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These times are no good: the human race is rotten

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
Just nuke Indiana off the face of the earth. Seriously what’s the worst that could happen? Sure people will be upset for a little while. But they’ll get over it. It’s time to take this state out of the union! :D
https://skyeperk2010.wordpress.com/indiana-sucks-***/
 

Unveiled Artist

Veteran Member
I am age 55. I am American-born. I served in the army last century. I was raised in middle-to-upper-middle-class communities in coastal northern California. America used to look much more attractive last century. People used to look much more attractive last century. The western free world looked much more attractive last century. There was much less litter in the streets. Infrastructures were nicely kept. People had manners. People were well-dressed. Men were clean-shaven. Beards were the exception and not the rule. Men in business including car salesmen and grocery clerks wore clean shirts and ties. People spoke better English and presented themselves as educated and not dumbed-down. Women were feminine and beautiful and nicely dressed like ladies. People didn't dress like homeless bums as a fashion statement. Stores and restaurants were often very clean and given constant janitorial attention. I worked at a Burger King in 1985. We had to shine the brass railings around the tables in the dining room to perfection with brass polish. Males had to be clean-shaven and clean-cut. No visible tatts were allowed. Management wore clean shirts and ties. Not a spot of squalor in the restaurant would be permitted. Floors were constantly swept and mopped and tables were constantly wiped down with clean, hot soapy towels.

Nowadays people are largely lazy, stupid and uncaring. People look barbaric, like savages, in their decorum and demeanor. People look and act like disgusting pigs. Most consumer manufactured goods are rotten crap made in China sans longevity. Pride in workmanship is long dead. America largely looks ghetto-ish and third-world-like on the surface. Whatever happened to one nation under God? Whatever happened to America the Beautiful? Whatever happened to green well-mown lawns in front of houses that lacked any sign of indoor furniture outside?

Corporate greed was limited back then. Mom and pops flourished back then. The middle class was the norm and not the exception.

Good people make a good world. Rotten people make a rotten world.

How I (me personally) see it is, if I can put myself down as trash and terrible etc, than that's how I would see others. So, if I said this world is rotten, I'd be saying I am rotten, you are, and everyone is no exceptions.

I'm sure we aren't excluded in the world's problems; but, because you contrasted the good and bad points, maybe its a balance and we find ways to contribute to one side while acknowledging what we can't control on the other.
 

Watchmen

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
I’m fascinated that the OP gives one sentence to litter and one to keeping up infrastructure then dedicates paragraph after paragraph about being clean shaved. Hate to break it to you, bub, but men’s facial hair styles have come and gone throughout the decades. Just because you grew up with a military background and time where clean shaved was the norm doesn’t make your preference “right.”
 

Cooky

Veteran Member
I am age 55. I am American-born. I served in the army last century. I was raised in middle-to-upper-middle-class communities in coastal northern California. America used to look much more attractive last century. People used to look much more attractive last century. The western free world looked much more attractive last century. There was much less litter in the streets. Infrastructures were nicely kept. People had manners. People were well-dressed. Men were clean-shaven. Beards were the exception and not the rule. Men in business including car salesmen and grocery clerks wore clean shirts and ties. People spoke better English and presented themselves as educated and not dumbed-down. Women were feminine and beautiful and nicely dressed like ladies. People didn't dress like homeless bums as a fashion statement. Stores and restaurants were often very clean and given constant janitorial attention. I worked at a Burger King in 1985. We had to shine the brass railings around the tables in the dining room to perfection with brass polish. Males had to be clean-shaven and clean-cut. No visible tatts were allowed. Management wore clean shirts and ties. Not a spot of squalor in the restaurant would be permitted. Floors were constantly swept and mopped and tables were constantly wiped down with clean, hot soapy towels.

Nowadays people are largely lazy, stupid and uncaring. People look barbaric, like savages, in their decorum and demeanor. People look and act like disgusting pigs. Most consumer manufactured goods are rotten crap made in China sans longevity. Pride in workmanship is long dead. America largely looks ghetto-ish and third-world-like on the surface. Whatever happened to one nation under God? Whatever happened to America the Beautiful? Whatever happened to green well-mown lawns in front of houses that lacked any sign of indoor furniture outside?

