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  • dicko
    dicko
    4 years ago
     Modern Times
         How old is Grandma?
     

    One evening a grandson was talking to his grandmother
    About current events.
    The grandson asked his grandmother what she thought
    About the shootings at American schools, the computer age, and Just things in general.
    The Grandmother replied, "Well, let me think a minute,
    I was born before:
    ? television
    ? penicillin
    ? polio shots
    ? frozen foods
    ? Xerox
    ? contact lenses
    ? Frisbees and
    ? the pill
    There were no:
    ? credit cards
    ? laser beams or
    ? ball-point pens
    Man had not yet invented:
    ? pantyhose
    ? air conditioners
    ? dishwashers
    ? clothes dryers
    ? and the clothes were hung out to dry in the fresh air and
    ? man hadn't yet walked on the moon
    Your Grandfather and I got married first, and then lived together.
    Every family had a father and a mother.
    Until I was 25, I called every man older than me, "Sir."
    And after I turned 25, I still called policemen and every man
    With a title, "Sir."
    We were before gay-rights, computer-dating, dual careers, daycare centers, and group therapy.
    Our lives were governed by the Ten Commandments, good judgment, and common sense.
    We were taught to know the difference between right and
    Wrong and to stand up and take responsibility for our actions.
    We thought fast food was what people ate during Lent.
    Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with
    Your cousins.
    Draft dodgers were those who closed front doors as the
    Evening breeze started.
    Time-sharing meant time the family spent together in the
    Evenings and weekends — not purchasing condominiums.
    We never heard of transistor radios, tape decks, CD's, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings.
    If you saw anything with 'Made in Japan ' on it, it was junk.
    The term 'making out' referred to how you did on your school exam.
    Pizza Hut, McDonald's, tea bags and instant coffee were unheard of.
    Ice-cream cones, phone calls, rides on a bus, and fizzy drinks were all six pence.
    And if you didn't want to splurge, you could spend your six pence on enough stamps to mail 1 letter and 2 postcards.
    You could buy a new Ford Car for $600, but who could
    Afford one?
    In my day:
    ? "grass" was mowed,
    ? "coke" was something you burnt on the fire,
    ? "pot" was something your mother cooked in and
    ? "rock music" was your grandmother's lullaby.
    ? "Aids" were helpers in the Principal's office,
    ? "chip" meant a piece of wood,
    ? "hardware" was found in a hardware store and.
    ? "software" wasn't even a word.
    We were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed a husband to have a baby.
    We volunteered to protect our country.
    No wonder people call us "old and confused" and say there is a generation gap.
    How old do you think I am?
    Are you ready?????
        
    This woman would be only 67 years old. 
    She would have been born in late 1952.
      GIVES YOU SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.

  • Ratbob
    Ratbob
    4 years ago
    I’m 66 so thanks for those reminders of my age.
    You’re right, man had not yet invented dishwashers, it was invented by a woman in 1886, clothes dryers were 1938, aircon 1902, but hey, I get it and like it.
    I recall as a kid having a couple of operations, no modern anaesthetic, they poured ether onto a cotton wad held over your face and man, dentists with pedal powered drills, that was horrid. 
    I didn’t get this latest shortage of toilet paper thing then realised there’s no more white or yellow pages and people read the news on their phones which aren’t very absorbent.
  • RossW
    RossW
    4 years ago
    Lucky we've moved on since then.
  • Soapbox2627
    Soapbox2627
    4 years ago
    Gay meant happy
    Parents could discipline
    Children didn't need rights
  • boxa
    boxa
    4 years ago
    Certainly makes me feel nostalgic , i can remember before lots of these were around , and i'm only 63 . Will say though , even credit cards i use one now , but only been using them for about 5 years  , i just refused to have one  , told the bank , NO ONE is gonna charge me to spend money , , pay it on time and we don't they said ,,,  But you still have annual fee's i said ,, so they cancelled the annual fee  and i got one ,,  must admit , its not that bad   being up with the times ,, especelly if i go away on the bike , don't need no sleeping bags , tents or bugger all , just show the card , LOL
  • dicko
    dicko
    4 years ago
    Quoting Ratbob on 26 Apr 2020 04:54 AM

    I’m 66 so thanks for those reminders of my age.

    You’re right, man had not yet invented dishwashers, it was invented by a woman in 1886, clothes dryers were 1938, aircon 1902, but hey, I get it and like it.
    I recall as a kid having a couple of operations, no modern anaesthetic, they poured ether onto a cotton wad held over your face and man, dentists with pedal powered drills, that was horrid. 
    I didn’t get this latest shortage of toilet paper thing then realised there’s no more white or yellow pages and people read the news on their phones which aren’t very absorbent.

