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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Hornet33 on December 23, 2005, 09:42:23 AM
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CONGRATULATIONS
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED 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 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, bread and 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 made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we
were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the
worms live in us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang
the bell, or just walked in and talked to 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.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't
it?!
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most of us as teenagers had rifles and shotguns and even pistols that we took out into the fields and shot at cans and rabits and vermin with too..
We got into fistgights "after school" and everyone had a knife on em but no one shot or stabbed anyone on purpose.
The cars didn't even have very good brakes really.
Moat of us had mini bikes or motorcycles and we didn't wear helmets.
Car and health insurance was cheaper then than it is now (adjusted for inflation)
When they tell you that they are doing it for the children or to save your life or to lower your costs.... they are lieing... they are doing it to have more power over you.
lazs
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Yeah. And on our watch after we gained adulthood and the voting franchise we presided over the most horiffic erosions of the bill of rights, education and family values ever.
We've now spawned two of the dumbest generations of americans, our economy has been exchanged from one based on the best products made in the world for the best corportate theives and lawyers ever spawned.
In short, we have dick-all to be proud of. I for one am ashamed.
I did have fun growing up, though. Thanks for the pleasant recollection of happier times.
:aok
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Oh... I agree with you hang... we have really mucked it up... My point was that It doesn't have to be.
Then again.... maybe it was the drugs... never met a drug addict that didn't have to throw out everything he ever believed in at one point in his addiction.
Coming back from that is tough... most don't. It changes you... the guilt I mean. Old druggies voting with a guilty concience... "it wasn't our fault then and it isn't our fault now"
We spend years blaming the government for our failures so.... when we got power we had no choice but to make a government that would do everything for us. Therory being.... If government is strong enough to ruin your life then it should be strong enough to make your life perfect.
some of us never bought into it but... the guys who want to be left alone are really only a very small minority..
If you read the threads here.. you will see that the socialists now want one world government with control of every aspect of our economic if not daily lives.
lazs
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DAMMIT I was born in 1989:cry
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I drank from a garden hose. But i'm from New Jersey.
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We had snowball fights in winter (for those of us from Northern climes) and didn't need counceling afterwards.
We saw war, death, racism, violence, and treachery on TV and didn't sue anyone about it.
Most of us got out of high school thinking a "computer" was something from science fiction; and we not only adapted to the Information Age just fine, we freakin' created the muther.
We swam in the neighborhood ponds and rivers and didn't end up with horrific flesh-eating diseases.
We got the flu every few years, felt crappy for a week, got better and went back to school - it was no "pandemic," it was normal.
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Losers. :rofl
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yes...its all true and alot of us died virgins :cry
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Wow, you old guys had colorful childhoods.
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It's scary... i will have to raise my lil daughter (6 months now)... in a while she could probably just go out and play with the friends... but nowdays i'm afraid she will met them "on the internet"...
...scared to think what the future can bring...
Anyways, the time i've spent with friends on doing everything that can be risky or prohibited was the funniest time i ever had :)
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dmn i was expecting "adult" entertainment in this thread
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Originally posted by bikekil
It's scary... i will have to raise my lil daughter (6 months now)... in a while she could probably just go out and play with the friends... but nowdays i'm afraid she will met them "on the internet"...
...scared to think what the future can bring...
Anyways, the time i've spent with friends on doing everything that can be risky or prohibited was the funniest time i ever had :)
Gendobry. I have a four year old son, I worry more about his future than anything else these days.
Karaya
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I STILL drink from the Garden hose. We STILL went to school even With the Flu ( except Wednesdays,That's the day my brother had the pair of shoes we shared). And the McDonalds sign read "Over 5000 Served"
NUTTZ
Originally posted by DoKGonZo
We had snowball fights in winter (for those of us from Northern climes) and didn't need counceling afterwards.
We saw war, death, racism, violence, and treachery on TV and didn't sue anyone about it.
Most of us got out of high school thinking a "computer" was something from science fiction; and we not only adapted to the Information Age just fine, we freakin' created the muther.
We swam in the neighborhood ponds and rivers and didn't end up with horrific flesh-eating diseases.
We got the flu every few years, felt crappy for a week, got better and went back to school - it was no "pandemic," it was normal.