Corporate greed was limited back then. Mom and pops flourished back then. The middle class was the norm and not the exception.

Good people make a good world. Rotten people make a rotten world.

I've heard that people often tend to feel like the past was better because they subconsciously erase the badness from their memory, making the past merely 'appear' better than it really was.
 

Father Heathen

Veteran Member
What's wrong with the world today? Is it poverty? Famine? War? Disease? Bigotry? Economic downturn? Human rights abuses? Climate/ecological crisis?

No, it's beards. :rolleyes:
 

epronovost

Well-Known Member
I've heard that people often tend to feel like the past was better because they subconsciously erase the badness from their memory, making the past merely 'appear' better than it really was.

That's actually a well studied phenomenon in psychology. Nostalgia is a bias.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
How I (me personally) see it is, if I can put myself down as trash and terrible etc, than that's how I would see others. So, if I said this world is rotten, I'd be saying I am rotten, you are, and everyone is no exceptions.
Except Indiana is filled with legit Bible humping ******** who are rotten people regardless of how you see yourself. I say I'm a decent person, they say I'm a hellbound ******.
 

Father Heathen

Veteran Member
I've heard that people often tend to feel like the past was better because they subconsciously erase the badness from their memory, making the past merely 'appear' better than it really was.
Is it true for a lot of video games, television shows, and movies.

You pop them in to watch/play for old times sake, and you're like "....this is garbage. I liked this?" Some things are best left as happy memories. When you're younger you're less critical, and a lot of the things in the past were new, innovative, and/or unique at the time, so had nothing to compare to as a standard.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
Is it true for a lot of video games, television shows, and movies.
I have to say it actually was better when you put the game in and played, no downloads or updates or day 1 pay more dlc or online connections and no loot chests, and when they actually provided a challenge and could be difficult.
 

amorphous_constellation

Well-Known Member
Men were clean-shaven. Beards were the exception and not the rule.

See that's what I don't get. Your great grand parents lived in the 19th century. They incredible, wild, idiosyncratic hair and beards. Every portrait from that time reveals a wonderfully hairy person. Heck, look at your paper money. That's my America in terms of fashion (not in terms of other controversial things they did)

For some reason, completely over my head and without explanation to me, 20th century become clean shaven and lame looking, wearing extremely plain suits and hairstyles. When did that start?
 
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amorphous_constellation

Well-Known Member
Trying to find the best examples, but if you search for interviews of people from the 20's, you will find incredible beards and hair on a lot of the elderly men. So what happened, did their kids just think they were too wild??
 

Unveiled Artist

Veteran Member
Except Indiana is filled with legit Bible humping ******** who are rotten people regardless of how you see yourself. I say I'm a decent person, they say I'm a hellbound ******.

I'm thankful I sit just about the middle in VA. We're not to free like the New Yorkers but we aren't bible bet like the south. Just don't mention you not chris'chin, your good to go.
 

SomeRandom

Still learning to be wise
Staff member
Premium Member
I am age 55. I am American-born. I served in the army last century. I was raised in middle-to-upper-middle-class communities in coastal northern California. America used to look much more attractive last century. People used to look much more attractive last century. The western free world looked much more attractive last century. There was much less litter in the streets. Infrastructures were nicely kept. People had manners. People were well-dressed. Men were clean-shaven. Beards were the exception and not the rule. Men in business including car salesmen and grocery clerks wore clean shirts and ties. People spoke better English and presented themselves as educated and not dumbed-down. Women were feminine and beautiful and nicely dressed like ladies. People didn't dress like homeless bums as a fashion statement. Stores and restaurants were often very clean and given constant janitorial attention. I worked at a Burger King in 1985. We had to shine the brass railings around the tables in the dining room to perfection with brass polish. Males had to be clean-shaven and clean-cut. No visible tatts were allowed. Management wore clean shirts and ties. Not a spot of squalor in the restaurant would be permitted. Floors were constantly swept and mopped and tables were constantly wiped down with clean, hot soapy towels.

