Oh present and future indoor plumbing
it’s gonna be big
those who look only to the past or
present are certain to miss the future
but that’s what we’re doing today
welcome to watchmojo.com and in this
installment of verses we’re pitting the
past against the present to see which
era and history comes out on top round
one travel and transportation oh right
cuz I’m Amish
so I wouldn’t know anything about your
69 GTO Judge 455 big-block Ram bear 411
posi something like that if we only
compared wagons to cars or looked at
life before the railways the present
would win in a landslide but the real
battle here is an air travel and then
men took to the skies if you dream of a
flight where you’re fed a full luxury
meal where every traveler Dawn’s his or
her Sunday best and where you can pack
whatever you want weight in liquid
restrictions be damned
then you’re pining for the Golden Age of
travel of the 1950s and 60s however
before Congress passed 1978 airline
deregulation Act air travel was pricier
and slower the crossing takes 24 well
are you joking rigid wire ships combine
the pampering of a cruise ship with the
speed of the mother slightly faster ship
in 1955 a New York to London flight with
TWA lasted 13 hours and ran 290 dollars
or about $2,600 adjusted for inflation
in 2016 you could travel that same route
for about 900 dollars and the flight
would be half as long hello airplanes
yeah it’s blimps you win but travel was
a more positive experience back in the
day and we can pinpoint when things
changed for good since 9/11 safety
concerns mean that the luxury is
basically gone from air travel and it’s
been replaced by aggravation excuse me
there’s two other security checkpoints
why can’t you open those two I don’t
know nothing most passengers dress for
comfort and to get through security
screenings more easily
and forget about keeping your belts and
shoes on all the way through once you’re
actually on board seats have shrunk and
everything costs extra
from checked baggage to snacks also I
never got my peanuts one airline
low-cost Irish company Ryanair even
tried charging passengers to use the
bathroom
I paid $1,200 to pee here we’ll admit
today’s tech is better and being able to
watch any movie on our own personal
screen is a plus but just once we’d like
to eat a gourmet meal on an airplane
like a civilized person that’s why round
one has to go to the past just plain
don’t know
winner the past round to health and
well-being if you had been born in the
Paleolithic period you probably would
have lived to age 33 I’m an
old-fashioned kind of girl I need a man
who can protect me and take care of me
sounds bad and it wasn’t much better in
1950 when the world’s average life
expectancy was 48 on the flip side
Americans were living to 78.8 years old
by 2012 a record high and that is only
one thing we say to death not today
modern medicine is keeping people alive
longer at a price the 21st century is an
era of sleep deprivation chronic stress
rampant obesity cancer and more and it
seems like everything will kill you
sunbathing drinking coffee that’s too
hot a 2014 study published in the
American Journal of Preventive Medicine
even found that sitting is roughly as
bad as smoking but we can treat these
afflictions when they do come up can you
imagine living in a time before
penicillin in the past people didn’t
need to exercise because their entire
lifestyle was active if they died early
it was likely because of an infection or
injury oh hold on that that’s only six
what happened to number seven number
seven hail he died of infection
degenerative diseases were likely much
less common 100 years ago people either
grew or raise their own food or bought
it from their local butcher milkman
farmer etc but beginning in the 1950s
food needed to be easier cheaper faster
so by 2013 seventy percent of the food
Americans ate was processed yes today we
can choose organic foods but according
to a 2013 New York Times article we’ve
bred the nutrition out of fruits and
vegetables so that today’s are not as
healthy as yesterday’s in fact in many
cases we’ve also increased the sugar and
starch content in that same produce
more while the past was a simpler time
when food was food and lifestyles were
active we can’t say we’d be okay with
dying the first time we got an infection
so modern medicine for the win in round
two winner the present Round three jobs
and financial security in the past
people took jobs to make money today
people choose careers because they love
what they do
in the 1950s according to a report by
the Chartered Institute of Personnel and
development people worked longer hours
got fewer holidays and were less safe on
the job but where on the whole happier
[Music]
today even though work-related health
and safety risks have dropped
dramatically stress is on the rise due
to the death of the traditional
nine-to-five workday the stress of my
modern office has caused me to go into a
depression depression isn’t that just a
fancy word for feeling bummed out
Dwight you ignorant by the 1960s
thanks to the economic boom after World
War two the American middle-class was
thriving with over half of households
bringing in between 35,000 and $100,000
annually that meant there could be one
wage earner and one homemaker kids a car
