corn619 wrote:I'm gonna have to disagree to a certain extent with this. I'm 33 and I look at this over complex, crazy world we live in and wish for the more simple days of yesterday. Technology has made our lives more busy and miserable if you ask me. Technology is a blessing and a curse. To be perfectly honest, I would not want to be growing up in todays world. It seems people were happier, polite and more outgoing back then.
This is who you remind me of:
prfsnl_gmr wrote:There is nothing feigned about it. What I wrote is a display of actual moral superiority.
Damn...thanks for making me nostalgic. I'm pretty sure we had remotes and microwaves for as long as I was old enough to use them...and I'll be 30 in a couple months. Other than that though it is pretty accurate and I loved those days. I'd give anything to go back and live through the 80's as a kid again.
EDIT: Also, I grew up in the mountains so I literally had to walk 5 miles uphill every day.
Mod_Man_Extreme wrote:No, SNL's just sucked since like 2002-2003.
^opinion. Would be cancelled if no one liked it. Nbc has alot of stuff they could air instead, but obviously people like it.
True, but it's one of those shows that can't be canceled all that easily. What would happen is a ton of people that haven't seen the show in years would start coming back and it would get a ratings boost leading to new seasons. Think of how the Simpsons are no longer funny yet FOX refuses to kill the show thanks to legacy viewers.
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Niode wrote:Send him a dodgy cheque. Make it out to Scammy McScammerson.
actually i feel sorry for the new generation,
back then life had a taste and meaning
now its just busy busy busy, phone calls, emails ,news by the second(literally) , a bazillion videogames, a tazillion tv channels. Back then we bought something and we loved it because it will last us forever, now you buy something only to toss it away within a year, think of stuff like an iphone .
I am thankful i had a taste of life back then. It had a meaning.
One thing i am happy for is cell phones, and caller id. Now if you get lost you have some one to call, and you know who called you.
As for libraries, i recall in '96 or so we still didn't get internet. I had to do a science experiment for science fair in my school. Do you know that there was no way in hell you can come up with your own science experiment?
While you are lucky in the US to have big public libraries, i had to go around every where to find a book on science experiments only to find a lousy one, and even though it was embarrassing, it was my only option. This is the taste of pre-internet world.
Grunge and Rap is cool !!
I remember stealing vinyl records, that was hard ! I got caught my second time and gave it up. copying records was encouraged with new tecnology like tape recorders too.
Man I remember the Melvins playing at house parties back in the day. NEVER wearing helmets riding my Schwinn Sting Ray. helmets are gay. worst thing I remember happening is my buddy riding barefoot ran into me and his toes went into my front wheel spokes
we had super elastic bubble plastic, a plastic based on an acetone solvent. silly string was flammable for instant napalm. I had mercury in a jar I saved from household thermostats to play with...yeah I knew it was toxic, I didn't eat the stuff but it was cool to see what it could do.
