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Question for the old timers. Were there freaks in the old days?

Posted on 07/05/2021 9:05:16 PM PDT by MNDude

I was just sitting in a Cub's parking lot waiting for my wife. It seemed there was an endless parade of what I would call freaks-- girls with blue hair and pierced noses, men with dreadlocks and huge inserts into big holes in their ears, women covered with nasty tattoos. You know what I mean.

I realize there has always been unusual people, but if you were alive before the 1960's, do you remember if there was a concept of trying to make one look as idiotic as possible?


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1 posted on 07/05/2021 9:05:16 PM PDT by MNDude
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There used to be “Freak Shows” back in the day. Today it is politically incorrect to even say “Freak Show”.


2 posted on 07/05/2021 9:07:00 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees)
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White guys with afros about all I remember. Hippies could stink pretty bad.


3 posted on 07/05/2021 9:08:17 PM PDT by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
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NO....people were “different”....but no one went out of their way to dress and act like a jerk most of the time...


4 posted on 07/05/2021 9:08:42 PM PDT by cherry
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Do fops and dandys count?


5 posted on 07/05/2021 9:09:58 PM PDT by Califreak (2020-The Year of the Potemkin Election)
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Yes, they were in circuses.


6 posted on 07/05/2021 9:10:15 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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Now i think of it, this body mutilation thing seems to have really taken of sometime during Gen-X and really going now with the useless millennials.

Tattoos used to be mostly hidden other than some arm stuff on old sailor types.


7 posted on 07/05/2021 9:10:41 PM PDT by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
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beatniks


8 posted on 07/05/2021 9:11:16 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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No. Reputable people didn’t get tattoos except for military veterans. Nobody mutilated their bodies with weird piercings and such. What you describe is a historical sign of the decline of a culture. I think it was Spengler who said you know a culture is on the rise when the lower classes emulate the upper classes, but a culture is in decline when the upper classes mimic the lower classes.


9 posted on 07/05/2021 9:11:22 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (resist the narrative. .)
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Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me, where is sanity?


10 posted on 07/05/2021 9:11:49 PM PDT by bwest
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I think it was Spengler who said you know a culture is on the rise when the lower classes emulate the upper classes, but a culture is in decline when the upper classes mimic the lower classes.

^^^^^
This


11 posted on 07/05/2021 9:12:24 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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12 posted on 07/05/2021 9:12:36 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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You used to get tattoos to stand out, now you get them to fit in.


13 posted on 07/05/2021 9:13:08 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Sounds about right.


14 posted on 07/05/2021 9:14:01 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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Freak shows at the state fairs were wild.


15 posted on 07/05/2021 9:14:02 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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There were some, mostly artists or entertainers. People who did things to get noticed. I’ll post some pics tomorrow.


16 posted on 07/05/2021 9:14:08 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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The guys with the big holes in their ears crack me up. I keep wanting to ask one of them if that’s so they have a place to hang their dry cleaning while they open the car door.


17 posted on 07/05/2021 9:14:58 PM PDT by ameribbean expat (Attention! All persons having the corona virus...please report to the nearest IRS office. Thank you.)
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There have always been people who pushed the boundaries. However, the societal pressure to confirm was a lot stronger back then, so you didn’t see as much.


18 posted on 07/05/2021 9:15:14 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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The polite terms I’m aware of in use in the last century were “bohemians,” “long-hairs,” “beatniks,” and “hippies.”


19 posted on 07/05/2021 9:16:17 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Personally not dating back that far lolz, but I would guess this kind of counterculture stuff was tolerated earlier in France and some parts of Germany than in the US. Then analogous groups became established in US and brought in and tried to normalize pot (the real reason it was banned, not “racism”) worked to cleave youths away into the first generational gap in the US with beatnik culture carefully designed for that purpose. The leaders of this were primarily homosexuals and pedophiles.


20 posted on 07/05/2021 9:17:15 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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