We who are well north of sixty should have be known for our generation. The "G" generation should do. To be a member of the "Grumpalians", the following should apply. To be a junior members, one has to remember the colour of the Australian one pound note. To be a senior member, one has to remember when a bottle of Coco-Cola was five PENCE. To be a super senior member, one has to remember....er...um...anything ya bloody like.
There will, of course, be a committee. Committee members will be nominated. Nominated committee members must be deceased, to avoid any arguements. All members are expected, for at least three minutes a day, complain about todays way of life, and how good it was when we were kids.
When travelling, and having a rally with other "G" people, it is expected that time will be set aside, perhaps mid to late afternoon, for an UNHAPPY hour where all present can have a good whinge. Solo "G" people can organise their own rally, by forming a circle with their vehicle, and spend some time complaining.     

im confused??

Just a joke Milo.......meaning those of us who are well over the hill are a grumpy old lot...........hmmmm........we could spend most of the Unhappy hour discussing our various medical conditions and operations, aches and pains etc........that should take care of most of the time until bedtime (in bed by 9PM of course, unless you count the afternoon Nanna Nap, lol .

C'mon Vic .

There's nothing wrong with the afternoon " Nanna Nap " .

Any special honours for those of Us whose exemplary behavour in "My Day" could only be described as Perfect?

sandsmere wrote:

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C'mon Vic .

There's nothing wrong with the afternoon " Nanna Nap " .

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Is there some other way to spend the afternoon???

 

jimricho wrote:

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sandsmere wrote:

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C'mon Vic .

There's nothing wrong with the afternoon " Nanna Nap " .

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Is there some other way to spend the afternoon???

 

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          as long as you are awake for happy hour your fine

 

I've avoided referring to the past as the "Good Old Days" ever since a lady 20yrs my senior said, "Dont talk to me about the good old days! Our house burnt down because we didnt have a telephone to call the fire brigade". Made me stop and think how lucky we are...these are the "Good Days", the ones we are enjoying right now!

Remember how cold it was on a winter morning with no heating? How hot in school in summer? (Schools are airconditoned now) We remember the good times like swimming in summer holidays in irrigation channels/rivers/muddy dams, and thats because we were young then. Really wouldnt want to swim in those places now!  

On our farm there was no electricity until I was 14, which is why I take so readily to camping, but Geez my parents worked hard.... would never choose their life.

Remember when a heart attack could not be treated except with rest, and you would be an invalid for the rest of your (shortened) life?

Nah! Give me today! I belong to the Generation Grateful!!!!

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C'mon Vic .

There's nothing wrong with the afternoon " Nanna Nap " .

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Or even the late morning one  Dam those late movies ! (ones that finish at 1030PM for me   )

         Good points Gert, some things were good (like no hard drugs to worry about etc)
         and some not so good.....main thing is to live and enjoy today like it may
         be your last........
        

 

-- Edited by Vic on Sunday 6th of February 2011 12:13:46 PM

  Too funny Pipes hahahahaha.  Love it.

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I've avoided referring to the past as the "Good Old Days" ever since a lady 20yrs my senior said, "Dont talk to me about the good old days! Our house burnt down because we didnt have a telephone to call the fire brigade". Made me stop and think how lucky we are...these are the "Good Days", the ones we are enjoying right now!

Remember how cold it was on a winter morning with no heating? How hot in school in summer? (Schools are airconditoned now) We remember the good times like swimming in summer holidays in irrigation channels/rivers/muddy dams, and thats because we were young then. Really wouldnt want to swim in those places now!  

On our farm there was no electricity until I was 14, which is why I take so readily to camping, but Geez my parents worked hard.... would never choose their life.

Remember when a heart attack could not be treated except with rest, and you would be an invalid for the rest of your (shortened) life?

Nah! Give me today! I belong to the Generation Grateful!!!!

