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It's A Funny Old World

April 18 2018

Always at some point, I find myself saying or thinking about how the world with all of its complexity I say to myself each year --- i.e., it's 2018 we know more but do we? . Maybe the world will never evolve to a level of a much-improved balance in the scheme of things, perhaps it's not meant to, but I still believe we could be doing a lot better and hopefully, one-day mankind (meaning all genders and ages btw) will be able to see some changes == who knows === shrugs my shoulders..I just watched Alexei Sayle -- It's A Funny Old World on youtube it's from the 80's ---- still relevant today. So this topic is to chat about anything that relates to our funny old world past and present be it, ie, profound, jovial, heartfelt anything you like..I'll start. Something I often wonder about is what happened to the Hippie era and how many peeps from then are running things now so much for that. Wonder how it would be if we had continued on in that direction would the world be better off now? Perhaps not of course.

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RHP User

8 years ago

As a kid going to the corner shop with my string bag and a note from my mum. On the list was always a packet of Winfield blue and they were $1.10c. Lol. The lady would put everything in the bag and the smokes and I would toddle off home. Life was simple then. Not all these laws and rules to protect the butthurt people. Which takes our attention away from the obvious. That the world has become fucked up because of greed and a lust for power from above and that's why I can't see any real change happening unless we have some kind of world disaster to facilitate that change. Just my thoughts. LC.

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RHP User

8 years ago

I could go to the shops with a fiver in my pocket.. come home with two packets of ciggies.. a loaf of bread.. a couple packets of lollies.. a couple packets of biscuits, a carton of milk, a bottle of coke and a couple of kilos of spuds... Can't do that these days.. too many fucking security cameras!!!

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RHP User

8 years ago

I don't think the world is going to poo, rather by almost every measurable marker the human race is getting better. We are living longer (I am one of the first to argue that this is not necessarily better), there are less people in poverty worldwide every year, less children dying of preventable diseases. A website (our world in data) is great for making you feel a little less despondent about us as a species. Numbers aside, the possibility of one person marrying another of the same gender was unthinkable (literally, nobody had thought of it) when I was a child. Issues like this, evolved completely in less than a lifetime. It may seem more of a rat race now than however long ago, and of course we look back on the days of yore fondly, but the things I don't miss from my childhood probably outweigh those that I do miss. The one thing that sticks out in my mind, that I had as a kid that kids don't have now? Countdown. And now, ladies and gentlemen, get ready for the misanthropic ''but we're raping the planet!" doomsayers, who will be right along in 3.... 2.... 1....

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73bandit

8 years ago

Well okey your assumptions fell flatter and faster on its arse than I did last week when pissed. Nice try though. - Posted from rhpmobile

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RHP User

8 years ago

my folks having a career job for life, now it is about changing direction .... and resorting staff to a casual workforce.

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RHP User

8 years ago

I have no need to tell you that we are living longer OP, given that you are 100 years old. I also miss, and I only miss this for the current generations if that makes sense, being able to roam freely as a child. So many of the recent younger generations have been raised to see the world as a scary place. My nephew had an awesome skate park just down the road from his house, a distance of a few hundred metres. This was in a small country town, and he was prohibited basically from ever going to it without an adult. Paedophiles apparently lay in wait everywhere these days. Adults were always too busy to take him down so nephew stayed inside and played video games all day. Now his parents complain about his addiction to video games and devices. Mind you, the skate park always had a healthy number of kids using it, so it clearly is not all kids who are restricted like this. I remember someone posting an article on FB a couple of years ago showing an overhead pic of an English town, with concentric circles showing the shrinking distance inward that children of different generations were allowed to roam in.

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Rubyt25

8 years ago

lol Okey I have lots of wisdom as well as guru status I'm on my big cane chair/throne at the top of a very big mountain wating for all my followers ----- lol ----Quoting 'OkeyDoke45'I just realized... I have no need to tell you that we are living longer OP, given that you are 100 years old.

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RHP User

8 years ago

Hahahaha! Yes, you took that from somewhere. There's an image with a caption like that, that I saw somewhere. Still, very funny! Good on ya'. Kudos!!

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Rubyt25

8 years ago

I am grateful more than anyone will ever know that at a young age ( the youngest of three at the time) my parents purchased a property we moved from a cramped house which at the time we only had access to part of,( half of the house is what I've been told) it was in the suburb of Oakleigh on Atherton Rd so I imagine it would have been a built-up area even back then. I now know that moving to the new house and having the freedom to muck about in a big backyard as well as wandering around the paddocks in the area tadpoling, building cubby huts in amongst the prickle bushes so much freedom, oh and I used to love making mud pies, apparently I would take them inside and ask my mum to cook them..If we hadn't moved from that cramped house I don't know if I would have gotten through the oppressive environment I grew up in whilst I didn't understand I know even as a young child I would have felt all the effects, it's unfortunate that as I got older I was more aware as to just how oppressive it always was and missed that innocence and freedom of my younger years. Quoting 'OkeyDoke45' I also miss, and I only miss this for the current generations if that makes sense, being able to roam freely as a child. So many of the recent younger generations have been raised to see the world as a scary place. My nephew had an awesome skate park just down the road from his house, a distance of a few hundred metres. This was in a small country town, and he was prohibited basically from ever going to it without an adult. Paedophiles apparently lay in wait everywhere these days. Adults were always too busy to take him down so nephew stayed inside and played video games all day. Now his parents complain about his addiction to video games and devices. Mind you, the skate park always had a healthy number of kids using it, so it clearly is not all kids who are restricted like this. I remember someone posting an article on FB a couple of years ago showing an overhead pic of an English town, with concentric circles showing the shrinking distance inward that children of different generations were allowed to roam in.

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Rubyt25

8 years ago

It's the moblile phones people filming all sorts of shit and posting it online There are some benifits to both security cameras and filming stuff on the phone, but with regards to the mobile phone I am generally not impressed with a lot of what is posted. Quoting 'cavey50' I could go to the shops with a fiver in my pocket.. come home with two packets of ciggies.. a loaf of bread.. a couple packets of lollies.. a couple packets of biscuits, a carton of milk, a bottle of coke and a couple of kilos of spuds... Can't do that these days.. too many fucking security cameras!!!

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Rubyt25

8 years ago

I agree that there was a simplicity back in the day. I use to love going to the milkbar and getting to pick my bag of mixed lollies. Quoting 'Lovechild17' As a kid going to the corner shop with my string bag and a note from my mum. On the list was always a packet of Winfield blue and they were $1.10c. Lol. The lady would put everything in the bag and the smokes and I would toddle off home. Life was simple then. Not all these laws and rules to protect the butthurt people. Which takes our attention away from the obvious. That the world has become fucked up because of greed and a lust for power from above and that's why I can't see any real change happening unless we have some kind of world disaster to facilitate that change. Just my thoughts. LC.

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Rubyt25

8 years ago

often with more than one job. Quoting 'sweethoney88' my folks having a career job for life, now it is about changing direction .... and resorting staff to a casual workforce.

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Rubyt25

8 years ago

the many students balancing school, Uni or Tafe as well as casual or fulltime work -- can be quite stressful -- kudos to those who get through it.

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RHP User

8 years ago

Quoting '73bandit' Well okey your assumptions fell flatter and faster on its arse than I did last week when pissed. Nice try though. - Posted from rhpmobile (Looks at the funny contraption in his hand, shakes it and slaps it a few times) "Dammit, this thing always works on Reddit."

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