So what has changed in 50 years?

[Headbanger]

The best days of our lives is right now.

Loved the 70's,80's.90's, 00's...and onwards.

Cant think of a better time in history for me to be alive.

And fuck me, It looks like my kids are enjoying the fuck out of their time as well.




Sure, it will crash and burn, and the fixing will take much longer then the fucking, But in the meantime I get to live like a king.

[Banditbandit]

So what has changed in 50 years?

Hmmm - Communism has flunked the test - Terrorism is the new world enemy - World debt still is the weapon of choice! - NWO right on track! - Nothing really!

Communism flunked the test in the 1930s, when the rise of facsism in the world's most industrialized country proved Marx's Historic Materialism wrong .. there has never been a communist country since ... despite the claim of the dictators Stalin, Mao and others ...

[IkieBikie]

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO
SURVIVED THE
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's & 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, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
then after that trauma, our cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our pushbikes, 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 Ute 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, white bread and real butter and drank soft drink 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 chatrooms..........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 ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given slingshots for our 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
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!
Under 12 footy 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!

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!

[Headbanger]

Meh.

I don't get that fluff bullshit about yester year.

Mothers smoking and drinking is nothing to be proud of, The reduced infant mortality rate however is.

Kids still love being kids, Playing rugby,bmx, climbing trees, Just ignore the fuckers (adults I might add) that try and whine about doing rough shit.

Our current level of video game awesomeness and easy access to high quality media is just icing on the cake.

Go check the hospitals, full of kids getting hurt just by being kids. The rock rolls forever on.

For all intents and purposes the kids are enjoying being kids just like the current bunch of miserable adults did when they were kids.

[DamianW]

...no lashings with the cane or gym sneaker at school these days. Ah back then there was an English teacher of mine who used to jump off his chair whilst bringing the cane down on your hand. Here's a few pics of the since-bulldozed stalag 19 school of mine near Liverpool.

[oldrider]

Communism flunked the test in the 1930s, when the rise of facsism in the world's most industrialized country proved Marx's Historic Materialism wrong .. there has never been a communist country since ... despite the claim of the dictators Stalin, Mao and others ...

That's why communism (and every other idealistic "ism") will fail every time - it can not get past the dominant human factors - GREED and DUPLICITY!

Unfortunately all human systems require humans for their existence - kinda catch 22 if you get my drift.

[J.A.W.]

I enjoyed going to my school reunion & letting those surviving teachers know what I thought of them..

I gave one real vicious dyke what-for, & told her she should feel real lucky that I am not as nasty, now - as she was to me..
..she tried her bullshit " i was only doing it for your own good" - but I put her straight on that.. quick bloody smart..

They'd surely be had up, in this day & age - for their sadistic shit..

Funny - I really only remembered the good & the bad, & didn't bother with the mediocre, then or now..

[awa355]

Cycling was definitely easier 50 years ago. Just got back from 1 1/2 hr on the pushbike. Knackered. Riding a single speed way back then was easier than a multi speed is today.

Can't imagine why

[Voltaire]

I enjoyed going to my school reunion & letting those surviving teachers know what I thought of them..

I gave one real vicious dyke what-for, & told her she should feel real lucky that I am not as nasty, now - as she was to me..
..she tried her bullshit " i was only doing it for your own good" - but I put her straight on that.. quick bloody smart..

They'd surely be had up, in this day & age - for their sadistic shit..

Funny - I really only remembered the good & the bad, & didn't bother with the mediocre, then or now..

Luxury...at least you didn't go to a Catholic school and waste valuable learning time getting brainwashed on invisible fwends.

On the flip side, I don't spend any time wondering if there is a 'next life' and get on with enjoying the current one.

I feel sorry for all those people in the Middle East who buy into the whole thing, must be like living in medieval times but with electronics.

Mr Flannigan sure liked giving out the cane as Rosmini College, last time I was there was in 1977, they can stick reunions.

[awa355]

Who remembers 50 years ago (well, 45 yrs ago), riding up the main street on a Friday late shopping night with the baffles removed, showing off their teenage riding skills on the latest Japanese chrome and paint?, getting sneered at by the 'real' bikers.

[J.A.W.]

Yeah, I belonged to a 'Triumph' family..

& owned/operated one, 'til I had to commute to work on it.. that was a bit nerve-wracking..
..both the fettling needed, & the concern that it would disappear..

So I bought a Kawasaki 500/3, & that taught riding skill, & feared no Triumph, performance-wise..

Sold the Triumph.. never looked back..

& if you wanna laugh..
Check this period bikie doco out..

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/if-y...it-bikies-1972