Posted on 07/05/2021 9:05:16 PM PDT by MNDude
Your statement reminded me of when I was in Target, and saw they were selling pre-ripped, pre-slashed jeans. I have seem tie-dyed pants before, but these looked as if someone had just thrown a bowlfull of bleach onto the front and back, allowing the chemical to flow down undisturbed, as gravity chose to take it.
The punk rock fans from the 70’s. Spiked multi-colored hair, pins in their faces.
I’ve been trying to find the exact quote, unsuccessfully.
It sounds like something Thorstein Veblen might also have said.
And Johnny Rotten became a Trump supporter.
Excuse me! Do not call fungi an ‘old timer’—we have been around before you were born.
Ironically
Freaks was a term coined by who knows honestly
The 1970 cartoon of hippies....
David Crosby in Almost Cut My Hair sang of letting my freak flag fly....
I was born in 1957 and I know of you smoked weed and had long hair and considered yourself somewhat counterculture ...even though that is quaint by today’s standards...you were indeed a “freak”
That hamfisted movie Joe with Peter Boyle mentions Freaks.....as does Arlo Guthrie addressing Woodstock
I think Garcia also speaks of freaks as counter culture folk much earlier
I honestly don’t know.....it was there as I came up
Another word in the same vein....cool....is someone cool.....as in do they smoke weed or are they ok with it
These distinctions...however silly now...were paramount from say mid 60s to late 70s ....
Another thing about freak.....freak shows at fairs....we had real one then.....lobster boy, bearded lady, slug boy, tall man, midget and so on....it was sad to me even then honestly
I think the freak hippie thing started in Los Angeles ....Zappa speaks of it very early....and hippies didn’t call themselves hippies
They called each other freaks....even in Mississippi though we were usually a few year down the arc
Back then fashion moved inward from the coasts....music was universal but clothes took a few seasons
Now everyone shops same stuff from Boise to Boston and Marta to Manhattan
I was in Manhattan two summers ago...people dressed same as Nashville
It was far different 35-60 years ago that way
“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.”
Naw man..... they’re for finger holds.
You have to understand. The young folks today view the young people with NO tats and NO piercings and naturally-colored hair as the “freaks”. Soon, it’ll be frowned upon if you stick with the gender you were born with and are not in a biracial relationship.
When I was a kid baseball was played in the daytime, the men wore white shirts and the women stayed home.
I am appalled and sickened by the idiots with piercings, tattoos and clown-colored hair. I didn’t realize how many Generation Whatever Dolts there were until I took a part time job (post-retirement) and found that half the workers are “tattooed circus freaks”.
Sad to say I spent part of Independence Day with a tattooed cousin of mine.....and his tattooed second wife. They are half my age, thus the disconnect in what we find to be acceptable behavior. My husband and I discussed our dismay at the stupidity of it all on our drive home last night. That level of tattoo coverage is ridiculous, and career-limiting. Just creepy and gross.
Yes I’m dealing with some of this in my own family.
No Freaks,
You had Goofy an Dopey types but it seemed you did the Best you could with
what You had.
Tattoed women were in the circus in my day. Women were routinely beautiful. Gays were in the closet.
“Old timers”?
What?
These people are doing this primarily as a scream for attention. Parental neglect. From the old timers. Baby boomers
It was baby boomers who started this crap putting their kids in day care. These people were raised by people other than their mothers. What do people expect society to look like after that?
Old timers. Wimps.
Clean America version with city hall Fred.
in the 1950s it was hair and cloths…and rock and roll…fast cars and drag racing…..drinking underage
The big cities had gangs but nothing like now…
In the fifties most towns and cities were segregated in to ethnic areas…Germans,Italians,Polish and so no…
In High School we all got along…it’s the parents that hated another group
The Jewish took the most crap because they were rich
And marriage out side of the group was a no no
Had a Jewish girl who married an Italian and the Jewish parents ever talked to her again..
If you got in trouble say shop lifting…
The first time the cops would drive you to your house and march you to the door..and your parents would carry out what ever..usually a beating
second time you went to the police station and probably got a few hits with the night stick
Third time the Judge said go to jail or join the Army where they set most kids straight
The thing is being a freak is the new normal, and there is a certain conformity to it.
I mean, I always considered that I marched to the beat of a different drum, myself. But my motivation wasn’t to conform.
“We Accept You,
We Accept You!”
Back in the 1970’s when I was in high school I did not notice except the occasional doper at school.
I remember just 1 fat kid who later slimmed down.
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