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    Manners.
    Mala striga deleta est. (The wicked witch is finished.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dienekes View Post
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    Zip code dependent. I'm still in cultural adjustment after a year in Iowa. It's not perfect, there are still dipshits and yahoos, but compared to what I left in Florida it's like living on another planet.
    It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.

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    Quote Originally Posted by flenna View Post
    Good television shows.

    Barney Miller
    MASH
    Miami Vice
    Airwolf
    Sanford and Son

    Just to name a few.
    It still exists, it just isn't found on network tv much anymore. IMO AMC's Mad Men was one of the greatest shows in TV history. It was about the most boring subject in US history, advertising...but the characters were so completely developed and the story lines so amazingly compelling that we watched a show about something we at best don't care about at all and at worst absolutely hate.

    People think The Soprano's was brilliant tv, but it was about the mafia and they still managed to screw it up after they ran out of material and started just putting up anyone's bullshit idea. Also probably the worst ending for any show...ever. By contrast Mad Men absolutely slam dunked the season finale in a satisfying "unspectacular" way that was just brilliant.

    That said, Jonny Quest (1964-65) may be the best kids show in the history of tv and there will never be anything like it ever again. Thankfully with just about everything ever made available on DVD or Netflix I've gone down some great rabbit holes. I have complete box sets of just about every TV show from the 1950s and 1960s.

    I honestly don't care what is on ABS, CBS or NBC anymore, I haven't watched those channels in years. My default channel is TCM ever since History Channel went to crap.

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    Having two political parties that differed on policy but at least shared love of country.
    Do you really believe that existed in 1969? That stuff changes with the times, sometimes it's better - sometimes it's worse.
    It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.

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    Quote Originally Posted by flenna View Post
    Good television shows.

    Barney Miller
    MASH
    Miami Vice
    Airwolf
    Sanford and Son

    Just to name a few.
    Along those same lines, movies that were long on guns, explosions and hot women with kick ass soundtracks and extremely predictable plots but thoroughly enjoyable as a way of killing an hour and a half.
    Experience is a cruel teacher, gives the exam first and then the lesson.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grand58742 View Post
    Along those same lines, movies that were long on guns, explosions and hot women with kick ass soundtracks and extremely predictable plots but thoroughly enjoyable as a way of killing an hour and a half.
    I think Strike Back easily qualifies.
    It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SteyrAUG View Post
    I think Strike Back easily qualifies.
    Does it have 80s hair bands as the soundtrack?

    Here's some nostalgia to peruse.

    https://www.timeout.com/newyork/musi...rom-80s-movies
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    Quote Originally Posted by SteyrAUG View Post
    Do you really believe that existed in 1969? That stuff changes with the times, sometimes it's better - sometimes it's worse.
    I wasn't long into it, but I was born early enough to see the transition where the last Scoop Jackson Democrats either died off or turned GOP, and their former party turned All Sedition/Treason/Fascism All The Time--Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman were the last of that dying breed.

    Frankly, the Democrats have been tainted from the very beginning and their roots as the Party of Slavery (which they still very much are).
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    I miss the Motorola RAZR when it was popular around 2005.

    I miss the music around 2004-2007 (Nada Surf, American Rejects, The Fray, John Mayer, Snow Patrol, Dashboard Confessional, Death Cab for Cutie, The Format etc.)

    There was a season in my life around 2005-2009 that I miss dearly. I miss playing my Xbox 360 and staying up all night playing Halo 3, COD MW and Portal. I dated a girl that I really liked at the time and I had long hair and was at a time that I really liked who I was.

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    You are all just getting old, fat, and ugly.

    It happens. Just sip a Monster drink and accept it.

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    Doritos and 1/2 gallon ice cream without nutritional information on them, 1981 Toyota 4x4 and girls that would do anything for concert tickets and a ride in the dunes.
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