Back In my day

[Nexussuckstwice]

Today even schools in America looks like prisons with security checks and barbed wire.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Coppell-Wire-Fence_Dallas-Fort-Worth-410239375.html

 

Not to mention private prisons run for profit with obvious incentive to incarcerate as many people as possible and as long as possible.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/how-for-profit-prisons-have-become-the-biggest-lobby-no-one-is-talking-about/

 

Now even with phone calls instead of real visits - to squeeze every penny out of those convenient ungodly sinful inmates.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/more-jails-replace-in-person-visits-with-awful-video-chat-products/

 

Thank you, conservatism. Fairly this looks like communist China but if you cite Bible - its okay.

[dagobaking]

Did you just copy and paste all this nonsense?

[Nexussuckstwice]

[dagobaking]

And this picture means what exactly?

[DoctaSax]

Enough with the politics already. Further party-political fingerpointing and what not will be removed.

[Pork Type]

Back in my day, smoking was cool!

 

If you were REALLY cool, you bought the bubble gum ones with corn starch between the gum stick, and the loosely wrapped cigarette paper. So you could "puff" them once or twice.

[iJaVaFx]

Back in my days car where made of pure metal.. 

[iJaVaFx]

When the 60's decide to hit you, it hit hard my friend.. it hit hard

[wokking56]

13 hours ago, iJaVaFx said:

Back in my days car where made of pure metal.. 

Hell yeah, steel frame and bumpers with heavy gauge steel body panels. Massive iron engines to move all that metal down the road with the only safety concerns being steering, braking and later seat-belts. Engineered to last 40+ years on early models (1900s through 1950s) or around 25 years (1960s through 1990s).

 

Today we have; lightweight aluminum uni-bodies with plastic bumpers (only partial steel alloy front frame and engine cradle) with a mixture of aluminum alloy/plastic/fiberglass body panels. Small aluminum turbo-charged engines that overheat and warp easily. Safety features out the ***, anti-lock brakes ABS, a full array of airbags, crumple zones, blind spot warning light, collision avoidance system (auto-braking) and the list just never ends. Designed to last maybe 10 years.

[HentaiGnome]

I’m sure this has been said, but I just wanna reiterate:

 

Back in my day, video games were complete products. All extras (we call them DLC content nowadays) were reserved for sequels, which subsequently, were also complete products of their own.

[iJaVaFx]

12 hours ago, wokking56 said:

Hell yeah, steel frame and bumpers with heavy gauge steel body panels. Massive iron engines to move all that metal down the road with the only safety concerns being steering, braking and later seat-belts. Engineered to last 40+ years on early models (1900s through 1950s) or around 25 years (1960s through 1990s).

 

Today we have; lightweight aluminum uni-bodies with plastic bumpers (only partial steel alloy front frame and engine cradle) with a mixture of aluminum alloy/plastic/fiberglass body panels. Small aluminum turbo-charged engines that overheat and warp easily. Safety features out the ***, anti-lock brakes ABS, a full array of airbags, crumple zones, blind spot warning light, collision avoidance system (auto-braking) and the list just never ends. Designed to last maybe 10 years.

Still back then is was safer to drive a car than now on  point of view

[iJaVaFx]

10 hours ago, HentaiGnome said:

I’m sure this has been said, but I just wanna reiterate:

 

Back in my day, video games were complete products. All extras (we call them DLC content nowadays) were reserved for sequels, which subsequently, were also complete products of their own.

Back in my day you wouldn't get flag to buy penis enlargement pills.

[iJaVaFx]

Back in my day's, herpes was called a ''bobo'' 

[judge007]

Back in my day . . .

 

16 kb was lots of memory

 

Large programs came on many floppy disks

 

Hardware upgrades involved a soldering iron, heat sink and de-solder braid

 

Optical drives would only connect to a SoundBlaster card

 

Some hardware required you to write a driver for it

 

Keyboards didn't have Number Pads

 

16 colors on one screen was a miracle

 

Screen resolution was expressed as ASCII characters displayed

 

There was no mouse { and no clicking}

 

Programming was accomplished by punching holes in letter-sized cards {and hoping your buddy didn't "shuffle" the order}

 

Forum posts were carefully screened so you didn't end up locked into a 2 hour load of one picture

 

The Internet wasn't

 

Bulletin Boards were it

 

Everybody chipped in to help the local guy who had several phone lines and modems to run a BBS

 

Communication speeds were 300 bps, {slower than you could type with two fingers}

 

Searches were accomplished with the BBS mail system, and results could take weeks to come back

 

We learned how to manage files

 

 

Funny how I don't miss it . . .

[Pfiffy]

Back in my days musicians sold their soul to the devil, today they make contracts with Sony-BMG.... 

[Psalam]

2 minutes ago, Pfiffy said:

Back in my days musicians sold their soul to the devil, today they make contracts with Sony-BMG.... 

I don't understand. Is there a difference?

[Pfiffy]

16 minutes ago, Psalam said:

I don't understand. Is there a difference?

I makes the music itself worse....

[FauxFurry]

On 8/8/2021 at 4:02 AM, Psalam said:

I don't understand. Is there a difference?

Back in the day, they sold their souls to a higher class of diabolical entity.