do you remember a time when it was a better place to live

[opmania]

I remember when news agents had a stand out the front

with Papers under a rock

You took a Paper and left the money on the stand

Now days they would steal the money,the papers and the stand

and throw the rock through the window as they were running away

[polksaladallie]

Not in Queensland.

[punch*drunk]

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@vicr3000 wrote:
Polks

In the 1970's, A common term for a male homosexual was gay.

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Yep, thats why my sister would never tell anyone her middle name was Gaye when we were in primary school. Kids used to tease her about it.

[vicr3000]

Which is what I said in my earlier post.

Different era's, different cultures, different places, all assign different meanings to words.

Your post re 'not in queensland' supports my point re the use of The use of nig nog which I got castigated over.
It depends on where you come from.

[polksaladallie]

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@vicr3000 wrote:
Which is what I said in my earlier post.

Different era's, different cultures, different places, all assign different meanings to words.

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Which doesn't change the fact that in the late 1960s to 70s the term was "guy" in ads.  The other term was homosexual, and that was not allowed to be used in ads.  The silly term "gay" did not appear until well after that.

[vicr3000]

In qld maybe, gay was always the term used where I was.

But your point supports the use of my other words which I used to mean 'idiot', thank you for that. I'll quote you if the issue comes ip again.

[polksaladallie]

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@vicr3000 wrote:
Which is what I said in my earlier post.

Different era's, different cultures, different places, all assign different meanings to words.

Your post re 'not in queensland' supports my point re the use of The use of .... which I got castigated over.
It depends on where you come from.

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And you never miss a chance to repeat it, even though you know it is offensive.

[***super_nova***]

The word “gay” seems to have its origins around the 12th century in England, derived from the Old French word ‘gai’, which in turn was probably derived from a Germanic word, though that isn’t completely known.  The word’s original meaning meant something to the effect of “joyful”, “carefree”, “full of mirth”, or “bright and showy”.

  By the mid 17th century, according to an Oxford dictionary definition at the time, the meaning of the word had changed to mean  “addicted to pleasures and dissipations.  Often euphemistically: Of loose and immoral life”. 

Fast-forward to the 19th century and the word gay referred to a woman who was a prostitute and a gay man was someone who slept with a lot of women, often prostitutes. 

Around the 1920s and 1930s, however, the word started to have a new meaning.  In terms of the sexual meaning of the word, a “gay man” no longer just meant a man who had sex with a lot of women, but now started to refer to men who had sex with other men.  There was also another word “gey cat” at this time which meant a homosexual boy.

By 1955, the word gay now officially acquired the new added definition of meaning homosexual males. 

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/02/how-gay-came-to-mean-homosexual/

[opmania]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@vicr3000 wrote:
Which is what I said in my earlier post.

Different era's, different cultures, different places, all assign different meanings to words.

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Which doesn't change the fact that in the late 1960s to 70s the term was "guy" in ads.  The other term was homosexual, and that was not allowed to be used in ads.  The silly term "gay" did not appear until well after that.

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having a gay premier in Don Dunstan in the 70's may have created that term in S.A

homosexuals were and are still referred to as gay by my generation however silly it might seem to you

[grace.under.water]

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@opmania wrote:

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@gleee58 wrote:

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@lind9650 wrote:

I remember when my children could play with their friends on the Street without being afraid of being run over by a hooligan driver. I remember when chidren could go to a park or the beach without adult supervision and come home in time for dinner. Mothers did not have to be afraid to send a 10 year old to the corner shop to buy some sugar or butter and the child would come home with the item and the change.

I can remember walking home from work at midnight and never being afraid when I heard footsteps behind me.

Yes, some things were better then.

Erica

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I remember the Beaumont children disappeared, never to be seen again, after one of those safe trips to the beach.

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and that was the end of that freedom for children when the beaumont kids disappeared

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What nonsense. You think children hadn't gone missing in Australia before the Beaumont kids? They just happened to be the most high profile - that didn't make their parent's pain any greater than children who were kidnapped prior to this.

[grace.under.water]

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@azureline** wrote:
I remember cousins and friends and others who were not supervised enough and were molested by the neighbour/grandpa/uncle/priest/teacher etc .
Everyone else thought it was safe because they either didn't tell or were not believed or even threatened not to tell.

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Oh, well the priest is a given - goes with the territory.