Times have changed...

[Nazulu]

Times sure have changed. Talentless dumb asses nearly completely dominate all media. I really fucking hate pop culture today. I wish I could escape it altogether, can't imagine it getting any worse. To me the best times for art were the 70's, 80's and 90's, when there was so much experimentation and the pop culture was more tolerable.

Then there is Australia becoming more of a nanny state. Recession is stressing my parents to hell and back. Government stopped funding my school so now I have to pay full price for my courses. Other depressing shit goes here...

However, of course there are good things like my super fast internet and super fast technology. We now have a better understanding of those different fetishes so we don't classify those people as evil like as quick as before. I have a much better job now and make more money. I hardly see any annoying kids outside, just some playing football on the streets.

 

[FalloutJack]

I'm ambivalent about the future and the past. I don't really belong to an era. I'm just me.

I was born in the 80s, but I always felt I should've been born in the 70s so I could appreciate the hard rock of the 80s better, as a thing of my age and not a retrospective. I have many classic tastes, both in old music and in old shows along with a number of the contemporary. And yet, despite all that, I very easily look towards the future and embrace technology. Alienware laptop? Brilliant. Mars exploration? Awesome. Nanotechnology, DNA-based information storage, lasers that make things explode - a sci-fi nut's paradise. It's a little hard to know which direction I belong to. But you know what I really miss out of life? Surge.

No wait. I did that wrong. Ahem...

[HEADING=1]SUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRGGGGEEE!!![/HEADING]

 

[Pfheonix]

Our kids are getting worse, guys. They won't obey their parents, and they all just want to fart... And curse! Should we blame the government? Blame society? Blame the images on TV? Nah...

BLAME CANADA! BLAME CANADA! With all their hockey hullabaloo, and that ***** Anne Murray too... BLAME CANADA! SHAME ON CANADA!

OT:
Sorry 'bout that. Had to be done. The things which are changing in some ways I don't see a problem with, but they effect change in social interaction. The increase in technology, especially with phones, we don't often talk face to face, even in a business environment, unless necessary. It speeds up business, but makes it less personal, just with our personal lives. I spend my time in front of a computer, rather than with friends, quite often, honestly. From that, the music today, while it doesn't really differ lyrically, has even less musical complexity than the rock which was in the 90's and early aughts. It's sad.

 

[Something Amyss]

I look at this tune and think to myself - there are others before me who thought the same of me. This is just a never-ending cycle of generation after generation. What do you think?

There were Greek texts with the gist of "kids these days."

I think this is an age-old problem.

 

[TheIronRuler]

I look at this tune and think to myself - there are others before me who thought the same of me. This is just a never-ending cycle of generation after generation. What do you think?

There were Greek texts with the gist of "kids these days."

I think this is an age-old problem.

.
I know, I know, it's one the reasons why I reached this conclusion.

 

[The]

snip

Wait, wait, wait... Did you just say you hate recycling bins?

 

[Pink Gregory]

There is also a whole lot less things to do now. I have heard stories from my dad of him and his friends or brothers just getting a sheet of corrugated iron and making a makeshift canoe to use on the river near there house. I would bet any money that there are about 15 different laws forbidding that these days.

But what's the likelihood of finding a sheet of corrugated iron without having to buy it?

Also, in reference to music, I don't agree at all with the idea that musical complexity=good. There's a whole other dimension to music, it's called tone, without that it may as well just be typing.

 

[Something Amyss]

Hurting people's feelings is a crime now (we live in planet wuss [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgxmPsHR3AM])

Wow, I'm glad I don't live in that reality. I hurt peoples' feelings all the time.

 

[Genocidicles]

Wait, wait, wait... Did you just say you hate recycling bins?

Yep.

I long for the days when I could just dump everything in the same bin with no fuss.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

There is also a whole lot less things to do now. I have heard stories from my dad of him and his friends or brothers just getting a sheet of corrugated iron and making a makeshift canoe to use on the river near there house. I would bet any money that there are about 15 different laws forbidding that these days.

But what's the likelihood of finding a sheet of corrugated iron without having to buy it?

That brings up another point. I somehow doubt stealing borrowing a sheet of unused corrugated iron from somewhere will be seen as teenagers bending the rules and just having a bit of fun anymore.
You would be seen as 'Horrible teenagers, stealing stuff from hardworking families to fuel their, most likely drug-induced, need for danger!'

Its like adventure is seen as a bad thing. At least in comparison to all the back-in-my-day stories my dad tells me.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

But you know what I really miss out of life? Surge.

No wait. I did that wrong. Ahem...

[HEADING=1]SUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRGGGGEEE!!![/HEADING]

No kidding, right?

It's being produced in Norway, so you still can get it... if you feel like paying an arm and a leg for it. It's like $18 USD per .5 liter bottle.

EDIT:
http://www.savesurge.org/urge_usa.shtml

On the off chance that anyone feels like doing so.

 

[Dr.Susse]

Moving up the coast really changed my life.

People there where more mature (Not that people from where I used to live are more childish but up here some people my age have children and that was foreign to me) and much more welcoming.

I can't imagine what would have become of me If I stayed in Sydney. And I wouldn't want to even start.

 

[TheIronRuler]

Wait, wait, wait... Did you just say you hate recycling bins?

Yep.

I long for the days when I could just dump everything in the same bin with no fuss.

.
I think it depends on the place you live in... For example, you can just look at Mombai's streets in India and see the rivers of trash flowing through the streets, then remember the same shit happened in 1800s London.

 

[FalloutJack]

But you know what I really miss out of life? Surge.

No wait. I did that wrong. Ahem...

[HEADING=1]SUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRGGGGEEE!!![/HEADING]

No kidding, right?

It's being produced in Norway, so you still can get it... if you feel like paying an arm and a leg for it. It's like $18 USD per .5 liter bottle.

EDIT:
http://www.savesurge.org/urge_usa.shtml

On the off chance that anyone feels like doing so.

While you're at it, gimme the site in Norway, just in case I find the offer worthwhile.

Never me mind. That IS the link. Carry on!