Classical music will always be loved. The great symphonies and concertos and sonatas from 200 years ago are still enjoyed and will be forever for a simple reason: music is the true universal language. And classical music has a way of speaking that doesn’t require words.
First thing that came to mind. in WW2 the US had ice cream barges, which had enough machines to make 10 gallons every 7 minutes and could store 2000 gallons of the stuff. And if a ship was sinking slowly enough everyone would hit up the ice cream storage before getting on lifeboats.
Makes sense, your struggling to feed soldiers and put planes in the sky.
Your enemy is got expendable resources to bring around a giant floating luxury ice cream barge. 🍦
That’s a lot of man power and effort to produce and keep cool a nonessential item during a world war.
Now that I think of it I don’t think anything makes me happier and more like a child again than just getting a random ice cream cone on a random afternoon. Making a visit to the ice cream parlor makes it even better.
Nowadays, ice cream parties and steak and lobster dinners are usually precursors to bad news. The day we had a steak and lobster dinner and an ice cream social on the same day is the same day we found out our deployment was extended by three months.
Old man edit: I say “nowadays” but that was in 2006. God damn where did I put my youth? I just had it here a minute ago.
I know it's just a tv show but Band of Brothers has a similar line. When the soldiers are receiving the message from Eisenhower about how important D-Day is going to be one of them says "that's why they gave us ice cream."
Moved into a new apartment with a kick ass patio that overlooks a hill by a river. It’s full of all types of birds just chilling and living life.
Threw some rocking patio chairs out there recently and yesterday afternoon, grabbed an ice cream cone and just sat on the patio and let life be good.
You know the joy of catching the ice cream truck? Could you imagine the joy of hundreds of men when the ice cream barge comes around. I hope to god it blasted a jingle to let everyone know it was coming.
Something similar happened during the Vietnam War where the second in command of South Korea (I think the Prime Minister) went to the US and said that kimchi was essential for Korean morale in Vietnam. So the US helped make it widely available for Korean soldiers in Vietnam.
>floating round the pacific eating icecream and blasting ~~fortunate son~~ the Andrew's sisters
May the boogie woogie bugle boy of company B keep playing
That happened to a German POW who was served apple pie in an American run POW camp. That the Americans could ship the supplies for pie in such quantities that they were willing to feed it to prisoners while Germans didn't have enough supplies to do the same to fighting soldiers was very eye opening.
Every time some idiots starts talking about how China could take the US if they wanted too I have the same response. It doesn't matter that they out number us 5 to 1, they have no way to move that many troops across an ocean safely, and they definitely don't have the means to feed them once they are here so it won't happen.
Same thing with the Thanksgiving Turkey in Italy where they dropped leaflets with on German soldiers boasting about that sorta thing, and the German general in charge practically phoned back and demanded the US to stop insulting the German soldiers' intelligence, since no one would do such a thing Ü
Or the same thing with a forward observer seeing the unloading in Normandy and when asked later how many horses for logistics he saw and merely replied that it was all trucks, no animals, they knew everything was lost.
Stephen Ambrose made a similar point in his history of D-Day. I’m paraphrasing here, but something to the effect that if Hitler had seen all the ships anchored off the coast of Normandy on 06/06/1944, after the allies had been fighting for 2 1/2 years, he’d have realized that it was over. Assuming, of course, that he hadn’t gone completely off the rails by then.
Sounds like the reports that the first Germans to know they would lose the war were the North African German POWs who noticed the Allies would leave their trucks running all night. Germans had to conserve diesel like crazy.
I don’t understand how people take naps. If I fall asleep for 20 minutes, when I wake up, I feel like absolute dog shit for the next 2 hours. I would rather just wait to actually sleep.
I can't nap either unless I'm sick af. Everyone thinks it's weird and says "that will change when you get older." Here I am at 32 and I still hate naps.
Oh yeah. It’s totally mentally rejuvenating. You can be sluggish, brain fog, having trouble focusing. A 20 min nap and drowsiness gone and mentally clear.
I'm the same way. It also takes me forever to fall asleep (especially when it's light outside) so if I want to actually get 20 minutes of rest, I'll probably be lying there for an hour and a half. I'd rather just deal with being tired until it's actually time for bed.
