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By *eavenNhell OP   Couple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

Anyone over the age of 32 should read this, as I copied this from a friend... Checking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own carrier bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. I 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 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, fizzy 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 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 or lift in every store and office building. We walked to the supermarket and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two minutes up the road. 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?), n

ot a screen the size of England. 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 mail, we used screwed 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 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 computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000miles 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,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And who remembers that your Fish and Chips came wrapped in Newspaper - but we didn't have this green thing back in our day

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ah a history lesson on the dark ages

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By *elaxedsexyfunMan
over a year ago

Northants

Superb!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No internet either!

How did swinging happen in the olden days?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think actually that was a good read. Bloody true!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lol all true though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

actually we did have the green stuff back then, but it was nothing special.

unlike todays rocket fuel

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

brilliant post..... We also didn't have so many arsy checkout staff, they were polite and helpful AND able to count with out an electric powered till...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Far better than the green thing. We just did it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

you turned up at someone's house and chucked your car keys in a bowl. whoever picked them out ...you were with that night....AHHHH the good old days.....LOL

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By *hole Lotta RosieWoman
over a year ago

Deviant City

Saw this on Facebook the other day

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"No internet either!

How did swinging happen in the olden days? "

Haha matchmaker magazine, the joys, pay to send a message,

The principle would cull a lot of the fancy a fuck messages,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We did have the green thing but it wasn't the money making machine it is today so the brainwashing especially in schools wasnt implemented,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

32 seems like an arbitrary age

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

BUT

(And here's the kicker)

Who was in charge when all these changes happened? It certainly wasn't the young girl fighting an automated checkout for her job....

Mr ddc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We did have the green thing but it wasn't the money making machine it is today so the brainwashing especially in schools wasnt implemented,"

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

We put a house brick in the toilet cistern to save water.

We cut around our feet on a cereal box to make insoles.

We put oats in the mince to make the shepherds pie serve more people

We grew our own veg.

We only turned the telly on when a programme was on we wanted to watch.

Telly didn't come on until Tea time and it went off before midnight.

We shared bath water.

We used low wattage bulbs.

We made ommelettes so the eggs went further.

we made our own fairy cakes for pennies and didn't call them CUP CAKES and sell them for stupid money each.

We saved up for things we wanted.

Left over food was made into next days meals

We wouldn't have dreamed of buying sandwiches we made them for next to nothing.

Who the FUCK would have been stupid enough to pay for water in my day ? NO ONE.

We cout our own hair and each others.

We stiched laddered tights.

Christ this could go on for ever.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator or lift in every store and office building."

Personally I think it should be mandatory for the overweight to take the stairs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cheers guys you all did us a favour, great work

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Spot on. The "green thing" is a multi million pound business masquerading as environmentally friendly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We put a house brick in the toilet cistern to save water.

We cut around our feet on a cereal box to make insoles.

We put oats in the mince to make the shepherds pie serve more people

We grew our own veg.

We only turned the telly on when a programme was on we wanted to watch.

Telly didn't come on until Tea time and it went off before midnight.

We shared bath water.

We used low wattage bulbs.

We made ommelettes so the eggs went further.

we made our own fairy cakes for pennies and didn't call them CUP CAKES and sell them for stupid money each.

We saved up for things we wanted.

Left over food was made into next days meals

We wouldn't have dreamed of buying sandwiches we made them for next to nothing.

Who the FUCK would have been stupid enough to pay for water in my day ? NO ONE.

We cout our own hair and each others.

We stiched laddered tights.

Christ this could go on for ever. "

Until it sounds like a scene from Monty Python?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All this nostalgia is making my eyes well up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Having recently turned 32 I don't like how being 32 is described as 'old'

There's always been cars in my family, I had a telly in my room from a young age and there was one in the sitting room and the kitchen.

I do remember the corona pop man used to come round and we did give the empty glass bottles to him and the milk and orange juice bottles back to the milk man! I had a spectrum computer then a master system then a mega drive then a Super Nintendo then a play station, had game boys, donkey kong hand held game. I'm not old at 32 there was technology when I was born.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We put a house brick in the toilet cistern to save water. "

OMG that just took be down memory lane, my nan actually used to do that, in the outside loo with the cisten on the wall where you actually pulled the chain

Thanks for the memories

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By *rlicker123Man
over a year ago

gillingham kent

there where no plastic bags to put your shopping in we had cloth bags that lasted forever if not that then paper bags with string handles .

