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On 3/24/2019 at 5:22 AM, Andukar said:

Back in my days... grass was greener... sun was brighter... and Emperor was already as corpse on the throne!!!

 that's the truth, back in my day 17 to 20 was an age to be naive and think you knew everything ( although you actually didn't know shit ),now I'm old I realize just how fucked things are,Ignorance is bliss....as for the Emperor,I have no idea what that means unless it's a 40K reference

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7 hours ago, sikkboy said:

 that's the truth, back in my day 17 to 20 was an age to be naive and think you knew everything ( although you actually didn't know shit ),now I'm old I realize just how fucked things are,Ignorance is bliss....as for the Emperor,I have no idea what that means unless it's a 40K reference

Well, it Warhammer 40k, dude.

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Back in my day...

  • Pizza Hut and Chuck E Cheese's were THE places for families to get an affordable meal and let the kids get their video game fix.  Every Hut had a glass topped PacMan game where several people could play at once.  Turtles in Time and Area 51 were arcade games everyone died to play.
  • The radio was an important part of a family's way of getting information.  Weather alerts, news, stories, and music.
  • Bands like Metallica, AC/DC, Ozzy, and Pink Floyd toured with 80's hair metal bands and this bridged the musical gap between our parents and ourselves.  We shared musical interests to a degree until "grunge" came along and adults didn't understand the "darkness" in that music.
  • Still speaking on music, any given day you could turn on the radio and hear the following:  Elton John, Lionel Richie, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Madonna, George Jones, Prince, Willie Nelson, George Michael, Tears for Fears, Tom Petty, Motley Crue, Earth Wind and Fire, Fleetwood Mac, Waylon Jennings, Metallica, Cyndi Lauper, and ZZ Top.  What a time for music!
  • Parents seemed to have full control over their families without fear of what the school, community, or social media mobs would do to them if they "dared" discipline their child.  I went out to the wood shed many times to learn my lessons and am thankful for being disciplined.  I'm inclined to be arrogant if I am not put in check. Kids had a healthy fear of authority and learned to be humble.
  • You arrived at home after school to find Bob Ross on PBS helping you relax and feel soothed.
  • Our grandparents lived through the Great Depression so we learned from them to be content.  My grandfather made me straighten bent nails so as not to waste any when needed.  My grandmother taught me to enjoy my food, chew it slowly, and be thankful for the garden it came from and not dare be ungrateful in her presence.
  • Hardly anyone on the street could afford this new fangled thing called an Atari so you made friends with any kid who had one just so you could experience watching a little ball go back and forth in a game called Pong.
  • No one had cell phones, you wrote letters to that girl you stared at all day in school or you called her house and asked her parents if you could talk to her.  You communicated personally.
  • Starter Jackets became the thing everyone had to have.  Dallas Cowboys Starter Jackets were everywhere.
  • Reebok Pumps were also the thing to have.  In general, sports-wear related clothing took over fashion for kids.
  • People went bowling, like often.
  • We played street hockey, in the street, unsupervised for hours, days even.  Adults only checked in on us to see if we were hungry or dead.  Sleep-overs were expected on the weekend.  It was parents' way of getting a rotating break from their kids.
  • Kids who were coddled by their parents were seen to be weak by other kids.  You get a boo boo on your knee?  Get the fuck up and deal with it or be seen as a pussy.
  • Summer camp was expected.  You were going to get out of the house during the summer one way or another.
  • On that note, kids learned to socialize by actually being with other kids.  You learned to negotiate, compromise, and be flexible or you didn't make friends.  There were no dark corners of the internet to run to so you could stay in your bubble and believe you were right all along.  You made peace with people one way or another because you were stuck with those people.
  • Masculinity and femininity seemed to be in a sort of sync.  Men and women never understood each other, and we never will, but at least we joked about it and accepted it...now we go to war over it while imagining we were born innately superior to each other.
  • The library was an important place in your educational years.
  • You rubbed one out to aerobics videos and spandex.
  • Boys would stay up late to see Elvira's tits and would "whisper-yell" at each other to keep quiet so the parents wouldn't know we were still up.  Girls dreamed and swooned over rock stars.

Phew, this was cathartic, almost like I took a little mental vacation from the present time.

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Back in my day...

  • The government had an official language.
  • People didn't weigh 200 lbs on average.
  • The highest paid public servant was not a sports coach.
  • People didn't avoid critical medical treatment in order to save money.
  • 80% of people weren't in debt.
  • The government didn't spend 8x more on military than any other single item.
  • A rapist was unable to get custody for the rape baby they inflicted on someone else.
  • The government did not have official advice for Elvis sightings.
  • We didn't house 1/4th of the global population of prisoners.
  • Kids didn't see 40,000 murders on TV before they turned 18.
  • Toddlers didn't shoot 1 person a week.
  • The girl next door being nude at the beach didn't result in cops.

