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In reply to the discussion: If someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared, what would be the mot difficult thing to explain? [View all]AgingAmerican
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If someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared, what would be the mot difficult thing to explain? [View all]
Are_grits_groceries
Jan 2013
OP
OMG, Lotus is still around? Is it still as slow as a snail drinking molasses on a winter's day?
nilram
Jan 2013
#193
very true; from a "fifties" person; I have finally learned how comfortable "sloppy" can be.
northoftheborder
Jan 2013
#45
When they put Ronnie Reagan's casket in the rotunda at the Capitol when he died, that is when I
MADem
Jan 2013
#137
The '55 had that too. It didn't work very well. You pushed the left knob in to make it search.
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#143
You're reading my mind! I just got back from the store, some toilet paper, some
RKP5637
Jan 2013
#38
Why in comparison to 21st century Republicans, Ike (Eisenhower) seems like a lefty radical.
Mrs. Overall
Jan 2013
#14
My grandparents, who had strong connections to Hollywood, knew he was gay all along.
hunter
Jan 2013
#114
That's cool that your grandparents were opened minded in the 50's--my mother was shocked
Mrs. Overall
Jan 2013
#158
HELLO?! Did my Boomer Generation/your Grandparents disappear?! I'M FROM 1949!!
WinkyDink
Jan 2013
#20
I am from the fifties and was taught that there would never be a Great Depression again
Cleita
Jan 2013
#28
Yep, similar here, except my parents were democrats. And after FDR many thought the
RKP5637
Jan 2013
#32
The change in the role of women of all racial and ethnic groups has been huge. n/t
amandabeech
Jan 2013
#67
Was just remembering The Spy Who Shagged Me & laughing at Dr.Evil's "One Million Dollars"
KittyWampus
Jan 2013
#90
That the height of human space exploration would occur in the following decade and a half n/t
IDemo
Jan 2013
#53
Song by Donald Fagen (of Steely Dan Fame) addresses it, but in reverse......
tableturner
Jan 2013
#73
What really freaks me out (I'm 50 yrs old) is how people are glued to their phones
KittyWampus
Jan 2013
#94
Try this: "If a name on The Wall came back, explain vacations now in Vietnam."
WinkyDink
Jan 2013
#97
The lack of leisure time, and the number of people who have no instructive hobbies. nt
Nay
Jan 2013
#101
I was thinking "what the fuck happened to the unions?" but yours is more accurate.
TheKentuckian
Jan 2013
#171
"...and while looking at kitteh photos, I plunge head first into a water feature."
CrispyQ
Jan 2013
#106
The Pill in 1960 really changed America forever. I remember it as a young woman.
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#186
Their promise of future utopia morphed into climate change's promise of a decimated civilization
NoOneMan
Jan 2013
#128
Prolly the music. Or sex scandal in the church, school shootings, u know, the little things.
MichiganVote
Jan 2013
#131
Who is this black man on my TV speaking from what looks to be the Oval Office?
Drunken Irishman
Jan 2013
#132
I know. We have a photo of my husband's family, circa 1948 and no one was fat.
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#164
I think we would have been less surprised by the technical stuff and more surprised
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#145
yes, more surprise at seeing different races mixing , openly gay couples , Obama as President
JI7
Jan 2013
#149
well, maybe Google. I'm still amazed that I can just type in something in Google and
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#161
And, I forgot, smoking bans! I wanted to smoke when I was in high school in the 50s
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#178
how old would this person be ? what year were they born in ? also we would need to know their
JI7
Jan 2013
#146
As others have said, the social changes probably would be "most difficult".
NYC Liberal
Jan 2013
#152
I was a kid during the '50s, and if I'd done a Rip Van Winkle in 1959 and just woke up,
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jan 2013
#157
They'd have to be taught all our modern jargon as if it were a second language
lunatica
Jan 2013
#163
How we let people get away with creating for-profit middlemen between us and
Laura PourMeADrink
Jan 2013
#168
civil rights, gay marrage, no smoking in hosptials or airplanes, black president,
crazyjoe
Jan 2013
#174
Oh, I don't know. My mother had a face lift in the 1950s or early 1960s and her
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#185
Facelifts are one thing. Basketball boobies from implants and those oversized frozen cheeks
valerief
Jan 2013
#196
But it was kinda mymother's fault. She sunbathed in the hot Texas sun for YEARS...
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#197
It would be hard to explain why nuclear energy hasn't made humanity problem-free.
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jan 2013
#181
If the person was say, Isaac Asimov or Arthur Clarke, then very little would be hard to explain
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#192
Why all these crazy-ass future doctors won't recommend a cigarette brand for them. n/t
JoeyT
Jan 2013
#194
They would be amazed to learn.. that Congress and Senate no longer serve "We The People"
lib2DaBone
Jan 2013
#204