Q for the elderly members...do you miss the 70''s?

[susimoo]

Date: 4/16/2010 5:10:04 PM
Author: sarap333

Date: 4/16/2010 4:34:24 PM

Author: susimoo

Date: 4/16/2010 4:25:44 PM


Author: sarap333

Date: 4/16/2010 4:08:16 PM



Author: susimoo



PS





I hardly recognize you! Where has the diamond fire gone and who is the cheeky charlie in the picture?

Ha, ha - I thought it was time for a new photo. The handsome guy -- cheeky charlie is a good name! -- is one of my Cardigan Welsh Corgis sporting his full winter coat (he loves the snow). He''s ''blown coat'' now, and looks 10 pounds lighter, but the ears are still the same!

He is beyond cute!! What''s his name?I love to put a face to the name!

Thanks -- his name is Duncan. I''ll tell him you think he''s cute -- he loves the ladies (just like DF!).

A good old scottish name! I AM proud!

Ps I''m scottish! lol

 

[PumpkinPie]

Date: 4/16/2010 1:10:32 PM
Author: canuk-gal

Date: 4/16/2010 12:59:05 PM

Author: Anastasia

HEEEEYYYYY - WHO ARE YOU CALLING ELDERLY???????????????!!!!!!!

HI:


HA! Thought the same thing.....

I came on this thread just to show my support for you "elderly folk"
I wouldn''t call a single PSer elderly! goodness..

 

[HollyS]

Wait just a dad-gum minute . . . who are you calling elderly?

I prefer ''half-centurian''.

( I don''t even know if that''s a word. ) And, really, isn''t 50 the new 30? I hear 60 is the new 40; I''m feeling younger everyday.

But to answer the question, no, not really. What''s to miss? What goes around comes around. Again and again and again . . .

 

[Regular Guy]

Born in 55...I'm 54 now...though a bit young to have experienced it full tilt...I do miss...the 60s...

 

[Lula]

Dog thread jack alert!
Susimoo --we chose a good Scots name for him because my husband and I love Scotland! We vacationed there for about two weeks (this was several years ago) and we spent some time on the islands of Skye (beautiful) and Lewis and Harris. I loved the outer Hebrides and would go back again in an instant. I still wear a sweater I brought back from that trip -- beautiful wool.

That trip was how I got to know the wonderful herding dogs of the British Isles. My husband and I searched for a long time to find a Cardigan Welsh Corgi breeder in the U.S. (Pembroke corgis are more common here) and finally found one about three hours away from us. Duncan is a good dog -- very smart, too. His job is to keep the yard clear of squirrels (they''ll do in a pinch if cows or sheep are not available).

End thread jack.

 

[lulu]

Looking at my husband I sometimes think 65 is the new 12.

 

[susimoo]

I am so glad you loved my homeland! I feel very proud!

Duncan, yourself, hubbie and any other cute doggies are welcome to visit anytime!

In view of the current thread I would obviously expect you to be in 70''s attire at all times, whilst whistling the BeeGees. Roller disco will obvioulsy be a daily requirement as will squishing/ huggling of your gorgeous cheeky charlie, Duncan.

Ps I can''t knit but can take you to some fab knitwear shops!!

and know one or two places we could enjoy a dram or two

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 4/16/2010 3:56:52 PM
Author: sarap333

Susimoo, DF often repeats his ''average PSer is 28'' statistic, but I know that there are more of us over 40 than he thinks

20%

 

[AprilBaby]

Do I miss the 70''s? The Brady Bunch, Donny Osmund and the Partridge family? The Monkees and Davy Jones? NO WAY! It made me cringe a couple of years ago when my clothes from jr high came back into fashion.
Marcia or Jan? (Jan)

Peter or Greg? (Peter)

NOOOO WAYYYYYY

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 4/16/2010 5:06:01 PM
Author: lulu
I was born in 53, so the 70s for me were college, law school and first job. I was never into disco and I would have to say that 70s'' fashion was the worst ever. Remember leisure suits? Yikes!

But I agree that it was a simpler time. Really, all we had to worry about was Vietnam, draft numbers and Ted Bundy. Oh, well maybe it wasn''t simpler. I''m really more nostalgic about the 60s.

i love 60''s music and cars.

 

[Linda W]

Date: 4/16/2010 5:56:29 PM
Author: Regular Guy
Born in 55...I''m 54 now...though a bit young to have experienced it full tilt...I do miss...the 60s...

And so do I Ira. I graduated High School, in 1967. My high school friends and I discuss this all the time. It was a simpler time for us. The Vietnam was war horrible and ugly, we lost beloved classmates. I am thankful for the friends that returned home safe.

