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Whatever Happened to Just Going Out for Family Fun?
vanity | September 22, 2025 | CIB-173RDABN

Posted on 09/22/2025 3:59:37 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN

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To: CodeToad
It was turned into nothing but left-wing political screeching by so-called “comedians”.

Can't make a joke today. You'll get cancelled.

Jerry Seinfeld Says TV Comedy Is Being Killed By the ‘Extreme Left and P.C. Crap and People Worrying So Much About Offending Other People’

61 posted on 09/22/2025 9:23:56 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: CodeToad

One of the funniest odd things I have noticed is that women I know who all got their PhDs and MDs in the 70s and early 80s all have daughters who could not get into advanced programs.

All the moms were essentially affirmative actioned into these programs, and the kids didn’t have that help. You had to work for your tickets as just a white woman by the 00s


62 posted on 09/22/2025 9:31:31 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Varda

The only people I heard saying that was feminists EVER! You will never get me to believe otherwise. I grew up during that time and most women had it good and they knew it.

Then feminists came along and whined that women couldn’t be like men and work like men and look what it got us.

Sorry but I think you are just spewing feminism. I was alive in the 60’s and feminism started to take off in the 70’s and that is when society started to fall apart.

Now women have more choices than ever before, and they still complain they don’t have enough. The truth is women have never been more miserable than now. Now is where women are ridiculed for being stay at home wives, trad wives, and for remaining monogamous.

Feminism, which claims to have freed women to do anything has made them more miserable and is a cancer on society.


63 posted on 09/22/2025 9:36:02 AM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: CodeToad

Like I said, I was talking about the 1960’s and earlier and what laid the groundwork for the influence of the feminist movement. Yes top scoring women were rejected in favor of lower scoring men. The fact that it’s reversed now doesn’t change the past Lower scoring women back then didn’t bother complaining back then. You could either produce the GPA and test scores or you couldn’t.

I did not know there was a computer science degree in the 1950’s. The computer science departments with which I’m familiar were developed in the 60’s and early 70’s. The faculties came from really varied backgrounds.


64 posted on 09/22/2025 9:43:17 AM PDT by Varda
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To: packrat35

“I grew up during that time and most women had it good and they knew it”

Think about that statement. If most women knew they had it good,
why did they abandon a better way of life for a worse one ? AND teach their daughters to do the same.
Feminists did whine about wanting everything men had. Why did it work? Why did people believe that what women had wasn’t good. It was not all outside forces doing that.
Even now the phrases empowering women and girl power is about making women like men.

BTW - When I became a mother, I dumped the career. I knew I was going to be counter cultural and it was.


65 posted on 09/22/2025 9:58:45 AM PDT by Varda
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They were pretty much forced to. Most women did not want to go to work. Big business liked it cause it drove down wages due to many more people in the work force.

Now it is hard for one person to pay the way and most women HAVE to work, not that they want to.

Now most women are falling for the lies and thinking they have it bad. Female slut culture is celebrated, and women are encouraged to be like men and sleep with as many men as you want, then you can settle down. And then they are shocked that men find that repulsive.

Giving women the right to vote lead to the downfall of this great country. You can literally track the leftward march since that day in 1920.


66 posted on 09/22/2025 10:05:05 AM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Being old myself, I understand his feelings. I myself remember many fun things we used to do as a family. I will occasionally go out with my family,but it seems we just don’t have as many common interests any more. Sometimes, we can’t handle the same foods or vigorous activities when we get old.


67 posted on 09/22/2025 10:53:33 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Omnivore-Dan

I read your post and my consciousness was invaded by an old jingle: “My beer is Rheingold the dry beer.” It is well over 50 years since I’ve thought of that. Brought a smile to my face. Thank you.


68 posted on 09/22/2025 2:30:44 PM PDT by atomic_dog
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To: CIB-173RDABN
I don’t often see children playing outside in the neighborhood anymore. Back when I was young, the streets were full of kids on their way to and from school, and even more were out playing until dark

Americans have stopped having children.

69 posted on 09/22/2025 2:36:35 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: packrat35

Sad, but true. I was outside as much as possible. Punishment for me was to weed the garden or mow the lawn or vacuum or some other chore on top of the chores I already had. I survived.


70 posted on 09/23/2025 3:52:19 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: atomic_dog

You’re quite welcome, and here’s another beer lost...Ballantine and the 3 rings.


71 posted on 09/23/2025 3:58:46 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: Omnivore-Dan
Man! I really knew those beer jingles back in the day. I even remember the Schaefer beer song in Spanish.
"La cerveza Schaefer es el mejor cuando se toma mas de uno!"
Schaefer is the one beer to have when your having more than one."
72 posted on 09/23/2025 7:33:39 AM PDT by atomic_dog
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Bump for later read.


73 posted on 09/23/2025 7:47:55 AM PDT by Inspectorette
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