"The Good Ole Days"

[Mindmaster]

It seems they add a few letters every few weeks, I can't keep up with those guys anymore. And the pronouns and the gender fluid.people. Cool whatever floats their boat. At the same time I am glad I don't live in America, it seems like it would be hellishly confusing having to remember 40+ pronouns to call people by all the time.

The definition of madness is attempting to legitimize your madness, I don't bother. It doesn't matter to me if you are LGB but after that you're just making **** up.

 

[Stanyon]

Just call them alphabet people and you've got everyone and everything covered.

 

[PureX]

Even better, LGBT+.

I always liked "gender bent". Something sort of poetical in it, and it covers all sorts of issues.

 

[Father Heathen]

The definition of madness is attempting to legitimize your madness, I don't bother. It doesn't matter to me if you are LGB but after that you're just making **** up.

Even if they were just making **** up, they should still have the right and freedom to do so (their body, their life, etc.), as long as it didn't impede upon the rights and freedom of others.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

I just love the way we are discussing 'them' as if 'they' weren't in the room with us right now...

 

[Audie]

It's not so difficult.
Just say "LGBT", & the vast majority will be pleased.
And the vew who aren't...well, we can't allow their
displeasure to make our language unwieldy.

But we could retaliate. Those of us who are straight
cisgendered male & female, could loudly demand
that we be called "SCGMAF".

LGBT-

Pronounce it "elgiebiti". If non white, its
a elgibitipoc. For the indigenous, elgibitipocna.

See how easy?

 

[Revoltingest]

LGBT-

Pronounce it "elgiebiti". If non white, its
a elgibitipoc. For the indigenous, elgibitipocna.

See how easy?

I've proposed pronouncing it "Leggy Betty".
No one has seconded my suggestion.

 

[Audie]

I've proposed pronouncing it "Leggy Betty".
No one has seconded my suggestion.

Coz it is discriminatory and ( sob) insensitive to us short people.

Even tho I am not, you know, one of those alphabets.

 

[Revoltingest]

Coz it is discriminatory and ( sob) insensitive to us short people.
Even tho I am not, you know, one of those alphabets.

Short gals can be "leggy" too.

 

[Stevicus]

I never really understood this statement. As bad as it can possibly seem right now, it's the best it has ever been concerning how people treat, employ, tolerate, each other. At least in America as far as I know and other developed nations,

Sure it could be better. There is still a long way to go, and sure we have taken things too far. But in the grand scheme of things now will always be better than before. Especially concerning the racial climate in the US. Or the Equal rights climate for sexuality.

I mean I do support LGBT-ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY. But they are going too far. Same with the "offended people"

Anyone that says otherwise, You should rethink your position is all's I'm sayin'. Lest you be thought of in an untoward manner.

I think it depends on what is meant by "good ole days." How far back are we going here?

I guess there's good and bad - in both the old and the modern.

I recall how people would talk about how you used to know who your neighbors were and how nobody had to lock their doors. Children were safe playing outdoors or walking to school on their own.

There were fewer people back then. It was less crowded. There was less traffic, less pollution, less garbage. More trees, more wildlife, more untouched wilderness.

Life was a lot simpler back then - more quiet, patient times - as opposed to the hustle-and-bustle of today, where people are always in a hurried rush to get their immediate gratification.

Food was more natural back then; no additives or preservatives. On the other hand, newer methods are making it possible for us to feed more people today than we ever could back then.

Of course, as you mention, civil rights have improved immensely from what they were back in the old days, particularly (but not limited to) in terms of race, gender, and sexual orientation. I don't worry too much about the acronyms or the language of political correctness. But as far as I'm concerned, if they're humans, then they get equal rights before the law, along with all other humans, no matter if they're LGBT, BMF, or WPOD.

By the same token, everyone has a right to be offended, but it's a larger question whether society should have to bend over backwards to accommodate those who are "offended" about something or other. A lot of things offended people back in the "good ole days." If you look at movies from the 40s and 50s and compare them to today's films - a lot of stuff they have on video these days would have been unthinkable back in those earlier decades. But a lot of people today are offended by the older movies, even if they wouldn't bat an eye over all the gratuitous sex and violence in today's movies.

I think the late 60s and 70s were kind of experimental period - coming off the repression of previous decades yet not really imposing any new "rules" or structures. Kind of a free-form decade of sorts. It wasn't until the 80s that all these arbitrary rules started coming on the scene. It's kind of shame, since it seemed that real progress was being made.

 

[esmith]

I've proposed pronouncing it "Leggy Betty".
No one has seconded my suggestion.

Would that be Betty Boop, if so I wholeheartedly support your motion and I second it.

 

[Cacotopia]

Hello.

I would propose getting rid of capitalism (the cause of most of the most serious problems in the world) instead of mass murder. But to each his own LOL.

Peace.

I would still propose getting rid of the vast majority of humans based on their carbon foot print. Basically most developed countries would get wiped out.

