| date: | 14 March 2015 at 10:24 | ||
| subject: | Fw: A POEM WE CAN RELATE TO!..... well most of it!! |
Subject: Fw: A POEM WE CAN RELATE TO!..... well most of it!!
I remember the bologna of my childhood,
And the bread that we cut with a knife,
When the children helped with the housework,
And the men went to work not the wife.The cheese never needed a fridge,
And the bread was so crusty and hot,
The children were seldom unhappy
And the wife was content with her lot.I remember the milk from the bottle,
With the yummy cream on the top,
Our dinner came hot from the oven,
And not from a freezer; or the shop.The kids were a lot more contented,
They didn't need money for kicks,
Just a game with their friends in the road,
And sometimes the Saturday flicks.I remember the shop on the corner,
Where cookies for pennies were sold
Do you think I'm a bit too nostalgic?
Or is it....I'm just getting old?
The baths were taken in a #3 wash tub,
With plenty of rich foamy suds
But the ironing seemed never ending
As Mama pressed everyone's 'duds'.I remember the slap on my backside,
And the taste of soap if I swore
Anorexia and diets weren't heard of
And we hadn't much choice what we wore.Do you think that bruised our ego?
Or our initiative was destroyed?
We ate what was put on the table
And I think life was better enjoyed.Author, Unknown
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What a CHEESY "poem".
But, different strokes for different folks..
.especially the octogenarians who have nothing left to do but reminisce of days gone by.
Not much controversial presented in this poem....other than "and the wife was content with her lot". Which lot? Taking care of and raising the kid barefoot in the kitchen cooking and cleaning instead of having professional careers that require college educated women?
Times have changed, indeed. For the better, I might add. But, that's just my personal opinion at this point in my middle aged life
Mike Hawk
Careful Mike, you are starting to sound like one of those liberals that you despise so much. Maybe you should go watch some Fox News or listen to some Rush so they can tell you what your opinion is supposed to be. :)
ha ha ha ha
Mike Hawk
*tossing Barky a herring for finally posting a thoughtful insight not laced with ad hominems or straw men.
LMAO
A POEM WE CAN RELATE TO!..... well most of it!!
My issue with treacle-y garbage propaganda like this is that there is next to nothing in this doggerel that "relates" to anything in my family's history. Most of my forebears included women who worked hard outside the home OR worked alongside the men in running farms, dairies, butcher shops and grocery stores.
To depict women as being "content with her lot," which meant a lot of back-breaking housework (no mod cons back then) is beyond the pale, of course, but so is the rest of this foolish unrealistic tripe.
It's sent out in the same propagandist vein as the venerate Reagan as the greatest Pres of all time blah blah. Nothing said these days about Reagan has any bearing on the reality of the Alzheimer's victim when he was Pres in name only.
This crap pretends to romanticize and glorify the "good old days" in a peculiar & inaccurate way, and it's hard to tell what "days" this is talking about.
I guess it makes some cranky old white men happy?? And then makes them want to vote GOP???
go figure....
A POEM WE CAN RELATE TO!..... well most of it!!
My issue with treacle-y garbage propaganda like this is that there is next to nothing in this doggerel that "relates" to anything in my family's history. Most of my forebears included women who worked hard outside the home OR worked alongside the men in running farms, dairies, butcher shops and grocery stores.
To depict women as being "content with her lot," which meant a lot of back-breaking housework (no mod cons back then) is beyond the pale, of course, but so is the rest of this foolish unrealistic tripe.
It's sent out in the same propagandist vein as the venerate Reagan as the greatest Pres of all time blah blah. Nothing said these days about Reagan has any bearing on the reality of the Alzheimer's victim when he was Pres in name only.
This crap pretends to romanticize and glorify the "good old days" in a peculiar & inaccurate way, and it's hard to tell what "days" this is talking about.
I guess it makes some cranky old white men happy?? And then makes them want to vote GOP???
go figure....
Ah, the gold old days, when everyone smoked but no one got cancer, when no one ever got pregnant out of wedlock, when black people knew their place and when homosexuals hadn't been invented yet.
Republicans are still yearning for a return to an America that never was.
Sounds just like the inane rantings of my very own RWD and those in his ever shrinking bubble of like-minded conservative curmudgeons.
Same overall tone, albeit with a few exceptions. They all want a cherry-picked version of what they thought was the good old days, but only the parts within that favored the hegemony of the powerful. All that, plus smart phones and their shiny SUVs with built in GPSs.
Ah yes, the good old days when Jim Crow reigned Supreme; women were for sexytime and beatings; same for kids; and there were actors pretending to be Doctors on TV telling you that cigarettes made you healthy.
RWD forgets that the marginal tax rate was around 90%, which is how the USA managed to build a once great infrastructure that is now crumbling and nearly defunct.
Nah, RWD doesn't want to remember the good old tax rates, now does he? Just wants to remember when white men Ruled - OK?
Sentimentality is one of the worst, cheapest emotions. It masquerades as compassion in the meaner of our species.
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