I miss the 1970's, when there were no microwaves, no cellphones, no credit cards, no cameras all over public places, no internet tracking of everywhere you go, there was no public internet until the 1990's came! The 1970's was a simple time still in the United States. Where I lived in Chicago, people used string to section off their front garden. Move ahead 30 years later and everybody has tall chainlink fences around their lawns, with warning signs that threaten they'll call police.
Adults are no longer permitted to enter or sit in public playground without a child with them, and if you do people will wonder if you're a pedophile, call the police, and you will be arrested and fined. This is what our nation has succumbed and descended to. Homosexuals have come out of the closet and are quickly preparing the stage for the coming Man of Sin, the Antichrist.
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The rest of this aside, I’m pretty sure microwave ovens were a common kitchen appliance in the 1970s.
Or is Davey talking about some other tinfoil hattery I’m not aware of?
<@shy > #124481
I was thinking the same thing. Based on a quick read of this Wikipedia article, it looks like the first microwave oven was sold in 1946, but they were too large and expensive for most people. Countertop units were made in the 1960's but they didn't become affordable for most people until the late 1970's. So it's not really that weird if Davey doesn't remember them being around in the 70's, I guess.
I miss the 1970's, when there were no microwaves, … no credit cards, … people used string to section off their front garden. Move ahead 30 years later and everybody has tall chainlink fences around their lawns
WHAT????
There were microwaves in the late 60s. I used one. More or less exactly the same as today. Credit cards? Duh, of course. Just with a manual zip-zap machine, not an electric magnet reader. And yes, lots of people had chain link fences around their yards. And there was plenty of child molestation, just that assholes like you surpressed any mention of it.
Oh David, stop making things up.
Where I lived in Chicago, people used string to section off their front garden. Move ahead 30 years later and everybody has tall chainlink fences around their lawns, with warning signs that threaten they'll call police.
Maybe it’s because I’ve lived in “suburbia” all my life, but sometimes that’s a thing, but not all the time, at least not where I live now. It would be a lie to say “everybody” has that. Anyway, if he’s saying that is what Chicago is like now, how’d he know? I’m not sure, I thought he was still banned from leaving Guam, but I seem to vaguely remember someone in the comments on another post saying that’s not true anymore, I dunno….
I remember credit cards in the Seventies, so either you're lying or you had bad credit.
Homosexuals are to blame for everything you hate? More like the Christian Right, which came to power in the Eighties and has persecuted our nation ever since.
As for microwave ovens, I remember my parents getting their first one some time around the mid-1980s, and I guess it wasn’t quite the most common thing to have then, because I remember thinking that was kind of a big deal. Ya know…we were probably what would have been considered solidly “middle class” back then. Kind of close to the stereotype of the typical white suburbanite family with 2.3 kids or whatever, lol. (the cat counted as the 0.3 of a kid, IMO)
Pfft. I’ll take cellphones and internet over not having those things. They’ve significantly improved my quality of life. And “cameras everywhere” isn’t too bad of a thing - yes, I could name issues easily enough, but most of these cameras are in the hands of the public instead of the government like it used to be, so authority figures can more easily be taken to account.
<@Spacewyrm > #124485
He was born in 1967 (he is about half a year younger than my mother), so the Seventies were his pre-teen years. Also, keep in mind that DJS’s parents were fundies themselves (although even they did not live up to DJS’s standards in fundamentalism), so they might way have kept him awaay from all these new-fangled witch-machines.
If it’s a playground for kids, then the only adults who need to be there, and who have ever needed to be there, are those connected with the kids. Absolutely no need whatsoever to have strange adults coming around. As much as problems with child abuse, even sexual abuse, come from family members, there has been trouble with strangers trying to get a chance at getting their hands on a kid, and not allowing strange adults in this kind of place reduces at least that.
And, why does anyone think David would want to spend time on a child’s playground if he’s not there with a kid himself?
<@Bastethotep > #124528
<@Spacewyrm > #124485
He was born in 1967 (he is about half a year younger than my mother), so the Seventies were his pre-teen years.
I wonder what it would be like to go back in time to, say, a time when your 8-year-old self and your family were away for your school summer vacation and experience your own town back then as your adult self. How many would get a time travel culture shock from that?
“Adults are no longer permitted to enter or sit in public playground without a child with them, and if you do people will wonder if you're a pedophile, call the police, and you will be arrested and fined.”
I think you need a bit more than ‘unaccompanied adult in a playground’ to be arrested.’
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