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Wow
I remember watching cartoons that were worth watching on Saturday morning. And the Three Stooges werent considered violent back then.
Toy guns werent painted blaze orange.
And, if the majority won, then it was settled. There wasnt a bunch of silly whining over appeasing the minority.
There were no hanging chads or lawsuits over someone loosing the student council presidentship by a close margin.
Oh how I loved riding my bike everywhere as a kid, doing the BMX racing thing...then discovering how bikes with motors were oh so much more fun!
Heh, its quite something to see how whiney society has become. There is absolutely no personal responsibility anymore.
If a minority makes fun of you, thats ok. If you fire back, you're a racist.
:rolleyes:
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:rofl you forgot making ramps and jumping across ditches and gullies like evel kanevel and skateboarding in empty pools, not to mention riding in the back of pick-ups with NO TAIL GATES!!!
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Growing up we used to go cliff diving at the lake. Had some nice ones from 30ft up to about 90ft. Last year when I was home drove up to the lake to look around and they have put up fences and signs to keep people from jumping off the cliffs. I asked around and they went so far as dumping gravel in the lake at the base of the cliffs. That water was 30ft deep there, and no one ever got hurt...well not bad anyway.
Anyone have BB gun wars growing up?? Daisey Red Rider was the weapon of choice. Any multi pump guns you could only pump twice and no shooting at the head. We didn't have paintball guns then. We did have welps on our butt though.
Remember when 7-11's had an arcade room?? Our's did. Dune Buggy Racer, Centipede, Dig-Dug. Used to hang out there for hours. BMX bikes stacked up against the wall out front 4 or 5 deep.
Spending the night at a friends house and sneaking out after midnight to TP your buddys house who couldn't spend the night, and then admitting to it the next day when you went over to play. Their parents would laugh about it and then tell you to clean it up and we would without crying about it. Just because it was fun!!
I miss being a kid when I was a kid. It was too much fun.
I also remember when GI Joe got the swivel arms. Had to go and get them all over again, and paid for them out of my allowance at $2 a week unless I cut the grass and then I got $7.
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Originally posted by Hornet33
CONGRATULATIONS
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED
yes, and prayers to the one who didnt survived...
"First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us."
not today if you have a fraction of brain left. My Gf instant stopped drinking & smoking the day she knew she is pregnant.
Its one thing to poison yourself, but you are responsible for the new starting life!
"As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags."
can u imagine do this to our kids today? lol no way.
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth
lol, this is still present today, no pill against it.
...the usual way, i hope we learn from the past.
Hornet33 your text reminds me of the discussion about smoking,
everyone is talking about the story he heard about a Grandpa who was smoking until he died at age 100.
But nobody talks about the rest of the Grandpa's who died a horrible
death because of smoking.
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When I was in kindergarden (in Los Angeles), I cracked my head open at school.....(well, not actually "cracked open, but I needed 7 stiches) the school called my mom, who didn't drive and was stuck with my baby brothers and sister, so the school had me walk home. I wonder how that kind of thing would go over today?
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You had lots of unprotected sex, and it caused you to learn about AIDS and various other STD's that nobody ever heard of before.
You whined about war, only to become the first American generation to ever lose a war. Congrats.
You grew up under the hard work and resources of your parents, only to shove them away in lousy nursing homes.
You wanted instant gratification and no responsibility, and created a generation of latchkey children with 1 parent and no guidance.
You whine about "kids these days" who have Nintendos and cell phones, yet you bought them for those kids!
All those "whiny" and "soft" Americans? That's YOU. The selfish, sue-happy, annoying ones? That's YOU. The people voting for all those retarded laws in Washington? That's YOU. Your generation is the first in the history of the US that will leave the country worse off then it was when you inhereted it. Thanks for nothing. Hopefully your kids and grandkids can clean up your mess. Oh, and enjoy your underfunded, understaffed nursing homes when you're old a couple decades from now. Perhaps it's poetic justice. Hope you like marinating in your own poop.
I feel sorry for the people of that generation who aren't like most of their peers. It can't be easy watching your peers selfishly ruin nearly everything they get control of.
J_A_B
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I agree with JAB. I was born in 1980, and did every single thing you "old-timers" say my generation doesn't do. I don't get it at all. Don't brag about how you invented the internet, then play this game, and moan because your kids are on the internet "you" invented. Ever say "I'll never be like my parents"? Guess what, you're just like them.
