Who remembers the 70s ?

Yes it's extremely accurate. we had keg parties every weekend in the woods...

And toys like this growing up.
Leaning in trying to squeeze one more pump into that bitch to send it... Then under so much pressure, the release won't slide. But once it does....pfffffftttt, the rocket ends up on the neighbor's roof or wherever.

Brickie in exile here.
Yeah, those were good times.
I am moving back as soon as possible.
Lake and Porter counties are still full of unchanged places.
Did you used to cruise Broadway, go to US30?

It's when we walked more. Kids played outside for exercise, and we didn't have a Dunkin Donuts or fast food available on every corner.

Nearest McDonalds was a mile and a half away me. 15 cents burgers, 25 cents cheeseburger, 10 cent Cokes and fries. For a dollar you had a decent meal. And that's when they used real beef and made thick patties. Walked off all the calories on the way home.

Ya we walked a lot then. walking ten, fifteen miles a day was easy...

There were some big girls in the line. Different kind of big.

You can fix your hormones and get your shape back. I am. The only thing I can't eat is plastic bag bread and all processed bakery things. No grocery store meat or very little. i'm not dieting and not hungry or deprived but losing flub and it scares little nurses silly- they only see weight loss in the dying. Everyone else has gone into fat acceptance.

You don't have to eat the toxic food.

We used to walk to the pool,. the parking lot was a small gravel lot that fit eight cars and two dozen bicycles. The snack bar was a tiny fridge with ice cream sandwiches and a cooler of Pepsi.

Now the pool is heated. The snack bar is as large as the pool itself and the parking lot is larger.

it's not rocket science how we got so fat. Women went to work. In the slim days they golfed and played tennis all day. They walked to the pool too. Families rode bicycles together. Dads mowed the lawn with walk behind mowers. Moms planted flowers and herbs.

Kids who didn't have pools and golf courses could still have tetherball and kick the can.

We were always suntanned in summer.

People were liberal in the 70s.
Sex everywhere.

Thou has't said it!

Yeah, I remember that - Washington 6th grade center. Place sucked ass. The local naggers did not like us white kids from Westover being bussed downtown, and we sure as hell didn't appreciate having to be there with them. Thankfully it was only for 1 year & then we go to go back to west Raleigh for Jr High school at Martin

Guys around here still have dog pens in their trucks to hunt hogs.
No skinny jeans to be seen, unless I go trolling over by the University.

Holy crap! You went there? I remember a black girl beat up the Gym teacher one day. Some of those kids were big - should have been in High School. I had Mrs. Shaw and Mrs. King and Mrs. King was a raging bitch. I was not treated well at all being a Yankee.

I thought I might die a few times from the lack of AC. Our classroom over looked Government Housing - and you could watch the old guys sit on ripped out car seats all day long.

My bus ride took a long time and we went across the NC State Campus.
Its long gone now, meaning its no longer a sixth grade center,. I wonder how long that lasted. I lived over by the Crabtree Mall. My neighborhood was all brand new housing. I only lived there that one year. It gave me a permanent appreciation for Southern Food.

Hey Larry, like the funk?

OMG what fun times. "The Sooooooooooul Train!" We never imagined those might be the best years of our lives. Best things of all:
- No cell phones
- No computers
- No internet
- No social media
- Not even any answering machines yet
Just think, millennial twitslaves, how inferior your quality of life really is compared to what we had. You are addicted to devices and tattoos. What a shit generation. Boomers LIVED and had REAL FUN. And you twits NEED US TO SHOW YOU HOW TO GET YOUR LIFE BACK.

I think the only way to fix this is 2 years mandatory military training minus all the PC nonsense going on in there today.