03-17-2017, 04:17 PM
(03-16-2017, 11:03 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(03-15-2017, 05:53 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: Galen, geeze I suppose you're not a Jonser then.Fuck , man. I'm a 1962 cohort who enjoyed the fuck out of recreational pharmaceuticals. So here's Rag's attitudes wrt decades.
1960's : Awesome, grade school Rags wore clover jewelry, like his peers.
1970's : Do Drugs. That was the message and yeah, it was really fun.
1980's : Do Career. : Do shit to make lots of $$$$$. Job/poker/ride the stock market escalator to the top:
Yeah, I don't give a fuck the "Jefferson's were of "color", hell, I was movin' to the top in the 1980's/1990's.
"nuf said, man.
*Rags is of assorted races, so, fuck man. I guess I'm "of color" as well.
2000's: Fucking outsourcing fad started. You know, Galen, I'd love to fuck over the CEOL's and outsourcers. Taxes, burn at the stake, shoot with gun, etc. I hate CEO's and outsourcers with a pasion.
2010's. Fucking sucking green donkey dicks decade of shit/corporate Lords/CEO's need some lead.
I'm not a shrink but you seem to have this thing about wanting to be a Boomer. You either knowingly or unknowingly add about 5 years to your real age. 1960s? Grade school? OK, you went into Kindergarten fall of '67 (unless a very late in 1962 birth in which case it might have been fall of '68). You went into 1st grade in fall of '68. So, you had 2-1/2 school years "in the 1960s."
Hell, I'm only year behind you.
There might have been a few kids doing drugs when I was in 6th grade (1974 - 75). If so, I was not directly aware of it.
7th grade was where "the burnouts" really started to become "a thing" in terms of student subcultures. They would sneak off campus into the adjacent park, a typical Bay Area one with some nice (planted) Redwood circles you could duck into. Now, to be honest, I wanted to be a burn out but I was not one to cut class or take bong hits during school hours. I loved learning. My own "first weed" would have to wait until very late in my Freshman Year of HS. In any case, when I reached 7th grade, I'd say a single digit percentage of your cohort (8th graders) were doing bongs (or any thing in terms of drugs). That was the 1975 - 76 school year, half way through the 70s.
Let's say the typical stoner really got going Freshman year. For you, that was '76 - 77. So, yeah, you probably did some drugs during the mid to late 70s. Probably more during the 80s in your case.
1, Grade school: We did have some ciggie puffers out at recess. Yeah, I know that probably doesn't count, but there you have it.
2. Jr. High. Yeah, there were some folks who smelled like weed while boarding the bus to Jr. high. So yeah, burnouts or "heads" as we called them existed. The ciggie puffers were pretty common. There's a tunnel under the main drag between the 2 Jr. high buildings. Lot's of ciggie puffers there.
3. We're both talking about, as it pertains to substances, folks our age doing those, yes, in the 1970's. That's why I put it down. So, you're right, that's the mid to late 70's, which , again is why I put that decade down as "fun".
4. I'm pretty sure the clover and stuff got there due to my class mates having older siblings. That was quite common as well.
5. The 1960's. So, did you enjoy the 1960's ? I think most folks like being young kids. Young kids do tend to mimic assorted things in their environment. I'm sure there's stuff I picked up from my paternal cousins, who are all ... Boomers
6. There is Xer stuff as well. I left that out 'cause it's supposed to be self evident. Like I told Eric, I'm pretty pecuniary. You know anything to make a buck. That's not Boom, nor is what should be evident here is my distrust of authority. That came from Tricky Dick, you know.
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