In 40 years I'll be just like you all are now, and I hate that so much. Every generation thinks theirs is the best and their kids are lousy good-for-nothing slackers. Think about it. I'm sure your parents thought the same thing about you. Not singling anyone in particular out, if you play AHII you're probably a pretty cool parent, but think long and hard about what the generation before yours thought about you. Remember, us fat dumb kids are going to be taking care of you in a relatively short time.
BTW, I'm 6' 160 lbs and have worked at the same place for almost 7 years now. Every era has its bad apples, and as the population continues to grow, so will the proportion of those that ruin it for everyone.
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Originally posted by *NDM*JohnnyX
I agree with JAB. I was born in 1980, and did every single thing you "old-timers" say my generation doesn't do. I don't get it at all. Don't brag about how you invented the internet, then play this game, and moan because your kids are on the internet "you" invented. Ever say "I'll never be like my parents"? Guess what, you're just like them.
In 40 years I'll be just like you all are now, and I hate that so much. Every generation thinks theirs is the best and their kids are lousy good-for-nothing slackers. Think about it. I'm sure your parents thought the same thing about you. Not singling anyone in particular out, if you play AHII you're probably a pretty cool parent, but think long and hard about what the generation before yours thought about you. Remember, us fat dumb kids are going to be taking care of you in a relatively short time.
BTW, I'm 6' 160 lbs and have worked at the same place for almost 7 years now. Every era has its bad apples, and as the population continues to grow, so will the proportion of those that ruin it for everyone.
save the wait then.
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I'll tell you the biggest difference between my Dad's generation and ours... aside from that WW2 thing...
My kids think "my" music is pretty cool. Rock an roll was invented by our generation (well at least it came of age during our generation). And as long as kids like to rock they will appreciate some of the stuff that was great then... and great now.
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WOW JAB and JohnnyX. Sounds like you guys have some issues. This was never a whinning thread. It was supposed to be fun, you know a remember when type thing.
I almost want to respond to the rather harsh remarks you have made, but I'm not going to.
Try and have a Merry Christmas guys, and relax a little ok, tis the season.
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Let me apologize, I did not intend to offend. My generation gets attacked as being the McDonalds generation, and people assume so much bad stuff about us that when I read this topic I kind of lost it. Again, I apologize.
It is true though, what I wrote. Don't write my generation off just yet.
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Almost forgot, Merry Christmas and a happy and safe New Years to you and yours as well. :aok
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You punks had it all handed to you on gilt edged platters. Yer pussified puppies. No generation ever had it so easy as yours. If there's ever been a generation that figured it was 'kewl' to **** where you eat, it's yours. You molly-coddled little donutwood panzies didn't get that growing up in my family.
And you and your generation won't be 'taking care of me'. Unlike you, I have no expectations and no desire to be coddled by anyone. Unlike you, I see what went wrong and I'm doing something about it. Unlike you, I won't be bought off or fooled by political and media hype about whats really happening.
If you MAKE it to my age it'll be because folks like me said 'enough' and shut the freaking free cake and crack party your generation demanded down.
Either get with the program and vote the *******s in your school districts and local political hack shops out, or go back to doin yer 9 to 5 at the gas station mini mart and resign yourself to the ignonomy of being dissapointment to your elders (and betters).
Merry ****ing christmas.
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I'm not offended. I was born in 1972 so I don't consider myself old just yet. I have "kids / young adults" working for me and there is no way I would write off anyone from what I consider the next generation. They are some of the smartest people I have met. I do get frustrated with them because I see them do some of the same stupid stuff I did at their age. I guess thats how we all learn leasons in life.
Your right though, about parents thinking the kids are slakers. I know I was growing up. Rather be out playing then doing chores and being responsible, but thats just what kids do. Doesn't matter what generation they're from.
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See? Screw trolling, Hang's chumming for sharks.
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Originally posted by NUKE
When I was in kindergarden (in Los Angeles), I cracked my head open at school.....(well, not actually "cracked open, but I needed 7 stiches) the school called my mom, who didn't drive and was stuck with my baby brothers and sister, so the school had me walk home. I wonder how that kind of thing would go over today?
well it explains some things
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Originally posted by *NDM*JohnnyX
See? Screw trolling, Hang's chumming for sharks.
