Past Social Norms… You Can’t Get Away With Today 

OMG how funny. I was just explaining Blockbuster to my kids today and they thought it was the craziest thing since they’ve only ever known Netflix, Disney +, Prime, Peacock, Hulu, etc…Their face had the look of “why????” 😂

that was so much fun

I remember my mom saying that once I turned TEN, I would be able to be in charge of my younger siblings.

@@josephgaviota For sure it was different. If something did happen parents didn't get arrested for leaving the kids alone either. Within reason of course. I thing ten was an average time. Latchkey kids we were called. Remember that? Merry Christmas. *:-)*

Even few neighbors are round to help or just to say hi and slightly remind us that help was a scream or knock away depending on the situation.

@@Dsdcain I _do_ remember "latch key kids." My mom worked from home, so I was never a latchkey kid. But we had four kids, and we could be left alone for _HOURS_ with a 10-year-old me in charge, and nothing bad would happen. It's really amazing to see how smart and resourceful rather YOUNG kids are. And now we coddle adults that are 26. It seems crazy to me.

@@josephgaviota So true.

That's funny, I grew up in the eighties and I remember all the grumpy old people saying "life is crap today. The 1960's destroyed America"

​@@vicepresidentmikepence889And the grumpy old folks never specified what was so crappy. Unless you asked. Then what they complained about didn't seem crappy at all.

Hitchhiking is now considered dangerous. Today we use our phones to book a ride share with some random stranger. LMAO 🤣

Yes it was. 👍

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 Also grew up in the 70s and 80s and it _was_ relatively fantastic. (born in 1969). Look it up: There's not a time period in world history where the grumpys didn't grump. That's not even an argument.

I was going to say the same thing, now people get nasty looks if they have their big dog in the back of the truck. Not in a kennel.

Same but it was in the back of a station wagon without seatbelts, and the window in the back was rolled down, LOL. I was born in 1961.

My friend and I rode in the back of her uncles pickup truck to Dairy Queen. We TRIED to eat our cones but the wind blew the ice cream off the cone 😅😅😅😅. It still was fun

We bounced around my aunt Marie's pick-up holding onto the hump in the bed while she flew fast, bouncing us all over!! 😅this was in the 80s.

I remember riding to Rolla Roma indoor skate park in sixties and seventies in back of my dads truck, there was at least 6 of us. That was in Thornton Colorado. 😊

I still do it every once in a while.

water is not the same

I think toxicity from the plastic garden hose in the hot sun is part of the issue. You wouldn’t necessarily notice those effects… unless you develop cancer years later and make the connection. Probably part of our toxic load.

I'd always forget to let the water run first lol I'd get warm water & dirt lol never sick like kids nowadays.

@@joemartucci4786 I don't understand why everyone seems sick these days. Maybe medical science has messed with natural selection too much.

Me to, it was a great time to grow up

Street light???we didn't have no stinking street lights..

Our mom used to tell us that too “Just be home before dark or when the streetlights come on” During the summertime we would stay out until 9ish then during fall/winter we would stay out until 5 Even now that I’m older I still keep that same rule for myself however I don’t go out as much so I’m usually inside for the duration of the day

@@ClassXIRoads to bad , so sad for you and your neighborhood.....

Peanuts were one of the earliest GMO crops.

@@chrisworthen1538 that explains everything

My neighbors drive their children to school one block away.

I lived in a small town , but at 5 years old I walked by myself to school! Almost a half mile away! Lol!

​@@mclifer That is ridiculous.

The truth is, it really wasn't all that safe for young children to be wandering the streets on their own even back then

@@markme4 FBI statistics say there were more child abductions in the 1950's than in the 2000's. The difference is that today they are on national news. Yesterday it was only the local newspaper. It just seems like it is more dangerous today because we crave 24 hour news,

In my region of the world it's still somewhat common in fact if it's a smaller town usually the person just comes right in without knocking but say "anyone home?"first.

Now it's a home invasion robbery!

