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  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.catoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldnah it's natural
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    1 month ago

    I am almost 70. I am very anecdotal, I understand.

    In the 80’s after the fake energy scare (gas shortage one) that was all over the news saying we will have an ice age and other lies by the government I no longer listened or believed a word they said.

    I tried to tell friends, family and anyone else I could (I was all pumped up after watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos and his dire message) that we have to take better care of the planet etc. I was laughed at, told to shut the fuck up you stupid hippie and other such stuff. I gave up trying. Did my own thing to help a bit. Never bought new anything like cars, clothes, tech etc. Still the same to this day.

    I see the same thing now by the majority of young folks and most others just like back in the day.

    Hopefully at some point there will be a major shift in people’s thinking about our planet …






  • I am an anomaly. I was brought up by my mother, a British WWII war bride who married a Canadian soldier and moved to Canada with him. She would only let me speak the “Queen‘s English“. Oh, and I had to watch Jeopardy every single day for eight years.

    I was not even allowed to use contractions.

    The worst part was that she never taught me the rules that allowed me to speak very well, but I could not explain how I spoke very well. Got me in quite a bit of trouble when younger.

    I guess knowing tense and other stuff exists it saddens me that people are no longer as descriptive and personal as they used to be decades ago.