What do you miss these days?

[cp1969]

I miss the honesty, character and integrity that abounded in the people of this country 50 years ago.

Back when a man's word meant something, and was kept. No using lawyers and legal chicanery to get out of something you should do, or to do something you shouldn't. That's integrity.

Back when people wouldn't accept payment unless they earned it. Before the time when people are awarded lucrative jobs simply because they're 'the first left-handed, brown-eyed, Hindu woman to ever hold the job.' Cashing in on 'free government money' was unheard of. Welfare was unheard of; if a family needed help, the church or community provided it. That's honesty.

Back when people like Ted Williams interrupted his baseball career to serve the country. That's character. I will salute Pat Tillman--he was in that same class.

It was like a completely different place. I doubt that we'll ever see it again.

 

[ditrina]

How about White Castles, Sal? Got any down yonder?

What You Crave | White Castle

The closest is in Tennessee.....


However we do have it's twin...
Krystal® – Nothin' Like It

 

[clipper1]

What a great thread! I miss most of the same things previously posted, but I surely miss my grandma's 'last of the garden' relish she made every Fall. I also remember digging sassafras root in the Spring so my great aunt could make the best homade root beer, in a 12 gal crock....damn it was good!
Thanks

 

[markedup]

I miss the target.

Mark

 

[DeathGrip]

I miss the target.

Mark

Best one yet!!!!!!!!!!!!

D.G...........

 

[Hermann]

Respect .......

 

[V-35]

Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself.

Rooney said on '60 Minutes' a few weeks back:


'I don't think being a minority
makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The
only things I can think of that are truly
discriminatory are things like the United Negro
College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment
Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have
things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud
Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss
White America ; and see what happens...Jesse Jackson
will be knocking down your door.


Guns do not make you a killer. I
think killing makes you a killer. You can kill
someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is
trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.


I believe they are called the
Boy Scouts for a reason, which is why there are no
girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE
YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE ?

I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is
not a phobia, it is an
opinion.


I have the right 'NOT' to be
tolerant of others because they are different,
weird, or tick me off.

When 70%
of the people who get arrested are black, in cities
where 70% of the population is black, that is not
racial profiling; it is the Law of Probability.


I believe that if you are
selling me a milkshake, a pack of cigarettes, a
newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in
English! As a matter of fact, if you want to
be an American citizen, you should have to speak
English!

My father and
grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the
countries you were born in to come over and
disrespect ours.

I think the
police should have every right to shoot you if you
threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you
can't understand the word 'freeze' or 'stop' in
English, see the above lines..

I don't think just because you were not born in this
country, you are qualified for any special loan
programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax
breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop,
trinket store, or any other business.


We did not go to the aid of
certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars
to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they
could come over here and tell us our constitution is
a living document and open to their
interpretations.

I don't hate
the rich; I don't pity the poor.

I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and
television. That doesn't stop you from watching
them.

I think Bill Gates has
every right to keep every penny he made and continue
to make more. If it ticks you off, go and
invent the next operating system that's better, and
put your name on the building.


It doesn't take a whole village
to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to
stand up to the kid
and say 'NO!' when necessary.

I think tattoos and piercings are fine if you want
them, but please don't pretend they are a political
statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip
ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly
infected mouth as you serve me French fries!

I am sick of 'Political
Correctness.' I know a lot of black people, and not
a single one of them was born in Africa ,
so how can they be 'African-Americans'?
Besides, Africa
is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a
European-American because my great, great, great,
great, great, great grandfather was
from
Europe .
I am proud to be from America
and nowhere else.

And if you
don't like my point of view, tough...

 

[Muddyboot]

Mary Ann and Ginger. Gilligan, not so much.

 

[rock doc]

my waistline, my hair, and our founding fathers' ethics.

 

[Chik a Boom]

I miss cereals that came sugar coated and also KFC chicken when the original recipe was good and greasy and McDonalds' fries before they changed their oil.

And real milk. I find it very annoying everyone serves 1 or 2 percent, or worse-skim! Used to buy a gallon of milk, straight from the cow, from an old farm gal up the road. She sent it home in a glass gallon jar, it was soooo good. Busted one of those jars once on the floor of the station wagon. Not so good.