I know when society changed

originally posted by: Annee


Once you experience freedom and independence -- you're not likely to easily give it up.

What happened, then?
at least two solid generations grew up since then, and with a muppet on the TV half of society not only begged to have their freedoms taken away from them, but considered anyone fighting for their freedom to be their enemy.

All the old conspiracy "schizos" who posted rambling screeds about how words were spells were likely partially correct ... so in that spirit I write "antidisestablishmentarianism" and expect the world to soon be ...pretty much the same.

Ur talking about your about uranus...
The sun sometimes shines in Mianus.
(A world famous known fact btw)

To save the world : we must return to potty-humour !

San-Francisco™ City-Council™ held a special session today, to discuss the problem of public peeing and pooping.

The Mayor™ spoke to the media afterwards, and declared :

" Public urination and defecation, are our number-one and number-two priorities !! "

originally posted by: Nothin
To save the world : we must return to potty-humour !

San-Francisco™ City-Council™ held a special session today, to discuss the problem of public peeing and pooping.

The Mayor™ spoke to the media afterwards, and declared :

" Public urination and defecation, are our number-one and number-two priorities !! "

if you are fair dinkum and the bloke said the above
was he able to make the statement with out smiling

a reply to: JAGStorm

g,day. yes words have changed
we have a chocolate down here used to be called
nestles
now it is ness lay
and i here up in merry old england it is now called ness lee
one shakes one's head

originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: JAGStorm

Im prepared for the flaming, hit me with all yall got.

The world changed drastically with the internet.

From its inception to current we have never been so close yet so far apart as a species. Counter culture breeds culture which breeds counterculture in this very peculiar, unsustainable loop which eventually, perhaps now, can not be sustained in the real world.

I'm with ya all the way on this. In the beginning, nothing was greater than hearing the tones of the "dial up" sounds that took me to the Internet. Sound! Video! Amazing! (I started using computers when there was COBOL and FORTRAN). My first computer was an Apple IIe! lol Right after that time, now we could save 1.44 mb and bring it home on a floppy disk! wow it was so great. Used to do my college papers on Bill Gates, and Larry Page and Sergei Brin. Thought they were the greatest thing since sliced bread. Even got my Bachelor's degree in IT.

Yet somehow, over the years I have come to have a love/hate relationship with technology - specifically the Internet. My husband of 24 years left me about 12 years ago. He had developed a severe porn addiction (and weird stuff) and my daughter saw some once and it scared her. I told him to either stop or leave - he left.

Since then, like you, I have noticed more and more depression and loneliness now than ever before. It has become a global problem. Even though we now have the ability to communicate globally anytime day or night - seems like we have less real friends and people we know in real life. And as someone else mentioned on ATS, technology changes so often that I really do believe like they do that it just keeps people stressed out. And definitely life has not become easier as predicted, it has actually become less secure and just a constant state of broken / having to update, upgrade, fix, just to keep up.

If the Internet was gone tomorrow - how many people would know how to talk to family or friends then? If you consider cell phones in the mix and the cell towers went down, scary. The Internet could be used for good, and is. But on the other hand - it seems that it is being used more and more for bad purposes.

originally posted by: JAGStorm

originally posted by: BrokenCircles
a reply to: nugget1

It will always be 'Knee-an-der-th-all' to me.

Yes me too, and I should know!!

I think this is one example that can be explained by the internet opening the world a little bit.
For me it was always Nee an der tahl, because that's hiw we say it in German. As Thal means valley, so I assume it is logically pronounced with a sharp t, rhyming with mahal.
However I hear most Brits say thall with th.

If more people from different places say it on the net, you hear more how it is actually pronounced, rather than how you learned it. Younger people pick up on that easier.

Uranus makes sense to be your anus rather than the forced version which is clearly invented to stop the jokes. Which is a shame.

I agree though that some younger people pronounce normal english words with strange intonations as if they've never heard them spoken before. I have noticed that a lot.

I'd say 9/11, Ur-anus was play on words, that would piss off the academics. No different then being in-the-nile.

In my humble opinion, things really took the turn for the worst when society started being overly politically correct. I'm heading on 30, and as a 5 year old, remember getting my mouth washed out with soap at school - corporal punishment was not there, I was never stuck, but wrong doing had consequences. It seems like it doesn't anymore. Kids are no longer being disciplined, there's a absolutely hazy, hazy area between whats right and wrong. People can and SHOULD have differing opinions without people losing their marbles over it. Fix that, fix society. If I was to put a time frame on this, I think late 2000's, society really started going south.

