Things you really miss about yesteryear...

[Merboy]

so things I miss about yesterday, which for me is the year 2000... when I was a wee tot lad of fourteen.

• The simplicity of the age - things were so less complex and complicated and people were less anal back then.  People have become so uptight and rules-oriented.  It has sucked all the fun out of life.
• CD's - they were kinda nice.  Spotify's cool but it's not the same as having that CD and the fun part about them was that the inside sometimes had the lyrics in it.
• The music (I stopped listening to all new music six years ago).  There were still ballads and rock songs in the Top 100.  It wasn't all just electronic shit by Duooo Lippa or whoever's hot right now.  Adele has been bounced off for Cardi B and Lizzo... and I just think their music sucks, i'm sorry.  The Weeknd's not that bad but yeah, give me Peak Celine Dion, or the boybands of the late 90s.
• Daytime soaps.  Yeah i guess there are a few on now, but the genre has died out already.  If they cancelled any of the four left, it would not be a shock and Days is probably the first to go.  Back in 2000, there were so many soaps and so much to talk about that they even created a new channel, SoapNet, which was 24/7 soaps, and that provided a lot of pubescent jerk-off material because the Men of Soaps were hot as hell (Jesse Metcalfe, Eddie Cibrian, Victor Webster, Shemar Moore, Jason Shane Scott, I could go on and on...).

So what is "yesteryear" to you when you think of nostalgic stuff?  What do you miss the most about the world you grew up in and were young in?  (Sorry... "younger".)

(And by the way, you do look great lately.  That last trip into Dr. Wexler's office really did wonders.) 🙂

[samhexum]

Decent health in general.  Being able to stand or walk for more than a minute without pain.  You know...  the little things...

Edited October 8, 2021 by samhexum

[+ Lucky]

@Merboy, you are 36!  Look forward, not backward!

Edited October 8, 2021 by Lucky

[Cooper]

When you mentioned CD’s,  I thought you were talking about Certificates of Deposits. When back in the days you could lock in a high rate of interest. I still remember getting 20% on a money market. Yes, those were the days! 

 

[+ WmClarke]

3 hours ago, Merboy said:

 

• Daytime soaps.  Yeah i guess there are a few on now, but the genre has died out already.  If they cancelled any of the four left, it would not be a shock and Days is probably the first to go. 

 

I don’t know. Looks like Marlena is possessed by the devil again. Days may hang around for a while. Or that’s the last gasp of a dying show! 😉

[+ nycman]

20 minutes ago, Cooper said:

I still remember getting 20% on a money market. Yes, those were the days! 

Unless you were a poor young fool like me trying to get school loans in those days. 
Like most things….it all depends on your perspective. 

Don’t worry, I survived.
A smart resourceful young man will always find ways to raise money for his education…..grin. 

[cany10011]

No particular order:

• Drivers meeting you at the airport gate
• Europe pre-Euro
• The Gaiety
• Anything north or 23rd street being considered uptown
• Some restaurants in nyc long shuttered: Fleur de Sel, Ninth St Market, 18th and 8th, La Belle Vie, Red Cat

 

[+ Charlie]

If you mean contemporary music when I was a teenager, then it would be young Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. Music CDs hadn't been invented yet, so we bought 7 inch vinyl discs to play on our record players (you could play both sides of the disc, A and B).

I didn't watch soap operas. The only thing I watched during the day was Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" after school (on black-and-white TV).

My parents put their retirement money in CDs. My mother went back to work when I was in high school; her fulltime white collar job paid a salary of $2500/year. We needed the money, because I wanted to go to a private liberal arts college, and the tuition alone cost $1200/year!

Things didn't seem simple to me at all in 2000: I had to learn how to use a personal computer to access that new thing called the Internet if I wanted to find escorts. (When I was a teenager, the only computers were big main frames owned by institutions. BTW, when I was in sixth grade, the big debate at school was whether we would be allowed to use ball point pens instead of the steel-tipped pens that we dipped in the inkwells on our desks--the teachers argued that ball points would make us lazy.)

Edited October 8, 2021 by Charlie

[Guest]

3 hours ago, cany10011 said:

No particular order:

•  
• Europe pre-Euro
•  

 

You miss having to change Dutch Florins to Belgian Francs to French Francs, to German or Finnish Marks, to Austrian Schillings, to whatever they were using in Montenegro? Would you mind explaining why?

