One of my students this week called the 1970s "the late 1900s" and after I collapsed in on myself

[mahatmakanejeeves]

One of my students this week called the 1970s “the late 1900s” and after I collapsed in on myself and became a black hole I realized that that is a correct description now.

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. Well, I Found It Funny!

Late 1900's.
The collapsing on one's self into a black hole gave me a chuckle, too.
The author clearly understands the gravity of the situation.

[getagrip_already]

2. tell them to eat their hearts out.....

Free love, cheap drugs, drinking age was 18, nobody gave a crap what you had for dinner or what shoes you just bought.

No cell phones to clutter your day. No sms idiocy. No frenemies stabbing you in the back when you post the perfect selfie.

Girls in school going braless and wearing loose halters. Cops who were annoyed at your antics but not homicidally angry (well, outside of the deep south anyway).

AIDS didn't exist. Mrs. Robinson was a thing.

Good blue collar jobs were all over.

Heroin was on its way out, cocaine hadn't arrived yet in crystal form, and ludes were a party drug that.....

Life wasn't easy for some, but it was good for most.

All things considered, I'd rather be in 1975 watching jimmy carter give the sotu..

[Texaswitchy]

3. The 70's ruled.

I was love to go back.

Austin.

[DBoon]

6. and the best part

You could believe Nixon was an aberration and nobody as wicked as him would ever get elected president again

[Texaswitchy]

7. No masks.

No Trump and his stupid followers.

Yeah the 70's were not perfect.


Better then now.

[Elessar Zappa]

4. It wasn't all rosy.

Violent crime was sky high, most gay people had to stay in the closet, and minorities had it worse than they have it now. Every era has its positives and negatives.

[getagrip_already]

11. true, the decade started with the kent state massacre.....

And the war was still raging - lots of classmates family members were buried..... And riots weren't gone.

But it was a time that was easier to understand and navigate. At least for a kid going through his teens in white suburbia.

I would hate to be a 13 y,o. kid now,,,,,,,

[Mme. Defarge]

8. I dunno.

What about polyester lime green leisure suits for guys?

[getagrip_already]

10. it was never easy being green... n/t

[hunter]

15. My 'seventies experience was a hellish roller coaster ride of angst, despair...

... mental illness, and moments of extreme violence.

There were a few bright spots in my 'seventies life, but overall it's a fucking miracle I got out alive.

Looking back there's no way I could have improved my life in any way.

Even the better choices I made, even the better choices I might have made, led to some very dark places.

That 'seventies U.S.A. was a filthy tsunami of toxic crap and the election of Ronald Reagan only confirmed it. In 1980 television put all that crap in a bottle and sold it.

I'm not a glass-half-empty sort of guy. I'm the kid who was walking through all the broken glasses barefoot.

When I talk to older homeless guys on the streets I'm acutely aware that I could have been them.

[trof]

5. I was born in the mid 1900s.

[wnylib]

18. Same here. Smack in the middle.

[multigraincracker]

9. I can remember the smell of when

I went into my lab in a closet to develop the film from my camera. In black and white.

[getagrip_already]

12. and then.....

Printing the pictures under red light, with yet more chemicals and water baths... proof sheets, exposure strips, multiple timed copies on different stock - print drying drums....

An introverts palace!

[Harker]

13. Brings to mind the first time I heard the phrase, "classic rock."

I repeated it with a sneer.

[malthaussen]

14. Stuck in the middle of "Mid" and "Late."

I reckon one would not have been too far out if, in 1970, he referred to the 20s as "The earlier part of the century."

-- Mal

[rickyhall]

16. I was doing fine in the '70s, then I got married and Raygun rose up from depths of Hell.

[LeftInTX]

17. A cashier quietly asked me, "What's a check?"

Had no idea what a check was.

I'm shopping at Party City.
Manager said, "We don't accept checks"

I mutter something about it and then pull out my credit card.

Obviously this cashier was able to read my body language, but he realized he had found the Holy Grail in lil'o me.

He whispers in my ear and asks, "What's a check?"

One of the most bizarre moments of generation gap...

But then, I had to ask my son how to pronounce, "meme"