Remember when people used to be nice to each other?

haha what the fuck is a yuppie

 

lol oh I thought it was a common term....

Picture this: A guy driving a BMW, or maybe a Volvo. He probably played a round of golf earlier in the day. He's wearing ironed khakis and those weird brown boat shoes. He and his wife are on their way to Pottery Barn to do some shopping. They are probably listening to easy-listening in the car because they both lack the creativity to find better music. Tonight they may go out to eat at a high-end chain restaurant, but they won't leave the suburbs.

 

oh
yea we call those douchebags or tools

 

Yuppie = young upwardly mobile professional



Or in other terms ASSHOLE... They respond best to that term. :2thumbsup:

 

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i doubt people would always slam the door on your face when you asked them to use a phone when you're car breaks down. but i'm not old enough to tell.

maybe they build them differently now, or maybe it's the cellphone culture. but my car is older than i am and i don't have a cellphone. so i knock a door to use a phone and the bitch doesn't even take the chain off (why is your door chained in rural ontario?) and then she slams it when i ask for a phone.
to be fair, the next house i tried was a cool fat old lady who eagerly let me in. she was complaining about her hangover so i offered her some weed and we smoked bowls until the tow truck came. i think she wanted me to fuck her but that wasn't going to happen. anyways, we got talking and she told me how stuck up her neighbors were...

 

awesome.

When I was in high school I blew a tire and walked to the nearest house. I was an extremely innocent looking little 16 year old girl, and the guy didn't take his chain off either. He let me use his phone but he slipped it to me through the crack in the door lol.

People are just generally more mistrustful these days. One of my earliest memories is my mom having car trouble when I was like 3. We went to the nearest house, were invited in, used their phone, they offered us drinks and cookies and let us sit inside until our ride came. Its just a completely different culture now.

 

times are changing,so is the human kind.

 

And not for the better im afraid

 

I think people are more afraid of each other than ever.

 

Why doesn't it happen no more ?

 

When was this ????

 

Try catching some reruns of the old Andy Griffith show. My parents grew up in places like that.

Andy Griffith died today. RIP, Sheriff Taylor.

 

Little Ronny Howard.

You do know that show was fictional right?

Meanwhile in the real world; JFK was assassinated, Black people were fighting for equal rights in North Carolina, US was at war with Cuba, Malcolm X assassinated, LA Watts riots, wars in the middle east (of course!), cold war continued, Vietnam war escalated...

 

Partially. If you were in Mount Airy NC today, you would see that Floyd's Barber Shop and Snappy Lunch are still open for business five days a week, just like they were in 1955. Wally's gas station is no more.

I talked more about this in another thread: http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?p=7306991#post7306991

Even today, I could take you to several places in NC, SC, and Virginia that still have a lot of Mayberry's qualities, both good and bad.

I like to visit Andy's beloved Manteo, but I wouldn't want to live there.

If you have never lived in a small Southern town, it might surprise you just how much many people in those places are able to tune out what is going on in the so-called real world. If you never go to a big city or a more progressive region of the country, such places seem less real to you.

Believe it or not, we still have tiny towns with zero minority populations.

Like I have said before, I only wish that it was possible to combine the good qualities of a place like Manteo with the things I like about larger cities. I don't expect it to happen in my lifetime.

 

A couple pieces of TV trivia for you:

That show had more factual errors than you might have suspected.

In North Carolina, incorporated towns are not patrolled by sheriffs and their deputies, under normal circumstances. The sheriff only has authority in rural areas. Every town has its own police chief and police officers. In recent years, a few tiny towns have eliminated their police departments and started paying the county to patrol the town for an annual fee, but this wasn't done in the 1950's and '60's, so the arrangement on the show was a mistake that some Hollywood writer made. Also, NC police cars have blue flashing lights, not red. It's always been that way. Virginia used to have red.

And...do you remember the tall trees around the fishing pond in the opening title sequence? Those are giant spruce trees, which do not grow here. That lake was behind the Beverly Hills Hotel.

I know that comedies are not supposed to be documentaries, but a good comedy always shows you some things that are real. On Seinfeld, we all learned that in New York City, you have a good chance of having at least one nutty neighbor in your apartment building like Kramer, and riding a subway really can be as awful as the experience Elaine had when her train broke down and she had a panic attack. And the Soup Nazi is for real. Tourists still go to his place to order soup and get mistreated.

If you want to get mistreated by somebody just like Ernest T. Bass, just walk into any bar on the east side of Marion, NC, and speak with a Northern accent. :rofl:

 

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Believe it or not, I was actually thinking about that song, but decided against dragging Mississippi into this.

I've thrown a lot of facts at you. Good luck making sense of what it all means.

Human nature is a very complicated subject. If you ever get it all figured out, you'll be several steps ahead of me.

 

LOL, remember when a tiny few secluded white people were nice to each other?