At the till, in the supermarket, the cashier told an older woman that she
should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the
environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the
'green thing' back in my day."

The clerk responded, "That's our problem today; your generation did not care
enough to save our environment."

He was right, that generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, they returned their milk bottles, soda bottles and beer Bottles.
They were sent back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled,
so the same bottles could be used over and over. So they really were
recycled.

But they didn't have the green thing back in that customer's day.

In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn't have an escalator or
elevator in every store and office building. They walked to the shops and
didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time they had to go a few
hundred yards.

But she was right. They didn't have the green thing in her day.

Back then, they washed the baby's nappies because they didn't have the
throw-away kind. They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling
machine burning up 220 volts - wind and solar power really did dry the
clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not
always brand-new clothing.

But that old lady is right, they didn't have the green thing back in her
day.

Back then, they 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, not a screen the
size of the Isle of Wight.
In the kitchen, they blended and stirred by hand because they didn't have
electric machines to do everything for them.
When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used a wadded up
old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Back then, they didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the
lawn. They used a push mower that ran on human power. They exercised by
working so they didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that
operate on electricity.

But she's right, they didn't have the green thing back then.

They drank from a fountain or tap when they were thirsty instead of using a
cup or a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water.
They refilled their writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and
they replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole
razor just because the blade got dull.

But they didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school instead
of turning their parents into a 24-hour taxi service.
They had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to
power a dozen appliances.
And they didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from
satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest take-away.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful old people were
just because they didn't have the green thing back then?


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Remember, a statue has never been erected to a critic.

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On Jun 16, 3:44*pm, "'Mike'" wrote:
At the till, in the supermarket, the cashier told an older woman that she
should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the
environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the
'green thing' back in my day."

The clerk responded, "That's our problem today; your generation did not care
enough to save our environment."

He was right, that generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, they returned their milk bottles, soda bottles and beer Bottles.
They were sent back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled,
so the same bottles could be used over and over. So they really were
recycled.

But they didn't have the green thing back in that customer's day.

In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn't have an escalator or
elevator in every store and office building. They walked to the shops and
didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time they had to go a few
hundred yards.

But she was right. They didn't have the green thing in her day.

Back then, they washed the baby's nappies because they didn't have the
throw-away kind. They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling
machine burning up 220 volts - wind and solar power really did dry the
clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not
always brand-new clothing.

But that old lady is right, they didn't have the green thing back in her
day.

Back then, they 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, not a screen the
size of the Isle of Wight.
In the kitchen, they blended and stirred by hand because they didn't have
electric machines to do everything for them.
When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used a wadded up
old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Back then, they didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the
lawn. They used a push mower that ran on human power. They exercised by
working so they didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that
operate on electricity.

But she's right, they didn't have the green thing back then.

They drank from a fountain or tap when they were thirsty instead of using a
cup or a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water.
They refilled their writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and
they replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole
razor just because the blade got dull.

But they didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school instead
of turning their parents into a 24-hour taxi service.
They had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to
power a dozen appliances.
And they didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from
satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest take-away.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful old people were
just because they didn't have the green thing back then?

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Remember, a statue has never been erected to a critic.

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Heh Heh. Good points.

In article
,
harry writes

Heh Heh. Good points.

Sounds more like another cut and paste internet story to me. With sweet
fa to do with gardening, as usual.

I haven't heard the current generation lamenting how wasteful 'old
people' were.

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regards andyw

"newsb" wrote in message
...
In article
, harry
writes

Heh Heh. Good points.

Sounds more like another cut and paste internet story to me. With sweet
fa to do with gardening, as usual.

I haven't heard the current generation lamenting how wasteful 'old people'
were.

--
regards andyw

Indeed you are so correct. A cut and paste from a cruising forum where there
is much more live life.

""Po Faced"" is how this newsgroup/forum has been described to me ""without
your input"". ""I love the way you put them down with your NEXT PLEASE
ending"" ..................... :-))

A letter to my family ??????????????????????

Kindest possible regards on this lovely sunny evening :-)))))))))))

Mike


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Remember, a statue has never been erected to a critic.

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On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:44:11 +0100, "'Mike'"
wrote:

At the till, in the supermarket, the cashier told an older woman that she
should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the
environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the
'green thing' back in my day."

The clerk responded, "That's our problem today; your generation did not care
enough to save our environment."

He was right, that generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, they returned their milk bottles, soda bottles and beer Bottles.
They were sent back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled,
so the same bottles could be used over and over. So they really were
recycled.