    Yep! Same , I'm 71 ( born 1949) and remember my appendix operation at age 4 an ( emergency one) and  ether was the anaesthetic, rag over face count to ten, I did, so they put another one over me,  and said "do it again" This time I don't remember getting to 10. No aircon no phone in house , dunny down the back, dunny paper was the newspaper carefully made into squares and stuck on the nail in the out house , the dunnyman took away the tin on his shoulder , and so did the rubbish man, the stove was wood fired and in the tin shack stuck to the house, and the milkman ,bake and fruiterer delivered, along with the ice man until we got a kero fridge. the washing machine was a big tub in which you boiled the clothes and rubbed on a board. until we got a agitator machine with a hand wound mangle. hot water from stove and all the kids bathed in the same water from the house tank.
    definately no TV. listened to the big radio or played records on the hand wound player.
    These were great times
  • Ratbob
    Ratbob
    4 years ago
    What a laugh, sounds like we could have been brothers.
    I’d forgotten about all the sellers going street to street with their horse drawn buggies selling milk, rabbits, fish, greens etc. Where I grew up, the rabbit man carried on with his horse into the 70’s.
    Despite how Monty Python want us to percieve it, it wasn’t tough, that’s just how it was. Nothing got wasted, we knew everyone in the street and I reckon folks were generally happier.
  • Smokey61
    Smokey61
    4 years ago
    Quoting dicko on 26 Apr 2020 12:31 AM

     Modern Times

         How old is Grandma?
     

    One evening a grandson was talking to his grandmother
    About current events.
    The grandson asked his grandmother what she thought
    About the shootings at American schools, the computer age, and Just things in general.
    The Grandmother replied, "Well, let me think a minute,
    I was born before:
    ? television
    ? penicillin
    ? polio shots
    ? frozen foods
    ? Xerox
    ? contact lenses
    ? Frisbees and
    ? the pill
    There were no:
    ? credit cards
    ? laser beams or
    ? ball-point pens
    Man had not yet invented:
    ? pantyhose
    ? air conditioners
    ? dishwashers
    ? clothes dryers
    ? and the clothes were hung out to dry in the fresh air and
    ? man hadn't yet walked on the moon
    Your Grandfather and I got married first, and then lived together.
    Every family had a father and a mother.
    Until I was 25, I called every man older than me, "Sir."
    And after I turned 25, I still called policemen and every man
    With a title, "Sir."
    We were before gay-rights, computer-dating, dual careers, daycare centers, and group therapy.
    Our lives were governed by the Ten Commandments, good judgment, and common sense.
    We were taught to know the difference between right and
    Wrong and to stand up and take responsibility for our actions.
    We thought fast food was what people ate during Lent.
    Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with
    Your cousins.
    Draft dodgers were those who closed front doors as the
    Evening breeze started.
    Time-sharing meant time the family spent together in the
    Evenings and weekends — not purchasing condominiums.
    We never heard of transistor radios, tape decks, CD's, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings.
    If you saw anything with 'Made in Japan ' on it, it was junk.
    The term 'making out' referred to how you did on your school exam.
    Pizza Hut, McDonald's, tea bags and instant coffee were unheard of.
    Ice-cream cones, phone calls, rides on a bus, and fizzy drinks were all six pence.
    And if you didn't want to splurge, you could spend your six pence on enough stamps to mail 1 letter and 2 postcards.
    You could buy a new Ford Car for $600, but who could
    Afford one?
    In my day:
    ? "grass" was mowed,
    ? "coke" was something you burnt on the fire,
    ? "pot" was something your mother cooked in and
    ? "rock music" was your grandmother's lullaby.
    ? "Aids" were helpers in the Principal's office,
    ? "chip" meant a piece of wood,
    ? "hardware" was found in a hardware store and.
    ? "software" wasn't even a word.
    We were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed a husband to have a baby.
    We volunteered to protect our country.
    No wonder people call us "old and confused" and say there is a generation gap.
    How old do you think I am?
    Are you ready?????
        
    This woman would be only 67 years old. 
    She would have been born in late 1952.
      GIVES YOU SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.

    Frozen foods were sold by Birdseye in 1930, Penicillin was in use by civilians after the war in 1945, etc...

    If she were born in '52, Grass was not primarily mowed 'in her day', in *her* day was Woodstock.

    Draft dodgers would have been the age of her brother.

    Rock music had been around since she was 3, Frisbees since she was 5.

    Fast food was Fish & Chips.

    If you could buy a new Ford for $600 in 1952, it was stolen.

    Sounds like Grandma did too many drugs in the Sixties.
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