Comments by "Digital Footballer" (@digitalfootballer9032) on "Jack Morgan RLP" channel.

  1. I was born in '76. As a kid, I knew every single person on my street. The other kids in the neighborhood and myself used to play outside and made the rounds around the neighborhood...some of the older residents would give us lemonade and cookies, some let us play baseball in their yard, we had bike trails through the woods and would cut through yards and the neighbors would just wave. I was in every single house on my street at least once, which was about 20-25 houses. It was a different world. Today I have lived in my current house 12 years and know one neighbor. One. Nobody else cares. Nobody else wants to even make small talk. I even waved to a neighbor and his kids walking down the street one day when I was mowing the lawn and they looked at me like I was some sort of freak. People are messed up now.
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  2. Absolutely correct. I work in a service oriented job (tax preparation and financial consultation) and I work out of the main office in a busy suburban area, part of the time, and out at my "outpost", the small satellite office I manage out in a rural small town. The majority of the customers at the main hub are total NPCs. Fake people, no personality, don't want to make small talk, and most very superficial and self absorbed. The rural location is the direct opposite. People are real. You can make small talk with them, most are farmers and factory workers and corrections officers at the state prison, and are down to earth. Most of them (rightly so) distrust the government. They act like I'm an actual person and not a service bot there for their use. They aren't all nice people but many are. But even the jerks are real. They don't feel phoney like the city people do.
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  3. My 8 year old son wanted my old analog dial tv for his room. I told him you can't even pick up a signal on it anymore, you won't be able to watch anything on it. Didn't matter. He wanted it because he thought it looks cool. Gotta love that.
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  4. School isn't about learning, it's about conforming. I never quite fit the mould. Yeah I graduated, and graduated college, but I was smart enough on my own to do it but was constantly told I was a problem. My son is going through the same thing now. Bottom line is society doesn't like independent thinkers. They want you to suffer with the rest of them in a giant collectivist nightmare. But the thing is if it wasn't for independent thinkers, I'd probably be sending this comment via smoke signal 😂
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  5. This. And that's when your taxes go up. That's the thing. Yeah it's great you have more equity, but if you sell you have to buy something else that is overpriced, you can't live in a cardboard box. I'd rather my house not skyrocket in value because my taxes have also skyrocketed.
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  6. Political disagreements ended many friendships. People are too sensitive now. I really don't care what other people's politics are, but many of them care about mine (moderately conservative libertarian), and couldn't handle me even though I couldn't care less what they believe in. It's a sad state of affairs. I found the problem to be that even though I don't care what other people's lifestyles or cultures are, since I don't virtue signal I'm a hater. It's not limited to the left, it seems to be more prevalent, but I have a few hard right wing friends that have gotten weird and reclusive as well.
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  7. ​ @ZacharyHolton Others don't like it if you are not obsessed with local sportsball team. I live about 2 miles from an NFL stadium and haven't watched a snap of the ball in over a decade. People don't like it. They act like I have some sort of disease. I just have better things to spend my time on and concern myself with.
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  8. It crept in at first, but started to snowball in the 2010's, and hit critical mass by 2020. Things still felt fairly normal until about '08-09. Then began the slow creep of weirdness, then it accelerated massively around the middle of the 2010's
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  9. I think I crossed over in 2012. Was driving my dad's old pickup truck that had no power, an old Chevy S-10 with a 4-banger, with the bed loaded with junk to haul to the dump as I was renovating a house I just bought. I got a couple blocks away from the house and took a left. I absolutely looked left and saw nothing. Then all the sudden I see a grille of an oncoming vehicle right up on me. I floored it, which did nothing because the truck had no power, and swerved to the right a bit. In about a split second I had a ridiculous amount of thoughts go through my head. Main one being, this is it, I am getting broad sided now by a vehicle going 60mph in basically an old tin can. I'm dead. Then I looked back and saw that car driving away as I was shaking and about tore off the steering wheel from clenching it so hard. In my mind there was no way to avoid a collision. I don't know how I did. I didn't even hear screeching tires, the other car just somehow avoided me. Or did they. My thought was I was actually killed and crossed over into some bizarre alternate reality at that point. Things started getting weird right after that point. Maybe others of us got here the same way. Because this world doesn't seem right, it seems like bizarro world. But before that it didn't. Yes, strange story but had to share it.