[Luv2play]

2 hours ago, Unicorn said:

You miss having to change Dutch Florins to Belgian Francs to French Francs, to German or Finnish Marks, to Austrian Schillings, to whatever they were using in Montenegro? Would you mind explaining why?

We'll, it gave you a sense of European history as those currencies were ancient, much older than the greenback.

[jeezifonly]

We have so twisted the idea of “celebrity” that “celebrations” are as mundane as celebrities. People were “celebrated” because they had done something truly extraordinary. And the celebrations were fitting in scale and grandeur - I remember thinking that very thing, while standing in a tree, watching the magnificent horses and carriages pass, during Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee…

[samhexum]

3 minutes ago, jeezifonly said:

We have so twisted the idea of “celebrity” that “celebrations” are as mundane as celebrities. People were “celebrated” because they had done something truly extraordinary. And the celebrations were fitting in scale and grandeur - I remember thinking that very thing, while standing in a tree, watching the magnificent horses and carriages pass, during Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee…

So I guess that makes you our oldest member BY FAR!

The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria was celebrated on 20 June 1887 on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession on 20 June 1837. It was celebrated with a banquet to which 50 European kings and princes were invited.

[jeezifonly]

18 minutes ago, samhexum said:

So I guess that makes you our oldest member BY FAR!

The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria was celebrated on 20 June 1887 on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession on 20 June 1837. It was celebrated with a banquet to which 50 European kings and princes were invited.

Ok, fine.
I’ve had some work done. No more than Cher. Who was in the same tree I was…

[robberbaron4u]

My maiden cousin's summer dinner party: the grand, old house dimly lit, old fashion whiskey cocktails on the piazza, good, simple fare, better wines and the best company, laughter, a rubber of bridge complimented by cognac and coffee in the library following dinner, life lived leisurely.

[mike carey]

11 hours ago, Unicorn said:

to whatever they were using in Montenegro

Yugoslav dinars.

[Guest]

51 minutes ago, mike carey said:

Yugoslav dinars.

It was a facetious comment, but actually, smarty-pants😉, they used the Deutsche Mark upon independence, and switched to the Euro later....

"Initially it was to avoid another inflation crisis and to distance itself from regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Yugoslavia, of which Montenegro was part of, suffered one of the greatest inflations of all time, see The World's Greatest Unreported Hyperinflation . In 1999. Montenegro asked for approval of Bundesbank to adopt the German mark instead of Serbian dinar in order to stabilize its banking sector. Few years later, as everyone who was using the mark switched to euro, so did Montenegro."

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Montenegro-use-the-euro

[mike carey]

10 minutes ago, Unicorn said:

t was a facetious comment, but actually, smarty-pants😉, they used the Deutsche Mark upon independence, and switched to the Euro later....

I was doing my best impression of 'deadpan while making smartarse comment' as I typed it!

[Guest]

22 hours ago, Merboy said:

The simplicity of the age - things were so less complex and complicated and people were less anal back then.  People have become so uptight and rules-oriented.  It has sucked all the fun out of life.

Funny, I thought things to be complex in 2000 compared to the relative simplicity of the 80’s. 

I suspect things didn’t get more complex.  Rather, I suspect your awareness of things around you increased. 

For most, Nothing is simpler than the late teens when you’re in high school - You know everything (about nothing) and can pontificate on every problem/solution and generally everything you have or need is providED for you.  

Then, you become the providER and things get complex. 

[Guest]

6 hours ago, robberbaron4u said:

My maiden cousin's summer dinner party: the grand, old house dimly lit, old fashion whiskey cocktails on the piazza, good, simple fare, better wines and the best company, laughter, a rubber of bridge complimented by cognac and coffee in the library following dinner, life lived leisurely.

Looks like you’re from the Gulf Coast…

[Merboy]

6 hours ago, robberbaron4u said:

My maiden cousin's summer dinner party: the grand, old house dimly lit, old fashion whiskey cocktails on the piazza, good, simple fare, better wines and the best company, laughter, a rubber of bridge complimented by cognac and coffee in the library following dinner, life lived leisurely.

Gee I'd love to go there but being a third class passenger, I'm not allowed up to A Deck.  Just the poop deck, and dang don't it just smell like shit.