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couldn't agree more GD, i left school at age 14 and went to work for the next 50 odd years. my first job was on a cattle property i n s w and in those days everything was done by hand. no posthole diggers, all done with a bar and shovel [ give me my tractor any day] when fencing you had to fall your trees with an axe or crosscut saw to produce your posts, [ give me my chainsaw any day] to get the holes in the posts for the wire, you had to grind away all day with a brace and bit, blisters on blisters, [give me motorised equipment any day] 

 they were good days at the time, but when i look back on some of the things i had done by hand i'm glad to be out of that era. for years we worked and read by the light of a carbide lamp, what a pleasure it is to just be able to flick a switch and have light and the ability to cook a meal without going out to the woodheap first. like i said , good days at the time, but i am not sorry to see them gone. move with the times is my moto.

P S, ain't nuffin wrong with nanny or poppy naps, use em all the time, good for your health, my story and i'm stickin to it.

                           cheers, rob.

I can do the grumpy bit and the occasional nana nap but no way can I answer those first questions. So that means I don't qualify.

You might be right Gerty. I haven't had chilblains since the good old days. Remember them well.

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sandsmere wrote:

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C'mon Vic .

There's nothing wrong with the afternoon " Nanna Nap " .

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Is there some other way to spend the afternoon???

 

 

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Sit under the awning on a summer day with drink in hand & watch the cricket.

 

You forgot the Washing.   Boiling the Copper, [would the kids of today even know what one was ?] bringing the clothes inside to the washtubs to scrub, rinse in Blued water, then out to the yard again to hang on the line ?

That was an all-day job.

Cheers,
Sheba. 

-- Edited by Sheba on Sunday 6th of February 2011 07:57:12 PM

Ahhh, The good ol' days..... World War, The Great Depression, another World War. People dying from ailments we today take a pill or needle for, etc etc Next time one visits a cemetery one should go to the older parts and check out the 19th century graves and the number of infants, children, and women of child bearing age that are buried there!

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You forgot the Washing.   Boiling the Copper, [would the kids of today even know what one was ?] bringing the clothes inside to the washtubs to scrub, rinse in Blued water, then out to the yard again to hang on the line ?

That was an all-day job.

Cheers,
Sheba. 

-- Edited by Sheba on Sunday 6th of February 2011 07:57:12 PM

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I can recall my mother doing all that and still being able to fit in a game of golf!   Mum was an excellent time manager when it came to getting chores done and playing golf.

 

Quote;   couldn't agree more GD, i left school at age 14 and went to work for the next 50 odd years. my first job was on a cattle property i n s w and in those days everything was done by hand. no posthole diggers, all done with a bar and shovel [ give me my tractor any day] when fencing you had to fall your trees with an axe or crosscut saw to produce your posts, [ give me my chainsaw any day] to get the holes in the posts for the wire, you had to grind away all day with a brace and bit, blisters on blisters, [give me motorised equipment any day]

Been there, done that along with every thing else that went with it.
Todays methods are far better in those fields,We have adopted the new way of doing things like that but we are still the same type of people, we havent changed.
It's a damn shame that later generations lost the respect & values that we have.

There's one thing that I can't figure out, at what date did it change from the good old days to these days?   We have to learn the high tech ways of to day to try keeping up, but young ones dont even want to hear about the good old days, it would do them good to take a few lessons from the past.

No way would I want to go back to the "good old days". Modern appliances and technology have their good and bad points, but mostly good. People were more predictable, influenced mainly by alcohol, while these days we don't know what addles the brain to make them do the things they do. Unfortunately with modern times we've lost the big "R" - RESPECT. Bring back respect for self, other people and property. It seems the liberated young believe they are entitled to anything they want, right now, and if they can't afford it they steal it, and even hurt or kill to get it. Being taught to be seen and not heard, to speak when spoken to and to respect my elders didn't do me any harm....... or did it?

Been there, done that along with every thing else that went with it.
Todays methods are far better in those fields,We have adopted the new way of doing things like that but we are still the same type of people, we havent changed.
It's a damn shame that later generations lost the respect & values that we have.

There's one thing that I can't figure out, at what date did it change from the good old days to these days? We have to learn the high tech ways of to day to try keeping up, but young ones dont even want to hear about the good old days, it would do them good to take a few lessons from the past.


i cant figure that one out either, maybe when they stoped the school cane or when the cops could no longer give them a boot in the bum and take them home for a dose of parental discipline, one thing is for sure, all of that is missing today.

