Conservatives complain about assault weapon bans but then want to stop abortions. Liberals complain about abortion rights but then support seat belt communism.
No I never seen a big cat , and children don't play at play grounds any more, and spanking children taught you respect for people, never had school shootings in my day no one ever thought of that.
The title says this video will show Clint Eastwood making some big statement about life, but this video is just some guy who likes to talk doing a voice-over of Clint scenes. Nothing here.
I'm 75 from Newark, NJ . As 11-12 yr olds we, about 6 or 8 of us would walk to downtown Newark and go see a movie. We made money collecting soda bottles. Go to any local store and get 2 cents for the small bottles and 5 cents for the large qt size ! We were rich and hung out at a big pinball parlor. Games were five for a quarter! Three movie theaters in 2 blocks. That set us back 35 cents ! Best years of my life then! Then IT happened ! We grew up but never forgot each other 😂😂❤❤!!
Having lived through all of the 50's and the '60's, it seems to me now that there is now overmuch enthusiasm for the general concept of banning things.
Political correctness keeps the wastefulness of "renewable" energy a secret. When there are mountains of un-recyclable fiberglass windmill fins piling up- and no one can tell you a truthful answer on when the break even point is on solar fields or a single wind mill.
All of these are familiar to me, but I don't agree that drinking and driving was not understood to be that dangerous at the time. Every other year in my town, some teenager would be permanently disabled or killed while drinking and driving. Everyone knew that it was not a good idea, but when you're a drunk teenager, not well practiced at decision making and driving, your brain isn't functioning well.
I' was born '51. Was waaaay waaaaay more cool back then... Unsafe? I suppose. I was poor. So had to buy an old beater car, and had to run, God Forbid!!, recap tires all the time, until they discontinued making them. I was so lucky I survived all the hazardous unsafe stuff. But if they ever make a time machine, I'd go back to all those dangers in a heartbeat. How 'bout riding in the bed of a pickup truck, just in the bad there, no seat or anything. I don't think I started using the seatbelts cars until mid-80's(?) when required by law..
Not just 50s. I'm from early 80s and have myself used wall mounted can openers (I still have the detachable one), sifters, hand held whisk, breadboxes, and the Rotary phone. I have also used a separator to separate milk from cream. I would actually want to use thesebland powered things more since it gives a calmer experience and a lot less stressful noise.
When Sandy hit the east coast, everyone had meltdowns because of no power. I loved it. It was a return back to days as a kid in the 60's. No cell phones, gaming systems, nothing. Just the outdoors.
I remember metal slides very well. We had them in NZ in the 1970s (I realise this is about the '60s, but I wasn't around then. Much of this video applies to the 1970s as well though.) However, I didn't find them "a test of courage and endurance". I just found them fun. Swings, too, were lots of fun. I also remember corporal punishment, although at the primary school I went to, that only involved the odd smack on the hand. And even then, it was only older teachers who tended to do that. Even though I was on the receiving end of a few such smacks, I had, and still have no problem with it. They were short sharp "lessons" that you had done something naughty, and most of the time, I got the message and didn't repeat the behaviour that had led to the smack. In the 1980s, I went to a private boys' secondary school where it was possible to get the strap or cane. Again, though, it was only certain teachers who did that, and they tended to be older ones. The most common form of punishment at that school was detention. I somehow managed to avoid the strap or cane (although I did have a couple of close calls), but guys who did get it usually joked about it afterwards and no one ever seemed to suffer trauma from it.
DIGNITY,RESPECT, RESPONSIBLE, PATRIOTIC, WORK,GREAT MUSIC,NOBODY FAT,LOW CRIME,EDUCATED, SO MUCH MORE TODAY,2024--ARE YOU KIDDING. GOING GOING GONE.A QUOTE YOGI BERRA SAID--IT AIN'T OVER TILL OTS OVER I BEG THE DIFFER!!
Give me break on env. responsibility. The theme today is if it breaks throw it away and get a new one. In fact even if it doesn't break if something new and shiny comes out throw the old one away. Back then things were actually fixed. And during WWII things were taken to a level we will not see today.
I watched the video, and I thought..." bicycle helmets are stupid". Then I remembered the time I was 6, crashed my bicycle, and regained consciousness in the emergency room. Good Times!
This video contains the essence of why young white males are such incredible weaklings. It used to be "no guts, no glory" but now it's "no nuts, you'll be safe". I'm 75, watched this all develop. We're doomed.
70 years young here. I saw all of this and more. Overall, I'd take the 60s over what is happening today. We're producing weak and soft people. It's ridiculous.
