Being the age I may be 
I only have 2 FB friends so my messages dont spread too far.
Thought Id use Lauries extensive network to spread this one.
Puts a whole new complexion on the blemish.
Everyone from "this" generation needs to read it.
Everyone from the previous generation will receive solace well beyond the effort taken to read it.
Everyone from the up-n-coming generation should get a serious message for their own future.
Check it out
gaasedal.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/anyone-over-the-age-of-35-should-read-this-as-i-copied-this-from-a-friends-status/Select to expand quoteChecking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. I apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days".
The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations".
She was right about one thing-our generation didn't have the green thing in "Our" day. So what did we have back then? After some reflection and soul-searching on "Our" day, here's what I remembered we did have..
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 sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles repeatedly. So they really were recycled. 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 store 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 240 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 Wales. In the kitchen, we blended & 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 mail, 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 from a water fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. 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 then.
Back then, people took the bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mums 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 computerized 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 post this on your Facebook profile so another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smarty-pants young person can add to this
Add to that .... Back then every house didn't have an air conditioner / cooler .
Not needed in Melbourne IMO .
damn, I thought my previous answer was in general..
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"back in your day" with your carefully hand-picked good memories, without taking into account all the bad sides... no internet, no mobile ( which are 2 ways to get in touch with people, call for help, get instructions, learn.. also porn ), the companies could just avoid to write all the ****ty stuff they put in their products, when aids was a gay disease that you could take with a kiss and the general Q.I was much much lower?
we all think highly of our past because good memories last longer, but it wasn't so nice at all..
with these 2 links you can also see how much groceries used to cost and how much it would be today... just for the "we could use a dollar to buy a loaf of bread and still go to the movies!" kind of guys...
guides.slv.vic.gov.au/c.php?g=245232&p=1633085
www.australindtravel.com/log/Cost/Australia.htm
The Crazy thing about this is, It was The old person's Generation that started creating these things, not the young person's, so whose fault is it really...?
Don't mention those stupid "green" light bulbs that cost 10x more, last the same amount of time, probably cost 10x more to produce and create 10x as much pollution and then create a bright white light so that your house is lit up like a hospital ward.
Anyone know where to get the old tungsten filament globes from?
My TV uses 70-128w, I've got it using 78w and it's 55".
Those CRT 24"-32" used 100-300w, and made a high pitch noise that gave me a headache.
Back in the day, we didn't get second hand American whinge lists being passed off as Australian all the time.
^^^ not 2nd hand 54th hand. On every geriatric forum in existence, with all sorts of variations.
It reminds me of one of my mother's dreaded email forwards. In fact I'm sure that I'll get it from her sooner or later. I even set up gmail to bounce them straight back with the error "Message not delivered: Undesirable content". And they still keep arriving.
Problem is, like all of her forwards, it sounds good on the surface and makes the target audience feel good / justified / self satisfied for a few seconds. But if you think a little deeper, it doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
