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I think in our national obsession with whining we forget how much richer we are in consumer goods compared to our parents world, and how much cheaper they are.
I think that's why we're whining! In our day it was a clapped out third hand car - these days they're buying new imports that are waaay more impressive.
NB - I just discovered my 1986 round trip ticket to London: $2235. It's still the same price, or cheaper, for todays kids. (Which begs the question - why don't more of them leave?) -
because what they're doing is what the grownups do. drink, drug, fuck, fight, and drive like a fucking arsehole.
I'm ashamed to say that I read this and my first reaction was to get a little depressed about my lack of social life.Ah, but here online you can be whoever you want to be (assuming you don't post under your real name)(aha! so that's why RB prefers it!) I'm not only young and attractive but was immensely popular at high school, everyone loved me ...
and since everyone else is sharing: I had a thing for a metallic-purple Ford Capri ... which thankfully I grew out of. Unlike someone I know who bought one last year on TradeMe and has only just resold it again (never driven)(never worked!).
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at least it wasn't about a frigging Rat.
OMFG - Ben is infinitely better than Rockin' Robin.
(yikes, I'll stop here - I've just realised what we are arguing over!)
(reminds of the time I haggled with a Balinese 8y.o. over a dozen postcards - she wanted 50¢ more than I was prepared to pay) (it seemed a lot more in Baht)(or whatever currency it was) -
it makes ... thousands of loved-up kids at dance parties ... look remarkably benign
heh heh - I wonder if/when the politicians would be prepared to legalise E in return for P being gone forever??
Speaking of loved up kids - I must pick mine up from school now
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Good comments Rebecca. I think you're articulating why things are a little different now from when we were kids. Sure, there was booze and a bit of dope but that was it. And there weren't 200+ people gathered at each 'event'.
I fully 'get' that what's happening now isn't much different to what went on in a 50's delinquent-teen movie, but what's different now is the scale of it. Those old movies glamourised what were rare events. These days its happening every weekend in multiple locations, with many hundreds turning out.
As you rightly point out, it's the hangers-on that cause the trouble (they always do). And as always it's young girls/women getting drawn in and taken advantage of/abused. In my day we never had the mobility (vehicular or cellular) that these kids today have.
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Hell Mikey Havoc is still a youth in local body politics
Hell, Mikey Havoc is still a youth in Mikey Havoc's mind too!!
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What's the likelihood that most of that 'graffiti' was put up so they could film it for the opening titles?? And forget who's the host - can anyone tell us what that funny booth-like structure approaching the Harbour Bridge is? I'm much too young to remember ...
Go the Rasta's in their knitted tea-cosies!
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I take your point Simon, but ...
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MICHAEL JACKSON ~ Rockin' Robin was 1974 (I believe) and on Tamla Motown.
(Damn, and now its stuck in my head) (__tweeedlie dee__)
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That he wants to is partly my fault, since he got wood every time he got into any of my sportscars.
My first thought was "Eww - I hope he's not that kind of uncle" but I know what you're saying Ben! :)
When I took my 8y.o. nephew for a ride in my new name-of-sports-car-withheld with the top down I was horrified when he immediately egged me on to drive faster faster! And he was deadly serious, and geniunely pissed off with me for not 'racing', and I found it all quite disturbing. Is it in their DNA? I resolved he would be getting no PS2 Driving Games from me for Xmas any longer.
Your points on why your cousin wants a car are spot on too, Ben. Catching the Tube in London (or Sydney) is a far cry from walking 4km to catch a bus from Birkenhead to Penrose. -
Steady on...
Sorry to drag you into that RB, my point wasn't to slag you (or upset you) .... I was merely bemused/annoyed that Rogerd seemed to think I had commited some sort of PA herecy by i] failing to read your post, and ii] failing to accept/understand what you'd said was irrefutable fact.
He was wrong on both counts; but I'm sure even you would agree that we all shouldn't accept something as fact just because RB said it was so. (Notwithstanding the efforts you make to check your facts before asserting them).