OK, well all those things passed me by because I was out of University, out of the Navy, married, and in my twenties. Some of his comments were rather gratuitous. Nothing wrong with the shorts. I think the very long shorts worn today are ridiculous.
My father bought an 8mm movie camera in 1948 and I still have those movies. They are now on DVDs but still good. The rest of the stuff from the 70s is mostly things I don’t remember. Maybe my kids would remember. I took a movie camera on the 1981 Transpac. It was powered by batteries that were replaceable. Video cameras were still clumsy and had short battery life.
The 70s were the decade when I started working for a living, and stopped paying much attention to pop culture. Looking back, I still think that was the right choice.
I was 10 to 19 in the 70’s. There’s a lot of things I never need or want to see again. Bellbottom pants-for men and platform shoes, again for men. I can take or leave disco. I’m sure there’s more, but that’s all I can think of.
another show of the era, buck rogers, seemed to think the 25th century would be strickly 70s, the presumption those fashions would survive the nuclear war, in a renaissance of a sort,
Wacky Packs have been replaced by Pokemon Cards and Magic the Gathering; other types of collectible cards that are not baseball/sports cards. Kids just skip the middleman cereal and buy the cards direct these days.
MikeK, what an experience that must have been.
One of my regrettable missed opportunities was sailing a boat back from the Victoria to Maui race. College buddy’s dad raced in 1978 and was looking for a crew to sail the boat back. Would have meant quitting my job at the time.
Seems it would be a test of courage to be in the middle of the ocean on a tiny boat.
I do have the (infamous) distinction of sinking my 22′ Catalina on my local lake.
rubino’s just a ray of sunshine, when do the mutants show up,
the above mentioned show used the old montreal olympics as the set, as had logan’s run,
Nothing wrong with the “short shorts” as long as you had the legs for them. Seeing such on some 350# 5’6 guy in the walmart, though… not so much.
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Sorry, by the 1970s, raised handlebars and banana seats were for kids. By the time you were in your teens, you wanted the 10 speed (later 15 speed) with thin racing tires and drop-down handlebars.
The guy ignored half of what was actually popular in the 70s — bell bottoms, dress boots, polyester pants/shirts/”leisure suits”, long hair on men. He throws out disco in passing as though it was a minor fad for less than a year or so… it dominated music for 2 to 3 years…
Does it seem like far too many young people–especially athletes, who you would expect to be at their prime, and in much better physical condition than the average person–are dropping like flies?
}}} My father bought an 8mm movie camera in 1948 and I still have those movies. They are now on DVDs but still good.
Super-8 was a specific special format, though, that made the whole setup far more foolproof and less prone to problems. It did so by imposing limits, but most of the users were not looking for professional shooting aims.
A friend of mine was an amateur filmmaker (he had aspirations to direct) and did make a full-length feature film, “Young Dracula”, in the mid-late 70s, that was actually popular in the Orlando area, as it got regularly shown at the yearly Orlandocon for a few years there. A goofy fun student-film, of course.
I recall he was particularly proud that he figured out an FX he wanted, which was a double-image. Everyone told him “you can’t do that with super-8”, but he figured out how to do it. As I recall, he had two projectors running at the same time and filmed that. Worked decently enough, as I recall. This lent credence to Heinlein’s idea, “Listen to the experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done. Then go out and do it anyway.”
Snow on Pine:
No, it doesn’t.
I have dealt with that issue already several times, and there is no increase except in increased attention paid to an already-existent phenomenon. See this, for example.
I’m with shirehome. Today’s ‘shorts’ look ridiculous. Mind you, I haven’t been seen in public in shorts anytime in the last 50 years. Here in Pittsburgh, on the other hand, they wear them when the outside temperature is 20 degrees . . .
My most recent post: ‘Drucker’s Prescience”, which is about an interesting comment he made in 1969:
“…it is quite possible that the great new ‘isms’ of tomorrow will be ideologies about knowledge. In tomorrow’s intellectual and political philosophies knowledge may well take the central place that property, i.e. things, occupied in capitalism and Marxism.”
@ Snow on Pine – in re UFOs – there seems to be some speculation that the Chinese balloons (or octagons) have been transiting the USA for some time, and that the recent DOD openness about UFOs has been a cover for their failure to inform the public (and apparently the President and Congress as well).
Super 8 film ? never
Short shorts? Don’t think so. I jogged a lot and played soccer, but wore cutoff jeans.
Metric? used in engineering/science courses, though engineering courses also used English.
Feathered hair? Maybe, don’t recall what barbers did
Supercomb? No
Tab? Used it
Banana seats? No, too old. Always had racing bike in the ’70s.
Wacky packs? No, too old
Kids’ TV shows? no, too old
Trans Am? No. Opel and then company cars
I second bellbottoms, though I don’t share in their condemnation.
Regarding changes in fashion, I submit corduroy pants. I always wore them, well before the ‘70s, because they were warmer than denim in New England winters. After I moved to Texas, I still liked to buy cord pants, but in the last 5 years or so they have disappeared from the stores.
MikeK, a stepson of my uncle – by then long divorced from his mother- made a movie about his 100+ year old Sicilian grandmother. Very entertaining film. Part of the movie used film from home cameras the family had shot in the 1930s, of NYC area and of visits back to Sicily. I concluded that anyone who had a home movie camera in the 1930s was rather affluent, which led me to further conclude that his third wife’s father was connected to the Mafia. (As he managed a cemetery, that could have been useful to them). Was it a fair conclusion that anyone who had a home movie camera in the 1930s was affluent, of top 10% say?
Great baseball moments of the ’70s:
June 4, 1974: Ten Cent Beer Night, a promotion-gone-wrong game between the Texas Rangers and the Cleveland-Used-to-Be-Indians:
This particular fan riot showcased two other pastimes of the ’70s: streaking and mooning.
April 25, 1976: Rick Monday, then center fielder for the Chicago Cubs, rescued an American flag from two protesters trying to set fire to it on the field of Dodger Stadium:
July 12, 1979: Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago, in which the local shock jock blew up a crate overflowing with disco records (remember the ’70s 12-in vinyl LPs, BTW?). The explosion and the weed-fueled riot that followed damaged the playing field to the point that the White Sox had to forfeit the second night game to the Detroit Tigers. If you watch the ESPN retrospective to the end, you’ll hear that the Bee Gees blamed Disco Demolition Night for ending the golden age of disco.
