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And away "whee" go!

Hah! Beat you, Kathy!!!

Thank goodness, Jane! I thought I was possessed!

Good Afternoon to everyone!

She is a very colorful dancer! Looks like fun!

hi

Oh, I see a new play toy, I'm sure you can guess who I am.. LOL

Hello Bobbi! I hope you are having a nice day!

Sue, your Farmer's Market sounds delicious!

Debby
Not doing to much today. Have a busy day Mon. Taking Dylan to the dentist to put spacer in hia teeth to get ready for braces.
Keep in touch with me.

We are at Angi's house today. Rick has helped Dan lay a new floor in their kitchen. It looks great! Dan's is cooking burgers on the barbie. I just love summer time!

Angi and I have been to the Farmer's Market, Wal-Mart and grocery store! It is nice to have a buddy to shop with!

Trouble's Mom - Thanks for the hello! I hope all goes well on Monday.

The farmers market is every Saturday morning, so nice to find fresh fruits and vegetables. The market is one of the best things about summer.

Debby that is another great thing about summer lots of outdoor cooking.

Hi Troubles Mom, it was nice to meet you last week.

Sue

It was very nice meeting you and all the other women. I do hope we can get together soon, but as I said before Tami & I will take a room for the nite so we can spend more time together.

Lynndee
It was really nice talking to you. Keep me posted on how your daughter is doing. Hope all goes well for her.

One needs to conserve the best of the good old days and combine that with the best of today. So, you can have your cake and eat it.

You're right, Ray. Many good things then, many good things now.

Rayray et al (whoever the hell al might be...):

How much of our memory of the "good old days" is really just a failure to realize that much of the joy came from the ability to dance all night, taste buds which weren't worn out, knees that didn't hurt; and that no dreams, for More...

Ian,
There is a danger of being subjective in the consideration - in the way you suggest. However I do try to judge with what you have just said in mind, and conclude that society was more positive, constructive, friendly and co-operative - say during the 1950s - than it is now. There was less More...

However progress is cumulative and related technology is never lost - at least as far as a certain threshold of decadence (!)

Ian,
I strongly refute your assertion that ate AL.
I am not a cannibal.

"that society was more positive, constructive, friendly and co-operative - say during the 1950s - than it is now."

True, Rayray, as long as you were in that part of society which called all the shots.

My father was lower middle Class. He earned a low income as a bank clerk. He was not at all well-off, but he organised our lives well and within his means. He grew all his own vegetables to save money and the garden was immaculate and well-stocked all the time. My mother purchased a knitting More...

Neighbourhood spirit was good and there was a circuit of card players who visited each other for tea and cakes. ou don;t see that now. Partly due to TV and partly to the obsession of making money - in quantity in relation to buying power that is now much greater than in the 50s

Anyway my bedding is now dry after my late wash and I must hit the sack as it is 1 am. Nice discussion Ian; thanks. I'll read any your further comments tomorrow, but I must go as I get very tired quickly since the op.

Rayray, it is an interesting exercise to think about the social movements that have made vastly larger numbers of people better off...whether those movements succeeded in their times or not.

The Greeks promoted goodness for its own sake, not because of some fear of a tyrant god's More...

Everybody remembers "ask not what your country can do for you..."

Far fewer recall these words:

"To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe, struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for More...

"We did not exactly 'call the shots' but we did not complain or winge and were all happy"

Was that simply because you 'knew your place?'

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Rayray and Ian: If it were not for the good new days, we would not be chatting to each other internationally in (almost) real time. If we go back a few hundred years we would not even be able to write letters and post them. I for one like my new knee that the good new days have provided.
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Good points all around, but I think we're confusing technological advances with cultural and moral ones, and they're not necessarily the same. (That's what WW was getting at in part, I think -- 200 years ago.) It may be pure nostalgia, but some of what we take to be technological advances -- or More...

we are waiting for the 11

not September but August

Just Have to pass this on...

I was in the pub yesterday when I suddenly realized I desperately needed to fart. The music was really, really loud, so I timed my farts with the beat.

After a couple of songs, I started to feel better. I finished my pint and noticed that everybody More...

Y'all

A little slower than normal today - 2:21. Hi everyone.

The price of Gas in France

A thief in Paris planned to steal some Paintings from the Louvre.

After careful planning, he got past security, stole the paintings, and made it safely to his van.

However, he was captured only two blocks away when his van ran out of
Gas. More...

Jerry I was going to say that that was a conversation stopper but the protagonists had long since retired.
Have enjoyed reading the dialogue between Ray and Ian.
I think there is merit in this comment,
"We yearn for the 'good old days,' not of the human condition, but of More...

Evening all.
Was checking in to see if there was any news from Greg... will check back again in the morning.

Anne made the following excellent point, which I agree with.
"It may be pure nostalgia, but some of what we take to be technological advances -- or at least the way in which we've used them -- have arguably come at the expense of other elements of our culture"
To merely accept the More...