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kick PM Martin Feb 2013 #1
Yeah loyalsister Feb 2013 #2
No - it was the parents of the boomers who went wild for disposable everything starroute Feb 2013 #24
It continued loyalsister Feb 2013 #27
Yeah because boomers invented and promoted plastics progressoid Feb 2013 #29
You understand he's talking to a boomer, right? loyalsister Feb 2013 #32
Yeah. progressoid Feb 2013 #35
That would make you a "tween" loyalsister Feb 2013 #38
Nostalgia Ron Green Feb 2013 #3
How long has this been floating around the internet abelenkpe Feb 2013 #4
Too long. Gah!!! sammytko Feb 2013 #9
You may want to check out this thread: antigone382 Feb 2013 #5
Here's a link fishwax Feb 2013 #6
As an old person I'm thrilled with the post. Thanks----a real keeper for me. virgogal Feb 2013 #7
As a (relatively) young person, you really brought my attention to things I knew but didn't realize tarheelsunc Feb 2013 #8
Actually, that isn't true. Curmudgeoness Feb 2013 #11
Sorry but "back then" was the 50s and thats when we invented the disposable consumer culture Warren Stupidity Feb 2013 #10
All these RW email memes read like they were written by the same person. UnrepentantLiberal Feb 2013 #12
Wow, really? TWICE on DU in just 2 days? Lex Feb 2013 #13
Back then, we checked for dupes... Phentex Feb 2013 #14
. Lex Feb 2013 #15
Get off my lawn. (nt) harmonicon Feb 2013 #16
I WILL KICK HARMONICON ASS ON HIS OWN LAWN Skittles Feb 2013 #26
This is Kinda Harsh DEMTough Feb 2013 #17
Good post. pamela Feb 2013 #20
Thank you! DEMTough Feb 2013 #21
Around where I live, there are some ponds with fences and signs Mariana Feb 2013 #25
You know what else didn't exist "back in the day"? alp227 Feb 2013 #18
I hate those too. That stupid blind nostalgia for "the good old days" Zoeisright Feb 2013 #19
When plastic bags were introduced at grocery stores - lynne Feb 2013 #22
Somebody put this glurge out of it's misery, please... Hissyspit Feb 2013 #23
Not this shit again... Drunken Irishman Feb 2013 #28
There's a whole lot of hostility toward young people Mariana Feb 2013 #30
Anything you get as a forwarded email is almost certainly bogus, MineralMan Feb 2013 #31
Some of us "much older" people INVENTED EARTH DAY! stlsaxman Feb 2013 #33
every person that sends me this email flobee1 Feb 2013 #34
Message auto-removed year of the cat Feb 2013 #36
the never-ending 'wasn't everything better back when' memos... KG Feb 2013 #37
This was posted the other day and this is how I replied... Javaman Feb 2013 #39
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