Would you have rather grown up

[BoondckCL]

Just something i have been thinking about for a while, just wondering what some of you think and why.

[mead107]

Just something i have been thinking about for a while, just wondering what some of you think and why.

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i would not want to be 5 or 6 and growing up now , but that is just me . i would like to go back to 1973 , 18 and just getting out of high school . i would do things a little different in some areas , like buy more realestate and save more money . i would still want to have the same wonderful wife and 2 good kids .

[swede316]

I grew up in the 70's/80's....wouldn't change it. Seems like kids now stay inside and play on the computer all day instead of playing hockey, football, baseball, hunting, fishing like I used to do. Maybe it's just the times...I work in a building with no windows and fix computers all day....I wish I was 10 again.

[Corp000085]

I wouldn't change a thing. Although, i will hopefully get my kids (when i have them) to do activities that i did, not like what swede said about kids playing computer games and stuff. I'd love to build an ice rink in my backyard for them (it won't freeze though, since it only gets cold for like 3 days in january here)

[Kelly the Dog]

First, it's a trade off. Certain eras provided a few great things that are no longer available, or seem available, and people are often nostalgic for them.

 

Second, most people regardless of their whining and in spite of their parents had a pretty decent or good childhood in America. And it's like pizza, you always think the one place that was great from your childhood is the greatest.

 

That said, IMO, it's not even close. Right now is the best time to grow up in the history of the world, in the best place in the history of the world, and you would be the luckiest bastard ever.

 

Most everything is better. The choices are outrageous. It's easier to get everything and everywhere at anytime. The electronics are phenomenal. The computer is one of the top inventions in the history of the world and you don't have to sit around all day on it if you don't want. The accessibility to anything is so much better today it's laughable. The equipment is better. More things to do. More places to go. Women have it better. You can do most anything you did in the 60s and 70s PLUS a thousand things more, and do them easier. It's really not even close.

 

People are a little more jaded and not as trustworthy, but they are smarter, more informed, have seen more things, have had their minds opened up a little (although it doesnt seem that way a lot). They have more to offer, and you can find great ones everywhere if you look.

 

Not to mention girls and women are way hotter.

 

It's just a matter of how you choose to use what's available to you.

[crackur]

Not to mention girls and women are way hotter.

 

 

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(before I get started, I'm a guy of this era and not the 70s and so on back)

women were alot better looking in the 70s........check the playboys lol haha no seriously back when everything is natural......

 

hell my girl works with plastic girls......we live in the day and age that people give someone breasts as a gift..........and fake stuff just does nothing for me

[cromagnum]

I grew up in the 70's and 80's....Todays youth have alot more technology for learning if they chooses to use it for that purpose...And they have the video game form of entertainment...

 

As a kid growing up we had the outdoors and streets to play.

Build forts, go-carts street football- baseball and hockey and inventive stuff to keep you busy...

 

Our video games were crab apple and horse chestnut wars.

Capture the flag with a sack of eggs and rotten tomatoes and other round fruit that were past ripe for weapons to make a charge or defend your position..

 

I would have liked to grew up during the westward voyage in America in the 1800's

And communicate with the masses using smoke signals if needed

[Kelly the Dog]

(before I get started, I'm a guy of this era and not the 70s and so on back)

women were alot better looking in the 70s........check the playboys lol haha no seriously back when everything is natural......

 

hell my girl works with plastic girls......we live in the day and age that people give someone breasts as a gift..........and fake stuff just does nothing for me

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I don't like fake breasts at all. But I did grow up in the 70s, and believe me, young and old, women are WAY hotter now.

[/dev/null]

I grew up in the 90s, not a bad time to grow up.

 

Wouldn't want to have grown up in the 70s, like KtFaBD said, 70s women weren't that hot.

 

Definitely wouldn't not want to have been a young man growing up in the 60s with the threat of getting drafted and sent to Vietnam to fight for LBJ & Nixon. Young men today at least don't have to worry about getting drafted and sent to Iraq for Bush & whoever gets elected in 08

[Arkady Renko]

I suppose you could say that I grew up in the 90s, although I was around for 7 or 8 years in the 80s as well.

 

I suppose it was a decent time to grow up. The Cold War ended soon into it and we were not too worried about terrorism.

[mead107]

I grew up in the 90s, not a bad time to grow up.

 

Wouldn't want to have grown up in the 70s, like KtFaBD said, 70s women weren't that hot.

 

 

take off the the bra and panties and they are all HOT . no matter when you growing up.

