Author Topic: things were different... (Read 1057 times)

beet1e · « **Reply #45 on:** June 26, 2005, 02:03:08 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
There are even people that believe that competition in school is bad...

Tell me about it, Lazs. They're running Britain right now, having been re-elected last month.

They would like to dumb down the education system so that everyone gets treated the same - and it's BS. They want everyone to take a degree course. I'll end my rant there so as not to wander off topic.

Old buildings - Lazs, you have to remember that in CA, an "old building" is probably a tower block built c1972. A building is just a building unless there is historical significance attached to it, unless of course it was built in a time when architecural styles were very different.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #46 on:** June 26, 2005, 04:03:05 PM »

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Originally posted by Hangtime
This nation is raising progressive generations of increasingly pampered panzies.. now, no more dodgeball. Musn't expose the lil ones to trauma or peer contact sports!!

Doom.. destruction... defeat will likely come at the hands of some french women with whips and hand creme.

Men's skin creme.. men's sweetheart.. men's hair color 'because your worth it too'.. cripes, whats next; men's vaginal itch and anti drip ointment?

And Viagra.. jeezus; what a hoot.. "If you can't get me 'in the mood' it's because yer ugly, saggy butt and hideous meat flaps just don't turn me on anymore... but if yah get me drunk and feed me some blue pills, well hey.."

I'd rather see my grandkids grow up in the america of my youth than the one Dr Spock created. Hope some patriot with a time machine goes back and beats the hell outta the guy every time he opens his yap. While he's back there, he oughta look up Senator Proxmire and punch his ticket a few times too.

This is scary. I agreed with every single word in that post

Skydancer · « **Reply #47 on:** June 26, 2005, 05:40:07 PM »

beetle1

Your politics are a little outdated. Your chosen party couldn't organise a drinking party in a brewery right now but I admire your pluck in trying to stick with outmoded and outdated ideas.

I'm happy that at present this country has a whole heap fewer problems than many of our Euro cousins and though I don't think the current bunch are doing everything right I'd far rather have em than that self serving tory shower.

Jackal1 · « **Reply #48 on:** June 26, 2005, 11:04:25 PM »

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Originally posted by Hangtime

I'd rather see my grandkids grow up in the america of my youth than the one Dr Spock created.

Dr. Spock or Spock of the Interprise?

Who`s more to blame?

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #49 on:** June 27, 2005, 01:39:20 AM »

I dont think its so much what you do during your life thats the big difference. Its what you leave behind when you finish. Its what you pass on, how much of you survives in your children and your friends and your work. My Grandpa always told me "Everybody learns by doing things. Unfortunately we learn best by doing it wrong. So dont be afraid to screw up."

This advice from a man who slogged through the jungles of the Philippines during WWII and helped resuce the prisoners there that the Japanese held. From the man who taught me how to shoot a gun and how to find my way home if I got lost, and how to drive a car. Maybe thats the most important thing he ever taught me. Dont be afraid to screw up.

beet1e · « **Reply #50 on:** June 27, 2005, 07:03:49 AM »

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Originally posted by Skydancer
beetle1

Your politics are a little outdated. Your chosen party couldn't organise a drinking party in a brewery right now but I admire your pluck in trying to stick with outmoded and outdated ideas.

Yeah. You're right. Massive bureaucracy, punitive taxes, a £19bn programme to introduce ID cards, and non-jobs like "walking advisors" or "five a day fruit specialists" are so cool and trendy... We've never had it so good!

lazs2 · « **Reply #51 on:** June 27, 2005, 08:45:14 AM »

culero... I agree that sometimes we need to be "forced" into a situation to see it and understand it... In my case tho... I had allready got into a fight with MP's and a shrink at the damn induction center... I had just about decided that, since I had 9 broken vertebrae... I would just miss the last step off the buss at the boot camp and not get up no matter what they did to me. I would live on a military dissability the rest of my life if that was how they wanted to play it.

SOA is correct... we learn best by making mistakes... we also effect real change best by hitting bottoms in our lives it seems.

Just seems that there is an agenda out there to make everyones life.... bland.. less risks but less chance to find out who you are and what you are made of..

More chance to destroy your life by losing privliges... got drunk? lose your licence and and spend a fortune and go to classes... can't get to the classes? contempt of court... can't work anymore? lose your banking privliges... lose your right to own a firearm lose your right to screw even if you mess up and get airds or some other STD...

Don't envy kids growing up these days... they are living life as old people and women see fit or not at all...

lazs