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Briefing Room Polls (Guests Welcome!) => The Briefingroom Polls => Topic started by: corbe on August 02, 2020, 12:39:31 am
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Sure, it's a subjective question based entirely on the current filters in your Mind.
Just a time shot of the physiological climate of Briefers in general and a snapshot of the age group here.
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Right now. :shrug:
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The 60's and 70's. I was bulletproof,and could leap tall buildings with a single bound.
And that was BEFORE any alcohol was added. I got downright cocky with a few drinks in me.
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Prior to COVID things were just fine...
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I have felt content in every decade. Of course the 50s and 60s were times of poverty. But poverty is an advantage. It helps you focus on what is important, focus on doing something about it, and focus on passing on what is temporary. I was active in sports in HS and was quite good in football and wrestling. I worked and saved every nickle to go to college. Put myself through and took BS and MS degrees.
My whole life is content and each decade for differing reasons. I did what others declined doing and found gold in the dirt.
They even made a movie about me. Its a Wonderful Life. Well is wasn't really about me.
Slide Rule
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50's Grew up in West Virginia, father a coal miner, mother a home maker. Telephones were on a party line. TV we had three channels. Teachers were good. Professional sports were good.
60's Graduated from High School. Kennedy assassinated. Went to WVU for two years and joined the Navy, four years at sea. Viet Nam consumed the news, the protests began. Kent State.
70's Honorable discharge. Bought first car. In New England. Went to work for defense contractor. Went back to school nights. Short skirts and high heels, hot pants. Bought first house. Movie Jaws a big hit.
80's West coast for graduate degrees. Moved around a lot.
90's Moved around a lot.
00's Retired at age 62.
Content overall but most content in the 50's and 60's and since retiring. Bottom line, work sucks.
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60s through the 80s for me... maybe into the early 90s... Before the culture infected country folks.
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The next one.
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The next one.
Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner.
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60's and 70's for me hands down! Got out of the Army in 69. Went to work for an oil company and saw the world. Lucky enough to be involved is some very large projects and work for a company that was more concerned with what you could do than what piece of paper you possessed. 1979 and the Iranian revolution ended that for awhile. Then became a mercenary in the consulting business. Retired early.
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60's and 70's for me hands down! Got out of the Army in 69. Went to work for an oil company and saw the world. Lucky enough to be involved is some very large projects and work for a company that was more concerned with what you could do than what piece of paper you possessed. 1979 and the Iranian revolution ended that for awhile. Then became a mercenary in the consulting business. Retired early.
I also voted for 60s/70s @Bigun Discharged with a USAF Honorable and a high paying job, coding for Shell Oil. Though I wasted a good marriage to the best damn woman I have ever known, thinkin with my little head, it all turned out well. The 50's sucked for me growing up in Lousyana, we were poor, red beans most every night, and a race skirmish in my little town on the other nights that I snuck out the window.
I've progressed but it doesn't seem like the other half have.
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I also voted for 60s/70s @Bigun Discharged with a USAF Honorable and a high paying job, coding for Shell Oil. Though I wasted a good marriage to the best damn woman I have ever known, thinkin with my little head, it all turned out well. The 50's sucked for me growing up in Lousyana, we were poor, red beans most every night, and a race skirmish in my little town on the other nights that I snuck out the window.
I've progressed but it doesn't seem like the other half have.
I'm lucky enough to be married to the same GREAT woman for 52+ years now. (53 come March 2, 2021) No telling what would have become of me had not see entered the picture. I was one bad dude when I came back to the USA from Vietnam but she saved me from myself. (And put up with a lot of stuff most would not have in the process.)
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Never really been content, when I get content then I am bored and go find trouble to get into... lol
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I have the info to contact my first wife (haven't spoke to her since '92 when I moved back to Texas), I just don't have the cajones.
She wanted kids, I didn't.
It was a major Life regret of mine.
I made terrible mistakes in the 80's and hurt the people I love the most.
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I have the info to contact my first wife (haven't spoke to her since '92 when I moved back to Texas), I just don't have the cajones.
She wanted kids, I didn't.
It was a major Life regret of mine.
I made terrible mistakes in the 80's and hurt the people I love the most.
Pick up the phone.
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I have the info to contact my first wife (haven't spoke to her since '92 when I moved back to Texas), I just don't have the cajones.
She wanted kids, I didn't.
It was a major Life regret of mine.
I made terrible mistakes in the 80's and hurt the people I love the most.
II'm sorry that happened. Is she remarried?
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Yes, she had red headed twin girls 11 months after our divorce. USAF Crew Chief Murphy was the father as she was the Flight Line Major's Secretary @ Ellington/Houston.
Good Woman from Vermont who will always hold a special corner of my Heart.
No, @DB I have enough Drama in my Life right now.
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Big Head Todd & The Monsters- "Bittersweet" (Music Video)
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSsWnPIIItM#)
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Now after a few select Briefers chew on me each day:
Blackberry Smoke - Ain't Much Left Of Me from Southern Ground Studios (Acoustic)
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88lEWTEk3jg#)
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Considering I wasn't even born 'til the mid-1980s, it's hard for me to say. It's been pretty much downhill since birth in that department for me.
