| How Old School Are you?
Posted: 10/22/2007 9:31:12 PM | I can't be old school. I can't quote old song even if I wanted to.
I laugh till I cry when people say to me "you know, such and such a song, by so and so. You remember", each time I tell me no way. I don't know. I erased all the old music from my brain years ago, when I found out my brain need new music each year so as to not be bored. | |
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Posted: 10/22/2007 10:15:08 PM | I made no sense in my prior post..what I meant to say is that I'm on the dark side now and I'm on the road to the depths of hell. There is no going back. I know that. Evil wins. It always has.
I have chosen my path...and I need to go to bed. lol
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Posted: 10/22/2007 10:18:41 PM | Artz and Zone Alert, I love that Winston Churchill quote.......it makes me feel so much better about myself. I have a heart and brains, I guess! 
Blondie, I would love to have those kinds of dates again! I remember being 15 and our parents would let us have parties at our homes and we would make out and they would interrupt us just at the right time...........We could feel the passion and still be safe.
And in my 20's, I can remember meeting guys and inviting them in for coffee and it was just coffee............I can remember laying on the grass at Tanglewood and listening to the symphony practice and really enjoying the company of the guy I was with.
Guys talked about other things then just sex back then! They gave us time to fall in love with them..............
I just got another one of those emails that has four paragraphs about making love and I haven't even talked to him yet........ I repeat, guys...........treat a woman like you would want another man to treat your daughter and we will all be a lot happier and have love in our lives, too! | |
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Posted: 10/22/2007 10:32:02 PM | Zone, thank you forgiving me, dude. I'm so very sorry that I'm such an evil force. I don't mean to be....but I just can't help it. *gulp*
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| How Old School Are you?
Posted: 10/22/2007 11:13:48 PM | It is interesting to think of the 60s and the 70s as Old School. The morals developed and held then could be considered “Old Fashioned”?
Well.... OK . I am an old fuddy duddy. I am still a left-wing psycho liberal who is PO’ed about an illegal war in Asia that never seems to end. I am cranky about much of the music on the radio, but most of the “good stuff” wasn’t played back then either. ( i live in the MidWaste)
I do wear a suit ...often, but jeans are the clothes of choice. The beard is still here, but it no longer dangles mid-chest....and it seems to have changed colors...go figure.
Technology ? Well, 8 tracks and cassettes were new then. Now we have MP3s and CDs. No change for me, i embraced them all. I am upset that Bill Gates hides Windows File Manager, but i can recall being upset about things in Windows 3.1 also.
I do appreciate some of the things my parents said and did more now. Hind site ..20/20.. blahblah.. I often think about the world changes my Grandfather lived through( 1901-2000).
Push forward another 20 years. What will we be commiserating about as we sit in our retirement virtual reality wheel chairs? ( “Damn kids now days! We didn’t have implants in our brains to get to the ‘Net and we did just fine! I had to type for three or four minutes to find porn ! Betty Crocker making Instant Hash Brownies ? Consistent THC levels ? Where is the fun in that ? And sex ? We had to actually ask a woman out sometimes. None of this tap into her head and feel what she feels. How were we supposed to know not to treat nipples like the dials on a radio
??!!??”)
Ahhhhh THESE are The Good Old Days. ( sorry Carly) | |
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Posted: 10/22/2007 11:30:33 PM | | Who was she singing about in "You're so vain"- I never figured it out.. I thought for a while it might be me... | |
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Posted: 10/23/2007 1:11:23 AM | | Actually somebody bought the answer to that one. They paid a lot of money for her to tell them who she was writing about on the condition that he still couldn't tell anyone else and had to keep the secret! | |
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| How Old School Are you?
