Thought that those of a certain vintage might appreciate this! Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own shopping bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologised and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." The cashier responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilised and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day. We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every shop and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day. Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn't have the green thing back in our day. Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the county of Yorkshire . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the post, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right. We didn't have the green thing back then. We drank water from a fountain or a tap when we were thirsty instead of demanding a plastic bottle flown in from another country. We accepted that a lot of food was seasonal and didnât expect that to be bucked by flying it thousands of air miles around the world. We actually cooked food that didnât come out of a packet, tin or plastic wrap and we could even wash our own vegetables and chop our own salad. But we didn't have the green thing back then. Back then, people took the tram or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mothers into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-ass young person. Remember: Don't make old people mad. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off. Hows about that folks, ring any bells?
Thanks for that, Bill. Enjoyed it. And just a bit before that we dug up all the useless lawns and grew our own vegetables. Both the production method and the eating of which made obesity far less likely.
People collected birds eggs and no one considered species depletion More dangerous chemicals were used in agriculture Wealth was based on the exploitation of colonised countries It was not uncommon for children to die from diphtheria, whooping cough, measles or TB Mass production and capitalist-based surpluses were created with little thought of scarcity, pollution or species diversity Choking smogs from industrial and domestic pollution killed many people in our cities _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Yeah, the olden days were a green panacea.
Shameless - yeah, all of that is true, too. There were good bits about the old ways, but equally bad bits that shouldn't be forgotten.
Washable nappies are making a comeback, we use 'em for our young lad. Hell of a lot cheaper in the long run than the disposable ones. not the same as the ones you oldies used to use mind, they dont leak everywhere for a start.
This! I might not be from the generation that did all of those above (being born in the very early 1990's) however i do agree with this. I still live a whole 150m from my primary school. When i was little, we WALKED! the whole village did! And those that lived in neighbouring villages got the 1 (yes, 1) bus! there was a total of 2 cars, from kids (one who was my best friend) who lived just outside of the bus route. Now i honestly can't get out the village from times of 8.45 to 915 and 2.45 and 3.15, due to the main road being clogged up now from over 50 cars (50 of the ****ers!) the bus isn't even half full anymore, and i see people that live in the village, one my next door neighbour, go and drive down the road to pick up her kid. Its just a joke. Rant over!
There's a slimmers world class on at our local club, 7 minutes walk away, yet they drive there & back. I think to myself "if you walked there & back maybe you'd lose a few inches off your fat arse". Simplicity isn't it?
Good job they don't live in Brazil he Brazilian club Corinthians are keeping their striker Adriano "detained" inside the team's hotel in an effort to force him to lose weight. The club said Adriano, who has been fined several times for missing training, would be put on a strict diet inside the hotel at the team's headquarters, eating only what doctors give him and training three times a day. The Corinthians fitness trainer Fabio Mahseredjian said the team chose to detain the former Internazionale striker because he has failed to improve his physical condition. He has played rarely since recovering from surgery on his achilles tendon last year and is in danger of not being included in the squad for the Copa Libertadores. Mahseredjian said: "In the hotel we have more control over him … He knows we're trying to do the best for him. All of us are dedicated, but it depends on him. Weight loss comes only through diet: you cannot lose weight through physical activity alone."
This is all common sense, but as I was once told the first thing you find out is that sense is never common.
I think you'll find on that last point they is such a place still around to this day called Middlesbrough. God know's how people have survived. Jammy, you seem older than the person who wrote the original piece with a comment like that
Commachio, just as well Brazil aren't in the UN (Or are they) They'd be some ****wit of a politician somewhere who'd take Corinthians to court for human rights offences. Was a cracking player when he was younger as well, some seem to get success too young though and it spoil's them.
Aye mate, it seems a bit strange.....seems some pics mind, and he's piled the beef on..... But being under house arrest (or club arrest) don't seem the ideal way to sort it... Next they'll be throwing him on one of those daft fat busters tv programmes....where some skinny bitch shouts and screams at them all, and you just want to hoy a snooker ball down her throat to shut her up.