To all the kids who survived the 80s or 90s

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

We didn't have all those things our parents did.

We didn't have teachers who cared about teaching us more than they worried about paying their own damn rent.

We didn't have police who thought of us as the people they were paid to protect.

We didn't have moms. We didn't have dads. We had two or less disgruntled sweaty people who would get home late at night and flop out in front of the TV.

We didn't have Howdy Doody, Bonanza, and the Honeymooners. We got to look at Boy George or Kurt Cobain on MTV all day and maybe catch the 8 o' clock movie with Chuck Norris or Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Looking back it's amazing we've survived. We did have some things our parents didn't have.

We had lots and lots and lots of every kind of dope. Well, I guess our parents had that too, but not when they were seven or eight years old. We did it in garages when our parents were at work.

We had automatic weapons. We worked at a young age. We had high-paying jobs as slingers, dealers, fences, and pimps.

We had sex with each other before puberty and sometimes made babies before we hit middle school.

We even had one kind of music composed almost entirely of swear words and racial slurs, and another kind of music composed almost entirely of loud noises, swear words, and lurid imagery of Satan.

And yet our generation has produced ALL of the most amazing, outstanding, and excellent video game players and flash animators the world has ever known.

Doesn't it make you proud to have grown up after Republicans tore down the government, postmodernists tore down the culture, and capitalism tore down the families?

[beam me up scottie]

1. Son?

nt

[Jawja]

4. beam me up scottie,

Thanks for the BIGGEST laugh of the evening.

:rofl:

[beam me up scottie]

6. You're very welcome!

I have a tip jar on the bar!

[DODI]

2. This is why I only work while my kids are at school. I leave when they

leave and come home when they do. Could I make more money? Could we have more than 2 bedrooms? Could we not be in massive debt? Yes, but I grew up without mom at home and I will not do that to my kids. When things get real bad, I look out at them playing in the yard with all the other neighborhood kids and know I am doing the right thing.

[seabeyond]

3. very interesting take on this and

very creative. i can appreciate anyway. dare i say anything else, well, i will just leave it at that. good post :thumbsup:

[XemaSab]

5. You forgot the part

about growing up with parents who were either part of the counterculture, or fought the counterculture, and either way around, having an ingrained cynical attitude towards the government and authority from birth.

[d_b]

7. You didn't happen

to grow up in Anchorage did you?

[oscar111]

8. PS that orig post is answer to RW email circulating now

in which the RW slams "gov lawyers regulating businesses that make what you buy" .. and slams a few other good LW programs. The RW email basically says "we were able to grow up fine in the fifties before the LW messed up society wth dem programs".

The RW email was most irritating, good to see this reply to it. Sadly, a penpal who ought to know better , fwded that RW email.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

9. Yeah, and that sucka got like

150 replies.

I'm just tryna keep things in perspectve...

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

10. Kicking myself

It seems kind of rude but I never got votes before!

[bemildred]

11. Eh, Ok, I must say I am stunned by the overall failure of the "drug war".

I was around in the 60s and 70s, and my kid is in his late teens,
and even with all the repressive crap going on and the drug war
there are more and better and more varied drugs out there beating
down your door to be sold to you than anytime I can remember.
High school is like a drug summer camp.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

12. I think the drug war breeds drug use

Drugs have been going down in real price. I'm 31 and a bag of any drug you name costs the same as when I was 16. It depends on who you know and where you go and quality. People pay around fifty for an eighth of good weed, just like when I was in high school. I remember clearly that a pack of cigarettes, which is now around five dollars, was overpriced at $2.50 in those days; I got my Camels for $1.75 usually. A "twelver" of beers was $3.00, and you could eat extremely well for ten bucks.

Everything except for drugs costs more now! In those days, however, a pound of crank meant a visit by two guys with handguns and maybe three years in the can. People sat on their drugs and wouldn't let go of them, got high on their own supply, refused to sell to people to make a point, and generally acted like pirates and warlords.

Now that pound can mean a visit from a tactical squad of fifteen to twenty paramilitary police in helmets and gas masks who are likely to KILL your dog, MOLEST any females in the house, SET your house on fire, possibly leaving your BABY inside, and then you go to jail for the rest of your life. So dealers today are like PLEASE, get this shit off my hands, do you have any friends who need any, I'll cut you a great deal.

I don't do drugs like that now, but weed is one thing I do buy that keeps getting cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. Thank you, officers.