I'm a Hispanic male. In the 1940s and 1950s I would not have been able to get my upper class education without an extraordinary amount of effort. My grandmother was relegated to pennies - to - the - crop work labor as she migrated around the United States. My parents were raised in ghettoes, and segregation was the norm for everyone of my ethnicity. In our hometown, our people were forced to live in areas where poverty was rampant and quality education was difficult. Buses had to bring the libraries to neighborhoods because local transportation was substandard and quality public facilities unavailable. My mother had to work three jobs starting at 15 to help support the family, and my dad similarly labored long and hard starting at a young age just to help the family make ends meet. You could not be openly homosexual in America, you couldn't aspire to higher office as either a minority or a homosexual, and businesses were almost all white. Public denial of service to minorities was the norm in neighborhoods well into these decades.
If I lived during the 1940s and 1950s in Portland, I would have been threatened with internment despite not being Japanese, potentially forced to live underground and not be seen above ground, be a victim of racial violence or the large crime syndicates that partnered with the police. And if I got hurt or raped, I'd pretty much get my claims ignored. If I was murdered No one would care. As both Chinese and a woman, my life would have been totally out of my hands and my parents would have been arrested for trying to marry.
It should be noted that I didn't insinuate the era was all unicorn farts and rainbows. Hell, I'm a communist cripple engaged to a Chinese woman. We'd have both had a lot of problems. I merely stated that the clothes and music were better.
...suits and hats were much more common back then. I will admit though, that suits and hats were much more common in the 40s. So was good music.
Wow, I didn't know that you were alive back in the 40s! Amazing!
Seriously, get some perspective and think with a rational mind because you're essentially saying "it was great back then, before I was even alive" and "everything sucks now". It's such a narrow minded, black and white perspective.
I'm a female Jewish albino whose family fled Europe. Both my parents grew up dirt poor in New York projects and couldn't even go to the bathrooms in their high school because of gang violence and drug dealers. At least they managed to leave Europe. A number of my great aunts and uncles weren't nearly so lucky.
No, I don't think I'd have liked to live in the 1950's.
Wow. Talk about digging a grave for yourself Pantsy! :O
I can see where you're coming from on the fashion. Would be nice if people toned down their exuberance a bit and were a little more polite.
But again, I'd say since then we have progressed quite a bit socially and technologically.
(Shame its not so much better economics wise eh? )
EDIT: Everyone lets calm down a little, ok?
I'm sure we can all be easily accused of saying something stupid now and then right?
(I sure know I've said stuff in the past that was stupid. Like when I was 10, and I asked if Duke was the dad to Duchess' kittens, (which now seems very unlikely since they were from the same litter...).
Cat genetics I have come to realise is much more complicated than that... :X)
umm... I'm a white male. I'm married to a white female.
nothing special (ie. seemingly minority related) here.
By this, I'm not saying that I think the country is now reverse-racist against whites. I'm saying that I glean no special significance about my own personal ancestral cultural heritage beyond what is known of American history. Suffice it to say, I am a white American. yay.
Honestly Seibert, and I mean this in the nicest way possible, but you're in the age bracket i'd normally expect from mlp watchers, so I don't think it's too weird. Not that anyone from any age shouldn't watch what they want.
Laying off the reddit is always a good idea. It's just too bad my anti-reddit is 4chan.
If I ever had to be strapped to a chair and force fed either website for the rest of my life within 0.0000000000000000000000001 of a second my answer would be reddit.
I'd rather die of being bored to death with all the reposting than have a heart attack from "that" place... BRRRRRR!!!
EDIT: But at least its not TV Tropes.
You stay as long as you want but you can never leave!!!
I don't know if it's the types I've been watching recently or what, but it's like at every turn, everyone is a miserable, self absorbed human being.
I know what it is, it's these animes trying to generate angst and false drama by portraying horrendous situations, but it's so heavy handed that it overwhelms everything else.
For instance, I just got done watching Elfen Lied. In one episode I see a child molester, an abusive mother, a random Japanese woman who steals a dog, a murderous psychopathic mutant killer, the same mother abandoning her child, acts of rape, gratuitous nudity, and so forth.
