In article <Xns9A83DF46BE868noonehomecom@208.49.80.253>,
Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:

> Kurt <labolide@spacegmail.com> wrote in news:labolide-
> 1767F9.17273517042008@news.giganews.com:
>
> > Seems like kids today are allowed the play and discovery that kids had
> > when I grew up.
> > We ate dirt (so we have great immune systems). Weren't driven
> everywhere
> > - we had bikes or walked to school. We also bonded with our friends
> more
> > after school.
> > Parents today have peer pressure to overprotect their kids.
> > Kids have no easy way of learning their boundaries today. (We got
> > whooped when we overstepped)
> > Bad time to be a kid.
> >
> >
>
> I don't think it's any different, now, than when I was a kid in the
> 1950's. They just didn't talk about all the nasty stuff that went on in
> 1950. Now, the propaganda machine's job is to push it 24/7. All men
> are evil. They do evil things. Today's kids are told that from
> kindergarten.
>
> Our other problem is this really scary slide back into religious
> control. We don't notice it, as long as we stay home. But, American
> tourists going to europe are just horrified that (put your EU country
> here) is a den of iniquity, promiscuous sex, why they even let little
> kids run around naked on the beach! Americans are religiously
> indoctrinated prudes, by comparison.
>
> The resurgence of religious isolation to the family sect is also very
> scary as it breeds hatred and contempt into the impressionable children
> before the age of reason. This sect's kids learn to hate and dispise
> this other sect's kids LONG before they can have at each other, Middle
> East Style, in the religious murders. Hell, there's Jews in England who
> were born and raised there in total isolation that don't even speak
> English so you can understand it. Walled in, any child is simply
> assimilated into whatever enclave he is enslaved to......and will
> believe anything the elders tell him, even murder.
>
> I grew up in Moravia, NY in the Owasco Lake Valley. Google Earth it,
> the whole place is in high resolution. It was a fantastic place to be
> raised in a small upstate NY town where everyone knew everyone and
> everyone else's business. By the time I was 10, my father simply said,
> "Be home at a reasonable hour.", and I left him to his TV addiction.
> Getting in trouble meant getting caught smoking by one of the town
> biddies or a school teacher. The really nasty kids strung toilet paper
> in the trees. Lots of kids had guns in school because we all went
> hunting right after school before the sun went down! Finding shotguns
> in lockers was OK. Finding CIGARETTES in lockers got you SUSPENDED! I
> believe we could have stood off a fairly heavy attack with the weapons
> and ammo stored in those halls...(c; Noone ever thought of shooting a
> teacher or each other. That's crazy!
>
> I only got thrown out of school ONCE. The school, itself, had us kids
> selling magazines, light bulbs, etc., so did the Scouts. So, as I
> worked in the 275 year old Rexall Drug Store after school, I had a
> little condom concession setup in my locker, a little retail
> establishment that kept the boys supplied and the girls out of
> pregnancy.....well, until Mrs Van Lew, our old maid Cit Ed teacher
> opened my locker during the lock-down cigarette inspections.
>
> If the coach had opened it, we'd been fine. He knew it was there. But,
> alas, he didn't, SHE did! Teenage girls didn't do THAT, in her world.
> Her world was in Lalaland. I sold 50 dozen on a good Friday during
> lunch period for the weekend. I made good money because I bought them
> wholesale through the drug store account. I was performing a public (or
> was that pubic) service! The Principal would have let it die if SHE
> hadn't gone to the School Board. So, I got 3 days off and had to move
> the store off school property, dropping revenues by 30%!
>
> My dad thought it was hilarious....luckily. JC Penney had nothing on me
> as a retailer...(c; Hell, the damned schools GIVE AWAY what I got in
> trouble for, now!!
>
> The drinking age in NY was 18 in 1964 when I turned 18, so we didn't
> have the teenage drinking problems of Age 21 Prohibition does now. All
> us kids, me included, were brought up in the bar at the VFW where we
> went with our fathers! Begging for nickels to run the pinball machines
> WAS PERMITTED....(c; Bringing beers to Dad's table was a great way to
> get nickel tips, too! We stayed home during VFW meeting
> nights....BORING!
>
> Sorry you kids didn't get to go to Woodstock in '69. I was 23 and in
> the Navy in Charleston. 5 of us drove my VW minibus to Woodstock on 3
> weeks leave! Look for the skinhead sailors in all that hair in the
> Woodstock pictures....(c; Anyone that actually REMEMBERS Woodstock
> wasn't there. If you breathed the air, you were STONED....(c;
>
> We better get back before the Topic Police start shooting.....(c;
>
> Here, I'll start off:
> Iphone will never be an Enterprise Device........your turn.

I'm with you on this. Same perspective, but little younger I was more
60s. One of my favs was in late 6os when the girl's VP at my Junior High
(forget the "Middle School" crap) would measure dress lengths. Anything
too short (like 2 inches above the knee) and the girl would have to wear
a burlap gunny sack fashioned into a dress.

Damn those topic police:

Maybe if they killed the camera when they brought in all the Enterprise
features it would.

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