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By *ackandkateCouple
over a year ago

Truro

I remember the days when dog shit was white. We never had to buy chalk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I remember the days when dog shit was white. We never had to buy chalk "

And eggs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We put a house brick in the toilet cistern to save water.

We cut around our feet on a cereal box to make insoles.

We put oats in the mince to make the shepherds pie serve more people

We grew our own veg.

We only turned the telly on when a programme was on we wanted to watch.

Telly didn't come on until Tea time and it went off before midnight.

We shared bath water.

We used low wattage bulbs.

We made ommelettes so the eggs went further.

we made our own fairy cakes for pennies and didn't call them CUP CAKES and sell them for stupid money each.

We saved up for things we wanted.

Left over food was made into next days meals

We wouldn't have dreamed of buying sandwiches we made them for next to nothing.

Who the FUCK would have been stupid enough to pay for water in my day ? NO ONE.

We cout our own hair and each others.

We stiched laddered tights.

Christ this could go on for ever. "

bet you wipe ya bum on old newspapers to

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By *quirrelMan
over a year ago

East Manchester

You missed one important thing from your list, we actually kept the same appliances for years because in the "Dark ages" everything was made with the idea that should it break down it should be repaired not thrown away.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Anyone over the age of 32 should read this, as I copied this from a friend... Checking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own carrier bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. I 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 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, fizzy 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 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 or lift in every store and office building. We walked to the supermarket and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two minutes up the road. 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?), n

ot a screen the size of England. 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 mail, we used screwed 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 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 computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000miles 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,"

All of this is kinda ruined by the fact your generation decided an AIR COOLED NUCLEAR POWER PLANT was a clever idea...

Also coal.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"BUT

(And here's the kicker)

Who was in charge when all these changes happened? It certainly wasn't the young girl fighting an automated checkout for her job....

Mr ddc"

This. The OP is just a long list of crap changes that the older generation have overseen.

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By *quirrelMan
over a year ago

East Manchester


"Anyone over the age of 32 should read this, as I copied this from a friend... Checking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own carrier bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. I 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 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, fizzy 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 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 or lift in every store and office building. We walked to the supermarket and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two minutes up the road. 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?), n

ot a screen the size of England. 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 mail, we used screwed 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 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 computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000miles 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,

All of this is kinda ruined by the fact your generation decided an AIR COOLED NUCLEAR POWER PLANT was a clever idea...

Also coal."

Solar panel technology was the equivalent of £1000 per square foot, and wind turbines at todays values would have cost £7-10 million-- each. you got these technologies because of the older generation working towards changing what was, to what is.

You can call the oldies as much as you want, but it was a case of what as used was the only available technology that could be used.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And we had green shield stamps!

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By *odareyouMan
over a year ago

not far from iceland,,,,,, tescos is nearer though :-) (near leeds)

That's progress..

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By *aneandpaulCouple
over a year ago

cleveleys

very true

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By *ezjez369Man
over a year ago

london


"We put a house brick in the toilet cistern to save water.

We cut around our feet on a cereal box to make insoles.

We put oats in the mince to make the shepherds pie serve more people

We grew our own veg.

We only turned the telly on when a programme was on we wanted to watch.

Telly didn't come on until Tea time and it went off before midnight.

We shared bath water.

We used low wattage bulbs.

We made ommelettes so the eggs went further.

we made our own fairy cakes for pennies and didn't call them CUP CAKES and sell them for stupid money each.

We saved up for things we wanted.

Left over food was made into next days meals

We wouldn't have dreamed of buying sandwiches we made them for next to nothing.

Who the FUCK would have been stupid enough to pay for water in my day ? NO ONE.

We cout our own hair and each others.

We stiched laddered tights.

