Share your quips/anecdotes/etc about the decay of society

[Mirc]

Sheesh, I remember at the turn of the '60s/'70s, we used to play "Get Smart" at recess. We ran around quite happily, pretending to shoot each other... using a stick, a banana, or our bare hands for "guns." The teachers took not the slightest notice of any of it.

Wow. If that was forbidden here, all children aged 7-10 and many above that age would be in jail.

 

[Theige]

VR, you left out:

Black man says hi to white woman.

1958: Black man beaten/lynched/tortured
2008: Nothing.

 

[Mirc]

Can't you people read the thread so that we don't have the same thing mentioned SO MANY TIMES over and over and over and over??

 

[Mise]

Someone says something you don't like.

1858: I disagree with what you say but I respect your right to say it.
2008: OMFG STFU FAG

 

[gangleri2001]

Someone says something you don't like.

1858: I disagree with what you say but I respect your right to say it.
2008: OMFG STFU FAG

In 1858? Three years before Civil War? Are you kidding?

 

[LucyDuke]

Someone says something you don't like.

1858: I disagree with what you say but I respect your right to say it.
2008: OMFG STFU FAG

There are both at both times. Just not worded the same.

Was 1858 rather than 1958 intentional? 'Cause I like it. I'd like 1708 compared too. We have people saying all these things at all these times.

 

[Communisto]

There was racism in the 50s so everything about society at the time was evil and wrong!

*puts on blindfold and earplugs*

 

[eastsidebagel]

1958: The society had no decent music like The Doors, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, The Beatles or Alice in Chains.
2008: All those bands are gone? WTH!

 

[Mise]

There are both at both times. Just not worded the same.

Was 1858 rather than 1958 intentional? 'Cause I like it. I'd like 1708 compared too. We have people saying all these things at all these times.

Aye, we need more 50n+8 anecdotes!

 

[Huayna Capac357]

Can't you people read the thread so that we don't have the same thing mentioned SO MANY TIMES over and over and over and over??

Great minds think alike

Anyway:

Scenario: I win at Civ.
1958: Nobody knows what the hell I'm talking about.
2008: It's happened so much no one cares.

 

[eastsidebagel]

1958: I wasn't born yet.
2008: Oh yeah baby, it's me again!

 

[Narz]

Amusing VRWC.

Share your quips/anecdotes/etc about the decay of society

I do, all the time.

 

[Mowque]

I do, all the time.

really?? You!?

 

[Narz]

Nah, I'm just kidding, I think society is great.

Honestly, though, I have to agree that 1958 was hardly better & in many ways worse. There is no going backwards.

 

[Formaldehyde]

When I was in the 8th grade, I wanted to make some gunpowder. I had laboratory-grade sulfur from my chemistry set. I had tons of charcoal from the bag sitting next to the grille. What I was missing was some reasonably decent potassium nitrate aka saltpeter. I tried using the lawn fertilizer sitting in the garage but it just wouldn't work. No matter what I did, it wouldn't even ignite much less explode. So I asked my science teacher for some laboratory grade stuff. He asked me why I wanted it and I told him. It worked.

I'd tell you what actual percentages of each chemical you need in order to make it, but if I wrote it in Arabic I'd likely spend the rest of my life in prison.

 

[Mowque]

When I was in the 8th grade, I wanted to make some gunpowder. I had laboratory-grade sulfur from my chemistry set. I had tons of charcoal from the bag sitting next to the grille. What I was missing was some reasonably decent potassium nitrate aka saltpeter. I tried using the lawn fertilizer sitting in the garage but it just wouldn't work. No matter what I did, it wouldn't even ignite much less explode. So I asked my science teacher for some laboratory grade stuff. He asked me why I wanted it and I told him. It worked.

I'd tell you what actual percentages of each chemical you need in order to make it, but if I wrote it in Arabic I'd likely spend the rest of my life in prison.

I wasn't a big fan of pryo type things, but one of my friends is...our science teacher was glad to help him/order things for him...what is the point of your story?

 

[Formaldehyde]

OK. How about this:

1958: The science teacher in your middle school helps you to make gunpowder.
2008: The science teacher in your middle school is convicted of aiding and abetting a terrorist for the very same act.

Now is it clear?

 

[Bill3000]

I'd tell you what actual percentages of each chemical you need in order to make it, but if I wrote it in Arabic I'd likely spend the rest of my life in prison.

Or you could check Wikipedia.

 

[Eukaryote]

1958 - A wife has an abusive husband, but puts up with it instead of getting a divorce. She's told she's fat and stupid everyday and gets the occasinal punch in the eye. The kids are trumatized.

2008 - A wife has an abusive husband. She divorces him and moves away with the kids. The kids are glad they don't have to see their mom mistreated anymore and she remarries a nice lawyer her friend set her up with.

 

[LightFang]

I remember that in elementary school, we were banned from playing tag, because it was "too competitive" or some crap. There was even a whole memo of forbidden games. Handball, another one of my favorite games, was banned too.

I think this started my slide towards a more sedentary lifestyle.