VERT TRUE...GREAT POST...

Thanks Monica.

Indeed.

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I know exactly what you mean, history is far too repetitive. It needs some new ideas!

Yup! Very little is new.

it does repeat... but when it comes around again it has collected steam...

True in most things.

Mike,

I like this post, even though it seems life was much less complicated back then.

- Thom

There were less things to take your eye off the ball I think.

I'm having trouble remembering the good old days, or what I did yesterday! Love the photos and the reminder...as much as things change...didn't have color TV, video games, cell phones, hell still had party lines on the phone(bet most people don't even know what that means)...they stay the same.

When I was a kid we had a party line. It was no fun though.

different time.. different attitudes.. same old s**t..

Thats kind of what I figure.

Good entry IrishMike... if it's not one thing it's fourteen...

Or maybe 20.

Oh how true!

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It's true,I place some of the blame on the media.In the good old days we didn't hear about all that seems to be deemed so important now..Like which movie star is drunk,pregnant or dead,or what some congressman said about the president two hours ago.....I can't go on.........it's too depressing....

No need too, I get it.

The good ole days wern't really all that good, but we could be oblivious to most of the problems if they didn't really effect us directly. Media was really restricted with only 3 channels and no internet, and most people could pretend that the way it was was the way it was supposed to be. I don't know if that makes sense, I'm tired.
Good post, as usual, thanks Mike

Thanks for the add williamemills.

Thankyou My sentiments exactly, makes me laugh when people say it was safer *Back in their day* Yeah no pervs or pedophiles of course!, Nope never happened did it!, Kids just vanished up chimneys and girls were whisked off in a space ship to mars when they went missing!..

Great points here!.

Yup little boys turned into toads too!

I hear ya on some points
but what about the kids killing kids and just recently 2 kids, one was a missionary and the other a boy scout, they went and killed a mother and slit her daughters throat (the kid is 11) and then hacked off her toes

I think with so much violence on TV and the violent games out, kids are not sensitive to blood and gore anymore

O' Pinky. Stuff like that happened then too.

I will have to respectfully disagree with the TV and video games as well. It is up to the parent to teach right and wrong.

I have taken both my kids to the shooting range with bottles filled with water. They shot the 22 rifle and watched the water bottles blow up. Then I sent them down to the water bottles and asked them to put them back together. the lesson was clear to both of them at a young age. Guns destroy things and the damage cannot be fixed.

They also have been present while I gutted and cleaned fish I have caught. A knife can kill and hurt. Lesson learned.

Also they know not to hurt anything around me for enjoyment. From bugs to wild life to humans we hurt nothing in the name of fun. They both have spent time in time out for not following this rule. Lesson learned.

I hope my response has not upset you. I thank you for commenting and hear your opinion. I just disagree.

LOL everything has happend like in the past, but it is just worse now:D. Thanks for the laugh:)

Worse? IDK. Maybe more extreme.

i like this POST soo much!!!! its great n soo true...is just that its dits a different way of kids.. but the same things that they do..

Yup, Yup.

No offense Mike

I guess I forgot Lizzy Borden lol

Sounds like you are a responsible parent, but a lot of parents out there do not think as straight as we do.

I agree with Michelle, things did happen back then, but it seems to have gotten worse, it is more common to see kids killing kids and killing adults, I lived in Gang nation and left at the right time (this was in LA Cali)All I heard about was gangs killing other gang members, now everyone who is breathing is fair game :(

That is sad wht the L.A. gangs have become.

I am better for the most part just week.

Thanks for looking through my old stuff.