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

[grace.under.water]

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@opmania wrote:

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@opmania wrote:

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@grace.under.water wrote:

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@opmania wrote:

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
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just because people don't share your viewpoint does not make anything everyone else has to say nonsense

Living in South Australia as I do the disappearance of the beamont children had a huge impact

and it did change  the absolute freedom that children had up to that point and forever

closely followed by the truro murders and the family murders

this covered all sides of the spectrum children ,young girls ,and young men who prior to this had unlimited freedom

with the family murders if you may not have heard were homosexual related

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So what is they were? I have read a book on the family murders - the son of a prominent news reader I believe was one of the high profile victims. You have highlighted one "gay related" child abduction - why? Especially considering the rest of the abductions you have highlighted are widely believed to be heterosexual crimes? So what you are doing is actually confirming that more heterosexual men commit crimes than gay ones? Okay, if you say so.

My viewpoints are based on fact so yes, if someone can't stand by their gross assumptions, it is rubbish and clap-trap.

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sometimes it is better to close your mouth and look like a fool than to open your mouth and prove it

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If you read other peoples posts with an open mind and in a constructive way with less negative critisicm

you may understand what they are trying to say

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I understand totally where you are coming from and that is what is so disturbing about you.

[grace.under.water]

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@vicr3000 wrote:
It is quite amazing how many kids vanish without trace in todays society.
And I really only am conscious of those in Melbourne.

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Vic, kids have always vanished - but I think in the "old days" alot of the lower-class disappearances weren't treated with the same attention because of the overriding belief "polite society" didn't care.

And they're right - they didn't. 

[grace.under.water]

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@nicnacs_4u wrote:

For me" personally & my daughters", I do remember a time when it was a better place to live...

I had a husband

I had a brother in law

I had a father

I had a mother

I had a mother in law

I had a father in law

all in a better place now.....smileysad:

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That made me feel sad nicnacs. 😞

[polksaladallie]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@gleee58 wrote:

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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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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That makes sense.  I do recall a time when males hated to be referred to as guys.

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Sorry, but Grace is right, "guy" never meant "gay".   It meant male, like "guy wants to meet guy", but in the 1960s people would say "guys"  even when speaking to or about mixed group, and sometimes group of females.  At least in trendy London, but in Sydney too.

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No, he is not right.  I was in a group called One Parent Families, and it was my job to put an ad in the personal column to attract new families.  So I saw what was in that column.

I was not allowed to put the words "separated parents" in the ad.  I was allowed to put divorced or widowed parents with children.  The newspaper (and the city) was obviously still very puritan.

Homosexual men who were looking for partners used to say "looking for Guy on the northside who likes the beach" or such.  There was not much else they could put in  the ad because of those rules.

[polksaladallie]

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@grace.under.water wrote:

How very insulting and cowardly of you to attack me because you don't like my opinion. Just because it differs from yours it does not invalidate what I have to say - nor does the fact that this id was registered yesterday mean I am here to cause trouble. I see others here register an id and are quickly accepted, based on the fact others here know who they are and share their opinions.

I am not going anywhere so you better get used to it. As for not replying to my comment, not a problem - I have no interest in talking to you again. I can also assure you that I have not known you your entire life and have no wish to.

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[vicr3000]

Polks

Just because those words were used that way in your little world in that part of Qld does NOT mean that is how those words were used
In other places, the rest of the world.

Yes, different places use the same words differently, put different meanings on words, neither is right or wrong
But in general, one meaning and use will dominate the world over.

And Gay was used for homosexuals the world over. More than one person has backed this up.

If you cant accept that, I am surprised.

[polksaladallie]

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@vicr3000 wrote:
Polks

Just because those words were used that way in your little world in that part of Qld does NOT mean that is how those words were used
In other places, the rest of the world.

Yes, different places use the same words differently, put different meanings on words, neither is right or wrong
But in general, one meaning and use will dominate the world over.

And Gay was used for homosexuals the world over. More than one person has backed this up.

If you cant accept that, I am surprised.

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I never did speak of "other places" or "the rest of the world".

I stated what happened in Brisbane in the 1960s.  Unless you were here then, you cannot argue with me.  If anyone would like to contact the newspaper and check the archives, they will know that what I said is correct.

[polksaladallie]

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@opmania wrote:

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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

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I have no disagreement with you.  No idea why you intimate that I do.

[opmania]

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@grace.under.water wrote:

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@opmania wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:

That was in high school (1970's)  She got teased about the 'gay' thing.

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one of my good friends is named Gaye she got it too

but got to the point where she just laughed it of

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Poor thing, yes it must have been traumatic for her to be likened to a homosexual - perish the....!!!!

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doesn/t bother me in the least what your opinion is on the subject

I have had many friends over the years who are homosexual

I judge people on face value not on their sexual preferences

[vicr3000]

Polks

You must disagree with her, she said exactly the same as I did and you disagree with me.

Your little world of Brisbane was obviously an isolated place that was different to how words
Were used in the rest of the world.

And Brisbane was small, isolated back in the 60's.