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11-21-2006, 06:03 AM
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Big Changes I've Seen In My Lifetime
1) I still cant get my head around how swiftly the internet rendered most reference books obsolete. You cant even give encyclopedias away anymore.
Dictionaries, Thesaurus, all found online. I dig the practicality but at the same time it makes me a little sad ... i remember early schooling activities where we had contests to see who could find a certain word first in the dictionary. I remember how much i loved the old science and nature Time-Life series of books (which i still have and will always keep) but i doubt my son will look at them much longer. No more door to door encyclopedia salesmen ! (ok - i guess it's not all bad) 2) When you sent your kids to school with lunch - and on those odd days you didnt have (or they didnt want) balony, etc, for their sandwich - the old school standby was peanut butter and jam sammies. Now - you cant take peanut butter to school so you dont kill someones kid. Death by sandwich. you cant tale anything with peanuts - or any other nuts in them. boys are forced to wear hermetically sealed asbestos underwear !! They're taking no chances ! they dont even want you eating it at home before school incase you have trace amounts on your hands, etc.. I dont remember s single solitary kid having a peanut allergy when i was a kid .. whats going on ??!! I think of some more later .. i'm not thinking things so obvious as the CD/DVD and the generation who never knew any differently .. i'm thinking of the wierder more subtle changes i've seen. 
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11-21-2006, 06:25 AM
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The introduction of the internet...that bought about a helluvalotta change, something "big" I was alive for.
Seems obvious, but the whole sept 11 deal, has changed so much about the way people view things and live their lives. The word "terrorist" becoming commonplace. Introduction of reality tv. Yeck. The death of rollerskates. I know you can still buy 'em, but inlines pretty much fucked them into obscurity...now nobody even likes THOSE anymore.
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11-21-2006, 06:31 AM
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also - the US Canadian border .. once the longest unprotected border in the world .. now Canadians will soon need passports to get into the USA.
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11-21-2006, 06:32 AM
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As far as the peanut thing... No offence, but there was a reason John Travolta was in a BUBBLE in that movie... You cant make the world change just because someone has an allergy to something incredibly common. I had deadly allergies against cats and dogs growing up. Does that mean all the kids with pets have to shower at school before they go to class, so their dander doesnt agitate my tender sinuses?
NO. I kept well away formthe things until i found a medicine that worked for me. I remember watching the growth of "Sexual Harrasment" and "Political Correctness". From the 80s to the 90s, i think overuse and abuse of these two things made the US both more litigous, and destroyed a massive heap of its little remaining innocence. Lets face it: Being "Racially Sensitive" is actually segregationist. it forces you to constantly acknowledge and address differences that are better left ignored. "That guy over there." "Which one?" "The black guy." "WAIT! you cant use that word! Say 'African American!'" "What was wrong with 'That Guy'?" I remember shortly after the whole Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill thing, a kid in my school got suspended for a week for "Sexually harrasing" a girl. She was a big fat (literally) snot who had been making comments to this kid about being, shall we say, a good "prospect" for her because he was black, and they are more gifted, and that he wanted her. When he said he wouldnt put his dick anywhere near her ass, she whined to the teacher that he was sexually harrasing her and BAM! 1 week out of school. Instant double standard. I think eventually, people screamed loud enough that they had to apologize to him, but he still had to stay away for a week.
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11-21-2006, 06:41 AM
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if my buddy (who is black) is referring to a black guy in a movie (and he is the only one in this particular movie) - and he doesnt know the guys name .. he'd say 'the black guy' thats like saying the blonde guy or the redhead, the guy in the wheelchair, quick easy identification .. not based on discrimination. everyone does the same thing among themselves.., asians, blacks, browns, etc ..
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11-21-2006, 06:42 AM
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Cellphones have changed life so much. Now you can get a hold of almost anyone anytime you want.
The downfall of the movie theater and the death of the drive-in. Remember when there was one or two new movies coming out a week? Theaters would hold the same movie on their one screen for a month. Now, 32 screen multiplexes (who are all going bankrupt) bringing in 7-11 new movies every week.
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Pretty much the rise and death of MTV as far as I'm concerned...
As Phalanx said Reality TV, ugh I'm so sick of all that shit on tv... The fall of Soviet Russia... The fall of the Berlin Wall...
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11-21-2006, 06:48 AM
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Quotes (actual, real quotes) from some of these people: "I'm a lesbian." "So." "Does it bug you?" "No. Do you want it too?" "if you had a kid, would you hit them if they did something wrong?" "I dont know, maybe. If they did something really wrong, i might give them a swat." "You would beat your kid?!" I hate how they think they are doing the world a service for "Hurting for others" and being so oversensitive that they explode without provocation.
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11-21-2006, 06:54 AM
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my wife works with a gay guy .. who incessantly goes on about being a gay guy.
she works with several gay men (dunno why this particular profession) but he's the only one that prances around like a ballerina outing himself - and others... no different than me talking to him (in paticular) non stop about being straight .. gay or straight - who would want to hear any of that shit 24/7. people like that just want a reaction .. its usually the only facet of their personality that they think is remotely interesting so they allow it - encourage it to define them. i cant stand any focused outre personalities like that ... it reeks of phoniness and desperation and i have a natural aversion to that.
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11-21-2006, 07:02 AM
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I find people like that hilarious, they only give weight to sterotypes and create more for themselves to bitch about, which i imagine is their ultimate goal. Something i thinkis funny is how styles have been changing for decades, with each having a few distinct looks, then suddenly, in the middle-late 90s, EVERYTHING became acceptable. Leather, bell-bottoms, big hair, MULLETS, stonewash.... They are everywhere now.
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