NFR Musings

[Peabody]

i have put this in because I am fed up of reading how bad our football club is.


THE GOOD OLD DAYS...

Checking out at the supermarket, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because Plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologised and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."

The young cashier responded, "That's our problem today - your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilised and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.

But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Grocery shops bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we re-used for numerous things, most memorable besides household bags for rubbish, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school), was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalise our books on the brown paper bags.

But too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have a lift in every
supermarket, shop and office building. We walked to the local shop and didn't climb into a 300 horsepower machine every time we had to go half a mile.

But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's Terry Towel nappies because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 3 kilowatts – wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids had hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Back then, we had one radio or TV in the house - not a TV in every room and the TV had a small screen the size of a big handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Wales. In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the
mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not polystyrene or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We pushed the mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

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

But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their Mums into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's £25,000 'People Carrier' which cost the same as a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room,
not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances and we didn't need a computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest Pub!

But isn't it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?

Perhaps you might wish to send this on to another selfish older person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smarty pants younger person about THE GOOD OLD BAD OLD DAYS...

[Buffalo76]

You're the perfect example of why drugs are bad news  fp.gif

[bill taylors apprentice]

Some time ago I was in M&S to buy 2 £7 t-shirts which were placed into 2 free bags and on the way out I thought "Ah! we need some milk & bread".
You know what its like, by the time I was at the checkout I had picked up a basket full of food and needed a bag which I had to pay for. (not a problem) As it was a spur of the moment thing I wasn't about to go back to the car to get the bags usually kept in the boot.
I commented to the young cashier that it was strange that I spend only £14 pounds in menswear and get 2 free bags but I'm spending about £50 in the food hall and have to pay.
I got the condescending lecture about saving the planet from her, so I pointed out that almost every item in my basket had 3 layers or more of packaging and asked what her views were on that. needless to say she didn't have one so I bought the milk and bread and left the rest.
Crazy world!
       

[Peabody]

You're the perfect example of why drugs are bad news  fp.gif


Please explain

[f321ffc]

i have put this in because I am fed up of reading how bad our football club is.


THE GOOD OLD DAYS...

Checking out at the supermarket, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because Plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologised and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."

The young cashier responded, "That's our problem today - your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilised and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.

But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Grocery shops bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we re-used for numerous things, most memorable besides household bags for rubbish, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school), was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalise our books on the brown paper bags.

But too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have a lift in every
supermarket, shop and office building. We walked to the local shop and didn't climb into a 300 horsepower machine every time we had to go half a mile.

But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's Terry Towel nappies because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 3 kilowatts – wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids had hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Back then, we had one radio or TV in the house - not a TV in every room and the TV had a small screen the size of a big handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Wales. In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the
mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not polystyrene or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We pushed the mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

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

But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their Mums into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's £25,000 'People Carrier' which cost the same as a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room,
not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances and we didn't need a computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest Pub!

But isn't it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?

Perhaps you might wish to send this on to another selfish older person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smarty pants younger person about THE GOOD OLD BAD OLD DAYS...

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[St Eve]

Excellent Peabody

[bog]

An excellent posting sir. Every time I go trudging (shopping) and am at the check out it is so annoying  to see so many stupid plastic bags being used. We have had the same ones to re-used for about 3 years and counting.
And we never needed to carry a bottle of water with us where ever we went either.

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[RaySmith]

i have put this in because I am fed up of reading how bad our football club is.


THE GOOD OLD DAYS...

Checking out at the supermarket, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because Plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologised and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."

The young cashier responded, "That's our problem today - your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilised and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.

But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Grocery shops bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we re-used for numerous things, most memorable besides household bags for rubbish, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school), was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalise our books on the brown paper bags.

But too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have a lift in every
supermarket, shop and office building. We walked to the local shop and didn't climb into a 300 horsepower machine every time we had to go half a mile.

But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's Terry Towel nappies because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 3 kilowatts – wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids had hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Back then, we had one radio or TV in the house - not a TV in every room and the TV had a small screen the size of a big handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Wales. In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the
mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not polystyrene or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We pushed the mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

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

But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their Mums into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's £25,000 'People Carrier' which cost the same as a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room,
not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances and we didn't need a computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest Pub!

