Sorry to hear about your mum passing away mate.
Sounds like you had a great upbringing - boats and van living - awesome!
Definitely agree about the population increasing... the crowds..... now we are marching towards 7 billion people!!!! Really trying to work on decreasing my hating..... but I really wish someone would invent some economic theory to take us away from the whole growth is good theory..... want more demand, have more people.... fk.... it worries me thinking about the younger generations.... is that a Gen X trait or do the boomers actually care too? Soz - bit of a generalization..... I just want to be proven wrong so I can look at the world with kinder eyes..... prove me wrong kids, prove - me - wrong...
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The majority of surf boards went from one off hand shaped works of art, to mass produced, machine carved, cheap finish yet actually expensive to buy crap.
10 years ago couldn't afford the wind gear, but i had heaps of time to sail...
Now i can afford the wind gear, but don't have much time to sail...
-I had no money, drank home brew was 22 years old
-Had heaps of time to surf and watch Dr Phil
-Spent less money because I had the time to cook, buy things cheaply. Now I eat out alot because I have no time
-It was cheaper to live
-Had no mobile no internet
-Had one of those tiny square televisions
-Bogans had no money so couldn't travel
-Traffic is farked
-I have a shiny 4WD now
-Where I live used to have lots of old people, now they are gone
-Easy to find a job
-Women are more aggressive
-Everyone has **** tattoo's even girls have neck tatt's
-People go to pubs and resturants more instead of BBQ's
-Cops now look like Robocops
-Coles and Woolworths seem to own everything
I am happier.
I have a better job with more free time and money.
I surf better
I have 2 more new sports apart from surfing that I love, these help me surf better
I have a beautiful 5 year old daughter.
I like where I live more now.
I am married to a beautiful woman
Life is what you make of it boys..........
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,,,, a return btw - the folks have had 2 kombis think father still regrets selling them too , mum had a Karmann Ghia too rare as hen's teeth now .... cheers Fly
@Pup, thanks for the sentiment.
@Flysurfer, the old boy passed in August(recurring brain tumor twice removed).
Your Mum sure was a beautiful woman.keep that photo safe.
Back to thread........
Way, way more fat people than 10 years ago, but much less smoking
well, i was 11 10 years ago, but
- computers, everywhere!!!
- EVERYONE has an iphone/ipod something in their damn ears everytime they're outside (I used to do it til a couple years back, now I want to interact with people..)
- people wants everything, and they feel like they deserve everything just because they are...breathing?
- no real education of the children... seriously, if your kid is yelling all the time, or finds it hilarious to destroy other people's stuff, a nice slap could help...
- I'm in a different country (born in Italy, and lived there 'til a couple months ago), so I guess it's even my fault if there are so much foreigners in Oz xD
- more things have become less important (and viceversa)
- less and less people is really happy, many just fill their homes with stuff to avoid asking themselves if they feel satisfied
- electronics costs waaaaaaaaaaaay less
to be continued.. xD
no longer do drugs of any sort, lot fatter, less waves, beautiful wife & daughter, earn 3-4 times what I was earning, bugger all mortage compared to most in my area - basically lifes good except for the lack of waves due to work & fitness (or lack of) despite being a few minutes walk from a well known surf beach.
What's changed around you in the past decade?
Oh!!! Everything is UP.
Family Love is UP. (Really good.)
Pain level is UP. (Not so good.)
Panties stay UP. (Really bad.)
One thing that certainly has changed,
Chemtrails now everywhere,changing atmospheric conditions obviously
More fat pricks
Or should i say less, with less fit women to ogile at
more of us and them mentality,brought about by sheep being sheep
seabreeze not allowing discussion
mics in lamposts to catch crims,true
The rise of the 'Not My Fault' culture;
Less and less personal accountability; seems all the stupid ** people do can always be blamed on someone else.
Lived in 4 different states
got off the hooch
found a great woman
got old enough to not like how the kids dress or do their hair
definitely relate to those saying the earn 4 times as much but don't seem to have as much money
I'm surprised that no one has talked about the "social media" yet.
10 YEARS AGO:
- I had no mobile and the Internet home was on the phone landline (56k)....
- You had to wait for the 18h00 or the 22h00 newscast and/or the newspaper for you daily news.
- Your friends had to call you if they wanted to talk (my computer was to old for all the msn stuff...
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NOW:
- You can go on the Internet with your mobile phone.
- Everyone is connected via social media.
- Without "talking to people" you know that a high school friend got married, had a child...you even know what he looks like, just have to look at the 10 albums on Facebook.
- We don't need traditional media like we used to...
- The breaking news can come from anybody...we just need that everybody/nobody to "Tweet it" and share it with the rest of the World.