Nowadays people are largely lazy, stupid and uncaring. People look barbaric, like savages, in their decorum and demeanor. People look and act like disgusting pigs. Most consumer manufactured goods are rotten crap made in China sans longevity. Pride in workmanship is long dead. America largely looks ghetto-ish and third-world-like on the surface. Whatever happened to one nation under God? Whatever happened to America the Beautiful? Whatever happened to green well-mown lawns in front of houses that lacked any sign of indoor furniture outside?

Corporate greed was limited back then. Mom and pops flourished back then. The middle class was the norm and not the exception.

Good people make a good world. Rotten people make a rotten world.
Lol last century? Last century saw a wide variety of facial hair fashions among men. Like what tf are you on about?
The most popular facial hair styles over the last 200 years, and the fascinating history behind how beards have evolved
Besides, beards go in an out of style all the time. Interestingly the clean shaven, suit wearing style was also rather popular with the fops of the late 1800s. But I don’t know how “masculine” they were perceived at the time. You know? Being artsy “effeminate” types concerned with fashion after all.

Although in restaurants a beard net should be standard health and safety practice.

I learned to mind my own business back in Primary school (elementary for you Americastans.) So I mean, maybe learn to relax a bit?
 

Father Heathen

Veteran Member
I have to say it actually was better when you put the game in and played, no downloads or updates or day 1 pay more dlc or online connections and no loot chests, and when they actually provided a challenge and could be difficult.

Back in the day, beating a game meant something, because there was no check points, no saving whenever you wanted , etc. Once you used up your lives and continues, you had to start fresh from the beginning. And before that it was all about score. A lot of games didn't even have endings, they just looped endlessly or got progressively harder until they became either impossible or glitched out from integer overflow.
 

Quagmire

Imaginary talking monkey
Staff member
Premium Member
Everything's a trade-off: I love having the internet in my pocket/I hate how people don't look where they're going or talk to each other anymore.
 

SomeRandom

Still learning to be wise
Staff member
Premium Member
Trying to find the best examples, but if you search for interviews of people from the 20's, you will find incredible beards and hair on a lot of the elderly men. So what happened, did their kids just think they were too wild??
Nah, it’s just kids being kids and trying to assert their independence. Sometimes beards were seen as masculine, sometimes not. Sometimes people only had moustaches, sometimes not. Even the Toothbrush moustache or as I like to call it the “Hitler-stauche” just so happened to be in vogue at the time. (Though is forever considered reprehensible now.)

I’ll admit that some of the beard styles of the 1800s were a bit wild though
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
Back in the day, beating a game meant something, because there was no check points, no saving whenever you wanted , etc. Once you used up your lives and continues, you had to start fresh from the beginning. And before that it was all about score. A lot of games didn't even have endings, they just looped endlessly or got progressively harder until they became either impossible or glitched out from integer overflow.
I've still never bothered with the hard mode of Castlevania. Its hard enough on the normal mode.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
I'm thankful I sit just about the middle in VA. We're not to free like the New Yorkers but we aren't bible bet like the south. Just don't mention you not chris'chin, your good to go.
That Christian thing also applies in Indiana. One stark difference between there and Indiana, when they come knocking or walking up to you, in California it rarely happens and you tell them you're not interested and they leave it at that, have a nice. Indiana they dont want to hear it and ot becomes a bunch of "but, but, but."
Sometimes it legit isn't you, it's the people telling you to leave.
 

RabbiO

הרב יונה בן זכריה
@Jonathan Bailey -

You mean those good ol' days when African Americans were routinely denied the vote in many parts of our country? Could it be that you were referring to those good ol' days when Jews, such as my father, were denied admission to medical schools and other academic institutions because of quotas for Jews? Of course, you could be referencing those wonderful years when women like my mother were struck down with polio, in her case when she was 34, and then spent the rest of their lives, in her case 64 years, in wheelchairs.

I could go on and on, but the truth is you yearn for an idyllic America that never really was.
 
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