Man, it just seems so weird. I'm only twenty one years old and I already feel "old". I miss my childhood. I miss the TV Shows from the 1980s. I miss the culture. I miss the clothing. I even miss the **** Soviet Union. ****, they were the reason why I'm a proud, patriotic, gun owning American. I talk with my friends about the good old days. Back when cars were good. Back when youth was just that. Youth. Back when TV had Saturday Moring Cartoons. Back when TV shows weren't crap. Back when they made good toys. And back when Hollywood and the music industry didn't try to ruin or youth.

It feels like I'm going through a pre-mid life crisis.

Glock,

Welcome to the brave new world, where you can own things until the government says otherwise....three cheers for the Supreme Court. Wonder how long it will take them to extend this ruling to cover firearms?

Lobo in West Virginia

Don't remind me about the government. I MISS REAGEN. I was only six when he ended his term, but I still miss him. He was a good president.

Glock,

Ya noticed that Congress past an Amendment limiting the number of terms a President can serve, but when it's suggested that the same rule should be applied to members of Congress they balk, and give you this 'The people should decide' song and dance. I'd vote for Ronnie again....even from the grave he'd do a better job than most.

Lobo in West Virginia

Don't worry about it wait until you are 50 then things get strange but easier, STRANGE because you wake up with a new ache quite often, EASIER because a lot of younger folk let you slide when you are exceeding the fun limit they chalk it up as you are getting senile. Take it or leave you'll get better as time goes by why I can remember when I had to walk through blizzards, freezing rain, hail and a lot of other bad things and that was just to go to the outhouse, don't get me started on what I had to do to go to school!!!!!!!!

Oh, man, and the hot tub is sooooooooooo good!! Until ya gotta get out, that is, and all the weight that was being supported by water is now back on your frame...your sore, achy frame........

Learn to adapt...it only gets worse.

Regan was a good one...but I miss AuH20 moe (and if you don't recoginise that, then you ain't old yet).

Been "adapting" for almost 58 years now..........just about to get the hang of it.

Ribbonstone my guess is Goldwater

Well Glock23c I feel exactly the same way and I turn 60 this year. One thing nice about it is that your gonna blink a few times and be exactly where I am.

Ribbonstone my guess is Goldwater

Bingo...well remember tyhe AuH2O bumper sticker from his run for president....we passed, took JFK in his place...but it was nice to have him offering comentary now and again.

Also remember Nixion's second term...and one of my favorite bumper stickers:

"Stick with Nixon in 72, don't change Dicks in the middle of a screw."

BUt I double fault by digressing in the middle of a digression.

Have to ride the waves or go under...things change, that's the nature of the world...and as you grow older, you come to appreciate that as when a particular trend is irritating, you take confort in knowing it will pass.

Ah, If only I was still twenty one. I would still be at home, not married, and a bum. Nope, don't miss it a bit.As they say in the Corps, "Adjust, adapt, overcome."

Charles

Voted for Goldwater - he was running against LBJ's first actual campaign. Got in by default the first time.

Nixon ran against JFK - only time I ever voted for a Democrat.

G23,
Enjoy it now! The only thing about a "Ripe" old age is the smell. :rolleyes:

Skunks are starting to give me some space. :D
Dan

I don't care what you guys say. Getting old is crap!! Can't half see or hear, you have to rest, and the kids look at you like you are crazy when you give advice.

You know the guy in the reflector pool on the tractor has my respect for trying to make his voice heard. I hope he is doing OK. I hope we can make our voice heard in Wash. before things get too far gone. How old was that guy, anyway??

Getting old ain't too bad. We all know if we live long enough it is gonna happen, So I have come to accept it. I miss alot of the things I can't do any more. It is not that I can't do it, It is it either hurts too much or too long afterward. I miss my kids most of all. The fun we had together as they were growing up. I miss the questions they had about everything. I miss watching them walk the woods with me and look at everything in a totally different way. I miss the fishing trips. I even actually miss the road trips when all you heard was the 3 kids in the back arguing about everything imaginable, Don't look out my window, Don't touch me, Don't look at me, I am sure you all heard them. Nixon was not all that bad especially compared to politicians of today. I stay out of politics now. I even got the Western channel just so I could watch the old westerns. Gunsmoke every night at 6;00 p.m. Remember I dream of Jeannie? How we all drempt about her? I still like the Munsters. Life was alot simpler then. When i watch the news today it reminds me of the late 60's and early 70's, You know, The Vietnam era. Kind of a shame to see that again. Yep I can't see like I used to and can't hear like I used to, But my memory is crystal clear yet and my greatest fear is I will lose it before I pass away. God Bless Steve

Glock23C,

In this world, change is inevitable. You gotta learn to adapt and find some happiness somewhere. If you're sweating it at your age, then brother, you're gonna have a long row to hoe. But we understand, we really do. I hate to say this yet again, but we have been there. It takes time to learn all things, including how to adapt to change. I had some darn serious issues with it at your age, but I came through it.

