Post B62EWtBA72AOfGCuyO by SilverDeth
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(DIR) Post #B5zwPKhZiF5oDWhCBU by judgedread@poa.st
2026-05-05T20:45:24.489869Z
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Here's a test: If you could go back in time and live in the 1950s... would you?I would not. There is at least some small chance that technological advancement will extend my life. It's possible that this has already happened, and that me as a young clone in 1955 would be dead by 1980. Many guys in their forties used to drop dead of a heart attack with no warning.
(DIR) Post #B5zxbfTmO7e25Qgl4S by petra@poa.st
2026-05-05T20:58:50.394996Z
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It's appealing on the surface because there were nice places to work and live then, but it's easy to forget that was the exception. Most people were poor, ignorant, and bitter at life. You lived here, as in the picture, and there was no way out. Plus, we're assuming you get to be in North America. You might just land in 1940's india for all your sins, Dread. 😆
(DIR) Post #B5zy5RJfbuQ2qe9kbQ by judgedread@poa.st
2026-05-05T21:04:13.287670Z
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The Last Picture Show is a good depiction of that kind of dead end town.There's a reason Americans move a lot.
(DIR) Post #B5zydX3ol9qAVezwOG by petra@poa.st
2026-05-05T21:10:23.245047Z
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It's why I did. My town wasn't as bad but I look at the picture and hoo-wee does that take me back to what it felt like. It's a kind of living death. We talk about NPC's today but poor rurals living the consequences of their generational bad decisions are another class of the same. Two world wars and the Korean war plus Vietnam in the States did a number on people as well. A lot never recovered. You just never see them.
(DIR) Post #B5zzeLlkKIj3jXV0U4 by ocotillo42@poa.st
2026-05-05T21:21:26.496389Z
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Neither would I. One simple reason: visiting the dentist now, vs. then. No dice.😬
(DIR) Post #B606uoqifqcwEjcqFk by judgedread@poa.st
2026-05-05T22:43:08.987149Z
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Once you've exhausted the fren and dating possibilities of a little town it's either become a monk or change the situation.
(DIR) Post #B6075t2pPrvEQwZCMq by judgedread@poa.st
2026-05-05T22:45:08.956457Z
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Yeah, dentistry has noticably improved in my lifetime. Composite fillings for example. Unlike those crappy metal ones that distorted over time.
(DIR) Post #B607P0DQyjVoAzdtuy by petra@poa.st
2026-05-05T22:48:36.368720Z
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It can get odd because the ones who stay start coupling up in their 20's and get married as usual. Then the divorce wave hits a decade or two after. Of course everyone starts recoupling, whether its just dating or eventual marriage, and they just pretend they haven't slept with three out of the four other people in a room they happen to be in.
(DIR) Post #B607iyvtSSfnzNxt5s by judgedread@poa.st
2026-05-05T22:52:12.757037Z
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I wouldn't know, I never lived in a town that small.But I know people who did. Literally raised in actual mobile homes. Not trailers. The kind that you could hitch to a car and drive off with. A small car.
(DIR) Post #B61HCTY1nw0Y5Ettfk by ocotillo42@poa.st
2026-05-06T02:27:38.890473Z
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And I say that as I stare down the barrel of two wisdom teeth being pulled next week. 😖
(DIR) Post #B61HHL070eJz1VM4jg by judgedread@poa.st
2026-05-06T12:13:58.661639Z
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Nothing like being put under and waking up with no memory of the ghastly mechanics of the operation.
(DIR) Post #B62AtCaAFilpOfHnjE by nobullyplz@poa.st
2026-05-06T22:37:05.850032Z
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Can I take some stuff with me? If yes, then I'd be a very naughty boy indeed :batemanstare:
(DIR) Post #B62D3Q0ROiyvpmZmQi by judgedread@poa.st
2026-05-06T23:01:20.719377Z
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Of course not, then it's Back to the Future 2.
(DIR) Post #B62EWtBA72AOfGCuyO by SilverDeth
2026-05-06T23:17:53.750517Z
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@judgedread @petra The way I viewed my "dead little home town" in the 1990's and the way I see it now that I've returned a parent are very very divergent.Sure, it looks a LOT like the photo petra posted... in fact, parts of town are nearly identical if you pave the road and add power lines. But I can tell you that my kids won't get knifed by a random nigger, and nobody has to lock their car. Or house.Looking back with weary eyes, the glittering jew lights and "ethnic cuisine" was never worth the price paid. Especially given that the "circuses" started to become unendurable and the bread became unaffordable. Absent those things, the city is just shitty people treating each other rudely (because they will never have to see you ever again), and shit-skins doing shit-skin things.I will forever be a country mouse I suppose.