Name some Good Ol Days

[Gracie]

In my apology thread, a poster mentioned good ol days of when all he had to do was pick up his rotating phone, do his banking, and misses the click click click as he dialed. Which made me think of MANY good old days. Thought it might be a fun thread?

1. When people actually saw you, the sky, birds, trees, waves, shops, dinner on their plate, etc instead of looking down at their phones.

2. Being able to walk at night just to enjoy looking at stars or enjoying the quiet without being fearful of being attacked.

3. When homeless people rode the rails and were called hobo's and didn't shove it in everyone's faces, shit on the sidewalks or pee in someone's garden.

4. Kindness outweighed cruelty.

5. When men were men...and women, classy.

Got some of your own you miss?

 

[Hossfly]

In my apology thread, a poster mentioned good ol days of when all he had to do was pick up his rotating phone, do his banking, and misses the click click click as he dialed. Which made me think of MANY good old days. Thought it might be a fun thread?

1. When people actually saw you, the sky, birds, trees, waves, shops, dinner on their plate, etc instead of looking down at their phones.

2. Being able to walk at night just to enjoy looking at stars or enjoying the quiet without being fearful of being attacked.

3. When homeless people rode the rails and were called hobo's and didn't shove it in everyone's faces, shit on the sidewalks or pee in someone's garden.

4. Kindness outweighed cruelty.

5. When men were men...and women, classy.

Got some of your own you miss?

1. When you could see the Milky Way.

 

[excalibur]

When a Milky Way bar was 10¢.

 

[Vastator]

When a 10 cent dime was actually silver and worth something...

 

[Hossfly]

When a Milky Way bar was 10¢.

When all candy bars were 5 cents.

When all sodas were 5 cents,

 

[fncceo]

If anyone is tempted to look upon a bygone era as "good old days", one word will dispel that notion...

... Dentistry.

 

[Gracie]

Catturd over on twitter and I are on the same page I guess. The responses AND the tweet made me smile. Hope it does the same for y'all!

 

[candycorn]

When white people didn't pretend that they were victimized. Those WERE the good old days.

 

[Man of Ethics]

When I was not addicted to arguing online!

But then I was not in contact with interesting people here!

 

[gtopa1]

Getting up on a sultry Summer night and walking with my sheet to the sand dunes 50 yards away and sleeping very comfortably until sunrise. Going for a quick swim, getting home and showering with the cold water shower out the back and getting ready for school.....started in grades 4 and 5.

Mum never found out.

Greg

 

[Confederate Soldier]

When the U.S. Army Air Forces allowed you to paint nose art on the side of your plane. Here's one of the planes a relative flew several missions on.

 

[Votto]

Regressives! There is no going back, just forward!

 

[TheParser]

2. Being able to walk at night just to enjoy looking at stars or enjoying the quiet without being fearful of being attacked.

People were able to do that here in Los Angeles when I was a teenager in the 1950s.

If I took a night university class, I would walk back to my car without the slightest concern.

Today that same university warns students not to do that. In the last decade or so, two students from China were shot to death while sitting in their car at night, and another student from China was severely beaten while walking near the campus at night. He staggered home and dropped dead.

The assailants were members of two certain ethnicities.

 

[Moonglow]

In my apology thread, a poster mentioned good ol days of when all he had to do was pick up his rotating phone, do his banking, and misses the click click click as he dialed. Which made me think of MANY good old days. Thought it might be a fun thread?

1. When people actually saw you, the sky, birds, trees, waves, shops, dinner on their plate, etc instead of looking down at their phones.

2. Being able to walk at night just to enjoy looking at stars or enjoying the quiet without being fearful of being attacked.

3. When homeless people rode the rails and were called hobo's and didn't shove it in everyone's faces, shit on the sidewalks or pee in someone's garden.

4. Kindness outweighed cruelty.

5. When men were men...and women, classy.

Got some of your own you miss?

We did have a lot of casual sex what with being bored with no cell phones.

 

[Auld Phart]

Aug 14th

When the military was still respected.

 

[1srelluc]

1. When you could see the Milky Way.

Damn, that hits hard.....The light pollution knob in my AO has been turned-up to 11 and broken off.

Even the fuckin' churches in my AO are lit-up at night like a Super Max prison.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

When working hard and accomplishing something was worthy of praise.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

When all of my late favorite singers were still here, the sad thing though is that back in those days, I was way too young to realize who it was that I would be missing so much later on in life.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. I have what they left behind though and ever since I first discovered them, I have done nothing but hang onto what they left behind with all that I have in me.

 

[Mr Natural]

When you could count on being enslaved to go risk life and limb in some meaningless military escapade halfway around the world.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

When it wasn't acceptable to sexualize 5 year olds.