We moved to a new area recently. It's wonderful that in our little court, there is four other kids the same age as mine, and they practically spend every afternoon in my backyard.The doorbell is constantly going off! But, after living here for three months, I've meet one mum with little kids and one dad of the seven houses. I guess there's no borrowing a cup of sugar here

I remember those days. It was such a simpler time. People were more connected and sociable.

we all loved the avon ladies and the fuller brush men...

💯 agree with @bridget

The feeling is mutual. I'm sure most young people wouldn't want to grow up, in the 60's and 70's with 3 black and white channels to watch, or no internet, or listening to music on grainy old records

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 well wooptie freakin do

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 In the 1970s people had channels with color and listening to records often sounded wonderful. And when you didn’t have Internet you go outside and play more often.

​@@bridgetmccracken1381, I 100% agree with you. I look back and smile, thinking how awesome it was growing up back then. This time now sucks big time.

nope we had the most dangerous merry go round at school. we would pile on, hang on and the seniors would get that thing spinning until some 5th grader got thrown off. i started a few school days covered in dirt. but i learned a great lesson about centrifugal force and a few other physics subjects plus some biology - ouch.

@@ricksmith7631 lol we always wondered why nothing ever happened to the kid in the center with the exception of some dizziness! The dizzier you got, the harder you gripped!

@@ricksmith7631 Hahahaha! Used to be a game we played on the merry-go-round. Biggest kid would spin it and all the smaller kids would hang on for as long as they could. the last one that managed to stay on won XD

@@angeldesigns1385 the kids in the center were seniors, 7th and 8th grade so they got the middle, i was a 6th grader and i held on for dear life. it was funny to see your classmates get flung off, til it happened to you. today this would never happen.

@@misterray818 i cant count the times i lost that game. we had a thing, the losers, or who got tossed off had to carry the seniors bags and musical instruments to class for them. i can tell you almost exactly what a trombone in a case weighs or a sax.

Born on a NH dairy farm in the early 1940's with the most freedom ever to do unsupervised stuff.

Growing up free.....wouldnt change it for a million bucks. Helicopter parenting produces insecure adults who don't have any idea how to manage themselves or think independently. Us Boomers aren't perfect, but at least we didn't need Mommy and Daddy to tell us what to do after we left home at age 18, and did NOT move back.

I couldn't wait to move out! After college in the mid 1970s, I was determined to not to move back home and I never did. I had my share of roommates and only would come home for a week or so to visit. I wanted my independence and if it meant sacrificing then that was the way it would be.@@peggynulsen1365

I would trade it all to go back.

Yeah I smoked as a child before it was cool. We had to learn how to grow tobacco and ride horses.

How things used to be? You mean like Vietnam War Watergate High Unemployment Double digit inflation Iran hostage crisis Long gas lines Three channels to watch No Internet Listening to music on a record player No cell phones If someone you know gets lost, not being able to call them If a loved one, who lives far away from you, has a baby, not being able to instantly see the beautiful child

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 To quote Oddball from the movie KELLY'S HEROES, "Why dont you knock it off with them negative waves, Moriarty?!"

@@vicepresidentmikepence889BTW, Those were dark sides of the 1970s! People were still nicer and more trusting then and you could knock on their door. You didn't need a cell. There were pay phones. Vietnam and Watergate taught us a lessons about our government. High inflation and high unemployment taught us to be frugal resourceful. We didn't need the internet to learn and communicate. We had the library and each other. You could strike up a conversation with a stranger at the bus stop and not worry about getting hurt! You could knock on a neighbor's door worry free. You didn't need to "call ahead!" I was a teen during that decade and experienced it first hand!

I almost offered kids rides. Then remembered we’re in a different time

It was pretty wild, little girls would give their personal information out in want ads. But it was probably extremely rare that anything bad happened. I think the far more likely occurrences of bad behavior were the other way around. My sister remembers babysitters that would have boys over, that may have been the one where my mom had some money taken, I think she'd suspected it and laid a trap and had to fire her. That was in the early 1980s.