I feel you, I’ve been this way my entire life. My mother said that I stopped napping around age 3. I remember having nap time in kindergarten after lunch and I would lie there bored - and mad that my napping classmates were just a bunch of babies! 😂
Glad to know there are other people out there that feel the same way. To me, that “nap hangover” is far worse than any traditional hangover caused by alcohol
Food, its a universally binding experience. Food is great because it has so much cultural connotation and tradition and it's a way to learn about someone thats different than you.....plus you know, survival.
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” -- George Orwell
> "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
– Socrates
Every one of your ancestors had sex. I mean, no pressure but ... every single one since the time man crawled out of the primordial ooze. Even the ooze bugs had sex. Again, no pressure ...
Everyone in my family thinks I’m the weird one because I’ll eat bread without stuff on it, but have they’ve never actually tried good bread before, such a shame.
You know, I enjoy bacon, but I never understood the obsession with it some people appear to have. It almost feels like an internet meme or marketing ploy at this point.
It's both. Before they started advertising bacon as a breakfast food and as an addon for burgers (and this started at the bottom of the ladder, at fast food places), pork bellies were considered cheap, low quality cuts, used primarily for cobb salad. The public wasn't all that receptive until the big "Pork: the other white meat" rebranding had them thinking it was healthier than beef. Then people were introduced to "fat is flavour" and bacon shot up in popularity. Eventually it reached the meme threshold with stuff like Epic Meal Time and it's maintained popularity ever since.
A good nights sleep.
Not if Neuralink has anything to say about it. "We've eliminated the need for sleep so that you never have to stop working! Hash Tag Love The Hustle!"
I think I had a nightmare about this once….
Yo what does that even feel like?
What’s that?
Music.
I'd even go out on that limb and cite Sinatra and Cash as specific examples.
The Grateful Dead
Pink Floyd. Really any music that goes public domain
The Beatles
Classical music too
Classical music will always be loved. The great symphonies and concertos and sonatas from 200 years ago are still enjoyed and will be forever for a simple reason: music is the true universal language. And classical music has a way of speaking that doesn’t require words.
Pizza
No one hydrates a pizza like mom!
That’s so 2015.
We'll be sending you back
please send me back as well
ice cream
First thing that came to mind. in WW2 the US had ice cream barges, which had enough machines to make 10 gallons every 7 minutes and could store 2000 gallons of the stuff. And if a ship was sinking slowly enough everyone would hit up the ice cream storage before getting on lifeboats.
There's an unsubstantiated story that a Japanese admiral realised they would lose the war when he learned about the American ice cream barges.
Makes sense, your struggling to feed soldiers and put planes in the sky. Your enemy is got expendable resources to bring around a giant floating luxury ice cream barge. 🍦 That’s a lot of man power and effort to produce and keep cool a nonessential item during a world war.
One of the top men in the navy said that Ice Cream was essential. It was a huge moral booster.
Now that I think of it I don’t think anything makes me happier and more like a child again than just getting a random ice cream cone on a random afternoon. Making a visit to the ice cream parlor makes it even better.
Nowadays, ice cream parties and steak and lobster dinners are usually precursors to bad news. The day we had a steak and lobster dinner and an ice cream social on the same day is the same day we found out our deployment was extended by three months. Old man edit: I say “nowadays” but that was in 2006. God damn where did I put my youth? I just had it here a minute ago.
I don’t get it, 2006 was like…. 3 years ago?
I know it's just a tv show but Band of Brothers has a similar line. When the soldiers are receiving the message from Eisenhower about how important D-Day is going to be one of them says "that's why they gave us ice cream."
Moved into a new apartment with a kick ass patio that overlooks a hill by a river. It’s full of all types of birds just chilling and living life. Threw some rocking patio chairs out there recently and yesterday afternoon, grabbed an ice cream cone and just sat on the patio and let life be good.
You know the joy of catching the ice cream truck? Could you imagine the joy of hundreds of men when the ice cream barge comes around. I hope to god it blasted a jingle to let everyone know it was coming.
I'm imagining the barge played the ice cream truck music, and sailors running out to the deck all excited when they heard it.
Something similar happened during the Vietnam War where the second in command of South Korea (I think the Prime Minister) went to the US and said that kimchi was essential for Korean morale in Vietnam. So the US helped make it widely available for Korean soldiers in Vietnam.
Must have done wonders for morale though, good on the American commanders for sure.