Then I moved to the USA.

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How to tell what type of area you live in, in the USA:

  • If you live in a rural area and walk out the front door naked no-one will care because no-one can see you.  Corn and soy beans for miles and miles.
  • If you live in a suburban area you'll have the cops called on you before you get off the front step.
  • If you live in an urban area, ain't nobody going to give a fuck.
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Back in my day...

 

One had to keep MTV or VH1 playing all day in hopes of seeing their favorite music videos.

 

One didn't have to worry about losing sleep due to binge watching a T.V. show. Macgyver came on at 8pm on Wednesday and Cheers came on at 9pm Thursdays...simple.

 

Family members shared the same phone and would fight about who got to answer it.

 

One had to drive 50 miles if they wanted to go to an adult book store and buy a porno for $60.

 

People that owned a remote control with a cord were considered "well off".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I'll post a few as well. Back in my day:

 

- People needed a real job to live. / Today we have kids (and older adults) sitting on their ass playing video games on Twitch and living off of their donations.

- When we called any company for support there was someone on the other end to answer you. / Today we press numbers and get automated messages.

- Price for theaters was cheap (in my own days it was around $5 or $6 for adults, $3 or $4 on certain days from time to time). / Today it's $15 for normal, $20 for 3D.

- Video gaming was simple and fun. Go out buy it, come back home take it out, insert cart and play. / Now... do I even have to elaborate on it.

- We had real fucking music and songs. / Not the trash pop with repeating meaningless lyrics (if you can even call it that) we have nowadays.

- Bragging too much at school would usually result in you losing your teeth, fights in the schoolyard were common and even expected (can't and am not speaking for all schools obviously but at my primary and high schools it was definitely the case).

- I could get full bags of candies at the convenience store that would last me a week for $2. / Now I see kids asking their moms for a $5 single bag of chips.

- Buying a week (say 2 rides a day to and from the job) worth of tickets for public transportation was around $10. / Now it's about $30 where I live (for a week).

- A season pass (lasted about 4 months) at my city's amusement park was around $35 or so (give or take taxes, maybe). / Now it's about 85 fucking dollars.

- Fruits and vegetables (but mostly fruits, I notice) at my grocery stores actually TASTED SOMETHING. / Today fruits taste like plastic or added sugars.

- When a movie played on TV (almost any big TV chains / channels hosting them) we had maybe 30 seconds of ads every 15 minutes. / Now we get about 4 or closer to 5 minutes of ads every 6 or 7 minutes of movie play (not even joking on this).

- We had home appliances BUILT LIKE TANKS that would last 20, 30 and even up to 40+ years in some cases (had my mom's oven she bought during the early 1980s when I moved to my place in the early 2000s and it STILL works today, I STILL have it right now). / Today it's all about Planned Obsolescence.

 

I could keep on going but my main 'gripes' with Today Vs "Back in my days" is about the price of living, basically. Too many things doubled and tripled in prices (appliances, electronics, food and furniture; only clothing has been relatively stable with inflation and middle class revenue) within "only" the past 15 years.

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Back in my day...

 

... I was much younger, an ugly duckling and a fence marked the edge of the known, doubtlessly flat world around home tree.

 

Since I had already seen terrifying monster tornadoes on the horizon I was pretty much a fan of the novel The Wizard of Oz in which a little old man hidden behind the curtain of secrecy tells the people what to believe in via bullhorn mechanism. Guess the novel has politicized us girls at home, though in totally different ways. My big sister became a wonderful politician herself, whereas I reject politics as what it actually is acc. to the final confession of the Wonderful Wizard - nothing but humbug, sometimes even dangerous humbug, I must add.

 

Just my 2 cts, many years later.

 

 

 

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On 3/29/2019 at 5:17 PM, tsnootch said:

Pizza Hut and Chuck E Cheese's were THE places for families to get an affordable meal and let the kids get their video game fix.  Every Hut had a glass topped PacMan game where several people could play at once.  Turtles in Time and Area 51 were arcade games everyone died to play.

Oh God. Chuck E Cheese. That headpiece reeked and oozed of Afro Sheen. And before you call me a racist, understand that I grew up in an upper midwest town that was disproportianately black, due to Southern racism and the post-WWII job boom.

 

Anyway. Black kids made fun of white kids. White kids made fun of black kids. A lot of us lived next door to each other.

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On 3/31/2019 at 3:38 AM, ISNAN said:

Back in my day...

 

One had to keep MTV or VH1 playing all day in hopes of seeing their favorite music videos.

"What I like About You" by The Romantics comes to mind (My sister adored them)

 

We had a VHS recorder, and she'd sit there with the (wired) remote controller in her hand, in case MTV actually played anything besides Billy Squier or REO Speedwagon.

