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- jeffiek, on 10/12/2007, -13/+214I turned 21 in 1973. The description is accurate.
I ain't laughin' about the difference between than and now. - roosterjm2k2, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2111973: 17yr olds believe that small blocks with blowers and superchargers make their cars go fast
2007: 17yr olds believe that stickers, ground effects and fart cans make their cars go fast - redfan, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1781973: Old people went on and on about how much better life was 30 years ago by making extreme apples and oranges comparisons with half-truths in order to keep themselves from feeling old and irrelevant.
2007: Old people go on and on about how much better life was 30 years ago by making extreme apples and oranges comparisons with half-truths in order to keep themselves from feeling old and irrelevant. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+161In 1973 it would have been impossible to view their website, just as it is today. I see no difference.
- mattmcm, on 10/12/2007, -13/+170Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack of his truck.
1973: Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack’s rifle, goes to his truck and gets his to show Jack.
2007: School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1973: Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends.
2007: Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario: Jeffrey won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.
1973: Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.
2007: Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping.
1973: Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007: Billy’s Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy’s sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy’s mom has affair with psychologist.
Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some headache medicine to school.
1973: Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007: Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1973: Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2007: Pedro’s cause is taken up by state democratic party. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro’s English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he can’t speak English.
Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1973: Ants die.
2007: BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny’s Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary, hugs him to comfort him.
1973: In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007: Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. - echinatl, on 10/12/2007, -19/+159In 1973 I'm not alive, in 2007 I am, I prefer being around.
- Azimuth1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+139In 1973 you programmed with punch cards. I prefer today's world in that respect.
- Habemus, on 10/12/2007, -30/+1301973: Person makes joke, people hearing it laugh.
2007: Person makes joke, it's posted on the Internet, within minutes some cretin turns it into an anti-American, anti-Bush, politial rant. Many more pile on, and start a liberal political circle jerk yanking on each others weiners about how evil Bush/Rove/Cheney are, while the ones who just wanted to read a funny joke leave and go to Fark instead. - Rickler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+97In 1973 people never got the infamous WordPress > Error.
- pAiNiNtHeAsS, on 10/12/2007, -2/+88Scenario: Kid falls down playing tag.
1973: Kid gets back up and continues playing.
2007: Tag gets banned. - Fhionnlaoch, on 10/12/2007, -4/+85Can you imagine having to download ASCII porn?
- MarkCiccone, on 10/12/2007, -50/+128The one about the ACLU suing because teaching English is racist is a nice touch. The ACLU fights for our civil rights, educates people about the illegal PATRIOT Act, US secret prisons, torture and lots of other un-Constitutional practices by Bush and his Administration.
Let me try!
Several people protest the Vietnam War in a public street.
1973: People are part of the norm, people take notice and many others will join in to protest the pointless war.
2007: The (now Iraq War) protesters are few and no one joins. Instead, they are heckled by Republicans who call them un-American, eventually the police come and arrest them. - observer1, on 10/12/2007, -12/+791973 - interracial marriage illegal in the united states
2007 - gay marriage illegal in the united states - swrostmore, on 10/12/2007, -3/+65Sounds like you weren't hanging with the "cool" crowd in 1973
- ambios, on 10/12/2007, -5/+61ZING!
- tfedullo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+62http://duggmirror.com/offbeat_news/How_life_has_changed_1973_vs_2007/
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+57@Fhionnlaoch (#6534308)
http://asciipr0n.com/pr0n/ - layron, on 10/12/2007, -11/+62"2007: The (now Iraq War) protesters are few and no one joins. Instead, they are heckled by Republicans who call them un-American, eventually the police come and arrest them."
The difference and the why.... college kids could get drafted. it was personel - tuxidomasx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+52housing prices were fair in 1973
- Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -8/+57in 1973, next year would have been 1974.
- gaqua, on 10/12/2007, -0/+422007 - 1973 = 34 years, not 15.
- vanadium77, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40Scenario: Dodgeball!
1973: "Dodgeball in gym today! Yes!"
2007: "Well, we really don't want anyone to feel singled out or even possibly hurt by the rubber ball..."
** BOMBARDMENT! ** - kd1s, on 10/12/2007, -6/+42While humorous it makes a very good point. In the 60's and 70's you resolved things yourself. In the 21st century you need nanny government to step in and take care of things for you.
What the ***** happened to personal responsibility? That's what I'd like to know. And what happened to old school cops, you know, the ones who get laid first, enforce law second. Keep em' laid and they didn't bother you. I miss those days. - contradictator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34In 1973, doing a "In Soviet Russia" would brand you as a traitor and have you arrested.
In 2007, it would brand you as a loser and make everyone wish you were arrested. - tiffany98121, on 10/12/2007, -4/+37No drugs just 4 years after the "Summer of Love"? I guess it all depends where you live.
- BlameCanada, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35Must be a public school math teacher
- ACMoxon, on 10/12/2007, -13/+43Could the examples used for 2007 be any more extreme? I understand it's meant to be funny, but if there's any sort of social commentary intended, it is completely skewed.
- mattmcm, on 10/12/2007, -5/+32Remember when Writerboy got dugg down? God, that was hilarious.
- Fooord, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24In 1973, they wouldn't be able to compare what life was like in 2007.
- 99thPercentile, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Here's some news: 2007 doesn't rock, 1973 didn't rock, and 1952 didn't exactly rock either. There were no "good days"; things were never "easier"; people were never "nicer"; and the standard of living wasn't necessarily "better". The only thing that's changed over the past 25 years is that the rich have been able to continue screwing the poor, the politicians have become even more corrupt, and the news media has become even more useless for getting, well, news.
