Things of gone by eras that would be useful today

Millenials are without a doubt the rudest people in society today. I've never heard one say "Please" or "Thank you." They all seem to think they are somewhere on the autism spectrum and that means calling you names to your face.

Boarding schools, nursemaids.

Lobotomies

pantries

appliances that last 2 decades

automats

dating

less gap between the rich and everyone else

a large comfortable middle class

Fat womyn on garbage detail

Fewer lawyers.

A breakfast tray.

Hanging.

Winston Churchill

R2 We still have them here in Britain!

The British Empire.

Saddam Hussein. Taking him out paved the way for ISIS.

Home economy in general; making home preserves; saving & sharing jars with other home cooks; saving & re-employing useful packaging & less household waste going to needless landfill in general; vegetable gardening; mending clothes; keeping chickens for organic eggs; community projects, talking to, being civil with & knowing yr neighbours...

OP sounds like a busybody. And effeminate.

R1, elderly people probably said the same thing about your generation. And if you never heard a millennial say please or thank you, then you need to get out more.

Are you a Republican? They hate "millennials" because most of them are gay-friendly and liberal on social issues.

Sorry R14 not either but I am tired of seeing people with lousy fucking posture. Doesn't help that most are obese and horrible dressers too.

See saws, jungle gyms, tall slides. Skateboarding is the only classic thing kids do on the street these days. Not even jump rope.

I'll never understand how one person could care about someone else's posture. Mind your own damn business

Slavery

Submissive obedient housewives who managed to keep a spotless house and a trim figure and keep their husbands happy

Children who were beaten into being well behaved polite and well mannered by their parents, aunts, grandparents, teachers, clergy, neighbours, the milkman, etc etc

Call it a fetish R17. I also have a fetish about feet. Cannot stand seeing people in sandals with unkempt toe nails and calloused heels.

R13 - [quote] keeping chickens for organic eggs Yea, that's great, until it actually happens. I live in Central America, in a semi rural, non gringo neighbourhood, and some neighbours have chickens, and roosters, including the ones almost attached to my house. They also use a (cough cough) wood burning stove, yet have a 50 inch flat screen tv. Some things for by gone eras should remain in the past.

I love R13

OP's Alma Mater

"Cannot stand seeing people in sandals with unkempt toe nails and calloused heels."

Why are you even looking at people's feet? Are you a fetishist? I never notice feet

I don't know R23. I just do. MY SIL always jokes that she has to make sure she gets a pedicure before any family gatherings, not that I'd actually say something.

Long earrings.

Moose toe

Dumbwaiters

I have ugly toes. I'm going to piss someone off tomorrow and wear sandals.

Who knew?

I agree with the OP---technically I'm a Millennial, but I can't believe that saying "thank you," and "you're welcome" has fallen by the wayside. These days, it's just "No problem."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nuns who could whip those under-parented kids into shape.

Dressing appropriately for your surroundings. I'm sick of seeing unkempt slobs waddling around the supermarket in everything from jorts to pajamas. It's not kindergarten, why are grown adults going shopping in onesies? If you're going into a public place wear clothing appropriate for a public place.

Phones in restaurants / theaters etc. If you are having dinner with someone put your phone away and pay attention to your companion. If you're at a live performance then watch the fucking performance, don't just film it to watch later. It's annoying and rude.

R26 - my mistake - it's called 'moose knuckle', not 'moose toe'. Not to be confused with camel toe.

Yeah, too much trash behaviour out there. And slang, who says "sweat" when one should say "perspire"?

What garbage-house dweller says "perspire" when the proper word is "glow"?

Where you live sounds kinda cool R20

I sorta see your point wrt the immediate neighbours too. It's the environmental equivalent of a fatty having a slab of chocolate mudcake while putting sweet n low in the skim milk latte I suppose: hypocrisy manifest?!

However, to some extent how we live our lives even in smaller considerations, increments collective would do well to factor in Arctic - Antarctic eco systems among other scary global things within 50 yrs I humbly suggest.

Also, it's a shame neighbourly consideration & civility in yr neck of the woods apparently doesn't extend to some decent communal barter exchange for some those organic huevos over the back fence...but here's hoping neighbour relations ain't unnecessarily antagonistic leastaways- yr cortisol levels will thank you. If I was your neighbour, you are right, I'd probably make the offer on occasion, if not passing a quiche yr way if you're a hottie ;-)

Mental institutions. Reagan closed them and the mentally ill all ended up on the streets, which is why we have such a bad homeless problem today. There's just some people who will never be right in the head and able to function in society. And now the ones notactually on the streets have access to guns and go around shooting up movie theaters, schools, etc.

There needs to places where these people can be controlled and medically treated. Being loose on the streets and insane as adults is a disaster. I don't remember any of these disgusting mass shootings by mentally deranged individuals when I was growing up.

