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Posted on 1/31/19 at 10:31 am to I Bleed Garnet
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I mean when I was in school we had situations where it got so hot, the AC broke and they canceled school. This was in the 90s-2000s
See, that is the subtle softening of the younger generations. A generation or two before and you did not have AC and it was hotter than hell and classes still went on. I am old enough to have been in the last generation that had to walk a mile or so to school everyday (no school busses back then) and cars were a luxury.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 10:44 am to thatguy45
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Is he the Manchurian Candidate?
Not really, just more of the east coast elite buying political offices in the middle of the country because they can. Manchurian candidate implied a real conspiracy when the reality here is money and arrogance means you are "entitled" to do what you please. If he gets another 4 years he will bankrupt the state and there is a civil war in Frankfort right now that might set the state back 50 years but it never gets in the press.
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One of the people running for senate this passed time bought property in Indiana just before running so that he could. Carpet baggers are everywhere
I blame George Bush Sr for starting the trend. He was east coast establishment but ran as a Texan when his "residence" was just a high rise that non Texans lived in because of the laws of bankruptcy and forfeiture. Florida had similar laws but at least guys down there bought in different parts of the state and bought big tracts of land as their residence.
I used to know some of the other folks pretty well who lived in that high rise and they all really lived elsewhere but still claimed it as their primary residence.
The Turtle claims KY as his home but god knows he has not lived there since the 80's and I think he was from Alabama. Paul and Bevin are just the more obvious of the "carpetbagger" politicians of today in the state but it is not just limited to the Republicans in the state. Last cycle for the 6th district was at least from NKY but the Democratic opponent before her was a Hoosier who ran for CKY with no history there.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 10:46 am to Cheese Grits
I'm not really disagreeing with your post, but when buildings were being built before AC, it was taken into account by the architects and they implemented designs to make the buildings somewhat bearable. My middle school didn't have AC and was built in the 1920's, but it rarely got really uncomfortable because it had very high ceilings and windows that allowed air to move through it. My high school was built much later and had central air, and it went out once, and it was very uncomfortable and stuffy because the air couldn't move around without the AC working.
Also, schools in the south made their schedules around the hotter months. When I was a kid, school was out from Memorial Day through Labor Day weekends because a few schools in the system didn't have AC.
I do agree each subsequent generation gets softer than the one before it though.
Also, schools in the south made their schedules around the hotter months. When I was a kid, school was out from Memorial Day through Labor Day weekends because a few schools in the system didn't have AC.
I do agree each subsequent generation gets softer than the one before it though.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 10:58 am to The Spleen
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buildings were being built before AC, it was taken into account by the architects and they implemented designs to make the buildings somewhat bearable.
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I was a kid, school was out from Memorial Day through Labor Day weekends because a few schools in the system didn't have AC.
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I do agree each subsequent generation gets softer than the one before it though.
It is interesting that walking to and from school from grade school through jr high kept me fit and strengthened my immune system (at least you had a bike for high school) while now we have minivans hauling kids today loaded with allergies. Also walking kept you alert to your surroundings and environment. I see kids today with earphones on and heads down walking from the dorms to class and never looking up from their cell phones.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 12:37 pm to Cheese Grits
I never had to walk to school, but did walk home in the afternoons from the bus stop in middle school. Never understood why the bus stopped at my neighborhood entrance in the afternoons, but didn't pick us up there in the mornings. There was one pick up spot in the mornings, then stopped at 3 different neighborhoods in the afternoon before getting back to the morning pick up spot. Guess they didn't want to pick up super early or something.
Mom would sometimes pick us up at the bus stop if it was really cold or raining though, so we got a little pussified.
Mom would sometimes pick us up at the bus stop if it was really cold or raining though, so we got a little pussified.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 3:12 pm to Cheese Grits
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The Turtle claims KY as his home but god knows he has not lived there since the 80's
Yeah that was the case for Lugar. He was from Indiana originally but he'd pretty much stopped living there after making it to DC in the 70s.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 3:14 pm to Cheese Grits
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See, that is the subtle softening of the younger generations.
I read something once that said generations who are in hard times or must fight for their survival, there are certain chemical balances in them that they pass onto their kids which helps them to thrive in difficult times. But, when times become easier the generations born in easier times don't have this same balance and thus have a different chemical makeup which affects how they act.
Would help explain some stuff
Posted on 1/31/19 at 3:54 pm to thatguy45
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But, when times become easier the generations born in easier times don't have this same balance and thus have a different chemical makeup which affects how they act.
So boomers had it easier? and passed it on to us to make us soft?
and now that we have it tougher? our kids wont be soft?
Posted on 1/31/19 at 4:13 pm to I Bleed Garnet
Yes. Hard times create hard men, hard men create good times, good times create soft men, soft men create hard times.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 4:40 pm to KSGamecock
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Yes. Hard times create hard men, hard men create good times, good times create soft men, soft men create hard times.
Yeah the statement at least according to what I had seen (don't remember who reported it) is backed by biology it seems not just history
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Posted on 1/31/19 at 4:40 pm to I Bleed Garnet
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and now that we have it tougher? our kids wont be soft?
Perhaps not as soft but that remains to be seen
Posted on 1/31/19 at 4:54 pm to thatguy45
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I read something once that said generations who are in hard times or must fight for their survival, there are certain chemical balances in them that they pass onto their kids which helps them to thrive in difficult times.
Could be true
I believe if times had been good we would have had 6 to 8 siblings but the Great Depression hit right about the marriage age so 2+ kids were not born in the first several years as there was struggle then 2 were born just before Pearl Harbor and 5 more years meant probably 2+ more kids were not born. By the time my old man mustered out they both were getting to middle age and past prime birth years.
They raised me to weather the hard times and prepared me well to survive should the communist threat materialized ands we were in WWIII. While Vietnam was certainly a conflict, it was the first war where US kids with money or power got to "opt out" since perhaps the War of Northern Aggression. Kids my age knew how to grow food in the backyard in the city and how to fix and repair most anything around the house.
By the time the 60's and 70's rolled around times were so much better the kids just did not have the same fears and survival instincts. Kids have a whole lot more recreational time today and it could greatly affect their body chemistry but I do think the "non parent and family" influences in the under 30 set has a much greater effect than chemistry on how the youth of today got so soft.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 5:01 pm to Cheese Grits
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but I do think the "non parent and family" influences in the under 30 set has a much greater effect than chemistry on how the youth of today got so soft.
No doubt the mauling of the family unit has played a big part. Kids lack guidance and an example of what they should be like.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 6:33 pm to Cheese Grits
You mention affecting body chemistry and that’s important. Residual estrogen in the water and hormones used in animal husbandry are wreaking havoc on young people today.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 8:43 pm to KSGamecock
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Residual estrogen in the water and hormones used in animal husbandry are wreaking havoc on young people today.
Yeah Ive heard about the left over estrogen not being filtered out of public water and I do believe that its very well. The difference between people on well water and those on public water tends to be pretty noticeable
Posted on 2/1/19 at 2:36 am to thatguy45
Also don’t eat chicken
It’s a nervous bird
It’s a nervous bird
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