Current Events > When you hear about the "old days" what time period do you think of?

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Its annoying when people say the old days and its not even that long ago

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Certain eras of my life.

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2010-2013

I met my first husband, fell in love, and we threw huge parties, nightly, there were almost 20 of us thick as thieves. I was young, healthy. High all the time. Life was good, back in the good old days.

Old days = when forevercranky misers perpetually unhappy with modern life were carefree youngins'

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Whatever Archie and Edith were singing about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI46_zBGv1A

I read it as code for "I wish we could go back to making the Negroes sit at the back of the bus and call me Sir"

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What are these backwards dates

And i think of post civil war - 1970s

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Depends on the person saying it

Anywhere from 1950-2000

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pre-covid

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PepsiWithCoke posted...

I read it as code for "I wish we could go back to making the Negroes sit at the back of the bus and call me Sir"

Maybe for your great grandad.
Your dad, maybe even you, remembers life before the internet. That shit's just odd, in retrospect.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Maybe for your great grandad.
Your dad, maybe even you, remembers life before the internet. That shit's just odd, in retrospect.

And also our Politicians.

Joe Biden was actively opposed to desegregation, There are several Senators and Representatives that were in their 20s-30s during the Civil Rights period.

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Smackems posted...

What are these backwards dates

And i think of post civil war - 1970s

if you are going backwards In time why wouldnt the date be backwards

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Bump

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Awwww yeahhh the good old days, yknow back then eggs were really hard to find and we didnt have color yet.. haha yes, I remember my grandfather first saw the invention of it and said tarnation, what in the butter is this thing and I used to say pa aint it look nice now, that apple is what they call red(jackson) now imagine when whats goin happen when they put color to everything

and then he would grab me by the collar and say listen here you son of a rat we aint need no damn color just like we didnt need no damn sound to hear yer hollerin we was doin just fine using dem slides explainin everythin

https://youtu.be/-1MLO4Yecao

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what's the name of that period before the dinosaurs came where there were only cells and stuff?

ZevLoveDOOM posted...

what's the name of that period before the dinosaurs came where there were only cells and stuff?

The 1940s

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Whatever is relevant to the topic being discussed

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For some reason I always imagine the wild west

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BarbaricAvatar posted...

Whatever is relevant to the topic being discussed

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When we walked uphill both ways in the snow and didn't complain.

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2003

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