The problem isn't what's portrayed since even all that can be portrayed well, it's the gratuity in relation to the plot. Even the most light hearted moments lead into nudity / random appendage removal. It's like watching a snuff film.
I always go back to Monster for an example of what I thought was an amazing anime series. Yeah these horrendous things happen in that show, but you're always anchored by a realistic protagonist attempting to navigate the grey of life, which is a reality people all have to face. There's rape, murder, destruction, home abuse, but the essential question is whether it's ever right to take a life. It's handled in a way that you sympathize, and there's never the level of gratuity that some of these other animes contain.
Half of it's probably my fault because I've been getting my recent anime fix off of Netflix, but it is a slightly disturbing trend that the gratuity is this intense.
Grammar: the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit.
(Of course I'm not intending to insult you Retro sir, just wanted to share that little nugget I found rather amusing!)
Oh no, no offense taken at all dear.
We are all prone to the occasional error.
(Especially when we are tired, agitated, or intoxicated)
Was that taken from a Anti-motivational by any chance?
(In any case, its consistency of errors that is the issue moreso than the errors themselves. Unfortunately, this lad has a horrible tendancy to type sloppily, which I can't help but get a little irritated by it...)
I scavenged it from my Facebook feed and squirreled it away to make me look clever and witty at some point in the future.
At least you're getting some value out of Facebook.
I don't really.
I only have like, 3 proper friends, and they don't really use Facebook so much either.
So I'm almost always talking to myself, or just posting messages that end up in some random person I added's wall of crap.
EDIT: It can be useful for group work in projects, but actually getting people to sit together and use it normally is a pain.
You would be suprised that there are people out there who don't actually use Facebook.
Grammar: the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit.
Ooh, that's a marvelous saying. Did you come up with that yourself? I only ask because I'm definitely going to be pinching that saying and using it myself from now on and I thought it only polite to give you fair warning.
Ooh, that's a marvelous saying. Did you come up with that yourself? I only ask because I'm definitely going to be pinching that saying and using it myself from now on and I thought it only polite to give you fair warning.
It IS rather marvellous, unfortunately I only wish I'd thought of it myself (and don't know where it originates). Pinch away with impunity.
Interesting in theory. The puzzles are decent and the plot setup is different. Music is good and some of the vibe calls back to Monkey Island.
But here's the thing. They split the plot between three different characters, none of whom is voiced very well, and all of whom are only so like able. It makes for interesting conversation but you never bond with any one of them because you split time between all of them. It makes you feel less invested in completing the game be ause you don't care who you're playing as. And again, the bad voice acting does not help.
So about Elfen Lied again. According to this, everyone in Japan is a dog killer, child raper, child abuser, thief of children, etc etc. There are no good people according to this anime. Even the protagonists are miserable stains on the face of humanity.
I find this amusing because, aside from freak earthquake-tsunamis, Japan is probably the safest place in the world. My dad always said that he could walk around the streets at three in the morning and feel perfectly safe.
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So no, I don't envy that era. At all.
but at least i can look pretty?
Wow, I didn't know that you were alive back in the 40s! Amazing!
Seriously, get some perspective and think with a rational mind because you're essentially saying "it was great back then, before I was even alive" and "everything sucks now". It's such a narrow minded, black and white perspective.
You are being ridiculous, Sir.
No, I don't think I'd have liked to live in the 1950's.
I can see where you're coming from on the fashion. Would be nice if people toned down their exuberance a bit and were a little more polite.
But again, I'd say since then we have progressed quite a bit socially and technologically.
(Shame its not so much better economics wise eh?
EDIT: Everyone lets calm down a little, ok?
I'm sure we can all be easily accused of saying something stupid now and then right?
(I sure know I've said stuff in the past that was stupid. Like when I was 10, and I asked if Duke was the dad to Duchess' kittens, (which now seems very unlikely since they were from the same litter...).
Cat genetics I have come to realise is much more complicated than that... :X)
Wolfy and Dashing know this already, but I am too.
Was this of your own choosing or were you indoctrinated?
Because I have something very different to say about either of those...
EDIT: Also please capitalise those I's. Its driving me crazy!! >:/
I just enjoyed the show.
EDIT:ARE YOU HAPPY!
No. I am not.
You're sentence is poorly constructed.
