Maybe I wasn't born too late after all : memes

[-] demlet@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Dying from an infected cut must have been so romantical.

[-] klemptor@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

[-] Bonehead@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

While you're technically right, Gaddafi also kinda brought that on himself. He wasn't just some low level peasant being sodomized with a pike for shits and giggles. He really really pissed some people off.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The origin of BBQ!

[Old French, barbe à cul (beard to ass) meaning impaled on a turnspit.]

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

So where does "roasted on a spit" come from?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

"Amateur."

-- Hieronymus Bosch

[-] Battle_Masker@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Thy defense hath more holes than my mother's swiss cheese!

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] MrsDoyle@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

As a woman who was a teenager in the 1960s, yeah no thanks. Once was enough. Good music but everything else was shite.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I sure wouldn't want to be black or a woman in the 1960s.

[-] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

it seems super relaxed and people were friendly and loving

Civil rights has entered the chat.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

For starters, ever heard of the Vietnam War?

[-] angrymouse@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm assuming you are from US, so I don't think any woman or black person from there will agree with you. These ppl had no rights or these were ignored in the majority of your country. In 1959 the last baseball team starts to accept Negros in their teams. I don´t believe that one year after everything were fine. And if you talk about any other place out of US, well, it is worse, Europe has families divided by cold war, IIrc UK we're having an economic crisis... I really believe that were bobbles during this time, but it was for a minority

[-] PoetSII@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In what way?

Idk something tells me being black or gay or a woman or an American or Vietnamese man from the ages 18-24 wouldn't be too hot in the 60s but what do I know, we only have entirely unfettered access to historical documents from the time.

[-] angrymouse@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Vietnamese ppl: I'm a joking to you?

[-] velovix@hedge.town 4 points 1 year ago

I don't think this would be as good as you think, because we can't "unknow" what we know today. The obvious one is giving up all the social progress we've made since then. Also, imagine knowing about climate change and being surrounded by people who either don't know or are worried about it but don't have the science we have today to understand the issue. All the nightmares we have today will still happen, but you're trapped in the past knowing it all and not being able to do anything about it.

[-] demlet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

60s...? With the stinky self-righteous hippies and overblown music? I have it on good authority that the 70s were actually where it was at.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Overblown music? What in tarnation are you talking about? Some of the greatest songs ever written were recorded in that decade.

[-] demlet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Okay Boomer.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's true that Jimi Hendrix can't match up with the incredible music of Ed Sheeran, but he tried.

[-] demlet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well, if that's your comparison, sure... Music changes, and musical tastes vary, so I'll avoid trying to give examples or make comparisons, I just don't think music of that era was particularly better than music since then. It's a weird fluke of history that we developed decent recording and playback technology right as the 60s bands were coming up. That probably explains why it holds such a grip on culture. But personally I think there have been some incredible musicians since the 60s.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You called it overblown. Now you're saying it's just as good as what happened later. I think you need to make up your mind.

[-] demlet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Actually I said sort of the opposite: what's been done since then is just as good as what was done back then, which therefore is overblown by people who claim it's somehow better. No contradiction.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Nobody claimed it was better. You said it was overblown, to which I countered that some of the best music ever recorded is from that era, therefore not overblown. Some of the best music ever recorded is newer too. But for rock and roll, that was the era in which a lot of magic happened, a lot of progress was made, and it changed the face of music for everything that came after. So it's not overblown. That doesn't mean it's better than whatever music you think I'm comparing it to. It means that it stands on its own as worthy of the praise it receives.

[-] demlet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I guess that's fair enough. I've just run into way too many people who seem to think it's the only music worth listening to or something. I can agree with what you said pretty much.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not a boomer, but nice try I guess.

[-] demlet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I'm just used to hearing how much better music used to be in the 60s from people my parents' age.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I expanded my statement in a reply to one of your other comments, but I never said it was "better". I said it's not overblown. Better is almost entirely subjective and would require a comparison, which was never given.

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