I graduated HS with about 25 others nearly 45 years ago. What surprises me is how little I can find of them on the internet. I have definitely found two and suspect I know where another two are (both doctors coincidentally). Suffice to say I've never met up with any since the week we all signed out of school. And unlikely to ever try. Got on well with many of them during school days but don't feel the need to reprise.

Multiple DUI mug shots of my ex-girl friend can be found 555

A girl who I was engaged to is now roughly the size of zeppelin. A lucky escape I believe.

 

I got a shock when i googled an old colleague. He wasnt a great friend so to speak but we did go fishing together a few times. He was, to say the least, a bit strange and more than a bit delusional. He s now in prison as a sex offender.

I just heard from a cousin that a very old mate from school is at deaths door , my other two best mates are still ok and going strong ,but it seems the most  exciting thing they ever did was go to Spain for a holiday , seems i have had quite an exciting life compared to them .

On 7/11/2021 at 8:40 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

When I saw pictures from my school reunion I was surprised to see so many old people. 

Did you expect them to stay frozen in time?

7 hours ago, thaipara said:

My first roommate at university has been on death row for several years awaiting execution. At the time he was convinced he would be a Broadway star.

Time yet

As it says in the bible: 'Only a dog returns to eat its vomit'.

7 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

No,  never, and they're mostly dead now anyway. I've always made a point of living in the present not the past.

I used to.

On 7/12/2021 at 7:37 AM, watgate said:

I've checked on former classmates and people I knew when I was younger or I befriended when I was younger. A few went on to become lawyers, one a prominent judge,  an executive in the radio business, a golf pro and a few have died way too young. When you read about someone you knew as a child and then he or she has died it is a sobering reminder of our eventual demise.  Life is definitely a trip and you realize the fragility of life and I try to be thankful of my time here and try to live each day to its fullest.

Read this.  ..

BBC News - Colin Pitchfork: Double child killer's release confirmed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-57737050

 

Believe it or not I went to school with Dawn, I remember her sitting in class. While this is not strictly on topic, your comment made me highlight my connection to this news story. One day she was there, then she was gone.

Clearly I don't accept that Pitchfork is being released. That animal should die behind bars.

 

 

 

 

Commenting on the parallel topic.. ????

 

I used to use Telecom Gold and Prestel in the pre-internet days in the UK.  In France, they used Minitel for many years before the internet and I even had my own 'web page' on Minitel where I promoted and sold satellite TV equipment and illegal decoders!

 

In the late 90s, I ran an SMS text messaging service in the UK on the mobile networks and had to use a leased line connection from my house to the nearest Vodafone routing hub, some 15 km away...  No IP connections in those days ????

 

https://www.zdnet.com/article/internet-access-via-sms/

On 7/11/2021 at 9:28 AM, The Hammer2021 said:

Usually adults leave communism and socialism behind as they mature unless they're millionaires..Which makes them repellent for two issues. Hypocrites lacking in a moral compass

Where did you grow up that there were such a bunch of communists and socialists about? By your use of the terms I already know the answer is "the United States". That's because there WEREN'T any communists or socialists about, but you preferred to namecall anyone who wasn't Right-Wing as being a "radical communist" for demanding what is normal in the remainder of the developed world, a.k.a. "social democracy". You know, where you don't have to go into bankruptcy due to a health problem for example. 

20 hours ago, DefaultName said:

I found it disappointing how many of the good people are gone and how many of the a*******s are still kicking.

Yup. The best man I ever had the honour to know died in his 40s of a heart attack, leaving his wonderful wife and 2 small children to live without him.

 

Of the swindlers and wasters I've known, all, to my knowledge, are still living.

18 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

No,  never, and they're mostly dead now anyway. I've always made a point of living in the present not the past.

What if your present sucks badly and your past was brilliant, most of the time?

18 hours ago, BoganInParasite said:

I graduated HS with about 25 others nearly 45 years ago. What surprises me is how little I can find of them on the internet. I have definitely found two and suspect I know where another two are (both doctors coincidentally). Suffice to say I've never met up with any since the week we all signed out of school. And unlikely to ever try. Got on well with many of them during school days but don't feel the need to reprise.

I graduated HS in 1975.  I too found very little on the internet for those that I remember.  A few I get hints of from some other friends.  And some sites return some maybes's with teasers, but you then have to pay to get the details.  My High School was jam paced and not just a small rural 46 sized graduating class

On 7/14/2021 at 3:48 PM, thaipara said:

My first roommate at university has been on death row for several years awaiting execution. At the time he was convinced he would be a Broadway star.

Wow, what was he like ?

10 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

What if your present sucks badly and your past was brilliant, most of the time?

True

I was amazed just how many of my RN apprentice colleagues had come out as gay/trans.

 

Actually it wasn't the number, it was more that one of them used to be a 6'3" hairy biker!

 

Too many are dead (one murdered) or just disappeared from the face of the earth.