to a suburban house and extras like
savings or vacations plus a high school
diploma was all that was needed to get a
secure forever job do you actually want
to face this cold harsh world without a
high school diploma
[Music]
since then the gap between the rich and
poor has widened the subprime mortgage
crisis left many struggling to keep or
even buy homes
additionally mainly thanks to the
economic downturn of 2007 and 2008 a
college degree is necessary to get your
foot in the door at any company even for
low-level jobs basically you have no
experience no college degree no resume
no work history whatsoever in fact and
now you would like to be a lawyer that
means anyone expecting to join the work
force needed to shell out an average of
31 thousand dollars in tuition and fees
for a private university during the
2014-2015 school year
however the deciding factor here may be
human rights the heart of the question
is whether all Americans are to be
afforded equal rights and equal
opportunities the 1960s equal pay and
equal rights acts paved the way for
changes in how minority groups were
treated in the workplace with African
Americans promised equal opportunities
for example and sexual harassment
eventually prohibited will admit that
it’s still an uphill battle to ensure
the protection of all groups everywhere
as of 2015 the gender pay gap
still meant the average woman earned 82
cents to every dollar a man made but
that was significantly better than a
1980 Tess this is business let’s just
bury the hatchet you know you can bury
your hatchet now get your bony ass out
of my sight
the race wage gap also hadn’t closed if
a white man made $21 an hour then a
black man would make 15 and a Hispanic
man would make 14 while these numbers
might seem discouraging the law protects
the rights of far more people today than
in the past if you’re mistreated at work
you have more recourse in today’s
workplaces than you would have in 1960
well what do you say I throw in a little
sexual harassment charge to boot against
who against you the white picket fences
of the 1950s are all well and good but
civil rights were still an issue so
we’ve got to award this round to the
more tolerant present winner present
round for sports and entertainment
America’s ruled by like an army of steam
rollers it’s been erased like a
blackboard rebuilt and erased again but
baseball is not the time sports and
entertainment have always functioned as
a bonding experience for humans together
we watched gladiators battle or attended
Shakespeare’s latest plays but today
from movies to music to video games and
sports the entertainment industry is
pretty different
in 1960 an average movie ticket cost
approximately 70 cents and since movies
cost less to make many argue that
filmmakers took more chances resulting
in better films
in 2015 a ticket was almost nine dollars
and that’s not even mentioning snacks or
if you’re seeing something in IMAX
however you do get a better overall
viewing experience now filmmaking
technology has also improved drastically
from life of pies fantastical visuals to
James Cameron’s otherworldly avatar we
can now tell stories on-screen that once
would have been impossible to adapt does
this mean today’s movies are better
you know some critics say they’re
actually worse with poorly reviewed
action extravaganzas earning more than
their fair share at the box office
meaning that more and more of them will
get made how about music do you know how
much a ticket to Woodstock cost $24 at
the gate for all three days according to
pole star the average concert ticket
price in 2015 was 74 25 we’ll let you
decide if today’s music is worth the
extra dough
he’s telling me as well did he love my
sex appeal thing you don’t like a pony
like I think the grass rustled up in a
Jag made with it with the jab well one
thing’s for sure today’s video games
beat anything from the past they weren’t
really a thing until the 50s and pac-man
wasn’t released until 1980
we’re pretty sure you’re aware that
today videogames are big business as for
sports older fans miss the good old days
when pads were smaller athletes had
part-time jobs and no one made millions
today’s professional sports may not be
as pure as they once were what with all
the fancy gear and drug controversies
but the games are faster more exciting
and feature the best athletes in the
world as much as we love video games and
blockbuster movies we have to admit it
would have been pretty cool to see
Hendrix at Woodstock or the premiere of
Romeo and Juliet or to live through the
Golden Age of cinema open the pod bay
doors hell I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I
can’t do that
it was a tight race but it seems like
pure entertainment was much more easily
accessible in the past winner the past
what about us you’ll always have Paris
round five sex and relationships the
sexual revolution and the rise of
feminism in the 1960s and 70s changed
everything when it came to sex and
dating
they allowed women to gain control of
their destinies with the birth control
pill for example letting them finish
their education and enter the workforce
don’t you have anything simple easy
something like I don’t know a pill or
something of course there is deep hill
