This may be true. But it did in spite of us :D
I love your old Wagoneer. I also like Model A Fords but I wouldn't trust one to take me across the country. :rolleyes:
I also love my age and am proud of it. I am also not Bitter. You read way too much into my posts. :D I am actually a very happy guy. :) This is a fish forum and I like to have fun with it. ;)
You will never get bashed on a thread I started, not by me any way as you have your opinions and I agree with many of them. You may bet bashed by other people though. :cool:
That is also true about engines and trannys not lasting long, I replaced many of them. That was a world wide thing and we build them much better now. Not only because of electronics, because when something fails often we know how to re-design it to last. That is why we don't change ball joints or exhaust systems now. Better steel.
This, you may get bashed for. Those "morons" made it possible for Snowflakes to be here. Those morons built the planes and ships that beat the Japanese and Germans. They are the Morons that died by the thousands so snowflakes can legally protest whatever they want. They also made it possible for a lot of people in my generation to be conscientious objectors and not fight for the country.
Those Morons paid their own way and there was no welfare so if they didn't work, they starved as they should. Those "Morons" were very Proud to be American and they put up American Flags to show their Patriotism (as I do)
I was a "factory old" Oldsmobile mechanic in the 60s and bending the top of the door in was standard practice. It was done on all cars, even I would imagine the Japanese cars. The ones in the factories we Morons built for them. :cool:
We also smoked. (as did I and almost everyone in the 60s) Smoking, bathing your hands in Lacquer thinner and not wearing masks was not from being Morons. Smoking wasn't considered dangerous then (Or in Jeranamo's time ) as was lacquer thinner. Coca Cola used to have cocaine in it and many medications along with teeth fillings had mercury in it. No one knew better, but us Morons eventually found out these things which is why we don't give it to the millennials. Millennials walk around with cell phones stuck in their ears. I am sure the next generation will call them morons because of all the brain cancer that will cause. Many Millennials can't function without a phone, don't know what day it is or what rock star they should emulate. As I walk through Manhattan I can't find hardly anyone not on a cell phone. Those people hardly have a life as to me, life is what you make it, not what other people tell me how to make it. I function fine without my phone and never read it. I make calls, take a picture and very rarely text someone, but my life doesn't revolve around the thing.
If I was stranded on a desert Island, I would get along just fine. If I found a hermit crab, a sardine and a tin can, I could build a cell phone or flat screen TV. If it were a Blue Leg hermit crab, that TV would be Blue Ray. :D
I am sure you typed this post on a cell phone as you made about 18 spelling errors. But I am sure I did too and I am on a big computer. :eek:
You also realize that after we Morons destroyed Japan in the war, we re-built their factories which made them much newer than our 50 year old car factories. Do you think Japan would have done the same for us?
If there was a war today and we needed young people, or millennials to fight, I bet over 90% would have some sort of excuse not to go.
(they would probably be on their phones)
I "am" a war Veteran and I also help other Veterans. I give to the Wounded Warriors and "always" thank Veterans even if they are much younger than I am. (WE are giving clothes to Veterans organism today) I go far out of my way to thank Veterans. I sometimes pick up their check in restaurants. Most of my friends are Veterans, many of us are Combat Veterans with purple hearts or Bronze Stars for Valor. (I have two of them) Many of my friends sadly died in combat.
I had a beard, but I never took drugs and I grew up in the 60s where everyone took drugs. I had access to drugs all over Viet Nam as I could travel anywhere I wanted by helicopter, but I didn't. Not even weed. I did however get dosed with Agent Orange many times and many of my cohorts are now dead from that. Drugs have been around for centuries.
As I said, I am a combat Veteran and I was in the Jungle for the entire year. (no roofs, no walls, no water, no electricity just mud and bamboo) I saw plenty of Combat, one day losing 54 of us out of about 150. I am sure atrocities were committed. Not by me and not by anyone I have been with.
We took prisoners, guarded them, fed them and sent them to the rear. I am sure you don't want to hear what the Vietnamese or Japanese did to Americans. (Read "Killing the Rising Star" you may be amazed. )
I won't forget that as my lungs are full of the stuff. I get checked for it all the time and so far it hasn't killed me. (I also installed asbestos which I am loaded with) It is still encapsulated in my lungs and I am one of the few survivors in my unit that is still living with this stuff in me. My Daughter and Grand Daughter also have some "defects", I just don't know if it's from that and I can't do anything about it.
No, I won't forget that.
(Isn't it your generation that kneels for the National Anthem? )
As for draft dodgers, me and most people in my generation feel they should have been shot. The ones which went to Canada should never been allowed to return, if they did, they should be shot. (along with the people who kneel for the Anthem)
Whaling has been around since they invented whales. (so was slavery) It was needed hundreds of years ago. Or so they say.
I think today whalers should be harpooned and boiled down for their fat. People who keep slaves could be put in there with them.
I don't believe in putting people in jail for life so we can pay for them. If they are on death row, just kill them and get it over with. If their lawyer complains, put him in there with them :eek:
Many of us were terrible parents, I agree with that. Many Millennials are also terrible parents. My Daughter bought her own car, her own apartment and her own wedding. She did those things because she knows I like independence more than anything and I am very proud of her for all that.
I grew up very independent as my Dad died when I was ten, but before he died he taught me to work. If I wanted a nickel, I had to shine his shoes that he wore to work in a fish market. I also had to wash our 1947 Pontiac. The one with the bad welds. :rolleyes:
Today, most kids get free cars, houses, weddings and they emerge as "Morons" because they can't function on just a college degree as they don't teach you how to change a tire in college or fight for your country. :(
Many college graduates can't make a living because they have no street skills.
I made money all my life and money is and has always been easy for me. I can make money any day I want but I have enough. The "Moron" in me allowed me to know how to do that and my Dad taught me the lesson. :D
I think you meant "Thread "here. But I wish you wouldn't stop posting here. Your opinions are valid as much as anyone's and I take no offense to them. Have a great day. :D
