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Word! :sunglasses:

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I like this a lot. Our government is corrupt. Itā€™s unfortunate that Iā€™m growing up in such a terrible time period. :confused:

WTF are you talking about? For 99.99% of human history itā€™s been waaay worse.
What past time period do you think would have been better?

The dark ages werenā€™t TOO bad.
:roll_eyes: :roll_eyes:

Eh, they were about average.

Other responses to this aside, I was just going to offer that, pretty much no matter what time period you grow up in, when you look back on these times youā€™re going to think of it as ā€œthe good old daysā€. And in many ways they will be.

A few people have told me that the ā€˜60s were the "good olā€™ days."

ā€¦but as far as I can tell, the '60s sucked.

So yeah, nostalgia can be a powerful force. Or something.

I the '60ā€™s we had the Beatles. Today we haveā€¦Bieber. :frowning:

The Beatles have approximately two songs that I used to like. Most of their lyrics are fairly terrible even by todayā€™s standards and I donā€™t particularly like the way they sounded, especially in their earlier songs.
I say ā€œused to likeā€ because Iā€™ve heard those two songs far too many times and they really werenā€™t good enough songs for me to still like them even after being bombarded with them by a hundred different people in a thousand different situations.

ā€¦and of course musicians like Beiber and Rebeca Black are rubbish. The only people who like that stuff are prepubescent girls anyway. They are irrelevant.

If you want to try and persuade me that the '60s were good because of the music, use a better example than the Beatles. I was going to say Iron Maiden, but then I remembered that they started up in the late '70s.
Peter, Paul, and Mary it is, then. That was a pretty cool group. And maaaaaaybe Pink Floyd.

In any case, my point had little to do with pop culture.
I see your Beatles and raise you one Vietnam war, one Chairman Mao, one Tlatelolco massacre, one Soviet Union, a few nuclear bombs, a metric ton of internal strife as people strove to gain rights that they should have already had, one Berlin Wall, and a general increase in crime rates.

Ouch! Okay, you can hate the 60ā€™s. :slight_smile:

Pink Floyd? Iā€™m a big fan. But they didnā€™t really not suck until the 70s, so that doesnā€™t help the argument for the 60sā€¦

Were you alive during the 60s? I think that has a lot to do with things.

BTW, that video clip was great. Too bad it probably wonā€™t have much effect. But people do vote based on the economy, not so much on all that smaller stuff.

The times before government and religion. Those, my friend, are better times. Humans messed up. Badly. Look whatā€™s become of the world. Governments are brainwashing their nations into any and ever radical believe, at their discretion: the corrupt politicians. How is this a good time period? The so-called freedom we have? I donā€™t even see that. I donā€™t see how this is a good time in history at all.

Despite all its problems, itā€™s still the best time weā€™ve had so far.

PHHH.
What, you want to go back so many thousands of years?

What about medicine, technology, specialization of laborā€¦ hell, go back that far, what about agriculture and domestication of animalsā€¦?

How is any of this new? If anything the general trend in all of these regards is towards improvement. Slow, unsteady, and probably limited in scope, but still improvement.

Eh, I have the same problem with lots of things. Like, Iā€™m a big fan of Beethoven, but I cannot stand his fifth symphony, probably because of some situation I heard it in when I was a child. My brainā€™s just stupid like that.

I donā€™t listen to a lot of English language stuff. The closest bands to the Beatles that I listen to are probably The Pillows and Bump of Chicken, and I think that most of their songs are rubbish, too. Some real gems as well, though.

Religion and government have been around since the first humans. You want to go back to a time with no people? Let us know how that goesā€¦

When was there a time period better than this one? Ancient China: forced peasant labor. India: inequality in the caste system. Rome: prisoners of war forced to fight to the death. Look at any other civilization, and you will never find anything better.

Hi Alex! Iā€™m betting you like ā€œSinging in the rainā€.

Not particularly, no, and I donā€™t understand the reference you are making here.

ā€¦Alex? :thinking:

Set your glazzies onto A Clockwork Orange.

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Verb

sentence (third-person singular simple present sentences, present participle sentencing, simple past and past participle sentenced)

    To declare a sentence on a convicted person.

        The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine. 

You obviously didnā€™t glork it from the context.