were people more fun in the past?

i'm 38 years old. i remember the 70s (barely). anyway people were way more fun in the past
 

Torre82

Moderator \ Jannie
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If you're talking about my ex girlfriend.. yes. She was way more fun when she was dating me.

Perhaps the contrast between this coming 'greater depression' and the excess of the 80s.. stupidity of the 90s.. and OMGWTF of the 2000s is just now obvious enough to be 'glaring'. Or you're getting older and crotchety. You silly guy, take yer metamucil and go to bed! I'll be back later to read your blood sugar! G'night! ;) ;)
 
People are fucking stupid nowadays. Or maybe we just get more sour towards the world and the people in it as we age...
 
im 24 so i dont have enough of a past to really speak on, but i do remember a more free spirit to things maybe 8 years back.... to me the world felt like a friendlier place or something.... i dunno....
 
I wouldn't necessarily say more fun, but they were more carefree in the past and did things which would be unheard of today.
 
I wouldn't necessarily say more fun, but they were more carefree in the past and did things which would be unheard of today.

Exactly! Nowadays, people can't take risks like they did. If you look at somebody and they don't like it, you get shot. If you say anything that offends ONE person, you get sued. Marriages disolve because people won't work them out. Friendships are destroyed because the other person doesn't 100% agree with the other person on EVERYTHING. People need to take a chill pill, lighten up, and let stupid stuff slide.
 

Spleen

Banned?
i'm 38 years old. i remember the 70s (barely). anyway people were way more fun in the past

That's because you are old.

All the young now might be having just as much, or maybe even more, fun than you did, but your automatic reaction is "gah, fucking kids... In my day we blah blah blah"
 
come on surely these day's we have more fun now that theres a load of heavy unneccesary annoying and boring health and safety aspects that must be followed in detail in your everyday life or you might be committing a crime...
 
No.
 
Drugs, alcohol and cigarettes are still fairly easy to get.

Kids are having sex as soon as they can.

"Energy" drinks help them party all night.

I'd say you're getting old my friend, and I'm no spring chicken myself, but just by asking that you have severely dated yourself and your habits. So beit. I'm sure if I ever have children it'll be a slippery slope once I have to start looking after a life other than my own.
 
no, no one ever had fun, that was just the cocaine talking.
 

maildude

Postal Paranoiac
It's because we had to have an imagination back then. Nowadays everything is out there to grab, what, with all of the electronics, cable television, explicit genital expressionism and fast food.
 
AIDS, political correctness, cops cracking down and arresting people for every little thing, people staying home and using the computer or playing video games instead of going out. life is more comfortable and easier now but alot less fun
 
AIDS, political correctness, cops cracking down and arresting people for every little thing, people staying home and using the computer or playing video games instead of going out. life is more comfortable and easier now but alot less fun

speak for yourself.

life is what you make it. if you say its not fun, you are either:

a) no fun to begin with
or
b) to lazy to have fun.

what do you do when a party sucks? make it not suck. don't sit in the corner and complain about it.
 
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