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August 26, 2015
Al Gore doesn't care about global warming. He just wants it to be 1976 again, forever.
When people complain that X sucks now, but it used to be great, you're usually listening to nursing home conversation.All that people know is what was popular when they were young. They dream of their salad days and the soundtrack to what they were doing at the time, which is intensely trivial to everyone but them. Al Gore doesn't care about global warming. He just wants it to be 1976 again, forever. Lots of people are like him. They simply choose different topics to be fuddy-duddies about. Sippican Cottage: The Cover Charge to Greatness
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When I reminisce, the soundtrack to what I was doing at the time is the muted roar of four R3350-92s in cruise.
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at August 26, 2015 1:33 PM
Other than being in the army in germany in 1976, it was a pretty decent year. Music was excellent, Kansas, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Supertramp. I bought a belt buckle shaped like the flag and it said 1776-1976.
I wonder what happened to it.....?
Posted by: ghostsniper at August 26, 2015 6:32 PM
1976? Hell, I can remember trying to get to 3rd base before The Pill.
Posted by: Anon43 at August 26, 2015 7:20 PM
Funny, just this month I was talking to my 96-year-old father in law and he said that he wishes everyone would stop longing for "the good old days."
"The 'good old days' were not good," he said. "Life is better now than ever. My father died when I was seven because he had a gallstone removed by open-abdomen surgery, which is never done now. But then there was no other way to do it. The surgery went well but he came down with sepsis afterward. There was no such thing as antibiotics. He lay in his hospital bed and died. Would never happen today."
I asked, "What is the one thing we have today that most impresses you that you didn't have when you were a young man?"
"GPS. That's the most amazing thing I have ever seen. I remember trying to read road maps by headlight and having no idea where I was. There are a lot of things that are amazing to me, but GPS tops them all."
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