magnkarl Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 6 hours ago, mjmooney said: More concise version of my above post: 1. New acts playing new style music almost always do nothing for me 2. New acts playing old style music are sometimes brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted March 1, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted March 1, 2018 14 hours ago, Robtaylor200 said: Being Green Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days." The young clerk 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 our day.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.Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.But too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.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 diapers because we didn't have the throwaway 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 state of Montana. 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 wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. 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. 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 streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." 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 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger 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 young person... We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off...especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced know it all who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much. What a sanctimonious load of shit Bring your own bags to the supermarket you bunch of Victor Meldrew's! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mjmooney Posted March 1, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted March 1, 2018 1 hour ago, magnkarl said: That would fall under the category of 'pleasant'. I watched the whole thing, and enjoyed it. No desire to follow up the artist any further, though. Not a big fan of looping tbh, I'd rather hear the instruments played by a band (without the metronomic repetition). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 2, 2018 Moderator Share Posted March 2, 2018 That’s effin awful 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 The only time radiohead should meet the police is in a knife fight where there are no survivors. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 The John Lewis Xmas adverts get earlier every year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 (edited) 13 hours ago, magnkarl said: just added her to my Instagram viewing list (with the volume on mute) Edited March 2, 2018 by tonyh29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 On 24/02/2018 at 18:15, mjmooney said: two (later three) TV channels, that only broadcast in the evening A little later than you had in mind, I guess, but here's a line up of telly programmes on the Beeb in 1984 (the tweet says '87 but it's corrected lower down): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 2, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted March 2, 2018 1974: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post mjmooney Posted March 2, 2018 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted March 2, 2018 See that Who concert that they were showing on Saturday night? I went to that, I did. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 7 minutes ago, mjmooney said: MOTD Match one comes from the North Match two come from the South How times have changed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 2, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted March 2, 2018 13.5% interest rates. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 4 minutes ago, mjmooney said: 13.5% interest rates. Isn’t that one for the predictions thread (after brexit ) ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 40 minutes ago, snowychap said: A little later than you had in mind, I guess, but here's a line up of telly programmes on the Beeb in 1984 (the tweet says '87 but it's corrected lower down): Barbara Woodhouse, walkies! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 34 minutes ago, mjmooney said: 13.5% interest rates. I saw that! How I wish my ISA was that level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 2, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted March 2, 2018 5 minutes ago, Xela said: I saw that! How I wish my ISA was that level. Me too. At least you don't have to pay it on your mortgage like I had to. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted March 2, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted March 2, 2018 2 hours ago, snowychap said: A little later than you had in mind, I guess, but here's a line up of telly programmes on the Beeb in 1984 (the tweet says '87 but it's corrected lower down): Willow the Wisp! Tuckers Luck!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Pet Clark > Rihanna. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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