Christ this could go on for ever. "

You're a scouser, that was only last week lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Anyone over the age of 32 should read this, as I copied this from a friend... Checking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own carrier bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. I 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 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, fizzy 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 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 or lift in every store and office building. We walked to the supermarket and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two minutes up the road. 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?), n

ot a screen the size of England. 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 mail, we used screwed 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 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 computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000miles 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,

All of this is kinda ruined by the fact your generation decided an AIR COOLED NUCLEAR POWER PLANT was a clever idea...

Also coal.

Solar panel technology was the equivalent of £1000 per square foot, and wind turbines at todays values would have cost £7-10 million-- each. you got these technologies because of the older generation working towards changing what was, to what is.

You can call the oldies as much as you want, but it was a case of what as used was the only available technology that could be used. "

No it wasn't lol it was an experiment for making nuclear weapons quockly and cheaply it was literally a reactor in a wind tunnel with a chimney lol.

It had no real descendants in nuclear technology beyond a few hundred deaths and the permanent note that attempting to super heat a reactor to anneal your graphite because you're too cheap to replace it is not a sensible course of action :p

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By *uby0000Woman
over a year ago

hertfordshire


"We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator or lift in every store and office building.

Personally I think it should be mandatory for the overweight to take the stairs "

would never make it!!!!

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By *aster C the kinksterMan
over a year ago

Darlington


"Anyone over the age of 32 should read this, as I copied this from a friend... Checking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own carrier bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. I 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 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, fizzy 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 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 or lift in every store and office building. We walked to the supermarket and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two minutes up the road. 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?), n

ot a screen the size of England. 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 mail, we used screwed 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 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 computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000miles 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,"

Well said that person up there!..

S..x

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Not sure on the refillable fountain pen, I got the posh cartridge pen instead.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham


"You missed one important thing from your list, we actually kept the same appliances for years because in the "Dark ages" everything was made with the idea that should it break down it should be repaired not thrown away."

More like it was built to last,not like now built to last till the warrenty runs out.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Brilliant, we all reminded about the dark ages ??????

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By *tevelizCouple
over a year ago

northampton

next time remember to ask for a discount. The store will have included the cost of the bags along with other overheads when working out the prices you pay.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Anyone over the age of 32 should read this, as I copied this from a friend... Checking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own carrier bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. I 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 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, fizzy 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 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 or lift in every store and office building. We walked to the supermarket and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two minutes up the road. 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?), n

ot a screen the size of England. 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 mail, we used screwed 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 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 computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000miles 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,"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hello Thx118,

not quite sure what you are referring to, but you don't anneal graphite nor do you need to replace it in nuclear reactors?

Are you thinking of Chernobyl by any chance, that accident was caused by absolute stupidity, incompetence and the fact that the Russians saved money by not building a containment around the reactor.

Alec

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

I enjoyed reading the OP's post.

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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago

upton wirral

All very true the young are so ignorant,a lot because of the internet but this is maybe another topic.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm assuming that people over 32 years of age still live like that romanticised description of the past?

Well done to every over 32 year old on not having a car, electric lawn mower, big tv etc ...

Fucking Facebook has ruined the Internet.

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By *avebi48Man
over a year ago

Lordswood


"You missed one important thing from your list, we actually kept the same appliances for years because in the "Dark ages" everything was made with the idea that should it break down it should be repaired not thrown away."

where possible I still do this today tho surface mount stuff is a bit of a stretch for my eyes now lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The good old days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ah but the most important question is

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will the OP bring his own carrier bags next time

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"And we had green shield stamps!"

Ma dad used to drive miles out of his way so that he could get quad green shield stamps

My first job was as a petrol pump attendant in 1977

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By *osieWoman
over a year ago

Wembley


"No internet either!

How did swinging happen in the olden days? "

car keys; no immobilisers though; post sex, car is missing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well said op

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By *onyneMan
over a year ago

Newcastle

Brilliant...love it thanks for posting

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I hate posts about how things were better in the past..they fucking werent..now move with the times...

we might have more electronic gadgetry etc...but advancements have been made 10fold(a tumble dryer back in the dark ages is vastly energy inefficient to one made now ffs)..and they continue to do so

it IS big money going green..but when you are forecasting for the next 50-100years..thats when it pays to start implementing now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator or lift in every store and office building.