don’t mock me that in turn helped women
and men to be seen more as equals so
today a marriage is less the financial
contract it once was and more a
declaration of love
Oh
[Music]
but not only did the sexual revolution
change the Western world’s general
outlook on women’s sexuality premarital
sex and sexuality in general but on
homosexuality as well allowing it to
slowly become more accepted until
finally in 2015
same-sex marriage became legal across
the United States
unfortunately the free-love era was
decisively ended in the 1980s by the
spread of genital herpes and HIV AIDS
what happen even face I have AIDS Oh
while sexually transmitted infections
had been around for centuries the
popularization of antibiotics like
penicillin and prophylactics like
condoms had lessened the risks
significantly until these ailments came
along so today st eyes are a very real
threat to those in the dating pool since
even condoms aren’t a hundred percent
effective on the condom broke
of course even since the 20th century
courtship has evolved thanks to online
dating and social media sites like
Facebook and tinder he’s adorable so are
his wife and kids well he clearly
doesn’t understand what Facebook is for
sure meeting people is easier but it’s
often completely based on looks from the
moment the date begins you have five
minutes to decide whether you’re going
to commit to an entire evening some
criticize today’s youth for
stereotypically engaging in casual sex
we’re always looking at their phones
rather than using face-to-face
communication true or not many critics
argue there’s a generation gap between
Millennials and their old school
counterparts where younger generations
aren’t willing to work as hard and
therefore engage in purely superficial
relationships you swear you don’t want
anything more from me other than sex
you swear I want anything more from me
in spite of what you may have heard
about how great sex was in the 70s
access to prophylactics in this day and
age has never been easier and with a
more tolerant and open-minded culture
that continues to push forward we’ve got
to give this round to the present
Wow winner the present by a score of
three to two the present edges out the
past as the greatest historical era
yesterday is history tomorrow is a
mystery today is a gift that’s why it’s
called the present and that’s why it
wins this versus after all there’s no
time like the present do you agree with
our choice don’t forget to battle it out
in the comments and for more existential
verses battles be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
yeah we need condoms condoms yeah quick
[Music]
it’s gonna be big
those who look only to the past or
present are certain to miss the future
but that’s what we’re doing today
welcome to watchmojo.com and in this
installment of verses we’re pitting the
past against the present to see which
era and history comes out on top round
one travel and transportation oh right
cuz I’m Amish
so I wouldn’t know anything about your
69 GTO Judge 455 big-block Ram bear 411
posi something like that if we only
compared wagons to cars or looked at
life before the railways the present
would win in a landslide but the real
battle here is an air travel and then
men took to the skies if you dream of a
flight where you’re fed a full luxury
meal where every traveler Dawn’s his or
her Sunday best and where you can pack
whatever you want weight in liquid
restrictions be damned
then you’re pining for the Golden Age of
travel of the 1950s and 60s however
before Congress passed 1978 airline
deregulation Act air travel was pricier
and slower the crossing takes 24 well
are you joking rigid wire ships combine
the pampering of a cruise ship with the
speed of the mother slightly faster ship
in 1955 a New York to London flight with
TWA lasted 13 hours and ran 290 dollars
or about $2,600 adjusted for inflation
in 2016 you could travel that same route
for about 900 dollars and the flight
would be half as long hello airplanes
yeah it’s blimps you win but travel was
a more positive experience back in the
day and we can pinpoint when things
changed for good since 9/11 safety
concerns mean that the luxury is
basically gone from air travel and it’s
been replaced by aggravation excuse me
there’s two other security checkpoints
why can’t you open those two I don’t
know nothing most passengers dress for
comfort and to get through security
screenings more easily
and forget about keeping your belts and
shoes on all the way through once you’re
actually on board seats have shrunk and
everything costs extra
from checked baggage to snacks also I
never got my peanuts one airline
low-cost Irish company Ryanair even
tried charging passengers to use the
bathroom
I paid $1,200 to pee here we’ll admit
today’s tech is better and being able to
watch any movie on our own personal
screen is a plus but just once we’d like
to eat a gourmet meal on an airplane
like a civilized person that’s why round
one has to go to the past just plain
don’t know
winner the past round to health and
well-being if you had been born in the
Paleolithic period you probably would
have lived to age 33 I’m an
old-fashioned kind of girl I need a man
who can protect me and take care of me
sounds bad and it wasn’t much better in
