Back In my day

[Jazzman]

Back in the days when we were kids, all kids on the ranch and beyond were equal (and most of the adults in the country most likely as well). We all looked like children you'd find today only in the slums of this world, dirty and half of the year barefoot that is, at least in the outback. Jealousy did not exist among the have-nots. The country had just recently defaulted under pressure from the outside, the local currency had thus no value anymore, and to make it worse, our gmo-free beef got sanctioned by the usual suspects on the international markets for allegedly being 'poisonous' (and Monsanto beef from Cowschwitz factories 'healthy' accordingly). Since we still had no economic contacts to non-Western countries in those days we were up shit's creek w/o a paddle financially. That's what a foreign regime change attempt looks like, folks.

 

Luckily, we as a people rose from the ashes under the running government. Praise the Lord. As children we had no idea of these freaking things, inasmuch as we didn't attend to the discussions b/t the parents and the priest or police chief that came (and still come) to dinner once a week. We just realized that we didn't have to go to school anymore, instead school came to us for almost two years - for a good meal and some tasty beef for their own families, the 'poisonous' beef, you know. School's out forever thus didn't happen, too bad. Yet we felt free like birds behind the cattle fences with world's end at the main gate, and happy. Population 40. We were all family, the young and the old. One horse each and here we go. That was our motto as kids. Doubt that I'd ever grant my little son his adventures with friends some 20 miles away from home 'in the wild' outside of the tornado season, unattended and on their own.

 

Am I perhaps getting soft? Don't think so. Guess it's because the country he was born into doesn't face the prospect of forced regime change and thus common poverty and lawlessness to make it possible in the first place. What's more, we have more than just one military reggae band to call the heavily armed ban... uh... clans to war if need be. Jamaica is as safe as in Abraham's bosom, Jah willing, as the locals say.

[GrimReaper]

[KoolHndLuke]

7 hours ago, Trykz said:

I could rattle off a laundry list of shit.

 

But it would be pointless. Because no one gives a shit these days.....

 

Trykz

Actually no one cared all the yesterdays either. But at least they didn't pretend to care just so they could get something over on ya'. Now, they smile to your face with big toothy grins/open arms and just wait for you to turn your back..... You definitely gotta cover your six these days!

[ToJKa]

4 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

*snip*

Now i understand the saying " the more things change, the more they stay the same" ?

[Yinkle]

When I were a lad... you played a tape cassette (that you'd copied from your pal who could afford the game) into the  48k computer for a few minutes and hoped it would load.

[2dk2c.2]

9 minutes ago, KoolHndLuke said:

Actually no one cared all the yesterdays either. But at least they didn't pretend to care just so they could get something over on ya'. Now, they smile to your face with big toothy grins/open arms and just wait for you to turn your back..... You definitely gotta cover your six these days!

 

[ToJKa]

1 hour ago, Yinkle said:

When I were a lad... you played a tape cassette (that you'd copied from your pal who could afford the game) into the  48k computer for a few minutes and hoped it would load.

More than a few on Commodore 64. I don't miss that. At least the loader graphics and musics were (usually) awesome.

 

 

[NitroHamlin]

I don't really have a back in my day story considering how old I am but...

 

Back in my day my parents used to give me a hiding whenever I got into or caused trouble, three or so smacks on the ass and a stern scolding would set me straight for the next few days. Oh and we didn't really have the internet either, so we either played outside or on the PS2 after school.

[DoctaSax]

Back in my day toddlers didn't have girlfriends yet.

[Zor2k13]

I miss the times before cell phones and texting. People actually looked at each other and went to malls and bought stuff. Sometimes I think the economy is bad and then I think people just can't stop looking at their cell phones long enough to think about buying anything or going anywhere. We will really need self driving cars soon as people might not be able to pay attention long enough to drive their cars anymore. They would be content with just sitting in the drivers seat and texting until the pass out.

[FauxFurry]

Back in my day, Reality TV stars weren't politicians. That was an occupation reserved for movie stars.

[Ernest Lemmingway]

18 minutes ago, Alkpaz said:

I also miss those times, it just seems people are jacked into social media, they can't tear themselves away from it.

There was an article in TIME Magazine about two years ago that discussed how constant connection was causing severe depression in adolescents who didn't know how to mentally and emotionally compartmentalize. They hear about bad news before adults who rely on old fashioned TV news do. I'm convinced social media and constant news feeds to "smart" devices is the real culprit behind the rise in school violence. Kids literally can't turn off the flow of life's tragedies or cyberbullying without cutting themselves off from the rest of their peers in the process because their peers are just as addicted to social media and instant news updates.

