IMHO the US became a lot bolder and less accountable when 7-11's opened back in the 1960's. We could shop or pump our own gas (for the first time) from 7:00 am until 11:00 pm. Even mainstream stores like Safeway had closing and opening times. Hmmmmm, let's see......that was about the time that youth began to rebel and disrespect the "old ways" of their parents.
Just my opinion......
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Yeah, young people have never changed society before.
It's said that Socrates complained about the unruly and disobedient youngsters of his day. Not a new thing.
This is a new low for RR... or a new high, depends on what they're smoking exactly.
<--- first job was a gas station clerk, has stories about drunks trying to break the doors after closing to get cigs, thankfully nothing worse.
Yep - I was queueing at 7:00 am for '(alcohol, etc.)' - and I was only 5!
If only I had had some money on me, my life could have been much more interesting...
7-11's the sole reason for the downfall of western civilization...
Right on man!...for once they aren't blameing darwin and atheists...and of course HITLER!
Damn you 7-11, damn you for turning America to Satanist beliefs!
because Lord knows nobody committed crimes while drunk before 7-11 came along.
"IMHO..."
When someone starts a sentence with "in my humble opinion" you can be damn sure the opinion is neither humble nor theirs.
"We could shop or pump our own gas (for the first time) from 7:00 am until 11:00 pm. Even mainstream stores like Safeway had closing and opening times."
Hmmm, I'm not conversant with the minutae of US convenience stores but isn't "from 7:00 am until 11:00 pm." closing and opening times? Do at least *try* to follow your own argument.
"that was about the time that youth began to rebel and disrespect the "old ways" of their parents."
If you never tried to "rebel" against your parents then you must have been a very strange teenager. Kids today are no better or worse than they were in the 60s and in fact, I reckon it's time they were given a break from sanctimonious, self-righteous wankers like you.
I thought the name 7-11 was a reference to lucky numbers and the great game of craps.
Also, it wasn't Socrates who complained about unruly kids... he was executed for corrupting the youth and causing them to question established moral and religious practices.
So, doing things for yourself (and saving money, cuz you don't have to *pay* someone else to do it) is evil? Huh... who knew my parents were pushing me to be evil. They always called it "independence".
Um ... what about the 'rebellious youth' of the Roaring Twenties? Our society's gone through cycles of liberalism and conservatism for centuries: the Puritans, then the American Revolution and Enlightenment, then the more laid-back 'Era of Good Feelings', then a brief period of reform in the 1830s and 40s, then the Civil War and the Gilded Age, then the reform and populist movements started another liberal period culminating in the Roaring Twenties, then the Great Depression, WWII, and the more staid 50s, then the 60s and 70s' liberal period, then the current era. It's not new; the ways it's expressed are just different.
@LOLWUT: And Hesiod, several centuries before <i>that</i>. I wonder how long till someone turns up a Sumerian cuneiform text grumbling about it...
I'm sorry, the proper fundy answer was "when they took prayer from the schools due to that athieest bitch Ohare"...
We would have also accepted "when they kicked Gawd outa the schools."
Better luck next time, and thanks for playing!
You know, he/she/it um... heshit... is right. I remember the first time I was allowed to pump gas. I can't even begin to describe the evil I felt welling up inside me. Add to that the fact that 7-11 has condoms and travel size aspirin next to each other behind the counter, and you have the makings of mobile fornication. Don't get me started about the No-Doz - just makes people want to fornicate when the lord thinks they should be asleep. Cum soon, lawd Jeeebus!
No, it started when the Woolworths chain opened in the 1920s, thus heralding the antichrist, who will be here any minute now with his beast marks . . .
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I don't even know what a 7-11 is...
I'm guessing you don't live in the US, then. They're a chain of convenience stores across the US--even seen The Simpsons and the Quik-E-Mart where Apu works? It's a parody of 7-11, basically.
(Good point, WMD Kitty !)
I mean, yes they promote independence in the sense that they're open 24-7 so I can go in and buy creamer for my coffee anytime I want--must be because I'm a woman then, and independence for women is TEH DEBIL.
I've heard the same argument said about the car. That one made a hell of a lot more sense.
Then again
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
~ SOCRATES
Of course, before the 7-11 came to town, grandpappy's still was open 24/7 and the homegrown tobaccy was always a-hangin' in the barn...
Who ARE these people?? How do you get this stupid??
Oh...wait...
>>>who runs most of the 7-11s?? Mooossslims!
No, Hindus. Muslims drive cabs and open Hookah Bars. With purple curtains. And fake rock fountains.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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