do you remember.
Jul 12, 2017 07:59:19 #
SATS
Loc: Belgium
You can see from my avatar what generation I am from and that was before they started giving them letters. Yes, all of what you said but it wasn't as one sided as you make out.
I remember the long days of the summer holidays when a gang of kids went out and climbed trees or made a raft, all drank from the same bottle of pop, didn't get sick and didn't have to be surgically removed from their game boys. I remember appliances being regarded as 'good' if it took two men to move them. I remember the early days of flying when people were scared of crashing and so the airlines gave them crackers double wrapped in heat sealed cellophane just to keep them occupied. I also remember when families preferred kids to stuff.
I also remember laying in bed of a Sunday morning and listening to someone down the street trying to start their car and thinking “He has got a Ford with a side valve engine.” I remember when new TV's came with maintenance contracts until the Japanese came along with better components and stole the market.
Ah, nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
I remember the long days of the summer holidays when a gang of kids went out and climbed trees or made a raft, all drank from the same bottle of pop, didn't get sick and didn't have to be surgically removed from their game boys. I remember appliances being regarded as 'good' if it took two men to move them. I remember the early days of flying when people were scared of crashing and so the airlines gave them crackers double wrapped in heat sealed cellophane just to keep them occupied. I also remember when families preferred kids to stuff.
I also remember laying in bed of a Sunday morning and listening to someone down the street trying to start their car and thinking “He has got a Ford with a side valve engine.” I remember when new TV's came with maintenance contracts until the Japanese came along with better components and stole the market.
Ah, nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Jul 12, 2017 08:09:48 #
SATS
Loc: Belgium
Prescription drugs are advertised on television so that you go to your doctor and tell him what you want rather than him telling you what you need.
Jul 12, 2017 11:29:11 #
Jul 12, 2017 12:36:29 #
lmTrying
Loc: WV Northern Panhandle
Imagigraphic wrote:
Of the fruit available today (but especially pears), it goes from rock-hard to rotten without ever passing ripe.
You noticed that, too. That's what happens when things are picked green and are expected to ripen on the way to market.
Jul 12, 2017 12:39:38 #
lmTrying
Loc: WV Northern Panhandle
markngolf wrote:
I remember all of them and a few others too. I'm 80. On the other hand my father died at 41, my mother at 49 and my brother at 2.5. Had it been today, when afflicted, they would all probably have enjoyed long years of healthy lives. I also long for many facets of "the good old days", but appreciate the improvements too.
Thanks
Mark
Thanks
Mark
Do you mean like not having to go outside in the cold and dark to that little house to go to the bathroom?
Jul 12, 2017 12:43:00 #
No, we had chamber pots for the middle of the night. Then emptied them in the morning and cleaned them out.
Jul 12, 2017 14:00:30 #
markngolf wrote:
Maybe change your source. I buy from local farms/local stores who market local products. Sorry to have to tell you this, but for pears, the harder they are the better I like them.
I suspect I'm in a very small minority.
Mark
I suspect I'm in a very small minority.
Mark
there's nit that many left in my area. I like my pears softer and juicey.
Jul 12, 2017 14:02:17 #
Fkaufman1 wrote:
But back then you were lucky to make it to 75 and be able to complain about the good ole days.
my dad was born in 1884 and lived to 101 my uncles all lived into their 90's
Jul 12, 2017 14:04:59 #
jerryc41 wrote:
"The Good Old Days" weren't necessarily that good. Yes, the "manufacturers" have been messing with our food, but other products are generally made better and are more durable. The profit motive is behind a lot of the misery in the world.
many of he new products are made to have a shorter life span.
Jul 12, 2017 14:09:14 #
Jul 12, 2017 20:27:37 #
Imagigraphic wrote:
Of the fruit available today (but especially pears), it goes from rock-hard to rotten without ever passing ripe.
Most of the time.....
Jul 12, 2017 23:24:35 #
bull drink water-I just turned 90 years old and for the life of me I cannot figure out how I've survived without "organic," and with "gluten-loaded" foods. Also, "probiotic" and "bottled water" never figured into my food or liquid intake. My brother and I never thought about "vegan", preferring to load up on strawberry shortcake with plenty of home made whipped cream or, seasonally, home made pumpkin pie....again, loaded with whipped cream. A plate full of freshly-baked brownies with lots of creamy milk to drink greeted us when we arrived home from school each afternoon.
Jul 13, 2017 04:04:32 #
Jackel wrote:
bull drink water-I just turned 90 years old and fo... (show quote)
Not 90 but pushing 80 and by all of today's health standards I should not be alive. I'm still working but 32 hrs a week, have slowed down a bit, either outside or in a sheet metal garage w/o a/c. I believe a/c has made generations of heat intolerant people, I have lived most of my life without a/c, we used fans when I was young, if you were lucky you had a oscillating fan and then window fans after they came out (oh but it was reasonably safe to leave a couple of windows open then). I didn't have central air until 1995 and since then the heat seems to bother me more.
Jul 13, 2017 05:45:12 #
jerryc41 wrote:
"The Good Old Days" weren't necessarily that good. Yes, the "manufacturers" have been messing with our food, but other products are generally made better and are more durable. The profit motive is behind a lot of the misery in the world.
Jul 13, 2017 07:19:58 #
Imagigraphic wrote:
Oh, and the list of side-effects for prescription drugs advertised on television (why would prescription drugs be advertised on television?) is as long as your arm and ranges from kidney failure to heart failure to death. Who would want to risk taking such drugs?
Isn't it amazing? On some TV ads, the description of the bad side effects takes twice as long as the description of why you might want to take it. "May cause coma or death." Really? You'd have to be out-and-out desperate to want that medication. I've seen some ads that state "May cause death" more than once! Wow! An affliction would have to be driving me insane with incessant suffering and pain before I would consider this. And the medications do not work on everybody, or even on most people, so the question remains "Do I want to take this medication that may do nothing for me and risk death at the same time? Hmmm. I think I'll try it." The term "thinning the herd" seems appropriate with this kind of thinking.
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