1950 when the world’s average life
expectancy was 48 on the flip side
Americans were living to 78.8 years old
by 2012 a record high and that is only
one thing we say to death not today
modern medicine is keeping people alive
longer at a price the 21st century is an
era of sleep deprivation chronic stress
rampant obesity cancer and more and it
seems like everything will kill you
sunbathing drinking coffee that’s too
hot a 2014 study published in the
American Journal of Preventive Medicine
even found that sitting is roughly as
bad as smoking but we can treat these
afflictions when they do come up can you
imagine living in a time before
penicillin in the past people didn’t
need to exercise because their entire
lifestyle was active if they died early
it was likely because of an infection or
injury oh hold on that that’s only six
what happened to number seven number
seven hail he died of infection
degenerative diseases were likely much
less common 100 years ago people either
grew or raise their own food or bought
it from their local butcher milkman
farmer etc but beginning in the 1950s
food needed to be easier cheaper faster
so by 2013 seventy percent of the food
Americans ate was processed yes today we
can choose organic foods but according
to a 2013 New York Times article we’ve
bred the nutrition out of fruits and
vegetables so that today’s are not as
healthy as yesterday’s in fact in many
cases we’ve also increased the sugar and
starch content in that same produce
more while the past was a simpler time
when food was food and lifestyles were
active we can’t say we’d be okay with
dying the first time we got an infection
so modern medicine for the win in round
two winner the present Round three jobs
and financial security in the past
people took jobs to make money today
people choose careers because they love
what they do
in the 1950s according to a report by
the Chartered Institute of Personnel and
development people worked longer hours
got fewer holidays and were less safe on
the job but where on the whole happier
[Music]
today even though work-related health
and safety risks have dropped
dramatically stress is on the rise due
to the death of the traditional
nine-to-five workday the stress of my
modern office has caused me to go into a
depression depression isn’t that just a
fancy word for feeling bummed out
Dwight you ignorant by the 1960s
thanks to the economic boom after World
War two the American middle-class was
thriving with over half of households
bringing in between 35,000 and $100,000
annually that meant there could be one
wage earner and one homemaker kids a car
to a suburban house and extras like
savings or vacations plus a high school
diploma was all that was needed to get a
secure forever job do you actually want
to face this cold harsh world without a
high school diploma
[Music]
since then the gap between the rich and
poor has widened the subprime mortgage
crisis left many struggling to keep or
even buy homes
additionally mainly thanks to the
economic downturn of 2007 and 2008 a
college degree is necessary to get your
foot in the door at any company even for
low-level jobs basically you have no
experience no college degree no resume
no work history whatsoever in fact and
now you would like to be a lawyer that
means anyone expecting to join the work
force needed to shell out an average of
31 thousand dollars in tuition and fees
for a private university during the
2014-2015 school year
however the deciding factor here may be
human rights the heart of the question
is whether all Americans are to be
afforded equal rights and equal
opportunities the 1960s equal pay and
equal rights acts paved the way for
changes in how minority groups were
treated in the workplace with African
Americans promised equal opportunities
for example and sexual harassment
eventually prohibited will admit that
it’s still an uphill battle to ensure
the protection of all groups everywhere
as of 2015 the gender pay gap
still meant the average woman earned 82
cents to every dollar a man made but
that was significantly better than a
1980 Tess this is business let’s just
bury the hatchet you know you can bury
your hatchet now get your bony ass out
of my sight
the race wage gap also hadn’t closed if
a white man made $21 an hour then a
black man would make 15 and a Hispanic
man would make 14 while these numbers
might seem discouraging the law protects
the rights of far more people today than
in the past if you’re mistreated at work
you have more recourse in today’s
workplaces than you would have in 1960
well what do you say I throw in a little
sexual harassment charge to boot against
who against you the white picket fences
of the 1950s are all well and good but
civil rights were still an issue so
we’ve got to award this round to the
more tolerant present winner present
round for sports and entertainment
America’s ruled by like an army of steam
rollers it’s been erased like a
blackboard rebuilt and erased again but
baseball is not the time sports and
entertainment have always functioned as
a bonding experience for humans together
we watched gladiators battle or attended
Shakespeare’s latest plays but today
from movies to music to video games and
sports the entertainment industry is
pretty different
