Things You Miss!

[pappymac]

I miss sanity and politeness.
I sometimes miss the military lifestyle I enjoyed for 21 years.
Now that I am older I miss my parents and not spending more times with them after I retired from the Coast Guard.

 

[tbradsim1]

I miss All In The Family, I loved Archie and Meathead, my Father was a Cajun Archie, came out with shit made your eyes bug out. Example wife and I took him to a rare movie, he insisted on getting his own ticket, very independent. There was a sign that said Retires lower price ticket. So he tells the Lady in the ticket booth, I'm retarded, wife very appalled says Sanford you're retired not retarded He looks at her and says What's The Difference. :rofl: PS Don't get me started on his name being Sanford and I was the Son. : . ::

 

[condorlover1]

I really miss Nut Brown tobacco in the brown tins with the picture of a tobacco leaf on it. Anyone else from the UK remember this one?

 

[toobfreak]

It's funny Pappy, back in the 60's, 70's and 80's, I expected so much more of the 21st century. Not technologically, well, maybe. I thought cars would fly by now and no longer need tires, run on fuel cells rather than gas (or electricity made from burning coal), and there would be moving walkways hundreds of feet in the air, but I expected so much more from our culture.
I thought kids would be smarter and better off. Not dumber and think working a $10.00/hr. job was 'getting ahead.'

I thought traffic would be better managed. Not worse.

I thought taxes would be simpler, not harder.

I thought we would have more free time. Not less.

I thought folks would be more patient and enlightened. Not less.

I thought we would have better work environments, not everyone walking pins and needles and having to take a sensitivity course for having to scratch yourself or comment on a worker's nice perfume.

I thought people would be happier, not rioting and burning in the streets over every little thing.

I thought that racial tension would be a thing of the past rather than the nightly news.

I thought cars would be really cool by now rather than all looking like melted teardrops.

By now we were supposed to all be working 4 day work weeks because technology was going to make so many things easier.

I never thought MORE people would be trying to blow up schools and kill innocent people, rather than just live and let live and go about making their own lives happy and let others do the same.

And I thought our leaders would work more together to really get things done to make things better, rather than always trying to feed us lies while Rome threatens to burn all around us!

I thought the nuclear issue would be settled rather than worrying about some small country sending nuclear missiles our way!

And I never thought you'd need a law telling you which bathrooms you could and couldn't use! I thought the signs on the doors were always pretty clear. :mrgreen:

 

[jackswilling]

"And my last AK-47, I bought off the web."
Clearly there was a FFL involved at one end or the other or both. Not what I was referring to.

I said mail order guns.

Once upon a time

 

[davet]

Sanford you're retired not retarded He looks at her and says What's The Difference

:rofl: Love it :rofl:

 

[mso489]

I went to Ireland with my late wife just months before she passed on. We had a great trip to Ireland and Holland, with a few medical pit stops. I have photos of her sitting in one of many Irish pubs, looking for all the world like a local. It is almost impossible to picture these "smoke free" as there are today. Maybe Guiness free is next? Time is not always kind, and this becomes more obvious as you mature.

 

[dread]

Never had Guinness quite as good as that in Ireland.

 

[warren]

Fewer pubs in Ireland, particularly in the areas away from Dublin. The nonsmoking rule has changed little except for the "smerting" which now takes place in sometimes heated, often times not, smoking areas or on the roadside. The music is still great, or not. Pub food is still great, or not. Publicans are still friendly or, surely. So not much is changed.
Smerting, smoking and flirting, is still a kick though conducted out of doors.
What has changed the pub scene is increased awareness, lower tolerance, and increaof drunk driving. Increased Garda patrols directed at such is another factor. You see fewer tractors parked at the pubs, more bicycles but mostly, fewer customers. More people drink at home now.

 

[derfatdutchman]

I miss the general store, we had a good one here in my town carried everything from bolts to bullets. Wood floors and glass counters where as a kid you could get two cent and nickel candy. I my first fishing pole came from there, and I bought my first deer rifle there. The staff knew you by name, and were never to busy to chat. Time caught up with the place, owners children were not involved and today it sits empty.

 

[stvalentine]

After having a great meal, a delicious dessert and an Obstler (a clear brandy made from pears) and smoking a nice cigar still sitting at the same table with a fireplace warming me in an inn in Austria it annoys me that this is no longer possible in Germany where I live. :roll:

 

[wyfbane]

Toob has covered most of it for me except:
I miss going through a WHOLE DAY without my back hurting.

 

[ophiuchus]

This thread is making me sad. I miss when the list of things I missed was short enough to write out on a thread like this. :crying:
Alright ... enough of that now ...

 

[toobfreak]

Oh! You know what I miss? Pop machines that when you put the change in, you opened the little door on the side and grabbed a glass bottle by the neck and pulled it straight out! Wasn't Coke and Pepsi so much better in the frosty cold glass bottle?!
I also miss those little diners where everything was stainless and red Naugahyde, and each table had that little box that you could flip through and chose a song you wanted to hear on 45 record.
Come to think of it, I just miss the good old-fashioned juke boxes in general. If you find one now, it just isn't the same as seeing those records all rotating into position and the little arm coming in to play it.
Such little pleasures that despite all of the technology of today are sadly lacking.

 

[monty55]

I miss being an innocent kid... with hair

 

[brian64]

Nothing 'political' about talking about murderers which are destroying our western way of life. Look at London now. If we can't even discuss the threat, we sure as heck will have an even tougher time defeating them.

It's intelligent voices such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali that need to be heard, and there are too few of them speaking out from a background such as hers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdiNOWM6m5A

 

[jitterbugdude]

I miss all the threads that Cosmic keeps shutting down..... :wink:

 

[condorlover1]

Come to think about it I also miss those Frey Bento's steak and kidney pies that used to come in that dish shaped can and all you had to do was remove the lid and put it in the range with the dampers open for maximum heat from the coal embers. I also miss being able to buy meerschaum 'cutty' pipes for a few Pounds each before everyone else decided that it was 'neato' to have one in their rotation.

 

[davet]

I also miss those Frey Bento's steak and kidney pies that used to come in that dish shaped can

We used to get some here in Canada but I think they were made by Smedley's ? They were delicious :crying:

 

[warren]

I order Bento's off Amazon. There are also British vendors which ship. No reason to miss 'em!