I'm so old I Remember when:

[kikiruru]

penny loafers

I remember I wore tassel loafers in the early eighties

 

[kikiruru]

When I think of the 80's I think of all the bright neon clothes. And hairspray. Lots of hairspray.

I remember I had long hair a spiral perm a can of aqua net hair spray and a blow dryer

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Culottes
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Perfect for riding horses but should be wider, fuller in the leg and a bit longer. Called them gouchos.

 

[Sally PB]

The hair on the girl in the red sweater...

 

[kikiruru]

& I remember back in the seventies when I was in high school

One of the fads at the time was to go to the junkyard and get the hood ornaments and those “Mercedes “ emblem and put it on your own car like a “pinto” or Datsun

I mean no disrespect for the cars I mentioned because those were the cars that actually some friends drove around with me

Ford pinto had the Mercedes emblem

Datsun b210 had the word or numbers letters of the Mercedes kind of car (which I have forgotten now this was back in 1977)

 

[thecatumbrella]

I remember I had long hair a spiral perm a can of aqua net hair spray and a blow dryer

Same. All those chemicals probably shaved a year off my life. Bleh! All that to make my hair look like cocker spaniel ears.

 

[jxp]

In some things it might. An AI can only use the data it's trained on, so anything outside that data set doesn't exist as far as the AI is concerned.

Showing how inept AI can be... I noticed caterpillars enjoying a snack of snapdragons and salvia. I snapped a couple of pictures and asked AI to ID the cat. Zooming in on different crawlies in the piccies, I got 4 different answers although they are clearly the same species.
1) ladybug larvae
2) armyworm caterpillars
3) gulf fritillary larvae

NONE ARE THE CORRECT ANSWER

On try 4 it came back with milkweed tussock moth caterpillar - which while I am not at all certain is correct is a lot closer to my hungry little guests.

 

[AntiqueB]

I got Common Buckeye, which looks right from what I've seen. There seem to be a few that look similar.

 

[MROO]

I feel like I just missed the government cheese which I bet I would have liked too! I was born in '69. We grew up on raw milk that my great uncle down the road produced from his Holsteins. I would ride my bike down to "the farm", ladle a gallon of milk into our glass gallon jar and bike home with it, trying not to drop it on the way. That was great milk. I attribute it partly to the amazing immune system I now have...I rarely get sick.

If you eat "American Cheese," you've had "government cheese," or at least as close as you can get to it, these days. Starting about WWII, the US government processed all different types of cheese and cheese bases into a single yellow style that was dubbed "American" cheese. They did the same thing in the 1980's to help keep farming afloat, handing out the cheese as part of the Welfare program. It caught on and stuck around. Nowadays it's just made that way from the start.

 

[jxp]

If you eat "American Cheese," you've had "government cheese," or at least as close as you can get to it, these days. Starting about WWII, the US government processed all different types of cheese and cheese bases into a single yellow style that was dubbed "American" cheese. They did the same thing in the 1980's to help keep farming afloat, handing out the cheese as part of the Welfare program. It caught on and stuck around. Nowadays it's just made that way from the start.

Glad you said "close" because to my memory - and having eaten both at the same time in my life - it ain't the same ... but, as you pointed out, close as you're gonna get nowadays.

Who do we petition to bring back "government cheese"?