Thread: This is a busy site

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

"Things ain't what they used to be. Probably never was." Will Rogers

Well, in this case Will is wrong, unfortunately.

Bob

Oh that may be so and I'm not trying to be a smart@$$. I just remember my mother saying that any time someone talked about the good ol days. Both my parents were born in the 1920s. I remember once saying to them how the 30s was a cool time with the styles of the cars and clothes and architecture and the music. Before I could finish the sentence they started back and forth with, "Yeah, and the depression...and prohibition...and segregation...and rationing...and no air conditioning..."

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

Oh that may be so and I'm not trying to be a smart@$$. I just remember my mother saying that any time someone talked about the good ol days. Both my parents were born in the 1920s. I remember once saying to them how the 30s was a cool time with the styles of the cars and clothes and architecture and the music. Before I could finish the sentence they started back and forth with, "Yeah, and the depression...and prohibition...and segregation...and rationing...and no air conditioning..."

No, I did not think you were being a smart@$$. Just that as much as I like Will Rogers sayings sometimes circumstances do not fit. There definitely is a tendency for people to put a rosy glow on the past conveniently forgetting the bad parts.

Bob

The bottom line is if we were back in the 1930s or before most of us who are here today would be long dead probably having died of medical issues or accidents. I know I wouldn't be around.

So it's nice waxing poetically about the good old days but they were really the bad old days.

The one that kills me are the people who say, "You know man like... We should all like, live like the native Americans did man... Like... Things would be so much better."
Really? Living in a mud hut? Crapping in a hole in the ground? Dying at 30 of an infected tooth or a staphe infection? IF you didn't die in childbirth or a.childhood disease? Or you could have your whole tribe massacred by mauraders and who would do anything about it? You can't honestly believe that. As bad as it could possibly be now we live longer, healthier, safer lives now than we ever have.
Not that that has anything to do with this discussion but that is how dillusional some people are

My goodness, but this thread took a very unexpected turn.

Yeah, this post is busy getting sidetracked.