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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Reality for many is now practically virtual. On those occasions when we are awoken by
some extenuating circumstance we can recoil back into some virtual reality. In times
gone past, one did not evade reality unless through opium or some other stimulant, it
was thrust upon you. Its the difference between waking up to a warm centrally heated
...[text shortened]... having to hand wash for like seven kids and a husband, with only a
river and a large stone!
The washing machine made one hell of a difference I reckon to ordinary
women.
Now it makes the same difference to ordinary men, too.
Originally posted by Very RustyAgree with all of your points.
Some battles are worth fighting & others are not. (Again an individual decision)
It certainly would not mean someone was submitting to pressure or a coward.
Besides on the Interwebz everyone can have courage, they wouldn't normally have in the real world. 😉
I agree that I wouldn't want to live in a time without the modern conveniences and incredible medical breakthroughs. Would that there were a way to keep moving ahead technologically, yet still maintain the sense of decorum exhibited by past generations--and no, I don't want to bring back Jim Crow laws and those idiots in white sheets. But I am certain that there was a time when the public wasn't bombarded with sex and violence 24/7. I recall a time that prescription drugs could NOT be advertised; perhaps this would have kept the airwaves bereft of pitches for 4-hour erections, and maybe even Trojan Vibrators, the horrors of re-using catheters, and other unsightly topics best kept in the closet. And maybe, just maybe, magazines would have better material within their pages than shots of drunken songstresses/starlets crotches. And perhaps I would have only "thirteen channels of s--- on the TV to choose from"---(R. Waters), instead of the hundreds I have today, utterly saturated with Reality Shows. Yes GB, given a straight choice of then and now, I'd take now, but it's not a no-brainer for me.
Originally posted by JS357Answer: Yes; yes; yes; no; n/a; all of it. Your reply to the same questions?
Questions: would you rather be the age you are now, living in this year, or the age you are now, but living back "then"? And what year would "then" be? What parts of your life would have been vastly different if you'd been born that much earlier? No hedging, like, "I'd like being my age now, but like things were in the fifties, except with today's life ex cement technology and today's rules against smoking in movie theaters and restaurants."
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Originally posted by JS357The statement was made in a historical context. In Glasgow all the ladies did theirThe washing machine made one hell of a difference I reckon to ordinary
women.
Now it makes the same difference to ordinary men, too.
washing on a Monday. They went to a communal place called the 'steamie' where they
would spend literally all day washing the family clothes. This communal aspect has
now sadly been lost forever and with it a sense of the egalitarian sensibilities with which
we hope to be characterised by.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyYes indeed, perhaps its these foreign customs that intrigue us so much. I always think
"The past is a foreign country: They do things differently there." =L.P. Hartley
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about duelling, how honour was highly esteemed, enough for a man to risk his life for
it. How did such a code come about? Principles held in higher esteem than life itself.
Its utterly amazing. Even today its good etiquette to walk on the outside of a
pavement (sidewalk) when walking with a lady, to save her from being splashed by a
carriage in times gone past. Or to open doors for ladies. Seems we have retained
some things GB.
Indeed, while the present flows towards the past and the future flows towards the
present, its easy to see we can reach back and bring things from the past to the
present, and even in the present we can influence the future, such is the flow of time
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Originally posted by robbie carrobieThanks, Mike. My heart's so full this evening I'm hardly able to type.
Yes indeed, perhaps its these foreign customs that intrigue us so much. I always think
about duelling, how honour was highly esteemed, enough for a man to risk his life for
it. How did such a code come about? Principles held in higher esteem than life itself.
Its utterly amazing. Even today its good etiquette to walk on the outside of a
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present, and even in the present we can influence the future, such is the flow of time
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Originally posted by robbie carrobieMostly "... and Circumstance". "Unsure is a rather feeble answer to the 'filled with what'
Yes, are you really a pompous windbag?, How does it work? Does the wind give vent to the pomp, or the pomp accentuate the wind in a kind of self perpetuating motion?
question. Whatever the strong force is it's very quiet and very powerful and it smiles.
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