2 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

70s don't count?

You got your first real six string

Back in the summer of 69

3 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

You got your first real six string

Back in the summer of 69

Not quite.  I got my first 45 records in 1970 though, Joy To The World (Three Dog Night) and Hey Jude.  My bible thumping grandmother thought one was a Christian song and that the other was the devil's work

33 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

Not quite.  I got my first 45 records in 1970 though, Joy To The World (Three Dog Night) and Hey Jude.  My bible thumping grandmother thought one was a Christian song and that the other was the devil's work

big fan of three dog night. 

1 hour ago, DrPhilly said:

70s don't count?

I think it depends on how old you were and how much you had to drive.

2 minutes ago, Bill said:

I think it depends on how old you were and how much you had to drive.

It was pretty tough overall in the 70s from Nixon, fall of Saigon, oil crisis, stagflation, etc.  The country was in a bad spot.

As for driving, I drove a good bit during high school in the end of the decade.

22 hours ago, Tnt4philly said:

Kids!
I don't know what's wrong with these kids today!
Kids!
Who can understand anything they say?
Kids!
They are disobedient, disrespectful oafs!
Noisy, crazy, sloppy, lazy, loafers!
While we're on the subject:
Kids!
You can talk and talk till your face is blue!
Kids!
But they still just do what they want to do!
Why can't they be like we were
Perfect in every way?
What's the matter with kids today?

 

On 10/18/2024 at 9:30 AM, DEagle7 said:

Violent, believer in survival of the fittest, environmentalist, socialist, a smidge unhinged. Screw the dos Equis guy, you're the most interesting man in the world. 

Wow.... ok... you're one of those people. Good luck to you.

1 hour ago, Steve 17 said:

Wow.... ok... you're one of those people. Good luck to you.

I'm not sure what that means but I assume I'm getting my ass kicked soon 😢

On 10/18/2024 at 12:03 PM, DrPhilly said:

It was pretty tough overall in the 70s from Nixon, fall of Saigon, oil crisis, stagflation, etc.  The country was in a bad spot.

As for driving, I drove a good bit during high school in the end of the decade.

You're making me nostalgic

And you forget to mention Frank Rizzo

On 10/17/2024 at 6:50 PM, Bwestbrook36 said:

Every generation pisses and moans about the generation before them. 

That's why it's so stupid lmao

On 10/17/2024 at 7:20 PM, Dave Moss said:

The segment of Gen Z who lived through Covid while in high school basically missed a full year of high school.  My daughter never even took a drivers test.  They just gave her a license because the tests were suspended for a year or so.

My son missed freshman year, which i guess could be considered a net positive for a lot of kids lol

15 minutes ago, Boogyman said:

That's why it's so stupid lmao

Pretty much. It is however fun to make fun of people who take it seriously. Those with a vapid enough existence to draw a significant portion of their identity from the vague concept of "their generation" tend to get BIG mad when you mock their generation. It's great

7 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

Pretty much. It is however fun to make fun of people who take it seriously. Those with a vapid enough existence to draw a significant portion of their identity from the vague concept of "their generation" tend to get BIG mad when you mock their generation. It's great

I get what you're posting.  But go check out those grade school exams from the 1800's and early 20th century I posted.  Schooling was a lot more rigorous in earlier years than it is now.

32 minutes ago, Procus said:

I get what you're posting.  But go check out those grade school exams from the 1800's and early 20th century I posted.  Schooling was a lot more rigorous in earlier years than it is now.

It was also much more based on memorization of facts whereas current schooling have moved more towards synthesis. The easiest example is the "new math" that is being taught. It's way bulkier, but it teaches kids why certain calculations work, as opposed to just how to get the right answer. It's much more complex on a per problem basis, but teaches kids how to think and process better. Apples to oranges if you look at tests at face value. 

1 hour ago, Procus said:

I get what you're posting.  But go check out those grade school exams from the 1800's and early 20th century I posted.  Schooling was a lot more rigorous in earlier years than it is now.

Amd if you look at some of the high level classes being taught in decent high schools, it blows away what was offered decades ago. 

The end of the Eagles game bored me, so I came back to this. The stuff my kid has had access to in public high school is mind blowing to me. Some of the software he has mastered in his CAD and media classes is very difficult, and without the excellent teachers we have here that wouldn't have happened. Our schools had enough to keep him interested and engaged, and cultivated the things he is good at.  

On 10/17/2024 at 3:46 PM, Toastrel said:

It is America. Parents complaining that teachers are not teaching values.

 

One value they're certainly not taught is a love of learning, or even just valuing knowledge for knowledge's sake. They don't care to know things. They just want to reinforce their preconceptions and further insulate their bubble. Schools today are full of the most incurious generation of kids I've ever met, and God forbid they're ever challenged or made to feel uncomfortable

1 hour ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

 

One value they're certainly not taught is a love of learning, or even just valuing knowledge for knowledge's sake. They don't care to know things. They just want to reinforce their preconceptions and further insulate their bubble. Schools today are full of the most incurious generation of kids I've ever met, and God forbid they're ever challenged or made to feel uncomfortable

I will settle for them being able to write in sentences and paragraphs. 

1 minute ago, vikas83 said:

I will settle for them being able to write in sentences and paragraphs. 

I bet you want topic sentences too.   

3 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

I bet you want topic sentences too.   

If I find one of these kids that can construct a 5 paragraph essay, he is hired. 

On 10/19/2024 at 1:10 PM, DEagle7 said:

I'm not sure what that means but I assume I'm getting my ass kicked soon 😢

It’s means he’s one of those men who are insecure in their manhood. Sometime it’s from mommy issues, but it’s mostly from not being hugged enough by their uncle dad. In rare cases it’s from being hugged too much. 

Finally watched the rest of it.  I have a favorite:

 

When do they celebrate the 4th of July in England?

July Two?

On 10/20/2024 at 11:00 AM, DEagle7 said:

It was also much more based on memorization of facts whereas current schooling have moved more towards synthesis. The easiest example is the "new math" that is being taught. It's way bulkier, but it teaches kids why certain calculations work, as opposed to just how to get the right answer. It's much more complex on a per problem basis, but teaches kids how to think and process better. Apples to oranges if you look at tests at face value. 

Completely pointless.  When you are just starting with math, you get pictures where you see 3 of one thing and 4 of the other and then 7 of them all together.  If you can't build off that to understand why math works with more complex arithmetic, you are destined to work at McDonalds with our future president.