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Yes, she had red headed twin girls 11 months after our divorce. USAF Crew Chief Murphy was the father as she was the Flight Line Major's Secretary @ Ellington/Houston.
Good Woman from Vermont who will always hold a special corner of my Heart.
Savor that, leave her alone, stop beating yourself up, and move on. That's my advice. Probably worth just what it cost you @corbe
Maybe one day I'll have the opportunity to buy you a beer. I'd like that.
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Absolutely, @Bigun You are forever in my top 10 list here to have a beer with here and the other 8 are woman Briefers. :beer:
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Absolutely, @Bigun You are forever in my top 10 list here to have a beer with here and the other 8 are woman Briefers. :beer:
:laugh: 888high58888 :beer:
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The 90's for me. I was in my late-20's/early-30's, living with the lady who would become my wife, making good money working in a field I enjoyed, and I still had my health. Then 2000 came around, and everything started going to sh!t. :shrug:
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I chose "prior to the 60s" because I think I would have liked to have lived in the during the Calvin Coolidge Roaring Twenties.
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80s. I was in college and grad school. I felt safe under Reagan. And I liked the music.
After 2001 it was all downhill, I started to think I’m in some kind of panopticon Since September 2001.
The only good thing about this millennium is I met my soul mate, and the suckiest thing is I lost him last year. It’s been really sh***ty since last May, and I don’t think it will get better until Covid goes away.
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70s and early 80s for me. Paid for my university education, had great experiences, fell in love and got married, and had my first child. I was living my dream, working hard and enjoying my family.
But all those good memories went to hell in a basket. When you are married to someone that has mental issues, and they refuse to see the problem, it is amazing how quickly everything fall apart.
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70s and early 80s for me. Paid for my university education, had great experiences, fell in love and got married, and had my first child. I was living my dream, working hard and enjoying my family.
But all those good memories went to hell in a basket. When you are married to someone that has mental issues, and they refuse to see the problem, it is amazing how quickly everything fall apart.
So sorry!
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70s and early 80s for me. Paid for my university education, had great experiences, fell in love and got married, and had my first child. I was living my dream, working hard and enjoying my family.
But all those good memories went to hell in a basket. When you are married to someone that has mental issues, and they refuse to see the problem, it is amazing how quickly everything fall apart.
@jafo2010
Yeah,I noticed that myself.
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70s and early 80s for me. Paid for my university education, had great experiences, fell in love and got married, and had my first child. I was living my dream, working hard and enjoying my family.
But all those good memories went to hell in a basket. When you are married to someone that has mental issues, and they refuse to see the problem, it is amazing how quickly everything fall apart.
Perhaps seek counseling; if she doesn't want to join in, perhaps at least get some help and advice on how to cope for your own mental health and piece of mind.
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According to my ol lady Me not wanting to marry the cow, cause the milk was already free, was what drove her crazy.
I miss her, hope she gets out of rehab soon.
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Perhaps seek counseling; if she doesn't want to join in, perhaps at least get some help and advice on how to cope for your own mental health and piece of mind.
@libertybele
Odd way to say "run for your life!",but I guess it all amounts to the same thing.
There really AIN'T no fixing crazy. It digs down to the bones.
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Each decade had its pros & cons. Prefer to dwell on the pros, with the cons providing a bit of nostalgic comic relief.
I even like today, although the rats are effing everything up.
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According to my ol lady Me not wanting to marry the cow, cause the milk was already free, was what drove her crazy.
I miss her, hope she gets out of rehab soon.
So ... when she gets out of rehab are you planning to put a ring on that finger?
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So ... when she gets out of rehab are you planning to put a ring on that finger?
Actually @libertybele though she blames me for everything right now, even her Ford being found on road dead (never worked on it), I would marry her, if she'd only pick herself up by the bootstraps (like I did so often in my life).
I know she's a strong women and we connect on many levels, more than just sexually, she just lost her way after her parents and little sister died a couple of years ago and climbed into a bottle. The Good Lord knows I tried to help her, yea I'll admit sleeping her meth head whore younger daughter(28yo) didn't help things but she really needs to overlook that $hit and concentrate on recovery right now. :shrug:
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Actually @libertybele though she blames me for everything right now, even her Ford being found on road dead (never worked on it), I would marry her, if she'd only pick herself up by the bootstraps (like I did so often in my life).
I know she's a strong women and we connect on many levels, more than just sexually, she just lost her way after her parents and little sister died a couple of years ago and climbed into a bottle. The Good Lord knows I tried to help her, yea I'll admit sleeping her meth head whore younger daughter(28yo) didn't help things but she really needs to overlook that $hit and concentrate on recovery right now. :shrug:
...hmm.... some people don't handle tragedy well. My nephew's wife lost her mother several years back and climbed into a bottle and still hasn't found her way out. She has two kids by a previous marriage that she left behind and one from this marriage. Very sad.
I sincerely hope your 'Ol Lady' recovers and things work out for you. Prayers up.
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Thank You @libertybele I hope for the best for her also, so far (2 months) the signs are not encouraging.
Hope eternal overflows though.
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It's certainly not lost on me that the main problem, currently, is:
David Bromberg and Jorma Kaukonen - Keep on Drinkin
Unlike her I'm not an angry drunk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ45kKv6Zc8#)