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#162
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Originally Posted by mrsk
Originally Posted by quilticing
Edited TV commercials, no profanity, violence, nudity especially before 9pm.
I would even go back to cigarette comercials if they would just bann all the "men's sexual problem" pill commercials, the incontinence adds, and the pills for anything that causes worse side effects than the original pill is supposed to cure!
#163
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Originally Posted by kaykwilts
Originally Posted by zoeytoo
Originally Posted by kaykwilts
Forgive me for this....but I would love it if we went back to all immigrants desiring to learn English and wanting to become an American....I get really tired of not being understood by someone who lives here but chooses not to speak English....and the feeling that at 52 I have to learn a new language in order to communicate with most checkers at the grocery store.
Sorry if I offended you....that was not my intent.
And I agree, kindness is a universal language....and English should be the official language of the United States.
so I do not know very much Italian except what my maternal gram said and I asked what it meant. I worked with ESL kids who are eager to be just like the American born kids and it is hard because their accents and limited vocabulary makes them different. I once taught a Russian girl 7 years old who spoke and wrote better English than the rest of the USA born kids. Our language has many confusing aspects, especially for Oriental children who have to learn the abc formations as well as the words. Glad I was born here:) Thank God for America every day.
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Originally Posted by miriam
people still believed God would provide their needs - now they think the government will provide their wants as well as their needs
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[quote=kaykwilts]
This is just so true. We all need to remember that we actively participate in these decisions, and that what we do every day has long term consequences. We want to save a buck on a yard of fabric, and soon all fabric is made in China or India. We want to drive everywhere and park conveniently and at no cost, and soon our downtowns die and everything is a strip mall. And what do we do with the money and time that we have thus saved? Do we use it to make this world a better place? No, we (and I am including myself here) just spend or use it on more stuff. As Wordsworth said well over a hundred years ago,
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
Originally Posted by running1
I've often wished for a much slower pace...
This is just so true. We all need to remember that we actively participate in these decisions, and that what we do every day has long term consequences. We want to save a buck on a yard of fabric, and soon all fabric is made in China or India. We want to drive everywhere and park conveniently and at no cost, and soon our downtowns die and everything is a strip mall. And what do we do with the money and time that we have thus saved? Do we use it to make this world a better place? No, we (and I am including myself here) just spend or use it on more stuff. As Wordsworth said well over a hundred years ago,
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
#169
can I add to this even though I didn't live in "the old days"? But I would love to have people write letters to each other. how I love looking through my grandparents and great grandparents letters to each other that my grandma saved. so romantic! but also I have an old car that's not too automated so my dad can fix most of the things by himself which he's also trying to teach me though I don't know what good it will do me in oh, I don't know, 20 years?
#170
for all of you asking for a clothes line, I love mine. I love sheets hanging out the most but not so much towels. We even hang ours out a little in the winter. I think they freeze more than dry, but my mom says they dry and we put them in the dryer for a few minutes. But this year we're getting a drying rack to put next to the wood stove that's going to go in our kitchen for heat this year. I try to be old fashioned when I can, but with some things, I do keep up (technology for one so I can help my dad understand when the computer doesn't work) but oh, how I would love to have a treadle! all you who have one are so lucky!!
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