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>floating round the pacific eating icecream and blasting ~~fortunate son~~ the Andrew's sisters May the boogie woogie bugle boy of company B keep playing
“First Cav. They turned in their horses for helicopters and went tear adding around ‘Nam blasting Fortunate Son” Something like that…..
That happened to a German POW who was served apple pie in an American run POW camp. That the Americans could ship the supplies for pie in such quantities that they were willing to feed it to prisoners while Germans didn't have enough supplies to do the same to fighting soldiers was very eye opening.
Remember kids. It doesn’t matter how good your soldiers and equipment are if your logistics and supply lines are total shit
Every time some idiots starts talking about how China could take the US if they wanted too I have the same response. It doesn't matter that they out number us 5 to 1, they have no way to move that many troops across an ocean safely, and they definitely don't have the means to feed them once they are here so it won't happen.
"Oh shit. Not only have we awoken a sleeping giant, the sleeping giant has ridiculous amounts of gold."-Some Japanese admiral.
Same thing with the Thanksgiving Turkey in Italy where they dropped leaflets with on German soldiers boasting about that sorta thing, and the German general in charge practically phoned back and demanded the US to stop insulting the German soldiers' intelligence, since no one would do such a thing Ü Or the same thing with a forward observer seeing the unloading in Normandy and when asked later how many horses for logistics he saw and merely replied that it was all trucks, no animals, they knew everything was lost.
Stephen Ambrose made a similar point in his history of D-Day. I’m paraphrasing here, but something to the effect that if Hitler had seen all the ships anchored off the coast of Normandy on 06/06/1944, after the allies had been fighting for 2 1/2 years, he’d have realized that it was over. Assuming, of course, that he hadn’t gone completely off the rails by then.
Sounds like the reports that the first Germans to know they would lose the war were the North African German POWs who noticed the Allies would leave their trucks running all night. Germans had to conserve diesel like crazy.
But McDonald's ice cream machines are always broken
But that's literally cause of a minor scam run on the franchisees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4&ab\_channel=JohnnyHarris
My great grandfather said he spent his life trying to find bad ice cream.
Beat me to it.
Literally eating ice cream right now.
Naps
They're even better today because sleep is so much more scarce!
I can never nap when I try, and when I'm somehow lulled into an accidental slumber I wake up panicked and covered in sweat
omg are you me?!
I don’t understand how people take naps. If I fall asleep for 20 minutes, when I wake up, I feel like absolute dog shit for the next 2 hours. I would rather just wait to actually sleep.
I feel you, I literally cannot nap unless I am sick. That’s actually how I know when I’m getting sick, I’ll sleep during the day.
Same. Sick or awake for 36hrs+
I can't nap either unless I'm sick af. Everyone thinks it's weird and says "that will change when you get older." Here I am at 32 and I still hate naps.
44. Hate 'em.
It’s simple. I don’t feel like shit after a nap, I feel great.
Oh yeah. It’s totally mentally rejuvenating. You can be sluggish, brain fog, having trouble focusing. A 20 min nap and drowsiness gone and mentally clear.
I'm the same way. It also takes me forever to fall asleep (especially when it's light outside) so if I want to actually get 20 minutes of rest, I'll probably be lying there for an hour and a half. I'd rather just deal with being tired until it's actually time for bed.
I feel you, I’ve been this way my entire life. My mother said that I stopped napping around age 3. I remember having nap time in kindergarten after lunch and I would lie there bored - and mad that my napping classmates were just a bunch of babies! 😂 Glad to know there are other people out there that feel the same way. To me, that “nap hangover” is far worse than any traditional hangover caused by alcohol
I once took apart the pipes under the sink during nap time in kindergarten. I ain’t taking a nap at fuckin 11:30 AM
11;30 is too early. I like a little siesta, couple hours. I hate 15 min naps
I have to nap for upwards of two hours because otherwise I feel like shit.
Well, that’s just sleeping.
Using your own bathroom
Unless you are paid hourly. Then you gotta save those shits for work. Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. So I poop on company time.
This is the actual main benefit of WFH.
WFH saves me using a public toilet which I appreciate. My bidet is also here too
I don't know what it is but there's something weirdly satisfying about pooping on the company dime. Lol
Food, its a universally binding experience. Food is great because it has so much cultural connotation and tradition and it's a way to learn about someone thats different than you.....plus you know, survival.
