WE ARE A GENERATION THAT WILL NEVER COME BACK.

[Mark Wainwright]

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A generation that walked to school and then walked back.

A generation that did their homework alone to get out asap to play in the street.

A generation that spent all their free time on the street with their Friends.

A generation that played hide and seek when dark.

A generation that made mud cakes.

A generation that collected sports cards.

A generation that found, collected and washed & Returned empty coke bottles to the local grocery store for 5 cents each , then bought a Mountain Dew and candy bar with the money.

A generation that made paper toys with their bare hands.

A generation who bought vinyl albums to play on record players.

A generation that collected photos and albums of clippings.

A generation that played board games and cards on rainy days.

A generation whose TV went off at midnight after playing the National Anthem.

A generation that had parents who were there.

A generation that laughed under the covers in bed so parents didn't know we were still awake.

A generation that is passing and unfortunately it will never return!!..

I loved Growing up when I did.

 

[Ron816]

Very sad to see what’s going on today

 

[MOPAROFFICIAL]

Why the joke forum?

Is there a punch line where men are really women in this photo? Hard to tell..lmao

 

[Treblig]

This is all that I have to say about that:

 

[72bluNblu]

Every generation is a generation that will never come back. The only constant is change. Yours was different than the one before yours, and that generation said they same thing about your generation.

 

[Ahoey]

Every generation is a generation that will never come back. The only constant is change. Yours was different than the one before yours, and that generation said they same thing about your generation.

True very true not better not worse just different

 

[go-fish]

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I loved Growing up when I did.

Frankly speaking, people from 'your generation' created the whole mess we're in today. What generation are all these idiot politicians from? The generation I pine for is the one who fought WWII.

Don't go feeling special and above the fray. I know penty in your generation that are very confused politically and not sound financially. Every generation has their ef-ups. The one from the 60's and 70's had more than any other previously. They went on to have kids and ef'ed that up too. The cycle has shown decline since.

 

[Ahoey]

Opinion. Not better, not worse, just different. Like the man said “ the only constant is change”

 

[Treblig]

Frankly speaking, people from 'your generation' created the whole mess we're in today. What generation are all these idiot politicians from? The generation I pine for is the one who fought WWII.

Don't go feeling special and above the fray. I know penty in your generation that are very confused politically and not sound financially. Every generation has their ef-ups. The one from the 60's and 70's had more than any other previously. They went on to have kids and ef'ed that up too. The cycle has shown decline since.[/QUOT
Nobody said we were special, even though we were. Nobody said we were the best generation, even though we thought we were. Some of our youngest politicians are THE ABSOLUTE WORST, some of the newer ones are traitors!! At least some of the older politicians had some values, now they are mostly extremists that want to overthrow the government. We're not the ones on Adderall, we're not the ones with "special classrooms" for the unruley and destructive.

 

[AJ/FormS]

Never saw kids dragging Daddy's gun to class and shooting up classrooms either.
Seen lots of fisticuffs tho; two guys dooking it out, which often ended with two very tired boys, rolling around on the floor, sometimes sorta laughing it up.
I didn't realize it at the time, but a teenage boy can take a pretty good licking, and it doesn't hurt all that much, and only takes a few days for the swellings to go down; such amazing bodies they have.
Butchaknow, in the 60s, we still had GodAlmighty up front and center. It wasn't until the 70s that Science started pushing Him out.

 

[6PakBee]

Every generation is a generation that will never come back. The only constant is change. Yours was different than the one before yours, and that generation said they same thing about your generation.

There is a famous quote often misattributed to Socrates complaining about younger generations:

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

I have read this for over 60 years, each time being presented as a defense against current behavior with the claim that nothing ever changes so why worry. My reply always has been that when this was penned, Greece was one of the leading civilizations in the world. Where are they now?

 

[barbee6043]

Each generation will get softer and softer, until eventually that nation will become worthless, and it will go away or be taken over by stronger, unless something very substantial comes along to make it strong again.

 

[Mark Wainwright]

This is all that I have to say about that:

That brought back a lot of memories. I was in London on Carnaby St. (the fashion capital) in May of 1966. Some weird clothing there and dad took me to a strip joint for the first time. I was 17 and got a lot of education there lol. Good memories.

