TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
POSTED BY: Connorflynn
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 01:26
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LOL You are ALL insane.
Have a nice day in your hyper angst filled over mandated world =)
I'll enjoy my trip to the country where I can visit some nice little shops where people smile and talk about the weather. Where I can enjoy a great western omelette with wheat toast and a cup of cofee with OJ. Where my cell phone doesn't ring every 30 seconds and kids look for things to do other then the latest video game.
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Conner- What country is that? I'd like to plan a vacation.
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Originally posted by SignyM:
Conner- What country is that? I'd like to plan a vacation.
I am heading to the Catskills today. It's in the high 50's. The air is unbelievable. None of the restaurants accept credit cards and gas is only $2.14 a gallon. Most places don't have cable. Not that you really need it all that much. We are visiting a little town called Andes. I plan to visit 4 art galleries. Have an awesome lunch. Chat with the local yokels. Go sit and enjoy the sun and serenity and find my way to a nice local diner for dinner, where I plan to eat something very very fattening, not good for me probably healthwise but great for my soul, followed by some cocktails and a display put on by some lightning bugs. Hehe.
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Originally posted by SignyM:
I remember a lot of GOOD things from my childhood- duck and cover, the Cuban Missile crisis, white flight, nuns banging kids' heads on blackboards until their noses bled, bullies... ah... life was sweet!
Bloody noses, stepping on rusty nails, getting burned playing with matches, avoiding alcoholic tempers from the folks, all these memories will be lost, in time, like tears...in the rain...
I'm with ya, SignyM
Childhood can be hi-larious Chrisisall
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Connor, Connor, Connor.
What ever possessed you to try and post something lighthearted in this forum? Everything here must be absolutely serious. If not, it will be deconstructed and re-interpreted by the Seriousness Patrol until it meets their criteria as another example of the horror which is our existance.
Bad Connor. Bad. Bad. 
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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How many other posts in this forum (not the whole of FFF.net, just the real world event forum) are jokes? Pretty much none of them.
By putting the e-mail in here, you're either expecting fifty replies of "That's so funny because that is true" (which would disappoint, on so many levels) or you're going to hear what people actually think.
And some people think that both in terms of content and attitude, it's a load of go dink ney diss. And it was the author of the e-mail that was keen to show the horror of today's existence, not us.
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Originally posted by SimonWho:
How many other posts in this forum (not the whole of FFF.net, just the real world event forum) are jokes? Pretty much none of them.
By putting the e-mail in here, you're either expecting fifty replies of "That's so funny because that is true" (which would disappoint, on so many levels) or you're going to hear what people actually think.
And some people think that both in terms of content and attitude, it's a load of go dink ney diss. And it was the author of the e-mail that was keen to show the horror of today's existence, not us.
Hey, Connor. Q.E.D.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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Originally posted by SimonWho:
He's talking about mothers drinking and smoking during pregnancy as though it was a quaint old custom that had been ruled out by killjoys. That's why I can't just "leave it as that". At best, it's facetious, at worst, it's encouraging pregnant women to drink and smoke because "my parents used and it didn't affect me". The ones that survived, survived. Unfortunately innumerate ones didn't and yes, it was the fault of choking on buttons from badly produced toys or birth defects caused by smoking. It's like the 80 year old who boasts about how he drinks five pints every evening and smokes a pipe and it never harmed him. Well, sure, but it killed every single other person who could have reached 80 had they taken better care of themselves.
>> The current generation has playstations, etc but lacks proper etiquette b/c of a lack of proper socialization b/c they are only playing on there playstation and not actually talking to people.
Substitute "comic books" or "Dungeons and Dragons" or "rock and roll" or "dance music" (as in jive) or "cinemaphiles" or "bicycle riders" or indeed pretty much any technological advancement in entertainment and you'd have the same argument of the generation 10, 20, 50, 100 years past.
It's not just the philistinical argument that bothers me. It's the accusation seemingly aimed at us about our "lawsuit happy, overprotective society" when they are the generation that created it.
Not every generation has progressed society. Some have taken it down horrific corridors. Could you really argue the generation of the "cultural revolution" in China advanced their society? Of course not, they set it back decades, as well as destroying irreplacable pieces of their heritage.
Edit- just to catch up with the posts since the one I was replying to: our average lifespan has jumped 18 years since 1930. And if you like looking on the positive side of life so much, you should hate that negative "glass used to be half full, now it's half empty" original e-mail. Life was simpler then, sure. But that's because everything was over-simplified.
I love this brave new world. I can't imagine a world where I can't send a text message to my brother in Australia while reading e-mails from people in America. Heck, I can't imagine a world without the Internet and I got through the first 19 years of my life without it.
What I hate is this awful "life used to be great" rubbish which was true if, like me, you grew up in a nice, rich, middle class, white family. Unfortunately most people were in the mud and stayed that way.
But you're doubtlessly right, this was just a jolly e-mail poking fun at the modern world. I should really not analyse this sort of stuff.
Bravo....Bravo!!! great post!!!
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