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Post by cousinlou on Sept 22, 2021 17:02:04 GMT
How can they even exist?
Even as a kid it would beat me up I could never be part of the royal family. No matter what I would have done. That passed, obviously.
A thing I have never really been able to shake off, is not to live in New York and to have been born there.
The former I could still do I guess, but without the latter, it would mean nothing to me.
Maybe regret is not the proper word and it’s sorrow I am looking for.
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Post by tory on Sept 22, 2021 17:17:03 GMT
My main regret is just being a fucking lazy twat in my teenage years.
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Post by souphound on Sept 22, 2021 17:33:51 GMT
When I was young, I used to imagine that I was actually born into a rich and famous family (something like the royals I guess, but not quite THAT much in the spotlight). They had parachuted me in to a lower middle class environment for my own good - to keep me real. When I was grown up, they would come in and re-introduce me to the glamourous life.
Very very glad this was just a fantasy and not reality. I'm perfectly fine where I find myself.
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Post by Charlie O. on Sept 22, 2021 19:18:20 GMT
To this day I often feel like I was born at the wrong time - should have been 20 or so years earlier, so I could be in on the whole '60s thing. Of course, I know that even if I had been born 20 years earlier there's no guarantee that I would have been hip to what was going on when I got to the mid-'60s, or would even have wanted to be in the thick of it.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Sept 22, 2021 19:36:47 GMT
To this day I often feel like I was born at the wrong time - should have been 20 or so years earlier, so I could be in on the whole '60s thing. Of course, I know that even if I had been born 20 years earlier there's no guarantee that I would have been hip to what was going on when I got to the mid-'60s, or would even want to have been in the thick of it. Would you have wanted to be a musician ? or a protester? just in the mix of things? Would you have gone to Nam or Canada or even Sweden? joined a cult or commune? What do your older siblings say?
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Post by sloopjohnc on Sept 22, 2021 20:05:19 GMT
To this day I often feel like I was born at the wrong time - should have been 20 or so years earlier, so I could be in on the whole '60s thing. I had a couple friends who thought the same thing and would express it pretty frequently. Usually the Doors and psilocybin were involved.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Sept 22, 2021 20:06:43 GMT
I wanted to be a garbageman when I was little. You got to run around and pick cool stuff out of the trash.
Seems like a pretty carefree life to me now.
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Post by Charlie O. on Sept 22, 2021 20:31:15 GMT
To this day I often feel like I was born at the wrong time - should have been 20 or so years earlier, so I could be in on the whole '60s thing. Of course, I know that even if I had been born 20 years earlier there's no guarantee that I would have been hip to what was going on when I got to the mid-'60s, or would even want to have been in the thick of it. Would you have wanted to be a musician ? or a protester? just in the mix of things? Ideally, all of those things, though predictably the music world would be the big draw. Of course, I've entertained fantasies of trying to stop the various assassinations, or talk LBJ out of sending troops to Vietnam, etc. But that gets awfully complicated; so many of the good/romantic things we associate with the '60s wouldn't have happened without at least some of those awful things. (Plus, even if I succeeded, there's no guarantee that these things wouldn't happen anyway, just at a different time.) Similarly, there's always the chance that my getting involved creatively in the music world - whether as a musician, or behind the scenes - would have some unforeseen effect on later developments, whether for the better or the worse or both. Would you have gone to Nam or Canada or even Sweden? joined a cult or commune? Ideally none of those things (though Canada and Sweden would be nice to visit). What do your older siblings say? I've never discussed this with them! I doubt that they would have the same desire. I could see them wanting to go back and relive THEIR '60s, though - that was mostly a real happy time for them (as indeed my '60s were for me).
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Post by DayoRemix on Sept 23, 2021 8:52:01 GMT
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Sept 23, 2021 9:21:30 GMT
I wanted to be a garbageman when I was little. You got to run around and pick cool stuff out of the trash. Seems like a pretty carefree life to me now. With the automated claws, it's rare to see anybody hanging off the back anymore
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Post by sloopjohnc on Sept 23, 2021 15:17:41 GMT
I wanted to be a garbageman when I was little. You got to run around and pick cool stuff out of the trash. Seems like a pretty carefree life to me now. With the automated claws, it's rare to see anybody hanging off the back anymore I know. Makes me sad.
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Post by Charlie O. on Sept 23, 2021 15:21:11 GMT
With the automated claws, it's rare to see anybody hanging off the back anymore I know. Makes me sad. They still do it that way in my neighborhood.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Sept 23, 2021 15:33:50 GMT
They still do it that way in my neighborhood. Same here. They can't use the robot to pick up bins because of cars parked on the street, so the guy still rides on the back like the good ol' days.
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Post by Sneelock on Sept 23, 2021 19:46:33 GMT
I, for one, would like to welcome our Garbage Robot Overlords with open arms.
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Post by cousinlou on Sept 23, 2021 20:36:18 GMT
It’s kinda weird, isn’t it? I’ll be sixty in a few months and still the NYC bothers me.
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