“…a ray of sunshine…”
Well, everything is relative, as they say….
As for knowledge being the next “ism”…I guess that’s why it’s SO important to be able to know how to conceal it—especially when your citizenry—and your laws, and Constitution—are your enemies(!)
Meanwhile, looks like another crisis!
(Great!! “We” can use it to distract attention from all the previous ones…and again and again, all the way down the line…)
‘ “Get The Hell Out Of There” – Ohio’s Apocalyptic Chemical Disaster Rages On’— https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ohios-apocalyptic-chemical-disaster-rages
“Ohioans Question Returning Home After Toxic Train Spill”— https://blazingcatfur.ca/2023/02/13/ohioans-question-returning-home-after-toxic-train-spill/
(Check the Legacy Media, AKA MSM, for this story and see if you can find it…)
And then there’s Bill Buckner in the last out of the last inning of the last game of the ’74 World Series. https://youtu.be/18caPNisP2U?t=17
Poor guy. (But worrying about Mookie made him lose his concentration…Ah well, life isn’t always fair…)
Someone oughta write a song about that…
(Maybe someone has… “Where have all the putouts gone? Long time passin’…)
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Anyway, ain’t nothin’ like waxin’ nostalgiac…(or even murderously vengeful…)
‘Multiple Pedestrians Struck, Dragged By U-Haul Truck In NYC “Rampage”: Official’— https://www.zerohedge.com/political/multiple-pedestrians-struck-dragged-u-haul-truck-nyc-rampage-official
This “on the same day a convicted terrorist, Sayfullo Saipov, is facing sentencing for killing eight people in a 2017 rampage while driving a U-Haul truck down a New York City bike path.”
Now how ’bout that… A coincidence? Or was the guy “just” trying to make a point…
(Might be time for “Biden” to ban U-Hauls…)
Oops! Wrong video…
(Also, the wrong decade…it turns out to have been 1986.)
Holy mackeral! Two errors in one post…
Anyway, here’s that video (from 1986). https://tinyurl.com/2p86tcsr
Re: Men’s short-shorts
Yeah, men wore short-shorts, then went long and longer.
But one man, one man!, wore the shortest of short-shorts. Lemmy Kilmeister, the iconic frontman of Motorhead, wore Daisy Dukes into the 21st century.
On the NY U-Haul truck attack, police say it was “not an accident,” but they’re not calling it terrorism “at this time.” This means, I gather, that they have no reason yet to think the suspect, who is in custody, is Muslim. The very word “terrorism” doesn’t mean a whole lot any more. A guy running down pedestrians on sidewalks with a truck is pretty terrifying.
I played with a super-8 camera for a time. It was bought for my older brother for film school and he didn’t use it straight off. That Fuji camera had single frame capability and I experimented with stop-motion animation.
My father was a generally frugal guy but his one impulsive extravagance was a hot boat he bought in the early 70’s. A Chris Craft XK-18 with a 454 engine. I got to drive that around a bit as a high school kid. Only 200 hulls ever made according to somebody’s claim.
* We didn’t shoot it down as it entered Alaskan air space because we wanted to recover the debris and the waters there are as much as three miles deep.
* We didn’t shoot it down over the continental US because the satellite was large and ten miles up, therefore the debris field would have been 1 mile by 6-7 miles. It really would have been a risk to Americans on the ground.
* Meanwhile we were tracking the balloon all the way and gathering intel on its characteristics.
* We closed up the missile silos etc so Chinese got no better intel than was available from satellites.
* We are recovering intel from the debris after it was shot down over the Atlantic.
* In Zeihan’s view it has been a fiasco for the Chinese and reflects the dysfunction of the Xi regime.
* The failure of the Chinese to respond to phone calls from the Biden administration was not a snub, but because the Chinese diplomatic service was not in the loop and had no idea what to say.
As usual I find Zeihan persuasive. He is the best and fastest pundit out there.
When did Bermuda shorts become a thing?
huxley–
Apropos of men in shorts in reference to MLB, I should have included the Chicago White Sox shorts uniform of 1976: with the shorts, the players wore leisure-suit type jerseys with floppy collars and tube socks with striped tops. Video here (includes the reactions of some of the players at the time: https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/white-sox/ever-wonder-why-chicago-white-sox-wore-shorts-1976
‘Course, females in short-shorts were a whole ‘nother thing.
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[Boys] Who wears short-shorts?
[Girls] We wear short-shorts.
In the ’70s, although they had been around since the ’50s, and worn by the British Army in North Africa in the 1940s. Brandon still wears them, as in this famous video clip from last summer:
The 1976 White Sox weren’t sliding into home often enough to worry about basepath rash– they finished at the bottom of what was then a 12-team American League, with a season average of .398, 25-1/2 games behind the KC Royals.
“* The failure of the Chinese to respond to phone calls from the Biden administration was not a snub, but because the Chinese diplomatic service was not in the loop and had no idea what to say.”
Huxley
The Chinese have strange cultural customs. One is for drivers. If you are approaching an intersection and make eye contact with the other driver, you are supposed to yield. Odd rule. At least that was the custom in Hong Kong when we visited there in 2007.
Maybe they won’t answer the phone for some odd Chinese cultural custom.
I’m glad to hear the observation that Xi is surrounded by Yes men/women. That can lead to rigidity and bad decisions. However, I heard Pompeo describe Xi as very smart, well-schooled, and very disciplined. Not a man to be underestimated.
On the subject of popular culture, because I don’t keep up with it, I didn’t understand many of the Super Bowl ads. Mostly, this doesn’t bother me, but can someone explain to me the one which appeared to be Zombies for Electric Vehicles?
Thanks, Miguel cervantes. I have watched nothing on Netflix, and the ad made no sense whatever to me.
What stands out most in my distaste for the 70’s is that decade’s dreary color scheme:
– brown (think of the Abitibi paneling that was then ubiquitous, seemingly omnipresent in homes, restaurants, offices, car dealerships, &c.); even kitchen appliances were sold in a dismal brown (I think it was called “copper”) coloring
– olive drab (marketing copywriters euphemized it as “avocado”) with ranges, refrigerators, even blenders wearing it as if they all wanted to be WWII G.I. vehicles and impedimenta, and a
– dense shade of orange. The orange served pathetically to emphasize the dreariness of the brown and the “avocado.”
