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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:23 AM Original message |
My grandparents'and great grandparents' generations were stupid |
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HillbillyBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
1. I would not say stupid, just ill informed/uninformed |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:44 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Also misinformed, as in lied to. |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:52 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Looking at the photographs |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
2. How much science ago did those generations exist in? |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:00 AM Response to Reply #2 |
12. Much of it didn't require ANY science to know, |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 11:39 AM Response to Reply #12 |
25. In point of fact, you do not qualify your thread title to exclude even one. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 11:56 AM Response to Reply #12 |
29. Sheet erosion can be really subtle |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:14 AM Response to Reply #2 |
18. that's true |
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Nikia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 11:43 AM Response to Reply #2 |
26. My grandfather went to Ohio State University before serving in WWII |
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snagglepuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
3. A OP posted several weeks related how a small group of Japanese |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
5. And coupled with this are denser populations and greater industrial output. And this |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:57 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Add to the stew a concerted effort to eliminate |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:11 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Yep, excellent point, yet another multiplier. The Stupid anymore is profound. We are |
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stuntcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
6. "entirely new generation of environmental horror stories.. |
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pintobean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
7. Stupid? Does that make you feel smart? |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:53 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Exactly right, exactly right. |
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pintobean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:08 AM Response to Reply #9 |
14. We don't agree |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:15 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. I'm fine with that. Really |
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pintobean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:49 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. rhetorical hook - ha |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:52 PM Response to Reply #21 |
31. And maybe them, and others, the definition of stupid... |
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pintobean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:00 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Thank you |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:03 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Sure, it is. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
10. Your grandchildren will feel the same way. |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:09 AM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Yes, though it would be a goal to think not forever re environmental destruction |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:22 AM Response to Reply #10 |
20. Your Grandchildren: |
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Zax2me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
13. Every generation thinks they are superior |
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pintobean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:09 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Stupid. |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
22. The world appeared infinite to people at that point in time. |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 11:35 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. If we had only listened more closely to our poets . . . Wordsworth |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:54 PM Response to Reply #23 |
32. Our meddling need not misshape. |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 11:52 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. I recall well visiting my relatives decades ago, they lived near a lumber mill, worked in |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
24. "stupid"?! Well. Mr. Holier-Than-Thou, you lost me right there. |
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cordelia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
28. Unrec for using the term "stupid". |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
30. They weren't stupid, they just did not know what we do now. |
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txwhitedove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
33. Unrec. My grandparents were college educated Democrats. |
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