Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for May 03, 2022

Thermonuclear war. And Global Cooling™ was all the rage in the news, including Sports Illustrated. :P :P :P

Sure. There was AIDS, Chairman Mao, and Love Canal.

Crashing head first through a windshield was a real thing.

Yeah kid, we had the Polio epidemic, threat of nuclear war, the Russians.

I want one

While we didn’t have mass-shooting drills, we had “civil-defense” drills….which were hiding under our desks in case of nuclear attack. And Vietnam (I had cousins and an uncle who were there), and a cancer diagnosis was pretty much a death sentence. There are always things to be afraid of, sadly.

Stalin, no swimming in pools or lakes in late summer due to polio. World hunger in the WWII aftermath. Duck and cover in schools due to nuclear war threat. No active shooter drills.

Unsafe toys. Lots of them.

Pandemics at the start, followed by an increasing number of vaccines. Cold War and MAD. Pollution so bad you couldn’t see 1/2 mile and rivers caught fire…

Nuclear weapons and pollution.

Polio, Khrushchev & nuclear Armageddon. Meh. The Sun’s coming up & I’m still here. It’ll do.

childhood scars were badges of honor.

the older we get the more we’ve survived.

Yes, we had all those things, the polio pandemic, the possibility of nuclear war, Khrushchev, Mao, and Castro painted as Putinesque threats, and even global climate change, but that last one hid in the wings, counting on not being noticed.

We also encouraged the greed that spawned oligarchs, both here at home and abroad.

With me it was Khrushchev, nuclear war, and Viet Nam.

I was born just after WWII started. I remember Victory Gardens, and Mum not being able to find food in the grocery store. Dresses made of feed bags or old sheets, and later, duck-and-cover drills. My dad thought d-&-c was the dumbest thing in the world. “If it comes through the roof, it’s going to come through the desk.” FWIW, we had a rooster named Tojo, which I didn’t understand until much later.

Segregated schools, housing, parks; miscegenation laws; employment ads for white men only; adultery, drunkenness, and family violence swept under the rug; etc.

We had bomb drills in school. My mom, my sister, and I all had special admittance cards to the local nuclear-war shelter because my dad worked in nuclear weapons testing. They wanted to make sure those guys got into the shelters so their expertise could be drawn on, so they gave their families these admittance cards. If the families were there, they knew the men would come with them.

Lets just say only our own government!

Cold war, acid rain, Viet Nam.But I feel sorry for today’s kids. This pandemic has changed the world. And Putin isn’t helping.

Lets put it this way… She deserves a tip for putting up(in a usually pleasant manner) with all sorts of ‘Karens’ and ‘Karls’ for eight or ten hours a day, normally without even a ‘Thank You’. Everybody pisses and moans about the quality of service received but rarely take into consideration the treatment they hand out!

https://youtu.be/bp6dsKleGpU (by Sheldon Harnick)

This is probably the nicest I’ve ever seen her!

Kidnappings