'Remember when' or 'these kids today' nostalgia thread for old fogies like me

[User395221]

In show business, if women don't look young they don't get work.

Sure. With quality cosmetic work you don't really know they've had it, it's the "lots of" that I don't understand. It doesn't make you look young, it makes you look weird. Nobody is fooled by a 70-year-old with a perfectly smooth forehead. A 20-year-old doesn't have a forehead that doesn't move.

Compare, say, Helen Mirren with Priscilla Presley. Helen looks lovely, but she's still got some wrinkles. I've no idea whether she's had "work done" or not, I'd assume probably, given her job. Priscilla looks like she's just landed from another planet. Helen obviously isn't aiming to try to look 20 (if she's even had cosmetic work). It's pointless, it doesn't work, you can't.

Anyway, I don't want to go off on too much of a tangent from nostalgia, it just occurred to me when I saw wrinkly old still-dances-like-a-kid Mick and Priscilla why-does-your-face-look-like-that on the telly this morning.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Sure. With quality cosmetic work you don't really know they've had it, it's the "lots of" that I don't understand. It doesn't make you look young, it makes you look weird. Nobody is fooled by a 70-year-old with a perfectly smooth forehead. A 20-year-old doesn't have a forehead that doesn't move.

Compare, say, Helen Mirren with Priscilla Presley. Helen looks lovely, but she's still got some wrinkles. I've no idea whether she's had "work done" or not, I'd assume probably, given her job. Priscilla looks like she's just landed from another planet. Helen obviously isn't aiming to try to look 20 (if she's even had cosmetic work). It's pointless, it doesn't work, you can't.

Anyway, I don't want to go off on too much of a tangent from nostalgia, it just occurred to me when I saw wrinkly old still-dances-like-a-kid Mick and Priscilla why-does-your-face-look-like-that on the telly this morning.

Yeah, well people get hooked on surgery. Look at Michael Jackson, he got surgery to look like his mother! And he looked fine to start with. He had issues. Yeah, were still on topic... people today! In the olden days you put up with your appearance. Now everything needs fixing, preferably with a pill..

 

[3riverschick]

My Mom will be 100 next year. She lived all this stuff. When we went to visit her Dad, my Grandpa, in the 60's, you could still really smell the old leather smell in the garage from when it had been a stable before Grandpa got a Model A car.

 

[User395221]

My Mom will be 100 next year.

I can't even imagine how many changes she would have seen in her lifetime. HUUUGE changes from when she was a little girl to today.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I think one of the biggest changes in my lifetime is the phones.
When I was really young we didn't have one. No one really called anyone much and if you needed to you went to a neighbors and borrowed theirs.
When we got ours we were on a party line. Anyone remember that?
Look at them now days I'm on mine every time I'm on here. I don't have a computer, laptop, tablet Wi-Fi or any of that.
Btw I'm not as old as I sound but grew up poor so that kept us behind the times.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Grandma had one of those wooden box phones that hung on the wall. Party lines, you knew who the call was for by how many times the phone rang. But i think any one could listen in, including the operator!

 

[The Moonshiner]

Ya I know you could listen in. I've done it. I do remember cutting into someone's call to see if they could hang up so I could make a quick call.

 

[User395221]

but grew up poor so that kept us behind the times.

That's something I've noticed from when I was young/er. These days everyone seems to have/expect to have everything. Young kids have mobile phones, Ipads, all the do-dads going, even where the family doesn't seem well off. The concept of going without doesn't seem to apply.

When I was a kid, not everyone had a phone, not everyone had a car, houses had maybe 2/3 bedrooms and kids shared a room, people slept in the sleepout/back verandah and didn't have their own room. I'm sure there are still people doing without, but within the "ordinary folk" the concept of just doing without seems alien. You've got to have everything, right from the get-go. Not having it and saving up to have it later doesn't seem to be that common. I think people might be happier if they didn't feel they have to keep up with all the "stuff" and accumulate debt to get it.

 

[CapricornFarm]

That's something I've noticed from when I was young/er. These days everyone seems to have/expect to have everything. Young kids have mobile phones, Ipads, all the do-dads going, even where the family doesn't seem well off. The concept of going without doesn't seem to apply.

When I was a kid, not everyone had a phone, not everyone had a car, houses had maybe 2/3 bedrooms and kids shared a room, people slept in the sleepout/back verandah and didn't have their own room. I'm sure there are still people doing without, but within the "ordinary folk" the concept of just doing without seems alien. You've got to have everything, right from the get-go. Not having it and saving up to have it later doesn't seem to be that common. I think people might be happier if they didn't feel they have to keep up with all the "stuff" and accumulate debt to get it.

Yeah, my brother in law and his wife spent like crazy. She would spend bill money on going to bingo and not tell him. They ended up divorced.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Well I knew i wasn't "ordinary folk".
I've never had a credit card or really any debt. I did buy one vehicle on payments And had to finance our place but that's it.
I know when my time comes to an end the only thing I'm going to regret not having is more time with my kids and loved ones.
Toys, gadgets and fancy stuff can be fun but nothing beats holding my wife and hearing my kids laughter.