Would you in todays America?

[B. White]

I only remember one thing from that movie at that age, and it weren't sharks.

 

[mrs. hornet22]

Jaws the movie never bothered me. I knew it was fake. Speaking of "would I do it today" H22 and I used to "park" at the intramural fields where that young girl was just killed.

 

[Nicodemus]

Sharks don`t bother me none, but I don`t swim with em either. Big alligators are one critter I don`t trust none at all. They sneaky and deceptive.

 

[mrs. hornet22]

The movie that I still think about is The Deer Hunter back in the day. That was real to me.

 

[Core Lokt]

It's for sure more dangerous today than 20+ yrs ago.

 

[NCHillbilly]

It's for sure more dangerous today than 20+ yrs ago.

I would disagree. I think there were a lot more random serial killers running around back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s than now. Violent crime rates have actually dropped a lot in the last 10-15 years overall, if you take inner city gang violence out of the equation.

 

[livinoutdoors]

Back in the day you coulda just been planting some turnips in a field and a hundred men on horses might show up run you through the middle with a spear torch your house and press your women folk into slavery. Things are fairly safe now.

 

[Batjack]

Back in the day you coulda just been planting some turnips in a field and a hundred men on horses might show up run you through the middle with a spear torch your house and press your women folk into slavery. Things are fairly safe now.

You watched Josey Wales last night didn't you?

 

[Dub]

I figure many, if not most of us, spent many a Friday and Saturday night with our favorite girl, parked in a secluded place, enjoying each other’s company. I know I did and really never gave safety a second thought. I think about today and some things that could’ve happened to us and especially the girl. Things were certainly different in the seventies. I’m sometimes a little nervous now being out with the wife, even though I’m usually packing. If you were a teenager today, would you feel safe “parking”?

The harsh reality of growing up today.....is that reality is..... harsh.

Dangers exist way beyond what kids create.
Through no fault of their own they are faced with unimaginable bad, bad stuff.

To make matters worse....our President and his administration have seen fit to encourage wholesale drugs, murderers, terrorists, rapists and other illegal entrants into our cities, interstates, neighborhoods and our kid's schools.

The evils that our children are faced with wasn't enough....our Commander In Chief sees fit to bring in much, much more.

 

[huntersluck]

I trust little to nobody and no place . I work from cities to the remote areas way out in the middle of nowhere and I've seen some stuff in both places.

 

[Baroque Brass]

Probably as safe or safer to go parking now as ever. That movie The Town That Dreaded Sundown was based on true events that happened in the 40s.

I remember that movie, it scared the bejeebers out of me.

 

[Hillbilly stalker]

You gotta think back a little, back when you was around 17, 10 foot tall and bullet proof. A young man in "full rut" don't worry about no boogey man. When you get a little older, a little longer in the tooth, then you think about comfort and safety.

 

[livinoutdoors]

You watched Josey Wales last night didn't you?

I was thinking more in the neighborhood of say 1066. Or 793. But the point remains. Most people in America know a level of wealth and safety never before seen in history. Its why folks worry so much. When you are this safe and comfortable even the smallest things seem like a massive problem.

 

[hopper]

I figure many, if not most of us, spent many a Friday and Saturday night with our favorite girl, parked in a secluded place, enjoying each other’s company. I know I did and really never gave safety a second thought. I think about today and some things that could’ve happened to us and especially the girl. Things were certainly different in the seventies. I’m sometimes a little nervous now being out with the wife, even though I’m usually packing. If you were a teenager today, would you feel safe “parking”?

Would depend on what "brain" I wuz thinkin with. I'm pretty sure if I wuz a teen I know the answer.

 

[Baroque Brass]

Would depend on what "brain" I wuz thinkin with. I'm pretty sure if I wuz a teen I know the answer.

I understand! Robin Williams said a man is born with two heads but only enough blood to operate one at a time. He was certainly correct.

 

[Danuwoa]

We are living in safer times than human history has ever known.

The issue is we have courage deficit. We want absolutely all risk eliminated from life or else we think things are scary.

The problem is life doesn’t work like that.

Keep smothering your children and yourselves in this oppressive quasi maternal safety and see if you like where that leads and if it gets within shouting distance of “safe.” Life is tough so it’s best to get tough yourself if you’re not.

 

[Stob]

We are living in safer times than human history has ever known.

The issue is we have courage deficit. We want absolutely all risk eliminated from life or else we think things are scary.

The problem is life doesn’t work like that.

Keep smothering your children and yourselves in this oppressive quasi maternal safety and see if you like where that leads and if it gets within shouting distance of “safe.” Life is tough so it’s best to get tough yourself if you’re not.

I watched a video recently where a dude in no shirt and a beanie asked why we (GenX'rs) were made to drink from the garden hose. The replies are off the charts. Cant link it because of the language of the lady.

You are 100% correct.

 

[Nicodemus]

I was thinking more in the neighborhood of say 1066. Or 793. But the point remains. Most people in America know a level of wealth and safety never before seen in history. Its why folks worry so much. When you are this safe and comfortable even the smallest things seem like a massive problem.

The Viking Age years.

 

[NCHillbilly]

I was thinking more in the neighborhood of say 1066. Or 793. But the point remains. Most people in America know a level of wealth and safety never before seen in history. Its why folks worry so much. When you are this safe and comfortable even the smallest things seem like a massive problem.

Even the 1700s-early 1900s. 10000000000x more unstable and violent than now.

 

[Stob]

I read a book years ago at the recommendation of a coworker called "Leadership Secrets of Attila The Hun". Booty was a much different thing back then.