Only if he's white

Yes, I was a "bum" for Halloween several times in the 1970s. Old clothes and burnt cork on my face to simulate a beard. Why? Because it was an easy costume and I had no money! 😂

At high school we had a gun club, and some kids had gun racks in the back of their pickups. You know, back when we DIDN'T have school shooting.

Halloween 1983 in 8th grade one of the kids dressed in Army fatigues, he even had a replica .45 caliber he showed off to one of the teachers, nothing happened, no cops were called, he left to go to his class, and we went on with our day.

@@josephgaviota I mean there was a mass shooting at a college in 1966 but it was way less common

My mom and I sound a lot alike. When I was about 13, my "boyfriend" called one night and my mom answered. He started chatting away thinking it was me. She had to stop him and tell him she wasn't me and she'd go get me. He was incredibly embarrassed! 😂

Also, entitled parents steal tons from child free for wildlife since humans DOUBLED in 50 years and killed off 69% of wildlife.

Marry Christmas!🎄

Are we still allowed to say that? I thought it was only Happy Holidays now.🤣

Our local high school is called Rebels because its in the south part of the county and the BLM people from Louisville complain about it !!! we told them to go to hockey sticks !!

Worse was the fact that native Americans never cared or were offended, it was some white liberal that got upset.

Exactly, no one’s offended until a screen tells them they are, the screen has became the new god to be worshipped and obeyed

@@jhonsiders6077 Maybe they are called rebels because they are revolting.

Those indigenous teams are not offensive to us indigenous peoples. Everything is being white washed.

They talk like all change came from positive things.

my school had paddles hanging on the wall in every class room.

Our principal was the only one allowed to paddle we had a female assistant principal she swatted the girls as much as us guys got it ! I wrestled all thru high school and a singlet or gym shorts gave no protection or those tight fitting jeans that was the norm for us teens from a walnut paddle with 3 rows of holes ! bent over his desk you could hear the whistle of air thru them before impact !

​​@@SgtJoeSmithYeah same here I remember we had a choice the big paddle with less hits or the smaller one with a few more. My Dad told the principal of my school nobody touches my kid except for me, took me home and punished me. It's unbelievable to think that paddling went on in schools back then.

@frankrizzo4460 my dad worked at the school. Small town and several teachers, 2 principals and superintendent lived in our 4 block neighborhood mom babysat for lot of teachers. They would've called my dad at school and he would've drug me out into the hallway and whooped me then my mom would be waiting for me at home with wooden spoon. The state boys home was in our town for criminal boys, teens that commit felonies too so everyone there grew up with parents threatening to have you locked up in there. Needless to say other than couple kids stealing candy at the store not much crime ever happened and people left car and house doors unlocked and cars running warming up on driveways in the winter and kids walked to and home from school alone. High school kids had long guns in rear truck window in school parking lot. And most boys got 1st .22 or 20ga at 13. Most boys knew how to operate a tractor by then too.

@@SgtJoeSmith Yes my Dad and Mom did the same thing to me. It was worse from them the punishment. Even as a grew older I never held it against them, I would have probably did the same thing I was a handful as a kid.

Yeah same here, we definitely were blessed to have experienced those days. I would go back in a heartbeat.

makes 2 of us

@@frankrizzo4460 very sad today the old was the best way its not love your neighbor toady or help your neighbor we lost control

In *moderation,* corporal punishment isn’t too dangerous *as a rule.* It could - and in my case, it did - veer into frank abuse, as in this wasn’t a paddle or belt. (Most parents don’t keep well-hidden *blackjacks* in their toolboxes, and they don’t buy shotguns *because they figure to game the system and then shoot you.* It was “go cut me a switch” - and I had no clue, *then.* I now know what was demanded was an out-and-out *spiked bludgeon* that could have put me in the hospital with a very few blows, and in the morgue with perhaps a dozen hard ones. Note1) child abuse required multiple suspicious visits to the hospital in the seventies to be suspected, and if the parent doing the abuse was a socially-accomplished amoral person, they could do some really heinous stuff and get away with it. Note2) it was many years later that I learned that my biological father - my mother divorced him when I was a year old - was the only normal parental figure in my life. Everyone else was (cluster-b) personality-disordered - and more, I was a whole lot more disabled than I knew at the time. This meant that everything I would have said would have been disbelieved, and only life-threatening injuries would have resulted in *them* being disciplined by the legal system. No, not ER. *ICU-level injuries.*

Remember asking a stanger grown up to "cross us" when we were coming from some errsnd? Nowadays, that would be a very dangerous moment.

