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11/29/2011 Entry: "More Bullshit About The Good Ol Days"

So here is a facebook post that is just more bovine fecal matter.

In the checkout at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day." The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation didn't care enough to save our environment." Oh, so it's our fault? Well let's just think about that for a minute.

Oh yes, the gilded memories of the "good ol days." Never let facts get in the way.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda 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 over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Yes, we did that and then bottles were cleaned with detergents that were just dumped into the water and soil because there was no regulations on what toxins we could dump.

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

No, but you had elevators unless you were around prior to 1900. You used them and didn't complain about it. Also escalators came around the same time so go back and complain to someone stupid enough to believe you without question.

We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But he was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Yes, and you didn't have Wal-Mart box stores 10 miles away. Box stores that basically shut down small business owners that use to exist within walking distance. You also had buses that belched out way more crap then today's 300 hp engine to due clean air regulations.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers 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 the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that old lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Yes, and back then diaper services were what was on the market. the technology for disposables became really popular in the 1950's when P&G started marketing them as a way to save mom's from the drudgery of having to constantly wash cloth diapers. So yes, there was line drying depending on weather. Pants frozen stiff because of freezing weather or wet because you didn't get them off the line in time. Not to mention the towels that felt like 100 grit sandpaper if you didn't beat them to remove the stiffness. So yes clothes would be passed down from one generation and made with dyes that would stain your arms and legs when you wore them. Dyes that aren't allowed anymore because the long term health effects to your person and your environment have been shown to not be a beneficial item, unlike how you might choose to remember the good ol days.


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 state of Montana .

Yes, the pioneering days of radio and tv. We had so little and we were grateful and the younger generation doesn't appreciate us enough. Your B&W TV and old radio had tubes, you could replace them. You could also count on knowing someone would get killed because of the high voltage output transformers they came into contact with trying to change a tube. You had a few channels and if you didn't like it to bad, now you have 500 channels and nothing to watch. Yes but my 500 channel system doesn't use as much electricity as some of those old tv's and radios. So you caused the plants to burn more coal and fossil fuels thus contributing to the air pollution and soil damage. but you were grateful, right?

In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us.

Perhaps you grandparents did but don't ever doubt that when the blender and the electric stove came out that is what grandma wanted for her kitchen. Why? because doing everything by hand is hard ass work. If it wasn't there would have been no market or need for these devices which improved efficiency.


When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

With the ink of the newspaper that would come off on your hands and darken everything you touched. Need I mention how wonderful that ink was to the environment and what the newspaper plants would do when done with it? Maybe you are smart enough to figure it out.

Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power.

Yes, and a much more environmentally friendly lawnmower you probably will not find. I hope you did not let your lawn go for more then five days because now mowing it was an all day process and even if you did mow it every five days it still took half the day.

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.

Jack Lalane had gyms open in 1936. He was motivated by trying to help people get fit even back then. Guess what a lot of his equipment ran on electricity. Other parts of it were weight training and cardiovascular type activities. Which didn't require electricity but that was there to help people get healthy.

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 carried canteens and waterskins if you want to go that route also. We had to haul water miles in some cases. Yes you drank from a fountain with water that is supplied with water that is kept clean by the clean water act and other standards to keep you water free of the crap you dumped into it.


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.

Compare the cost of a disposable pen with a refillable. The cost of a highly dangerous straight blade with a disposable safety razor. Most people don't shave with a straight blade anymore because the things are dangerous.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service.

Yes, and they belched more pollutants then would be considered any where near safe today. Kids still ride bikes today. And mom was a taxi service even back then. Denying that is wrong.

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?

Yes, one outlet with two prongs and no grounding conductor. An item today which is known to be unsafe. We wired homes with knob and tube wiring that burned houses down because someone replaced the fuse with a penny. Also the satellites are not 2000 miles out in space but someone who went to school before man walked on the moon might not know that. They didn't continue to educate themselves and just accepted the status quo and the misguided memories of what their past was like.

Please repost this from just another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a CLUELESS young person.

So yes, please repost this and maybe an old dog can learn new tricks.