Death by Selfie

[DrHenley]

Apparently there is an epidemic of "death by selfie" fatalities.

Here's the latest:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/couple-w...national-park-was-taking-selfie-relative-says

 

[OldCoot]

Natural selection at work.

 

[bigpaul]

like I keep being told "you cant fix stupid"

 

[OldCoot]

I so miss the days before smart phones & the internet. Yes, they have their pluses, as with this board, but life was so much better back then.

 

[bigpaul]

yes, I too was brought up in an era before supermarkets, mobile phones and computers, I much prefer the simple life we had back then, I don't like the 21st century.

 

[OldCoot]

yes, I too was brought up in an era before supermarkets, mobile phones and computers, I much prefer the simple life we had back then, I don't like the 21st century.

Almost seems like there was a sweet spot, back in the 60s & 70s, where technology made things faster & better but didn't intrude into EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF OUR LIFE. So here we are last Sunday night, our church youth group over at the farmstead, sitting around a fire after spending time with the horses & chickens. It was so peaceful & relaxing looking into the fire, eating s'mores, and staring at the stars on a clear night. Well, that is what I was doing. The kids were all on their phones.

 

[brandx]

yes, I too was brought up in an era before supermarkets, mobile phones and computers, I much prefer the simple life we had back then, I don't like the 21st century.

Yes, there is too much information and not enough education. Too many products and not enough quality. Too much busyness and not enough being accomplished. I was more content in 1975 than in 2015.

 

[brandx]

Almost seems like there was a sweet spot, back in the 60s & 70s, where technology made things faster & better but didn't intrude into EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF OUR LIFE. So here we are last Sunday night, our church youth group over at the farmstead, sitting around a fire after spending time with the horses & chickens. It was so peaceful & relaxing looking into the fire, eating s'mores, and staring at the stars on a clear night. Well, that is what I was doing. The kids were all on their phones.

I think that they do more living in a false virtual world than in the real world.

 

[brandx]

Educated does not mean smart. Damn fools.

 

[bigpaul]

1960s were the best time for me, the best music, some decent clothes not the throw away rubbish you get today, people respected each other, no snowflakes.

 

[DrHenley]

I think that they do more living in a false virtual world than in the real world.

I think you put your finger on it! This is what I have believed for years. They are slowly but surely getting sucked into the Matrix and don't know reality from fantasy. Some of the mass shooters have said they didn't think it was real.

 

[Maverick]

The period between 1956~1966 were the best, those times just seem more in way of freedom, 67~72 things got weird. The 70s seem a dark period to me but certainly more freer than today.

 

[DrHenley]

I think '68-'69 was the low point in many ways. And that led to the depressing 70's.

In 1968 and 1969:
Robert Kennedy was assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
The My Lai Massacre occurred
A B52 Stratofortress carrying 4 nuclear bombs crashed in Greenland
North Korea seized the U.S.S. Pueblo
The Tet Offensive occurred in Vietnam
Congress ended the Gold Standard
Vietnam War protests and Black Panther protests reached their peak with many violent incidents
The Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia
The Gun Control Act of 1968 was enacted
The Zodiac Killer killed his 7 confirmed victims
Feminist protesters burned their bras at the Miss America pageant
North Korea shot down a US Navy Lockheed EC-121M killing 31 Americans
"The Troubles" began in Northern Ireland and British Troops were deployed
The "Weathermen" seized control of the SDS National Office
The Cuyahoga River caught fire due to the pollution
The Manson family went on their killing sprees
TWA Flight 840 was hijacked
China tested their first nuclear bomb
John Lennon announced he was leaving the Beatles
The Chicago 8 trial occurred
The first person died of AIDS
Hell's Angels were hired to provide security for the Altamont Free Concert, but got drunk and brutally beat many in the audience with sawed off pool cues.

 

[Maverick]

The 70s we had the oil embargo, sugar shortage, the oil crises, the whole freaken 70s was just plain dark and to add Carter destroying our steel factories and the high interest rates, it was a depressing era!

 

[tmttactical]

SIASD for the selfie idiots.

We all tend to remember the past as better than current times. As DrHenley pointed out, there were many troubling things during our Happy Days. I do worry about the current and future generations but I also think our parents worried about how our generation would turn out. The best thing our generation had going for it was NO SNOWFLAKES and strong work ethics. JM2C

 

[bigpaul]

1960s in Britain were good, plenty of jobs around if you wanted one, you could leave one job on a Friday and walk into another one on Monday, 70s not much different, maybe slightly worse job wise, first time I was made redundant was in the late 70s, the 80s were the era of Maggie Thatcher and the miners strike, pretty bloody awful and high unemployment, if you were unemployed back then you referred to yourself as one of "Maggie's Army".