Posted on 09/03/2018 11:59:12 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Reminds me of an email I got a while back. “When I was a kid we had to trudge through nine feet of shag carpet just to turn the channels.”
So I guess the existence of the remote control makes life better.
You two clearly have anger issues.
Present counterpoint. Or take your insults elsewhere. Thanks for playing the internet !
Entirely unavoidable - just don’t go to the doctor, and don’t take any medicine.In the real world, medicine and nutrition is keeping a lot of people alive a lot longer . . . with the caveat that Alzheimers/dementia is a risk faced by aging.
That is a serious problem, as I know from my caregiver experience.
Automotive stuff:
Four wheel disc brakes.
250,000 mile engine life expectancy, standard.
Better tires, better suspension.
Better ergonomics and creature comforts.
My list of things that are worse than 40 years ago is much longer, but that’s not the topic at hand.
I should state that the same thing happened to me once as a boy. During the summer of 1977 (when I was 14), I was staying alone with an aunt (by marriage) and one night she came up behind me as I was sitting in a chair and started massaging my shoulders. I honestly thought that she was doing that out of some kind of maternal type affection. Out of politeness I did not tell her to stop even though it sort of creeped me out. During that evening, she started giving me brandy (that she was drinking as well) and still I did not make a connection. Then as I was about to go to bed, she invited me to join her in the master bedroom and it was only then that it got through my thick head that she was seducing me the whole time.
I kept my head about me and said I was really tired and preferred to sleep by myself in the guest bedroom. Next morning, it was back to normal and nothing was ever mentioned about it. I never mentioned that to anybody in my family. Her husband (my actual uncle) had passed away a few years earlier and I figure she was just lonely for some male company - even from a boy.
No anger issues here. Just fed up with people who do not know what they are talking about.... For example.... Where did you come up with where producers MUST administer antimicrobials to their animals? For the past 30 years, I have served as Professor of beef cattle production at a major land grant university and work frequently with colleagues at the Vet School located here. Look up the Veterinary Food Directive (VFD) and see the restrictions imposed on the use of food animal antibiotics.
As for vaccines, they are routinely used for the control and prevention of blackleg, clostridial diseases and the major virus’s such as IBR, PI3 and Mannheimia H.
We're talking about 1978, not 1948.
It's actually about the same with different methods. Back then sex offenders were let go and ignored. Now there is a sex offender registry that actually works even if the perps are let go. 40 years ago there were small parks in the suburbs that were "salted" with pornography. A kid could walk around and find porn magazines just lying there "discarded". Of course now there is worse stuff online, but there are also 30 year old cops posing as teenagers or younger.
When I was quite young, maybe 13 or 14 I worked as a kitchen helper and one of the other kitchen helpers was about 40 or so, lived with his mother and kept asking me to come over and watch some movies. Nowadays he would be online (maybe still is). I passed on the offer. It's not because I was smart (I was stupid) but I was raised correctly.
I think it is more related to the widespread food poisoning in the case of Chipotle.
Ridiculous. Given the antibiotics, pesticides and herbicides available 40 years ago, things are much better now. That sweet corn you’re complaining about is much better than the near field corn that was sold 40 years ago, and it’s not GMO, not that GMOs caused any of the problems you and your wife have. There were essentially zero heritage vegetables sold 40 years ago, and modern transport means that we can get not only those, but the best from around the world.
In general, material life is much, much better than 40 years ago. We have not had as much progress in social life, but that’s because of choices people make. You sound like the English major grad student I shared an office with. She was convinced that medieval life was so much better than life today because “ we didn’t use all those harmful chemicals we have now.”
I agree, the digital revolution has improved our lives beyond what we had 40 years ago. Although I admit it is a ‘double-edged sword’ I would not want to turn back the clock.
An excellent example is Free Republic. We can now connect instantly with like-minded people, and learn of many things the Deep State wouldn’t tell us.
The fact is, none of us would have known of the deep state shenanigans in the absence of the internet.
I am just shy of 60 years on this planet, and have witnessed things my parents/grandparents could have never conceived...
Still, I am glad I will not live to see the future of the digital revolution - it will become exponentially more intrusive, and evil. (imo)
We do not have healthier choices available now than we did then.
The stuff was out there and could be had.
Fine ! See how easy that was ?
You’re a pro in the field and you disagree with me. I’m the first generation out of the family corn farming. Generations before me producing corn in Pennsylvania. That’s my official background.
You didn’t have to attack me. Just present counter point and fact - That’s all it takes to talk to another person !
Supposedly it came from the lettuce, and the pickers are still p*ssing/sh*tting in the growing fields.
. Salt and pepper is ALL you need...”
Bingo! That’s the test. Southern fried chicken often was only flour, salt and pepper...then the pure fat they cooked it in.
See? It happened all the time back then. That aunt would have literally had sex with a 14 year old boy. Thst is very sad. She was thinking about abusing you when she poured you alcohol, massaged, invited. HOW CAN SOMEONE DO THAT to a helpless kid? I’m glad she didn’t get you.
GMO is not hormone treatment or vaccinations.
Not that any of it is bad.
“Healthier choices in food.”
Totally disagree. Food was good food back 40 years ago. The vast majority of both restaurants and grocery store offerings is crap.
I didn’t find out my first ex was molested by a man as a preschooler until after we divorced. He said he just remembered it then, but maybe he just never wanted to admit it before. It did happen a lot but no one said anything. How sad to make kids feel ashamed for being victimized.
“More Media”
Somewhat agree. Most of it is liberal propaganda, so it isn’t better, there’s just more of it.
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