Its either "I just enjoy the show" or "I enjoyed the show when I watched it".
Tenses man! Tenses!
They are there for a reason!
(You can just tell I did A level English can't you? XD)
You are sentence is poorly constructed?
The answer is the latter, I enjoyed the show when I watched it.
nothing special (ie. seemingly minority related) here.
By this, I'm not saying that I think the country is now reverse-racist against whites. I'm saying that I glean no special significance about my own personal ancestral cultural heritage beyond what is known of American history. Suffice it to say, I am a white American. yay.
btw, steam account?
GAH! NOOOOO! It's infectious!
GET IT OFF ME! GET IT OFFF!!!
OMG DIE WHITE CIS MALE SCUMMMMM!!!!!!! *fart*
I'm just a white male.
EDIT: Interesting, it may be "Reddititus".
I think I need to lay off the reddit for a while, methinks....
it is seibert999
If I ever had to be strapped to a chair and force fed either website for the rest of my life within 0.0000000000000000000000001 of a second my answer would be reddit.
I'd rather die of being bored to death with all the reposting than have a heart attack from "that" place... BRRRRRR!!!
EDIT: But at least its not TV Tropes.
You stay as long as you want but you can never leave!!!
(And I had so many things ending in "Galaxy" lined up too, like Super Mario Galaxy and Rogue Galaxy)
EDIT: Samsung Galaxy.
I know what it is, it's these animes trying to generate angst and false drama by portraying horrendous situations, but it's so heavy handed that it overwhelms everything else.
For instance, I just got done watching Elfen Lied. In one episode I see a child molester, an abusive mother, a random Japanese woman who steals a dog, a murderous psychopathic mutant killer, the same mother abandoning her child, acts of rape, gratuitous nudity, and so forth.
The problem isn't what's portrayed since even all that can be portrayed well, it's the gratuity in relation to the plot. Even the most light hearted moments lead into nudity / random appendage removal. It's like watching a snuff film.
I always go back to Monster for an example of what I thought was an amazing anime series. Yeah these horrendous things happen in that show, but you're always anchored by a realistic protagonist attempting to navigate the grey of life, which is a reality people all have to face. There's rape, murder, destruction, home abuse, but the essential question is whether it's ever right to take a life. It's handled in a way that you sympathize, and there's never the level of gratuity that some of these other animes contain.
Half of it's probably my fault because I've been getting my recent anime fix off of Netflix, but it is a slightly disturbing trend that the gratuity is this intense.
Grammar: the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit.
(Of course I'm not intending to insult you Retro sir, just wanted to share that little nugget I found rather amusing!)
Oh no, no offense taken at all dear.
We are all prone to the occasional error.
(Especially when we are tired, agitated, or intoxicated)
Was that taken from a Anti-motivational by any chance?
(In any case, its consistency of errors that is the issue moreso than the errors themselves. Unfortunately, this lad has a horrible tendancy to type sloppily, which I can't help but get a little irritated by it...)
I scavenged it from my Facebook feed and squirreled it away to make me look clever and witty at some point in the future.
At least you're getting some value out of Facebook.
I don't really.
I only have like, 3 proper friends, and they don't really use Facebook so much either.
So I'm almost always talking to myself, or just posting messages that end up in some random person I added's wall of crap.
EDIT: It can be useful for group work in projects, but actually getting people to sit together and use it normally is a pain.
You would be suprised that there are people out there who don't actually use Facebook.
Some people, god forbid, use email!
*le gasp*
Ooh, that's a marvelous saying. Did you come up with that yourself? I only ask because I'm definitely going to be pinching that saying and using it myself from now on and I thought it only polite to give you fair warning.
It IS rather marvellous, unfortunately I only wish I'd thought of it myself (and don't know where it originates). Pinch away with impunity.
Interesting in theory. The puzzles are decent and the plot setup is different. Music is good and some of the vibe calls back to Monkey Island.
But here's the thing. They split the plot between three different characters, none of whom is voiced very well, and all of whom are only so like able. It makes for interesting conversation but you never bond with any one of them because you split time between all of them. It makes you feel less invested in completing the game be ause you don't care who you're playing as. And again, the bad voice acting does not help.
Bad anime.
Watch some good anime. Or take a break and watch Doctor Who.