Damn, I wanted to live in the 60s...

[ndee]

In America, with those nice old cars, those oh so heart-melting balads and some good rock'n'roll. How was life back then?

 

[m2kewl]

no net?

swing dancing?

civil right riots? segregation?

no smart bombs? b2 bombers?

full swing communism - brink of WW3?

steering wheels the diameter of some dude's belly full of booze?

nah - i'll pass. i enjoy my time in the past two decades.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

00s please kthx.

I have the ballads on my Winamp playlist now. Hundreds of them. I wouldn't have in the 60s, and a girl who also liked them wouldn't be anything special. But that's another story..

 

[ndee]

swing dancing? That rocks The Twist, etc. And those cars, to die for

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Yeah those old cars were great. Too bad the chances are you would have been in the jungles of Vietnam.

Be careful what you wish for.

 

[Cyberian]

How was life back then?

I enjoyed the hell out of it, except for when I got drafted.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: Hayabusarider
Yeah those old cars were great. Too bad the chances are you would have been in the jungles of Vietnam.

Be careful what you wish for.

Hmmm... true. Or what about the 50s? You don't HAVE to go to the Army in America, right'

 

[Cyberian]

Or what about the 50s? You don't HAVE to go to the Army in America, right'

They were pretty good, too.
If you were drafted, you had to go into the Army unless you fled to Canada or someplace else outside the US.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Or what about the 50s? You don't HAVE to go to the Army in America, right'

They were pretty good, too.
If you were drafted, you had to go into the Army unless you fled to Canada or someplace else outside the US.

So the Army is only a MUST if America is on war, right?

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Or what about the 50s? You don't HAVE to go to the Army in America, right'

They were pretty good, too.
If you were drafted, you had to go into the Army unless you fled to Canada or someplace else outside the US.

So the Army is only a MUST if America is on war, right?

no, its never been required of all citizens of a certain age to join

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Or what about the 50s? You don't HAVE to go to the Army in America, right'

They were pretty good, too.
If you were drafted, you had to go into the Army unless you fled to Canada or someplace else outside the US.

So the Army is only a MUST if America is on war, right?

no, its never been required of all citizens of a certain age to join

I mean like, if it's war and you're older then 18, chances are that you get drafted, right?

 

[Booster]

Frankly speaking, I hate the past, I want to live in the future. I don't want to ever look back. I have always wanted to live like thousands years from now, when there will be some kickas advanced technology and other cool things. Present day life is a boredom torture.

 

[mpitts]

The Beatles were reason enough to be around in the 60's.

 

[ndee]

Booster: Well, when I watch those old cheesy 60s movies, it just looks like the world was ok back then(OK, I know Vietnam) compared to now.

 

[Booster]

Originally posted by: ndee
Booster: Well, when I watch those old cheesy 60s movies, it just looks like the world was ok back then(OK, I know Vietnam) compared to now.

So what was so good? They didn't even have the Internet. Maybe people were a little more educated, more clever and more harmonious back then since the pace of life wasn't that fast, but hey even now it's way too slow for me.

 

[m2kewl]

OT: my parents said the 70's were a wasted decade. people who went through it - is that true?

 

[yobarman]

I would've loved to live in the 50's. Thugs carried knives instead of guns, and they'd drag race in the streets on their way to the drive-in diner. And they'd say things like "That's boss."

 

[Phuz]

Originally posted by: m2kewl
OT: my parents said the 70's were a wasted decade. people who went through it - is that true?

No offense, but thats a very unintelligent statement.

 

[ZOXXO]

Originally posted by: Phuz

Originally posted by: m2kewl OT: my parents said the 70's were a wasted decade. people who went through it - is that true?

No offense, but thats a very unintelligent statement.

Why? Perhaps it was for them.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Or what about the 50s? You don't HAVE to go to the Army in America, right'

They were pretty good, too.
If you were drafted, you had to go into the Army unless you fled to Canada or someplace else outside the US.

So the Army is only a MUST if America is on war, right?

no, its never been required of all citizens of a certain age to join

I mean like, if it's war and you're older then 18, chances are that you get drafted, right?

not particularly... only been a couple wars where the draft was really needed, that was the civil war and vietnam... i wonder what percent of the able bodied 18 year old males were actually drafted, i doubt its over 25%

 

[Analog]

The 60s were an unsettled time, I don't think that living through it was 'great', but hindsight is 20/20. We lost more guys every day from Vietnam than we did from the total of both gulf wars combined. Riots, the US army protecting the capital ('68), it was surely a growing up period for this country. Our lives today were forged from that fire.

 

[WhiteKnight77]

The 70s were pretty decent, you could have a sit down meal with the family at a reasonable time (about 6PM) and still be able to do things in the evening besides veg in front of the TV. As far as being wasted, the last few years of the 70s was like that for me (think That 70s Show,) tho I am sure more people spent more of the 70s that way.

We still had to worry about getting nuked and the cold war as we did in the 60s, but that was par for the course. Life still seemed easier then than it does now. Go figure.

 

I'd like to go back and be a hippy for a bit.

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: SammySon
I'd like to go back and be a hippy for a bit.

Summer of Love? No AIDs...

 

I'd probably stay for a few years... not just summer.
Enough time to follow the dead around in a VW bus or some other vehicle.