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  10. Nobody wears a proper watch anymore (except me). Was at a meeting the other day and noticed every single person was wearing a smart watch, and then there was me with my analog tick tock 😂 Hey, it's Swiss movement, so don't knock it! 🇨🇭
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  11. The problem with that is where do you go if you sell it. It's all artificial. If you sell for 3x, you will have to live somewhere, so you will also pay 3x to buy another home.
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  12. I'm breeding the next generation of this line of thinking. My 8 year old son is obsessed with old tech. He wanted my old 1988 dial television for his room. I told him you can't actually pick up any stations on it since the signals went exclusively to digital several years ago. He didn't care he just likes how it looks. He is even fascinated by turning it on to the white noise "snow". If you think about it you don't really see that anymore so it would be interesting to a young person. All us old people remember it from years back, that, and the colored blocks and the hum after stations signed off for the night. And by the way, my wife banned him from turning on the white noise because it freaks her out and reminds her of Poltergeist... another staple of our generation 😂
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  13. Still no Gen X president. Wonder if we will ever get one.
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  14. I still think the middle us the worst. If you are poor, you get subsidized. If you are rich, you're rich, you can afford whatever. If you're in the middle, you pay full price for everything, but barely have enough to do so.
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  15. $100K if someone just handed it to you, on top of what you already have, could do a lot. $100K as an annual family income is about the bare minimum of what you need to live even halfway decently. And by the way, I'm not saying this as some rich out of touch person, my family income is under $100K.
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  16. No, we are at war with Eurasia and always have been. Did you not watch your telescreen today and drink your Victory Gin? 😂
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  17. The economy adjusted to a two income family. It basically became impossible to support a family on one income. So now both people work in most cases, but make half what they did 40 years ago in terms of purchasing power, so you're basically putting in twice the work for the same outcome, but in fact less if you have children because now you also have to pay for child care without a stay at home parent, and many of these just price gouge everyone because they can, because just about everyone needs their service.
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  18. We live in a new gilded age. Mark Twain described the original gilded age as an age that was an unattractive reality covered by a thin veneer of wealth. That's today to a tee. People out rolling expensive rides, living in too large expensive houses, going on their annual cruise, but in reality their big house has two sticks of furniture in them, they eat peanut butter sandwiches for dinner every night, and they are one missed payment away from foreclosure or repossession of their nice car. Credit card debt, student debt, personal loan debt, mortgage debt, all through the roof. Those who appear on top really living paycheck to paycheck. Those of us in the middle trying to save and living very modestly, more so than we should have to. Everyone is poor but everyone has a fancy phone, and many a fancy ride and a fancy house, but it's unsustainable. The bottom is falling out as we speak. The gap between the haves and the have nots is widening day by day. We're all just passengers at this point.
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  19. That was just kind of normal life back then. We had a house rather than an apartment, but it was very modest. Eventually we got a second car for my mom so my grandparents didn't have to drive us everywhere when my dad was working ridiculous hours and going to college at night, but the second car was an old clunker my dad bought off a friend at work. I didn't have many toys, but what I had I cherished and took care of. We only took a vacation if we could stay with relatives and get cheap transportation. But it was pretty normal and I enjoyed my childhood. It made me learn to value little things more.
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  20. It could be one of several things. Indeed we are in the middle of a fourth turning right now, or some may call it a gilded age, but nonetheless it seems to have been dragging on for some time now and I don't see the reset of the cycle hitting anytime soon. Or a more dark possibility is we are on the verge of a great filter. An event or series of events that will make or break the future of humanity, possibly ending in extinction. And it doesn't have to be a swift end, it could very well be a slow dying on the vine if you will, where we as a species basically opened Pandora's box and it will slowly kill us off and/or doom future generations into a slow extinction. The easy things to notice are the dumbing down of society, the over reliance on technology that proves itself to be unreliable, things like that. But what about the things not right in your face? The growing infertility rates. The growing rates of cancer. The awful food and drugs we are fed. People in the mid century 1900's are lard every meal, smoked two packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day, drank whisky after dinner and at business meetings, and were mostly more healthy than us. Something sinister is going on.
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  21. I had a Motorola Star Tac for years, it was great. State of the art in 2001 baby 😂
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  22. My wife does it, my kids do it, heck even my 80 year old mother does it...get tuned into their devices and tuned out of the world, that is. Sometimes I feel like I am in a twilight zone episode. One of the ones where everyone else is crazy and you are sane but you are treated as the crazy one. Of course that's like half the twilight zone episodes, but you get my point 😂
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  23. For real. A good friend of mine makes about $400K a year and is in debt and has almost no savings. Of course buying a Lamborghini, which was broken and he had to eat the cost, then going out and buying another Lamborghini, and having a giant house built for him and his wife and zero kids was pretty stupid.