Posted: 10/23/2007 12:14:26 PM | | I'm pretty much a mixture of old and new. While I have the latest gadgets, I also enjoy nostalgia. Some of my morals and values have been modified over the years, but one thing I have not discarded is my belief that everyone deserves respect. Having been born a natural rebel, my life has never been written in stone. | |
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Posted: 10/23/2007 12:22:54 PM | | I think I am a combination of both, because not everything old is good (like racism, sexism), and not everything new is bad (like technology, more open communications). I've tried to take the best of all the eras I've lived in and incorporate it into my life philosophy -- good morals, being fair, just, helpful, honest, all that "old school" stuff that sometimes seems to get lost in our post-modern world. | |
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Posted: 10/23/2007 12:34:36 PM | I am not sure whether or not I am old school. ..for I am not sure what "old school" is...we are what we are today....that being said, I live by my own values:
Be freindly with all, but intimate with a few....
Learn to enjoy the journey rather than focus on the destination....
Do what is right...............
I try to keep these in mind as I make decsions about my life and so far the end results have mostly pleased me. It has been only when I deviate from these three values do I feel chaos in my life. They have served me well. | |
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| How Old School Are you?
Posted: 10/23/2007 7:03:47 PM | | Hey people, I just had a very scarey thought, We are becoming our parents. Remember when they told you stories from there childhood and all the time you were wishing they would just shut up?? Well, here we are doing the same thing. remembering our own past. recalling our version of the good old daays | |
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| How Old School Are you?
Posted: 10/23/2007 7:16:36 PM |
Push forward another 20 years. What will we be commiserating about as we sit in our retirement virtual reality wheel chairs? ( “Damn kids now days! We didn’t have implants in our brains to get to the ‘Net and we did just fine! I had to type for three or four minutes to find porn ! Betty Crocker making Instant Hash Brownies ? Consistent THC levels ? Where is the fun in that ? And sex ? We had to actually ask a woman out sometimes. None of this tap into her head and feel what she feels. How were we supposed to know not to treat nipples like the dials on a radio
??!!??”)
Ahhhhh THESE are The Good Old Days. ( sorry Carly
...Got a big kick out of your post.....what will we be saying 20 years from now?... Listen son, when I was your age I used to.......
...maeflowers | |
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Posted: 10/23/2007 8:03:40 PM | There was a thread “Signs you are getting old"-if some one missed it:This thread is one of those signs. Talking about old times and comparing old music and today’s noise they are making. Values we had and young people irresponsible live stile
Come on people, we are not that old. You can see it even here on the forums that our children have the values we gave them. If some one does not like what they see means we did not good job. Old school folks like us taught those young people.
We were not better 20 years ago and we are not better now, yes we changed with time and the only difference between old and new school is new school students know a lot more than we did.  | |
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Posted: 10/23/2007 10:00:24 PM | Wasn't it her ex hubbie James Taylor, she was singing "Your so Vain" Too? I always assumed..My life isn't a mess and I'm not going through that therapy again at 50 I'll stick to my valium and marijuana diet..There are things however 34 years of writers block...And now my eyes are shot, oh well.. Next time around I might order "The Archies.." C.D. When I order my Christmas C.D.'s for the family... I might not be that old but I'm not dancing to rap.... | |
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Posted: 10/23/2007 11:43:05 PM | I think I am probably a combination of both.
have 3 comps here. from c/pm to a dual core processor one. dunno how old the c is, the pent 3 is about 10-8-7-6..ok it's guts were ripped out and replaced so much it's multi aged. the newest about 2.
Don't have a vcr or dvd player, dvd on the puter thats it.
I like a movie if I like it if not I find another.
I'll read just about anything, as long as I have even half a interest in it..
eclectic musical taste.
I was always a why kid, and questioned everything, in high school, pot ruled.But also had a serious side.. so was kinda a balance one way to the other.. I tended to keep to myself a lot, reading, riding, playing guitar etc.. | |
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Posted: 10/24/2007 10:46:09 PM | | Go figure...I wrote alittle story today..Nothing big but for me the calm before the storm prehaps..It was alittle ghost story..It is indeed a start..Maybe I'll write another tomorrow.. | |
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Posted: 10/25/2007 1:46:49 PM | I was an early adopter of VCRs and computers; I'm on about my 5th computer now, and have had it for a couple of years. I have a DVD player, but I still record shows on VCR not DVR, and got my first cell phone a year ago.
