I'm out of touch w society

[flypaper]

my Dad blamed Ed Sullivan for the downfall of America...... for bringing those "long haired bastards" over here

My Dad called them
worthless hippies that need a haircut
and a real job..

 

[GetX'd]

Yeah and Elvis and his gyrating hips was off limits! The immoral bastard!

 

[chargervert]

The current society has lost touch with reality, they are the problem not us!

 

[Ron H]

You could take the delivery bit out of any 1950's or nearly 60's community. I even remember the breadman stopping and the mail man making deliveries from the Sears and Montgomery Wards catalog. Very little really changes.

Good point we had the milkman and bread man deliver for years but it was...milk and bread...my mother used to get real pissed when she left out the empty bottles in the basket with the order slip and I would make another check on it for chocolate milk!

 

[coronet68mx]

Am a middle age man (44) and at some point I have to agree in some way of what you're saying, but IMHO, society change hand to hand with technology, we, the X generation are caught between the millennial and our parents generation, music change, cars change, the way the people interact with each other's change, everything change, the unusual would be that us, the middle/older, doesn't, our parents complain about us in the way we complain about the younger generation, but, that's the way we are, as a society and as humanity, for an example I HATE sending messages to my family via WhatsApp, I preffer a phone call to hear their voice, my younger sister love it, so it's being months without talking to each other, a very small example of the conflict between generation, but that's the way it is nowadays, but I can't complain about the messages via WhatsApp because half my sales are via that way, and besides without them I never be part of this small but great community call FBBO, so we have to cope with this so call modern society and move on
In the meantime you old guys, have a nice sunday.

 

[Dennis H]

Self expression it’s called. Grotesque tats, nose rings, man buns, etc. The need to parade as a freak indicates little inside.

 

[moparedtn]

Self expression it’s called. Grotesque tats, nose rings, man buns, etc. The need to parade as a freak indicates little inside.

An extension of what they're taught in school these days.
Precious snowflakes, each one unique and special!
(Self-esteem, even if none was earned or warranted - turns 'em into attention whores)

 

[mopar 3 B]

Good point we had the milkman and bread man deliver for years but it was...milk and bread...my mother used to get real pissed when she left out the empty bottles in the basket with the order slip and I would make another check on it for chocolate milk!

Our milk came from the cows. The milkman only came to pick it up and was very picky about it being white.
Not that we did not get chocolate. We just had to add our own from the Hershies can.

 

[Ron H]

Looking back on the last 50 years got to wonder what the next 50 will look like. I won't be around to find out; but the boomer gen has been a friggin wild ride. I started out with using ahh telephones, some were rotary dial yet, having a secretary type out reports, using a dictation machine, working off of paper blueprints, finding a payphone when out in the field, and using a map (paper) to find my way around. Then I was given a pager, then later a laptop...thinking I never took typing class in HS; but had to learn how to type all the paperwork bullshit, then I was given a car phone mounted on the dash. We didn't have a color TV until I was in the 8th grade and it got four channels, when ya wanted to change the station, ya had to get up off your arse and go change it...well for a period of time I was my dad's remote.

 

[f8-4life]

Perhaps if you talked to a few of these weirdos insteady of posting here you both would feel less weird about each other?

 

[mopar 3 B]

Perhaps if you talked to a few of these weirdos insteady of posting here you both would feel less weird about each other?

I can not text that fast and their lips only move while eating. There is only one other form of communication that's universal and this is the wrong form.

 

[Roger63]

The only reason I go to the mall is bourbon chicken and noodles.

 

[Don Frelier]

 

[mopar 3 B]

The only reason I go to the mall is bourbon chicken and noodles.

That sounds different but good.

 

[Roger63]

That sounds different but good.

Its awesome stuff.

 

[Dibbons]

Watching "Adam 12" reruns I notice the witnesses to crimes were describing the getaway cars by model and specific year after only seeing a quick glance of the vehicle. Maybe some of you can do it now, but I can't tell any car these days by year, let alone the make and model.

I know many guys (including the ex-boyfriend of my step-daughter) wore his hair "shaved", the opposite of my long-haired days of the 1970's. I am waiting for the long-hair male styles to make a comeback, since it seems styles that fade out of existence seem to almost always make a comeback at a future date.

I always got a kick out of the longer hair CHP actors/officers "Ponch" and Wilcox wore on CHiP's TV show (1977-1983). I was CHP officer in 1982-83 and that style was not deemed appropriate for uniformed officers (except females).

 

[Aarons Air]

Watching "Adam 12" reruns I notice the witnesses to crimes were describing the getaway cars by model and specific year after only seeing a quick glance of the vehicle. Maybe some of you can do it now, but I can't tell any car these days by year, let alone the make and model.

I know many guys (including the ex-boyfriend of my step-daughter) wore his hair "shaved", the opposite of my long-haired days of the 1970's. I am waiting for the long-hair male styles to make a comeback, since it seems styles that fade out of existence seem to almost always make a comeback at a future date.

I always got a kick out of the longer hair CHP actors/officers "Ponch" and Wilcox wore on CHiP's TV show (1977-1983). I was CHP officer in 1982-83 and that style was not deemed appropriate for uniformed officers (except females).

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I would deem it appropriate for Tina Gayle to frisk me any day. Lol

 

[747mopar]

I rarely go to a mall. I may go at Christmas, or once in a blue moon. Today i went to a mall sporting goods store. Afterward, i walked through the mall to take in the sites. The longer i was there, the more i felt out of touch. Like a leftover from decades ago. I saw people with purple hair, pink hair, males( i won't refer to them as men), wearing their hair in buns, wearing ear rings, purses, and pajamas. Overheard male cashiers who sounded as if they didn't have one ounce of testosterone in their frail body. Young girls with bull rings in their noses, etc. I know in our youth, we do things older people frown on. Though i sense its all of a different/ worse flavor now. Here is an example of a couple t shirts i saw for sale.

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Pretty darn distasteful, I don't take those kinds of things lightly.

 

[NoCar2023]

 

[Chargerjase]

There are all sorts of crazy styles now days, nothing like when we were young. I can live with the top knot, homos, dyed hair or what not. What I find disturbing with young people (girls in particular) is the ridiculous tattoos. You see a gorgeous young girl absolutely covered in tattoos. It breaks my heart to see it. If they ever want to undo that mess, its terribly painful and expensive. Its a great idea when you are 20, when you are 50......well