On 3/17/2017 6:26 PM, dick balaska wrote:
> Am 2017-03-17 12:48, also sprach Stephen:

>>>
>>
>> I blame the Americans who turned a cheap children's diversion into a
>> money making racket.
>> When I was a kid you got nuts and fruit for performing a party trick.
>>
>> Not for demanding money with menace.
>
> Are you referencing Halloween specifically?
>

Yes Halloween specifically. And maybe Christmas and Easter and... ;)


> I am very disappointed with my generation.  As a teen in the 70s, we had
> the most freedom of any generation of kids *ever*.  And we turned that
> into being the worst overprotective helicopter parents.

Same here. I have a decade on you. In the 70s the world was getting 
better and by the 80's the rot set in. At least here in the UK. Greed 
was the order of the day. The family silver silver sold of to the 
friends of the politicians. Grr! I must take another beta blocker. ;)


>
> We totally distrusted government (Nixon!) and now are totally fine with
> government surveillance and F-15s buzzing the CT coastline because "they
> are keeping us safe". Me: "Wtf?!? Safe from what!?"
>

Thinking about how to things properly?

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Regards
     Stephen

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