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In reply to the discussion: We didn't have the "green thing" back in our day....(a most enjoyable read!) [View all]Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)28. Not this shit again...
Why is it we must pit generations against one another? I don't see the point to it. It's clear this story is fiction, as I highly doubt such a conversation took place, so, if it's trying to drive home a point ... why not do it in a better way than making the Millennials look like assholes?
I don't think I've ever come across someone my age completely disrespecting an older person. I only see it in movies and on TV shows.
Or in lame chain letters like this.
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We didn't have the "green thing" back in our day....(a most enjoyable read!) [View all]
SugarShack
Feb 2013
OP
No - it was the parents of the boomers who went wild for disposable everything
starroute
Feb 2013
#24
As a (relatively) young person, you really brought my attention to things I knew but didn't realize
tarheelsunc
Feb 2013
#8
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