by Santi » Sun Feb 03, 2019 4:10 pm
by DiamondGooner » Sun Feb 03, 2019 4:24 pm
Dejan wrote:Cocaine comedown isnt that bad tbh
Mdma is worse. Feel destroyed the day after
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by UFGN » Mon Sep 16, 2019 10:06 pm
by LMAO » Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:50 pm
by UFGN » Tue Sep 17, 2019 12:11 am
LMAO wrote:Nope.
1970 was a couple decades and some years before I was born.
The Berlin Wall coming down and the fall of the Soviet Union are nothing but events in history books for me. I don't remember 9/11 all that well. I legit can't recall I was doing that morning other than sitting in class; I honestly can't remember it as anything other than a normal day.
Do you feel even older now, gramps?
by LMAO » Tue Sep 17, 2019 12:56 am
UFGN wrote:LMAO wrote:Nope.
1970 was a couple decades and some years before I was born.
The Berlin Wall coming down and the fall of the Soviet Union are nothing but events in history books for me. I don't remember 9/11 all that well. I legit can't recall I was doing that morning other than sitting in class; I honestly can't remember it as anything other than a normal day.
Do you feel even older now, gramps?
I dont feel old in a negative way
I look back on the 90s not with pathetic nostalgia but with a lot of pride. London was buzzing and it seemed the whole world wanted a slice of our culture, especially our music and music from all over the UK.
I do miss the music.
And I feel sorry for people alive now, who never knew the world without the internet.
by UFGN » Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:15 am
LMAO wrote:UFGN wrote:LMAO wrote:Nope.
1970 was a couple decades and some years before I was born.
The Berlin Wall coming down and the fall of the Soviet Union are nothing but events in history books for me. I don't remember 9/11 all that well. I legit can't recall I was doing that morning other than sitting in class; I honestly can't remember it as anything other than a normal day.
Do you feel even older now, gramps?
I dont feel old in a negative way
I look back on the 90s not with pathetic nostalgia but with a lot of pride. London was buzzing and it seemed the whole world wanted a slice of our culture, especially our music and music from all over the UK.
I do miss the music.
And I feel sorry for people alive now, who never knew the world without the internet.
I've never thought about it like that. My little mid-90s sub-generation was one of the first to never know a world without computers or internet (i.e., more than half the country having access to or using them). But, we were also one of the last generations that wasn't totally addicted to computers before the age of five. I have vivid memories of riding my bike with neighborhood friends, playing in the woods all day during the summer, and having snowball fights.
Going back to 9/11, one thing that could make me wish I was born earlier is I don't remember and will probably never get to experience a free world, even if the world is technically the safest it's ever been. Y'know, simple stuff like walking to airport gates if you don't have a flight, being able to stay out late into the night as a child without parents reporting the kid as missing, not being connected to the outside world reachable at a moment's notice (no cell phones), etc.
But, I'm also glad I was born when I was. You say you're sorry for us since we've never known a world without the internet. I say us post-1990 people are incredibly lucky and fortunate. Even though there is a worrying rise of anti-science, anti-intellectualism, and pseudoscience occurring in the West right now, I've always been able to research information without needing to go to libraries and pull out a million books to search for something. A huge positive of that is religion and the importance of religion has declined in the West for young people. Post-1990 peeps are the least religious in recorded history, and the decline is only accelerating by the year.
by DiamondGooner » Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:48 am
by Angelito » Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:30 am
by LMAO » Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:40 am
DiamondGooner wrote:Nah UFGN has a point.
If you don't know what it was to be alive without the internet then sorry but you don't know what its like to really live a life.
Think of it this way, nobody before the generations after mine had ever grown up with the internet, thousands of years stopped in its tracks, now all you poor fkers are going to be "Touch screen" babies.
Some things are better now, a lot isn't.
Don't get me wrong nostalgia doesn't make me think everything was better before, but that was the point, we had pride in our inperfection, in fact it was celebrated.
Now everything is marketing and information, lifestyles you can't attain, online dating, your senses being bombarded with fake news.
Its ok for me because I feel I've matured into this technology, so as I'm getting older it makes life easier, but I only feel that way because I'm mature and grounded enough from being an 80's baby to take it with a pinch of salt, ya'll youngsters are glued to your screens, making emotional Facebook outbursts (which is so un-cool) its disturbing.
by LMAO » Tue Sep 17, 2019 5:00 am
Angelito wrote:Just to chip in, one thing that I believe the internet has accelerated is anti-intellectualism to the point where its almost perceived as some accomplishment.
With such easy access to information, you'd presume people would be more knowledgeable and more inclined to cultivating wisdom.
But no. Today's kids aren't any more brighter or wiser than the kids of the 50s despite the mecca of knowledge being a single click away.
That and the erosion of social values in the name of progress and modernization defines this digital era for me.
The internet's road to discovery is filled with beautiful anecdotes, experiments, and innovation. To think that 90% of the people use it for vanity is not only a sad reality, but a reflection of the narcissism inherent in human beings.
Of course, I'm speaking purely from an intellectual standpoint.
It's a very true saying, however. Majority of humans are wired to look for the most idiotic option when solving problems in order to help the grand evolutionary nature.
The internet is a new tool and we haven't quite figured out a way to use it to its full potential. We will. Sadly for this generation and the ones until 2030 more or less, we're the guinea pigs of the digital experiment.
by VCC » Tue Sep 17, 2019 5:33 am
by Phil71 » Tue Sep 17, 2019 6:44 am
by UFGN » Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:09 am
by DiamondGooner » Tue Sep 17, 2019 10:23 am
LMAO wrote:And yo grandpa, Facebook is uncool now with the younger generations. Get with the times lol