Gee Wally, what the hell happened to our country?

[Concerned American]

Believe it or not ... it STILL does!
I use it occasionally. And it doesn't take much.

I've reached the stage of hair growth that a tube would last a couple hundred years, LOL.

 

[Lockback]

I know. I was making a joke!

They still work magnificently, all of them from Leave It To Beaver's era.

 

[Lockback]

I've reached the stage of hair growth that a tube would last a couple hundred years, LOL.

Some how, some way, I still have a thick head of hair. It's all gray now but it's (almost) still there.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Blindboob where'd you go? Roflmao

 

[BlindBoo]

You should research reverse image search

Your photo is all over the Internet.

Ya fraud

Why? Do you think it's fake?

"The photo was taken in 1884 when Roosevelt was approximately two and a half years old. [1, 2]"

Do you know why young children got dressed like that in 1884?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Why? Do you think it's fake?

"The photo was taken in 1884 when Roosevelt was approximately two and a half years old. [1, 2]"

Do you know why young children got dressed like that in 1884?

Yeah it's not fake but not connected you

Suddenly you're like a hundred years old and posting pics you found on the Internet

Idiot

 

[22lcidw]

We grew up and realized the world is not a situational comedy base on the new found Suburban Middle Class for white people. Not that life wasn't great growing up in mostly white middle class neighborhoods in the 60's and 70's.

The opening of society was supposed to expand on that. It did not. And we subsidize different ways of living now. That white way was not perfect. It was assimilation though.

 

[JohnDB]

The opening of society was supposed to expand on that. It did not. And we subsidize different ways of living now. That white way was not perfect. It was assimilation though.

There was no "White way " of living....
It was just living. Everyone, and I do mean everyone did it.

What happened was lifespans lengthened.

Gramps hasn't died yet and won't let go of his money and stocks yet.

And the generational wealth has not trickled down to the kids and grandkids yet.
And as long as OUR government keeps screwing over our seniors through Social Security and inflation....the wealth will not move.

Currently we got the last of the baby boomers in charge of things.
GenX is coming....kinda pissed off and "over it".
They WILL have some compassion for younger people who have paid their dues. But that gravy train is getting shoved off a cliff after the bridge is blown up.

They also have a rare psychological problem known as Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Meaning they have a fear of big words....speak plainly or expect to get shot. (Just saying)

No more euphemisms, no more two faced lying....they intend to make firing squads great again while smiling and acting nice. But when it's discovered that you were stealing like Tampon Tim has....count the days as they are numbered.

 

[g5000]

Just saw the closing of a Leave It To Beaver episode, the two boys walking through their crime free suburban neighborhood..... mom probably preparing dinner in their house while dad works and supports the family on a single income. House likely has a modest mortgage payment. Car is probably paid off.



What happened???

That was a TV show. Like The Apprentice which Trump still thinks he is on the set of.

 

[candycorn]

That was a TV show. Like The Apprentice which Trump still thinks he is on the set of.

Do you find any irony that the actor who played Eddie Haskell went on to be a cop and, apparently was quite decorated in tackling the stuff that wasn’t on the camera?

 

[JoeB131]

I know. I was making a joke!

I thought you were quitting the board.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Just saw the closing of a Leave It To Beaver episode, the two boys walking through their crime free suburban neighborhood..... mom probably preparing dinner in their house while dad works and supports the family on a single income. House likely has a modest mortgage payment. Car is probably paid off.



What happened???

It never existed.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Essentially the television show was a very narrow view of American society. You didn’t hear about the freedom riders, Jim Crow, systemic discrimination....

Or people not in the upper middle class. Working class women always worked. The suburbs had only existed for at most a decade.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Also it was a TV show not real. The real America had those qualities in society but there was a lot more going on both good and bad during the years the TV show was on the air. It still is one of my favorite shows to watch. The situations in the show does remind me of situations in my childhood at that time. Example, it wasn't odd to send me alone on a Trail Ways bus to visit relatives. These days it could get a parent arrested.

Or you would disappear. Many kids did. Serial killers were around then. Priests were going to town then.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Exactly.
Not perfect by any means. And TV shows were simpler, sanitized version of everyday life. But, if I may coin a phrase, it was a more "wholesome" place without sexually confused weirdos plastering themselves all over social media and communists ranting against America and capitalism.

Also hiding under desks waiting for the Russians to nuke you.

 

[Zincwarrior]

The show was not a lie

That America really existed

Only on a soundstage.

 

[Concerned American]

Or people not in the upper middle class. Working class women always worked. The suburbs had only existed for at most a decade.

Until around the time that the Beaver was cancelled, single earner families were the norm. I grew up during that time--in a military family with four kids and we survived with a single earner. Both spouses being employed was something that came about in the late 60s and beyond---about the time that nuclear families started to disappear and be replaced by more non-traditional living arrangements.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Until around the time that the Beaver was cancelled, single earner families were the norm. I grew up during that time--in a military family with four kids and we survived with a single earner. Both spouses being employed was something that came about in the late 60s and beyond---about the time that nuclear families started to disappear and be replaced by more non-traditional living arrangements.

No. Working class families worked.

First suburb was 1947. Levittown - Wikipedia

 

[Concerned American]

No. Working class families worked.

Where people lived had nothing to do with how many wage earners were in the family. How old were you in 1960? I'd wager you weren't even a twinkle in your folk's eye.

 

[Moonglow]

Just saw the closing of a Leave It To Beaver episode, the two boys walking through their crime free suburban neighborhood..... mom probably preparing dinner in their house while dad works and supports the family on a single income. House likely has a modest mortgage payment. Car is probably paid off.



What happened???

It's ******* TV fer Christ sake!