@drewnogal saidThis is a bad one to get me going on, I grew up in smoke - filled bars and cafes, and nobody gave a damn, people used to smoke in lectures...Imagine! Smoking aside, music....?? I still listen to Pink Floyd. We read existentialist novels and cared about politics, and a telephone was something you had to go to. Imagine, there you are on your youthful world adventure, sitting in some kibbutz somewhere and your mum 'phones. It just isn't the same. I'm a dinosaur of a soon - to- be - extinct species, I feel like a stranger in the place where I was born and raised, living out my days in a tropical paradise and letting the western world do what it will, but it's no place I belong any more.
They were simpler times but also good times.
@indonesia-phil saidSmoking? I recall sitting in the principal’s office at a technical college where I was ‘externally’ sitting an exam. I just lit up then asked him for an ash tray (please) and he just got it 😮
This is a bad one to get me going on, I grew up in smoke - filled bars and cafes, and nobody gave a damn, people used to smoke in lectures...Imagine! Smoking aside, music....?? I still listen to Pink Floyd. We read existentialist novels and cared about politics, and a telephone was something you had to go to. Imagine, there you are on your youthful world adventure, sit ...[text shortened]... ropical paradise and letting the western world do what it will, but it's no place I belong any more.
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@relentless-red said🤣 good one.
I really think so.
I don’t think the others understood your comment though
@chesstachio saidOnly The Vapors understand.
🤣 good one.
I don’t think the others understood your comment though
@rookie54 saidNo phone, no lights, no motor car,
no running water
no electricity
no telescopes
no elasticity
no sabertooth tigers
no mastodons
no toilet paper
heck, no paper at all
no shoes
no shirts
no service
no roundabouts
no police
no government
dammit
who set my hamsterbrain on this wheel?
Not a single luxury,
Like Robinson Crusoe,
It's primitive as can be.
@drewnogal saidAhhhhh, those were the days......
Smoking? I recall sitting in the principal’s office at a technical college where I was ‘externally’ sitting an exam. I just lit up then asked him for an ash tray (please) and he just got it 😮
@gambrel saidHell you got to be older me! 🙂
No phone, no lights, no motor car,
Not a single luxury,
Like Robinson Crusoe,
It's primitive as can be.
-VR
@drewnogal saidIn college it was up to each teacher if smoking was allowed in class or not. I don't remember ashtrays, I must have used an empty pop can. In shop smoking was the in the office or outside. It was a mechanical class. I studied industrial mechanics.
Smoking? I recall sitting in the principal’s office at a technical college where I was ‘externally’ sitting an exam. I just lit up then asked him for an ash tray (please) and he just got it 😮
@rookie54 saidNo shirts would have been tricky. No toilet paper would have saved the queues at supermarkets during toilet paper shortage crisis alarm situations.
no running water
no electricity
no telescopes
no elasticity
no sabertooth tigers
no mastodons
no toilet paper
heck, no paper at all
no shoes
no shirts
no service
no roundabouts
no police
no government
dammit
who set my hamsterbrain on this wheel?
@indonesia-phil saidTaking your shirt off is easier than you might think.
No shirts would have been tricky. No toilet paper would have saved the queues at supermarkets during toilet paper shortage crisis alarm situations.
Now you're gonna keep checking it's there. 😱