1950s America
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Last: 4 yr ago by BostonAg74
Nah, if anything sometimes I feel like I was born too early.
We still do the same thing, just with pillsPotcake said:
Have to love the modern medicine then too.
People who feel like they are living in the wrong generation are usually just trying to cope with the fact that they're failing in the current generation. It would have been the same failure in the 60s, just way less comfortable.
What was internet porn like in the '50's?
I dont know about that...it was pretty damn hard for a white male that didnt have hookworm to be anything less than successful in post war america.
Speaking of comfort, I don't think that refrigerated air conditioning was as common in the 1950s as it became later. (We didn't get AC in our house in the Panhandle until 1968. My relatives in rural Iowa didn't get air conditioning in their homes until well into the 1970s.) The high school that I attended in the mid 1970s was constructed in 1960 without AC, but that wasn't a big deal. We just kept the windows open in August, September, and May. In fact, I preferred it to the newer junior high building, constructed in 1969 with lots of AC, enough to make my teeth chatter.Tobias Funke said:
It would have been the same failure in the 60s, just way less comfortable.
Back when cars were built like ****in tanks
Ag 11 said:
Back when cars were built like ****in tanks
LOL
John Francis Donaghy said:Ag 11 said:
Back when cars were built like ****in tanks
LOL
He dead.
Just poorly designed tanks
By god they knew which outhouse to use I'll tell you something.
Dr ... at least they were smart enough to keep that blankety blank outside though.
Duncan Idaho said:LupinusTexensis said:
I'll stay in a world with wide spread AC and birth control.
But as a white guy, the job market was pretty sweet.
Yeah you're really suffering in that respect today...
People tend to look at the past w/ rose colored glasses. Why would anyone want to go back and live in a time of Jim Crow laws, lead paint, no interstates, and really poor work safety standards?
gggmann said:
People tend to look at the past w/ rose colored glasses. Why would anyone want to go back and live in a time of Jim Crow laws, lead paint, no interstates, and really poor work safety standards?
Cause there were less fat chicks
John Francis Donaghy said:Ag 11 said:
Back when cars were built like ****in tanks
LOL
My standard response to "they dont make em like they used to" is "I know. Isnt it great!"
I agree for the most part, but those classic cars had so much more style than the econo boxes and crossovers that overpopulate our roads today.Duncan Idaho said:John Francis Donaghy said:Ag 11 said:
Back when cars were built like ****in tanks
LOL
My standard response to "they dont make em like they used to" is "I know. Isnt it great!"
gggmann said:
People tend to look at the past w/ rose colored glasses. Why would anyone want to go back and live in a time of Jim Crow laws, lead paint, no interstates, and really poor work safety standards?
Less federal government interference in your daily life.
No political correctness.
The SJWs of those days were actually fighting for a meaningful cause.
There wasn't a whole generation of folks that would rather interact with their phone than other people.
Lower taxes.
Communists were ostracized.
It was ok to ridicule people that were subsidized by your tax dollars.
Furries didn't exist.
Guns and ammo were relatively cheap.
Did I mention less federal government interference in your daily life?
Skinny jeans and Uggs didn't exist.
Coffee was served in a mug whose size wasn't spoken in Italian.
Children didn't require 24/7 surveillance.
Children could be spanked in public and were generally more respectful towards their elders.
Sure thing, dude who was born in 1975. I guess you read a book.
1974
Not only books, but listening to old white dudes talk about how much better things were in the 50s. I'm going to be an old white dude myself one day, so I like the sound of what they were talking about. And I can't stand liberal commie *******s.
Not only books, but listening to old white dudes talk about how much better things were in the 50s. I'm going to be an old white dude myself one day, so I like the sound of what they were talking about. And I can't stand liberal commie *******s.
No political correctness. - i.e. why cant I say ----- any more?
The SJWs of those days were actually fighting against these same old white people that now long for these days of yore for a meaningful cause. - fify
There wasn't a whole generation of folks that would rather interact with their phone than other people. - damn kids and their comic books/tv/rock and roll
Lower taxes. -you might want to look into what the top margin tax rate in the 1950 was.
Communists were ostracized. But yet society was pretty socialist at the time with unions being in their heyday
It was ok to ridicule people that were subsidized by your tax dollars. - pretty sure farmers were ridiculed then any more than they are now.
Furries didn't exist. - if this a concern, you should probably look at your peer group.
Guns and ammo were relatively cheap. - might want to bust out an inflation calculator
Did I mention less federal government interference in your daily life? - you might want to look up lee a****ers quote
Skinny jeans and Uggs didn't exist. - oh lordy fashion changed
Coffee was served in a mug whose size wasn't spoken in Italian. - no one even the dude at starbucks will bat an eye if you say "medium drip" and by they way you are living in the golden age of coffee...enjoy it by staying out of a Starbucks
Children didn't require 24/7 surveillance. - they still dont
Children could be spanked in public and were generally more respectful towards their elders. - you are half right. Ypu could best your kids but they still thought you were an idiot.