 

Which ties into how psychologists who once hailed social media as a way of helping people connect and alleviate loneliness are now doing a one-eighty and saying it's making things worse. People invest too much into how many "friends" they have on Facebook, how many likes their tweets get, and they get completely bent out of shape if someone un-friends them or just quits following them. It truly is sociopathic media.

[KoolHndLuke]

6 hours ago, Ernest Lemmingway said:

Which ties into how psychologists who once hailed social media as a way of helping people connect and alleviate loneliness are now doing a one-eighty and saying it's making things worse. People invest too much into how many "friends" they have on Facebook, how many likes their tweets get, and they get completely bent out of shape if someone un-friends them or just quits following them. It truly is sociopathic media.

I'm so glad I never gave a shit about any of that stuff. Hell, I've never gone to a class reunion because I despised all those people in high school and figure they haven't changed much since then.

 

 Also, I quit watching the news years ago. If my stupid town gets nuked some day, I won't know who did it or why and just blame it on the usual suspects- namely my own government. It's not that I'm not interested in what's going on. It's just that I want to find out about things through better sources than the typical media outlets that report "news" for ratings rather than to keep anyone informed of the truth. I want "the truth". Not "their truth". 

[pantherlux]

back in my days topic hm?

back in my days:

- we had cars that started in heatwaves, cold blizzards, rain... and we could repair them with without a laptop (like: car makes oklukluk aounda? ah thats the cardan shaft sealing again... )

- kids were playing outside

- glow in the dark light switches from the 50's that were old stock and still buyable (they looked so awesome)

- friends! real friends, not this stuff kids today call friends (like: oh hey, he gave me a like, we are besties for ever!)

- best part of it all: really good music from the late 70's to the 80's

- our queen was a man

- the cold war ended (at least they told us so)

- peolpe talked to each other, you knew most of your neighbors

 

the not so good things:

- the constant fear of a nuclear war (with the sirentests every now and then... not so much fun for a kid)

- glowing sand and other radioactively contaminated stuff like salad and grains bcs of a reactor meltdown

- many people really believed and spread the word that the HIV is a "gay-only disease" even in the 80s to early 90s ( i wondered how and why many drug addicts were hiv positiv if it was an "exclusive illness" to homosexual men and really got into lots of discussions with in the age of 8, were elders said i need to shut my face, i'm too young to understand. wow) 

- a must have on the road: having a pencil with you, when that goddamn (cheap faked) walkman was going crazy and started to eat your tapes (thx for mp3 really)

[FauxFurry]

12 minutes ago, pantherlux said:

 

 

the not so good things:

- the constant fear of a nuclear war (with the sirentests every now and then... not so much fun for a kid)

I don't know about that one. Fallout shelters were kind of fun as were all of the air raid drills in a perverse kind of way. In addition to that, the federal government made all of the best instructional videos and propaganda way back when.

[nonusnomeni]

12 hours ago, DoctaSax said:

Back in my day toddlers didn't have girlfriends yet.

i was have my neighbor in my bed when i was 6 months old

 

Spoiler

her mother was work in shifts so my mother was take care for booth of us

 

also back in my days kids are start to work in vineyard when they start to walk

 

Spoiler

here, take that scissors to uncle

 

[2dk2c.2]

Hive mind(s)

My uncle (circa 1964) was a lot like a lot of you, John Bircher, got all the kids to help campaign for Goldwater, pushed a book called "None dare call it Treason" which I never read (anti-kennedy or something)

Years later (circa 1990's) people ranted in forums about how evil microsoft was, and damned if it isn't done today.

  I hate "Oracle" and "Corel" but does anyone care? Nooo, it's "Microsoft-this, Microsoft that".

Nothing about AT&T.

So ...uh....yeah, hive minds prolly existed back then, but moreso now.

Half the news is entertainment, and on my local station I know to turn off their news at exactly 10-after, because that's when news stops, and entertainment about people I've never heard of, starts.

Some channel I watched the other day actually had a talking head cramming news into 20 or so minutes.

Made me all nostalgic for the old days.

Who the hell cares about (o nevermind, *you* care)

  Some things haven't changed much,

race relations, ("The ****, they're taking over!!")

