What's on your mind?

[GodDoesListen55]

Time always seems to do the opposite of what you want it to do. When you want it to slow down, it goes faster than a speeding bullet. When you want it to go quickly, it is as slow as a turtle.

 

[DragonFox91]

I was going thru some old magazines I have. 90s to about 2009. . It’s interesting looking at the ads. 90s ads were selling the Internet. Paraphrase, but ‘check out our line store.’ Ones for video games were still selling the idea you could bring the arcade into your house.

I was surprised 2009 ads they were still using ‘he’ pronouns when speaking generically (“Go to his store.” )I was also surprised as recent as 2009 how much they ‘Christmas’ instead of holidays. (“It’ll be out around Christmas.”)

One thing I’ve been fascinated recently is how big smoking used to be, how everyone & their brother used to smoke. I don’t have a magazines that go that far back tho.

Ads used to really sell sex too. Almost every ad tried to sell you on that. That’s something you don’t see as much today. The mainstream finally pushed back on it, rightfully so I think, but now I think it’s opposite problem, pendulum swung too far back the opposite way.

Since I’m on the topic of how times have changed, I was shopping to birthday cards the other day & noticed almost every card is animal-related, especially dogs & cats. Aren’t there more good thing in the world than animals? I also noticed how many dog playgrounds & pet hospitals they’re building.

Time always seems to do the opposite of what you want it to do. When you want it to slow down, it goes faster than a speeding bullet. When you want it to go quickly, it is as slow as a turtle.

Really tough for us time-anxiety people.

 

[ReesePiece23]

I was going thru some old magazines I have. 90s to about 2009. . It’s interesting looking at the ads. 90s ads were selling the Internet. Paraphrase, but ‘check out our line store.’ Ones for video games were still selling the idea you could bring the arcade into your house.

I was surprised 2009 ads they were still using ‘he’ pronouns when speaking generically (“Go to his store.” )I was also surprised as recent as 2009 how much they ‘Christmas’ instead of holidays. (“It’ll be out around Christmas.”)

One thing I’ve been fascinated recently is how big smoking used to be, how everyone & their brother used to smoke. I don’t have a magazines that go that far back tho.

Ads used to really sell sex too. Almost every ad tried to sell you on that. That’s something you don’t see as much today. The mainstream finally pushed back on it, rightfully so I think, but now I think it’s opposite problem, pendulum swung too far back the opposite way.

Since I’m on the topic of how times have changed, I was shopping to birthday cards the other day & noticed almost every card is animal-related, especially dogs & cats. Aren’t there more good thing in the world than animals? I also noticed how many dog playgrounds & pet hospitals they’re building.


Really tough for us time-anxiety people.

You're at a similar age to me, so you're well aware of this. But I work with a lot of young lads (born after 2000) and they can NOT wrap their heads around it when I tell them that the internet used to be this uncool, obscure thing that only geeks got involved with. Amazing really, when you consider that there's only a decade between me and these guys, yet the differences in our respective adolescent days are a century apart.

My mother used to give me a pocketful of coins before I went out with my mates so that I could call her from a phonebox if I had a problem or needed picking up, my colleagues find this impossible to believe.

I have actually found chatroom threads from the late 80s early 90s - and I must say, it makes for fascinating reading. The posts read much more like today's and not like the early 00s slang that came l'8r m8. Btw, wuu2? Plz tb.

 

[DragonFox91]

You're at a similar age to me, so you're well aware of this. But I work with a lot of young lads (born after 2000) and they can NOT wrap their heads around it when I tell them that the internet used to be this uncool, obscure thing that only geeks got involved with. Amazing really, when you consider that there's only a decade between me and these guys, yet the differences in our respective adolescent days are a century apart.

My mother used to give me a pocketful of coins before I went out with my mates so that I could call her from a phonebox if I had a problem or needed picking up, my colleagues find this impossible to believe.

I have actually found chatroom threads from the late 80s early 90s - and I must say, it makes for fascinating reading. The posts read much more like today's and not like the early 00s slang that came l'8r m8. Btw, wuu2? Plz tb.

Video games were like that too. It’s much more even amongst the sexes now. When I was growing up, it was almost exclusively a boy thing - & a nerdy boy thing at that. Now most people past a certain generation play at least once in a while.

I’ve really noticed lately fathers our age who grew up on video games got their daughters into video games.

 

[Citanul]

Video games were like that too. It’s much more even amongst the sexes now. When I was growing up, it was almost exclusively a boy thing - & a nerdy boy thing at that. Now most people past a certain generation play at least once in a while.

Not just video games, but nerdy/geeky pursuits in general. These days there plenty of women, but back in the day it was pretty much a boys' club. I've found it very rare to come across a woman my age who's into them.

 

[RileyG]

I feel so overwhelmed and drained.

 

[SarahsKnight]

I feel so overwhelmed and drained.

What's wrong, Riley?

 

[RileyG]

What's wrong, Riley?

Just tired is all. Day in day out. Life is very monotonous.

 

[GodDoesListen55]

UGH!

 

[GodDoesListen55]

I just wanna be happy...

 

[.Mikha'el.]

I just wanna be happy...

And what in life would cause you to be happy?

 

[Darktriad]

Civ 7 is a 70 dollar DLC to humankind that no one asked for.

 

[GodDoesListen55]

And what in life would cause you to be happy?

At this point, I honestly do not even know; maybe writing poetry and music is about it.

 

[GodDoesListen55]

At this point, I honestly do not even know; maybe writing poetry and music is about it.

And what in life would cause you to be happy?

I read that wrong last night. Sorry about that! What would cause me to be happy would probably be a family of my own and my book getting published so that I can inspire other survivors like myself.

 

[Yusuphhai]

 

[GodDoesListen55]

Great vacay!

 

[GodDoesListen55]

I am doing things out of my comfort zone to see if I can handle them mentally and emotionally, and right now I am really not sure.

 

[DragonFox91]

I am doing things out of my comfort zone to see if I can handle them mentally and emotionally, and right now I am really not sure.

Good for you taking the risk even if you end up backing out. God will see you thru either way. It's a learning how to trust God experience.

 

[bèlla]

@RileyG

I hope you feel better. Have a cup of tea and add a cough drop and sip on it. If you don't have the latter lemon or ginger will suffice. Chicken soup is good as well. The broth will soothe you.

 

[RileyG]

@RileyG

I hope you feel better. Have a cup of tea and add a cough drop and sip on it. If you don't have the latter lemon or ginger will suffice. Chicken soup is good as well. The broth will soothe you.

Thank you