The danger is always : *what was it all about ????!!!!* A true bad behavior or a misunderstanding or accident parents would take too personally ???? Parents tend to be toxic plus most of the times I got into trouble were *not* bad behavior but just shortcomings like doing bad in school or forgot to do something or pleasing them is beyond my capabilities to these hard people ; I guess their own insecurities that they have bad genes ? (I have autism hence my username despite which I still want to be a morally wholesome person) A major common factor in human rivalry inside a struggling bond not yet broken relationship ( be it romance but also be it family or friends) is one person falls short of the capability to please the other person usually ego rooted ; we all want our peers of any human relationship to serve *our will* be an instrument of our lives "something to be proud 🦚 of" I learned to be real and not expect anything but *be acting on* common sense healthy ethics hope the same that my peers reciprocate that or take a healthy distance if they don't and cut them out of your life if they persist in being chronologically unethical and unrepentant of their toxic behaviors. I'm not saying I didn't deserve it in some occasions when I got struck but *:* Many parents were toxic,struck you for the wrong reason hoping you'd also agree you deserved it or justify or excuse etc...ha ha I didn't ( when I did deserve it I was willing to change ,I didn't want to be an unethical bastard)

@@dennisyoung4631 I never had children hence I have autism. I would not have wanted to strike them for being human (shortcomings,or failure forget something etc) like we did but yes,I would destroy a kid , likely end up in jail with my craziness especially when they actually challenge their parents but it would be if they were a threat to public/peer safety or if they did drugs or something is when I would have given them the belt and even likely grown up still strike them for being unfair individuals ( I can imagine my adult son being unfairly abusive to my grandchildren his children while visiting me and me attacking him in a disciplinary manner (like a smack across the face and tell him,"not in my house" )for it in front of them .... yikes 😬😳 Fortunately I never even have gotten married because by nature,I'm not a family man.

I remember when I was 5 and in afternoon kindergarten waiting for my brother who was 7 to come get me from school 4 block’s away through a busy semi industrial part of town and we never had a problem

Most of today's 20 year olds couldn't be left alone either.

It's hard to believe that that precious little boy with the adorable grin, wearing a baseball cap and holding a bat ready to hit a pitch, would be about 49 or 50 today had he lived. Maranatha "Unpopular the Movie" Red Grace Media Films, Final Cut (28:55) Free On RU-vid "Heaven" - Randy Alcorn

No idea what you are talking about, could you elaborate on that? And remeber that there are people from other countries, than the USA, reading these comments.

@@Thurgosh_OG Adam Walsh was a famous kidnapping in America. His father has been searching ever since and has started a kidnap search program to help other parents locate their kidnapped children. The reality though is that American's first started to fear kidnapping after the Charles Lindberg child's kidnapping. Lindberg was the first to fly across the Atlantic and his son was never found.

Drinking and driving has NEVER been okay.

Well, everyone I know lived through it.@@davidwood1294

@@grindingdeviance1864 Still love that movie 😍 fell in love with Matt Dillon at that time too. I wished I could find it on DVD somewhere but I think that’s the only movie from back in the day that never came out on it. I don’t think it even came out on VHS. 🤔 ✌🏻

@@davidwood1294 I got news for you…..when I was a kid in the 60-70’s in Texas it WAS perfectly legal to drink and drive! My uncle NEVER left his house without 2 beers for the road! And it was never more than a 20 minute trip! Later Texas did change to the driver could not drink but anyone else in the care could, you know what happened then, lol , SHARE A SIP!

This is a direct result of multicultural diversity via the 1964 civil rights act and 1965 Hart Cellars act

👍 You got THAT right! It was a MUCH freer country.

