What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
December 3rd, 2018 at 10:53:06 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Had 210 kids in my HS class, which was large in those days. Never heard sexual references, never heard the F word till I was a Junior. Saw it written as grafitti, had no idea what it meant. I remember phrases like 'eat it raw', which I still have no idea what it means. I said it to my sister once and my dad chased me around the house with his shoe. Years later I asked him what it meant and he didn't know either, just that it was probably bad. Heard faggot a lot, and fag, and queer, but didn't know it was a sexual reference. In the early 60's we just didn't discuss sex all that much. Late 60's it was talked about all the time. As an example of the times, Lenny Bruce was arrested in 1962 for using the word 'schmuck' onstage. That's where we were in the early 60's. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
December 3rd, 2018 at 1:21:08 PM permalink | |
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4470 |
I was in high school from 1959 to 1965 and that was not my experience at all. Sex was the main topic of conversation among the boys and the girls although not necessarily in a mixed group. This was in a small conservative town where ranching and logging were the only industries. Probably half the marriages were shotgun marriages. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
December 3rd, 2018 at 1:37:09 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
My HS was in upper class suburbia, all doctors and lawyers and business owners kids. The guy who invented the Lear Jet, his kids went there. The Amway founders kids went there, one of them is married to our sec of education, DeVos. Bill Seidman, former Reagan admin financial adviser, his kids went there. I was at their house once, they had live-in servants. So everybody was pretty polite, not a single black or Hispanic or Asian in the entire school. If there was sex talk I never heard it. We used to joke about it, when I was getting older, but I never really started hearing all the graphic details till the mid 60's. Farm kids are around sex all the time, animals are always going at it. I'm betting they were much more savvy about it than we were. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
December 3rd, 2018 at 1:56:44 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18630 | If you weren't talking about blowjobs by a certain year, you certainly were after the Clinton administration. I remember the news casts being awkward. Talking about sex was already somewhat awkward, but bjs brought a whole new level of awkwardness to the discussion. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
December 3rd, 2018 at 2:00:17 PM permalink | |
Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 |
I have been trying to watch Logan's Run for the past three nights, but I keep falling asleep and can't get to the end. The special effects are comical now, but it seemed really state of the art back in the 70's. One thing I didn't remember was how gruesome it was when Farrah Fawcett Majors got blown up. I guess you really can't go back. Better to not remake this one. |
December 3rd, 2018 at 2:13:39 PM permalink | |
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 |
You have to realize you are arguing with Bob's perception of the world. If he didn't see it or hear it himself, hadn't heard it from someone else, or decided not to believe what he heard from somewhere else, then it didn't happen. Similar for the other way around - if it happened in Bob's world, it happened that way everywhere. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
December 3rd, 2018 at 2:14:07 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | I think the Profumo Affair's 'one screw and the cabinet fell apart' preceded Clinton. Remember the Christine Keeler Fan Club? I used to think SWM was single white male. |
December 3rd, 2018 at 2:46:41 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Never said or implied that. In WWII the F word and sexual references were frequent in the military. In the poorer neighborhoods of big cities, profanity was frequent. Where I went to school, in upper class suburbia, if you swore or made sexual innuendo jokes, you were sent to the vice principals office and may be expelled. They would expel you as a male if your hair touched the top of your ears, or you wore blue jeans to school. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
December 3rd, 2018 at 4:36:49 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
That is how I interpreted it, but not until I was old enough to get the reference, in the 80's. However, I still think he meant it that way at the time. Can any of the other old timer's way in? Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
December 3rd, 2018 at 4:38:15 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
Logan's Run is great! I've seen it about 20 times. If it ever comes on when I'm flipping through the channels, I will probably watch until the end. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |