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03 Nov 2023, 7:05 am

i'd probably be lynched once people found out I'm trans


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18 Nov 2023, 7:28 am

I might actually be able to find gainful employment and afford survival basics, yay!


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19 Nov 2023, 8:21 am

I'd tight roll my jeans, slick back my hair and hang out at the diner every evening.


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19 Nov 2023, 9:06 am

CockneyRebel wrote:
I'd tight roll my jeans, slick back my hair and hang out at the diner every evening.

Don't forget to roll up a pack of Marlboros in the sleeve of your undershirt which is all you've got under your black leather jacket, although I don't know how easy it would have been to obtain a pack of Marlboros in 50s Vancouver (having been there in the 60s, I can report that you couldn't have gotten them from a vending machine).


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19 Nov 2023, 9:35 am

gonna try to meet my grandparents



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19 Nov 2023, 10:07 am

CockneyRebel wrote:
I'd tight roll my jeans, slick back my hair and hang out at the diner every evening.


Thats real cool daddy-o! :D



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19 Nov 2023, 10:11 am

Blastvest wrote:
gonna try to meet my grandparents


If you did that then you could... perform the experiment.

Take out a pistol, and.... gun down your grandparents.

Thereby preventing your parents from being born.

Thereby preventing you from being born.

Thereby preventing you from going back in time to 1957.

Thereby...preventing you from killing your grandparents.

Thereby allowing you to be born...allowing you to go back in time...allowing you to kill your grandparents...

Just to see what happens.



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19 Nov 2023, 10:15 am

MaxE wrote:
CockneyRebel wrote:
I'd tight roll my jeans, slick back my hair and hang out at the diner every evening.

Don't forget to roll up a pack of Marlboros in the sleeve of your undershirt which is all you've got under your black leather jacket, although I don't know how easy it would have been to obtain a pack of Marlboros in 50s Vancouver (having been there in the 60s, I can report that you couldn't have gotten them from a vending machine).



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19 Nov 2023, 4:16 pm

I'd probably get lung cancer from all the second-hand smoke.

What's best comeback for when a boomer says "and yet somehow we survived/turned out okay" when they remember all the smoking, not wearing seat belts, getting spanked and receiving corporal punishment at school?



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21 Nov 2023, 4:23 pm

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I would make sure to avoid a Back To The Future scenario by staying far away from my parents, who were married that July.

I would campaign like hell against Richard Nixon in 1960.

I would watch the premiere of the Flintstones in black and white.

I would enjoy talking around the world on ham radio using AM during the best solar cycle peak in recorded history.

And I already got the polio vaccine, so I would be safe...


Avoiding a Back To The Future scenario (what Dr. Brown warned) by avoiding my parents before they were married would have been wise.



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21 Nov 2023, 8:40 pm

Probably the same thing I did in 1958 when I woke up the very 1st time: look around and then cry for breakfast.


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21 Nov 2023, 9:44 pm

Campingbare wrote:
Probably the same thing I did in 1958 when I woke up the very 1st time: look around and then cry for breakfast.


I was already two in 1957.


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21 Nov 2023, 9:50 pm

The early space age is intriguing, as are art, architecture and industrial design...

...but stricter moral codes and rigid expectations of who you were supposed to be would put me off.

Some of the music was good, though.


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24 Nov 2023, 12:47 pm

If we were talking about 1987, it would be pure bliss.


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