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  24. I'm late Gen X and still as late as the 1990's if you lived far enough out in the country you couldn't get cable. I had a friend that still had a tv antenna on his house in 1994 and got 3 channels. Yes, you could get one of those monstrosity satellite dishes back then but they were very expensive and were huge and unreliable and went out every time it rained. My parents still had a rotary phone until about 1990, and I was still my dad's "garage door opener" well into the 1990's 😂
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  25. TV is no longer the problem, if it ever really was one. Yes, it's mostly trash today, but the devices are the much bigger problem today. And as for the homeschooling thing, that's just not something most people can do. Most married couples have to both work. It gets tiring reading comments like this where people act holier than thou because "they homeschool". Well bully for you.
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  26. I finally got my vehicle with sunroof and premium leather seats last year at age 47. After driving average at best vehicles for years. Now I can actually afford it because I saved for 25 years instead of blowing it all. Also have about 50% equity in a home that has more than doubled in value since I bought it in 2010. Young people now have it hard enough with the ridiculous real estate market, let alone blowing all their money and running up debt with rates in the high teens and twenties for interest.
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  27. ​ @jeffreydunegan1972 I didn't know that. I'll have to try that, the only thing I have been able to use it for is old video games that use an R/F adapter.
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  28. If there is another Carrington Event, or worse yet something way larger, which is inevitable at some point, those who can't survive without technology will be doomed.
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  29. The massive technological advances every generation wasn't a thing until about 150 years ago. Prior to the industrial revolution, people passed down basic skills and knowledge generation to generation and it stayed valid. This hyper advancement is a relatively new thing in terms of human history.
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  30. Little 🎩
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  31. ​​ @shanesmith8442 The month names are messed up because of the Romans, they added July and August for Julius and Augustus Caesar. Maybe they should have added them to the end 😂
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  32. When other kids were making spaceships and other fun things out of such boxes, I made myself an office because I wanted to be like my dad and have an office! Needless to say, now I am the old dad and I work at a desk in an office and it's not nearly as glorious as I once used to make believe...and I find my boys doing the same thing now. I'm like, nah, you don't want to be an accountant like dad, it's very boring! 😂
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  33. You are young and you notice it. That's a good thing for you, you have gotten red pilled, but so many even older people choose to take the blue pill and be oblivious. But 30 is definitely a turning point. I have a few acquaintances around your age and they talk of the same thing. 40 is like a ton of bricks dropped on you. Your perspective changes even more, if you choose to be aware that is, which it's evident you are. I'm 48 now. 50 is right around the corner and I am a bit afraid of what that will bring.
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  34. You know what sucks now? New furniture. Unless you go to some high end specialty furniture store and spend tens of thousands, but who can afford that. The regular stuff it terrible. Its fiberboard crap. I don't buy it. Over the years I have picked up old pieces from family, picked stuff off the curb that people were discarding, and hit the occasional household sale or consignment store and picked up some old stuff cheap that was worn but solid. Sand it down and stain it, it's so much better than modern stuff if you want to put in the effort. And you save money and it can last forever if you take care of it.
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  35. Probably had no trade in and didn't put a dime down for a down payment.
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  36. We are in the fourth turning right now. Positive change is coming but we have more years if crap before we get there. It will happen, it always does. Civilized society follows patterns going back centuries. It's bad now but people eventually get fed up and things improve.
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  37. I just picked a mid century wooden desk off the roadside for free. Sanded it down, stained it, fixed it up a bit and it's a thousand times nicer than any MDF piece of crap you would pay hundreds of dollars for in a big box store and then have to put together yourself. All for the cost of a few sheets of sandpaper for my sander, a quart of stain, and a pint of tung oil. About $50 and 8-10 hours of work.
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  38. ​ @freebird1989 I hear you. Even as late as 1999-2000, I lived in a house with 5 other guys in college and we had 2 landlines between the six of us and zero cellphones. And one of the two landlines was for dial up internet 😂. We all survived. I often leave mine behind as well when I'm doing other things. 90% of the calls I get on it are spam anyways 🤣
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  39. That's almost double my mortgage and I have a 2,000 square foot home with an acre and an outbuilding. Built in 1992 so not new but not super old. Picked it up in 2012 for $190K and is worth over $400K now. Wouldn't want to have to buy something now. People that want to are screwed.