My viewpoint is kind of 60's liberal, but my actual lifestyle has always been conservative, out of personal taste rather than morals. I'm the type who doesn't think there's anything wrong with casual sex, but is just not interested in doing it. I don't smoke or drink and I never did, I never tried drugs, etc. | |
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Posted: 10/25/2007 1:53:33 PM | I am definitely not old school.. I like to go with the times, and love the new gadgets!
I have had a cellphone for years, a PC since 1995, (actually several since then, got to update them every couple years) microwave, vcr, widescreen TV, DVD, etc. ...
I would not want to go back to the Pilgrim days, and I love the indoor toilet | |
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Posted: 10/25/2007 9:25:28 PM | | i guess i'm an analog guy in a digital world........... i bought my first walk man when they first came out. it was $150 back then. i only have a cell phone, had the same number for at least 8 years. i still can't program my vcr, though. | |
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Posted: 10/25/2007 9:29:24 PM | | I guess i am a little of old & new. I was raised old school, but am always open to trying new things. | |
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Posted: 10/26/2007 1:00:38 AM | Yeah, I can relate- I am so much in awe at the progress that is being made in all areas of life today..
I guess the only thing that I feel sorry about not living another 50 more years is to be able to see the next generation of quantum leap in technology.. this has been a great ride so far..
Everyone here tho should remember that the reason we have had it so good is because of a few brave individuals ...this is the greatest experiment in human history- freedom and liberty guaranteed by a Constitution- that was obviously inspired by God.. Never forget what a blessing it is to be born in America..
And now I will step down from my soapbox and get to bed.. been a long three days.. | |
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Posted: 10/26/2007 8:31:56 AM | My dad was in WW II and he was shot and shot someone back and I can still remember talking to him about it and how he looked as we talked about it. My ex was in Viet Nam and I know how hard that was for him. My heart goes out to these young guys over there now......... We can debate the politics but not the sacrifice that those guys go through and most of them are fine young men........
So I guess that alone makes me old school.........I do realize that there are evil people out there (like Hitler and Mussolini were in WW II) and that nothing short of fighting them is going to stop them even though I hate that ......... And I feel that we are the luckiest people in the world to be living in the USA.......that's why people try so hard to come here...........how many people wait in line for four years to immigrate to France?
That's a nice country I imagine but I've had friends from Canada who have been trying to come here legally for years and they still can't get in yet........We must have something that others see and want, too..........
I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood with first generation Poles, Germans, Jews, Italians, Greek.........and it was wonderful to see all those nationalities and see their customs and then watch how they blended in and became Americans. I got to talk to a German who was in Berlin during the Holocaust. I met an SS guard and realized how real evil is and how close it can be........a neighbor.......I was fed galumpkis (probably didn't spell that right) and padogis and baklava and REAL spaghetti and meat balls. My childhood might have been poor but it was such a blessing and such an education............fascinating...........but what I remember the most is the family values of those people............and how much they loved it here in America even being poor.......... | |
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Posted: 10/26/2007 4:38:26 PM | | Sounds like you came from the Chicago area...What a wonderful place to grow up I got back from my volunteer job today and suddenly thought about my father then I burst into tears...I really love my dad he's been gone 37 years and I still miss him..I sat down and wrote about him I wrote the good things and I cried my eyes out..Now I'm sick I caught a cold from crying, that's what I get. But at least I wrote something I'm listening to my "Old School" Music now the memories are flooding back into me almost as if I am there...For all that I've lived I wouldn't change a thing... | |
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Posted: 10/26/2007 4:53:33 PM | | No, a little factory town in upstate New York called Cohoes.........with a small little waterfall and a bunch of textile factories. If anyone is from Cohoes on here, we are probably related.............. My grandmother was one of 17......... | |
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