I was born in 1946 so I saw all this and more. As to the playground high slides, we used to bring waxed paper from home and sit on it and then slide down. Much faster. Much more fun. The “merry go round” was a test to see who could last the longest and was, therefore, crowned as the King of Merry Go Round. As to seat belts, I was always in favor of them. I installed them in dad’s ‘55 Pontiac. As a motor racing fan I saw the utility of the belts in preventing injury. To this day, the first thing I do upon entering my car is to buckle up and tell any passengers to do the same. Then I start the car.
Society was much reasonable and people werent so touchy and figure things out for themselves .More kids experienced the outdoors and were healthier and were taught respect.
If it weren't for skinned elbows, knees and cut fingers in the 50s and 60s, what else would have kept Band-Aids in business? With our crowd, cuts & bruises were a weekly occurrence, now it's a trip to the doctor and a tetanus shot.
Although some of our routine activities were conducted without safety equipment, the state of affairs in 2024 is far more violent and filled with anxiety. There were injuries, yes. But as manufacturers have striven to make passenger cars safer year by year, humans now drive them more recklessly, exceeding posted speed limits by 10 or 20 miles per hour and aggressively stationing their vehicles within a meter or half a meter from the rear of the vehicle ahead, while speeding along the highway switching lanes repeatedly, slipping into spaces between hurtling vehicles often without bothering to signal. Drivers rely on the improved anti-skid braking and proximity sensors that many vehicles provide, imagining this gives them a substantial margin of error. So they push even the most mundane trip to the grocery as if they are in a race to save the universe from demons. Drivers are plainly willing to risk their lives in modern traffic for a Tenth of a SECOND advantage over the cars around them. They scream at anyone that keeps them waiting for the span of a heartbeat at a traffic light, and sit impatiently revving their engines for the. light to change. Our world is more insane than ever, with people living on the edge, glaring at each other jealously, unwilling to yield a second, or an inch, or a penny as though doing so will lose them their inheritance, their job, their spouse, and their reputation among their peers. Sometimes I think it's the increase in cosmic rays zapping our brains. But it might just be too many idiots surviving because of all the "idiot-proofing" safety features built into everything from light switches to chain-saws to lawn mowers to table saws to passenger vehicles... And the people who find new ways to defeat the safety features just because... In this time *_Quiet Desperation_* has given way to OVERT SHRIEKING RAGE all around us.
On Parent's Night, my father would tell the teachers it's OK to hit me and call him so, I would get another round when I got home for causing a disturbance in class.Thanks, Dad and my good teachers.Never had a problem!
I remember all those things and the changes. I agree with the changes however I wonder how much freedom will be given up in the future in the name of safety. We should maybe be a little cautious how far we go with government regulations.
Great video but, and a big fucking BUT, we did recycle in the 50s and early 60's; remember milk bottles and the refund for soda bottles and many other common reuse or recycle items? Get history right......as a society we just turned into whiny victims and are too lazy to recycle. It all went to shit when "common sense" became uncommon.
The worse thing that was 'banned' or discouraged was the "sparing the rod". That and liberal attitudes to refusing to enforcing rules, laws and administer punishment for crimes has led us to what we have now, chaos and disrespect for any authority by way too many people.
I'm sure a lot of you remember the old glass Coca-Cola bottles, but does anyone remember that on the bottom there was a date and the city of the bottling plant where it was first filled?
Why do you make it seem like so many of these things have improved? People are as, or more wasteful now than they have ever been, governments, and companies are self interested and worse than ever.
All you have to do is watch American television shows, and movies, to see how much cigarette advertising still exists, and how few morals actors, directors, producers etc have.
9:59....IS THAT the original World Trade Center? Sure looks like the Manhattan Skyline....and the two towers were offset exactly like that. In the mid-80's, I stood on top of one of the towers.
yep, all these things that are no longer legal is just, yet, another example of how our freedoms have been stripped away over the last 45 years. we no longer spank kids for their horrible behavior we NOW encourage it and indulge kids' WILDEST and most RIDICULOUS and DESTRUCTIVE whims. just look at how society is collapsing since all these things have been deemed "unsafe" or "undesirable." ben franklin once wrote - "those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." yet this wisdom has been rejected in favor of demonizing personal choice, self-restraint, maturity and common sense.
Your comments on throwing stuff away missed one thing. Soft drink bottles were returned to the store and then reused. You paid a deposit on the bottles or you exchanged empty bottles. In most cases, you took a six-pack of empty bottles with you to the store and exchanged them when you purchased a new six-pack. It was not recycling, it was reusing.
