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"Old people just don't get the "green" thing"

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Blogger juandos said...

The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment."...

This is when the 'older woman' should've whipped out this story from that leftist rag, the UK Guardian: How going green may make you mean
Do Green Products Make Us Better People is published in the latest edition of the journal Psychological Science. Its authors, Canadian psychologists Nina Mazar and Chen-Bo Zhong, argue that people who wear what they call the "halo of green consumerism" are less likely to be kind to others, and more likely to cheat and steal. "Virtuous acts can license subsequent asocial and unethical behaviours," they write...

10:57 PM

Blogger Carla Ackley said...

"Green" is a marketing slogan.

11:46 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

And in all bloody fairness, you wouldn't have put up with any of that for a hot second if escalators, elevators, washing machines, cheap new clothes, etc. were readily available.

Nothing is a tenth as irritating as old people pretending to virtue they never had.

1:40 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

rhjunior needs to send away for a sense of humor. Sheesh, it was a joke.

There's someone like her at every party, peeing in the punchbowl.
MM

7:48 AM

Anonymous linnilu said...

rhjunior, unless it's a young person pretending to virtue to put down someone else.

12:44 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

No, old people putting young people down rates a bit higher.

I'm just incredibly tired of the previous generations-- and now, increasingly, my own generation-- bragging about how they "did without" and "got by" on so little, as if this somehow showered them with heavenly virtue. Bragging how you did without any grapes in your diet does not impress me, Brer Fox, when I know that you would not have been nearly so spartan had they been within reach.

1:46 AM

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