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Originally Posted by Tervuren

In my opinion, we forget the bad of the past over time and look back over the good. Over the years I've seen people complain about how terrible things are, only to wish they where back "in those days" years later, what the heck? It just comes down to the simple fact that this world won't satisfy people, and imagination is selective.

The good 'ol days of the great depression, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, WWI, The Panic, Civil War, War of 1812, you only get a few good years at best in a decade...

Yep. I'd considered mentioning WWI and WWII and the Holocaust, back when war meant bombing civilians.



In a similar vane (or is that vain or vein ). I used to work at a retail autoparts store in the early 90s. One day a guy came in with a nearly new car, just 2 or 3 years old (at the time, a nice car). He had a fancy new 3rd brake light that used fancy new halogen tiny little bulbs. The model of bulbs had never been used in any other car before. Because there was little demand for these, at the time, relatively specialized bulbs, they were $10 (expensive back then). When he got to the checkout line, he was cussing up a storm and cursing the United States (this was a regular old white guy) about how the bulbs could be that expensive. Honestly, I wish I'd have been able to put his azz on a plane to someplace else right then and there. Dumbazz. Sadly, he didn't realize how fortunate he was to be driving a fancy new car where his biggest complaint was that a bulb to fix it was a little expensive.