You might consider shifting your focus a bit. Think about something that does not change. I'm talking about establishing a personal relationship with our unchanging creator - God. Everything on earth is temporary and in a constant state of change. Just look at natural history. The seas, the continents, even the planets are constantly changing. The bible says God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. You don't have to sell everything and become a monk and live at 25,000 feet elevation and eat roots and bark. Just approach God personally, in thought and prayer, confess your faith in Him, and adopt his ways at a pace that you are capable of. I'm no monk, and certainly no saint. But having faith in God and giving all my concerns and anxieties to him has literally made the difference of life and death to me.

There's a lot more good stuff we can teach you about living a life of faith in God. Email me any time. I would be glad to teach you more. In the mean time, get away from the TV and go shoot some jugs of water with a powerful gun. It's great therapy!

Live well

Man, it just seems so weird. I'm only twenty one years old and I already feel "old". I miss my childhood. I miss the TV Shows from the 1980s. I miss the culture. I miss the clothing. I even miss the **** Soviet Union. ****, they were the reason why I'm a proud, patriotic, gun owning American. I talk with my friends about the good old days. Back when cars were good. Back when youth was just that. Youth. Back when TV had Saturday Moring Cartoons. Back when TV shows weren't crap. Back when they made good toys. And back when Hollywood and the music industry didn't try to ruin or youth.

It feels like I'm going through a pre-mid life crisis.

G23C
Dude!
I remember the 80's. Very formative years. I remember Mr Reagan quite well too. I was a Teamster from '86 to '93 at my first job out of highschool. He wasn't what people want to think of him, but then again that is another story.

Things change. Life goes on and it is either adapt and change with them or be steamrollered. The thing is to hang onto what works for you. I go out and hunt down the cool toys from my youth for my kids, play the music I used to listen to for them, and show them the movies I thought were great back then. Went so far as to pick up the box set of the Muppet Show on DVD for the kids. They had never seen anything like it. They actually had to follow what was going on to get a joke and they do not do that on TV any more.

Well the ones they are ready for since they aren't teenagers yet. Ever look at movie ratings from the '80s compared to todays movies? Jaws is an "R" rating. It is so tame by todays standards. It is incredible.

Culturally, our attention spans are shorter, we are busier and have less time for ourselves because we schedule our lives like a train time table. Save yourself! Stop the schedules.

Don't give up on the times you miss. Track pieces of them down and share them with friends. EBay cracks me up sometimes! Just remember that new things are coming down the pike and some will be good along with the crap corporate America wants to sell you. The present isn't all bad, you just got to be a careful consumer of it.

"Child of the 1980s"

I feel ya man, I am 24, its weird to think that I am actually married sometimes, its really weird that some of my high school friends have kids. Shows I used to watch on TV are on Nick at Nite, i guess its just a little "culture shock" I do think that I have better toys now than I did back then, Winchester trumps daisy any day!

Hey, jb12string. I'm only agreeing with you on the toys part. ANd that only because Winchester does beat Daisy hands down. Other than that. The toys today suck!. No GI Joe, no ninja turtles, no He-man. Well, that's life.

i wasn't talking about toys in general, just the toys I play with now as opposed to the ones I played with back then, the toys today can't touch the ones we had growing up, course my dad said the same thing about his toys when I was younger

Hey, jb12string. I'm only agreeing with you on the toys part. ANd that only because Winchester does beat Daisy hands down. Other than that. The toys today suck!. No GI Joe, no ninja turtles, no He-man. Well, that's life.

GI Joe in the 80's was a pale imitation of GI Joe in the 70's. Big jeeps, helecopters, trucks, tanks, Kung Fu Grip! One Ninja Turtle hanging upside down from each fist. That's a "real American Hero".

I'm 38, my kids are 8 and they think I'm nuts. But that's cool, they keep me young. :D

but you could sneak the little ones to school easier and play w/them at recess with all your buddies

Hey, an entire generation grew up on these three sentences.

1) YO JOE!
2) COBRA!
3) And now I know... And knowing is half the battle. GI JOE!