I think it all changed with the demise of the pay toilet.

It was a different time….

“Here I sit, broken hearted,

Paid a dime and only farted”

a reply to: pronto

Maybe more like average, middle-of-the-road, kinda-sorta dinkum.

The press-conference occurred in a dark corner of my brain.
Nobody smiles there...



As-to the rest of the convo, ongoing in this thread : our societies are not falling-apart ; they are being dismantled by Psychopathic™-Scammers™.

We can thank the Rothschilds™ and Rockefellers™ for that, and the Modern-Day-Madmen™ that keep those schemes running.

originally posted by: sarahvital

originally posted by: Annee

originally posted by: Nickn3
As an older gentleman, I think society changed and not for the better, when prayer was removed from school. For better or worse that’s the way I see it.

As an older woman, I remember my Jewish friend having to participate in the Christmas pageant,

That bothered me.

yeah the 30's were tough on the Jews.

Tough?

Now I see what JAG means about how words and attitudes changing.

Genocide tends to be "tough" unless you're the ones committing it...

originally posted by: pronto
a reply to: JAGStorm

g,day. yes words have changed
we have a chocolate down here used to be called
nestles
now it is ness lay
and i here up in merry old england it is now called ness lee
one shakes one's head

I remember when Straya used to be called Astraya and when Astraya used to be called Orstraya and when Orstraya used to be called Straylia and when Straylia used to be called Horse Ter Railia.

I remember when the Japanese were the only ones that could pronounce it properly.

a reply to: pronto

Must be some weird SA thing. Here in QLD, its always been pronounced "ness-lay".

originally posted by: JAGStorm
There have been different points where society went through a big change.
While there are big changes, subtle changes happen too.

I am of the belief that words have power.

For most of us that are old enough we remember Uranus being called YourAnus. Every single kid made a joke about it.
That’s just what it was called.

Somewhere in the early 2000’s it stopped being called that. It was called Urrran-us.
Now today I heard it pronounced yet another way Urahn -uhhsss.

This is not a complicated word, isn’t it weird it has changed in such a short span of time? Wonder why.
I looked up some mythology and there is all kinds of interesting things about Uranus, rain, overthrowing, but this one stands out,
DECEPTION.

Could it not just be a consequence of Americanisation slipping into British use? That fits the timeframe, what with the parallel proliferation of the Internet and satellite TV etc.

originally posted by: BrokenCircles
a reply to: putnam6

Or stopping to help complete strangers broke down on the side of the road. I'm sure it still happens, but not as often as it used to. People don't even want help anymore. They'll just sit in the vehicle and call someone to come help. (which may be a long drive)

Trust is gone in much of society, and accepting help from a stranger can be risky. Some of the most harmless-seeming people can be the most dangerous; they don't all look like evil killers.

originally posted by: Nothin
a reply to: pronto

Maybe more like average, middle-of-the-road, kinda-sorta dinkum.

The press-conference occurred in a dark corner of my brain.
Nobody smiles there...

As-to the rest of the convo, ongoing in this thread : our societies are not falling-apart ; they are being dismantled by Psychopathic™-Scammers™.

We can thank the Rothschilds™ and Rockefellers™ for that, and the Modern-Day-Madmen™ that keep those schemes running.

you bugga of a kid. i did wonder and yes i did laugh out loud
well done bloke. well done have a couple on me

originally posted by: Badams
a reply to: pronto

Must be some weird SA thing. Here in QLD, its always been pronounced "ness-lay".

i disagree. i lived in FNQ for a few years back in the very early 70's.
wore jungle green.
way back in the 50's and 60's in every state of what used to be
the commonwealth of australia, it was called nestles chocolate
we actually said nes sells. yep a silent t. and too many s's go figure
but i gotta tell ya. it was the minties girl i was wrapped in. wow what a slasher of a sheila. wwow
it came in a bright red packet with a golden embossed branch with a bird
sitting on the branch feeding her chicks in a nest.
but for several years in the sixties it was unavailable
and a brand called mcrobertsons tried to depose
cadburys from tassie
cadburys won

I remember being taught about Urrran-us before 2000. I remember people calling it YourAnus as a joke before 2000.



I also remember when pluto was a Mickey Mouse cartoon character.