Saying you're sorry has also gone by the wayside. You either say you "did the best you could at the time," or that you're "sorry they feel that way," and therefore you never take responsibility for anything.

Also, we need to bring back tactile buttons in cars. It's completely ridiculous for people to be taking their eyes off the roads to mess around with touch-screens. I preferred being able to reach down and feel the buttons and knobs on my radio without having to look down.

Some of us can't help our posture, OP.

I was tormented in Catholic school. "Sit up straight! Stand up straight! Your shoulders are uneven! You look like a sad sack!"

Turns out I had scoliosis -- which I was never screened for in catholic school. And recently I saw a rheumatologist who informed me that my shoulders, hips and knees are double jointed. I knew my elbows and fingers were double jointed and I suspected my right shoulder was, too. But this explains why I could never hold straight posture for long. It was crazy painful. I tried to explain to the nuns that my "bones slid down" and I couldn't lift them up and keep them up for more than a few seconds. It was my loose-jointedness. My hips and shoulders automatically "slid" into the joint space. There was nothing I could do --- especially about the scoliosis, since that was something the school nurse was supposed to diagnose. There was no such thing as a "wellness visit" to a doctor in those days. You saw the doctor when you had chicken pox and he didn't exam your posture. He didn't even measure my height or take my weight. (I was small and underweight, which he never noticed. I was undernourished due to my mother giving as much money as she could to the church, rather than spending it on protein sources for her children).

Last year I had emergency abdominal surgery and they cut my abdominal muscles horizontally and vertically and no amount of crunches help. My once-flat stomach sticks out the a bowling ball now. It's so embarrassing.

I'm sorry you've had a tough time r40. Hope you recover well from the surgery.

Pay phones

The sturdy phones that Western Electric made for the phone company.

Come to think of it, I want the old AT&T back. The phone service was dependable

I am trim and well-groomed for my spouse, do all the housework, cooking and errands and would happily be subservient in exchange for not also having to work full-time outside the home, unfortunately feminism was co-opted by the greedy gov elite and merely surviving until death requires two incomes.

I, too am almost a hermit because the general public depress and nauseate me. Fatty fatty two by fours on little rascals buying absolute crap for breakfast, lunch and three dinners; people who gave so neglected their health they shop wearing oxygen strapped to their back like an astronaut, unkempt children, tramp stamps on the now elderly, visible because everyone thinks we want to see their blue, flabby skin and stranger's floppy members visible under sweat pants. Ugh. Do people have no dignity?

segregation

[quote]Children who were beaten into being well behaved polite and well mannered by their parents, aunts, grandparents, teachers, clergy, neighbours, the milkman, etc etc

I know you're being sarcastic, but the thought of The Village enforcing children's good behavior is as soothing to me as the scent of peppermints, pipe tobacco and a warm fire.

Ah. Pipe tobacco. I do miss it.

About children's behavior -- I couldn't agree more.

R36 - No, relations with the neighbours are good - everyone is very friendly, and I always get a hello and smile from everyone walking by, especially the spinster twins. ( ; There is a language barrier - my fault, I only speak survival Spanish, and have boyfriends that speak English, so am not forced to learn Spanish. Although, that may be a good thing - it keeps the civility at hello's and asking how you are, without getting intrusive. It's a tight knit community, and everyone knows everyone's business. I can remain at a distance by being unable to 'gossip' with the neighbour ladies. It really is like a gone by era, when neighbours knew each, and took care of each other.

lobotomies and lollipops

common sense

I miss polytheism. Pan lives!!! So does Zeus and the rest of the gang!

It's none of your darn business what I wear to do the grocery shopping. What are you, a fashion Nazi? I'll wear what I darn well please.

bras

A car like the Model T where the owner was both able and encouraged by the manufacturer to perform most routine maintenance and repair himself.

Women in hats and gloves when appearing in public.

R52 has crusty, non-manicured feet and wears jammies to Wal-Mart. Also bad posture.

It is kind of all our business what people wear in public R52.

Have some respect for yourself and others. Sheesh!

Fashion don'ts!

Fashion do's

[quote] It really is like a gone by era,

It's bygone dearie just so's ya know.

A liberal party capable of winning national elections.

Living wages for labor.

Handi-Wrap, none of the ones on the market are the same.

Fruit-at-the-Bottom Yogurt. It's all mysteriously disappearing.

^^^ Large curd cottage cheese too.

Balloon street vendors and pop stands.

I'm for going back to the last year that those fargin' Sippy Cups didn't exist. Whenever I see some former neighbor to a crotch spider running amok with one of those filthy things, I want to pimp slap the parents of tiny Jasunn or Brooklynne and pour out the contents of the thing over the brat's head. It's gonna wind up all over the floor anyway. 'Leak-free' my entire ass. Sippy Cup means kid goes in the high chair. No exceptions.

