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BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 1:41 am
Yeah, kids be like, yo momma so ugly...
It's rough world.
OK, so let's contrast some points of the childhood I had (and I am about Chuck's age for reference, but I'm from Illinois, not Wisconsin) and the ones typical of today. I was born of two married parents who had a house and my mother was a homemaker raising me and my sisters when my father died. I benefited greatly from her attention and care to my early years.
I was able to go out and play unsupervised from a very young age as I was considered safe in my community and developed some autonomy in my actions from an early age. I could go and meet friend and be around the town and be home for lunch or sundown or whenever was agreed or to call to check in from a payphone or friend's house.
Grade school would hold you back if you couldn't read or do your math, it also had things like gym, art programs and school nurses. High School wasn't just some outgrowth of grade school to move you along to college but instead was an actual higher education with expectations on my output for progression as well.
There was an expectation of independence and adulthood as I turned 18, and I was able to move out and get a place while employed, initially with roommates but I had my own apartment on a full time job in Chicago when I was 20 (mid-nineties).
No one was recording my every word or action and my youthful transgressions are not there for people to find later or my employer to check over.
@__@ wtf
...I mean, I believe you, but I still have trouble thinking that's what it really was like. You mean parents didn't stop their children from leaving the house or spending time with friends and then complain that they didn't do anything but play on the computer all day?
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Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 3:19 am
Anyone who plans on moving to Canada had better get an early start on it. Refugee and asylum applications can take a long time. Hopefully they won't shove you in a concentration camp like we do to ours.
BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 1:41 am
Yeah, kids be like, yo momma so ugly...
It's rough world.
OK, so let's contrast some points of the childhood I had (and I am about Chuck's age for reference, but I'm from Illinois, not Wisconsin) and the ones typical of today. I was born of two married parents who had a house and my mother was a homemaker raising me and my sisters when my father died. I benefited greatly from her attention and care to my early years.
I was able to go out and play unsupervised from a very young age as I was considered safe in my community and developed some autonomy in my actions from an early age. I could go and meet friend and be around the town and be home for lunch or sundown or whenever was agreed or to call to check in from a payphone or friend's house.
Grade school would hold you back if you couldn't read or do your math, it also had things like gym, art programs and school nurses. High School wasn't just some outgrowth of grade school to move you along to college but instead was an actual higher education with expectations on my output for progression as well.
There was an expectation of independence and adulthood as I turned 18, and I was able to move out and get a place while employed, initially with roommates but I had my own apartment on a full time job in Chicago when I was 20 (mid-nineties).
No one was recording my every word or action and my youthful transgressions are not there for people to find later or my employer to check over.
Several times I was abducted from curriculum for generalized testing to confirm I was able to class in the classroom but my results always came back normal and nobody ever found anything wrong with me.
BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 1:41 am
Yeah, kids be like, yo momma so ugly...
It's rough world.
OK, so let's contrast some points of the childhood I had (and I am about Chuck's age for reference, but I'm from Illinois, not Wisconsin) and the ones typical of today. I was born of two married parents who had a house and my mother was a homemaker raising me and my sisters when my father died. I benefited greatly from her attention and care to my early years.
I was able to go out and play unsupervised from a very young age as I was considered safe in my community and developed some autonomy in my actions from an early age. I could go and meet friend and be around the town and be home for lunch or sundown or whenever was agreed or to call to check in from a payphone or friend's house.
Grade school would hold you back if you couldn't read or do your math, it also had things like gym, art programs and school nurses. High School wasn't just some outgrowth of grade school to move you along to college but instead was an actual higher education with expectations on my output for progression as well.
There was an expectation of independence and adulthood as I turned 18, and I was able to move out and get a place while employed, initially with roommates but I had my own apartment on a full time job in Chicago when I was 20 (mid-nineties).
No one was recording my every word or action and my youthful transgressions are not there for people to find later or my employer to check over.
@__@ wtf
...I mean, I believe you, but I still have trouble thinking that's what it really was like. You mean parents didn't stop their children from leaving the house or spending time with friends and then complain that they didn't do anything but play on the computer all day?
My mom was pretty hovering. I was in 6th grade when she allowed me to walk home.
Well the hats still say "Make America Great Again" so clearly not very well.
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clearspira wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:22 pm
OK, my friends, its time for the ultimate question: Its been four years since Donald Trump pledged to ''Make America Great Again''.
How as he fared?
I still don't know when/how we were 'Great' the first time.
clearspira wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:22 pm
OK, my friends, its time for the ultimate question: Its been four years since Donald Trump pledged to ''Make America Great Again''.
How as he fared?
That basically meant bringing Motown back. American cars aren't much better or worse, and motown music is more or less just as prevalent as it was before.
Supposedly the empty stadium featured at the Trump rally was due to students on Tik Tok buying up all the tickets lol. Personally I think Covid has seriously dented Teflon Trump - not necessarily because of his handling of the crisis but because he has been unable to hold his millions of campaign rallies.
clearspira wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 9:58 pm
Supposedly the empty stadium featured at the Trump rally was due to students on Tik Tok buying up all the tickets lol. Personally I think Covid has seriously dented Teflon Trump - not necessarily because of his handling of the crisis but because he has been unable to hold his millions of campaign rallies.
Very interesting election coming.
And with the media conveniently blacking out Ms. Reade's allegations, and how the democrats have no intention to open an independent investigative commission, these truly are dark times.