 

[ksinger]

Date: 4/16/2010 6:44:23 PM
Author: Linda W

Date: 4/16/2010 5:56:29 PM
Author: Regular Guy
Born in 55...I''m 54 now...though a bit young to have experienced it full tilt...I do miss...the 60s...

And so do I Ira. I graduated High School, in 1967. My high school friends and I discuss this all the time. It was a simpler time for us. The Vietnam was war horrible and ugly, we lost beloved classmates. I am thankful for the friends that returned home safe.

Oh, I doubt any time is really simpler - every generation says that of the times of their youth - it''s just at 18 YOU are simpler. You don''t bear the weight of the accretion of years and experience. If I came into wads of money I could quit my job and go back to college and live in a dorm like I did at 18, but I will never have that wonderful enthusiastic wide-eyed naivete of 18 again, no matter what...

 

[lulu]

Good point ksinger.

 

[hlmr]

Date: 4/16/2010 5:53:01 PM
Author: HollyS
Wait just a dad-gum minute . . . who are you calling elderly?

I prefer ''half-centurian''.

( I don''t even know if that''s a word. ) And, really, isn''t 50 the new 30? I hear 60 is the new 40; I''m feeling younger everyday.

But to answer the question, no, not really. What''s to miss? What goes around comes around. Again and again and again . . .

so true!!!! The music, the hair, the clothes....

That being said, I probably won''t be rollar skating again to that groovy disco music, like I did in the late 70''s.

 

[luv2sparkle]

Elderly!!!! You really do want to get beaten up, don''t you DF? I don''t miss them at all, and I look forward to the day when my kids look at the photo''s from now, and think ''why did I ever think I looked good?''

I mean fair is fair, right?!

 

[loriken214]

I LOVED the 70''s! Born in 1962 and had tons of fun until I had to start working full time.

Lori

 

[Gailey]

Date: 4/16/2010 10:52:39 PM
Author: loriken214
I LOVED the 70's! Born in 1962 and had tons of fun until I had to start working full time.

Lori

Right there with you Lori! Hey you're younger than me - just.

So many memorable things happened to me in the 70's

Here's a little 70's Scots treat for Susimoo. Who was your favourite?

 

[susimoo]

Date: 4/16/2010 10:59:55 PM
Author: Gailey

Date: 4/16/2010 10:52:39 PM

Author: loriken214

I LOVED the 70''s! Born in 1962 and had tons of fun until I had to start working full time.

Lori

Right there with you Lori! Hey you''re younger than me - just.


So many memorable things happened to me in the 70''s

Here''s a little 70''s Scots treat for Susimoo. Who was your favourite

Gailey, this made me laugh out LOUD!!!!

I have and always will be a drummer''s girl, so it is Derek for me!

 

[Imdanny]

You have to be elderly to remember the ''70''s? Oh dear.

 

[perry]

Age is a state of mind.

DF: You may consider yourself elderly - I certainly don''t.

I had a blast in the 70''s - and yes I miss some things.

Kids used to visit friends by walking or riding bicycle. They also had paper routes - all without having the parents drive them around.

Same with participation in sports. There were no "soccer moms" in that the parents did not have to transport their own kids to the events (maybee one or two parents transported the team).

As a kid (12/13) - I could take a 22 rifle, or other gun - on my bicycle - ride through town right past the cops to one of several local shooting ranges. No one thought anything of that (other than checking that I had been properly trained in how to use a gun).

Many other things like that - people were not so paranoid.

Overall, the crime rate was about the same - and yes there were sexual assaults and mass murders back then. We just didn''t dwell on them so much to the point of living life in fear.

People were a lot more social in person too.

Perry

 

[ksinger]

Oh, the elderly part is just DF giggin'' people to get responses.

Although, I''m sure to some folks on here, the 70s are viewed as pretty much equivalent to when lizards ruled the earth. Like how we viewed the 40s perhaps?

 

[ksinger]

Date: 4/17/2010 9:45:22 AM
Author: perry
Age is a state of mind.

DF: You may consider yourself elderly - I certainly don''t.

I had a blast in the 70''s - and yes I miss some things.

Kids used to visit friends by walking or riding bicycle. They also had paper routes - all without having the parents drive them around.

Same with participation in sports. There were no ''soccer moms'' in that the parents did not have to transport their own kids to the events (maybee one or two parents transported the team).

