08-06-2015, 01:09 AM
Pal of mine, if back in the days of crank windows and wing vents you were the age I am today, you'd very likely be dust by now.
LOL, yes that was a bit of hyperbole.
My point was not that luxuries shouldn't be enjoyed- it was that they shouldn't be taken for granted. I truly believe it would do our society a lot of good to have some of the luxuries we currently enjoy taken away, if only because it might teach us to better appreciate them.
We're on the same page.
But I think we *should* be able to take our little luxuries for granted, depending on time and place. That wasn't what this thread was about.
The focus was unnecessarily moved from a mention of convenience to something completely different. It wasn't has though somebody said "...and I had to take my phone out of my pocket to pay, for the third time this week! Of all the indignities! What, people in Africa have to put water in bottles and then on corrugated siding in the sun for hours to make it drinkable? Why don't they just buy bottled water to start with. Problem solved."
This wasn't a first world problem rant, is all I'm saying.
I chugged down a Diet. Dr. Pepper since then, and I'm fine now.
And about that whole some luxuries taken away thing... Let's reserve that for those who don't know how well off they are, ok?
I mean- I'd rather not drink that DDP warm.
LOL, yes that was a bit of hyperbole.
My point was not that luxuries shouldn't be enjoyed- it was that they shouldn't be taken for granted. I truly believe it would do our society a lot of good to have some of the luxuries we currently enjoy taken away, if only because it might teach us to better appreciate them.
We're on the same page.
But I think we *should* be able to take our little luxuries for granted, depending on time and place. That wasn't what this thread was about.
The focus was unnecessarily moved from a mention of convenience to something completely different. It wasn't has though somebody said "...and I had to take my phone out of my pocket to pay, for the third time this week! Of all the indignities! What, people in Africa have to put water in bottles and then on corrugated siding in the sun for hours to make it drinkable? Why don't they just buy bottled water to start with. Problem solved."
This wasn't a first world problem rant, is all I'm saying.
I chugged down a Diet. Dr. Pepper since then, and I'm fine now.
And about that whole some luxuries taken away thing... Let's reserve that for those who don't know how well off they are, ok?
I mean- I'd rather not drink that DDP warm.