![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Let me just say I'm tired of hearing about that cruise ship
I got to watch the news last night. They were talking about... the cruise ship! "Oh, the food was so bad and disgusting!" the kids say. Do tell. "A sandwich with just jelly and butter. A sandwich with just cheese!" That's disgusting? I brought that sort of thing to school with me for lunch as a kid! "Oh, the bathroom smelled!"
Look, I'm sure it wasn't very pleasant, and I feel for them, but nobody died, nobody seems to have been in any medical danger (if anybody was, we haven't heard about it), nobody starved or went particularly hungry (excepting those who were on a diet, of course), and it only lasted three days.
Why are we even still talking about it? WHY IS IT STILL ON THE NEWS?
I hate to use this line, but isn't there anything more important we can discuss?
Look, I'm sure it wasn't very pleasant, and I feel for them, but nobody died, nobody seems to have been in any medical danger (if anybody was, we haven't heard about it), nobody starved or went particularly hungry (excepting those who were on a diet, of course), and it only lasted three days.
Why are we even still talking about it? WHY IS IT STILL ON THE NEWS?
I hate to use this line, but isn't there anything more important we can discuss?
no subject
Bread and cheese is an ancient peasant staple and I eat it often in my lunch.
Maybe this country needs a real, for-true Depression to snap people out of general whininess.
*I favor cheddar: sharp by preference but I'll buy medium if it's on sale, which it generally is.
Re: Bread and cheese is an ancient peasant staple and I eat it often in my lunch.
Sometimes you start to understand why people get nostalgic over the decade where everybody was poor!
"Thank you, Pooh, I'm having it"
My parents were born in the Depression, and I heard a whole lot about it in my youth. My view on the matter is, that people get nostalgic for the decades of their youth, for the feeling of having been young. Maybe there's so much nostalgia around that particular era because the children of the Depression turned into the soldiers of WWII, and by the time it was over, the world of their childhood was already fading away, nearly gone.
Re: "Thank you, Pooh, I'm having it"
We're not allowed to talk about that, I think. It spreads alarm and despondency.
Also recall that the last Depression ended in a World War, which would definitely not be good to repeat.
The conditions which led to the last Depression also *started* in a World War, which probably had something to do with it. I mean, it's a very tight schedule - world war, gilded era (which wasn't that awesome), depression, and let's fight about the unsolved problems from the LAST world war!
no subject
no subject