Remember when people were NICE

No, they can't fathom it. Sometimes when we talk about it here, there is some younger person who jumps in and tells us all about the same bad stuff happening then as now. They can't believe how different the world was.

And I think I was probably maybe 18 years old before I ever heard the "F" word. My family wasn't religious or straight laced or anything. It's just that people acted differently. Now it's F this and F that, negativity in every sentence.

We used to have a society with class. Now we have a classless society, one with no class.

Most kids did not use the Internet in the mid of 90s, and it was quite different than this today.

It started much before the Internet. Thanks to MSM and Hollywood.



Yeah right. Everything you "regulate" turns to shit.

Is that you back in the day?

We had to sign out to "Downtown" to have a smoke. It took just long enough to walk down the hill and back up again to have a cigaret.

You could smoke in the doctor's office or in the hospital. I had to have an operation on my arm, and whan I woke up I really wanted a cigaret, but I couldn't bend that arm, and the other one had an IV in it. The nice lady in the next bed put the cigaret in my mouth and lit it, then sat next to me holding it to my mouth so I could puff on it. Can you imaging that happening now?

But I can't remember anybody ever smoking in church. LOL

Great thread. Have seen that 7-11 vid before and it never gets old. Thanks for the post OP. It’s nice to hear everyone’s recollections.

Peace.

That is a great pic! Fun!

True, I've never seen anyone smoke in a church before either.

It depended on denomination. Smoking was common but not outright condemned except by the Adventists.

Episcopalians and Catholics had ashtrays in large meeting halls. Baptists and members of the Christian church (Disciples of Christ for example) were embarrassed and "burn one" with a buddy outside and duck back in.

And you saw everyone at the liquor store. Some baptists would be really sheepish and red-faced buying bourbon.

People are so uptight now. That was not typical in the Seventies. We didn't use coarse language around ladies. If a woman used foul language, then she was called a "broad". The word dame was actually originally a term of respect...ie classy lady like a princess.

Just got back from a trip to Israel. One thing that stood out to me was how warm and nice everyone was. Complete strangers; Even the ones who spoke Israeli and not very good english, even with communication and culture divide there was a warmth to the people.

5***** Great post, OP.

Alot to think about.

Chip, I like the US Flag on the wall plaque, and the 1960's style bar!

And who is that good-looking' man on the right of the photo?

Fuck that shit, there were rapes and murders all the same. Democrats were better than Republicans and prisoners swept the streets. Raising a barn and lowering taxes were normal.

I agree. We've lost any sense of decorum. The idea of the "sacred" and the "profane" and the difference between the two are lost on people now.

In the South (of the South), everyone is still generally polite to this day to each other (because we all carry guns).

... except the ones that haven't been educated to Southern etiquette because they are crack babies all growed up and have never had a father figure to teach 'em straight.

If GLPer’s said face to face to people what they type
To people from thousands of miles away, people would be
Nicer, and the other 1/2 would have black eyes and broken smiles.

Hey OP, come to Leslieville in Toronto, the whole neighbourhood is nice...
( well, 97.62 %)

Denver and Colorado are perfect examples of this. Back in the 70's and 80's I remember out of towner's always stating how personable and likable the people of Colorado were. When the new airport came in, people migrated in droves to the state and ever since it's gone downhill from there. It went from a community state to a "me me me" state.

I'm nice...
My wife may not agree but I make a point to be nice. I find it interesting how many people need someone to be nice to them.

As example, every time I'm in a big box store I always ask a open ended question to the person behind the register, So, how is your day...

I have made long term friends by simply just asking that question and the conversation that follows.

My momma always said... "you can be nice to anyone"

I think we always got to show just a little bid of Jesus when we talk with people, I enjoy it and is one thing that keeps me going and not focusing on "me"

I DO remember! thanks.

When's the last time we heard the phrase "morals and values?"

Me too!!

When kids didn't drink coffee. You could sit on Dad's lap when he drove the Wagon.

When the neighbor kid broke your window and his parents apologized and the kid actually paid for its repair.

Ahh civility.

We're still out here :)

Yesterday I saw this video and I was thinking the EXACT SAME THING. I LONG for back then, I crave it, I miss it. I hate it now.

Your right and as I remember not that many people were dying from what they were doing. Cancer in the 1950s was rare,even into the 1960s. Make you ponder a bit on this on, people did not die from heart disease and margarine was not real butter, they used real butter.
People ate what ones who run their mouths today saying it will kill you, well a lot of people are dying today and they are not eating it, go figure.

Life before Rap Musuck

Isn't that from NASA?

Desensitization has knocked about about the cultural and political scene in the US.

"An American President," a movie made in 1995, had a line in it where actress Annette Benning, playing the role of a lobbyist, tells Michael Douglas, portraying a widowed president, that the American people would never accept a president with a girlfriend.

This was a few years before Bill and Monica.

The movie was produced by an garden-variety liberal, Rob Reiner, the actor who played "meathead" in All in the Family.

Notice how over 20 years later, that one aspect of the movie comes off as quaint, even old-fashioned. If that film were made today, its screenwriters would have a scene where the fictional president is having an orgy on the South Lawn and his girlfriend is a black trannie.

One line from a movie made in the 1990s shows just how scroungy today's America has become. In spite of it already being quite "who gives a damn?" back then too.

Now the US is a post-Obama society. A time following the most leftwing president in American history leaving behind an indelible mark. Best represented by his official portrait unveiled in DC several months ago. A painting by an artist who's known to insert hidden penises in the background of a work, sort of his version of "Where's Waldo?"

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Cell phones have caused people to lose their sense of community.