in 1960 an average movie ticket cost
approximately 70 cents and since movies
cost less to make many argue that
filmmakers took more chances resulting
in better films
in 2015 a ticket was almost nine dollars
and that’s not even mentioning snacks or
if you’re seeing something in IMAX
however you do get a better overall
viewing experience now filmmaking
technology has also improved drastically
from life of pies fantastical visuals to
James Cameron’s otherworldly avatar we
can now tell stories on-screen that once
would have been impossible to adapt does
this mean today’s movies are better
you know some critics say they’re
actually worse with poorly reviewed
action extravaganzas earning more than
their fair share at the box office
meaning that more and more of them will
get made how about music do you know how
much a ticket to Woodstock cost $24 at
the gate for all three days according to
pole star the average concert ticket
price in 2015 was 74 25 we’ll let you
decide if today’s music is worth the
extra dough
he’s telling me as well did he love my
sex appeal thing you don’t like a pony
like I think the grass rustled up in a
Jag made with it with the jab well one
thing’s for sure today’s video games
beat anything from the past they weren’t
really a thing until the 50s and pac-man
wasn’t released until 1980
we’re pretty sure you’re aware that
today videogames are big business as for
sports older fans miss the good old days
when pads were smaller athletes had
part-time jobs and no one made millions
today’s professional sports may not be
as pure as they once were what with all
the fancy gear and drug controversies
but the games are faster more exciting
and feature the best athletes in the
world as much as we love video games and
blockbuster movies we have to admit it
would have been pretty cool to see
Hendrix at Woodstock or the premiere of
Romeo and Juliet or to live through the
Golden Age of cinema open the pod bay
doors hell I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I
can’t do that
it was a tight race but it seems like
pure entertainment was much more easily
accessible in the past winner the past
what about us you’ll always have Paris
round five sex and relationships the
sexual revolution and the rise of
feminism in the 1960s and 70s changed
everything when it came to sex and
dating
they allowed women to gain control of
their destinies with the birth control
pill for example letting them finish
their education and enter the workforce
don’t you have anything simple easy
something like I don’t know a pill or
something of course there is deep hill
don’t mock me that in turn helped women
and men to be seen more as equals so
today a marriage is less the financial
contract it once was and more a
declaration of love
Oh
[Music]
but not only did the sexual revolution
change the Western world’s general
outlook on women’s sexuality premarital
sex and sexuality in general but on
homosexuality as well allowing it to
slowly become more accepted until
finally in 2015
same-sex marriage became legal across
the United States
unfortunately the free-love era was
decisively ended in the 1980s by the
spread of genital herpes and HIV AIDS
what happen even face I have AIDS Oh
while sexually transmitted infections
had been around for centuries the
popularization of antibiotics like
penicillin and prophylactics like
condoms had lessened the risks
significantly until these ailments came
along so today st eyes are a very real
threat to those in the dating pool since
even condoms aren’t a hundred percent
effective on the condom broke
of course even since the 20th century
courtship has evolved thanks to online
dating and social media sites like
Facebook and tinder he’s adorable so are
his wife and kids well he clearly
doesn’t understand what Facebook is for
sure meeting people is easier but it’s
often completely based on looks from the
moment the date begins you have five
minutes to decide whether you’re going
to commit to an entire evening some
criticize today’s youth for
stereotypically engaging in casual sex
we’re always looking at their phones
rather than using face-to-face
communication true or not many critics
argue there’s a generation gap between
Millennials and their old school
counterparts where younger generations
aren’t willing to work as hard and
therefore engage in purely superficial
relationships you swear you don’t want
anything more from me other than sex
you swear I want anything more from me
in spite of what you may have heard
about how great sex was in the 70s
access to prophylactics in this day and
age has never been easier and with a
more tolerant and open-minded culture
that continues to push forward we’ve got
to give this round to the present
Wow winner the present by a score of
three to two the present edges out the
past as the greatest historical era
yesterday is history tomorrow is a
mystery today is a gift that’s why it’s
called the present and that’s why it
wins this versus after all there’s no
time like the present do you agree with
our choice don’t forget to battle it out
in the comments and for more existential
verses battles be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
yeah we need condoms condoms yeah quick
[Music]
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