But isn't it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?

Perhaps you might wish to send this on to another selfish older person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smarty pants younger person about THE GOOD OLD BAD OLD DAYS...

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Made me think of the local 'green' activists, and I do generally approve what they do, who all own cars and drive everywhere.

I remember when not many people had cars.

[Berserker]

When people didn't have cars the environment/community was set up to function that way.

[ron]

The worst thing about trying to be green is that it is impossible to uninvent things. The only way we can be truly green is to accept the lifestyle of, say, pre-industrial times, and have fewer people on the planet. No one is prepared to do either. Anything else such as paying 5p for shopping bags and having lorries belching fumes driving round to collect recycling (particularly when it is possible to "buy" someone else's allocation to pollute the planet ) are not much more than laughable cosmetic exercises. 

[filham]

Great post Peabody, the waste by modern society, mainly by the younger generation, is terrible and needs correcting.
Double packaging carried out purely for saleability should be banned.

My hobby horse for may years was to see tins of sardines packed in attractive cardboard boxes but I am pleased to say, at last, the boxes seem to have been dispensed with.

[Woolly Mammoth]

Great post Peabody, the waste by modern society, mainly by the younger generation, is terrible and needs correcting.
Double packaging carried out purely for saleability should be banned.

My hobby horse for may years was to see tins of sardines packed in attractive cardboard boxes but I am pleased to say, at last, the boxes seem to have been dispensed with.

Yes very good points you make. The waste is criminal by modern society, everyone is after making a fast buck, when some have more money than sense. They forget that you can only wear one pair of trousers at a time.
By the way I have never had a Hobby Horse, but I once had a Rocking Horse, but sadly he past away.

[rogerpbackinMidEastUS]

Nice one Mr (green) Pea

It does make me 'chuckle' (sort of) when people like Obama (and lots of others) spout on about
green issues and "global f***ing warming"

Meanwhile they fly around the world in gas guzzling planes followed by gas guzzling support fighter planes.
His entourage of helpers, toadies and self important wife (oops) are then picked up by a fleet of '3 miles to the gallon' war wagons (which have previously been transferred half way around the world to their destination) to transfer them to a luxury hotel where 50 rooms have been booked for them (in the case of a recent visit they were only there for 4 hours and paid hundreds of thousands for rooms to shower in)
None of this of course assists in the fight against "Climate Change" which has recently replaced "Global Warming" a decision which was probably taken at some internationally financed G63 meeting where hundreds of dogooder scientists were also flown to some remote place, using energy and paid for by tax payers at the same time as the baby polar bear was saying to his Mum  "Are you sure I'm a real polar bear, cos I'm freezing"

Meanwhile, in 3 days the Icelandic volcano spewing volcanic ash into to the air did more damage to climate change in 3 days than the entire population of Europe did in 50 years. (apparently)

It's freezing here today and they're expecting another couple 2' of snow in Boston.
So, I'd better turn up the heating before my fingers become to numb to type.

This by the way is not a personal attack on Obama, it could have been directed at any dictator.

[Peabody]

Great post Peabody, the waste by modern society, mainly by the younger generation, is terrible and needs correcting.
Double packaging carried out purely for saleability should be banned.

My hobby horse for may years was to see tins of sardines packed in attractive cardboard boxes but I am pleased to say, at last, the boxes seem to have been dispensed with.


Gotta say that opening a tin of sardines, old style, was a disaster waiting to happen. How many times did the key which unrolled the metal break? And then it was a tin opener job, were you risked emptying all the contents all over your self.

[Tony]

I never buy those large rolls of big black plastic bags because I put my waste into the small plastic bags that I get from the supermarket.
If I do get charged 5p for these small plastic bags, that will be a shame but I can console myself that I have saved a lot of money by not buying the large plastic rolls!!!

[Berserker]

I always take my bags for life to the shops. But I do collect the cheapo bags if given them to use down then allotment to bring my produce home. I also have 3 compost bins, plus net hessian bogs to rot down leaves as they don't rot properly in a compost bin.