Originally Posted by notinmybackyard

Fact: You weren't even a twinkle in your father's eye when I was getting my driver's license.

From apx 1940 to present day I can tell you what the food tasted like.. what the women talked like.. what the music sounded like... what the taxes were like... etc.. etc.. etc..

I have been alive that entire time so I have first hand testimony as to how the world has changed. Therefore not only am I perfectly suitable to pass judgement on this era but I also have the right.

• You don't know what it was like to watch a movie on a really giant silver screen while sitting in very comfortable velour seats and having a cigarette girl sell you a shot of brandy...
  
• Or to hear Frank Sinatra sing in person....
  
• Or ride the rails of the T.H & B railway where the worst that could happen to you was you would be kicked off the train.
  
• Or to be able to get a damn good paying job or even a trade by just talking to the manager for 10 mins.
  
• Or to be able to make money selling the clippings of your sister's pubic hair.
  
• Or make a truckload of money selling a 3 minute loop of a blow job.
  
• Or just how much unbelievable amount of freedom we had.

You don't know jack shit about what the past was like because you weren't there. All you have is a handful of Internet memes, corporate driven propaganda and an over priced cheap Iphone made in a Chinese sweat shop.