As a kid (12/13) - I could take a 22 rifle, or other gun - on my bicycle - ride through town right past the cops to one of several local shooting ranges. No one thought anything of that (other than checking that I had been properly trained in how to use a gun).

Many other things like that - people were not so paranoid.

Overall, the crime rate was about the same - and yes there were sexual assaults and mass murders back then. We just didn''t dwell on them so much to the point of living life in fear.

People were a lot more social in person too.

Perry

Now THAT was purely a function of where you lived, NOT the times. Small towns, western states, yeah, maybe. But I''ve lived in a western/southern state my whole life and I NEVER saw a kid wagging a 22 or any other caliber anything, on his bike. Nor did I even see shotguns hung up in the back of pickups in the highschool parking lot, and I live in a gun-culture state. So I''m calling serious selective memory on that one. That was not a common characteristic of the 70s.

 

[Lorelei]

Date: 4/17/2010 10:04:54 AM
Author: ksinger
Oh, the elderly part is just DF giggin' people to get responses.

Although, I'm sure to some folks on here, the 70s are viewed as pretty much equivalent to when lizards ruled the earth. Like how we viewed the 40s perhaps?

Big ditto, DF knows exactly what he is doing with his choice of words....!!!

 

[zoebartlett]

I was born in the early ''70s, and although I was young by the time 1980 rolled around, I remember a lot about them. Of all the different types of music out there, aside from heavy metal, I can''t STAND classic rock from the ''70s. Plus, the hair, clothing, decor...

I did like TV shows like The Courtship of Eddie''s Father, The Brady Bunch, Good Times, etc.

 

[Kaleigh]

Date: 4/17/2010 2:38:35 PM
Author: Lorelei

Date: 4/17/2010 10:04:54 AM
Author: ksinger
Oh, the elderly part is just DF giggin'' people to get responses.

Although, I''m sure to some folks on here, the 70s are viewed as pretty much equivalent to when lizards ruled the earth. Like how we viewed the 40s perhaps?

Big ditto, DF knows exactly what he is doing with his choice of words....!!!

Maybe he meant the 60''s isn''t that more his speed???

Oh DF, you always crack me up!!!!

 

[artdecogirl]

I do not miss the 70''s, I was a preteen then and while I do have some good memories of music and roller skating and friends, stuff like that but like someone said, all that, music or whatever is accessible now and the clothes are back in fashion, (yuck) I have to go now, I guess I should fill out some paperwork for AARP membership and maybe get some vitamins, you know the ones for the elderly. hehe

 

[Gailey]

Date: 4/17/2010 4:46:07 AM
Author: susimoo

Date: 4/16/2010 10:59:55 PM
Author: Gailey

Date: 4/16/2010 10:52:39 PM

Author: loriken214

I LOVED the 70''s! Born in 1962 and had tons of fun until I had to start working full time.

Lori

Right there with you Lori! Hey you''re younger than me - just.


So many memorable things happened to me in the 70''s

Here''s a little 70''s Scots treat for Susimoo. Who was your favourite

Gailey, this made me laugh out LOUD!!!!

I have and always will be a drummer''s girl, so it is Derek for me!

It was Alan all the way for me. If Donny was my first crush, Alan was definitely my first love!

 

[Lorelei]

Date: 4/18/2010 12:54:09 AM
Author: Gailey

Date: 4/17/2010 4:46:07 AM
Author: susimoo

Date: 4/16/2010 10:59:55 PM
Author: Gailey

Date: 4/16/2010 10:52:39 PM

Author: loriken214

I LOVED the 70's! Born in 1962 and had tons of fun until I had to start working full time.

Lori

Right there with you Lori! Hey you're younger than me - just.


So many memorable things happened to me in the 70's

Here's a little 70's Scots treat for Susimoo. Who was your favourite

Gailey, this made me laugh out LOUD!!!!

I have and always will be a drummer's girl, so it is Derek for me!

It was Alan all the way for me. If Donny was my first crush, Alan was definitely my first love!

Oh my......

Does this mean I have to dig out my tartan edged highwater jeans, baseball shoes, tam o' shanter and tartan scarf???????

ETA - I forgot to add my stripey socks to go with the above ensemble.....

 

[susimoo]

What a great idea for an elderly Brit PS GTG.

We all have to come as our favourite Bay City Roller.

JOKE!!!!

 

[Lorelei]

Date: 4/18/2010 5:49:45 AM
Author: susimoo
What a great idea for an elderly Brit PS GTG.

We all have to come as our favourite Bay City Roller.

JOKE!!!!

There you go, 'tis a great idea....

This elderly Brit wouldn't know which Roller to choose.....