 

[dibbons]

"Playboy" days (circa June 1976):

 

[64 AAR Valiant]

There is a famous quote often misattributed to Socrates complaining about younger generations:

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

I have read this for over 60 years, each time being presented as a defense against current behavior with the claim that nothing ever changes so why worry. My reply always has been that when this was penned, Greece was one of the leading civilizations in the world. Where are they now?

Peaks and valley's
Every generation challenges authority to some degree.
It's how they rise or fall to the challenges that face them, is how they will be judged.

 

[go-fish]

Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times. Hard times create strong men.

The hardest MF’ers I know of fought Nazis and Japs. Where are we now and who created the world we live in?

The “youth” has always been a product of the world their predecessors created.

Quit with the arrogance.

 

[barbee6043]

A youngish parent said to me other day, they want their children to have it far better than they had it... i asked did you really think you had it hard??
I told them I have seen hard....you have never seen hard.
I am old and I was raised by old parents that saw two wars, one was really big, plus the real Great Depression. My wife was raised by old grandparents that went thru the same.

 

[MOPARMAGA]

Actually, it just depends on where you grow up & how good your parents are I guess. I'm a couple days away from 44 and can recall all of that growing up & I am glad for that.

 

[RustyRatRod]

All people suck.

 

[Treblig]

All people suck.

That's the Christmas Spirit RRR (Scrooge!!!)

 

[Steve welder]

Frankly speaking, people from 'your generation' created the whole mess we're in today. What generation are all these idiot politicians from? The generation I pine for is the one who fought WWII.

Don't go feeling special and above the fray. I know penty in your generation that are very confused politically and not sound financially. Every generation has their ef-ups. The one from the 60's and 70's had more than any other previously. They went on to have kids and ef'ed that up too. The cycle has shown decline since.

Well you pretty much summed it up.....While its true I think my age bracket had a better time growing up it was mostly because we didnt have the distractions we have today.... It was also a simpler time and not anywhere near as materialist and self serving it is today

 

[harrisonm]

I am 71. When I was about 10 years old, I was allowed to walk all the way downtown to Martin's Hobby Shop (about a mile each way) to spend birthday or Christmas money on airplane models. Would you let a 10-year-old do that now? And @go-fish, I don't think Mark was being arrogant or suggesting that his generation is better than any other, I think he was simply stating some facts of things he fondly remembers about growing up when he did. And by-the-way, @Mark Wainwright, you forgot to mention that walking to school was uphill both ways.

 

[harrisonm]

All people suck.

Not Kansans. We are the salt of the earth.

 

[RustyRatRod]

I am 71. When I was about 10 years old, I was allowed to walk all the way downtown to Martin's Hobby Shop (about a mile each way) to spend birthday or Christmas money on airplane models. Would you let a 10-year-old do that now? And @go-fish, I don't think Mark was being arrogant or suggesting that his generation is better than any other, I think he was simply stating some facts of things he fondly remembers about growing up when he did. And by-the-way, @Mark Wainwright, you forgot to mention that walking to school was uphill both ways.

A lot of things like you mention have truly changed. When I was about 12, I rode my bike out to my grandparent's house, about 6 miles one way. I didn't ask. I just jumped on the bike one day and wondered if I could do it. A little while later, I was there. I rode that bike all over Macon. No cell phone, no nuthin. You used to see kids ridin bikes all the time. Now, not much at all. They all play video games. Even if they didn't, I'm not sure I'd let my young children.....if I had any, ride their bikes all over creation like we used to. Things are just really different....well......maybe not different, there's just more bad element everywhere.

Same kinda thing with when we were starting to drive. Used to be we could ride out to north Bibb county on what's called Spur19, line um up and race. In broad daylight. Now, everything is son congested, you'd kill somebody. Things are different in a lot of ways.

I wouldn't trade my growing up years for nuthin though. We had a good time.

 

[go-fish]

Nobody said we were special, even though we were.

@harrisonm I should have been more specific. I was referring to Gilbert regarding the arrogance.