn't change the face that he also micro
manged the war.
We had key supply lines and MVA forces pinned down in Cambodia in the early 70's but he refused to pursue both outside his self imposed 19 mile zone. This was largely due to political reasons.
Posted on 7/7/20 at 11:51 am to Wednesday
I also went to school in the 70s - we integrated when I was in 3rd in 1973.
We also learned about George Washington Carver and other blacks who contributed much to America...a little too early for MLK.
We also learned about George Washington Carver and other blacks who contributed much to America...a little too early for MLK.
Posted on 7/7/20 at 11:57 am to Wally Sparks
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The President was impeached for spying on the Democrats (cough).
Nixon resigned from office before the full House could vote on the articles of impeachment.
he taped all that happened in oval office.
one tape has him apparently agreeing to the plan.
18 minutes of tape was missing when it was turned over to congress.
he said, on the deleted part i say it would be wrong. funny, no one believed him.
Posted on 7/7/20 at 12:10 pm to cajunangelle
The Information Age ushered in many good qualities but along with it changed the fabric of our culture. I was also in elementary school in the 70s. Like our parents and grandparents before us, we had no choice but to learn patience for things that entertained us. The old saying that patience is a virtue rang true. Simple things like Saturday morning cartoons, a movie at a theatre, a vacation to the beach, a trip to a ball game, etc., held more value to us. They were novel, not normal. We used to labor in anticipation for that trip to the beach. Our imaginations would be in overdrive for weeks or months thinking about the destination and the adventure it would hold. We used to think all week long about a movie that mom and dad said that we would get to go see on the next weekend. It was exciting because it was novel and not taken for granted.
I think that we were the last school aged generation to experience and be forced to learn the art of patience. I see a huge difference in kids from the last 20 years to kids of the 70s and 80s. I have 4 aged 10 to 21 and have had to be in the first group of parents to try to learn how to navigate the Information Age as it relates to the development of children. I have seen nothing but negative results from not only my kids but from all kids. They are entitled and almost 100% numb to any experience outside of the digital world.
I think that we were the last school aged generation to experience and be forced to learn the art of patience. I see a huge difference in kids from the last 20 years to kids of the 70s and 80s. I have 4 aged 10 to 21 and have had to be in the first group of parents to try to learn how to navigate the Information Age as it relates to the development of children. I have seen nothing but negative results from not only my kids but from all kids. They are entitled and almost 100% numb to any experience outside of the digital world.
Posted on 7/7/20 at 2:11 pm to CAD703X
those were the days my fren.
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