"Oooh... There's something I can share!"
Ya know, I'm always thinkin' about stuff I can bring to share with friends, either here at Vandy's Kids or at my own blog. I'll start off reading something, find it interesting, and start to consider linking to it so you too can enjoy it. Then, all too often, things will go sour.
I found a blog post today about folks with out-of-control kids in restaurants that started off making me laugh. Then somewhere along the line the writer began to emphasize her thoughts with the "F" word. By the end of the piece she apparently felt the need to REALLY emphasize her thoughts...
Every eighth word or so was vile.
I'm upset by what to me seems the coarsening of our society. I hear "blue" language used today in places and situations that absolutely shock me.
I guess I'm still a hick at heart...
I'm not gonna share that with you.
Got something "clean" to share with the rest of us?
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5 comments:
Mrs. Hawk here, GB I know what you are talking about. I am not entertained with foul language at a movie, in public, or even the privacy of my own home. My mom always told me people who are ignorant use "cuss words" because they do not know the right words to say.
Something clean, lets see, Hawk and I were driving today and I remembered being 16 years old and thinking about what my perfect car would be. I decided a 55 or 56 Chevy, blue and white paint and white interior. I decided I would name the car (remember when we used to name our cars?)..Baby Blue.
Hawk didn't name any cars, but he remembers Bill Smithey, who lived next to GB having a car with the name "Cradle of Love" on the rear fender. Anyone else know of or have a named car?
Mrs. H
I had a 55 chevy Burgandy and White. I didn't have a name for her, but she was a beast in the snow. She took 25 cents a day to drive to school and on weekends I would put in $1 or $2 dollars worth. Duel exhausts with glass packs. Don't make them like that anymore. She always ran like a pickle seeder. Good thing daddy was an excellant mechanic. He used to help at Bill's garage also.
Bill Smithey, now there is a name out of the past. My little brother and sister were in his wedding as ring bearer and flower girl. His wife sang at mine.
As for the cussing, not an enjoyable experience these days.
Kids seem so much harsher than when we were in school. Like when you see them being so cruel to fellow students. It breaks my heart to see so many get so much out of being cruel. Where are the parents?
If the occasional "F" bomb is dropped once in a blue moon, then that's one thing. But some people interject it about once in each sentence. They seem to think that it is an adjective that is interchangeable with every other adjective, when "-ing" is added to the end. So it's used as a noun, adjective, and a verb.
We looked at new vehicles today. I told the salesman we were looking at minivans and he seemed a little taken aback. Then he explained that they really don't make minivans anymore...now they're called "crossovers".
So we're in the market for a "crossover" that will seat 7 or 8, and room enough for a 6'7" son-in-law. Every time we go anywhere with the new granddaughters, we have to take two vehicles. I want to be able to take trips using ONE vehicle so I can enjoy every possible moment with those sweet girls.
We paid $14,000 for our new 1990 Lumina minivan 20 years ago. It looks horrible, but runs like a top. I can only recall getting it worked on a couple of times...same thing with my seven-year-old Impala. Had great luck with my Chevys, so looks like we'll be buying a new Chevy Traverse in the next week or so.
Now I just have to make sure I don't drive it into a half-opened garage door.
Hey...........I can't figure out how to sign-in so will just go with anonymous.....(steep65, actually).
AND the 'mini-van' comments made me laugh. I'm upgrading from a '65 caravan to a 2000 caravan, if all goes well and the 'creek don't rise'.
I use the 's' word now and then.....the f-one is too crass for me. A lot of language depends, IMHO, on who we hang around. I'm so glad I was raised in rural IN. My honey's folks don't cuss, however, the language I hear them using is somewhat more vulgar than I'm used to......
AND just today......I felt like taking a hammer to the new plastic container that Walmart is using now to prevent 'shop-lifting' of the HP printer-inks! I was so proud of myself for making it thru the self-checkout....then when I ran out of ink and wanted to use the brand new black ink in that cute new container.....ugh. It wouldn't open!!!!slkf;asdjf;ajdlf....that's how I felt! I called 'em up and sure enuf--I have to bring it back in with my receipt, no less, and let them open it! I told the guy I was gonna take a hammer to it instead....and he remained calm and said he had someone else do that AND it didn't work!!!! So, I calmed down and FOUND the receipt, and am doing NO PRINTING, yet, AND maybe will even go to Meiers and buy another ink-cartridge, instead!!! Who said change is good? AND it sure beats the alternative........so I guess I better learn to deal with it!?
OK, that's off my chest now....
steep65
Next door neighbor Bill Smithey first owned an old four-door Pontiac with the name "Classy Chassis" stenciled on the rear fenders. He traded that for the "Cradle of Love"... a nice '56 Ford hardtop that Hawk remembered. I wish I could own that Ford today!
Most guys from his generation had their cars names on the rear fenders. Another I bet Hawk will remember was a black '58 Ford in Greenwood... "Moonshiner". Neat car.
On the "coarseness" topic of the post, I picked up a man in Belleville, IL early this morning with a hemmorhage in his brain. While my crew worked on him I noticed a young woman pacing in and out of a room farther down the ER hallway. On her T-Shirt was written the phrase "I have the pu**y, so I make the rules!"
And she didn't seem at all ashamed to be wearing that in public!
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