You don't even qualify as being live bait.
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Originally posted by J_A_B
You had lots of unprotected sex, and it caused you to learn about AIDS and various other STD's that nobody ever heard of before.
You whined about war, only to become the first American generation to ever lose a war. Congrats.
You grew up under the hard work and resources of your parents, only to shove them away in lousy nursing homes.
You wanted instant gratification and no responsibility, and created a generation of latchkey children with 1 parent and no guidance.
You whine about "kids these days" who have Nintendos and cell phones, yet you bought them for those kids!
All those "whiny" and "soft" Americans? That's YOU. The selfish, sue-happy, annoying ones? That's YOU. The people voting for all those retarded laws in Washington? That's YOU. Your generation is the first in the history of the US that will leave the country worse off then it was when you inhereted it. Thanks for nothing. Hopefully your kids and grandkids can clean up your mess. Oh, and enjoy your underfunded, understaffed nursing homes when you're old a couple decades from now. Perhaps it's poetic justice. Hope you like marinating in your own poop.
I feel sorry for the people of that generation who aren't like most of their peers. It can't be easy watching your peers selfishly ruin nearly everything they get control of.
J_A_B
Yeah and we're burning up the last of the oil too, Learn to farm & make swords lol lol
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Originally posted by *NDM*JohnnyX
... Every generation thinks theirs is the best and their kids are lousy good-for-nothing slackers...
Actually I hate my generation, I think they all suck. I think almost all kids today are immature and should learn to have some respect for people. I'm not a good christian boy by far but some of the crap is out of control. I think of Skyrock's post about the kid assaulting a school police officer when I say that. I was born in the late 80's what generation am I? The Generation of Degenerates.
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Agreed Nirvana, but Hangtime proves stupidity knows no age range.
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"WOW JAB and JohnnyX. Sounds like you guys have some issues. This was never a whinning thread. It was supposed to be fun, you know a remember when type thing."
I'm having lots of fun, and I think Hangtime is too.
J_A_B
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Something tells me he spends alot of time yelling at kids that stray onto his lawn.
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Yep.. and we are probly the first generation who allowed women to vote....
sure... they had the right before but they voted like their husbands told em too.. now..we let em tell us how to vote....
seat belts, air bags... helmets... cars that feel like they are going 50 when they are going 100... is is better? most of us drove cars that shook at 70 mph and had marginal brakes and would get a flat tire every few months... 100 mph was friggin scary. Now... people go 90 with one hand holding on to a cell phone in the rain.... fatalities are just as bad. they are at higher speed tho.
It is the false sense of security that permeates this generation... the feeling that you should be able to do what ever you want but if something goes wrong.... it has to be someone elses fault... the guy who sold you the SUV that rolled over at twice the speed that a 50's sports car would have... the doctor... the kid who sold you a cup of coffee that was too hot... whoever.
now... we have a bunch of wussies that vote like women... with the women...
Some of you are not like that... my son for instance... I feel sorry for him and for you.... I have had a good run. you never will... it will only get worse as nanny runs more and more of your life... I have the resources to get away from it a little too if I like... retire to a small community and shoot guns and play with hot rods and don't interact too much with "society". Live out my life in some "backward" state.
But you can't.... you will be haveing ungratifying "protected sex" and working in a big city with all the womanly rules and PC, watch your step, whitey crap that the women can throw at you...
and... if you vote for socialistic, womanly one world government crap...
you deserve every bit of it.... Just stay the hell away from me.
lazs
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:D :aok
"Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy
Out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy
Workin' on mysteries without any clues
Workin' on our night moves"
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here's an example that may illustrate the difference between parents of people from my generation and some of us parents of my generation.
the town where I grew up is built upon a very very fine white sand, it's almost powder. we used a huge empty sandlot in our neighborhood to play football and baseball on almost daily. the lot was purchased by a developer who promptly built homes upon it but we still had about half of the depth to use for scrimages though baseball was from then on out of the question. Dr. Porro purchased the home smack in the middle of that block and promptly had a fence erected. When we kids saw the fence posts up when coming to play after school, we rebelled and pulled the freshly set posts out and laid them aside. when Dr. Porro came home and saw what we had done he asked why we had done it. He gave us the option of resetting all those posts or each of us visiting our parents along with him. we reset his posts. to a man we knew what the outcome would have been had he visited our folks.
