Old Man's Corners

AZ_HighCountry said:
Did you happen to have a Chevy van?
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Nah. I always owned small vehicles. My first car was in 1993: Some Pontiac T 1000. It was an old beat up car even then. A fellow college student sold me that without telling me that the radiator was leaking! I think I paid $600 to him. I complained about the leak and he said to put some thick fluid like thing into the radiator. Didn't help. He also said just keep water containers and keep filling up as needed. WTH! I don't recall how I fixed that problem. But those were the 'Wonder Years' and I was too independent to have people around me to guide me. Mistakes and learning lessons. Everything in this country was so fascinating: Mechanics, printed road maps, filling gas in the car myself, figuring out where to drive to for nature, being in the clouds of the Appalachia...
 
Older man's take why modern movies suck
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I think he's right which is scary. I think it goes for modern music too I think we have hit a wall which means the end is likely near. 😧
 
SolarWarden said:
Older man's take why modern movies suck
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I think he's right which is scary. I think it goes for modern music too I think we have hit a wall which means the end is likely near. 😧
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Indeed they suck. Avatar II was so bad that half way into it, I literally almost walked out of the theater but wife convinced me to stay as the tickets cost some pretty penny! And I had loved Avatar first one.
It is my personal theory that a lot of things started deteriorating with the birth of the smart phone era in late 2000s and the decline is going on and on and getting worse and worse.
 
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I think he's right which is scary. I think it goes for modern music too I think we have hit a wall which means the end is likely near. 😧
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Great video. Spot on and confirms what I have been thinking 'late 2000s' into early 2010s. There were still a few good movies into early 2010s but now... 'stagnation', as this video says. I'd even saw worse: mediocrity.
"Mediocrity is everywhere. I absolve you.' A line from another great movie of the bygone era.
 
Meengla said:
Great video. Spot on and confirms what I have been thinking 'late 2000s' into early 2010s. There were still a few good movies into early 2010s but now... 'stagnation', as this video says. I'd even saw worse: mediocrity.
"Mediocrity is everywhere. I absolve you.' A line from another great movie of the bygone era.
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It's also in music and it's not some old man saying this gen music sucks and my gen of music was better (which it was) there's nothing original in today's music
 
SolarWarden said:
It's also in music and it's not some old man saying this gen music sucks and my gen of music was better (which it was) there's nothing original in today's music
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Yes! I believe the 90s was the greatest era in music and movies but then I may be partial.
Anyway, I have tried to resist falling into the 'Generation Gap' trap. You know, 'Don't trust anyone over 30' was said a long time ago. So there have always been generational wars but I have concluded there is something fundamentally different in every sphere of our lives and globally, too, with the introduction and increasing adaptation of the smart phone era starting late 2000s.
And I also notice a sea change due to the Pandemic in friends. In just 2-3 years of the Pandemic, they have mentally aged a lot. They were out with me and wife late night as recent as early 2020: Karaoke, drinking, chair dancing, goofiness, chatting ... and now they are rarely seen in public places. A few of them are a little older than me and a few younger but they ALL, without exception, have changed a lot. Wife and I are still alive and out late and the local bar staff are glad to see at least some oldies still out and alive--and giving good tips.
It is weird!! I can't explain except my theory is that my circle of friends over-quarantined for 2-3 years while wife and I followed just the bare minimum of the Pandemic restrictions.
 
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