BS: What happened to?

Subject: BS: What happened to?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 05:26 AM

Greens having to be eaten, or ears washed behind before bed?
Questions having only one answer?

Today everything seems to be either optional, or multiple choice!

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 06:23 AM

What question has only one answer?
Ears are much cleaner (in the UK) because the air is cleaner than 50 years ago. And because kids don't go playing round demolition sites any more.
The parents who made us eat those greens (cabbage boiled for 40 minutes, anyone) weren't doing anyone any favours, though they did produce some spectacular farts.

No golden ages.

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 06:33 AM

Have you stopped beating you wife now Paul?

There's a question with more than one answer, however 'What is Pythagoras' theorem?' has only one answer.
As you cleverly guessed though, my post was really about what has happened to the values I was brought up with.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 07:14 AM

Ah, Pythagoras....

cos(c/r) = cos(a/r) * cos(b/r) I assume you mean (that's for a spherical triangle of course).

No, the question has many answers, only one of which is sqr(h) = sqr(a) + sqr(b).

Here are a few:

A right pain in the arse (13 year old kid).

The relationship between the real and imaginary components of a complex number.

One of the greatest developments in the history of Greek mathematics.

The theorem on p212 of your text book.

etc. etc.

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: dwditty
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 08:03 AM

What happened to white dog poop?

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 08:04 AM

Some old sayings deserve to be ditched

like

"Do as I say. Not as I do"

and

Do as I say.

"Why?"

Because I said it.

****

To these oldies I say
"Good riddance to bad rubbish."

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 08:19 AM

"You wait till you get older,you'll see"
I'm still waiting!

"In the good old days"
When were they exactly?

"Join the army,it'll make a man out of you"
Yeah right,tell that to my sister!

"I've half a mind to....."
That's what we suspected all along!

David

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 08:38 AM

Hee hee, Azizi is right those sort of remarks are wrong, and reasons should be given as to why the requested action is required. What should NOT happen thereafter is for that action still to remain undone.
I also agree that joining the army voluntarily or via conscription is not the answer to any question I ever heard. However the principle of being of service is one to be encouraged, and a spell of learning how to live with other people in harmony, and learning about those people and how they get by in life, would not go amiss in todays insular society.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 08:40 AM

The idea that these days will be my grandchildren's "good old days" is rather frightening.

I can see future Mudcat posters asking, "Whatever happened to cell phones? The kind you held to your ear? You know, from the old days before megafunctional communicator implants."

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 09:15 AM

My son once referred to the 60s as the "Olden Days". Had to explain that we had TV, phones, and fewer gunfighters on the streets than we have now.

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Amos
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 10:04 AM

I hardly think joining the army is a plan to learn to live with other people in harmony, Jock, unless you are a member of the musical corps.

A

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 10:23 AM

I said that joining the army was not the answer A.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 11:21 AM

My nephew once, after a school history lesson, asked my mother (a slender 5 foot 1), "Were you a Viking when you were young, Gran?"

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: tarheel
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 08:00 AM

THERE'S no such thing as PERMANENT....and TEMPORARY is a LONG,LONG TIME!!!

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: sian, west wales
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 08:28 AM

"Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about."

Never did work that one out. To be fair, I don't think my parents ever used it but the parents across the street sure did. (Along with washing mouths out with soap.)

Hasn't the Labour machine just come up with the idea of reinstating teachers' rights (?) to reprimand kids away from the school premises? OK - we had that when I was young but, if I were a teacher today, I wouldn't touch that one with a barge pole!

sian

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 09:10 AM

Ask, don't get. Don't ask, don't want.

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 06:04 AM

I remember most of these things from my youth, in particular (see Azizi's post) the response

'because I said it'
to a 'why' question.

I only remember it shorter as 'because'.

That may be particular to the German due to the rhyme: 'why? because' is in German 'warum? darum'.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 09:31 AM

How about "Because I'm the Mommy (Daddy)?"

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 09:36 AM

"Do as I say. Not as I do" is really a kind of apology, and admission that you aren't perfect. Not such a bad thing.

As for "Because I say so" - there are times when it's maybe better to pull rank than to get into an endless circular argument.

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Alba
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 10:14 AM

My Grandmother, when my pals and I was getting really wound up playing some game or other.

"this will end in tears"

Or if I has a fit of the giggles at the breakfast table

"Your laughing this morning but by tonight youlle greetin" (crying)


My Mum

"Are you going out dressed like that?


Jude

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: autolycus
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 01:58 PM

'Giok', here's someone who'd wonder along with you.

"They have bad manners,contempt for authority,disrespect for older people. Children nowadays are tyrants. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food and tyrannise their teachers."

Said of the character of Athenian youth during 5th century BCE by

          Socrates.

And another.

"The golden age never was the present age."

Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac 1750

AND there are parents bringing children up properly, and that's not news, so we don't hear about it.

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Bert
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 02:24 PM

I'm with McGrath.

"because I say so" is pretty necessary with a toddler.

and as for

"Are you going out dressed like that?

When my daughter was about 15 she was going to leave the house one evening very inappropriately dressed.

All I said was "Are you going to work?" She didn't say a word but went up and changed.

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Alba
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 09:16 PM

Oh Bert...that's cruel...lol

I re-read my above post from this morning and had to ask myself the very question..

What happened to.... Alba waiting until she has had at least two cups of Tea and being fully awake before she posts here in the morning:>+

("youlle BE greetin")

J

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 01:29 AM

I bet Oscar Wilde never said any of those things. I bet he was coming up with witty apothegms, gems of barbed humour, rapier thrusts of smart verbiage and satirical quips.....morning, noon and night. It must have been like having Terry Wogan on the radio twenty fours a day.

still that the bleeding Irish for you......

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 01:34 AM

and amusing paradoxes.....!

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Bert
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 01:45 AM

Ah Alba, anything that can make a teenage girl go and change without a screaming hissy fit is a minor miracle.

P.S. Where did you get the name Alba?

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 04:49 AM

Alba is an old name for Scotland, and our own Alba is an expatriate Scot living in that heathen land across the pond. ☺☺☺☺ I'm sure she will tell you more when she comes back in.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 05:02 AM

I remember being told 'in a minute' by my mother when I asked for things... I would go and stand in front of the clock, watch the minute hand traverse the requisite space and then go back and say 'it's been a minute, now can I have.....?'

As for 'eat your greens' - Limpit put away a prodigious amount of asparagus spears last night.... but then, like her mum, she's weird.

Besides, isn't "eat 5 portions of fruit or veg a day" just Nanny, sorry, the Government telling us to eat our greens, or a sneaky marketing ploy by the Association of Greengrocers?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: autolycus
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 05:56 PM

No Liz, the 5 portions of fruit and veg is simply good (AND OPTIONAL)nutritional/health advice. Doing it (if you want to) gives the body much of its daily needs and helps sustain your immune system (if you prefer being healthy to being more likely to be ill.)

The choice is yours.

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 06:04 PM

This one from County Durham is pretty much obsolete:

"Shy bairns get nee ket" shy children get no candy

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Homeless
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 09:32 PM

Bert, getting a teenage girl to change clothes is easy - "that skirt makes your thighs look fat," said casually in passing.

Subject: RE: BS: What happened to?
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 01:02 AM

I knew it was about time for someone to bring up white dog poop again.













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