What was going on when you were born ??

[Taz_Zoee]

I liked the facts it showed (and petoftheday!!). But I didn't like the underlying message it was sending. Did anyone else get that??

[happylabs]

I liked the facts it showed (and petoftheday!!). But I didn't like the underlying message it was sending. Did anyone else get that??

I had some trouble with the site. Maybe because of the filters here at work.

What was the underlying message?

[kittycats_delight]

I got that underlying tone. It was rather offensive in my opinion. It is done in a polite way but if you really READ what they are saying you can definitely detect it.

[Taz_Zoee]

Cindy, what undertone did you pick up????

What was the underlying message?

I got that underlying tone. It was rather offensive in my opinion. It is done in a polite way but if you really READ what they are saying you can definitely detect it.

I'm curious if Michelle and I picked up the same thing.
In my opinion it is slamming people in the world now-a-days for "messing up the world" and things are so much worse now than they were back then.
There was one line that said something wasn't the way it used to be and "you and other people made it that way" or something like that. I can't remember exactly the wording it used. And there were a couple of others underlying references as well that I do not remember.

[kittycats_delight]

I'm curious if Michelle and I picked up the same thing.
In my opinion it is slamming people in the world now-a-days for "messing up the world" and things are so much worse now than they were back then.
There was one line that said something wasn't the way it used to be and "you and other people made it that way" or something like that. I can't remember exactly the wording it used. And there were a couple of others underlying references as well that I do not remember.

I did get that tone of blame. I also got a tone of people now being stupid & unable to survive without the internet. The reference to people reading actual books on paper & the 'have you read 'this' book, do you even know it. Also, I detected a kind of 'nippy' tone about downloading and pirating instead of going to the cinema & buying music. I just didn't like the overall condescending tone to the whole thing. It was written in a rather arrogant manner in my opinion.

[pomtzu]

Yeah - and it was probably written by some oldie like me. However, that's not how I think. Granted, some of the "old stuff" was undeniably good, but I have to admit that I like progress. Without it, our world would be so much smaller and restricted. Without progress, I would never have met so many great people from all over the globe, via this good old computer.

[phesina]

Yeah - and it was probably written by some oldie like me. However, that's not how I think. Granted, some of the "old stuff" was undeniably good, but I have to admit that I like progress. Without it, our world would be so much smaller and restricted. Without progress, I would never have met so many great people from all over the globe, via this good old computer.

Thank you, pomtzu.. This is just the kind of thing I wanted to say. (Comes of being born in 1944, I guess.)

I didn't pick up an air that it was critical of all the changes and the good old days were better... All I got was that things HAVE changed, a great deal. And that's life! As it should be and as it is.

Some time back I went out for a while with this guy who constantly moaned about the good old days and how much better things were then. I finally said: "No painless dentistry then." Boy, did THAT ever shut him up!

[momoffuzzyfaces]

There was a flood in the town where I was born. I have pictures of one of my aunts wading across the water on the way to the hospital to see me

I swear, I had nothing to do with that flood.