Disco was dreadfully monotonous (and so is rap/hip-hop). The 70’s also saw the tacky bloom of Glam Rock.
My kid brother bought a pair of black suede platform shoes and when he debuted with them I instantly greeted him with, “Whaddya say there, Frankenstein!” He blushed, stammered, went silent. After that he wore them maybe two more times.
Because they were neither fish, nor fowl, leisure suits were always out of place, and had their precursor in the late 1960’s Nehru suit; neither one, nor the other, of those getups gained traction with the buying public.
Latch-hook rugs, with their open-mesh backing, and their pictorial and abstract/geometric-design wall-hangings were a fairly popular hobby.
The mime team of Shields & Yarnell enjoyed fifteen minutes of TV fame.
Latch-hook rugs, with their open-mesh backing, and their pictorial and abstract/geometric-design wall-hangings were a fairly popular hobby.
I remember the macramé fad of the ’70s, particularly the handmade hippie-style belts and jewelry (incorporating glass beads, small seashells, metal charms, etc.) and the plant hangers. One of my cousins gave my mother a macramé plant hanger toward the end of the ’70s– she liked it so much that it was still hanging in her place in Florida 40 years later.
NORAD and the WH cannot confirm or deny what the objects we are shooting down are, what they are made of, etc. Tucker Carlson says one of them may have been a National Weather Service balloon, which would indicate we are fast becoming “Fetterman Nation”.
Speaking of mysterious objects, Neck Lump has entered the chat…
I would argue that what people call the 70s was really the latter disco half of the decade.
The first half of the 70s was an extension of the sixties.
The two-part “Laurel Canyon” documentary is quite good.
Laurel Canyon is the somewhat legendary neighborhood which became the home of 60s/70s LA musicians like Crosby, Stills and Nash, Joni Mitchell, the Mamas and the Papas, the Monkees, Frank Zappa and more.
They were all living within a mile of each other. Much partying and mutual inspiration. It filled in some of the inside dope of that era and showed what a dream the Canyon was while being only five minutes from Hollywood.
Apropos of the hippie handicrafts of the ’70s– I should have included Gerard’s essay about the hippie neighbor who made a beaded collar for a beaten-down cat named Fatso that changed the cat’s life: As for Fatso . . . he disgusted me. I had no use for him. I was even starting to measure him for a river diving bag.
And so it went until….. until…. until the hippy girl arrived. In those years hippy girls were always arriving. It was what they did. They came and then… they went. And they all had…. they all had to have…. a handicraft. Some did tie-dyes. Others did very heavy and clumsy pottery. Some chipped arrowheads out of flint. Some made teepees in the backyard. . . . This particular hippy girl did beaded belts and chokers. And, needless to say, methamphetamine. She had several egg cartons holding a mass of teeny-tiny beads and a kind of wireframe loom. She’d wire up the loom, smoke a lot of dope, pop a little meth, and then crack open the egg cartons and bead up a bunch of stuff she hoped to sell somewhere along the edges of Telegraph Avenue. I once figured she was making about a dime an hour and when I told her this she said, “That much? Groovy.”
She lived in the apartment behind ours and one day, while setting up her loom, Fatso wandered by her and wiped the latest blood from his wounds on her tie-dye skirt. She glanced down and said, “Oh, Fatso. Uncool.” Then she went to work, her hippy girl fingers flying lightly over her bead loom as only the young, stoned, female speedfreak can manage.
Within two hours she had finished a large cat-sized collar in beads. She called Fatso over and strapped it on him. He tossed his head a little bit since the collar was over an inch in width and must have pinched a bit on his neck, but then he seemed to accept it. He sauntered over and has he passed me I glanced down. The hippy girl had woven and arranged a collection of bright red beads against a black background to read, in capital letters, “FATSO!” (Exclamation mark included.) You could read it from six feet away. . . .
At his approach, other cats would disappear until he passed. Fatso had, by virtue of his collar, become known by name to the entire neighborhood. He had become famous for being famous. He’d become a celebri-cat, the first I’ve ever known. All it took was a collar and a name and Fatso was never beaten up again and certainly never went hungry ever again. In time his saunter became a strut. You couldn’t help but like Fatso since liking him was what Fatso was all about.
Gerard republished this story the day after he adopted Olive. It’s a classic example of his kindness and humanity as well as his gifts as a humorist:
@ PA Cat > “I remember the macramé fad of the ’70s”
I found that to be one of the few dexterity-requiring handicrafts I could manage, although the rest of my family generated a fair amount of crochet, knitting, needle point (my younger sister could see to do the very fine canvas), even some crewel, and my uncle (WW2 Navy and had the tattoos to prove it) produced some very nice latch-hook rugs in his retirement.
And wouldn’t you know it!
The execrable—or should one be kind and call her merely “sinister”?—Samantha Power is on the prowl again.
This time her target is Hungary.
(“HER target”? Actually, it’s a “Biden”/EU/WTF/Soros consortium…piling on Orban)
“Hungary Must Resist America’s Woke Imperialism”— https://blazingcatfur.ca/2023/02/13/hungary-must-resist-americas-woke-imperialism/
File under: Who the hell gave Hungary the right to protect itself and its culture??
Of course they are!
(And now that Netanyahu’s PM and leading a right-wing government, they have added incentive…not that they needed any more incentive than they already have…)
Alas, the headline is a bit misleading:
instead of “…even if an agreement benefits Russia and China“, it should say “…precisely because an agreement benefits Russia and China“.
But even that isn’t quite right, the point being that “an agreement benefits THE MULLAHS” and causes Israel a great deal of alarm, worry, even panic…and potential destruction…which is what “Biden” is totally into!
QED
I understand that Steve Kirsch is willing to pay ten times the money bet to anyone who can show his data analysis of the vax causing excess death is wrong.
Sounds like easy money. I expect lots of brilliant number crunchers to cash in post haste.
And for those of us who have forgotten some of the animus that fills Biden’s past WRT the Jewish State (or perhaps never even knew in the first place) we can thank Jeff Dunetz for straightening us out:
“Biden And Israel, So Far No Good”— https://lidblog.com/biden-and-israel-so-far-no-good/
Continued at… https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/367448
“There is still time to avoid an anti-Israel legacy, but don’t hold your breath. It started with his Senate career and continues on.”
