Thread: I guess we were ahead of our time but just did not know it

Originally Posted by bluegum30

What the go with no envelope to put the censis form in ,do they supply one when they pick it up ,cause there is stuff in there that is private.???

They never handed them out, you always had to ask.

Ah, golly, kids these day... why back in my day when we stayed off everyone's lawn...

What a silly list, Great-Grandma didn't use cloth nappies over disposable because she was being 'environmentally friendly', it was because they didn't exist back then.

Same for the rest of it.

I suppose they preferred to read the paper instead of watching the news on their 55" plasma telly as well.

Sheesh.

I hate these fake, feel-good threads that go the rounds and usually come from the US.
As Dropcat implied, poverty is the great recycler.
Cheers,
Jim

Originally Posted by jimbur

I hate these fake, feel-good threads that go the rounds and usually come from the US.
As Dropcat implied, poverty is the great recycler.

Give it a couple of months and it'll be back.

I'm pretty 'green', but that's more to do with being broke and/or a tightwad than anything else.

Originally Posted by jimbur

I hate these fake, feel-good threads that go the rounds and usually come from the US.
As Dropcat implied, poverty is the great recycler.
Cheers,
Jim

Many years ago I worked with a bloke, who was nice enough, but he was your typical inner city "greenie". One day he came in all bubbly with a brochure from a talk he'd been to on a "green" house. It listed all the "green" things they did. He was quite taken aback when I pointed out I did about 80% of those things and my neighbours would cover the ones I missed, that we did it because it was cheap not because it was "green", and that furthermore we didn't feel the need to give seminars.....

As I say over and over, it is the great logical fail of the greenies that they assume people who for the most part live as far away from the nature they profess to love should dictate to the people who have gone out of their way to live in the bush how they should deal with the enviroment.

[QUOTE=damian;1362435]and that furthermore we didn't feel the need to give seminars...../QUOTE]
You're missing out on a great source of income Damian. Big growth industry in seminars these days, whether telling you how to be green or how to make money on the stock exchange.
Cheers,
Jim

Originally Posted by damian

One day he came in all bubbly with a brochure from a talk he'd been to on a "green" house. It listed all the "green" things they did. He was quite taken aback when I pointed out I did about 80% of those things

My Great-Great-Granny saved electricity by using not a computer! Awesome! How green was that!

A friend's grandfather once said the best thing about the 'good old days' was the that the 'good old days 'were gone. He'd been there, and they were crap. He liked his big colour TV, mobile phone, fuel-injected car etc.

You'd think people would actually read those emails before sending them on, but anyway. Or at least take a little bit of effort to change the names of foreign places to somewhere local.

Originally Posted by Dropcat

You'd think people would actually read those emails before sending them on, but anyway. Or at least take a little bit of effort to change the names of foreign places to somewhere local.

They forward them to everyone in their address book and usually don't bother to use blind carbon copy. You only need to be in the address book of one idiot and your address becomes known worldwide. No wonder viruses and junk mail spreads.
Cheers,
JIm

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Originally Posted by damian

and that furthermore we didn't feel the need to give seminars...../QUOTE]
You're missing out on a great source of income Damian. Big growth industry in seminars these days, whether telling you how to be green or how to make money on the stock exchange.
Cheers,
Jim

Shudder.

Good point about the "good old days". There were many things I liked about Australia 40 years ago but some of it definitely sucked.

If you lose a finger now there is a chance they can sew it back on. Not so 40 years ago. No doubt lots of other examples...

[quote=damian;1362986]

Originally Posted by jimbur

There were many things I liked about Australia 40 years ago but some of it definitely sucked.

Besides the possibility of retaining digital integrity these days, who wants to go back to the era of boiled cabbage?
cheers,
Jim

Clearly I missed something. I don't recall anyone in my family making boiled cabbage. I do have terribly fond memories of my grandmother shelling great bowls of peas and letting the young damian take handfuls to eat.

And fairyfloss bigger than my head

Originally Posted by damian

Clearly I missed something. I don't recall anyone in my family making boiled cabbage. I do have terribly fond memories of my grandmother shelling great bowls of peas and letting the young damian take handfuls to eat.

And fairyfloss bigger than my head

If you missed boiled cabbage you didn't miss a thing

''If you missed boiled cabbage you didn't miss a thing''

And what is wrong with boiled cabbage ? ,i eat it and hasn't harmed me .

Originally Posted by bluegum30

''If you missed boiled cabbage you didn't miss a thing''

And what is wrong with boiled cabbage ? ,i eat it and hasn't harmed me .

Well, it doesn't lower your carbon footprint for a start