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  40. $37/ month family membership at the town run community fitness center where I live! Is it state of the art? Hell no. But they got what you need and even a pool if fancy a swim.
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  41. Had Myspace back when it was new and was a novelty. Once Facebook took over I never joined and never joined up with any of the others. Haven't touched that Myspace account since like 2007. I wonder if it's still sitting there with Tom as my only friend 😂
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  42. Sounds like me at that age. Two of us split a $335/mo apartment with appliances and fixtures from the Silent movie era (for real), got free heat from steam radiators (which was extremely unreliable but free), and pirated cable and internet because we had a buddy that worked for the cable company that hooked us up. We watched that cable on an old TV that they were throwing away at the college we went to prior. I was 24 and drove a 12 year old car I had since high school and my roommate was 22 and rode the bus to work. All of our furniture was hand me down stuff. Our "coffee table" was an overturned plastic storage crate with a board on it. The stove was from probably the 1930's or 40's and had to be lit with a match. We complained at the time but we had fun, and now I look back with fond memories of that time.
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  43. I have a friend like you. I have to live in the 'burbs even though I don't want to because of my job. My friend is a state trooper and runs a rural station. As you can imagine he has a virtual arsenal at his house. If we get a SHTF scenario, I am going to try like hell to get out to his place! I mean I have guns and food and stuff too but my area will be overrun pretty quickly if things go downhill.
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  44. Not only all this, but most families did it off one income back then. Granted I was 1 year old in 1977, but I remember the early 80's my dad worked, my mom took care of me and worked part time a couple nights a week for a few hours at the mall, we had one car and a modest home and we got by. We weren't poor but we certainly weren't rich. I dare say we are not worse off, but certainly no better off today with both my wife and I working full time jobs. Things certainly were simpler 40 years ago. Today the extra person working basically pays for the extra car and childcare expenses that didn't used to exist so you are no further ahead working twice as much.
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  45. I had two kids, first one at 39, second at 43. Yes, men in general have no limit, though an individual can suffer male reproductive issues, there are indeed men that have fathered children in their 80's. Although I'd say that's rather extreme and dare I say selfish as one probably won't be around for much of their life if they have them at that age. Your cutoff age there is pretty reasonable. That's about where I pegged it for myself when I was younger. My cousin stretched the limit a bit and had one at 49, but what's funny about that is he already had 3 others that were grown adults already and his 4th child is only a year older than his grandson 😂
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  46. I hear you. I myself rented a prewar apartment (pre World War I 😂) 2 bedroom with a roommate for $335 total a month in 2001, $167.50 a piece! It was a complete dump but looking back now it was a fun time in life. Had low rent, free steam radiator heat, and an old car and banked lots of money at a young age, so I could afford a decent house just a few years later.
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  47. Yes, but age is a factor as well. So depending on how old you are, the passage of time will feel different. I am in my late 40's and feel it big time. There are many reasons for it. The scientific one is every passing year is a smaller fraction of your life lived, so it seems quicker. I also think it's because life becomes more routine as you get older. All the random adventures of your teens and 20's no longer happen. Life just becomes, work, eat, sleep, pay your bills, care for your kids, etc. Mundane stuff. No more impromptu road trips. No more big parties. No more meeting random interesting people at random locations and times. All in the past. But yes, I do feel like 2020 and the years after have been different, and more accelerated. One big reason was the already diminished social life I still had compared to when I was young is even small now because so many people weirded out and never came back. Now life is more routine and mundane than ever.
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  48. ​​​ @dcgallin Yes, movies as well. I used to be a stoic block. After I hit 40 now I get emotional over stupid stuff. I don't cry like a baby or anything that extreme, but dumb mundane stuff, especially if it has some nostalgic attachment, chokes me up and it shouldn't. Maybe it's getting old. Maybe it's normal. Maybe it's the world changing and losing people around you. Obviously you know it will happen, but you start losing grandparents, then parents, then old friends and things just don't feel the same anymore. Yes, it's part of life, but it sucks. I guess not having to deal with that prior in life made it easy to be unemotional. Now these songs and movies bring you back to a better time for just a moment and it triggers an emotional response sometimes.
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  49. You want to really blow their mind use a 50 cent piece or a $2 bill 😂
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  50. I worked it, at Kmart, in the mid 90's...heart of the Furbie craze! Remember Kmart? Yet another place lost to time. Pepperidge Farm remembers 😂
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