But they didn't have the green thing back in that customer's day.

In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn't have an escalator or
elevator in every store and office building. They walked to the shops and
didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time they had to go a few
hundred yards.

But she was right. They didn't have the green thing in her day.

Back then, they washed the baby's nappies because they didn't have the
throw-away kind. They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling
machine burning up 220 volts - wind and solar power really did dry the
clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not
always brand-new clothing.

But that old lady is right, they didn't have the green thing back in her
day.

Back then, they 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, not a screen the
size of the Isle of Wight.
In the kitchen, they blended and stirred by hand because they didn't have
electric machines to do everything for them.
When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used a wadded up
old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Back then, they didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the
lawn. They used a push mower that ran on human power. They exercised by
working so they didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that
operate on electricity.

But she's right, they didn't have the green thing back then.

They drank from a fountain or tap when they were thirsty instead of using a
cup or a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water.
They refilled their writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and
they replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole
razor just because the blade got dull.

But they didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school instead
of turning their parents into a 24-hour taxi service.
They had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to
power a dozen appliances.
And they didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from
satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest take-away.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful old people were
just because they didn't have the green thing back then?

I Like it. Only us oldies will understand or appreciate this.
Thanks

Pam in Bristol

On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:57:03 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

I Like it. Only us oldies will understand or appreciate this.
Thanks

I am an oldie and think most things are better, less wasteful and less
polluting than when I was a kid.

Steve


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"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:57:03 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

I Like it. Only us oldies will understand or appreciate this.
Thanks

I am an oldie and think most things are better, less wasteful and less
polluting than when I was a kid.

Steve


Who fitted your blinkers? I must give them a 'missed' :-((

Mike

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"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:57:03 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

I Like it. Only us oldies will understand or appreciate this.
Thanks

I am an oldie and think most things are better, less wasteful and less
polluting than when I was a kid.

Steve


--
Neural network software applications, help and support.

Neural Planner Software www.NPSL1.com

Les wastefull ??...you must be joking!

We had one bin in the old days, now you see black, green pink and white
bags at the roadside and a fleet of refuse collecting lorries in formation
like the Red Arrows going round on collection day!

How much pollution these lorries generate needs some explanation.

Bill

"Bill Grey" wrote in message
...

"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:57:03 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

I Like it. Only us oldies will understand or appreciate this.
Thanks

I am an oldie and think most things are better, less wasteful and less
polluting than when I was a kid.

Steve


--
Neural network software applications, help and support.

Neural Planner Software www.NPSL1.com

Les wastefull ??...you must be joking!

We had one bin in the old days, now you see black, green pink and white
bags at the roadside and a fleet of refuse collecting lorries in formation
like the Red Arrows going round on collection day!

How much pollution these lorries generate needs some explanation.


Which leads me to thinking.When I was a lad all parcels were delivered by
the post office who still deliver here most days. However last Wednesday we
had four different couriers deliver four different items as well as the
postman bringing the letters. How much pollution did that lot create?

Mike

"MuddyMike" wrote in message
om...

"Bill Grey" wrote in message
...

"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:57:03 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

I Like it. Only us oldies will understand or appreciate this.
Thanks

I am an oldie and think most things are better, less wasteful and less
polluting than when I was a kid.

Steve


--
Neural network software applications, help and support.

Neural Planner Software www.NPSL1.com

Les wastefull ??...you must be joking!

We had one bin in the old days, now you see black, green pink and white
bags at the roadside and a fleet of refuse collecting lorries in
formation like the Red Arrows going round on collection day!

How much pollution these lorries generate needs some explanation.


Which leads me to thinking.When I was a lad all parcels were delivered by
the post office who still deliver here most days. However last Wednesday
we had four different couriers deliver four different items as well as the
postman bringing the letters. How much pollution did that lot create?

Mike


How many cars to a family now?

And we now have Dishwashers, Freezers, etc in addition to those items listed
in the dit.

We are a "I want it now" and "A throw away" Society.

Mike


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On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:18:29 +0100, "MuddyMike"
wrote:


"Bill Grey" wrote in message
...

"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:57:03 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

I Like it. Only us oldies will understand or appreciate this.
Thanks

I am an oldie and think most things are better, less wasteful and less
polluting than when I was a kid.

Steve


--
Neural network software applications, help and support.

Neural Planner Software www.NPSL1.com

Les wastefull ??...you must be joking!

