I'm a product of the 60s. That was the very best time to grow up. I'll prove it too you.

It was before all this gun craziness. Even Sears and JC Penny sold guns and you could order the gun of your choice from a magazine.

Being younger, we didn't have to learn to be a hippie. It was already defined for us. All we had to do was grow our hair and pretend.

If you didn't want to pretend, Hippies were natural politically correct game and one could beat them up without fear of being arrested or charged with a hate crime.

Hippie chicks, at least the ones who shaved their legs, were really cool. They believed in "Free Love". All we had to do was to learn to block their constant blabbering out, totally ignoring their pyhcobabble about trees, whales, and most important remember not to throw our beer cans out the car window.

Why even our war was better. By the time we served, we were told it was already lost. As Forest Gump would say, "One less thing to worry about." All we had to do was worry about staying alive. That could be hard at times. In a lost war they don't give you little things like bullets, re-enforcements, or planes.

By the time we got out of the service, it was just in time for the greatest girl picking up phenomena in history, the Disco Era. Once we learned to ignore the music with its constant beat that more or less founded Rap music, all we had to do was NOT dress up like a girly man gay guy and we could walk out with about any girl in the place.

You know it would have been perfect if it wasn't for those lonesome guys who would have grown up dating assorted small farm animals hadn't started listening to the Hippie chick physcobabble just to get laid and started believing it. Can you imagine? These guys took their life's lessons from airhead girls that not only didn't shave but would sleep with any Tom, Dick, or Harry who would nod his head in agreement while they ranted on about their latest "Save This" idea.

Tj (The Pangloss eternal optimist.)

Me too! Let it rip buddy.

You know, that free love era wasn't so bad.You guys are older though.

This post has been edited by Gmountain: November 4th 2009 2:21 AM

Yep angry chicks that would do anything to tick daddy off and not a social disease that two shots of Penicillin wouldn't cure was a hell of a combination.

Those were good times.

i grew up on the tail end of sport fornicating. damn homo's ruined everything


the 60's would have been an awesome time to be a young man. the advances and freedoms still held then, must of been amazing to feel and see.

I was born in 64, producw of Disco

I was born in 70 and had to wear 'hand me down' clothing from my older cousins, damn bell bottoms!
My mom was a major hippie and my dad was a stoner, plain and simple.
I guess being 16 in 1986 was a highlight for me, girls, music, etc...

Typical hippie couple in 1969:


Same couple in 2009:



Some things don't change much with time, and shouldn't.

<cough> nope..........

I hear ya!!!

I guess being a product of the "90's" means we have to make do with cell phones, DSL, and southpark instead of all the "free love"... Bummer.

Can you imagine what it will be like for our grandkids with the ever advancing technology?
Heck I still have my old Atari system at home, my kids play it to feel nostalgic. These new games are in 3D, that blows my mind.

Is this some kind of middle-aged support group thread?

I was born I 1960. I still remember gun at Sears, JCPenny and Woolworth. KMart had some pretty good stuff.
The big thing was the beach. I also remember Hippies. I have a problem with people that don't like or use soap and water.
What gives me a laugh is the stoners I knew in High School are mostly still stoners.

Watch it pup. The old grizzeled wolves are converseing here.

Make sure to not hit me with the walker, those hurt!

j/k

No problem, you learn to overlook kids that you have boots older than they are.

Yea, I deserved that.

In all honesty i am incredibly jealous of the older generations. Things were simpler, things were better.

I am a member of the ME generation and it kills me to think about what society will be like in 30 years....

It should to scare you shatless ! ! !