Were there ever the good ol' days?

So we can all agree people say "Back in the good ol' days..." and then they describe has back in the day everything was great compared to todays world. Or when some one says, "Kids these days have no respect," and so on. I think all of this is crap. People complain about todays world and make it seem things in the past there were no problems or "kids" were respectful to elders and the world. I don't believe it, I think there was always that group of kids who were no good or that things weren't as good as people remember. Does this ever upset you? Maybe not but I hear it so often that I am wondering if I'm the only one.

There are the "good ol' days" in my life, you'd understand if I went into detail, but I'm not going to.

However, I agree with you. The "good ol' days" that everybody else talks about is a load of you know what. lol Especially when it comes to music. Like 80% of my music library is consisted of music born before I was born, but even I can admit that not all music from the classic rock era was good. I'm sick of people blindly labeling all classic rock as good and all new music as bad. There are bands from the classic rock era that I can't stand such as Steve Miller Band. Yet all classic rock gets blindly labeled as "good music", and anybody that doesn't appreciate every song within it "does not know good music". >_>

So we can all agree people say "Back in the good ol' days..." and then they describe has back in the day everything was great compared to todays world. Or when some one says, "Kids these days have no respect," and so on. I think all of this is crap. People complain about todays world and make it seem things in the past there were no problems or "kids" were respectful to elders and the world. I don't believe it, I think there was always that group of kids who were no good or that things weren't as good as people remember. Does this ever upset you? Maybe not but I hear it so often that I am wondering if I'm the only one.

CongressManStan

Of course there is such thing as the good ol days although whether it relates to being respectful to elders or not isn't quite clear. My kids plus my nephews and nieces all have respect for their elders. True, they trash talk me whenever I get owned in say, a game of BF2. But when I tell them (after they've had their fill at my expense) that's enough and to knock it off, they listen.

I can't speak much of other kids outside of family and kin. But, those I do know are pretty much the same way. They're not wild or spouting off the f-word in every other sentence. They're just...."normal" for lack of a better term.

Of course there were "no good" kids back then. If they didn't change for the better and continued being pricks, guess what? If they bred and reproduced, their kids will become little pricks.

"The good 'ol days" happenned, in all of our pasts. And they will happen for our children, and for their children, etc..

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People tend to put on rose-tinted glasses when viewing the past. The good old days were never as good as people like to think.

most days become the next 'good ol' days'

The good days were when I lived in Okinawa, when I was 7 to 14.

So much good memories of playing with my friends :/

Now I live in Guam and don't do ****

Nope, I actually think the myth of the good 'ol days evolved as African-Americans became emancipated and began to achieve equal rights, what people who use the phrase are subconciously referring to is the time when they didn't have to see African-Americans because there was no racial integration.

The 90's were the good ol' days. The cartoons back then were the best and compared to now we didn't have a care in the world.

The good ol' days usually coincide with childhood years.

here they are(in turkish)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZMSjyP8L5Q

the good ol days represents the days when we were all so innocent (like preschool-3rd grade) :P

Times have changed
And we've often rewound the clock
Since the Puritans got a shock
When they landed on Plymouth Rock.
If today
Any shock they should try to stem,
'Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock,
Plymouth Rock would land on them.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking,
But now, God knows,
Anything goes.
Good authors too who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose,
Anything goes.
If driving fast cars you like,
If low bars you like,
If old hymns you like,
If bare limbs you like,
If Mae West you like,
Or me undressed you like,
Why, nobody will oppose.
When ev'ry night the set that's smart is in-
Truding in nudist parties in
Studios,
Anything goes.

When Missus Ned McLean (God bless her)
Can get Russian Reds to "yes" her,
Then I suppose
Anything goes.
When Rockefeller still can hoard en-
Nough money to let Max Gordon
Produce his shows,
Anything goes.
The world has gone mad today,
And good's bad today,
And black's white today,
And day's night today,
And that gent today
You gave a cent today
Once had several chateaux.
When folks who still can ride in jitneys
Find out Vanderbilts and Whitneys
Lack baby clo'es,
Anything goes.

If Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction
Instruct Anna Sten in diction,
Then Anna shows
Anything goes.
When you hear that Lady Mendel standing up
Now turns a handspring landing up-
On her toes,
Anything goes.
Just think of those shocks you've got
And those knocks you've got
And those blues you've got
From that news you've got
And those pains you've got
(If any brains you've got)
From those little radios.

So Missus R., with all her trimmin's,
Can broadcast a bed from Simmons
'Cause Franklin knows
Anything goes.

I think when that song was written was the good ole days

Its easy to think about better days in the past, when you're having bad days in the present. Its how our brain works to deal with stress, thinking about happier times on the past.

"The good 'ol days" happenned, in all of our pasts. And they will happen for our children, and for their children, etc..