We had one bin in the old days, now you see black, green pink and white
bags at the roadside and a fleet of refuse collecting lorries in formation
like the Red Arrows going round on collection day!

How much pollution these lorries generate needs some explanation.


Which leads me to thinking.When I was a lad all parcels were delivered by
the post office who still deliver here most days. However last Wednesday we
had four different couriers deliver four different items as well as the
postman bringing the letters. How much pollution did that lot create?

That's not the point. It enriches politicians' cronies -- ooh, gosh,
sorry: I don't know what came over me! Of course, I mean it provides
consumers with Choice.

--
Mike.

"Martin" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:18:29 +0100, "MuddyMike"
wrote:


"Bill Grey" wrote in message
.. .

"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:57:03 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

I Like it. Only us oldies will understand or appreciate this.
Thanks

I am an oldie and think most things are better, less wasteful and less
polluting than when I was a kid.

Steve


--
Neural network software applications, help and support.

Neural Planner Software www.NPSL1.com

Les wastefull ??...you must be joking!

We had one bin in the old days, now you see black, green pink and white
bags at the roadside and a fleet of refuse collecting lorries in
formation
like the Red Arrows going round on collection day!

How much pollution these lorries generate needs some explanation.


Which leads me to thinking.When I was a lad all parcels were delivered by
the post office who still deliver here most days. However last Wednesday
we
had four different couriers deliver four different items as well as the
postman bringing the letters. How much pollution did that lot create?

A bigger problem are the black plastic bin bags that are used in some
places. Incinerating those generates a lot of nasty stuff.
--

Martin

Seeing as we are asked to recycle plastic waste, do the black plastic bags
get recycled?

Bill

"Jake" Nospam@invalid wrote in message
...
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:42:05 +0200, Martin wrote:


A bigger problem are the black plastic bin bags that are used in some
places. Incinerating those generates a lot of nasty stuff.

Round here we were all given big green wheelie bins to replace the
black sacks that kept getting ripped open by every wild (and non wild)
animal for miles (farm next door + river = rats for example). Then 9
months later we were told that a new recycling system was coming in
which recycled everything that we were already recycling but in twice
as many containers and recycling collections would be weekly (instead
of fortnightly) and other rubbish (the wheelie bins) fortnightly
instead of weekly.

Then we were told that the wheelie bins were being discontinued and we
were going back to black bags (fortnightly) and the council generously
provides the equivalent of one black bag a fortnight which is half the
size of the black bags we had before the wheelie bins.

I ownder what the wheelie bins cost? We all have one stuck somewhere
out of the way. No good to put the black bags in as if we do, we can't
reach them to pull them out and if we turn the bin upside down, the
bags are so flimsy that they tear.

But at least all the various recycling containers are emptied into a
single lorry (which has different compartments before someone asks) so
all we have to do then is pick up the bits of broken glass and wotnot
left in the street after the collection.

""Let not thy left hand knoweth what thy right hand dooeth"" used to be the
message put out by the Councils, NOW, it's ""Not let thy left hand knoweth
that there is a right hand""

For crying out loud this newsgroup of all, ought to know about Council
""Managers"", (unless you are a real newbie)

Mike

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"Martin" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:58:22 +0100, "Bill Grey"
wrote:


"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message
. ..
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:57:03 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

I Like it. Only us oldies will understand or appreciate this.
Thanks

I am an oldie and think most things are better, less wasteful and less
polluting than when I was a kid.

Steve


--
Neural network software applications, help and support.

Neural Planner Software www.NPSL1.com

Les wastefull ??...you must be joking!

We had one bin in the old days, now you see black, green pink and white
bags at the roadside and a fleet of refuse collecting lorries in formation
like the Red Arrows going round on collection day!

How much pollution these lorries generate needs some explanation.

The truck that shakes the rubbish to compact it has made a dip in the
road that is about 6" deep and it also snapped a very thick
underground telephone cable, not to mention the number of times the
driver has bashed and bent the street sign. If there is more than one
grain of snow per square metre they don't show up for a fortnight.
--

Martin

Tha't modern technology for you :-(

Bill

'Mike' wrote:
At the till, in the supermarket, the cashier told an older woman that
she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't
good for the environment. The woman apologized to him and explained,
"We didn't have the 'green thing' back in my day."

The clerk responded, "That's our problem today; your generation did
not care enough to save our environment."


Disgusting behaviour. In a sane world, such a rude shop assistant would be
at least reprimanded and ideally sacked for such impertinence to a customer.


Ian