Marv's Neighbor Posted August 28, 2006 Posted August 28, 2006 (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 752231[/snapback] breasts as a gift???? Can you exchange them for something you REALLY WANT?
R. Rich Posted August 28, 2006 Posted August 28, 2006 Just something i have been thinking about for a while, just wondering what some of you think and why. 752185[/snapback] I like it just the way it was. Born in the 60s (okay, REALLY LATE 60s) Childhood in the 70s (great time to be a kid!) Teenage years in the 80s (likewise) Wild and crazy 20s in the 90s (I can barely remember it) Broke down 30s in the 2000s Ahhh, what fun it's been.
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted August 28, 2006 Posted August 28, 2006 I think I'd hate growing up nowadays (hell, I hate to see kids growing up nowadays as it is). The tendency now is to keep children too sheltered, too protected...and too distracted so parents don't have to deal with them (why else to minivans come with DVD players standard now?) A big side-effect of all that is that, generally speaking, being a child today requires much less imagination than it did when I was a kid in the '70s. Kids I see these days are being brought up unprepared for the unexpected - their experience of growing up is more about avoiding experiences that test their limits and encourage varied social interaction, and about play and leisure that stimulate the senses rather than the mind. I contrast that to when I grew up, reading books instead of watching DVDs and cable TV, or playing board or card games (or Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots ) instead of XBox. Then I contrast that to my grandmother's generation, who grew up in the Depression entertaining themselves with a barrel hoop and a stick for hours. One could make a case that the relative "strength" of a generation is very dependent on the imagination the were required to exercise growing up ("The Greatest Generation", after all, had to exercise a lot of imagination at play during the Depression, and learned a lot of responsibility and resourcefulness doing so). In which case, our current generation of children, being raised as they are in an anti-bacterial, risk averse, "You stubbed your toe, I'm going to sue, now shut up and play your video game" society, is royally screwed. Which makes me glad I was only partially screwed up by the '70s, and not totally screwed up by the 2000's.
The Senator Posted August 28, 2006 Posted August 28, 2006 Hmmm.... The Bradys vs. The Bundys? Marcia... Marcia Brady or Kelly? Kelly Bundy Tough call - Marcia was really groovy! To me, society seems less 'civil' these days, what with drive-by shootings, road rage, senseless 'meowing' etc., etc. I think I'd opt for the days when there were less germophobes, no one was allergic to peanuts, and you didn't need to keep your kid on a leash (literally) at the shopping mall for fear of him/her disappearing.
X. Benedict Posted August 28, 2006 Posted August 28, 2006 The thing I tend to notice these days is how structured kids lives are. Parents seem very reluctant to leave their kids alone or just let them play without it being supervised. I have friends whose kids have some structured activity every day of the week and weekends. That means school, special lessons, sports, and part-time jobs. The other weird thing about growing up today is they have lost the sense of the record album. All information is peice-meal and into quickly digestable segments. Not sure what this means - but very few kids have an album that all their friends own.
LewPort71 Posted August 28, 2006 Posted August 28, 2006 Structured activities,,,AARRGGHH.. I see so few kids today playing spontaneous pick up games...Soccer, football, basketball, etc are seemingly all in structured leagues....There is a field in our neighborhood that would be perfect for football, soccer, or baseball,,,But the kids are never there playing... Growing up in Lewiston in the '60s was just fine...We played games ALL the time and our parents did not worry about us... I think we learned to take responsibility for our actions rather than to blame others for a bad outcome such as a broken window....
Nervous Guy Posted August 28, 2006 Posted August 28, 2006 drugs were cheaper then and the music was better.
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted August 28, 2006 Posted August 28, 2006 drugs were cheaper then and the music was better. 754293[/snapback] You work for a pharmecutical company. How much cheaper can drugs get?
tennesseeboy Posted August 30, 2006 Posted August 30, 2006 Grew up in South Buffalo in the 60's. Read Tim Russert's book, Big Russ and Me, and see what it was like. On the one hand we were free of overbearing and overprotective parents (they worked), and relied on other baby boomers. Baseball and football without uniforms, insurance, parents or adult coaches! Ah those were the days. The lake Connors, and actually learning something in high school. The bad side included a government paid tour of Southeast Asia, and I'm glad my children didn't have to go through that kind of hell. I'll take the era when I grew up any day. I suspect most people prefer their own eras.
aussiew Posted August 31, 2006 Posted August 31, 2006 I'm still growing up...and loving it. But I've been alive long enough to see that every era has had it's good and bad points. I liked the 80s best though. The only thing I miss is manners.
bbb Posted August 31, 2006 Posted August 31, 2006 I can't think of one thing that would be better about growing now than in the 70s. More access - access to what? Online porn? I still live in the same neighborhood. When I was a kid, the playground would be packed every day. We'd have a huge baseball game every day of the summer. Now, I take a walk around it every day. It is usually empty. And, the only time I ever see more than three kids there at one time is when they are giving out free lunches. Half an hour after the free lunch, the kids are gone again. I would not have wanted to live before modern denistry and the like, but the first half the 20th century was when all the major changes were - phones, cars, planes, etc. That is the access I'm interested in - not online access as a kid. Since then, it's incremental changes. And, nothing that would make for a better childhood.
Pete Posted August 31, 2006 Posted August 31, 2006 TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat. We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because...... WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
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