(Knowing all this…it should be obvious why the State of Israel—under its previous government—honored Biden with a special medal…)
Huxley,
Agree on 60s and early 70s. Woodstock was the summer of 69. That marked the coming of the sixties culture to mainstream America. A somewhat older friend of mine recalled leaving Princeton at the end of spring semester in 1969 with his preppy khakis, penny loafers and short haircut. He returned for the fall with long hair and bell bottom jeans thinking that his friends would be shocked at the changes. He was surprised to see that all of his friends had made the same changes over the summer.
One of the many interesting insights from the documentary “Harvard beats Yale 29-29” was the recollection of the conservative social attitudes on both campuses in the fall of 1968. The sixties may have been in full swing at campuses like Berkeley and Madison, but they hadn’t yet infiltrated Harvard and Yale with barely a year left in the decade.
A look at HS or college yearbooks from 1970 to 1976 will show when the long hair of the sixties actually became widespread in the culture.
One of my baseball teammates at Davidson in 1975 had a pony tail that extended past the middle of his back (he would go on to manage Channel One for Whittle and was publisher of Rolling Stone for Jann Wenner). Our All-American 1B (also a star LB in football) had a big bushy Fu Manchu in addition to the longest hair of his life. When we beat Bobby Richardson’s South Carolina team that finished 2d in the nation, the old Yankee star with his crew cut was as upset by our long hair as he was at their only home loss of the season.
For the vast majority of America, the sixties happened in the seventies.
Thanks for that link, Miguel.
In better times, more normal times, one would likely dismiss those contentions as absurd, ridiculous, nuts.
Unfortunately, today one CANNOT do that.
In fact, today, given what the FBI and its political masters have been up to, you’d believe it immediately, no question.
(You might still weep a bit, if only deep inside, but you’d believe it. In fact you’d have to.)
More crises.
More distractions.
So forget about those balloons.
Forget about those sea-floor pipelines.
Forget about those gas ovens
Forget about those classified documents.
Forget about Hunter Biden.
Forget about inflation
Forget about that southern border.
Forget about CRT and DIE.
Forget about skyrocketing urban crime
Forget about the weaponized IRS (and weaponized everything else)
You gonna criticize Biden/”Biden”, eh?
Meanwhile…
…French historian spews warning!
“World War III Has Already Begun”— https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/french-historian-world-war-iii-has-already-begun
…but gives the game away with:
‘…”the resistance of the Russian economy is pushing the U.S. imperial system toward the abyss” and that Biden must “hurry” to rescue a “fragile” America….’
“Rescue” America, eh? Sure thing, mon ami!
Oh well, so much for French historian…
(I mean, hasn’t he figured out yet the obvious: that the “UFOs” that “Biden” has been shooting down are arriving en masse precisely to try to save humanity from destroying itself?)
“,,, If you are approaching an intersection and make eye contact with the other driver, you are supposed to yield.”
If you make eye contact with the other driver, isn’t the other driver also making eye contact with you ?
Doesn’t this imply that BOTH of you are supposed to yield ?
Now that’s a superlative point.
(One might also have asked what they do at night….)
But it is certainly a curious regulation.
It’s entirely possible that this is precisely the reason why traffic jams are horrendous in S. Korea. (I understand that in NK, it’s a real pleasure to drive.)
Nonetheless, if you read the fine print, it says, whomever establishes eye-contact FIRST.
(But that may not get us very far…)
The even finer print says, whomever blinks first (after establishing eye-contact).
What they don’t tell you is that most, if not all, Korean drivers wear sunglasses.
I suspect one might understand the reason why….
(Now…just don’t get me started on the traffic circles/roundabouts/rond-points in France….
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Days of relative innocence…
One waxes nostalgic (no matter how challenging they may have been for one…)…
“How your tax dollars are helping censors decide what you can read”—
https://nypost.com/2023/02/12/how-your-tax-dollars-are-helping-censors-decide-what-you-can-read/
…since things these days are getting pretty dicey…
…as “Biden” and his friends and supporters appear to be doing their very best to make America “unsustainable”…
“Welcome To The Endgame” – Rubino Warns; “Everyone’s About To Realize There’s No Fix For This”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/welcome-endgame-rubino-warns-everyones-about-realize-theres-no-fix
OK, well all those things passed me by because I was out of University, out of the Navy, married, and in my twenties. Some of his comments were rather gratuitous. Nothing wrong with the shorts. I think the very long shorts worn today are ridiculous.
My father bought an 8mm movie camera in 1948 and I still have those movies. They are now on DVDs but still good. The rest of the stuff from the 70s is mostly things I don’t remember. Maybe my kids would remember. I took a movie camera on the 1981 Transpac. It was powered by batteries that were replaceable. Video cameras were still clumsy and had short battery life.
Here is a clip of that movie.
The 70s were the decade when I started working for a living, and stopped paying much attention to pop culture. Looking back, I still think that was the right choice.
I was 10 to 19 in the 70’s. There’s a lot of things I never need or want to see again. Bellbottom pants-for men and platform shoes, again for men. I can take or leave disco. I’m sure there’s more, but that’s all I can think of.
a dejavu, of a bygone era,
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/power-mad-progressive-utopianism-must-be-stopped
another show of the era, buck rogers, seemed to think the 25th century would be strickly 70s, the presumption those fashions would survive the nuclear war, in a renaissance of a sort,
Wacky Packs have been replaced by Pokemon Cards and Magic the Gathering; other types of collectible cards that are not baseball/sports cards. Kids just skip the middleman cereal and buy the cards direct these days.
MikeK, what an experience that must have been.
One of my regrettable missed opportunities was sailing a boat back from the Victoria to Maui race. College buddy’s dad raced in 1978 and was looking for a crew to sail the boat back. Would have meant quitting my job at the time.
Seems it would be a test of courage to be in the middle of the ocean on a tiny boat.
I do have the (infamous) distinction of sinking my 22′ Catalina on my local lake.
rubino’s just a ray of sunshine, when do the mutants show up,
the above mentioned show used the old montreal olympics as the set, as had logan’s run,
Nothing wrong with the “short shorts” as long as you had the legs for them. Seeing such on some 350# 5’6 guy in the walmart, though… not so much.
😀
Sorry, by the 1970s, raised handlebars and banana seats were for kids. By the time you were in your teens, you wanted the 10 speed (later 15 speed) with thin racing tires and drop-down handlebars.