Back when they made good toys. And back when Hollywood and the music industry didn't try to ruin or youth.

It feels like I'm going through a pre-mid life crisis.

Well...I believe the music industry cranked out some of the worst music EVER in the 80s, and I grew up in the late 70's early 80's. But don't fret, you'll be dead soon anyway. Really, in the blink of an eye on the grand timeline.

Hey, an entire generation grew up on these three sentences.

1) YO JOE!
2) COBRA!
3) And now I know... And knowing is half the battle. GI JOE!


Hey,

what about

"Thunder, Thunder, ThunderCats HO!"

Man I miss those cartoons too! Today's cartoon's suck, just really suck. I'm afraid Barney and the Teletubies are encouraging a generation of wussies. We had strong male role models in our cartoons, SGT Slaughter, Mr. T, heman and the sort. What do todays kids have? Pokiemon, some japanese anime crap, really it bothers me.

ok ok off my soap box, just read this thread and couldn't let it go.

Matt Pair 23 years old born in 81 and dang thankfull for it

Recess is about the only good cartoon out now (I have younger brothers) 81 must of been a good year!

you can still feel patriotic we still got chi coms around and remember unlike the soviets who got the viets to do their dirty work we did have a nasty lil run in with em in the 50`s (korea)then they went on to steal all the secrets from los alamos so be thankfull you got your guns and be patriotic and most of all dont lull yourself into a false sense of security cos these people aint finished yet not by a long stretch..............

I saw a bumper sticker that said "Geting old ain't for sissies!" DURN RIGHT... Too soon old too late smart! I hear ya Glock 23. Sounds like you are a reasonable,rational,normal thinking adult-Hang in there!

WOW! I can't believe that I'm actually going through this. My friends are also going through the same thing. I guess what it is that we feel old. When we all go to the theaters. We see the 16 year old punk kids (Yes! We say punk kids.) running around. Dressing all ghetto, and just being to sexual. They all talk about getting some and so on... I WAS 16 years old in 2000 and I wasn't like that. The toys aren't toys, the shows stink, parents don't raise there childern right, and the trucks look nasty. Trucks must look like gaint blocks of steel. Not curved pieces of plastic. Also the simple design of houses interiors. I miss the woods floors and walls. The brown colors. The denim blue jeans. And simple work boots. The mentle images that I have of a twenty one year old comes from the TV Shows and Movies that I saw as a child in the 1980s. It's not what I see today. Not some idiot in a Honda Ricer, listening to rap, with his hair gelled back, and having all of these gang tattos on him. I have the simple image of someone wearing blue jeans with a tucted in T-shirt, driving a beat up but dependable truck or car, just wearing a ball cap, and listen to normal music. I miss movies like Iron Eagle, Top Gun, Red Dawn, Terminator, and Return of the Jedi. And TV Shows like Dallas, G.I. Joe, Transformers, Thunder Cats, Robotech, The Jetsons, M*A*S*H, Airwolf, Captain N: The Game Master, In the Heat of the Night, The Cosby Show, Coach, Cheers, Diff'rent Strokes, Full House, The Jeffersons, Roseanne, Saved by the Bell, Knight Rider, Magnum, P.I., MacGyver, Married... with Children, Silverhawks, Murphy Brown, The Muppet Show, Muppet Babies, and last but not least... Miami Vice.

I also miss leaders like Reagen. I was to young to understand him, but I remember him. And now that I'm older. I'm glad that I was born in the 1980s. He was a great president. He was a president that made you feel proud to be an American.

I also just miss the way it was. You could play in the yard and not worry about being kidnapped. The arcade was the place to be. And the games cost a quarter. Not a dollar like today. Even the advertisements made sense back then. Some of the music was good. It was just a good time. The 1970s were a horrible period in my opinion. Hippies and Disco ruled the day. Arrgh! That just scares me to the bone. Liberals and Communist ruled the 1970s. Patrioism and Freedom ruled the 1980s. and the 1990s were nothing but a step backwards into Marxism by the Clinton Presidency. Though hopefully, this current generation will be a step forward.

YO JOE!

The good old days when guns were STEEL and WOOD and could be ordered from the Sears and Roebuck catolog..

I don't care what you guys say. Getting old is crap!! Can't half see or hear, you have to rest,

Chief I don't agree, I have the pain and the problem you talk about too but I saw a lot of young men that never had the chance to get old, most dead in their late teens or earlier 20 and now it is happening again.. I am glad I got the chance to get old and wish the good men I knew would have had the same chance.
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Can't argue with that!