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When were you born? |
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80's |
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10's |
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
Joined: 17 Mar 2003
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What does "this" refer to? |
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Location: Joined 3/6/02 . Member #175
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David wrote: | Disappointed that no wag has thought to tick 2010s yet. |
Yeah, I meant to put 'other', but I had consumed a few brews.
I thought I did pretty well considering _________________ Don't count the days, make the days count. |
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Morrigu
Joined: 11 Aug 2001
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Damn born a year too early to be included - ageist!! _________________ “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” |
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David
to wish impossible things
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: the edge of the deep green sea
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Fixed. (well, kind of I wasn't game to try to put it up the top!) _________________ "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange |
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Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
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No-one was actually "born" in the 50s - that's an earlier stage of human evolution that involved hatching and pouches. |
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Morrigu
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^ well that would explain why I am so passionate about animal rights - I was hatched!! _________________ “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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WTF was the 30's then? _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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ronrat
Joined: 22 May 2006 Location: Thailand
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I was born in the 50s and before you laugh. I can retire younger than you punks (well I have now) and you can keep working until just before you die.
Mobile phones. Was 40 before I had one. My bosses resisted them at work for years. With good reason. It meant every problem could be solved by ringing the boss and telling him making it his problem. He was at the pub on friday. He couldn't talk on the phone. But was called back to the office. One of them left it in his desk in a locked drawer when he went on holiday. All hell broke loose. His answer. If you can't live 4 weeks without me then you had better pay for my holiday and the wifes. tob be honest they are the germ of all evil. Twitter, unauthorised photos, etc. _________________ Annoying opposition supporters since 1967. |
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Mugwump
Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Location: Between London and Melbourne
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The good Old days never were, of course. Many things have become far better, notably access to information, travel, the quality of food and face-to-face service and the engineering of things. A motor car from the 1960s is trash compared to today's equivalent. The status of those who are of different race, of women, and the understanding of different sexuality have all improved, which was both necessary and overdue.
Unfortunately, many things have become quite needlessly worse. The rate of serious violent crime has octupled, on the best indicative data available. The use of drugs has expanded vastly. Both girls and boys grow up in a world where vicious pornography sets a sordid template for sexuality, service levels from large corporations are contemptuous, and inequality, insecurity and exploitation of the young via university fees and landlordism are shameful. Above All, the cult of relativism has turned nations into an archipelago of negotiable identities with little shared pride, history, values and meaning. The result of this is a hollowed-out, trashy, sentimentalised, and pharisaical culture which is often serious about trivial things and mindless about serious things.
There are always things which need to change, and which can be improved. The pity is not that we lost a perfect past, but that we embraced such a present.
(1960s, by the way). _________________ Two more flags before I die! |
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Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
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stui magpie wrote: | ^
WTF was the 30's then? |
You've seen Jurassic Park? My Dad (born '23) plays one of the raptors - no costume or makeup necessary. |
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Location: Joined 3/6/02 . Member #175
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You say "the qaulity of food" is better Mugwump.
The explosion of fast food & soft drinks is a bane on todays society. Obesity at alarming levels, along with diabetes.
When I played junior footy, there were that many kids playing, our club, Bassendean, had 2 teams in every age group. Now kids look at screens all day.
I think participation in sport is something that has declined in recent deacades due to 'progress' _________________ Don't count the days, make the days count. |
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think positive
Side By Side
Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
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Mugwump wrote: | The good Old days never were, of course. Many things have become far better, notably access to information, travel, the quality of food and face-to-face service and the engineering of things. A motor car from the 1960s is trash compared to today's equivalent. The status of those who are of different race, of women, and the understanding of different sexuality have all improved, which was both necessary and overdue.
Unfortunately, many things have become quite needlessly worse. The rate of serious violent crime has octupled, on the best indicative data available. The use of drugs has expanded vastly. Both girls and boys grow up in a world where vicious pornography sets a sordid template for sexuality, service levels from large corporations are contemptuous, and inequality, insecurity and exploitation of the young via university fees and landlordism are shameful. Above All, the cult of relativism has turned nations into an archipelago of negotiable identities with little shared pride, history, values and meaning. The result of this is a hollowed-out, trashy, sentimentalised, and pharisaical culture which is often serious about trivial things and mindless about serious things.
There are always things which need to change, and which can be improved. The pity is not that we lost a perfect past, but that we embraced such a present.
(1960s, by the way). |
Gosh that's a kinda depressing take on it all,
Your wrong about one thing though - 60's cars! I'll take the classics any day! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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Mugwump
Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Location: Between London and Melbourne
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∆ classic cars are good, TP - but I doubt you drive one as your main car in preference to a modern car. Even if you do, I reckon the safety and comfort level and reliability is a lot lower !! _________________ Two more flags before I die! |
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Mugwump
Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Location: Between London and Melbourne
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Skids wrote: | You say "the qaulity of food" is better Mugwump.
The explosion of fast food & soft drinks is a bane on todays society. Obesity at alarming levels, along with diabetes.
When I played junior footy, there were that many kids playing, our club, Bassendean, had 2 teams in every age group. Now kids look at screens all day.
I think participation in sport is something that has declined in recent deacades due to 'progress' |
Sure, but I think that's about the choices people make, not the options availBle, which Re far richer. How many craft beers were there in 1970? How many low carb poached chicken Vietnamese Rice paper vegetable rolls etc ? I don't know if anything is as depressing as the lousy way so many people use the freedom and information and education they have as a result of the ideals of their forebears, _________________ Two more flags before I die! |
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think positive
Side By Side
Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
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Mugwump wrote: | ∆ classic cars are good, TP - but I doubt you drive one as your main car in preference to a modern car. Even if you do, I reckon the safety and comfort level and reliability is a lot lower !! |
Can't afford to, it's club plates only!
Besides I love my little heated seated v-dub! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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