The guy ignored half of what was actually popular in the 70s — bell bottoms, dress boots, polyester pants/shirts/”leisure suits”, long hair on men. He throws out disco in passing as though it was a minor fad for less than a year or so… it dominated music for 2 to 3 years…
Does it seem like far too many young people–especially athletes, who you would expect to be at their prime, and in much better physical condition than the average person–are dropping like flies?
See https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/02/so_many_people_recently_died_suddenly__whats_going_on.html
}}} My father bought an 8mm movie camera in 1948 and I still have those movies. They are now on DVDs but still good.
Super-8 was a specific special format, though, that made the whole setup far more foolproof and less prone to problems. It did so by imposing limits, but most of the users were not looking for professional shooting aims.
A friend of mine was an amateur filmmaker (he had aspirations to direct) and did make a full-length feature film, “Young Dracula”, in the mid-late 70s, that was actually popular in the Orlando area, as it got regularly shown at the yearly Orlandocon for a few years there. A goofy fun student-film, of course.
I recall he was particularly proud that he figured out an FX he wanted, which was a double-image. Everyone told him “you can’t do that with super-8”, but he figured out how to do it. As I recall, he had two projectors running at the same time and filmed that. Worked decently enough, as I recall. This lent credence to Heinlein’s idea, “Listen to the experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done. Then go out and do it anyway.”
Snow on Pine:
No, it doesn’t.
I have dealt with that issue already several times, and there is no increase except in increased attention paid to an already-existent phenomenon. See this, for example.
I’m with shirehome. Today’s ‘shorts’ look ridiculous. Mind you, I haven’t been seen in public in shorts anytime in the last 50 years. Here in Pittsburgh, on the other hand, they wear them when the outside temperature is 20 degrees . . .
My most recent post: ‘Drucker’s Prescience”, which is about an interesting comment he made in 1969:
“…it is quite possible that the great new ‘isms’ of tomorrow will be ideologies about knowledge. In tomorrow’s intellectual and political philosophies knowledge may well take the central place that property, i.e. things, occupied in capitalism and Marxism.”
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/69021.html
@ Snow on Pine – in re UFOs – there seems to be some speculation that the Chinese balloons (or octagons) have been transiting the USA for some time, and that the recent DOD openness about UFOs has been a cover for their failure to inform the public (and apparently the President and Congress as well).
On the other hand….
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/02/12/pentagon-confirms-shot-down-objects-arent-balloons-makes-an-even-weirder-admission-n702817
Nothing wrong with the shorts.
Ptaah
Super 8 film ? never
Short shorts? Don’t think so. I jogged a lot and played soccer, but wore cutoff jeans.
Metric? used in engineering/science courses, though engineering courses also used English.
Feathered hair? Maybe, don’t recall what barbers did
Supercomb? No
Tab? Used it
Banana seats? No, too old. Always had racing bike in the ’70s.
Wacky packs? No, too old
Kids’ TV shows? no, too old
Trans Am? No. Opel and then company cars
I second bellbottoms, though I don’t share in their condemnation.
Regarding changes in fashion, I submit corduroy pants. I always wore them, well before the ‘70s, because they were warmer than denim in New England winters. After I moved to Texas, I still liked to buy cord pants, but in the last 5 years or so they have disappeared from the stores.
MikeK, a stepson of my uncle – by then long divorced from his mother- made a movie about his 100+ year old Sicilian grandmother. Very entertaining film. Part of the movie used film from home cameras the family had shot in the 1930s, of NYC area and of visits back to Sicily. I concluded that anyone who had a home movie camera in the 1930s was rather affluent, which led me to further conclude that his third wife’s father was connected to the Mafia. (As he managed a cemetery, that could have been useful to them). Was it a fair conclusion that anyone who had a home movie camera in the 1930s was affluent, of top 10% say?
Great baseball moments of the ’70s:
June 4, 1974: Ten Cent Beer Night, a promotion-gone-wrong game between the Texas Rangers and the Cleveland-Used-to-Be-Indians:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFtR38Mlscc&ab_channel=Sports%26ExtrasNetwork
This particular fan riot showcased two other pastimes of the ’70s: streaking and mooning.
April 25, 1976: Rick Monday, then center fielder for the Chicago Cubs, rescued an American flag from two protesters trying to set fire to it on the field of Dodger Stadium:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrV8QPQAhxo&t=165s&ab_channel=giramino
July 12, 1979: Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago, in which the local shock jock blew up a crate overflowing with disco records (remember the ’70s 12-in vinyl LPs, BTW?). The explosion and the weed-fueled riot that followed damaged the playing field to the point that the White Sox had to forfeit the second night game to the Detroit Tigers. If you watch the ESPN retrospective to the end, you’ll hear that the Bee Gees blamed Disco Demolition Night for ending the golden age of disco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zN-oLCKo4&ab_channel=TheOriginalShockJock
“…a ray of sunshine…”
Well, everything is relative, as they say….
As for knowledge being the next “ism”…I guess that’s why it’s SO important to be able to know how to conceal it—especially when your citizenry—and your laws, and Constitution—are your enemies(!)
Meanwhile, looks like another crisis!
(Great!! “We” can use it to distract attention from all the previous ones…and again and again, all the way down the line…)
‘ “Get The Hell Out Of There” – Ohio’s Apocalyptic Chemical Disaster Rages On’—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ohios-apocalyptic-chemical-disaster-rages
“Ohioans Question Returning Home After Toxic Train Spill”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2023/02/13/ohioans-question-returning-home-after-toxic-train-spill/
(Check the Legacy Media, AKA MSM, for this story and see if you can find it…)
And then there’s Bill Buckner in the last out of the last inning of the last game of the ’74 World Series.
https://youtu.be/18caPNisP2U?t=17
Poor guy. (But worrying about Mookie made him lose his concentration…Ah well, life isn’t always fair…)
Someone oughta write a song about that…
(Maybe someone has… “Where have all the putouts gone? Long time passin’…)
– – – – – – – –
Anyway, ain’t nothin’ like waxin’ nostalgiac…(or even murderously vengeful…)
‘Multiple Pedestrians Struck, Dragged By U-Haul Truck In NYC “Rampage”: Official’—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/multiple-pedestrians-struck-dragged-u-haul-truck-nyc-rampage-official
This “on the same day a convicted terrorist, Sayfullo Saipov, is facing sentencing for killing eight people in a 2017 rampage while driving a U-Haul truck down a New York City bike path.”
