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Can you name things that youngsters of today won't know?
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classic33
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They seem to think they don't need to hold on these days.
There are a couple of good rope swings over the rivers near me, I'm often tempted, then remember I'm 51.What's up with all you peeps - no coal bunkers and no tree swings!
We have a lovely tree swing about 50m from the house in the woods. Great fun it is too esp' as it is about 10m long and swings out over a very steep and deep ravine. Been in action for the 20 years that we have lived here which coincidently is today.
Coffeejo and I had a go on a rope swing in the woods near her earlier this year.
I'm happy to report rope swings are alive and well.
As for discarded porn mags in the woods. Nope, the internet has seen to them.
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- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
There are a couple of good rope swings over the rivers near me, I'm often tempted, then remember I'm 51.
Coffeejo and I had a go on a rope swing in the woods near her earlier this year.
I'm happy to report rope swings are alive and well.
As for discarded porn mags in the woods. Nope, the internet has seen to them.
I have a go every now and again and I'm 61. Inner child and all that.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Throwing skimmers across a glassy creek as the light fades.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
Apologies in advance, for long post, but, thought this may amuse the "oldies" among you (I received it via one of my sons-in-law):
When at a store checkout the young cashier suggested to the older woman
that she should bring her own shopping bags in future 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 shop.
The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized 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 blunt.
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 shop and didn't climb into a
300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two streets.
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 2200watts -- 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 polystyrene 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 didn’t expect to have out of season products
flown thousands of air miles around the world. We actually cooked food that
didn’t come out of a packet, tin or plastic wrapping 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 caught a train 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 socket 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 place.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we oldies
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....
When at a store checkout the young cashier suggested to the older woman
that she should bring her own shopping bags in future 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 shop.
The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized 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 blunt.
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 shop and didn't climb into a
300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two streets.
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 2200watts -- 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 polystyrene 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 didn’t expect to have out of season products
flown thousands of air miles around the world. We actually cooked food that
didn’t come out of a packet, tin or plastic wrapping 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 caught a train 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 socket 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 place.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we oldies
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....
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Also don't forget we used to fix bikes up instead of buying a new un,
1967 Carlton 'Clubman' completely rebuilt in about 89 (after it was run over) and my only transport for 10yrs after that, still fantastic today.
wheresthetorch
Dreaming of Celeste
- Location
- West Sussex
Ceefax and Oracle.
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Dreaming of Celeste
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