[samhexum]

1 hour ago, BnaC said:

Looks like you’re from the Gulf Coast…

circa 1910

 

7 hours ago, robberbaron4u said:

My maiden cousin's summer dinner party: the grand, old house dimly lit, old fashion whiskey cocktails on the piazza, good, simple fare, better wines and the best company, laughter, a rubber of bridge complimented by cognac and coffee in the library following dinner, life lived leisurely.

Were any of the women overcome by the vapors?

[samhexum]

On 10/8/2021 at 6:55 AM, Merboy said:

so things I miss about yesterday, which for me is the year 2000... when I was a wee tot lad of fourteen.

• The simplicity of the age - things were so less complex and complicated and people were less anal back then.  People have become so uptight and rules-oriented.  It has sucked all the fun out of life.

Edited October 10, 2021 by samhexum

[robberbaron4u]

14 hours ago, samhexum said:

circa 1910

 

Were any of the women overcome by the vapors?

Only on one occasion. A local, well-known "society gentleman" was invited; he attempted to beg off, he had friends coming into twn, but my maiden cousin insisted as "bring them along, any friend of yours is welcome". The gentleman and his friends were late, he guests were already at table when he arrrived with his friends and was ushered into the dining room, one of the friends was a stunningly handsome, tall  young blonde attired in short pants and a tee-shirt ; the other, a proverbial toad of a middle-aged man. A separate table had been set u[ in the alcove of the room to accomodate the two "extras". Dinner progressed, somewhat uncomfortably, the hostess and her sister exchanging furtive, questioning glances,and then, as was the custom of the house, the  assembled guests moved on to the library. Having engaged the young "god" in conversation, Mrs. M, a dowager of impeccable respectability, turned to old Mr S and remarked, "Mr. H is a magician and he has entertained Mr. Tennessee Williams with his tricks". Mr S, an astute man, replied, "E, he didn't do tricks for Mr. Tennessee Williams, he WAS Mr. Williams' trick". It took a moments for the import of the remark to register with Mrs. M, but the synapse did spark across the wire and make the connection:.."Ohhhhhhhh. . .."

Edited October 10, 2021 by robberbaron4u

[Islesguy]

On 10/8/2021 at 6:55 AM, Merboy said:

so things I miss about yesterday, which for me is the year 2000... when I was a wee tot lad of fourteen.

• The simplicity of the age - things were so less complex and complicated and people were less anal back then.  People have become so uptight and rules-oriented.  It has sucked all the fun out of life.
• CD's - they were kinda nice.  Spotify's cool but it's not the same as having that CD and the fun part about them was that the inside sometimes had the lyrics in it.
• The music (I stopped listening to all new music six years ago).  There were still ballads and rock songs in the Top 100.  It wasn't all just electronic shit by Duooo Lippa or whoever's hot right now.  Adele has been bounced off for Cardi B and Lizzo... and I just think their music sucks, i'm sorry.  The Weeknd's not that bad but yeah, give me Peak Celine Dion, or the boybands of the late 90s.
• Daytime soaps.  Yeah i guess there are a few on now, but the genre has died out already.  If they cancelled any of the four left, it would not be a shock and Days is probably the first to go.  Back in 2000, there were so many soaps and so much to talk about that they even created a new channel, SoapNet, which was 24/7 soaps, and that provided a lot of pubescent jerk-off material because the Men of Soaps were hot as hell (Jesse Metcalfe, Eddie Cibrian, Victor Webster, Shemar Moore, Jason Shane Scott, I could go on and on...).

So what is "yesteryear" to you when you think of nostalgic stuff?  What do you miss the most about the world you grew up in and were young in?  (Sorry... "younger".)

(And by the way, you do look great lately.  That last trip into Dr. Wexler's office really did wonders.) 🙂

SoapNet was how my mom got me hooked on One Life to Live back in 2000. Spring cleaning during the 5 hour block of shows on Sunday was no match for me as it was sweeps. I watched religiously until it was cancelled.

[BSR]

10 hours ago, Islesguy said:

SoapNet was how my mom got me hooked on One Life to Live back in 2000. Spring cleaning during the 5 hour block of shows on Sunday was no match for me as it was sweeps. I watched religiously until it was cancelled.

Given soap operas' higher production costs and lower ratings, I was surprised to find that 4 soaps are still running.  I watch a soap, a Spanish "sobremesa" ("table talk," given that label because they're on in the afternoon after the big 2pm meal).  While it's better than American soaps and latino telenovelas (imo), I can't say it's great art or anything.  But I'm hooked, and it does help keep my Spanish up.