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Zero_Effected Joined Sat 12/02/06 Posts: 18395	Mon 12/10/12 01:05 PM
60's - 70's I like quality, simplicity and things that are built to last. I'm disgusted with this "built in" obsolescence crap. My 4 month old Blackberry just quit on me... (apparently, I push to hard on the screen ) At this rate of 1500$ a year in phones... Smartphones ain't so smart if you WERE back in the 60's 'n 70's.. you wouldn't even KNOW about smart phones.. just think of ALL the $$ you'd be saving..

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Mon 12/10/12 01:12 PM
I was in high school in the late fifties and loved that time.. We always had a good time and nobody got in trouble (well, maybe once in a while..lol I remember being grounded a few times..lol I have always been a free spirit and got involved in some of the hippie stuff.. great cars, jitterbugging and dance contests, pegged legged pants and british walkers on the guys.. I always had a lot of guy friends as I knew how to work on engines and rode a motorcycle when the guys didn't have a license yet.. I remember never locking our door, party line phones and going to the movies for 16 cents... You knew everyone and neighbors helped each other... Never locking doors...i remember that whilst growing up in the 70's. It was unheard of to lock a door...trust and faith in your neighbourhood to keep a vigilant eye out for you and yours was the norm. Kids playgrounds were outside from sun-up to sun-down and they used their child ingenuity to build stuff like go carts & cubby houses to play with, or invent games for constant amusement. It was a time of freedom to explore without parents constantly shadowing your every movement like i see them do today.

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Mon 12/10/12 01:14 PM Edited by Kahurangi on Mon 12/10/12 01:19 PM
60's - 70's I like quality, simplicity and things that are built to last. I'm disgusted with this "built in" obsolescence crap. My 4 month old Blackberry just quit on me... (apparently, I push to hard on the screen ) At this rate of 1500$ a year in phones... Smartphones ain't so smart if you WERE back in the 60's 'n 70's.. you wouldn't even KNOW about smart phones.. just think of ALL the $$ you'd be saving.. Or the money he would be making if he took that knowledge back with him. Ha!...perish that thought!! :-) I think it was back in the 60's or 70's, or may be even earlier when companies figured out that it was more profitable to manufacture stuff that didn't last, so the consumer would have to buy new stuff.

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Mon 12/10/12 01:15 PM
wait.. that didn't come out quite right.. ...wanna try that ride again??

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Mon 12/10/12 01:20 PM
I'd like to live during the pirating era. Yes...you would've made a good parrot.

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Mon 12/10/12 01:25 PM
It's the 1890's for me. Concerts at the Bandstand in the park on a sunny day, Victorian furniture, wind-up Edison gramaphones, kerosene lamps, a good book by the fireplace on a cold winter night, no pollution, no GMOs, no rush hour traffic or 50 mile commutes, ...mmmmmmm...Yup, That would have been the time to be alive. And fresh food!!!....i wonder what the equivalent of todays fast food would have been back then. McSquirrel?? :-)

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Mon 12/10/12 01:43 PM
There are a few eras i would like to visit such as catching up with Nostradamus during the renaissance period. Oddly enough, it is noted that they can't make up his mind whether he was born on the 14th or '21st' December. Coincidental that 21/12/12 is a date being thrown around today don't ya think? Anyhooo...i suspect it would be most enlightening traipsing around the countryside in search of magic mushies with 'the damus' before hanging out with Da Vinci. I know what my first question to him would be..."who the hell is the demure chick in the painting"?? The Medici family were a fascinating bunch of characters too!! 4 Catholic Popes from the one family??...wow!..how does that work?? Middle ages would be another...knights in not so shining armour. Ha!

JOHNN111 Joined Wed 05/13/09 Posts: 9273	Mon 12/10/12 01:55 PM
There are a few eras i would like to visit such as catching up with Nostradamus during the renaissance period. Oddly enough, it is noted that they can't make up his mind whether he was born on the 14th or '21st' December. Coincidental that 21/12/12 is a date being thrown around today don't ya think? (Runs) I wish I could teleport for a bit right now... "the damus" would surely predicts what I'm having for dinner tonight

katelin0210 Joined Sat 12/08/12 Posts: 104	Mon 12/10/12 02:06 PM
20s, just for flappers!