All of our kids have been educated in the public education system up to middle school. from middle school on we have home schooled them utilizing the Abeka program on computers. After highschool they returned to the public education system for college. Since my wife was a stay at home mom and I had great flexibility both as an employee at first and later as owner of our business we were able to volunteer at our community school and help the faculty and administration out. the experience there and our continuing involvement with neighbor kids at our dojo has given us a great deal of insight into the difference between how most of the parents were bring up their children compared to how they were almost certainly brought up.
1. few are two parent homes. most of my peers and I came from two married opposite sex parent type homes. a "broken home" was a stigma for both of the people involved. it seems to me my parent's generation considered others needs before considering their own to a big extent. my mom and dad were truly concerned about what "people would say". So were all of the people in their circle of influence.
2. of those very very few are stay at home moms. my mom's "workplace" was her home and her family. Thanks mom and dad for the sacrifices made.
3. lots of kids (mostly boys) are on ritalin other types of drugs prescribed for behavior that I probably still exhibit and control with exercise and practicing martial arts.
4. most children exhibit a complete lack of discipline and are coddled to harmful levels in my opinion. many show sociopathic behavior. furthermore you cannot engage some of these parents concerning the behavioral problems their kids display. they rationalize everything. If a neighbor visited my folks with a complaint regarding my behavior it was a strapping for sure. adults were treated with respect, actions had consequences, wrongs were righted. while attempting to intelligently and cleverly squirm out of trouble to mitigate the punishment was often rewarded with leniancy one was expected to step up to the plate and admit guilt if one was indeed guilty. for me nothing seemed to work better than saying yes I did it and then shutting up and taking my lumps.
I conclude that perhaps some of the comments by J_A_B and *NDM*JohnnyX are not baseless and that we, the the most privildged American generation have most definitely dropped the ball in some areas. I am a "baby boomer" the eldest of us are now turning 60. maybe there is yet time for our selfish tulips to consider what our legacy will be and make the appropriate corrections to improve that.
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At the risk of derailing the thread....
Lazs2, what type of hot rod do you tinker around with? I have an 05 Hemi Ram Daytona edition, and a 1970 Ford Fairlane 500 I mess around with.
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you may have something on the 'women' angle, laz.
Back in the late 60's peace movement on campus there wuz a little rhyme that sez it all.. "Campus girls say YES! to guys that say "NO". i.e., guys that showed up at 'peace rallies' and anti-war protests got laid. If yah had long hair, yah wuz golden, a G.I. haircut was a sentance of no grapefruit.
American Women have used that furry beaver to accomplish quite a bit.. and since most young men have no brain above the end of their dicks it's pretty easy for 'em to 'brainwash' the helmet head with whatever political tripe they find makes their little Dr Spock blonde mentality's happy.
It's become the national pastime and accepted 'trade policy' to sell your product or service by portraying the male in the american household as a blitering idiot unable to handle even the simplest chore; turn on a computer or even install a lightbulb or shelf. How many ad's, sitcoms, dramas do you see on TV that make the man look like an incompetent fat slob wuss while the wife is always a sweet slim hottie? The never ending subliminal message being toseed at us 24/7 is "Men are idiots, women are the smart ones, women run the family, pay the bills make the decisions and pass judgement on the quality of our men, based on their pliability to our dersires".
We're ****ed. In more ways than the original.
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Exactly the reason I choose to stay single Hang. Maybe we can agree on at least one thing, huh?
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At present I have a 55 austin healey with a 331 chevy and muncie 4 speed in it and a 69 el camino with a 468 and 6 speed.
I have about a couple dozen various guns and a room I use for reloading..
I have an old BMW motorcycle that my son gave me... I rode Harleys for 20 years but gave it up before the helmet laws... I never wore a helmet in all those years.
I wear the lap belts in the Hot Rods because I am likely to do risky things in em.... I don't wear the stupid seat belts that come with new cars. I have gotten several tickets for no seatbelt or no helmet on the bike.
I have moved several guns out of state as the women outlawed em and made me an instant criminal here.
