MeshugeMikey on the monstrous shadow of today:
many of us above in the fifties knew that evil existed.....but it did not at that point seem to be casting a monstrous shadow across the nation...centered on Washington D.C. and Hollywood...yarddog remembers the moral and inexpensive time that was the 1950s!
I really do think the 50s were the high point for America. We didn’t have some of the modern medicine but at least we had anti-biotics and bacteria were not resistant to them.yarddog also explains how Jim Crow was not so bad.
The country’s morals were at a high point, Communism was hated by the average person even if there were many hidden ones just waiting to take over.
Cars were reliable and easy to repair. Gas was cheap. We went to Church twice on Sunday and also on Wednesday, and we were by no means unique in that.
The schools had little money yet were excellent.
I grew up in the deep South. What we have now is actually worse than those days. Obama is President. A Black Panther is Attorney General. Blacks are literally worshiped in all parts of the media. We now have a system where incompetent Blacks are given almost total preference over qualified Whites.norton made a list of things he assumes are gone, most of which have not:
Stick & paper model airplanes and real hobby shops,Rides_A_Red_Horse - noticing anything bad in the 1950s makes you a Democrat:
Saturday double features with a serial and 10 cartoons,
B.B. guns & pocket knives,
Boy Scout marksmanship training and my first .22 (Savage #15),
Family picnics in places you'd avoid today,
Camping that didn't require a $100,000 RV (bus),
"public lands" that were open to the public,
Grandparents and neighbors who would tell you precisely why they left the "old country",
Actually looking forward to your first job,
Respecting the president even when your folks had voted for the other guy,
Respecting your father 'cause he worked two jobs, insisted you apply to college & was OK with the one you chose...OK, that was the sixties and the omens were already bad.
Like I said, don't get me started.
Polio.
Mumps.
Measles.
- And immunizations/cures were developed in that era.
Jim Crow.
Lynchings.
- ...aren’t you happy we don’t have racially motivated crimes today?
Women relegated to serve as secretaries or teachers.
- There were no female doctors or scientists? What is the color of the sky on your planet?
Air raid drills every Friday at noon. Duck and cover.
- We swapped that out for attacks on our military bases by Islamic Terrorists. Ain’t it grand that we no longer have to deal with those pesky Air Raid Drills?
Yup. D’ems the good ol days.
- Yeah, you sound like a Dem alright!
A highly unionized workforce, with wages high enough that a single income could more than enough take care of a single family ...
ReplyDeleteand yet conservatives continue to decry the unions and all the good they've done.
In other contexts, freepers talk about how tough they had it growing up in the 50s and 60s, how they or their families were treated unfairly for one reason or other.
With them its revisionist either way ... either rose colored reminiscing or a group boo-hoo fest.
Not only that, but taxes on high income was over 90%.
DeleteIt's like how Obama either becomes a diabolical genius or completely incompetent, depending on the narrative
DeleteStick & paper model airplanes and real hobby shops,
ReplyDeleteWait what? Guess the local hobby story I saw a few months ago wasn't real.
Saturday double features with a serial and 10 cartoons,
There was omething in 1950 that was starting to threaten theatres called "television"
B.B. guns & pocket knives,
Huh, I guess I was imagining all those BB guns I saw at the store
Boy Scout marksmanship training and my first .22 (Savage #15),
IT'S TEH HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA!!11111
Family picnics in places you'd avoid today,
Can't tell if racist or paranoid'
Camping that didn't require a $100,000 RV (bus),
REQUIRE? I smell envy of a neighbor's camper
"public lands" that were open to the public,
Have you really stepped outside of your home, ever?
Grandparents and neighbors who would tell you precisely why they left the "old country",
You haven't have you?
Actually looking forward to your first job,
Can I have what you're having? Because now you're just making stuff up
Respecting the president even when your folks had voted for the other guy,
Irony level: FReeper
Respecting your father 'cause he worked two jobs, insisted you apply to college & was OK with the one you chose...OK, that was the sixties and the omens were already bad.
You sound depressed. Maybe if anti-depressents and therepy weren't expensive, you could get help
Like I said, don't get me started.
What if I enjoy your non-sensical rants?
Unsurprisingly, post pulled
ReplyDeleteCars were reliable and easy to repair.
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
no.
Easier to fix, yes. More reliable? No.
I like how they are always egging on someone ELSE to do the dirty work. They do this all the time.
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