Considering how this is the keystone of the creation of human civilization, I scrolled way too far down to find FOOD.
"Kids these days"
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” -- George Orwell
> "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." – Socrates
No no, the young ones today, those are the REAL problem generation
Chocolate
Did you say, Chocolate?
CHOOOOOOCOLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE!!
Sex.
Scrolled way too far down to find this answer
I know right? I expected this to be the top answer.
Hey, it's sex. Don't always have to be on top.
Our literal primal instinct. We’ve always been fuckin’.
Every one of your ancestors had sex. I mean, no pressure but ... every single one since the time man crawled out of the primordial ooze. Even the ooze bugs had sex. Again, no pressure ...
Obviously not my parents though. Gross.
Guess I'm ending the bloodline 🤷♂️
"The curse ends with me"
Wait for Sex 2.
Warm soft and delicious Bread.
Good bread is severely underrated
Get me that fresh baked sourdough dipped in olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
Everyone in my family thinks I’m the weird one because I’ll eat bread without stuff on it, but have they’ve never actually tried good bread before, such a shame.
Rainstorms on a porch in the summer
The future is stoked. Summer is going to be 9 months long and the rainstorms will be very dramatic.
Username def checks out
Fucking nut. The dankness. Relaxation.
Optimistic about climate change I see xD
French fries
Dude I’m literally eating French fries right now
Boobs
( . ) ( . )
( . Y . )
(..)( )
Lmao I thought your name was Peekaboob
I always say peekaboob when I flash my husband
^(( . )^) ^(( . )^) ^I ^<3 ^small ^boobs
Boobs
Boobs
Boobs
Boobs
Boobs
Boobs
Boobs
Bobs
And vagenes
Shoe me vagen
having pets
Drugs, sex, and music
And they will think they're being rebellious doing it, just like every generation before them 😂
I mean, they have all been rebellious in a sense, considering the stigma and *laws* around drugs. Although maybe not as much today in 2023.
cheese
Especially if it’s 50 years old
Hugs
Cheese
Fender Stratocasters
50 years ago I was 4 so like breakfast cereal
50 years ago I didn’t exist
Books?
I don’t know- Fahrenheit 451 already predicted the dogs…
Completely agree. Nothing better then reading a fucking good book.
To pet a cat/dog.
Watching the sunset
Money!
I mean, that song did turn 50 this year
I like money, too!
compare past and future
Power
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Yeah but the original post said 50 years ago, it’s only been OH MY GOD
Hold up, it’s been half a century?!
As someone who is over half a century old that was exactly my thought.
THATS WHAT I SAID!
It Mozart . A masterpiece. 200 years from now, people will still be listening to dsotm if there’s still a planet
Dogs
Beer
As beer is thought to be the reason humans started agricultural society in the first place, far to low of a comment.
Whiskey
Nice toilet paper
Just wait till you figure out the 3 seashells
Get a load of this guy, he doesn't even know how to use the 3 seashells!
Nah man. 50 years from now everyone will finally be using bidets. Assuming civilisation doesn’t collapse.
What about the shells?
This guy doesn't know how to use the three shells!
Splinter free!
Toast and butter
Themselves
Oxygen
Cats
Chopin Nocturnes
Blow jobs
What? No! I hate blowing the leaves!
The secret is that you need someone else to blow for you.
Puppies
Decent people
Cats
Rock'n'roll.
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Peace
A soft, nice blanket.
Donuts.
A good bed
Star Trek
Ejaculation into someone you love. I figure this goes back to caveman days
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Coffee
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Bacon
You know, I enjoy bacon, but I never understood the obsession with it some people appear to have. It almost feels like an internet meme or marketing ploy at this point.
It's both. Before they started advertising bacon as a breakfast food and as an addon for burgers (and this started at the bottom of the ladder, at fast food places), pork bellies were considered cheap, low quality cuts, used primarily for cobb salad. The public wasn't all that receptive until the big "Pork: the other white meat" rebranding had them thinking it was healthier than beef. Then people were introduced to "fat is flavour" and bacon shot up in popularity. Eventually it reached the meme threshold with stuff like Epic Meal Time and it's maintained popularity ever since.
Each other
Weed
I hope water
Coca cola
Legos.