Thread: off topic anonymous

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Try telling so many people today that you want 2 bits for something. Better yet, ask a grocery clerk where the Oleo is kept.

Or have them make change when the computer is down....

I don't remember one of my Great Grandmothers. She died just after I was born. I have been told that she wanted to hold a great grandchild.

She told my father if you even come close to the changes that I have seen in my life it will be amazing.

She went from the horse and buggy to a man in space.

Originally Posted by 32t

Or have them make change when the computer is down....

I don't remember one of my Great Grandmothers. She died just after I was born. I have been told that she wanted to hold a great grandchild.

She told my father if you even come close to the changes that I have seen in my life it will be amazing.

She went from the horse and buggy to a man in space.

My grandmother basically said the same thing: She said that she thought that Mankind had made more advances in her lifetime than Mankind would ever see again in a single lifetime. From Horse and Buggy/Writing on a Piece of Slate with Chalk to Space Travel and these things called Computers (She never had or used one).

4 out of 5 dentists recommend it for there patience that chew gum...

Originally Posted by 32t

Or have them make change when the computer is down....

I don't remember one of my Great Grandmothers. She died just after I was born. I have been told that she wanted to hold a great grandchild.

She told my father if you even come close to the changes that I have seen in my life it will be amazing.

She went from the horse and buggy to a man in space.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

My grandmother basically said the same thing: She said that she thought that Mankind had made more advances in her lifetime than Mankind would ever see again in a single lifetime. From Horse and Buggy/Writing on a Piece of Slate with Chalk to Space Travel and these things called Computers (She never had or used one).

My dad, who'll be 83 in a few months, talks about things once in a while that he remembers.
As farmers, he's seen going from horses to the incredible machines we run today. Well some that run themselves and do more in an hour than he used to be able to do in a day!

My mother who is living with me is 86, she also has some old quips.

Dave, we still have one farmer in the area that still does 100 acres by horse n plow. The rest is done with modern tools. He says that's the only way that part of the farm has ever been done, for the past 3-4 generations. Just family tradition, he says.

Wow, that sounds like the Omish near me.

Honestly, that is great Mike!!

There are so many things that are being forgotten or pushed aside for "modernization".
The old folks knew what work was and also knew how to care for their land much better than we do now.

Word.

I work on a horse farm and my grandparents and their parents also used their horses to do everything before machines came into play.

Honestly, we as people in general have become less wise and knowledgeable about a lot of things the old folks knew about. Sadly there's a great wealth of information and skills disappearing with them.

We think we're much smarter now with technology, but I notice when working with people a lot of practical knowledges and skills are lacking.

The world has shifted, a lot. In some ways we are evolving and getting much smarter, in others we are estranging from things were once a normality.
Generally people now are raised in a cyber world as opposed to the real world (this statement needs nuancing, but you get the point).

I've been fortunate to have worked with "elder" people showing and teaching me a lot of things, but they also admit they have only gotten a small % of knowledge from their elders.

While studying history I generally noticed people don't give populations in history enough credit for their knowledge, they were much smarter (practically) then we are now and then we realize.

I heard a story when I was younger about a man that worked a "large" farm at least at that time in ND.

He would plow a furrow across each end of a long field. Once he got started he would put the tractor in the dead furrow and go to sleep. When he hit the cross plowed one at the other end it would wake him up.

Turn the tractor around and go back to sleep until the other end..... OMG