Slicer97 said:gggmann said:
People tend to look at the past w/ rose colored glasses. Why would anyone want to go back and live in a time of Jim Crow laws, lead paint, no interstates, and really poor work safety standards?
Less federal government interference in your daily life.
No political correctness.
The SJWs of those days were actually fighting for a meaningful cause.
There wasn't a whole generation of folks that would rather interact with their phone than other people.
Lower taxes.
Communists were ostracized.
It was ok to ridicule people that were subsidized by your tax dollars.
Furries didn't exist.
Guns and ammo were relatively cheap.
Did I mention less federal government interference in your daily life?
Skinny jeans and Uggs didn't exist.
Coffee was served in a mug whose size wasn't spoken in Italian.
Children didn't require 24/7 surveillance.
Children could be spanked in public and were generally more respectful towards their elders.
Communist Party membership in the US peaked in the late 1940s. McCarthyism was necessary in the 50's because Communism was a real and legitimate presence in the US of A. The fact that the so-called "Greatest Generation" was the most socialist generation in American History is something those old white dudes very often fail to mention in their musings.
Pfft. Next you are going to tell me that the rise in acceptance of socialism after the great recession mirrors the rise in acceptance of communism after the great depression.
Not really. I consider myself lucky to have been born in the late 20th century, and I envy the babies being born now. Old times are fun to look back on and reminisce but times are undoubtedly better now.
Lots of things are better now; but freedom and the federal gov't are not included.P.C. Principal said:
Not really. I consider myself lucky to have been born in the late 20th century, and I envy the babies being born now. Old times are fun to look back on and reminisce but times are undoubtedly better now.
***It's your money, not theIRS! (At least for a little while longer.)
Agreed. Things are by no means perfect, but at least we aren't being deployed to fight in a devastating world war, we don't have to worry about near as many diseases wiping us out, we don't have separate water fountains for different races, etc. you get the idea.taxpreparer said:Lots of things are better now; but freedom and the federal gov't are not included.P.C. Principal said:
Not really. I consider myself lucky to have been born in the late 20th century, and I envy the babies being born now. Old times are fun to look back on and reminisce but times are undoubtedly better now.
Now we can fly overseas in like 10 hours for a journey that used to take weeks/months, we have computers in our pocket, and Aggie football is guaranteed to be on TV even if we're playing podunky state.
P.C. Principal said:Agreed. Things are by no means perfect, but at least we aren't being deployed to fight in a devastating world war, we don't have to worry about near as many diseases wiping us out, we don't have separate water fountains for different races, etc. you get the idea.taxpreparer said:Lots of things are better now; but freedom and the federal gov't are not included.P.C. Principal said:
Not really. I consider myself lucky to have been born in the late 20th century, and I envy the babies being born now. Old times are fun to look back on and reminisce but times are undoubtedly better now.
Now we can fly overseas in like 10 hours for a journey that used to take weeks/months, we have computers in our pocket, and Aggie football is guaranteed to be on TV even if we're playing podunky state.
Hydro flask didnt become a thing until after Jim crow laws were repealed. #whostherealracist
Duncan Idaho said:
I dont know about that...it was pretty damn hard for a white male that didnt have hookworm to be anything less than successful in post war america.
That seriously vies for the designation of stupidest post I've yet seen on TexAgs, and that covers a lot of ground.
ADD -- I have been thinking about this a little more closely and, actually, I think it a matter of perception.
Around 1970 my older brother told me his kids asked, Daddy, are we rich. He answered that to people who didn't have much they were rich but to people who had a whole lot, they were poor.
I answered the poster's observation from the point of view of a kid who had a good average life but who watched his dad work hard every day and die young under the strain.
I was too glib. To many, many people, what I thought was average would have been a dream answered. The response should not be to feel guilty or responsible -- it's the way it was. But neither should it feature the arrogance of assumption. The response should be to see that in future everyone get an honest opportunity to make of their life what they will.
I agree that that was as dumb as it gets.jickyjack1 said:Duncan Idaho said:
I dont know about that...it was pretty damn hard for a white male that didnt have hookworm to be anything less than successful in post war america.
That seriously vies for the designation of stupidest post I've yet seen on TexAgs, and that covers a lot of ground.
100% chance drunkydrunk grew up with no plumbing and no shoes and is part of a proud southern tradition of hookworm.
You haf tuh talk real slow for drunkydrunk.
You haf tuh talk real slow for drunkydrunk.
Found Duncan's childhood photographexpresswrittenconsent said:
100% chance drunkydrunk grew up with no plumbing and no shoes and is part of a proud southern tradition of hookworm.
You haf tuh talk real slow for drunkydrunk.
Yeah sure wannabe MFBarnes. Post some more pics of your "ranches"
swc93 said:
What was internet porn like in the '50's?
Old RV Ag said:Found Duncan's childhood photographexpresswrittenconsent said:
100% chance drunkydrunk grew up with no plumbing and no shoes and is part of a proud southern tradition of hookworm.
You haf tuh talk real slow for drunkydrunk.
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