If you want to know what was good back in 1973, I'll tell you. Wives and mothers didn't have to work (in such high numbers) full time in order to raise a family or buy a decent house. People didn't have to work 10-20 hours of uncompensated overtime per week out of fear that they will be dumped by a company that can import goods or labor from India as easily as they could from Indiana. People could actually make many types of repairs on their own cars. Kids would actually go out and play at the park rather than download p0rn or whack their friends in online kill-fests with their PS2/3s.
If you want to know what's good now, there's pretty much only one thing: we have this Internet doo-hickey that allows almost a billion people from around the world to get together, communicate, self-organize, learn from each other, share knowledge, shatter prejudices, and create a better future. All of these things should inform you as to why our government is so aggressively looking to kill its potential as quickly as possible by tying Internet usage to drug deals, terrorism, child p0rn, and copyright infringement.
The right-wingers here should take their libertarian tendencies to heart and drop their anti-dem/lib B.S. and start looking in the mirror. They might discover that the left is having the exact same problem as them and that we should all eschew this left vs. right crap in favor of policies that give all of us the freedom to make better choices. - VBDon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25When I first moved to the beach area, from a mountain area, I heard people discussing the problem of "kids bringing guns to school". Being somewhat naive, I asked, " what problem are the kids having?". In the country, the high school student parking lot was filled with pick-up trucks with a shotgun, or rifle in the back window. Kids often picked off dinner for the family on the way home from school, or just went out to shoot some skeet or at some targets. Of course, no one was dumb enough to try to shoot anyone at a school. Those were the safest places in town.
- vhold, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23I think the key with the "beat your children" thing is that the standards for crying child abuse used to be a lot different.
When I was kid, pretty much every kid got spanked. Either by hand, belt, switch, paddle, etc. It was acceptable for parents to yell at their kids in public and tell them that they were going to get spanked when they got home. It wasn't acceptable to ever punch or kick a kid, open handed slapping was pretty borderline. It wasn't really acceptable to full on spank them in public, and I think the anticipation of knowing that a spanking was coming was more effective anyways, lots of time for the kid to think about what they did.
I think it was an effective standard. Kids in general seemed pretty polite, many were nice to each other and adults. Everybody I know who was punished this way grew up pretty well adjusted and felt their punishment was just.
At some point kids outgrow spanking and most parents switched to grounding. It's pretty much impossible to 100% discipline a teenager, and people do eventually have to learn from the consequences of their mistakes.
One thing I never saw in the 80s was kids throwing spastic fits in public places and the parents just ignoring or rewarding it to shut them up. Now I see it fairly often. I think the key is that people have become so disconnected from their local society that there is no understanding, just fear of judgment. Now our only shared culture is through celebrities and they provide a totally unrealistic model of parenting as they live totally unrealistic idealized lives. - noisymime, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23I remember getting smacked ONCE in public when I'd been a serious little brat, I never did that again. Even when you're a kid its humiliating getting hit with other people watching, but that was the whole point. I still remember that moment today, some 20 years later, and I don't think it was anything but a good decision on my parents part.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24You must be a riot at parties
- onidraky, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21It may be a little exaggerated, but sadly I could see almost all of them happening, or close.
- LittLeBunny2o5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Sad but true. I am 14 and I still play tag and variations of it, and I get hurt all the time, but I don't care.
I know things are much more extreme now than say 5 years ago, and they are. We are creating our own defeat, us Americans. - Zarchon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Spanking is not beating. Get over it.
- swrostmore, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17"There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning... And that, I think, was the handle — that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply PREVAIL. There was no point in fighting — on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave... So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark — that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
HST (1971) - dvdvideo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I remember that happening a few years back. tag was dangerous and smear the queer was a hate crime.
- IEatGod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15In 1973, we all went nuts for Elvis Presley in "Aloha From Hawaii." We've certaintly evolved, and we have Lindsey Lohan to prove it.
- trollzor, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20@MarkCiccone
How about not much has changed?
1970 - people protesting the war are shot dead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings)
2007 - protesters against the war are profiled, Quaker groups are infiltrated (wtf is the logic there?), razor wire "free speech zones", a senior member of the opposing party is stopped "accidentally" by airport security (Ted Kennedy, even if you hate him should he be stopped?), there is massive warrant-less wiretapping in clear violation of the 4th amendment and nobody does anything.
From my outsider non-american perspective I think the violation of the 4th is the scariest thing, because if such a blatant violation of your constitution doesn't have you up in arms, then what will? How about another "how life has changed"?
1781 - 25,000 americans die in a victorious war for freedom.
2001 - 3,000 americans are murdered, so the rest of them start giving up their freedoms. - lokoluis15, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20Did this actually happen?
"2007: Pedro’s cause is taken up by state democratic party. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro’s English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he can’t speak English."
seems a bit extreme to assume that this would happen, unless it already did. Anyone know of this case? - astrixx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Billy buys an album of a successful rock band.
1973 : Billy enjoys the album.
2007 : Billy is criticized for listening to mainstream music. - ambios, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17watergate wasn't nixon's only fault, it was just the first time it was shown; nixon had been wiretapping and accusing his opponents of communism even before he was elected
- gooddaysunshine, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15George Carlin
- endustry, on 10/12/2007, -7/+181973: Racism against Blacks was cool.
2007: Racism against Whites is cool.
Only the racists in 1973 didn't walk around calling themselves "progressive." - swordedge, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18Sad and only very mildly exaggerated.
- dagamer34, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Nice to know some things never change.
- thecabanaboy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16@neo1513:
Uh, you would rather have gas purchased like it was in 1973?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis -
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