tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025692126643858392.post179742874330951966..comments2023-07-28T17:43:37.618+10:00Comments on Negative Matter: Diminishing PatienceErgun Coruhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599942073095772399noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025692126643858392.post-383672830077588852009-11-02T12:48:12.221+11:002009-11-02T12:48:12.221+11:00Thanks Attila (my bro) for his encouraging and ins...Thanks Attila (my bro) for his encouraging and inspiring comments. Being a baby boomer means it is likely that you've had a great childhood and adolescence despite relative lack of material goods and choice at the time. I am glad that I was lucky enough to be born at the right time, and I can't help but feel sorry for today's kids.Ergun Coruhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14599942073095772399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025692126643858392.post-72963423943608858292009-11-02T02:25:42.634+11:002009-11-02T02:25:42.634+11:00It is ironic that I received today the following c...It is ironic that I received today the following comment which interacts with your article.<br /><br />QUOTE<br /><br />CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE<br /><br />1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70's !<br /><br />First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.<br />They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.<br /><br />Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.<br /><br />We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking..<br /><br />As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.<br /><br />We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle..<br /><br />Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos.<br /><br />Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!<br /><br />We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.<br /><br />We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with. <br />We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......<br /><br />WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!<br /><br />We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.<br /><br />No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.<br /><br /><br />We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.<br /><br />We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY , <br />no video/dvd films, <br />no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!<br /><br />We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no<br />Lawsuits from these accidents.<br /><br />Only girls had pierced ears!<br /><br />We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.<br /><br />You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...<br /><br />We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,<br /><br />We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!<br /><br />Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!<br /><br />RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on <br />MERIT <br /><br />Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bully's always ruled the playground at school.<br /><br />The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. <br />They actually sided with the law!<br /><br />Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla' <br /><br />We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO <br />DEAL WITH IT ALL !<br /><br />And YOU are one of them! <br />CONGRATULATIONS!<br /><br />You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.<br /><br />And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.<br /><br />UNQUOTEAttilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422339368658541214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025692126643858392.post-14770729896360708932009-11-02T00:23:34.601+11:002009-11-02T00:23:34.601+11:00Brilliant!
Your notorious sense-of-humor shines i...Brilliant! <br />Your notorious sense-of-humor shines in this article at its best. Yet, it is so true and a real time issue. This in turn; doesn’t make you a grumpy old-gid in the minds of teens? Probably yes, but does it matter? It is all about the generation gap which you have wonderfully illustrated. <br /><br />Your own contradictions always fascinated me. One hand, being an IT man you have always rejected to be thrown in to the deep frenzy of technological advancement race, on the other hand, you still are unable to define what is simple or not in IT specs of any device for an ordinary man. I recall your article of “simple mobile phone”which sounded to me very advance, thus complex to use for my mum.<br /><br />Having said that, I myself have fallen into the trap of a young mobile phone sales person recently and have ended up buying an all singing and dancing top device. I must admit though; it is very engaging if not; entertaining to play with it. It is a toy for boys (and girls) in modern times! That’s it. And the manufacturing business knows this weakness in the consumer masses and continuously introducing ever-increasing specs in tiny devices. <br /><br />Think for example; 12 megapixels in a mobile phone; I wonder how many teens know that it is an utter nonsense feature. You cannot do anything with it as the rest of device is not designed to co-op with such high number, but it sounds impressive; i.e. the higher the specs, the better the device must be! <br /><br />Thus; come on boys and girls carry-on buying the damn things. -And me too; good-old-fool.Attilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422339368658541214noreply@blogger.com