You don't have a fondness for flared trousers and yellow, orange and brown everything?


Yeah, everywhere seems like a ghost-town these days since it's so unusual seeing kids playing any more. Sad, really.

sign of the times: almost all the households in my neighborhood have children of my son's age, but after school he still has no one to play with -all the kids are in after school daycare because the parents are double earners and don't get home until 5:30pm.. so the neighborhood is deserted.

I was 'advised' by the school councilor that my son ought to be enrolled in after school daycare to expand his social network...

We seem to have collectively become obsessed with work since the 1980s... yet I'm not really seeing a meaningful increase in our standard of living.

Are you kidding me?

If the peeps don't get their entitled five vacations abroad per annual, there's hell to pay..

not to mention those 60" flatscreens don't just walk outta shops and jump onto peoples walls, ya know..

..and where would we be without our second and third cars?


okay.. done now.

I think the holidays for those who can afford them are to make up for all that time spent working! And the cars are mainly to get to work... Actually I do remember my dad taking a photograph of the two cars he had for a time in the 1970s because it was such a rare sight. Of course back then one job was enough to pay the mortgage, feed the family and take a holiday, and there was a reliable and useful bus service...

Luxury! We had to wait for the valves to warm up.

That would more likely be the 20's and 30's. Although admittedly smoking was big in all of those decades.

Seems like another lifetime when smoking was permitted in pubs and even offices. Even as a smoker myself at the time, it was pretty tough sitting near our resident Frenchman who chain-smoked smelly Gauloises all day long. The keyboards of people who smoked while typing were also pretty foul things to behold.

I know someone who wants to live in 9999 so they can have their Xbox LIVE account unbanned

I just find it hard to reconcile the huge anti-smoking propaganda and the huge pro-marijuana propaganda. Both are bad for your lungs and one is terrible for your brain. lol

Whenever someone tells me that smoking will kill me, I tell them to make sure to bury me with a cig in my mouth.

Oh come on, the supporters are a fairly large minority, if it could even be called that anymore. It's been legalized completely in Washington if I'm not mistaken, and people are already asking why it's not legal in California, considering most people support it there.

That's not the issue though. It's just the hypocrisy. How can you support one substance over the other? You can inhale both, among other methods, and they both cause a number of lung problems. I'm not sure cancer has been attributed to marijuana yet, but many other negatives have.

I'm just tired of seeing these anti-smoking commercials and, at the same time, seeing this huge push for smoking marijuana. I'm a smoker, but if we're going to fight against tobacco, well then I say legalize marijuana and then start a fight against that as well. It makes as much sense lol

Well, I'm from fusty old England so we probably have widely differing experiences.

I had about 15 years of life without the internet. 15 years I'd like to live in forever.