True

And don’t ever greet your friend “Jack “ as in “Hi! Jack! “ 😮

Unless you cross the border illegally and the feds just throw you on a plane without even knowing your name.

When a lot of them are Karens, instead.

Unfortunately they don't check people for manners, etiquette, and health risks. Which NEEDS to be done vehemently.

Exactly what constitutional freedoms have you lost?

@@NormanDoll-rr6lh You Democrats are so blind. The left would LOVE to overturn the 1st amendment, and already any comment they don't like is immediately sent to the memory hole. They continually attempt to take away our 2nd amendment rights. They LOVE, love love love, to control EVERY ASPECT of our lives ... what light bulb you can buy, what toilet you can buy, what dishwasher you can buy, what car you can buy ... if you think it's a freer country today than it was 40 years ago, you are WILLFULLY ignorant.

@michaelpalmer2143 How are children not being learned to overcome fear? That's your job to teach your kids. It isn't the government's job. Entrepreneurship is an all-time high. The United States had more small businesses started in the last year than at any other year in history. You're spewing some nonsense here.

@@NormanDoll-rr6lh?? Ever hear of the TSA??

​@@NormanDoll-rr6lhBetter to ask what *haven't* we lost? You must be really young 🤦‍♂️

Yes, if someone dares say "Black lives matter" all the right wingers LOSE THEIR MIND

Tell me about it. Accountability really sucks.

Says the SNOWFLAKE!!!🤡

I agree, it's like, get over yourself already! lol

Yea can't treat people like trash with no consequences. How tragic.🤡

Yes, people today are perfect angels, who drink their milk, say their prayers, and never fight

I'll never forget the first time we had sexual harassment training at work. One woman told the trainer that she wasn't reporting ANYTHING to HR because she wasn't giving up her right to jack the man up and tell him to kiss her a$$. 😂 She drove a forklift btw 🤣🤣

Physical violence isn’t ok.

Yep, we used to play kick the can in the dark, lol.

Playing hide and seek in the neighborhood. Had a lot of neighborhood friends growing up in the 70’s. During summer vacation, a group of us, various ages, sitting on the porch until late into the night. Never causing any trouble. Did so much running around that neighborhood. Had the freedom to do what we wanted and none of it included causing any trouble.

Yes! 😂🤣

It still happens today😂

or soaping windows lol

I am 60, but I would still consider that criminal behavior.

@@randolphkersey5155 Yes it made a huge mess for others to clean up just like egging a house. Not respectable fun at all!

Wonderful times!

Discipline doesn't have to involve physical violence just because the other person is smaller than you. Can you imagine a job where the boss would tell you to come into his office, so he could spank you for some bad behavior/low performance review? As adults, we _expect_ those in charge to educate and motivate...kids don't have that sense of expectations. They _trust_ that we'll do what is right.

@@Name-ps9fx discipline is not violence, you're conflating big time what I posted. Kids are not adults, they are developing and they understand a certain thing better than reason. They will understand eventually and that's why parenting has to be done properly and not reckless as you assert. Not comparable to adulthood and jobs at all so I don't know why you did that.

​​@@Name-ps9fxWHAT?? I'm guessing you are trying to use analogy, and it makes no sense. I used corporal punishment with my kids because it delivered the message that that behavior is not acceptable in conjunction with them explaining why it was unacceptable. Now kids are disrespectful to their parents and in turn, disrespectful to their peers and those in authority. Yet, they expect to be respected even though they are rude, mean, and selfish. Corporal punishment isn't violence. Please don't have kids because you really would not love your children enough to even show tough love for their sake.