Personally I think it should be mandatory for the overweight to take the stairs "

I'd be fucked then. Might as well just sit on my sofa and eat doughnuts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Remember when we used to sell our piss to cure hides? And horses were for pulling carts not for backing in the 2.30 at Doncaster. Mud was much better than carpet for flooring,you just swept out the old and dug up some new. God,I miss those days.

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By *osieWoman
over a year ago

Wembley


"Remember when we used to sell our piss to cure hides? And horses were for pulling carts not for backing in the 2.30 at Doncaster. Mud was much better than carpet for flooring,you just swept out the old and dug up some new. God,I miss those days. "

Thank f**k I don't remember those days

xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chip shop news papers straight from the bog floor

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By *ampWithABrainWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

Saw and commented on this on fb earlier. I still don't have a tumble dryer, dishwasher, lawnmower (no garden), car, use jute bags for shopping and have for years, I recycle, live in Scotland where we never stopped recycling glass bottles, clothes are passed on/sold as are any other items still in usable condition, recycle batteries and mobile phones, old specs donated to charity, can knit, sew or darn when needed, can repair most things myself or will post on fb to barter for skills.

No not all good in good old days but lots can be done now to honour mother earth.

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By *ampWithABrainWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

Did you know you can recycle sex toys too?

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By *osieWoman
over a year ago

Wembley


"Did you know you can recycle sex toys too? "

I hope these do not 'reincarnate' into toothbrushes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Hello Thx118,

not quite sure what you are referring to, but you don't anneal graphite nor do you need to replace it in nuclear reactors?

Are you thinking of Chernobyl by any chance, that accident was caused by absolute stupidity, incompetence and the fact that the Russians saved money by not building a containment around the reactor.

Alec"

Windscale.

And yes you do have to anneal (although not in the tradition sense) graphite when it's structure is damaged by high energy neutrons or else it can result on spontaneous and massive heat release when the higher energy state dislocations return to their lower energy state positions.

This accident though like Chernobyl was caused too by stupidity and the decision to attempt to fix the graphite one too many times.

An atmospheric air cooled reactor how it ever got built I'll never know.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You forgot about christmas!! Christmas was family time... I got what i was given not what i wanted that consisted of a board game for the family to play together on the day, new unerwear and maybe p.j's if i was lucky! It wasnt about new gadgets thats just come out how much uve spent!

It was wait for everyone to turn up then u can take in turns to open ur pressies, you know it wasnt much wat u got but apriciated it as wen i was a kid i didnt get treats everyday, my real treat was crimbo day the day you actually looked forward too... Then ud all stuff ya face with actual home cooked food, then ud get wrinkly fingers as your washing the hundreds of pots piled up in the kitchen none of this dishwasher shit back then lol im 28 and all the comments above applied to me too inclueding hand me downs but i loved it...... Bring back the good old days!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Anyone over the age of 32 should read this, as I copied this from a friend... Checking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own carrier bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. I 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 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, fizzy 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 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 or lift in every store and office building. We walked to the supermarket and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two minutes up the road. 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?), n

ot a screen the size of England. 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 mail, we used screwed 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 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 computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000miles 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,"

Copy and Pasted on my Facebook profile. Well said OP

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...


"I hate posts about how things were better in the past..they fucking werent..now move with the times...

we might have more electronic gadgetry etc...but advancements have been made 10fold(a tumble dryer back in the dark ages is vastly energy inefficient to one made now ffs)..and they continue to do so

it IS big money going green..but when you are forecasting for the next 50-100years..thats when it pays to start implementing now."

What tumble dryer in the so called dark ages?

We had a washing line and if it was raining a wooden "maiden" that stood either in the kitchen or bathroom until the sun came out.

I can honestly say that when I was a kid I didn't know anyone with a tumble dryer.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I hate posts about how things were better in the past..they fucking werent..now move with the times...

we might have more electronic gadgetry etc...but advancements have been made 10fold(a tumble dryer back in the dark ages is vastly energy inefficient to one made now ffs)..and they continue to do so

it IS big money going green..but when you are forecasting for the next 50-100years..thats when it pays to start implementing now.

What tumble dryer in the so called dark ages?

We had a washing line and if it was raining a wooden "maiden" that stood either in the kitchen or bathroom until the sun came out.