Now how ’bout that… A coincidence? Or was the guy “just” trying to make a point…
(Might be time for “Biden” to ban U-Hauls…)
Oops! Wrong video…
(Also, the wrong decade…it turns out to have been 1986.)
Holy mackeral! Two errors in one post…
Anyway, here’s that video (from 1986).
https://tinyurl.com/2p86tcsr
Re: Men’s short-shorts
Yeah, men wore short-shorts, then went long and longer.
But one man, one man!, wore the shortest of short-shorts. Lemmy Kilmeister, the iconic frontman of Motorhead, wore Daisy Dukes into the 21st century.
–“Lemmy in Daisy Dukes”
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/134404370099420108/
And no one had the nerve to tell Lemmy otherwise.
Would you?
The balloon makers …
https://twitter.com/NoVA_Campaigns/status/1624489282147680259
On the NY U-Haul truck attack, police say it was “not an accident,” but they’re not calling it terrorism “at this time.” This means, I gather, that they have no reason yet to think the suspect, who is in custody, is Muslim. The very word “terrorism” doesn’t mean a whole lot any more. A guy running down pedestrians on sidewalks with a truck is pretty terrifying.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-city-pedestrians-struck-dragged-u-haul-driver-nypd-bomb-squad-scene
“…I guess that’s why it’s SO important to be able to know how to conceal it—especially when your citizenry—and your laws, and Constitution—are your enemies(!)…”
Exhibit, um, gosh there just aren’t enough letters….:
“Biden’s Classified Documents Scandal Keeps Getting Bigger”—
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/02/13/bidens-classified-documents-scandal-keeps-getting-bigger-n1670131
(Times like this when the Georgian alphabet comes in handy…)
Yep, count on “Biden” to save the planet!
“Animals Are Dying Miles From Massive Ohio Railroad Chemical Spill”—
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2023/02/13/animals-are-dying-miles-from-massive-ohio-railroad-chemical-spill-n1670186
“Controlled burn”, they said.
(Kinda like the current administration…)
But never fear!
They’re still gonna take away yer gas stove. Ain’t healthy, see….
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/02/12/joe-biden-is-still-coming-for-your-gas-stove-n1670047
Compare and contrast:
“Oakland Descends into Chaos with Violent Death of An Anarchist;
“Anarcho-tyranny, or the system whereby the state goes after the ordinary people while letting true criminals go free, is descending on Alameda County.”—
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/02/oakland-descends-into-chaos-with-violent-death-of-an-anarchist/
“U.S. Tells Citizens Not to Travel to Russia and Those Already There to Leave Immediately”—
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/02/u-s-tells-citizens-not-to-travel-to-russia-and-those-already-there-to-leave-immediately/
(And why not? “Biden”‘s essentially been using California as batting practice.)
I played with a super-8 camera for a time. It was bought for my older brother for film school and he didn’t use it straight off. That Fuji camera had single frame capability and I experimented with stop-motion animation.
My father was a generally frugal guy but his one impulsive extravagance was a hot boat he bought in the early 70’s. A Chris Craft XK-18 with a 454 engine. I got to drive that around a bit as a high school kid. Only 200 hulls ever made according to somebody’s claim.
https://postlmg.cc/Vr4x7VMR
https://chris-craft.org/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=4899
Re: Chinese Balloon
Peter Zeihan held his fire until he consulted with his contacts. This morning he has a video with great inside dope.
–“Peter Zeihan – It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Chinese Spy Balloon…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuGLQZ646o8
* We didn’t shoot it down as it entered Alaskan air space because we wanted to recover the debris and the waters there are as much as three miles deep.
* We didn’t shoot it down over the continental US because the satellite was large and ten miles up, therefore the debris field would have been 1 mile by 6-7 miles. It really would have been a risk to Americans on the ground.
* Meanwhile we were tracking the balloon all the way and gathering intel on its characteristics.
* We closed up the missile silos etc so Chinese got no better intel than was available from satellites.
* We are recovering intel from the debris after it was shot down over the Atlantic.
* In Zeihan’s view it has been a fiasco for the Chinese and reflects the dysfunction of the Xi regime.
* The failure of the Chinese to respond to phone calls from the Biden administration was not a snub, but because the Chinese diplomatic service was not in the loop and had no idea what to say.
As usual I find Zeihan persuasive. He is the best and fastest pundit out there.
When did Bermuda shorts become a thing?
huxley–
Apropos of men in shorts in reference to MLB, I should have included the Chicago White Sox shorts uniform of 1976: with the shorts, the players wore leisure-suit type jerseys with floppy collars and tube socks with striped tops. Video here (includes the reactions of some of the players at the time: https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/white-sox/ever-wonder-why-chicago-white-sox-wore-shorts-1976
‘Course, females in short-shorts were a whole ‘nother thing.
______________________________
[Boys] Who wears short-shorts?
[Girls] We wear short-shorts.
–The Royal Teens, “Short Shorts” (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcvjXAtzaMU
Re: Baseball shorts
PA+Cat:
But what happens when you slide into home?
Yee-ouch!
When did Bermuda shorts become a thing?
In the ’70s, although they had been around since the ’50s, and worn by the British Army in North Africa in the 1940s. Brandon still wears them, as in this famous video clip from last summer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSm7bjGjEwM&ab_channel=TheTelegraph
huxley–
The 1976 White Sox weren’t sliding into home often enough to worry about basepath rash– they finished at the bottom of what was then a 12-team American League, with a season average of .398, 25-1/2 games behind the KC Royals.
“* The failure of the Chinese to respond to phone calls from the Biden administration was not a snub, but because the Chinese diplomatic service was not in the loop and had no idea what to say.”
Huxley
The Chinese have strange cultural customs. One is for drivers. If you are approaching an intersection and make eye contact with the other driver, you are supposed to yield. Odd rule. At least that was the custom in Hong Kong when we visited there in 2007.
Maybe they won’t answer the phone for some odd Chinese cultural custom.
I’m glad to hear the observation that Xi is surrounded by Yes men/women. That can lead to rigidity and bad decisions. However, I heard Pompeo describe Xi as very smart, well-schooled, and very disciplined. Not a man to be underestimated.
