Thread: who do you think grew up in the best generation

Originally Posted by disco2hse

haha just what I was about to say, except there were a lot more of them. Most dissolved in showers of rust

Alan

Yes I agree, and they were too expensive so you had to drive an austin A30 or hillman minx
Cheers Keith

Originally Posted by keith

Yes I agree, and they were too expensive so you had to drive an austin A30 or hillman minx
Cheers Keith

Or a Vauxhall Velox or Standard 10 if you had a big family

i brought this up as i dont see a very bright futrue for the y generation.and even my dad(47 today) is going through it abit tuff and not knowing what is goin to happen with retirement.the way i answered this question is if i could be born in any period what would it be
i chose around the 1930s because you will miss the 2nd world war and the depression(kid) and the world was open for opportunity life was so much simpler (not easier) there wasnt ****ty food everywhere and alot of people did there own jobs(as in building houses repair work and farming) and if you look into retirment they have it pretty good there to.
things i hate about today
fast food
OH&S
rules
gangs
freedom
peoples attitudes
national parks getting locked up

just to name a few

Not gunna vote - all I can say is I'm just bloody happy to be alive.

I think what one generation loses the next gets something better and if you want to relive the older times GO BUY A SERIES I, I will when I have the money spare

Originally Posted by D-Fender

I wish I was born when all the old cars weren't old, like Kingswoods and stuff.

If my memory is correct, I was driving my 1st rangie when Kingswoods came out.

Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton

i brought this up as i dont see a very bright futrue for the y generation.and even my dad(47 today) is going through it abit tuff and not knowing what is goin to happen with retirement.the way i answered this question is if i could be born in any period what would it be
i chose around the 1930s because you will miss the 2nd world war and the depression(kid) and the world was open for opportunity life was so much simpler (not easier) there wasnt ****ty food everywhere and alot of people did there own jobs(as in building houses repair work and farming) and if you look into retirment they have it pretty good there to.
things i hate about today
fast food
OH&S
rules
gangs
freedom
peoples attitudes
national parks getting locked up

just to name a few

Nah, every generation has it's pluses and minusus. I am about the same age as your Dad.

What I faced at your age:

• Unemployment
• Pubs that close at 10pm and ALL day sunday.
• Racism - still here today though.
• Peoples attitudes - this one is timeless - a lot of people didn't like the Romans 2000 years ago.
• National Parks getting created (Alpine Nat Park)
• Gangs (Moorabbin Boys )
• Drugs - Heroin was the BIG drug back then - scary stuff - screwed up a few of my friend
• Rules - for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

I think we only remember the fun stuff though.

• Passiona
• Chicko Rolls (Yeah I love fast food)
• Long Hair
• Sandman Panelvans (I s'pose that's a Kingwood )
• Pre-aids lovin' ()
• Petrol at 16 cents/litre
• Real aussie rock. (Pretentious and Sparkly )
• Taking a BIG esky to the cricket, sitting in Bay13.
• Z80 computers
• Topless bathing at Kerford Road.
• When you ordered a pot you got Carlton Draught. (It's a Melbourne thing!!)
  
  

You would never fit in the 30's - they used punctuation

Well at 41..........I'm still growing up ....so have seen the 60's...well not really...was to young. Done the 70's, 80's, 90's and now the 2000's. There's good and bad in any generation.....though I do feel the information age has bought about it's own negativities that could bite us in the ass. Common courtesies, manners, parenting, schooling etc are not what they used to be and that was not around when I was growing up.....so not so much best generation...moreso changes in culture and attitude is what I find and don't get me started on how PC, nannied and strangled we have become

Regards

Stevo

Sleepy you missed:
Polio, conscription, food rationing, no Sunday trading, low apprentice wages, asbestos and its long term side effects, your dad going off to war then trying to fit back into the family, hairy vaginas.

I was listening to radio today and they were talking to two 16 year old girls and asked what are the things you worry about. They both seemed to think the worlds problems were too much and the world will probably end in a couple of years. This seems very much like people when I was that age (mid 80s) as we had the likelyhood of nuclear war hanging over us.

Jeff



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