How did we survive!?
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- driftlab0
Wow! How the heck did this thread get ressurected?
Can't remember where I found that... food for thought though.
- davetufts0
(1) When you were a kid the chicken and eggs probably came from a farm. Now chickens are bred in factories so close together they can barely move. These conditions dramatically promote desease.
To produce more eggs and bigger, the momma chickens are constantly pump full of growth homones. This was not the case when you were a kid (no JUMBO eggs)
(2) When you were a kid the maynaise was made with eggs, mustard, garlic, salt, and pepper. Today's mayo is a mix of natural ingredients, and chemical flavorings manufactured in factories along the New Jersey Turnpike. Many of the 'natural' ingredients in moder mayo have been genetically modified (to grow faster and thrive in harsher weather climates)
(3) Hamburger meat... I certainly hope this doesn't need an explaination. 20 years ago butchers still cut meat and used the left overs to make ground beef. Today, over 90% of hambergur meat contains trace amouts of fecal matter. Cows, like chickens, now are bred in giant feedlots, pumped full of homones, fed grain (which is not in their natural diet, but fattens them up quicker), and reduced animal parts that can not be sold to humans. (read 'Fast Food Nation' for a complete description of how ground beef is made)
I'm going to go turn my compost pile now...
- sexypixel0
wow, nice frow, very nice.
i think the main problem with today is that people arent responsible for theyre actions any more.
I fell down a man hole when i was 10 and cut my head open, all my friends laughed at me and my dad called me an idiot for a few weeks laughing at me and my cut head. Nowadays I'd be sueing the council...Jesus, even an annual Kite festival held on bondi beach had to be canceled last year cuase the organisers couldnt afford the insurance as a few months previously some tourist dived into the sea where it was shallow and broke his neck and sued for a few hundred thousand..
A kite festival... what the fuck!!
Its always someone elses fault nowadays
- enobrev0
wow.. very well written.. just took me back. (good bump)
i guess this is the making of our very own 5 mile 2-way barefoot uphill travels to school.
I would imagine every 3 generations are INCREDIBLY spoiled and over protected in comparison.
- enobrev0
i miss stealing big wheels, getting into fights over them and coming home to get washed up and doing it all over again the next day...
never even considered anyone having a gun in school or on the playground back then.
And having hand-me-downs, but not giving a shit, cuz everyone dressed aabout the same anyways. Nowadays you got babies with $80 timberlands.
- digitalswarm0
Fatty, see Andy Warhol.
- ********0
For - This - Thread - I - Lift - My Hat - Off - Bump
- mirola0
frow did you write that? it was inspired.
how did we manage without our sheets whiter than white?
- slag_you_off0
apparantly, the reason so many people have food alergies and the like these days etc is because we are so sterile.
germs are good for you, they increase your immune system
- travieso0
Now I remember Jakob Nielsen saying something about large texts nobody would read on the internet...
- Blofeldt0
Blah blah blah. State the bleedin' obvious why not.
This is nostalgic "things were better when I was a lad" stuff.I expect lots of people did have accidents, drank bleach and got food poisoning, you just didn't hear about it. Because, you were......young, a child, you didn't care, or notice.
It's like many young adults now think the 70's 80's were wonderful.
They were for them because they were children with few cares and unaware of the problems going on around them. My parents certainly don't bang on about how great those decades were because they were crap. Strikes, redundancies, recession etc.
Sorry frow, I don't think your original post was thought provoking or insightful, I felt it was the naive musings of someone who has only just become aware of change.
- rasko40
I think you missed the point blofeldt, as far as I interpreted it, frow was taking the stance that in todays world we are removed from our responsibilities by the growing dominance of a nanny state, that we are losing our freedom of choice and being dumbed down in a culture where disclaimers will appear on toilet paper advising at least two sheets be used to prevent 'finger-through', not sure if its to do with US claim culture or if we are just too stupid to think for ourselves.
- Blofeldt0
I've re read it, and i think it's still all sweeping Dail Mail esque statements. If Frow is so sure of these 'facts' then i'd like to see some statistics to back them up.
- Blofeldt0
I've re read it, and i think it's still all sweeping Dail Mail esque statements. If Frow is so sure of these 'facts' then i'd like to see some statistics to back them up.
- Blofeldt0
I've re read it, and i think it's still all sweeping Dail Mail esque statements. If Frow is so sure of these 'facts' then i'd like to see some statistics to back them up.
- Blofeldt0
I've re read it, and i think it's still all sweeping Dail Mail esque statements. If Frow is so sure of these 'facts' then i'd like to see some statistics to back them up.
- Bullitt0
sounds like mike moore to me.
- Blofeldt0
Fuck, what happend there?
Yes, anyway, i do agree that the arguement is against what you describe as the nanny state. But i don't think things were better 'back then' (although when this was we can't be sure).
I just don't think that frow had any idea of what was actually happening around him/her when they were young.
- rasko40
he is not presenting facts, he's written personal memories not a science essay, maybe just take it for what it is and not as though you just read it in the NatGeo.
dont see why you get so wound up really.
- Blofeldt0
Because i didn't like all the posts proclaiming it was some wonderful insight.
And i hate Daily Mail style comment.