i don't like how everyone is so sensitive and easily offended   now days and rather than make kids put down there phones and run   exercise and play they change the food to make it less fat and try to control what people eat when it isn't going to work unless you exercise  anyways.

^ Yup. Agreed with pretty much everything here.

Patti Smith: ...What would I do now? I would probably—I can't say because we live in a completely different culture. For instance, we had nothing—Robert [Mapplethorpe] and I had no cell phones, no television sets, no fax machines, no computer. If we wanted to make a phone call, we saved our money and went to a telephone booth. People live differently, it's an entirely different culture, and it's a culture that's being formed around a lot of technology that's expensive. Also, we had no credit cards. I wouldn't want to have to buy into that culture. I wouldn't want a credit card, I wouldn't want to have to live on a credit card, I wouldn't want to get in debt...

Interviewer: The way you lived seemed so free and almost magical, more spontaneous. Visitors would stop by your apartment, you would run into people.

Patti Smith: It was a different culture. We also didn't have all the surveillance. Nobody had cameras in the late 60s when I lived at the Chelsea Hotel. Almost all the people of our cultural voice stayed at the Chelsea. The Allman brothers stayed there, Janis Joplin stayed there, Jimi Hendrix stayed there, Bob Dylan lived there, Nico—all these different people you saw at the Chelsea Hotel. This is where I lived. And nobody took these people's pictures. Nobody was stopping them every five seconds for their autograph or wanting to take selfies. That culture didn't exist. These people were obviously of high status, but the rungs of their ladder weren't so far away from ours. We all spoke the same language, we listened to the same music, we were against the same war, and so it was different, you know. I didn't think so at the time, but it was obviously in certain ways a simpler time. I'm not saying things weren't complex and difficult, but we knew who we were as a generation, and this is a different time. It's also a really interesting time. It's like pioneer days, it's like the wild west is the Internet. It's being invented—we're living in times that never existed. Some of the things are terrible. No, I never would have anticipated the times we're in, ever.

I don't like how this era makes doesn't settle with me. Perhaps I should learn to go with the flow...

On that note I don't like the direction of video recording. It seems like old school family video tapes are a thing of the past. Now it's all 10 second clips of the kids running around. Back in the day when dad got out the shoulder mounted cassette recorder he would shoot till the tape was maxed out. You could watch a scene play out for 15 minutes as opposed to a short blurb taken from a smart phone.

Little girls dropping the F-Bomb.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/katie-yoder/2014/10/22/little-girls-drop-f-bombs-empower-feminism

Yeah, when i first saw that video i thought it was really stupid.

Their futures look bleak.

jkatz wrote :

I like Taylor Swift.
Not for her music though...


You guys seen those Kids react to and Teens react to videos? Those really bug me for some reason.
Maybe it's because I tend to like vintage stuff and seeing someone only a few years younger than me shriek "What is that? Eeeeeeeeew it's so old and gross!" is disheartening. It's like, is this what the average person thinks of my interests? Are they just humoring me and my abnormal hobbies?

I know they're probably hamming it up for the camera, it's what the videos seem to imply that really don't sit right with me. These kids have never seen an NES or a record player? That's cool. Why don't they ask their parents or older relatives about what life was like back then or read a book? Why don't they make an effort to learn?
Being anti-intellectual is bad enough, add being obnoxious to that and it's enraging to share even the same continent with you.

I'm reading too much into this.  Can I change my answer to captchas?
Yeah, that's what I really hate. Captchas.


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Those really annoy me too for a bunch of reasons. I also think that they overreact on purpose for the video and i don't like when they react to something from the past and think that it's bad or stupid just because it's not instant. Like when they reacted to the nes or a typewriter or gameboy they complain that it's too complicated or there are to many steps to turn it on. It's almost like they can't function or use there brains and figure it out by looking at it and seeing a button that says power or volume. When i was a little kid i thought that older stuff was cool and interesting.

thecrow174 wrote :

Little girls dropping the F-Bomb.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/katie-yoder/2014/10/22/little-girls-drop-f-bombs-empower-feminism
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I like that. There's a point to it that I think you're not getting.

Jrs1991 wrote :
When i was a little kid i thought that older stuff was cool and interesting.
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Me too

thecrow174 wrote :

Little girls dropping the F-Bomb.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/katie-yoder/2014/10/22/little-girls-drop-f-bombs-empower-feminism
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I see what they're doing, bringing attention to the cause. It's going to be partially effective, and also partially alienating.

There are going to be millions of moms who see this as vulgar and unnecessary. Those women aren't going to feel any rallying cry from this, but instead will feel repulsed.

So I think it's a net negative for the cause.