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Mon 12/10/12 02:06 PM
There are a few eras i would like to visit such as catching up with Nostradamus during the renaissance period. Oddly enough, it is noted that they can't make up his mind whether he was born on the 14th or '21st' December. Coincidental that 21/12/12 is a date being thrown around today don't ya think? (Runs) I wish I could teleport for a bit right now... "the damus" would surely predicts what I'm having for dinner tonight If not, i'm sure he'd be able to pass on a few choice 'mushroom' recipes ;-)

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Mon 12/10/12 02:07 PM
20s, just for flappers! hahaha...what exactly would be flapping? :-)

JOHNN111 Joined Wed 05/13/09 Posts: 9273	Mon 12/10/12 02:18 PM
If not, i'm sure he'd be able to pass on a few choice 'mushroom' recipes ;-) Shroom pizza it is! I'll call it the "NostraVinci" Calzone Thx Kahurangi!

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Mon 12/10/12 02:26 PM
If not, i'm sure he'd be able to pass on a few choice 'mushroom' recipes ;-) Shroom pizza it is! I'll call it the "NostraVinci" Calzone Thx Kahurangi! Sounds positively scrumdiddlyumptious :-)

Zero_Effected Joined Sat 12/02/06 Posts: 18395	Mon 12/10/12 02:35 PM
If not, i'm sure he'd be able to pass on a few choice 'mushroom' recipes ;-) Shroom pizza it is! I'll call it the "NostraVinci" Calzone Thx Kahurangi! make enough fer TWO.. I'll be RIGHT over!

Zero_Effected Joined Sat 12/02/06 Posts: 18395	Mon 12/10/12 02:39 PM
60's - 70's I like quality, simplicity and things that are built to last. I'm disgusted with this "built in" obsolescence crap. My 4 month old Blackberry just quit on me... (apparently, I push to hard on the screen ) At this rate of 1500$ a year in phones... Smartphones ain't so smart if you WERE back in the 60's 'n 70's.. you wouldn't even KNOW about smart phones.. just think of ALL the $$ you'd be saving.. Or the money he would be making if he took that knowledge back with him. Ha!...perish that thought!! :-) I think it was back in the 60's or 70's, or may be even earlier when companies figured out that it was more profitable to manufacture stuff that didn't last, so the consumer would have to buy new stuff. really? I got several 25-30 year old appliances (and a few other antiques) that STILL run today.. must've just gotten a good batch OR.. Canada was slower to catch on.. if only huh.. I'd pop back 'n forth meSELF to invent the internet, google, cell phones and Sham WOW..

Zero_Effected Joined Sat 12/02/06 Posts: 18395	Mon 12/10/12 02:43 PM
wait.. that didn't come out quite right.. ...wanna try that ride again?? I got sea-sick 'n caught some kinda rash..

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Mon 12/10/12 03:05 PM
60's - 70's I like quality, simplicity and things that are built to last. I'm disgusted with this "built in" obsolescence crap. My 4 month old Blackberry just quit on me... (apparently, I push to hard on the screen ) At this rate of 1500$ a year in phones... Smartphones ain't so smart if you WERE back in the 60's 'n 70's.. you wouldn't even KNOW about smart phones.. just think of ALL the $$ you'd be saving.. Or the money he would be making if he took that knowledge back with him. Ha!...perish that thought!! :-) I think it was back in the 60's or 70's, or may be even earlier when companies figured out that it was more profitable to manufacture stuff that didn't last, so the consumer would have to buy new stuff. really? I got several 25-30 year old appliances (and a few other antiques) that STILL run today.. must've just gotten a good batch OR.. Canada was slower to catch on.. if only huh.. I'd pop back 'n forth meSELF to invent the internet, google, cell phones and Sham WOW.. 25-30 year old appliances??...well done and Sham-WOW!

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Mon 12/10/12 03:11 PM
wait.. that didn't come out quite right.. ...wanna try that ride again?? I got sea-sick 'n caught some kinda rash.. haha...no returns on that awesome ride.

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Mon 12/10/12 03:27 PM
Hmmm..ancient Egypt, ancient Greece and the Mayans. Trippy!! :-)

indianadave4 Joined Wed 02/09/11 Posts: 1308	Mon 12/10/12 04:30 PM
I agree...the fashion of that era was very flattering to the hourglass figure. And i loved the simplicity of tee & denims on the men. Ohhh...and the cars!!...such beautifully classic lines as opposed to now. A great era :-) You forgot to mention all of the racial discrimination that occurred during that era. If you want to go back to a previous era in time, then you have to go back to all of it, not just to the parts that you like. you choose your era and butt out of mine I really think you need to focus on what interests you rather than lecturing or criticizing others ^^^^ I have to agree. Every era has something of a detractor. The 50's and early 60's were an era of innocents.