On the subject of popular culture, because I don’t keep up with it, I didn’t understand many of the Super Bowl ads. Mostly, this doesn’t bother me, but can someone explain to me the one which appeared to be Zombies for Electric Vehicles?
Gm apparently
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/gms-super-bowl-ad-will-ferrell-zombies-electric-cars
Thanks, Miguel cervantes. I have watched nothing on Netflix, and the ad made no sense whatever to me.
What stands out most in my distaste for the 70’s is that decade’s dreary color scheme:
– brown (think of the Abitibi paneling that was then ubiquitous, seemingly omnipresent in homes, restaurants, offices, car dealerships, &c.); even kitchen appliances were sold in a dismal brown (I think it was called “copper”) coloring
– olive drab (marketing copywriters euphemized it as “avocado”) with ranges, refrigerators, even blenders wearing it as if they all wanted to be WWII G.I. vehicles and impedimenta, and a
– dense shade of orange. The orange served pathetically to emphasize the dreariness of the brown and the “avocado.”
Disco was dreadfully monotonous (and so is rap/hip-hop). The 70’s also saw the tacky bloom of Glam Rock.
My kid brother bought a pair of black suede platform shoes and when he debuted with them I instantly greeted him with, “Whaddya say there, Frankenstein!” He blushed, stammered, went silent. After that he wore them maybe two more times.
Because they were neither fish, nor fowl, leisure suits were always out of place, and had their precursor in the late 1960’s Nehru suit; neither one, nor the other, of those getups gained traction with the buying public.
Latch-hook rugs, with their open-mesh backing, and their pictorial and abstract/geometric-design wall-hangings were a fairly popular hobby.
The mime team of Shields & Yarnell enjoyed fifteen minutes of TV fame.
Latch-hook rugs, with their open-mesh backing, and their pictorial and abstract/geometric-design wall-hangings were a fairly popular hobby.
I remember the macramé fad of the ’70s, particularly the handmade hippie-style belts and jewelry (incorporating glass beads, small seashells, metal charms, etc.) and the plant hangers. One of my cousins gave my mother a macramé plant hanger toward the end of the ’70s– she liked it so much that it was still hanging in her place in Florida 40 years later.
NORAD and the WH cannot confirm or deny what the objects we are shooting down are, what they are made of, etc. Tucker Carlson says one of them may have been a National Weather Service balloon, which would indicate we are fast becoming “Fetterman Nation”.
Speaking of mysterious objects, Neck Lump has entered the chat…
I would argue that what people call the 70s was really the latter disco half of the decade.
The first half of the 70s was an extension of the sixties.
The two-part “Laurel Canyon” documentary is quite good.
Laurel Canyon is the somewhat legendary neighborhood which became the home of 60s/70s LA musicians like Crosby, Stills and Nash, Joni Mitchell, the Mamas and the Papas, the Monkees, Frank Zappa and more.
They were all living within a mile of each other. Much partying and mutual inspiration. It filled in some of the inside dope of that era and showed what a dream the Canyon was while being only five minutes from Hollywood.
Apropos of the hippie handicrafts of the ’70s– I should have included Gerard’s essay about the hippie neighbor who made a beaded collar for a beaten-down cat named Fatso that changed the cat’s life: As for Fatso . . . he disgusted me. I had no use for him. I was even starting to measure him for a river diving bag.
And so it went until….. until…. until the hippy girl arrived. In those years hippy girls were always arriving. It was what they did. They came and then… they went. And they all had…. they all had to have…. a handicraft. Some did tie-dyes. Others did very heavy and clumsy pottery. Some chipped arrowheads out of flint. Some made teepees in the backyard. . . . This particular hippy girl did beaded belts and chokers. And, needless to say, methamphetamine. She had several egg cartons holding a mass of teeny-tiny beads and a kind of wireframe loom. She’d wire up the loom, smoke a lot of dope, pop a little meth, and then crack open the egg cartons and bead up a bunch of stuff she hoped to sell somewhere along the edges of Telegraph Avenue. I once figured she was making about a dime an hour and when I told her this she said, “That much? Groovy.”
She lived in the apartment behind ours and one day, while setting up her loom, Fatso wandered by her and wiped the latest blood from his wounds on her tie-dye skirt. She glanced down and said, “Oh, Fatso. Uncool.” Then she went to work, her hippy girl fingers flying lightly over her bead loom as only the young, stoned, female speedfreak can manage.
Within two hours she had finished a large cat-sized collar in beads. She called Fatso over and strapped it on him. He tossed his head a little bit since the collar was over an inch in width and must have pinched a bit on his neck, but then he seemed to accept it. He sauntered over and has he passed me I glanced down. The hippy girl had woven and arranged a collection of bright red beads against a black background to read, in capital letters, “FATSO!” (Exclamation mark included.) You could read it from six feet away. . . .
At his approach, other cats would disappear until he passed. Fatso had, by virtue of his collar, become known by name to the entire neighborhood. He had become famous for being famous. He’d become a celebri-cat, the first I’ve ever known. All it took was a collar and a name and Fatso was never beaten up again and certainly never went hungry ever again. In time his saunter became a strut. You couldn’t help but like Fatso since liking him was what Fatso was all about.
Gerard republished this story the day after he adopted Olive. It’s a classic example of his kindness and humanity as well as his gifts as a humorist:
https://americandigest.org/fatso/
Read the whole essay– you won’t regret it.
@ PA Cat > “I remember the macramé fad of the ’70s”
I found that to be one of the few dexterity-requiring handicrafts I could manage, although the rest of my family generated a fair amount of crochet, knitting, needle point (my younger sister could see to do the very fine canvas), even some crewel, and my uncle (WW2 Navy and had the tattoos to prove it) produced some very nice latch-hook rugs in his retirement.
.. and thanks for the link to Gerard’s essay.
Heh, James Clapper jus’ doin’ what James Clapper does best!
“James Clapper now claims he didn’t call Hunter Biden laptop ‘Russian disinfo’ “—
https://nypost.com/2023/02/13/james-clapper-now-claims-he-didnt-call-hunter-biden-laptop-russian-disinfo/
Which rather pathetic “Moi?” moment BEGS the question:
https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1625280122680123392
https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1625279373594198016
File under: The sound of no hands clapping…
And wouldn’t you know it!