Politics as brought to you by ranters who know whereof they speak (whether or not it's true is another matter)

Something-bashing (Kennedy, Microsoft, the pope)

  My great uncle was proud he built a radio with a lightbulb inside.

I'll be proud of a computer I build with a Ryzen inside.

 Women are tons better looking now (many of them)

OK some are worse.

I'm on a knee-jerk reverse "like" trend.

Hated Kennedy? I like him.

Hate Microsoft? I like them.

Hive minds tell you what to think and say, and I usually do the reverse, or at least try to find out what biases they're pushing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Resdayn]

Kids still play outside thought ? or is it just my shithole country?

[Guest]

Easy, no internet, no PCs, no consoles.

Just books, magazines, comics, radio, and TV. Maybe a Sony walkman in case you were rich.

And a lot of street sport with friends in the streets of the city (mostly soccer, but not always.)

 

On 2/20/2019 at 6:14 PM, Ernest Lemmingway said:

Porn is the first thing the Internet was used for once the World Wide Web interface was created.

 

I was already in college when Internet became accessible to universities.

And I confirm that one of the very first thing I did was to download some "long files having just random characters inside" (they were binary files "compressed" using ASCII85) that were actually porn images (OK, now vintage porn images.)

I was grabbing these files, not too many because they had to stay on a 720Kb floppy disk (and there was only one computer that had a floppy disk, all others were just green screen terminals.)

Then going home, decompressing them (on an Amiga 2000), and have a wonderful vision of a naked woman in 320x200 pixel resolution.

 

There were a lot of BBS (Bulletin Board Systems, WWW was not yet a thing) that were sharing these contents.

 

 

To finish: "O tempora, o mores" (Latin: "the time, the customs", that can read as "look what bad customs we have now".) This expression was written (or at least used) by Cicero. About 2100 years ago.

[KoolHndLuke]

I'm embarrassed to admit that I was still jerking off to mags about 15 yrs ago. Gotta say that some of those hot pictorials will never be seen again and they were damn hot!! Still got stacks and stacks of the shit and I can't bring myself to throw them all away! Just never had a younger bro or son to pass them on to sort of like "Here boy! Some great old porn for you to enjoy!" "Gee, thanks dad!" says junior.

 

 BTW- I did read many of the articles.

[SpyVsPie]

back in my day people still read books ?

 

[2dk2c.2]

 

3 hours ago, CPU said:

 

To finish: "O tempora, o mores" (Latin: "the time, the customs", that can read as "look what bad customs we have now".) This expression was written (or at least used) by Cicero. About 2100 years ago.

(he was a ) Roman fucking republican snob nostalgia-hound

 

quelle douche

 

[NickNozownik]

Back in my day:

-Oversensitive, soft little pussies were laughed at

-We often solved our problems with ass beating and no one got stabbed, shot or kicked to shit while laying on the floor

-Owning a Walkman was rare, having access to the internet and a PC that can run any video game without shitting itself was a luxury

-Tattoos had a very specific meaning and you had to earn them

-Calling yourself a commie was pretty much a death sentence, that's because many people still remembered communism and hated every single second of it

-Snitching was not tolerated, someone who called the cops just because he got in a fight or saw someone drinking in public had no social life

-It may sound ridiculous, but you could safely get drugs without buying some trash that will outright kill you

-Military service wasn't mandatory when I was 18, but we did it anyway because we felt that it is the right thing to do

-Teachers could punish you, they could slap your hand with a ruler or make you stand in a corner

-We were taught to respect our elders

That's about it.

[GrimReaper]

11 hours ago, Resdayn said:

Kids still play outside thought ? or is it just my shithole country?

Yeah and I wish they would actually stay inside glued to a screen all day, noisy little fuckers.

[TheOzoneHole]

I drank from the garden hose and none of my parents/grandparents went to jail. Same when I walked to the corner gas station for a gallon of milk. (Overpriced at $1.50)

It was fine if you didn't like someone at school, none of the teachers had a major fit about it.  We weren't supposed to bully each other, but if two kids didn't get along it wasn't a massive deal that required parents being called and trips to a shrink.

Teachers understood that small children have lots of excess energy and cannot sit still for three hours w/o going nuts.

Everyone knew that politicians lied and lined their own pockets. 

We knew that if a young, cute girl went to Hollywood she was almost always going to need to buy her way into a part by fucking the casting director, movie director, and/or producer because nothing in life is free.  

We knew that life wasn't fair before we got out of primary school.

 

Oh and we didn't have cell phones, social media, the internet or any of that.