I am monagomous by nature even with girlfriends and have never "worn protection" Why even bother?
The house I built 20 years ago will buy my freedom in a state that has more than kalifornia when I sell it for some obscene amount more than it is worth.
I have survived hot rods form the sixties (fast and unsafe) and Harleys built in one car garages for $1000 and drug addiction and booze addiction... and fights of every nature...
I would rather take my chances being shot at then live like kalifornia thinks I should... I will retire and never see another "sensitivity class" or be invited to another "winter solstice" party or have a mandatory "sexual harrasment' class...
I will live out my job with a hand picked crew that I can call "lazy fat asses" without them bursting into tears or going to the HR... The people they hire after I leave will be useless.
So yeah... I don't have much use for the ACLU and the socialists and the feminists and the poor minorities. I just want to get as far away from em as I can..
you made... you deal with em.
lazs
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yep hang... look at the sperm lacking "men" on this board who are socialists and vote with women... the kerrie voters... they vote because they think that they might get laid if they do what the women want and.....
are vocal about being "progressive"
reality is... they say that they want you to be a wuss but.... I laid a lot of women back when the feminist "girls say no" thing was going on... I was just as much or more of a "chauvinist" then. They felt bad cheating on their pasty liberal boyfriends but.... they did it.
even married... it is different now... be honest married guys... your wife tells you what to do but how often do you even ask her to do something? They have no compunction about telling you to stop having fun and do this or that project but the reverse is never true...
I have been lucky... I never really worked with women. the few times I did were just plain unpleasant... they really can't do the physical work of a man... now... we have degraded the police and fire departments of the country by filling em up with useless women.
lazs
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Wow, I bet that Austin flies huh? I've always been into the "toy" cars with v-8s stuffed into them.....my buddy had a 73 Vega GT that was Pro-Street with a 355 worked to the hilt, I think it was 450 or so hp at the wheels. Nothing beat the look of that tunnel ram sticking 2 feet out of the hood, or the sound that gear drive made. Very fun car for two 20 year olds to cruise around in, it's a wonder how we didn't kill ourselves in it haha.
My first car was a POS 82 elky with a 350....I hated it then, but man, I wish I still had it, had some fun times jumping it in our local dirtbike trails.
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so johnny... do you think that it is your responsibility to vote to get rid of those vega unsafe hot rods? I mean... "if it will save just one childs life"???? how bout them dirt bikes... shouldn't you have to have em saftety inspected and wear a full body armor suit to ride em?
The people who would outlaw that hot rod are the same people who drive ****boxes at 80mph in the first rain of the season with tires as skinny as my forearm while talking on the cell phone and adjusting their makeup with the rear view mirror...
lazs
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On the contrary, I wish I lived back in the 60s when i could drive those things with impunity. My generation isn't the one who creates such laws, look at the import tuner crowd, those young men (and certain women) are doing the same things as was done then.
I wish there were less government restrictions then there are now, but sadly it seems with things such as the Patriot Act, smoking bans, and fines against "indecent" performers by the FCC, our freedoms are being stripped. Both parties of our government are guilty of this.
Long live guns, fast cars, and cigarettes.
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horsepucky. YOU have the power. Vote. Use your power LOCALLY. Regain control of your LOCAL political machine. You (we) can impact this nations course by becoming total sheisskopfs with the local political machines.. THERE's where we can make an impact. Your local judges, sheriff, county executives and school board are elected, they are YOUR statements on what kind of community you live in.
Find yer in a hopeless minority in your town, county or neighborhood?
MOVE. While you still can.
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I live in NY, but in a rural area where I can mainly get to do what i want to. I've been known to stoplight drag race occasionally, and the local cops frown at it but as long as it's not out of control, they tend to look the other way. I have areas where I can shoot my guns. I vote, but if I didn't, the people who are in power are the ones I'd probably choose (with the exception of Mrs.Clinton :furious )
I do plan to move sometime however, as I can see the trend of socialist government infiltrating my area. I'm a fan of small government, and a small one here is growing larger by the year.
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Salute to pass generations of real men and real women who had nothing and made something.
Made do, and made what is is.
Formed friendships not based on technology or skills but on common intrests.
Fought intruders of freedom and created the freedom of today.