Community Chat

[Porcelain]

Okay Boomers,

Let's leave you in a room with a butter churn, a washboard, and a quill pen and parchment set. And all the directions are in Morse code.

You might be "frightened," but your grandparents and great grandparents would be yukking their socks off.

[Imaoldhippie]

Good grief people its a JOKE!  Lighten up.  There are hundreds of "old age"/boomer jokes on FB everyday.  I just laugh at them because they are funny.

Life must be miserable not finding anything to laugh about.  Including ourselves.

[proudlyfromNJ]

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@Imaoldhippie wrote:

Good grief people its a JOKE!  Lighten up.  There are hundreds of "old age"/boomer jokes on FB everyday.  I just laugh at them because they are funny.

Life must be miserable not finding anything to laugh about.  Including ourselves.

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@Imaoldhippie   Thank you for letting us know about the joke. I guess you have never seen the serious posts about this subject. Have you?? It’s not very nice calling posters miserable.  Is it??

[Carmie]

As time moves forward, many things that were used everyday, cannot even be identified by the next generation.  it's not a put down, just a fact of life.

I have a pair of these that belonged to my paternal grandmother.  I'll bet most people today have no idea what they are unless they look them up on line..  She used one everyday.

[Carmie]

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@Porcelain wrote:

Okay Boomers,

Let's leave you in a room with a butter churn, a washboard, and a quill pen and parchment set. And all the directions are in Morse code.

You might be "frightened," but your grandparents and great grandparents would be yukking their socks off.

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Doubtful.  I have used a few of those things....and I have my Mother's washboard.  i wouldn't be without it.

[haddon9]

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@Carmie wrote:

As time moves forward, many things that were used everyday, cannot even be identified by the next generation.  it's not a put down, just a fact of life.

I have a pair of these that belonged to my paternal grandmother.  I'll bet most people today have no idea what they are unless they look them up on line..  She used one everyday.

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@Carmie   No idea...a crochet hook?

[bikerbabe]

How many here wouldn’t know how to use a smartphone ? 😉😂 Times change. It’s normal.

I have no clue what the photo is either. Doesn’t look like crochet hooks.

[Sheila P-Burg]

@Imaoldhippie  ......It might be a joke. It stops being funny when you know it will upset certain posters. Think of others when posting a joke.

[Carmie]

@haddon9   It is actually a shoe hook for boots that have buttons and a button hole.  You slide the hook into the button hole and wrap the hook around the button and turn the device pulling the button through the button hole.

They were used for woman's boots and men's spats.  remember those black dress shoes with suede uppers with buttons?

I have quite a few things that now not used any more that belonged to my grandparents. I love vintage gadgets and household items..

PS.  My DH thought it was a dental instrument.

[SeaMaiden]

I grew up with no remotes for TV.... 

and not having a remote today SCARES THE HECK OUT OF ME.  I do not know how to change the channel manually on my TV's today....