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Post by rex362 on Nov 14, 2009 18:54:13 GMT -5
Anyways now back to this Great masterpiece film ......
wheres Leo ?.......
Leo is your glass of Frap'e 1/2 filled or 1/2 empty or did some slav from skopje drink it ?
;D
you see in trailer (skopje is smart/cunning/creative )
the interrogator also says he hates muslim Albanians ....
why you think they insert that in there Leo ......?
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Post by danceswithpoodles on Nov 14, 2009 19:32:56 GMT -5
Rex this song is for you. Listen to the Lyrics...or read them:
My Happy days were the 80's. Everyone was happy, new wave, punk rock, rubiks cube, personal computers, MTV played only music videos and none with zezacks unless it was lionel richie. People actually TALKED to each other...cable TV!
I was very young in the 70's but I remember them. People were poor. The kids at school had holes and patches in their pants and sneakers. Gas lines, jimmy carter blah!
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Post by rex362 on Nov 14, 2009 19:37:14 GMT -5
also Leo.....
say greece recognizes Kosova tomorrow....
what do you think will happen? (besides making Pelasgian Gods smile a little )
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Post by Kanaris on Nov 14, 2009 19:40:52 GMT -5
Nice tune.
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Post by rex362 on Nov 14, 2009 19:48:33 GMT -5
Eva ....yea I know the 80's well but the 70's were king jobs were plentiful ,life was safe ....our parents didn't watch us cross the street ...only 1 had to work in family to live good . and that's when coke (soda) tasted great and cost a dime
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Post by danceswithpoodles on Nov 14, 2009 19:49:49 GMT -5
lol a hoe was a hoe....
Yes, it is. My husband doesn't listen to U2. He listens to country and rap...go figure. He's actually half irish half french canuck....
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Post by danceswithpoodles on Nov 14, 2009 19:55:13 GMT -5
Rex you're crazy....I'm younger than you and I even know the whole 70's was one BIG RECESSION!
Life was safe but disco SUCKED and the clothing was horrible.
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Post by rex362 on Nov 14, 2009 20:02:33 GMT -5
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Post by danceswithpoodles on Nov 14, 2009 20:08:13 GMT -5
1974 I'm the topless one:
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Post by danceswithpoodles on Nov 14, 2009 20:09:36 GMT -5
1973.....junta Athens: check the 70's style...even in Greece during the dictatorship
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Post by Kanaris on Nov 14, 2009 20:14:59 GMT -5
Eva you were too young to have understood the 70's. Like Rex and I didn't understand the magical 60's.
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Post by rex362 on Nov 14, 2009 20:16:33 GMT -5
I even remember the 60's well ....
Eva I remember and average household electric bill being $7 a month and a gas bill of maybe $8 ....today the tax itself is 3 times that
most dads with average job made $90-$150 per week and average monthly rent for average 2bdr was maybe $45 per month..average new car maybe $3200 (chevy Impala) a 6 month job saving brought you a car all paid up .... money was good going then and if Mom worked you were rich
we would go shopping at food store and the cart would be topped off with no worries ....not just us ..but all
50 cents in my pocket and I was king in my neighborhood especially when that ice cream truck came down the block ... we all ate on that 50 cents
my dad brought a 3 flat in 1968/69 for $13,000 with $250 down payment and that was prime area solid building
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Post by albquietman on Nov 15, 2009 3:03:06 GMT -5
Nice pictures guys (Rex and Eva), but to tell you the truth we in Albania, believe it or not in the 70s, we had a better life, almost like yours..seems like in the 80s and after wasn't only us that went downhill, but you too and the rest of the world as I understand now...the difference is that we admitted that we fuked up, but you guys never did, and that made us to come over and share your pain like ours wasn't enough...you should had told us in some way...anyway, thanks for telling us now, better late than ever ...
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Post by Patrinos on Nov 15, 2009 5:48:05 GMT -5
I expect the stoyanof guy mention that his grandfather was also a commie irregular... fighting along with other ,Greek and Slavko, commies the capitalist government... Americans will love him... ;D
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Post by danceswithpoodles on Nov 15, 2009 9:33:54 GMT -5
Rex, don't you remember the oil crisis is what caused the recession in the 70's? I remember long lines waiting for gas. Unemployment was also slightly worse than it is now. When Reagan came...it changed.
I also remember going to the supermarket, spending $100 and leaving with an overflowing shopping cart...sometimes a second half-filled one.
My favorite memory was how people socialized/talked more instead of all this internet/cell phone crap. We used to always have guests at our house or go to someone's house every weekend. Now all people do (especially in Greece) is text each other.
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Post by Kanaris on Nov 15, 2009 12:17:05 GMT -5
Eva,the oil crisis started in October 1973... You remember that?You must have been very young.My wife was 7 at the time and she doesn't remember it.
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Post by danceswithpoodles on Nov 15, 2009 13:48:21 GMT -5
I remember sitting in a hot blue station wagon without air conditioning...in a long line waiting for gas...sweating my butt off. I HATED the gas lines. I also remember kids with holes in the knees of their pants and some with patches. I made my mother buy me some patches for my pants because I wanted to be like them. I also remember a lot of american kids had over-bites and I wanted one too...thank God it never happened.
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Post by Kanaris on Nov 15, 2009 14:35:14 GMT -5
Maybe it was the 79' Iran crisis.... that was another time you saw long gas lines.
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Post by rex362 on Nov 15, 2009 15:25:06 GMT -5
the oil crisis was there and gone quickly ...just a dot of the 70's and then Datsun cars were introduced My favorite memory was how people socialized/talked more instead of all this internet/cell phone crap. We used to always have guests at our house or go to someone's house every weekend. Now all people do (especially in Greece) is text each other.
ahhh yes ....there was more love back then ......like i said people have become slaves to techno junk ...people texting their lives away when people come to my house now ....they tell me to flip the tv set on ....I tell them its broken ....I lie to them so we can look at each other and converse .....others have caught on and doing same .. ;D btw ...in 1973 two of my aunts worked for Zenith ,they barley spoke english ...after 6 months on the job they were taking home $400 clear a week .....that was big money then, gas was what 70 cents ....(also many greeks worked there) back then with $2000 you can build a new home in my Prespa.. greece maybe the same ...canaris would know .. my dad worked for city transit .buses /trains ....and made more.... important part is this ....my dad made more in 1973 where now the same person at the same job today makes less .... back then a job at McDonald was not insulting ...today it is
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Post by Kanaris on Nov 15, 2009 17:16:58 GMT -5
That is correct.
My father and mother in law worked at Eastman Kodak in Rochester from 71' to 83'... they made good money there and also a pension which they recive in Greece now.
My dad went to Greece in 73' bought 4 condos in various parts of Athens for 12,000 Canadian each.... That was the time..Now the same condos cost 200,000 euros each... and thats a conservative price.
They did it with hard work,they rarely went out to eat,,,or movies. The fridge was always full ,thats all that mattered.
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