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No way would I want to go back to the "good old days". Modern appliances and technology have their good and bad points, but mostly good.
People were more predictable, influenced mainly by alcohol, while these days we don't know what addles the brain to make them do the things they do.
Unfortunately with modern times we've lost the big "R" - RESPECT. Bring back respect for self, other people and property.
It seems the liberated young believe they are entitled to anything they want, right now, and if they can't afford it they steal it, and even hurt or kill to get it.
Being taught to be seen and not heard, to speak when spoken to and to respect my elders didn't do me any harm....... or did it?

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no, it didn't do you any harm CG, please and thank you never hurt anyone and neither did having respect for other people. its just a pity it is dying out in the younger generations. 

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You forgot the Washing.   Boiling the Copper, [would the kids of today even know what one was ?] bringing the clothes inside to the washtubs to scrub, rinse in Blued water, then out to the yard again to hang on the line ?

That was an all-day job.

Cheers,
Sheba. 

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if you really want to confuse them, ask them about the old riffle board our grandma's used when doing the washing.my grandma did the washing up to the wringing stage then she would have a kid swinging on the ends of each item until our arms looked like corkscrews, then two more kids to hang them on the line and god help you if they wern't hung straight, ahhh the good old days.

 

That would have been a sight! kids wound up like corkscrews hanging off a clothes line! oops I think I'm confused now

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no, it didn't do you any harm CG, please and thank you never hurt anyone and neither did having respect for other people. its just a pity it is dying out in the younger generations.

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Oh yeah!  here we go again.... the "oldies" of "yesteryear" were saying the same thing about us!  Judging the majority based on the behavour of a minority.

In the past several years I've seen younger members of my related family and their friends work their butts off to get through their HSC and then go on a successful career path into resposible jobs and become very decent citizens.

I'll bet a lot parents/grandparents etc on this forum would be able to say the same thing!

I somehow suspect that a few members of this forum are well on the way to earning their PhDs in "Grumpalia"

 

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That would have been a sight! kids wound up like corkscrews hanging off a clothes line! oops I think I'm confused now

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if you had read the post right you would have worked out the key word was WRINGING stage, then you would'nt have been confused.

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no, it didn't do you any harm CG, please and thank you never hurt anyone and neither did having respect for other people. its just a pity it is dying out in the younger generations.

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Oh yeah!  here we go again.... the "oldies" of "yesteryear" were saying the same thing about us!  Judging the majority based on the behavour of a minority.

In the past several years I've seen younger members of my related family and their friends work their butts off to get through their HSC and then go on a successful career path into resposible jobs and become very decent citizens.

I'll bet a lot parents/grandparents etc on this forum would be able to say the same thing!

I somehow suspect that a few members of this forum are well on the way to earning their PhDs in "Grumpalia"

 

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it must be lovely to only see the good, responsible kids, from good responsible families. unfortunately, i have seen the poor bloody kids from the other side of life.

 i have seen the sexualy molested, the homeless children and i have helped to raise money for the organisations that help to care for them. i have helped the kids from homes where the parents don't give a stuff about them and just let them run wild. i have seen gangs of kids, some as young as 8 years of age, running in the streets at 2-3 am and just looking for trouble, so yes, i may get my phd in grumpalia, but it will never be agains't the kids, it will be agains't a society that buries it's head in the sand and says that these things don't happen.

PS. also have 5 grandkids who have turned out great, lucky they had parents that cared about them.

It's great to see young people work for success, from school to career, however, not everyone is fortunate or able to pursue a career. They just have to get a job to earn a living to eat and support their family. I'm a single mum and my family is dysfunctional because I was too strict, insisting on respect. Well I think that's how it happened. They grow up to be adults making their own decisions. All I could do was make sure they'd grow up to be worthwhile people. I couldn't keep peer pressure and other influences at bay all the time during their teenage years. They always knew better. Many times I was told, "What would you know!" I'm sure you can all relate. I am left to wonder how I got this far in my life and achieved what I have with a shrivelled brain.

Jon & Hylda, you must be too young to be a G gen. The poppy nap helps the taste buds in enjoying a good drink during happy hour.
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