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If you could bring back something from the past, what would it be??

I miss nobody wearing bicycle helmets
 
RF667799 said:
That's still available. I would like a 67 RS/SS Camaro and a Kawasaki 750 triple. Both somewhat out of my price range. Hmmm...maybe it's time to sell the boat.
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750 Kaw, that was a two-stroke, wannit? Probably had arm-stretching acceleration.
I had a Kaw KZ 1000 LTD, '77 I think (top Kawasaki the year before was a 900).
I learned to ride on older Brit bikes, Bonnievilles etc., and when I bought that Japanese bike I spent two weeks trying to shift gears with the brake pedal!
 
Logophile said:
It doesn't even have to be from your life time. It can be anything, from a tv series to a car to a habit gone by. It can even still exist but just a rarity these days, like hats on Easter. Do you have something you miss or think you miss??

For me, it's 747s, when they were mostly empty, station wagons, when they were really big and disco music, lol
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My first love.
 
Others are talking about ice cream, and it reminded me of my favorite DQ item, the chocolate soda. It was a float made with 7-Up, chocolate syrup, ice cream, whip cream, and a cherry on top. It was top notch.
 
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Helix said:
Others are talking about ice cream, and it reminded me of my favorite DQ item, the chocolate soda. It was a float made with 7-Up, chocolate syrup, ice cream, whip cream, and a cherry on top. It was top notch.
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Boy that sounds good. I think we could eat like pigs, too and not get fat because we didn't have half the automation that we do today. No riding mowers. Now we don't even have to get up to change the channel. We're now in the point and click era
 
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bongsaway said:
My first love.
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Ouch. I know that feeling, and yes it can hurt something really bad.

If you can still do something about it, do it. But otherwise, learn to let it go and move on. What's past is past. You can acknowledge the importance of the relationship to you, and the beauty of the memories, and all the circumstances surrounding the relationship which led to such beautiful memories, and yet still move on.Therapists can help, but it may take a while. It doesn't mean you are dishonoring the memory. Be careful you don't fall into the "limerance trap"- where the heartache itself is something enjoyable and beautiful that you want to keep it and not ever get over it. Like they say: "don't trip over things behind you".

 
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I miss hung-over Sunday mornings, beer and a slice of cold, stale pizza and televangelists and healers on TV. Jimmy Swaggart crying and Peter Popov in the audience yelling, "Throw that cane up on the stage and make the devil mad!"
Don't miss fishing butts out of the ashtray to roll up because I'm out of tobacco though. The good old days weren't always good.
 
Logophile said:
Boy that sounds good. I think we could eat like pigs, too and not get fat because we didn't have half the automation that we do today. No riding mowers. Now we don't even have to get up to change the channel on the tv
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What we also didn't have is all of the "stuff" added to our food supply. It's basically poison.
 
Grand Mal said:
I miss hung-over Sunday mornings, beer and a slice of cold, stale pizza and televangelists and healers on TV. Jimmy Swaggart crying and Peter Popov in the audience yelling, "Throw that cane up on the stage and make the devil mad!"
Don't miss fishing butts out of the ashtray to roll up because I'm out of tobacco though. The good old days weren't always good.
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Lol, I don't think I'd miss any of that
 
ataraxia said:
Well that sure beats what passes for men's fashion these days. Just embarrassed what future generations will think of us and our fashion sense.

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I don't think they'll care.

I mean, we don't obsess over haircuts from the 50s or 80s.
 
Luce said:
I don't think they'll care.

I mean, we don't obsess over haircuts from the 50s or 80s.
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True. But I would rather have my period be remembered, on the rare occasions it may be, for an impressive sense of fashion, not ripped jeans:

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Allan said:
Downtowns with character, and people.

My own hometown had a very vibrant main street up until my teens. Then three things happened to kill it: suburban malls, followed by downtown malls and pedestrian overpasses.

All of the warmth of people on the sidewalks shopping in the mostly family owned shops and the big classic department stores (Woolworths, Eaton's, The Bay) disappeared, replaced by characterless walls fronting malls.

That's something I like about European cities. More of the downtown areas are pedestrian oriented.
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Mount Airy, NC, about 20 minutes from my location, has a nice traditional downtown, as do a number of cities and towns in the western part of North Carolina.

Contrasted to many of the barren and vacant downtowns in eastern North Carolina and South Carolina.
 
Safiel said:
Mount Airy, NC, about 20 minutes from my location, has a nice traditional downtown, as do a number of cities and towns in the western part of North Carolina.

Contrasted to many of the barren and vacant downtowns in eastern North Carolina and South Carolina.
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Minneapolis still has a fairly decent downtown.
 
Logophile said:
It doesn't even have to be from your life time. It can be anything, from a tv series to a car to a habit gone by. It can even still exist but just a rarity these days, like hats on Easter. Do you have something you miss or think you miss??

For me, it's 747s, when they were mostly empty, station wagons, when they were really big and disco music, lol
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Swanson's aluminum tv dinners that you put in the oven, not the microwave.

 
Grand Mal said:
Well, it's probably not those specific things I miss, just the whole way of life that they're part of.
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Yea I get it. I remember a really cold morning after a blizzard. There was brilliant white frost on the windows and it was so quiet. No money. No furniture. Didn't matter. That steaming instant coffee was just right
 
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