Another vote for proper attire in public spaces, especially restaurants. I DO NOT want to see your grimy, hairy foot dangling a Birkenstock sandal off your stinking toes. Your full 'a' holes Che-Marley-marijuana leaf t-shirt belongs in a paint can and those tattered cargo shorts simply wouldn't exist in a better world.

writing letters and snail mailing them, Tupperware parties, door-to-door carollers during the holidays, disco, leg warmers, vinyl records, block parties, beehive hairdos, dippity-do, polyester leisure suits, velour sweats, shag rugs, black lights and psychedelic posters in the rec room, wood panelling, console TVs, mood rings, Afros, blue frosted eye shadow, Phil Donahue, Saturday morning cartoons, Bakelite bracelets, macrame pot holders, photo albums, Soul Train and American Band Stand, The Midnight Special, Creature Features, Wolfgang Jack, Rodney Allen Ripley, Count Chocula, roller skating, tobogganing

Bait and tackle shops.

Harvest gold and avocado green

Flokati rugs, moccasins, fringe vests, god's eyes, chenille bedspreads, velvet couches, paint-by-numbers kits, pogo sticks, stilts, marbles, vesper martinis, gee your hair smells terrific, pickle barrels, streaking, kite flying, sun tea, cross country family vacation car trips, station wagons, H & H green stamps, Casey kasim's top 40, bubble baths

Should read "S&H green stamps"

A laundry chute.

R60 - I was repeating the way it was written in the title of this thread.

Quality of life. "Free time". Hobbies. Real DIY projects, as in, something needs fixing and you fix it, not, I have an hour, what should I make from a kit that I purchased at Walmart. Not working all the time. Not being essentially "on-call" tethered to a cell phone, regardless of occupation. Not multi-tasking. Getting to choose your own doctor, who is not part of some big corporate conglomerate and paying them a fair price for quality, personalized care for pennies on the comparative dollar.

Can I time travel to another decade please?

..and a dirty, scuffed-up bowling ball you found in a vacant lot to to chuck into it, R73 Caught hell and a whuppin' for that stunt.

Station wagons, too. Playland at the Beach, brushed aluminum and glass front panels, baba rum cakes in packets, Picon, union-made Derby jackets, Sears & Radio Shack selling only their own brands, Western boots in western sizes, affordable English & European sports cars, all the laws neutered by Reagan that protected consumers from predatory capitalists, Heathkits, Lafayette stores, soda fountains, AM radio playing pop music, FM radio catering to elitists and weirdos, Dippity Do and Sanka cans, ranges with griddles, real playground equipment, not Nerf-y lumps of plastic, 'please', 'thank you', 'you're welcome',.

Cafeterias.

Soda Fountains in Drug Stores.

The original Western Electric Touch Tone Phones (not rotary, though...I'm not THAT archaic).

Nice new songs on the radio...ones that you can singalong to, fall in love to...

'England'...not 'The UK'.

Station Wagons.

Cars in all sorts of colors...burgundy, for instance (yes, I'm thinking 70s).

Movies for adults.

BUT...clothes are more colorful again and men's dress pants are tight again...HURRAY!

Lots of these things are still around. I have a 1940s Stromberg Carlson telephone that still works and looks fabulous!

[quote]gone by eras

You're ADORABLE!

[quote] I have a job where I get to do lots of people watching and, wow, I can't believe how many younger people, heck even their parents, have terrible posture and walk with shoulders hunched, belly out and feet splayed out.

Mary!

Boy brothels

Cocaine and morphine legal and available almost EVERYWHERE. At least everywhere I would want to go.

Those were the days when you could call a spade a spade. (and get away with it)

The other night, I watched a show called "The Goldbergs" and the father lost his son at a Phillies game, and didn't really know how old the kid was. All he could tell the security guard that the kid had hair and a face, and I remember men being like that until maybe twenty years ago -- they never paid attention to most things and certainly never FOCUSED and MONITORED people and situations the way they do now.

Their attitude was what made America free.

Few women in my generation (Jones) know how to serve tea, so I suspect the art is lost on Gen X, Y, Millennials, etc.

Napkin folding is becoming a lost art.

Dating

R85 Don't you just pour it in a cup?

Lithium for everyone

Saying "You're welcome" when someone says "Thank you." The response I get most often these days is, "No problem." I didn't think it was a problem... Are you suggesting it might have been a problem to do something for me for which I might say, "Thank you"??

Having pubic hair, untrimmed, unshaved, and proud to show it off.

You know what I miss too, op? The days when you could beat up gays, those awful uppity negros and mouthy women and the police would look the other way. I miss it so! I also miss leaded gasoline and the days when you threw your trash out of your wood sided station wagon and nobody cared.

You are such a fucking idiot it defies all sense. Millennials are the ones getting tear gassed and standing up for democracy right now, instead of bitching about the days when they were happy in the closet or in a lavender marriage living a lie.

People like you should be locked UNDER mental institutions.

the milk man

Chains and shackles.

Doing math in your head.

Some women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

Insane asylums.