What was your favorite time period?
@genericbeing
I'm a big 90s guy, I loved that time, everything made sense, was simpler, less weird. Although I'm obsessed with 80s for their music and movies, even though I barely lived then. I feel like the world fell apart after 2008.
@genericbeing
"I feel like the world fell apart after 2008."
For every affluent nation on the globe, it kinda did... Presumably you've heard of the Great Recession.
@slowdecline48 I kinda recall it
...a quick recap video on the Great Recession, if you're interested
@genericbeing Everyone knows the 90s and very early 2000s were the best. Lol. I'm still stuck there. *sighs* Ahhhh, the good times. ♡
@YourCaringConfidant Those were the good days
It's hard to say...
I'm a mid-70's baby, so I did most of my growing up in the late 1980's thru the early to mid-90's. Today's kids have no idea what they missed, truly... On the other hand, unlike a lot of people I didn't do much partying in my twenties. It was all about work, family drama/bulls*** & living in a horrible place (Vegas. Yecchhh). In the late 2000's to mid-2010's I went through most of my thirties. That was my fun time--it was a lot of work but much of that was for my small-biz efforts...until my health started to give out, I was livin' it up. Ahhh, those were the days...
@slowdecline48 Vegas is bad to live? I heard something like that from a visiting girl in my high school from Vegas. Early 2000's were the good years, I wasn't running a business but I was doing something... lol
@genericbeing Oh, for sure. Consider:
[CW: crime, drugs, "adult subjects"]
Las Vegas is a city that was originally built by gangsters. In the 1950's the ruling Mafia families designated it as "open territory" so their people could operate there without getting into fights over turf & the criminal trades. (In all fairness, most older Vegas residents say it was a better place when the mafiosi were in charge...casinos were more generous with their comps for gamblers, & much less crime overall) Since gambling & "hospitality" are its economic base, its entire culture is based on luring people in with the fantasy of getting something for nothing. It's a soulless place, with more corruption than you see in many American cities. Once crime metastasized in Los Angeles in the 1970's & 80's it started spreading in all directions. So of course the Bloods, Crips & other gangs/sets started migrating to Vegas--it's just over a five-hour drive; getting there is easy--& brought their drug dealing, pimping & other s*** there too.
Of course gambling addiction is a serious problem in Vegas; that's a major reason for all the petty crime there. A common situation is when someone gambles away his/her paycheck in whatever casino (s)he likes to go to...the rent is due in two weeks or (s)he has to pay the utility bill, whatever. (S)He needs money & (s)he needs it now. That is when the s*** starts. 😤 Anyone who's lived in Vegas for any significant period has been ripped off at least once, often by someone (s)he would never have suspected of such a thing. It's sort of a rite of passage there...you know you're becoming a true Las Vegas native once you've been scammed/robbed/stolen from/etc.
In the time I lived there, Vegas was the only place I saw where teenage girls--in extreme cases, as young as 12--had fake breasts. It's long been a terrible place to raise a child, particularly if you have a daughter. Las Vegas takes up all of Clark County; prostitution is technically illegal in that county (the cathouses are in certain other counties in NV). Note the qualifier. I said prostitution is illegal in Clark County...that does not mean it doesn't happen there. When I worked security in two timeshare hotels, more than once I saw escorts walking through the lobby. When business conventions are held in town, you know at least some of the attendees want to have fun & have cash to spend...sometimes, blackjack tables & video poker machines ain't enough. ( ° | ° )
Let's put it this way: if Las Vegas never gets immolated by raining fire & brimstone, then God owes the citizens of Sodom & Gomorrah an apology.
@slowdecline48 That's a little more in depth but interesting. The girl I knew in high school said something similar. She said for girls Vegas is terrible, you have the choice of working for a casino or becoming a hooker. Her mom moved her away to avoid that. But when she came to my school district apparently the Vegas educational system was so "poor" she was only accredited very few transfer credits, meaning she was practically two grades behind everyone her age because Vegas had low educational standards. She said if she had stayed she would've ended up a casino dancer, and she was around 16 when she told me that. I was like damn, that sounds bad. But she said the free casino food was great only it attracted lots of homeless.
@genericbeing I choose cowboy and indian time period😁😍😍😍😍😍😍😁
[CW: firearms, crime & vice (but not a lot)]
@Tinywhisper11 You'll want to be in early 18th to 19th-century America, then...especially in the bigger states west of the Rocky Mountains (or the territories, when they weren't states yet). If you were able to access Youtoob I'd post a few links to American history-themed clips there. Ask the care staff if they can rent a DVD or get a history special on Netflix for you.
If you want to do any Net research, look up terms like "Buffalo Bill", "Annie Oakley", "cattle drive", "the Rio Grande", "chuck wagons", & maybe "real cowboy life". If you look up "Republic of Texas" you will learn that our state of Texas was an independent country for about four years...& that we basically grabbed it from Mexico. 😆
I'll bust a myth for you: the "Wild West" wasn't all that wild, most of the time. Shootings were pretty rare in most places, & when they did occur, guys generally did not square off on the main street of town at high noon. Believe it or not, the West was full of gun laws as much as it was full of guns! Many towns required travelers to surrender their firearms upon arrival & would only return them when their owners were about to leave. There was prostitution in many places, especially in towns that sprang up around oil wells...it was usually confined to a certain section of the town. That's where the term "red-light district" came from: the part of the town where the brothels were was sometimes marked by an oil or gas lamp with a red lens in it. Basically it was allowed but kept under control by the sheriff & his deputies. The most serious crimes in those days were bank & train robberies, & livestock theft (cattle & horse rustling). Horse rustling in particular was not taken lightly; if you stole a man's horse & got caught later, there was a good chance you'd be hung.
@slowdecline48 ❤ thankyou for explaining all that ❤ I really appreciate it ❤🙂 but I'm gonna live in the cowboy and indian time, just as I picture it in my head 😁❤
@slowdecline48 Horse rustling, as I always describe it, was basically grand theft auto if you think about it for those times. Stealing a horse was a big deal because the horse was your car.
Indeed so. Especially if you were a working cowboy, often your life depended on whether or not you could get to where you need to be. Thus, you needed your horse.
There is a distant echo of that custom in today's cycling communities...even as a casual rider, I especially hate bike thieves. Most road & practically all commuter cyclists do. Some of us would cheerfully string one up if we caught a guy who we know is a professional bike thief. I'd guess the same is true in the mountain-biking & cyclocross scenes.
@slowdecline48 Cool, I didn't know that about bikers and thieves. Makes sense though.
@Tinywhisper11 You lived back then? :o :o :P
@genericbeing only in my dreams😁
@Tinywhisper11 I dream of this as well :P
@genericbeing I feel most drawn to the 2000, 2010 era cause that's when I grew up. I really vibe with the aesthetics of the 70s, 80s, plus 90s. The 30s through 50s is always an interesting time period to explore how much life has changed over the last 70 years. I'm also really drawn to the middle ages. Big fan of the medieval period.
@WellsFiction Good point, the world has changed fast. The 50s are interesting to me to. I like the gangster era 20s-50s.
@genericbeing Totally! Such an interesting time. I visited a mansion outside of Chicago. They literally built like a cage around their bedrooms on the second floor, fearing the mafia would consider attacking or kidnapping their children.
@WellsFiction That's pretty cool, I never heard that before. The cage thing.
@genericbeing Yeah. Very interesting.
The 90s were pretty cool. The hairstyles, not so much.
