I'm devastated.

Fair 'nuf, Rose...and, they surely do.

Sir, with your recent flurry of postings, it's good to see you back on the forum.

Damn, HHIC, I knew you were a party animal...but, to what extent, I hadn't known.

I do regret never dancing with you. But, in all fairness, you seemed to be okay dancing with every other guy in the room. You never gave me an opportunity to cut in.

Yet, I was proud to share that time with you.

As AuntiE is a long-time friend of mine and I read above that he hurt her feelings, I checked into his latest postings and read his comment about "low IQ" recruiting. Wrong as he was, he did apologize. Trump has never apologized for his "suckers and losers" comments...

https://www.pghcitypaper.com/podcasts/lynn-cullen-live-kelly-confirms-trumps-suckers-and-losers-comments-10-03-23-24687116

AuntiE was a guest of mine at a Veteran's Honor Flight get-together in Washington D.C. in October of 2022. She knows full well that I stand proudly with my Brother's-In-Arms of that conflict and always have. At that gathering, I was able to hook her up with men who served with her brother.

You shouldn't concern yourself if you offended the snowflakes and cupcakes that frequent the other side of the aisle, Rascal. Many only know how to dish it out, but can't take being challenged with truths, facts, logic and/or reason other than their own.

Lily, a lot is less interesting if you remain bitter, dazed and confused.

Yeah, so did I.

Hey, Tom, Reba's damn good

Geezer though I am, Arch, quite a few memories of my youth ring similarly true with yours. But then, I was about a generation ahead of you. Like you, my childhood was a difficult one. So, I bailed at 18, joined the Marines and went to Viet Nam. Came back at 20 (felt more like 40), but made my way successfully in life ever since.

BTW, Arch, the point of the OP is summed up with the opening quote by Will Rogers...kind'a like looking at the past through rose-colored glasses.

Close to sixty of my seventy-five years of life, I lived in Houston or Austin. So, you can dismiss my not having ever lived with everyday issues that came with raising three kids as a single parent in a big city.

"Things ain't what they used to be and never were." - Will Rogers

The long-ago days many Americans wish for never truly existed. They see the 1950s through nostalgic lenses and since most of them aren't old enough to really know what they were like, it's not even legitimate nostalgia.

Case in point, the traditional wives. This is a social media thing where mostly men post about how they would love living the idyllic life with or as a 1950s house wife. She has the perfect hair, bakes all the meals and has a martini for her man when he comes home. It's also almost all BS. That wasn't what it was like for the vast majority of women back in the 50s. It's what it was like on the 50's wholesome TV sitcoms and popular advertisements. So they get all the luxuries of a modern woman to play act as women who didn't really exist.

It goes on as they imagine a world that was too good to be true, Like the days you didn't have to lock your doors at night. If we didn't need to lock doors why did they install them in the first place?.

They continue with the fantasy: Only attractive women allowed to fill those positions? There weren't enough women to fit that description at the time to do that. How could they do all those jobs when they were at home all day being young housewives, cooking and taking care of the kids?

However, I think the most important part of the fantasy is not what is in it, but what isn't. There are no race issues in their 1950s, even though that was a huge thing. There are no problems with immigrants, they just magically don't exist (also not true) and women knew their place (women were fighting tooth and nail for their rights at the time). No gay people, no foreign powers trying to interfere with their way of life (The Cold War?) and no non-Christians spreading their Faiths.

So really, no, they don't want to go back to 'the good 'ol days'. They just prefer to live with a fantasy.

Thank you for posting this, AuntiE.

Oh, great. A few clowns of OPP accuse another being a clown.