@@GuyPipili "Tough love" has always been a euphuism for breaking the moral golden rule, "don't do unto other's what's hateful when done unto you." For thousands of years and still in multiple societies today kids are not punished at all, many cultures don't believe in punishment or reward and they're right not to as those things are psychologically priming you to do the right thing but only for the wrong reasons and only when authority is watching and for selfish reasons (e.g. to reward yourself or avoid being hurt) not for care of other's, in fact they've been observed to reduce people's altruism, compassion, selflessness and long term motivation to do the right thing and do the right thing when no one is watching. "tough love" is also what husbands said to justify their mistreatments of their wives for eon's and is still said in cultures which believe in a power imbalance in marriage, it's just what one says when they have a superiority/inferiority impression over a group (aka a bigotry) and have grown up their entire lives in an environment affirming it constantly.

Well said!

Sad part people don't even send cards anymore.

Same here, I remember selling Girl Scout cookies door to door in neighbors outside of mine, up until and even past dark.

I sold the box cards door to door in the late 60s'. Magazine subscriptions too. Later I became a paper boy, delivering at 5 or 6 am and going door to door to collect at the end of each month. It built independence, courage, communication skills and business sense...not to mention a boldness and sense of adventure. God help our world when the sheltered children of today are calling all the shots. The song *_Mad World_* by the group 'Tears for Fears' comes to mind. Thanks for mentioning the card thing...I'd forgotten about that. 👍👍

@@JCoffeeExpress2 Even buisnesses are sending their 'holiday cards' via email - feels more like an insult, like I'm not worth the expense of sending an actual card. Better they don't bother at all.

​@claudiaaguilar6845 when I was in Boy Scouts, we did fundraisers by going door-to-door selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I think about that whenever I see some group grouped up like a bunch of vultures selling stuff at the entrance to the grocery store.

We've gone from "the land of the free, and the home of the brave" to "the land of the free and the home of the SAFE."

@@josephgaviota - More like "Land of the BETTER NOT OFFEND ANYONE and home of the SAFE."

@@TodaysDanteWhatever. You deplorables are the first to be offended! 🤡

more like land of the paranoid and home of the offended@@josephgaviota

@@TodaysDante Amen. As long as they don't offend my religion or ethnicity. That's going too far!

You're not just whistling Dixie.

Explain which freedoms you’ve lost, please.

Cancer Culture

"The good old days weren't all that good..." --Billy Joel. We'd hate it.

If I was a parent today (my kids are 43 and 41) I would not allow them to have a cell phone or unsupervised internet time until age 15 or 16. I would be labeled a child 'abuser', a fanatic weirdo, and other parents would probably try to turn my kids against me. Today's world truly sucks in many respects.

I used to smoke back in the 90s. Can’t stand to smell them anymore. To me & a lot of people I work with we think they smell different than they used to. They have more additives & chemicals than back in the day.

Nothing is funny about how people like my father died of lung cancer from those things.

@@shiroibasketshoes Yeah wherever that came from needs to go back to wherever it is your father is because that is truly where that belongs! Oh and by the way your father didn't die. He faked his own death to get away from the the soul crushing disappointment known as you and your mother. So whatever you had a funeral for it wasn't actually your dad.....

Same! I remember often being perched on a loose board for a seat on the disc!

Disgusting.

We loved playing WAR! You were either a Limey, Yank, Jap or Kraut! It didn’t matter because whichever one you were, you would battle as if your side was the BEST! Same thing with Cowboys and Indians!💕

They want America Disarmed. They are using any means necessary to complete this control agenda. The utopia the liberals promise is really only a upside down living hell. Have Fun.

Wow! That's crazy. I remember being a kid running around with the neighborhood kids playing with toy guns shooting at the passing cars.

@@sararuiz2014 That was back when we still had a country. toy guns are bad now. fruit cake men that wear a dress are good.

I did both. I was a very trustworthy kid, but could you imagine letting a 12-13 year old boy watch your kids today?

Same here!....and I will be turning 70 later next year.

The Redskins have been my team since as far back as I can remember. Changing the name was a ridiculous move. These days it seems that people make a habit of being offended. I hated the name change so much, that I refuse to acknowledge The Commanders and now the ONLY football I watch are past games with the Redskins, and only the games where The Redskins win !!! Hey, if I only want to see The Redskins win all the time, it's my prerogative

Yeah so sad that the cancel culture took over and got rid of it. I knew this was coming so I bought a Redskins helmet before this happened. Also I kept a bottle of Aunt Jemima syrup, Mrs. Butterworth, Uncle Ben's rice, Land O Lake's, Eskimo Pies and others. Such a soft society of people today.

The native culture as part of American culture is going to fade into oblivion because it is being removed as part of nonnative desire to be quote nonoffensive. I never believed any of the native sports names were offensive and in many cases were tough, proud, warrior related icons.

The ones who didn’t wimp out are still winning big, high five braves and chiefs

I remember me and my young friends getting our shotguns and going down by the river for a day of hunting small game. No parents anywhere to be seen. The orders were just come home by dark. My father had me in hunting safety classes as a young boy and I always respected firearms and the land. We never had an incident and the sense of freedom was glorious. I would never let my kids do something like that today and yet loved that I had it...odd.

Spent more money at the games then you did a gambling

Happily, I never gambled. @@gregbutcher7081

I was OK at 63. Now I'm a little older and twice a year the dermatologist has to remove parts of my skin. It's stressful waiting for the results of the biopsies. A good friend died of melanoma at age 61. From diagnosis to death from brain cancer took 9 months.

@@hewitcYet you are fine.

@@johnp139 So far. But I go 2x per year and there is always something that should be removed.

It was unheard of because it quickly spread to your other organs and killed you and they didn’t realize the cancer was from a malignant mole. Not to mention wrinkling up like a leather bag.

True. Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, and many of the other cast members got away with comedy that came natural and openly to them. Now that kind of honest comedy is seen as evil and unspeakable. What a pussified and messed up world it has become.

Or Spaceballs.

I was just talking about that. One thing that really stood out to me are the Transformers toys (bear with me a moment-there IS a point to this tangent). When I was a kid in 1984, Prowl, an Autobot (a good guy) turned into a police car. Now, Barrage, a Decepticon (a bad guy) is a police car. I mentioned that to a friend when the first live action TF movie came out over 15 years ago!

Been in So Cal since 1950. We watched that circus in Anaheim many times. Elephants, tigers, and all. Lost all interest when animals were banned.

Thank the liberal bleeding hearts at PETA and even the SPCA ! I use to donate the SPCA no more I donate to groups like flatbush cats that really do good

I'm so sorry you've been through all of that. 🥺

My nextdoor neighbor kids still do. They have a fenced in yard but it's the exception, not the rule.

Says the person commenting on the internet

Interesting...Please tell us how you have become more "wicked". Sounds very stimulating.

The doctors might have a cig going while they were examining and talking to you. Back when on the way out, you wrote a check for $25 to the doctor for the visit.

Was that a good thing?

​@@hewitcYes.

They sold cigarettes in the hospital gift shop!

Hey, the hospitals were just trying to drum up more future business. But no, they definitely shouldn't have been allowing that. They knew ENOUGH, all the way back to the late 19th century about the dangers of tobacco, to have already known they should have been against smoking.

The nicotine was todays Adderall.

Pull you along where by the ear?

In 1967-1970 my friend and I would walk alleys and neighborhood parks and sidewalks taking out the occasional bird with our pump up pellet rifles. Part of our journey was beside major roads and through business parking lots. No one said anything to us, even passing cops. It was a suburb of North Dallas, Texas...not way out in the country. Now most kids are raised to fear guns.

My parents would spank me for saying the word sh##

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 mine too! 🤣

Actually, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement in 2018 against both corporal punishment and verbal shaming. I'm sorry you were not treated safely and respectfully as a child.

Liberal

@@brbball I’m not. Treating your children like your friends or your peers is why we have 2 generations of fuckedup monsters huddling in corners when theyre not burning down cities.

it was others not representing then hassling for a name change. i think of it as an honor to name thing after native americans

@@lovly2cu725 How do you know? Are you a "native American"? I would let those folks decide if it offends them

I agree. I had a friend whose parents kept her on a pretty short leash, even when we were 15 and 16.

the queen of woke

I know. I see the masks to prove it.

Agree, that was SUPER popular.

with iodine