Good Old Days

[alva]

I'm not disagreeing with the opinions to the 'ol'den days 'crap, but arern't some of you missing the sarcasm of the article (some of which is quite good )

[MikeH]

Yes, but Monty Python did it better and without the US-Conservative bias.

[Seeker]

I don't appreciate his humour.

Unless he's being satirical, in which case Python was better and I'm just being a boob.

I'm gonna break down what he's trying to say:

1. Pain builds character. An overprotective and milksoppy adult society has left kids unable to deal with frustration and disappointment in healthy ways.
'Kids today' are soft and need to be tougher. BS. Volunteer for community sentencing and get a look at the young offenders. Kids today need to be SOFTENED not 'toughened up'. I wish there were a few more plain old 'protective' parents. Protective in the sense of not driving their kids out onto the street.

2. The pledge to be under god(or the Canadian religious indoctrination crap, which we've been spared for sometime thank Odin): This is the thing that pisses me off about social cons....indignant anger at being forced to do and say things you don't believe in is 'whining'. If it wasn't for a **** of a lot of 'whining' there are a lot of priviledges that this generation currently enjoys. Yes, there is such a thing as real 'whining' but I think most adults know the difference. Yeah it was really great back in those days when we weren't allowed to question authority. After all the government/cops/principal know what's best for you. Cr of S.

3. The innocence and naivety of my hazily remembered smalll circle of well-off friends/people I saw on TV! Guess what...it wasn't domestic violence that increased, it was the fact that it's now considered wrong to smack your family around when their 'whining'.

And you know what, teens were having sex! Even during the World Wars, the Greatest Generations were having lots of unreportered, illicit sex....ESPECIALLY during the wars. Do you know just how many women my grandfather and great-uncle on my mom's side had sex with in Italy, 1944 (17 and 21 respectively at the time)? There was a small army of prostitutes following them around! Yep, as far back as we go in history, teens keep having sex....and the Cato's of the world always regard it as the worst thing in the world.

Ever think that your 'innocent and naive' generation must have had some pretty crappy ideas about how to treat women in general given what happened 1975-85? Wanna discuss the religious/political make-up of wife beater/broken/'dysfunctional' homes? Thought not.

Yeah, this might well be a joke making fun of these sorts of attitudes but what the hell I'm stuck in Shi Hwa on a Monday night with no English speakers around for far as can see so I'll hold forth wherever the fork I want to. OK!!??

[mrmitchell]

This is a recurring thing...every once in a while, someone will leave Grandpa on the computer too long and he'll figure out how to type, and then he can type this up and send it out. Other grandpas see this and they start agreeing with it, and the deluge begins.

"Why, I had to walk 15 miles to school through the snow every day...uphill both ways!"

[alva]

"Why, I had to walk 15 miles to school through the snow every day...uphill both ways!"

true, but that doesn't mean everything is better now then it was

[Boris Godunov]

If I hear any more whining about how things are so awful today and they were so much better back then, I'll puke.

More people enjoy a higher standard of living today around the world than they did 50 years ago, and more people are enjoying equal status in our society than 50 years ago. Things are better for more people.

Plaintive pining for a bygone era is nauseating nostalgia at its worst.

[MRT144]

joseph, sounds like you should just commit suicide and get it over with.

as for me i prefer a world with computers and electronic music

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by cinch


Who wrote that? Charlie Daniels?

(Revelation: There were no good old days.)

Actually, to quote the great lyricist James Taylor..."THESE ARE.........THE....GOOD OLD DAYS



What we are living now will soon be referred to as the good old days...sooner than we think....




Peace


Grandpa Troll

[Joseph]

Originally posted by MRT144
joseph, sounds like you should just commit suicide and get it over with.

as for me i prefer a world with computers and electronic music

Don't count on it.

[Ben Kenobi]

Plaintive pining for a bygone era is nauseating nostalgia at its worst.

I grew up on a farm in Rural Canada, different in many ways than what Joseph lived through, but very similar in others.

The schools could have been mine, at least elementary school.

I guess I've led a sheltered life growing up, and I'm thankful for some of the stuff I got to do.

Didn't watch much TV, during the long summers since we only had two channels. Much more fun to read a book.

Why play music on long trips? My dad would play his radio and listen to his 60's songs that we would all listen too, and try to remember all of the words.

I can remember long trips that I would read a book solid for maybe 5 hours, and not want to get out because the book engrossed me completely.

Joseph, thanks for your posts. Where would any of us be without nostalgia, and yearning for simpler times?

Thanks for the reminder.

[MrWhereItsAt]

Yeesh. Some unnecessary viciousness here.

You'd think some of the guys here are jealous of the "grandpas".

Me, I'll just stick to my present and future. My "good ole' days" are in the future, and I hope that's where they will stay. The past sounds nice at times too, it's just not for me, and obviously not for some others here.

[Dinner]

For me a good day is anyone which I don't have to go to work and which I have a spare beer in the frig.

[Boris Godunov]

Whenever I'm from time to time depressed
And a trauma wells and swells within my breast
I find some pride deep inside of me
And I fondly walk down the lane of memory...

I see Bonaparte, a mean one if ever I've seen one
And Nero fiddlin' through that lovely blaze
Antionette, dainty queen, with her quaint... guillotine!
Nya ha ha ha
Those were the good old days!

I see Indians draggin' an empty covered wagon
When scalping the settlers was the latest craze,
And that glorious morn Jack the Ripper was born
Nya ha ha ha
Those were the good old days!

I'd sit in my rockin' chair peacefully rockin' there
Counting my blessings by the score
The rack was in fashion, the plagues were my passion,
Each day held a new joy in store!

Was anybody happy?

I see cannibals munchin' a missionary luncheon
The years may have flown but the memory stays!
Like the hopes that were dashed when the stock market crashed
Nya ha ha ha
Those were the good old days!

I'd walk a million miles or more
For some of the gore of those

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Old
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Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays!

[Ben Kenobi]

Seems you need a dose of Wordsworth:

London 1802
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
Have forfeited their ancient English dower
Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;
Oh! raise us up, return to us again;
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.

Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart:
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So didst thou travel on life's common way,
In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart
The lowliest duties on herself did lay.

[Mr. President]

I remember when we didn't feel the need for anything more complicated than Super Mario Brothers 3 in gaming. Now, you have democracy games, online households, Social Engineering windows, Mortal Kombateers with 3D textured muscles, just because you can.