Things you increasingly don't see anymore

[brainpanhandler]

Respect for y'alls humanity and all, still, most of this list is pining for techno ephemera that came and went in a few decade bump. Ticking clocks and tailored clothes, those are some oldies less heard and seen, but still, get over the distractions and destroy the evil now. Now. Thanks.

Curious. What do you consider the "distractions"? My first thought is that you mean threads on message boards about nostalgia. Is that what you mean? I mean it's perfectly ok if that's what you mean, although I might take some exception to that thought if that is what you mean. I'm not sure I want to live in a world where the only thing I can ever do without guilt that I ought to be doing something else is slay dragons.

[Hammer of Los]

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Flame wars on rig int.

I just love love love niceness!

All is forgiven!

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[Hammer of Los]

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Although I do think whoever accuses someone else of lacking social graces might like to look at the fingers pointing at themselves!

F**ker!

It's a joke!

You See?

Gestalt.

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[Hammer of Los]

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I'm not sure I want to live in a world where the only thing I can ever do without guilt that I ought to be doing something else is slay dragons.

You are right.

It sucks.

Although it all depends on what you mean by Dragons.

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[JackRiddler]

Respect for y'alls humanity and all, still, most of this list is pining for techno ephemera that came and went in a few decade bump.

I don't know that this is true of this thread, there have been other themes.

Or that, insofar as it is, it's insignificant. Hands-on mechanical techno* has given way to invisibly programmed micro-techno, and there may be (I should say, in deference to McLuhan: definitely is) a substantive (small or large) difference in how we relate and what we become through this.

* that requires a different form of slower work in which some understanding of the processes is important, and one works with much bulkier objects specialized to the task at hand, rather than a set of unitary screen devices.

Do you think there's no difference in psychology and process between studying in a library amid books and journals and researching (involved researching, not just google) on the Internet? Or a textbook in book vs. pad? You may think the difference is small, but surely you agree it's not zero?

[82_28]

Things we never saw before:



http://www.behance.net/Gallery/ALT1977- ... ERS/545221

Many more examples at link.

Courtesy boingboing.

[harry ashburn]

from nordic.. re: women have hair where god gave them hair...

yuk. I dont really see how we made it as a species. Almost all western men, anyway, recoil at the thought. Why didnt we do so for the past million years? Guess doing it in the dark helps.... women still didn't shave in europe til the '60's. Could I have done it? Probably in my raging hormones youth....

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Speaking of porn, women with hair where God gave them hair.

I had to LOL at this. I think my brother refers to this as "70's porn bush".

[JackRiddler]

Almost all western men, anyway, recoil at the thought.

I have never understood this. I also truly recoil, with physical disgust -- at the way most men of my acquaintance recoil from the beauty of hair in all the natural spots. I just don't get where this training comes from. Clearly it's trained, as you say, since it was not a problem for a million years of apes-to-us. The attitude is already there in childhood, before it's even been explicitly stated to boys that girls shouldn't have hair here or there. Without direct indoctrination, somehow we absorb this aversion. But to me the hair has all always been beautiful and hot. Shave Legs? Diamonds? Armpits?! Are you kidding?* I had the Glueck to arrive in Germany sometime soon after Peak Armpit, and have watched, heartbroken, as the razor took its toll over the last 20 years. I love moustaches, too. Some of my happiest moments are of feeling the silky female moustache a moment before the lips touch...

Guess doing it in the dark helps.... women still didn't shave in europe til the '60's. Could I have done it? Probably in my raging hormones youth....

I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm definitely a lights-on guy. Or an outdoorsman!

* For stylistic reasons - nature abhors over-long example lists - I left out monobrows, forearms, and the occasional pair of hairs on the nipple. By the way, smooth all around is luvly too. However the process made her.

PS - Women, stop me if this is turning midly pornographic. Apologies.

[bks]

Does it have to be a woman that stops you, Jack?

And: I never realized that Dave McGowan grew up on the same street as me. Or that I'd read anything he wrote all the way til the end.

[compared2what?]

Respect for y'alls humanity and all, still, most of this list is pining for techno ephemera that came and went in a few decade bump. Ticking clocks and tailored clothes, those are some oldies less heard and seen, but still, get over the distractions and destroy the evil now. Now. Thanks.

Curious. What do you consider the "distractions"? My first thought is that you mean threads on message boards about nostalgia. Is that what you mean? I mean it's perfectly ok if that's what you mean, although I might take some exception to that thought if that is what you mean. I'm not sure I want to live in a world where the only thing I can ever do without guilt that I ought to be doing something else is slay dragons.

The respect for my humanity led me to believe that was intended in more of a hortative than an imperative mood.

[brainpanhandler]

Respect for y'alls humanity and all, still, most of this list is pining for techno ephemera that came and went in a few decade bump. Ticking clocks and tailored clothes, those are some oldies less heard and seen, but still, get over the distractions and destroy the evil now. Now. Thanks.

Curious. What do you consider the "distractions"? My first thought is that you mean threads on message boards about nostalgia. Is that what you mean? I mean it's perfectly ok if that's what you mean, although I might take some exception to that thought if that is what you mean. I'm not sure I want to live in a world where the only thing I can ever do without guilt that I ought to be doing something else is slay dragons.

The respect for my humanity led me to believe that was intended in more of a hortative than an imperative mood.

Hmmm, yes I suppose that's a fair assumption, but I thought I'd test it with a bit of hyperbole, which I sort of give away with the translation of kill the evil into slay dragons. But whatever. I'm still not sure what the "distractions" are.

[Inkwhyring]

Keg parties.and dragging the strip-lots of wholesome fun when I was in high school!Can't do things like that now,it's all guns,gangstas,and rap.Whatever happened to good old rock and roll?You don't hear anything like it on popular radio,jeez!What about the cars,the hot rods (granted,with todays' gasoline...),big block motors,or even just a souped up 327,350?Mag wheels,racing stripes?Now it's all Tokyo drift.Whatever that means.How about full size dogs?Not pocket dogs.Levis 501's?Maybe at the retro boutique.Waterbeds-though I don't miss them,particularly!I guess things change,and looking back,a lot of that stuff,and the hairstyles that went with it(What about the 'mullet',I always knew it as a bi-level,but my boyfriend describes it as 'business up front,party in the back'?)seem dated,are dated,but sometimes I think that we of my generation were COOL,and what's popular today is GAY (no offense meant)!!!!

[82_28]

Typing classes and syntax.

[justdrew]

don't worry, there's still rocknrollahs having keg parties, it's just not on tv, you'll see no sign of it in the mass media.