[/dev/null]

take off the the bra and panties and they are all HOT . no matter when you growing up.

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The thing about the 70s is everyone had those big bushy affro's. And I've seen 70s porn, the curtain style matches the carpet

[cromagnum]

The thing about the 70s is everyone had those big bushy affro's.  And I've seen 70s porn, the curtain style matches the carpet

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In the 70's, Nair was a big item on the commercials and really changed the lower region hairdoo style....Now adays it's either a racing stripe or the kojac look or the granola

[BoondckCL]

First, it's a trade off. Certain eras provided a few great things that are no longer available, or seem available, and people are often nostalgic for them.

 

Second, most people regardless of their whining and in spite of their parents had a pretty decent or good childhood in America. And it's like pizza, you always think the one place that was great from your childhood is the greatest.

 

That said, IMO, it's not even close. Right now is the best time to grow up in the history of the world, in the best place in the history of the world, and you would be the luckiest bastard ever.

 

Most everything is better. The choices are outrageous. It's easier to get everything and everywhere at anytime. The electronics are phenomenal. The computer is one of the top inventions in the history of the world and you don't have to sit around all day on it if you don't want. The accessibility to anything is so much better today it's laughable. The equipment is better. More things to do. More places to go. Women have it better. You can do most anything you did in the 60s and 70s PLUS a thousand things more, and do them easier. It's really not even close.

 

People are a little more jaded and not as trustworthy, but they are smarter, more informed, have seen more things, have had their minds opened up a little (although it doesnt seem that way a lot). They have more to offer, and you can find great ones everywhere if you look.

 

Not to mention girls and women are way hotter.

 

It's just a matter of how you choose to use what's available to you.

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Well, these are very valid points, and they are taken into consideration; especially the one about women. I wouldn't say i am complaining about growing up now or saying that i have it bad at all; I am actually a healthy child from a wealthy family. But sometimes i just think how things are different from then and now.

 

For example, i saw people on this thread talking about apple wars and neighborhood things like that. My father also speaks fondly of these times and i just think about how many lawsuits would be opened up as soon as someone's child was beaned in the face with an apple.

 

For some reason, i just get this feeling that there is an ever growing - pardon my language - pussification of growing up in these recent times. I think everybody is so worried about lawsuits and legal liability that i think with more things opening up to America's youth, behind them is the closing of doors of opportunities that older generations had while they were growing up. So there is a trade off as Kelly said, only it is that if you want the better technology and all of this other garbage, then you have to give up the things that make children, kids.

 

For example; when kids get to the college age now a days, i don't think that they have the same experience that kids had back in the 60's and 70's. Animal House situations with road trips that consist of sleeping on top of suitcases on the way to Florida, while sucking down a 12 pack of suds that you bought for merely a few dollars when you were 18, is something that will never be known to generation Y. My uncles and father, often talk of playing "Hardy boys" at St. Bonaventure in the under ground tunnels, the pulling of fire alarms while your drunk at 3:00 in the morning, and bitter rivalries between dorms are frowned upon by colleges now a days. If any suspision of these acts are bestowed upon any individual, they will more than likely face expulsion.

 

I don't think kids growing up now have much of a voice. Everybody claims that they are all ears for kids now a days; but do people actually listen? The 60's and 70's were a time when kids had and found a voice in America, and now i think kids instead of being listened to are shunned and sometimes invisible to those around them. For example, high schools are some of the things that need the most reform in this country, but as soon as a child is willing to step up and voice his/her opinion, they are chastized by those running the school.

 

I think one of the major problems is that the older generations don't realize that, although they are looking out for the youth of the nation, i think they are also shielding them from childhood. Yes, we may have the internet and better technology, and we may be able to obtain things faster or better than any generation. But are those the things that should be the sole foundations of a childhood? IMO, i would say no.

 

Speaking to the older generations, would you trade any of the experiences you had growing up with your friends, for a computer back in the 60's or 70's?

 

Yes women are "hotter" now then they were back in the 60's and 70's, but i think women are beautiful in general. But if you are turning to women being "hotter" as to why it is better to grow up now than then, not as Kelly did, but instead where some of you are looking to bring this thread, then you are completely misunderstanding this thread. Also, if all you can see in an individual is the size of their fake chest; then i don't think you understand life.

 

Still thinking, will say more...

[Mr Info]

I don't like fake breasts at all. But I did grow up in the 70s, and believe me, young and old, women are WAY hotter now.

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IMO, that should read "WAY fatter now".