 

The chap who told my shiny new wife that Mark went well my middle name Anthony is now a professor at Leeds Uni. Mark Anthony Crossy is doing fine as a systems engineer for one of those companies providing silly expensive internet at 1st class hotels.

 

 

 

 

On 7/12/2021 at 2:31 AM, cobra said:

This invariably leads to Googling ourselves.

Not recommended, ignorance is bliss.

 

 

Be blank for most googling themselves

Google says you're nothing

7 minutes ago, Crossy said:

I was amazed just how many of my RN apprentice colleagues had come out as gay/trans.

 

Actually it wasn't the number, it was more that one of them used to be a 6'3" hairy biker!

 

Too many are dead (one murdered) or just disappeared from the face of the earth.

 

The chap who told my shiny new wife that Mark went well my middle name Anthony is now a professor at Leeds Uni. Mark Anthony Crossy is doing fine as a systems engineer for one of those companies providing silly expensive internet at 1st class hotels.

 

 

 

 

A lot of gay dudes are hairy. They have hairy biker dude groups. Nothing unusual really. Each to their own. It's just sex.

Coincidentally, someone on my old UK school (1970's) FB page asked where everyone is now living.  From the replies, most are still living in the same town, and one adventurous chap was living in Spain.  When I posted that I was happily living in Laos, there was no doubt a stunned silence as they reached for their world maps!

20 hours ago, JCauto said:

Where did you grow up that there were such a bunch of communists and socialists about? By your use of the terms I already know the answer is "the United States". That's because there WEREN'T any communists or socialists about, but you preferred to namecall anyone who wasn't Right-Wing as being a "radical communist" for demanding what is normal in the remainder of the developed world, a.k.a. "social democracy". You know, where you don't have to go into bankruptcy due to a health problem for example. 

Lots of communists about. The Greens are communist. Nothing normal about them.

11 minutes ago, simon43 said:

Coincidentally, someone on my old UK school (1970's) FB page asked where everyone is now living.  From the replies, most are still living in the same town, and one adventurous chap was living in Spain.  When I posted that I was happily living in Laos, there was no doubt a stunned silence as they reached for their world maps!

Prob thought it was in Africa.

3 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

Lots of communists about. The Greens are communist. Nothing normal about them.

Really? They're calling for collectivization of agriculture, workers owning the means of production, dictatorship of the proletariat?

Of course they're not.

1 hour ago, JCauto said:

Really? They're calling for collectivization of agriculture, workers owning the means of production, dictatorship of the proletariat?

Of course they're not. You just sound stoopid.

Oh dear. Can't argue with logic like that. Half their policies are communist.

Ecological Marxism

There are many descriptions that could be applied to the Greens, but none seems more accurate than Jack Mundey’s own description of “ecological Marxism”. This description sums up the two core beliefs of the Greens. First, the environment or the ecology is to be placed before all else. This is spelt out in the first principle in the Greens Global Charter:

“We acknowledge that human beings are part of the natural world and we respect the specific values of all forms of life, including non-human species.” [vi]

Secondly, the Greens are Marxist in their philosophy, and display the same totalitarian tendencies of all previous forms of Marxism when applied as a political movement.  By totalitarian, I mean the subordination of the individual and the impulse to rid society of all elements that, in the eyes of the adherent, mar its perfection.

 

Source ABC

11 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

Ecological Marxism

There are many descriptions that could be applied to the Greens, but none seems more accurate than Jack Mundey’s own description of “ecological Marxism”. This description sums up the two core beliefs of the Greens. First, the environment or the ecology is to be placed before all else. This is spelt out in the first principle in the Greens Global Charter:

“We acknowledge that human beings are part of the natural world and we respect the specific values of all forms of life, including non-human species.” [vi]

Secondly, the Greens are Marxist in their philosophy, and display the same totalitarian tendencies of all previous forms of Marxism when applied as a political movement.  By totalitarian, I mean the subordination of the individual and the impulse to rid society of all elements that, in the eyes of the adherent, mar its perfection.

 

Source ABC

Nice disingenuous post! Somehow you managed to omit the source of this "news" from ABC - a direct quotation from Kevin Andrews, a Liberal politician. It's a characterization of the Greens from a political party member of the opposite side of the political spectrum.

On 7/15/2021 at 7:41 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

What if your present sucks badly and your past was brilliant, most of the time?

Three Words - "Get Over It"

Don't pack that krup around with you all the time, to be dusted off and cried about ad infinitum

Realize your mistake, learn from it, and get going.

On 7/11/2021 at 7:31 PM, ukrules said:

he's where he belongs now - life sentence in prison.

 

You'll always know where to find him.   ????

On 7/16/2021 at 1:40 AM, JCauto said:

Really? They're calling for collectivization of agriculture, workers owning the means of production, dictatorship of the proletariat?

Of course they're not.

Deleted as can't post anything political now.

Opposite for me. Tried to track down a girl I met in Mainz in 1997. Can’t find anything on her, her sister, or brother. Not to stalk, but she gave me some family photos that I wanted to return to her.