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starroute

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24. No - it was the parents of the boomers who went wild for disposable everything

Reply to loyalsister (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 22, 2013, 02:08 AM

Feb 2013

Paper plates, paper towels, paper napkins, plastic knives and forks, TV Dinners. That was the shape of the future from the 1930s to the 1950s, and the boomers didn't invent any of it. It was that sweet little old lady who bought into it, and the rest of us are paying the price.

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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

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