I can honestly say that when I was a kid I didn't know anyone with a tumble dryer."

The tumble dryer was really just an example...lets say a tumble dryer 10 years ago...compared to some made now. Perhaps a washing machine would have been a better example lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"BUT

(And here's the kicker)

Who was in charge when all these changes happened? It certainly wasn't the young girl fighting an automated checkout for her job....

Mr ddc"

....Kicker!! Since when did you turn white...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just to clarify.... I don't think young people suddenly decided to be wasteful, just as I don't think old people wanted to "walk" everywhere.

What the human race found was... Cheap energy! And with that came the gains and the shortsightedness, there's an American documentary from 1972 I remember watching years ago about oil in Texas, they interviewed an old chap who just couldn't believe for one minute the oil in Texas wouldn't last forever! ,there was such an abundance of it, and it was all he'd ever known... Little did he know that was the year it went into permanent decline

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...


"I hate posts about how things were better in the past..they fucking werent..now move with the times...

we might have more electronic gadgetry etc...but advancements have been made 10fold(a tumble dryer back in the dark ages is vastly energy inefficient to one made now ffs)..and they continue to do so

it IS big money going green..but when you are forecasting for the next 50-100years..thats when it pays to start implementing now.

What tumble dryer in the so called dark ages?

We had a washing line and if it was raining a wooden "maiden" that stood either in the kitchen or bathroom until the sun came out.

I can honestly say that when I was a kid I didn't know anyone with a tumble dryer.

The tumble dryer was really just an example...lets say a tumble dryer 10 years ago...compared to some made now. Perhaps a washing machine would have been a better example lol"

Even washing machines were rare in my day. Us kids were sent with a big sack of clothes to the Launderette on a Saturday morning. The bonus was that there was always a big pile of Beano back issues for us to read.

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By *arry247Couple
over a year ago

Wakefield

Seems like I am the only one that remembers this recycled from 4 or 5 years ago.

But worth another airing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What about cars?

They're heavier now, so the actual performance (mpg) has gone down.

Not to mention petrol going from less than 40 p a litre to today's stupid price,

So your car uses more petrol per mile, and you pay more for each litre.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Older folk were great at making alot from a little, it was the way of the world prior to the 70s.

As an interesting side note... I've never spent more than half my wages in the last 12 years using this philosophy....

Being green is also the biggest money saver!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Anyone over the age of 32 should read this, as I copied this from a friend... Checking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own carrier bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. I 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 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, fizzy 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 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 or lift in every store and office building. We walked to the supermarket and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two minutes up the road. 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?), n

ot a screen the size of England. 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 mail, we used screwed 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 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 computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000miles 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,"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love this and it's absolutely wright

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Spot on. The "green thing" is a multi million pound business masquerading as environmentally friendly.

"

It seems we are finally waking up to this.

No more subsidies, grants and approvals for wind farms to produce "free energy" with no "damage or deterioration of the environment".

Unless of course you count the power stations that we need to keep running due to the lack of energy generated when there's no wind, the £1 million a mega watt cost of production and the asthetic harm a wind farm does.

Environmental blackmail and nothing more than a money making scam.

Remember how bottled water was supposed to be so much better for us than tap water? Scam. Clever marketing, nothing more.

Top 5 bottled water brand; Evian.

Now read Evian spelt backwards....

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By *avebi48Man
over a year ago

Lordswood


"What about cars?

They're heavier now, so the actual performance (mpg) has gone down.

Not to mention petrol going from less than 40 p a litre to today's stupid price,

So your car uses more petrol per mile, and you pay more for each litre.

"

seriously?

most modern cars are capable of 40+ mpg depending on how they're driven, back then 30 was only on a downhill and flapping your arms to assist As for weight I'm not so sure as more composites are used these days, new cars just look bulkier.

The thing I don't agree with tho is this whole notion that us drivers of older cars must go buy new ones cuz they're more eco friendly. Let's just forget the carbon footprint to create that older car plus then again to recycle it, then add the eco cost to create the new one. A couple more mpg ain't gonna recoup that and of course a couple years down the road it'll be the same argument to replace your old new car so increasing your carbon footprint further...

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