[cromagnum]

Well, these are very valid points, and they are taken into consideration; especially the one about women. I wouldn't say i am complaining about growing up now or saying that i have it bad at all; I am actually a healthy child from a wealthy family. But sometimes i just think how things are different from then and now.

 

For example, i saw people on this thread talking about apple wars and neighborhood things like that. My father also speaks fondly of these times and i just think about how many lawsuits would be opened up as soon as someone's child was beaned in the face with an apple.

 

For some reason, i just get this feeling that there is an ever growing - pardon my language - pussification of growing up in these recent times. I think everybody is so worried about lawsuits and legal liability that i think with more things opening up to America's youth, behind them is the closing of doors of opportunities that older generations had while they were growing up. So there is a trade off as Kelly said, only it is that if you want the better technology and all of this other garbage, then you have to give up the things that make children, kids.

 

For example; when kids get to the college age now a days, i don't think that they have the same experience that kids had back in the 60's and 70's. Animal House situations with road trips that consist of sleeping on top of suitcases on the way to Florida, while sucking down a 12 pack of suds that you bought for merely a few dollars when you were 18, is something that will never be known to generation Y. My uncles and father, often talk of playing "Hardy boys" at St. Bonaventure in the under ground tunnels, the pulling of fire alarms while your drunk at 3:00 in the morning, and bitter rivalries between dorms are frowned upon by colleges now a days. If any suspision of these acts are bestowed upon any individual, they will more than likely face expulsion.

 

I don't think kids growing up now have much of a voice. Everybody claims that they are all ears for kids now a days; but do people actually listen? The 60's and 70's were a time when kids had and found a voice in America, and now i think kids instead of being listened to are shunned and sometimes invisible to those around them. For example, high schools are some of the things that need the most reform in this country, but as soon as a child is willing to step up and voice his/her opinion, they are chastized by those running the school.

 

I think one of the major problems is that the older generations don't realize that, although they are looking out for the youth of the nation, i think they are also shielding them from childhood. Yes, we may have the internet and better technology, and we may be able to obtain things faster or better than any generation. But are those the things that should be the sole foundations of a childhood? IMO, i would say no.

 

Speaking to the older generations, would you trade any of the experiences you had growing up with your friends, for a computer back in the 60's or 70's?

 

Yes women are "hotter" now then they were back in the 60's and 70's, but i think women are beautiful in general. But if you are turning to women being "hotter" as to why it is better to grow up now than then, not as Kelly did, but instead where some of you are looking to bring this thread, then you are completely misunderstanding this thread. Also, if all you can see in an individual is the size of their fake chest; then i don't think you understand life.

 

Still thinking, will say more...

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The apple wars and street and sandlot games were great for individuals and teamwork, building their knowledge in a wide spectrum of applications and understanding your personal strengths and weakness and your team and rivals.

 

The school system and teachers are prevented from crossing the NEW line in discipline, established by parents lobbying their political reps to enact laws restricting the limits on teachers to correct bad behavior..Teachers know their job is in jeapordy and their personal finances could be drained if they cross the discipline line set by the dogooders....When I went to school in the 70's and 80's physical corrections were permitted and harsh verbal commands were the behavior modifacation tools teachers could use...Today the teachers lack the use of these behavior tools that were degraded in effectiveness, cuz teachers are scared of lawsuits..

 

You can vote for a political rep who you believe may help change the system, all good things in all good time...Effort and patience is key to most issues in life.

 

I wouldn't want the computer as a child in the 70's...I was not mature enough then to use it properly, hell I'm 37 now and still immature and boneheaded, but I try to use the computer in intelligent ways...Now in the 70's I would have stared at charlies angels everyday and wore my bone thin

 

As a child the outdoors and the neighborhood was my universe.

 

Just saying I could be completely wrong, and if I am, tell me, I have the ability to process info and learn whats what. And getting my face smacked or my azz booted worked, well sometimes

[NotStuckonStupid]

I would have liked to grow up in the 60's and be 17 or 18 in 1974 or 1975 for one reason. To See a Led Zeppelin concert or any concert back then. Buffalo was a major venue back then. The music was better and concerts were cheaper as well.

[dib]

70's. absolutely.

 

Or as they say now: "Totally"

[Beerball]

i would still want to have the same wonderful wife and 2 good kids .

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Old ball & chain is looking over your shoulder again?

 

I 'grew up' in the 70's. Wouldn't want to do it today.

[WWVaBeach]

I am growing up now & did in the 60s & 70s & 80s & the 90s. I'll get there eventually.