Why do you like the past?

[Telecolor 3007]

Why do you like the past?
I'm not idealizing it, but:
1) From a viewer's point of view the design of allmost of stuff was pleasent, nice, intresting. I cannot accept the kitch!;
2) With not so evolved techonlogy (remember that up untill Pentium 3 computers, computers wheren't so fast, digital photo and cameras becamed popular after 2000) people seemed able to create more intresting stuff...

[Jon A.]

Well, things were made better and could be fixed, looked better and stayed around a long time. I guess the same could be said of friendships, ha.

[Telecolor 3007]

Some of my objects become part of my life too. And growing up in an era where was poverty (ha, I love the '90's, but it was a hard period here) it's very hard for me to get use with the fact that people are starting to dump thing without any thought in theyr mind.

[MIPS]

The fact that liability fears were not top priority on everything.

[Titan1a]

More good stuff was built in the USA. Most USA stuff was better built and lasted longer. Less USA stuff was thrown away in the landfill. Carbonated beverages had real sugar!

[zeno]

You can still get Pepsi with REAL sugar !! Its an awesome
drink ! Coke also makes it for one of the Jewish holidays
but its hard to find.
Food is a great example. You young ones probably never ate REAL
fried food cooked in lard. Every house had a huge tub of
Crisco. McDonalds fries were cooked in rendered beef tallow
& were considered the best even at 19 cents. Also try to get a
hamburger thats still pink in the middle. You still can in N.H.
but go down to Mass & its imposable.......
Some are jumping up & down about health now BUT.
I can go back 10 generations to 1635 when my fathers line
came over. Only two died young ( 40's & 60's ) all the rest
made 80- 100. ALL the wives made 80's -103. All that on
a diet that even scares me !
BTW they almost all smoked & drank.

73 Zeno
LFOD !

[WISCOJIM]

Originally Posted by zeno

You can still get Pepsi with REAL sugar !! Its an awesome
drink ! Coke also makes it for one of the Jewish holidays
but its hard to find.

The yellow capped Coke is made for Jewish Passover.

Sugared Coke can usually be found year-round in the Mexican food section of most grocery stores around the Midwest and probably elsewhere.

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[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by zeno

You can still get Pepsi with REAL sugar !! Its an awesome
drink ! Coke also makes it for one of the Jewish holidays
but its hard to find.
Food is a great example. You young ones probably never ate REAL
fried food cooked in lard. Every house had a huge tub of
Crisco. McDonalds fries were cooked in rendered beef tallow
& were considered the best even at 19 cents. Also try to get a
hamburger thats still pink in the middle. You still can in N.H.
but go down to Mass & its imposable.......
Some are jumping up & down about health now BUT.
I can go back 10 generations to 1635 when my fathers line
came over. Only two died young ( 40's & 60's ) all the rest
made 80- 100. ALL the wives made 80's -103. All that on
a diet that even scares me !
BTW they almost all smoked & drank.

73 Zeno
LFOD !

I Don't think, Crisco is an animal fat product. It's a vegetable oil product, like corn oil or so.
We always seemed to have a one pound block of Oscar Mayer lard in the fridge. It was always used for home frys or pie crusts.

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by zeno

You can still get Pepsi with REAL sugar !! Its an awesome
drink ! Coke also makes it for one of the Jewish holidays
but its hard to find.
Food is a great example. You young ones probably never ate REAL
fried food cooked in lard. Every house had a huge tub of
Crisco. McDonalds fries were cooked in rendered beef tallow
& were considered the best even at 19 cents. Also try to get a
hamburger thats still pink in the middle. You still can in N.H.
but go down to Mass & its imposable.......
Some are jumping up & down about health now BUT.
I can go back 10 generations to 1635 when my fathers line
came over. Only two died young ( 40's & 60's ) all the rest
made 80- 100. ALL the wives made 80's -103. All that on
a diet that even scares me !
BTW they almost all smoked & drank.

73 Zeno
LFOD !

Remember "the healthiest man in Chicago"? One weekend with Peg Bundy and he's out of shape, smoking and keels over from a heart attack on air. Reason being, he avoided so many "unhealthy" things before that his body couldn't handle a lifestyle like Peg's. As Al Bundy said, cockroaches were around long before man, and they'll be around long after man. Why? Because they eat crap.

However bad your ancestors' diet was, it couldn't be as bad as a steady diet of McGreasy's. Now that would be quick to kill.

[hi_volt]

These days everything seems to be disposable. Back when I was growing up, appliances and electronics were actually designed to be serviced and repaired. Cars were a lot simpler and cheaper, too, when adjusted for inflation. Auto manufacturers are loading so many electronic goodies into even base model cars that people are taking out 8-9 year car loans. I think the average price for a new car these days is in the $33K to 35K range.

[centralradio]

I love thee past before 1990 . Around the 1990's everything went to a decline .Nose dive in the 2000's.

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by centralradio

I love thee past before 1990 . Around the 1990's everything went to a decline .Nose dive in the 2000's.

Sounds about right. I often think my best years were 1989-91. Everything before '84 is a blank.

Sucks about the disposable thing too, because I've enjoyed fixing stuff... or at least trying to... since I was in my single digits. My digicam for example, the motherboard was history after a fall, and I destroyed the tiny ribbon cables trying to replace it. Some of today's technology is very handy, but most of it... meh.

Nowadays most people replace their electronic stuff simply because it's outdated. Contrast that to around '94 when our neighbors across the hall had a dial-tuned 19" TV with a remote converter box. The picture was so lousy that I would cart my own CRT set over there when babysitting.

As for the car thing... whoa. I couldn't be bothered owning one of today's cars. They don't appeal to me anyway. They have so many unnecessary gadgets that I often say they take the driving out of driving. I'd just do my best to rustproof some old bucket and be done with it. Hey, to most people any car over a decade old but not a show car is a bucket. Also, one good hit to a new one and it disintegrates into a pile of airbags.

[Dude111]

Almost everything about the past WAS BETTER!!!!!! (Started getting worse in the 80s)

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Dude111

Almost everything about the past WAS BETTER!!!!!! (Started getting worse in the 80s)

Popular music, really took a dive in the 80's. There's very few hit records, made in the 80's I like.

[centralradio]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

Popular music, really took a dive in the 80's. There's very few hit records, made in the 80's I like.

I disagree alittle on that up to 1988 when the rap crap started to move onto the mainstream charts.1980' s was the last good decade of all around music.
Rock was ruined with grunge crap music in the 1990's while traditional country started to turn to rock music which now sucks.