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In reply to the discussion: Best rant on PC I have seen for awhile...long, but worth it. [View all]braddy
(3,585 posts)165. LOl, you ignored my response to your post.
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It was nice to be reminded of at least a simpler, slower time. The pace today is too hectic!
Dustlawyer
May 2016
#33
I am a Goodwill type store junkie, and have found some incredible bargains.
dixiegrrrrl
May 2016
#56
Used a push mower 60s, 70's & 80's, wish i still had it, well made tool!
Dont call me Shirley
May 2016
#121
All 5 of my brothers and sisters were raised on cloth diapers 1954-1966.
Dont call me Shirley
May 2016
#120
The story is NOT about insulting millenials! It's about how we used to live the green walk! My
Dont call me Shirley
May 2016
#122
You're the one doing the blame shifting. The real cause of environmental degradation is the
Dont call me Shirley
May 2016
#135
My son was born in 1970 and never had anything except cloth diapers. I rode a city
sinkingfeeling
May 2016
#67
Just because things were invented in a year does not mean they came into general use then.
flor-de-jasmim
May 2016
#72
Yep, look how fucking GREEN everyone was back in the good ol' days during segregation!
snooper2
May 2016
#75
Proper grammer, please, young man: we do not end a sentence with a preposition.
FailureToCommunicate
May 2016
#20
I never had a key to the Houston home I grew up in, and many of us left the keys in our cars and our
braddy
May 2016
#32
This is not a rant on PC. It has nothing to do with "PC." It's simply glurge meant to divide people.
Brickbat
May 2016
#43
What cheers me up is all the groups I see on the internet who resurrecting the best of the past.
dixiegrrrrl
May 2016
#58
Free plastic bags are illegal in my community and our WalMart ran out of the 10 cent paper bags...
hunter
May 2016
#59
Surprised this has so many recs. DU demographics must trend older than I thought (nt)
TacoD
May 2016
#78
I agree. There is some truth to it, and the greedy assholes always ruin everything
Fast Walker 52
May 2016
#100
A mixed bag. My car got about 12 mpg, and rusted through in about five years.
JustABozoOnThisBus
May 2016
#105
"The fable of the burning river, 45 years later" Since we have been conditioned to hate the past
braddy
May 2016
#108
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens
Tierra_y_Libertad
May 2016
#112
I lived ALL those "green things" on the list. And still try to do many of them and more! Too bad
Dont call me Shirley
May 2016
#119
Fuck, I remember Watergate, and every week someone here tells me to get off their proverbial lawn.
Warren DeMontague
May 2016
#182
ahhh...leaf blowers....our 80 year old neighbor uses one on her deck, the sound really carries.
dixiegrrrrl
May 2016
#142
The glaring fault in all this is that all the new things the old person laments were invented by old
craigmatic
May 2016
#134
Your post is too long to respond to all of it, but any coke bottles thrown out of a car were very
braddy
May 2016
#145
Not too long to read, just too much to respond to, for instance you ignored my post anyway.
braddy
May 2016
#148
Well, I won't waste time playing games and exchanges about nothing, that only waste time.
braddy
May 2016
#167
We still have legal lead pipes, that wasn't the issue in Flint, and I don't know why changing
braddy
May 2016
#171
What happened in Flint was caused by not properly treating the water, as far as technology, when
braddy
May 2016
#174
It was a joke. Hey, you know your audience. This place will eat that sort of thing up.
Warren DeMontague
May 2016
#179
The only thing realistic about this story is the part about the old person holding up the line
Warren DeMontague
May 2016
#183