 

I can't explain why MTV played this one only sporadically, and at odd hours. But they did.

 

Also, DEVO videos not from the "Freedom of Choice" album

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Okay, I guess I'll play legit. Just once......

 

Back in my day (when I was 18 years old, actually), the "internet" cost $6/hr.

 

And my minimum wage pay was only $3.35/hr.

 

Fuck! I think dirt exists that's newer than me LOL

 

Trykz

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Back in my day...

  • Had to bike three miles to get the mail.
  • Neighbors were friendly and offered snacks.
  • The Internet was, "some new high tech gadget at the high school."
  • Hard work and perseverance brought reward.
  • Was happy it had 4 wheels and an engine to go and party with friends.
  • Magic: The Gathering was a fun game and not the sjw sack of shit it is now.
  • LAN parties were a thing.
  • Getting shit faced drunk was considered a good weekend.
  • Movie theaters were the, "in thing."
  • Television was a novelty because we didn't have cable.
  • Quality time with parents was cleaning up the corral.
  • You could actually leave your door open because it was so rural.

I miss living in the country.  Might not have had the Internet, cable TV and only got soap operas like General Hospital but we were happy.  It's the simple things in life that we treasure.

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19 hours ago, legendarytoyou said:

Back in my day...

 

  • Magic: The Gathering was a fun game and not the sjw sack of shit it is now.

This, so very much this.  Arena looks like they finally figured out how to turn mtg into a proper video game and I won't touch it because fuck wizards and their bullshit.

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On 4/7/2019 at 5:37 AM, legendarytoyou said:

Back in my day...

  • Had to bike three miles to get the mail.
  • Neighbors were friendly and offered snacks.
  • The Internet was, "some new high tech gadget at the high school."
  • Hard work and perseverance brought reward.
  • Was happy it had 4 wheels and an engine to go and party with friends.
  • Magic: The Gathering was a fun game and not the sjw sack of shit it is now.
  • LAN parties were a thing.
  • Getting shit faced drunk was considered a good weekend.
  • Movie theaters were the, "in thing."
  • Television was a novelty because we didn't have cable.
  • Quality time with parents was cleaning up the corral.
  • You could actually leave your door open because it was so rural.

I miss living in the country.  Might not have had the Internet, cable TV and only got soap operas like General Hospital but we were happy.  It's the simple things in life that we treasure.

sounds like fun..how old is everyone here? I'm 31, so I am a millennial but thank christ I'm an older one. Getting shitfaced drunk isn't cool anymore. Bad for your health these days according to the snowies!!

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And we've had plenty of left wing and centrist tears as well, so let's not get overly snarky.  Also, as a programmer myself, the ability and willingness to work hard and do a good job matters more than your genitalia.  I have worked with both males and females who were terrible programmers and others who were great programmers. 

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On 4/8/2019 at 7:12 PM, Nexussuckstwice said:

Since we already got our average dose of right winger's tears on the very first page of this thread and even right on the third post of it, I'd like to link this article in The New York Times:

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-computer-programming.html

 

Also daily reminder:

 

 

Here's your problem, Mister Left Wing. You haven't engaged with your "opposition" for so long; you've enjoyed such a long period of socio-cultural hegemony, that all you have/all you know of them is a shallow caricature of what it actually is. All the while, they're making memes, honing their arguments. Figuring out how to BEAT your ass. And they're DOING it.

 

Your most fatal mistake is convincing yourselves that you've "won the argument." That "it's over." News Flash: YOU HAVEN'T. AND IT ISN'T.

 

You're like the noble heroes in your own manichean fantasy epic. Anyone/everyone who opposes you is automatically Evil. What a hubristic, narcissistic farce.

 

This is not an assault; it's an intervention. I grew up in a Leftist household. I don't want the left to die, but it's killing itself. And the right is laughing its ass off with Honkler, et al. OMG IT'S RACIST! CENSOR IT! You're just proving their point, without a hint of irony or self awareness.

 

Stop it.

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The bad:

 

- Dentists used medieval methods compared to now.

- Doctors ditto.

- Was forced to drink warm, sometimes rotten, milk at school (because it made you 'big').

- Commercials for smoking were cool. Smokers were even cooler.

- If you had a cough, the doctor would sometimes prescribe one cigarette a day ' to clear your airways'..

- You were stitched without sedatives (multiple times.. trauma..).

- You were fed hormones and other chemicals thought to be good for you.

- People died 10 years younger than now.

- Communism killed hundreds of thousands of people every year in Europe.

- When you got Aids, you died.

- When you got cancer, you died (more so than now).

 

The good:

 

- Most of what you guys already posted!

But most importantly:

- 30 years ago our society had far stronger moral values than now.

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