 

[Revoltingest]

Would that be Betty Boop, if so I wholeheartedly support your motion and I second it.

Betty Boop is straight cisgendered.
Btw, she's unemployed because modern sensibilities
don't allow for scantily clad vixen voiced hottie.

 

[Mock Turtle]

I think it depends on what is meant by "good ole days." How far back are we going here?

I guess there's good and bad - in both the old and the modern.

I recall how people would talk about how you used to know who your neighbors were and how nobody had to lock their doors. Children were safe playing outdoors or walking to school on their own.

There were fewer people back then. It was less crowded. There was less traffic, less pollution, less garbage. More trees, more wildlife, more untouched wilderness.

Life was a lot simpler back then - more quiet, patient times - as opposed to the hustle-and-bustle of today, where people are always in a hurried rush to get their immediate gratification.

Food was more natural back then; no additives or preservatives. On the other hand, newer methods are making it possible for us to feed more people today than we ever could back then.

Of course, as you mention, civil rights have improved immensely from what they were back in the old days, particularly (but not limited to) in terms of race, gender, and sexual orientation. I don't worry too much about the acronyms or the language of political correctness. But as far as I'm concerned, if they're humans, then they get equal rights before the law, along with all other humans, no matter if they're LGBT, BMF, or WPOD.

By the same token, everyone has a right to be offended, but it's a larger question whether society should have to bend over backwards to accommodate those who are "offended" about something or other. A lot of things offended people back in the "good ole days." If you look at movies from the 40s and 50s and compare them to today's films - a lot of stuff they have on video these days would have been unthinkable back in those earlier decades. But a lot of people today are offended by the older movies, even if they wouldn't bat an eye over all the gratuitous sex and violence in today's movies.

I think the late 60s and 70s were kind of experimental period - coming off the repression of previous decades yet not really imposing any new "rules" or structures. Kind of a free-form decade of sorts. It wasn't until the 80s that all these arbitrary rules started coming on the scene. It's kind of shame, since it seemed that real progress was being made.

Thanks for saying virtually everything I was about to say.

I would add, that not everything in the garden is rosy, particularly with the extent of social media these days - how it affects the young - and how we will only know about the negative consequences (showing up already in some areas) in later years. We often trade some freedoms for restrictions, and times are much the same but lived differently. We can be thankful - most of us at least - that we haven't had to endure what my parents had to endure during WWII. Also, even though child abuse happened in the past, it wasn't continually in the news and affecting how adults and children interacted (but then, they didn't interact much anyway) - which is one of the downsides of this today. Often a bit hysterical. So some good and some bad in this respect.

I like the fact that people are in general more casual and free to express themselves these days but on the other hand the noxious effects of the PC culture is gnawing at this. The emphasis on technology and being slaves to their mobiles is something that many will not appreciate how better off we perhaps were with our quite simple pleasures - like a long bike ride or playing in a bombed-out building or crossing electric train tracks or going to the park on one's own as an eight-year-old and fracturing one's knee (because mum was sleeping after working nights) ...

I think overall things tend to get better but some things that were quite good also tend to be lost too.

 

[Audie]

Short gals can be "leggy" too.

Oh, you are just saying that to make me feel better.

Sob sob.

I am happy with how I look. Taller would be nice
tho.

 

[Audie]

I would still propose getting rid of the vast majority of humans based on their carbon foot print. Basically most developed countries would get wiped out.

Just wipe out everyone over five ft tall.

 

[Revoltingest]

Oh, you are just saying that to make me feel better.

Accusing me of being empathic & caring, eh.
I'm reporting you for abuse!

I am happy with how I look. Taller would be nice
tho.

I don't think "leggy" necessarily means long.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

I never really understood this statement. As bad as it can possibly seem right now, it's the best it has ever been concerning how people treat, employ, tolerate, each other. At least in America as far as I know and other developed nations,

Sure it could be better. There is still a long way to go, and sure we have taken things too far. But in the grand scheme of things now will always be better than before. Especially concerning the racial climate in the US. Or the Equal rights climate for sexuality.

I mean I do support LGBT-ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY. But they are going too far. Same with the "offended people"

Anyone that says otherwise, You should rethink your position is all's I'm sayin'. Lest you be thought of in an untoward manner.

I liked it back in the good old days when we could all put aside our differences and come together as one to beat up the New Zealand kids.

 

[Audie]

Accusing me of being empathic & caring, eh.
I'm reporting you for abuse!

I don't think "leggy" necessarily means long.

You just try carin' me and I will care you, and see what that
gets ya, ya swab!!!

It really is about proportions And I probably do
qualify as "leggy". But short, so very short. sob.

 

[Revoltingest]

You just try carin' me and I will care you, and see what that
gets ya, ya swab!!!

It really is about proportions And I probably do
qualify as "leggy". But short, so very short. sob.

I recommend not envying taller people.
Sure, they can reach some things more easily,
but they bang their heads more often.
Besides, as I recall, you're not unusually short.