The execrable—or should one be kind and call her merely “sinister”?—Samantha Power is on the prowl again.
This time her target is Hungary.
(“HER target”? Actually, it’s a “Biden”/EU/WTF/Soros consortium…piling on Orban)
“Hungary Must Resist America’s Woke Imperialism”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2023/02/13/hungary-must-resist-americas-woke-imperialism/
File under: Who the hell gave Hungary the right to protect itself and its culture??
Surprise! (Not…)
“The Iran Nuclear Deal Isn’t Dead;
“The State Department is fighting to keep it alive, even if an agreement benefits Russia and China.”—
https://thedispatch.com/article/the-iran-nuclear-deal-isnt-dead/
Of course they are!
(And now that Netanyahu’s PM and leading a right-wing government, they have added incentive…not that they needed any more incentive than they already have…)
Alas, the headline is a bit misleading:
instead of “…even if an agreement benefits Russia and China“, it should say “…precisely because an agreement benefits Russia and China“.
But even that isn’t quite right, the point being that “an agreement benefits THE MULLAHS” and causes Israel a great deal of alarm, worry, even panic…and potential destruction…which is what “Biden” is totally into!
QED
I understand that Steve Kirsch is willing to pay ten times the money bet to anyone who can show his data analysis of the vax causing excess death is wrong.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/death-reports-prove-that-the-covid
Sounds like easy money. I expect lots of brilliant number crunchers to cash in post haste.
And for those of us who have forgotten some of the animus that fills Biden’s past WRT the Jewish State (or perhaps never even knew in the first place) we can thank Jeff Dunetz for straightening us out:
“Biden And Israel, So Far No Good”—
https://lidblog.com/biden-and-israel-so-far-no-good/
Continued at… https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/367448
“There is still time to avoid an anti-Israel legacy, but don’t hold your breath. It started with his Senate career and continues on.”
(Knowing all this…it should be obvious why the State of Israel—under its previous government—honored Biden with a special medal…)
Huxley,
Agree on 60s and early 70s. Woodstock was the summer of 69. That marked the coming of the sixties culture to mainstream America. A somewhat older friend of mine recalled leaving Princeton at the end of spring semester in 1969 with his preppy khakis, penny loafers and short haircut. He returned for the fall with long hair and bell bottom jeans thinking that his friends would be shocked at the changes. He was surprised to see that all of his friends had made the same changes over the summer.
One of the many interesting insights from the documentary “Harvard beats Yale 29-29” was the recollection of the conservative social attitudes on both campuses in the fall of 1968. The sixties may have been in full swing at campuses like Berkeley and Madison, but they hadn’t yet infiltrated Harvard and Yale with barely a year left in the decade.
A look at HS or college yearbooks from 1970 to 1976 will show when the long hair of the sixties actually became widespread in the culture.
One of my baseball teammates at Davidson in 1975 had a pony tail that extended past the middle of his back (he would go on to manage Channel One for Whittle and was publisher of Rolling Stone for Jann Wenner). Our All-American 1B (also a star LB in football) had a big bushy Fu Manchu in addition to the longest hair of his life. When we beat Bobby Richardson’s South Carolina team that finished 2d in the nation, the old Yankee star with his crew cut was as upset by our long hair as he was at their only home loss of the season.
For the vast majority of America, the sixties happened in the seventies.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/13/did-a-government-intel-asset-plant-key-evidence-in-proud-boys-case/
Thanks for that link, Miguel.
In better times, more normal times, one would likely dismiss those contentions as absurd, ridiculous, nuts.
Unfortunately, today one CANNOT do that.
In fact, today, given what the FBI and its political masters have been up to, you’d believe it immediately, no question.
(You might still weep a bit, if only deep inside, but you’d believe it. In fact you’d have to.)
File under: Federal Bureau of Intrapment.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/14/health-concerns-grow-as-more-toxic-chemicals-revealed-on-derailed-ohio-train-than-first-made-public/
Related (unfortunately)…
We heard about the foxes and the chickens.
Now it’s the fish….
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/environment/least-3500-fish-killed-75-mile-stretch-ohio-water-after-train
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ohios-apocalyptic-chemical-disaster-rages
But don’t worry. Sec. Pete’s on it.
“Buttigieg tells crowd White construction workers are taking jobs from communities of color”—
https://www.foxnews.com/media/buttigieg-white-construction-workers-taking-jobs-communities-color
And as we speak…
“Two More Trains Derail Across US After Ohio Catastrophe”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/two-more-trains-derail-across-us-after-ohio-catastrophe
More crises.
More distractions.
So forget about those balloons.
Forget about those sea-floor pipelines.
Forget about those gas ovens
Forget about those classified documents.
Forget about Hunter Biden.
Forget about inflation
Forget about that southern border.
Forget about CRT and DIE.
Forget about skyrocketing urban crime
Forget about the weaponized IRS (and weaponized everything else)
You gonna criticize Biden/”Biden”, eh?
Meanwhile…
…French historian spews warning!
“World War III Has Already Begun”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/french-historian-world-war-iii-has-already-begun
…but gives the game away with:
‘…”the resistance of the Russian economy is pushing the U.S. imperial system toward the abyss” and that Biden must “hurry” to rescue a “fragile” America….’
“Rescue” America, eh? Sure thing, mon ami!
Oh well, so much for French historian…
(I mean, hasn’t he figured out yet the obvious: that the “UFOs” that “Biden” has been shooting down are arriving en masse precisely to try to save humanity from destroying itself?)
“,,, If you are approaching an intersection and make eye contact with the other driver, you are supposed to yield.”
If you make eye contact with the other driver, isn’t the other driver also making eye contact with you ?
Doesn’t this imply that BOTH of you are supposed to yield ?
Now that’s a superlative point.
(One might also have asked what they do at night….)
But it is certainly a curious regulation.
It’s entirely possible that this is precisely the reason why traffic jams are horrendous in S. Korea. (I understand that in NK, it’s a real pleasure to drive.)
Nonetheless, if you read the fine print, it says, whomever establishes eye-contact FIRST.
(But that may not get us very far…)
The even finer print says, whomever blinks first (after establishing eye-contact).
What they don’t tell you is that most, if not all, Korean drivers wear sunglasses.
I suspect one might understand the reason why….
(Now…just don’t get me started on the traffic circles/roundabouts/rond-points in France….