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Post by siampolee on Feb 28, 2024 13:44:54 GMT 7
Kids These Days Do a Disgusting Dance Called the Waltz. It is quite sufficient to cast one's eyes on the voluptuous intertwining of the limbs, and close compressure of the bodies ... to see that it is far indeed removed from the modest reserve which has hitherto been considered distinctive of English females ... we feel it a duty to warn every parent against exposing his daughter to so fatal a contagion. From the Times of London, on waltzing, 1816:
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Post by siampolee on Feb 28, 2024 13:46:49 GMT 7
Young People Would Rather Drink Beer Than Study From an Egyptian scribe, to the students of his day, circa 2000 BC: …thou forsakest writing! Thou givest thyself up to pleasures. Thou goest from street to street where it smelleth of beer…
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Post by siampolee on Feb 28, 2024 13:51:09 GMT 7
TV and Magazines Leave Kids with No Brain at All...Nowadays its telephones From Fred Allen, in the 1950s: Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life [magazine], Look [magazine], the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.
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Post by siampolee on Feb 28, 2024 13:53:41 GMT 7
Today's Metrosexuals Transgenders Aren't Real Men From Town and Country magazine, 1771: Whither are the manly vigor and athletic appearance of our forefathers flown? Can these be their legitimate heirs? Surely, no; a race of effeminate, self-admiring, emaciated fribbles can never have descended in a direct line from the heroes of Potiers and Agincourt...
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