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117. I can't even imagine that span of time. Seeing fashion change must annoy you. "Damn hipsters, we did that in the 20s!"
by lacampbell 10y ago
117. I can't even imagine that span of time. Seeing fashion change must annoy you. "Damn hipsters, we did that in the 20s!"
- Pica_soO 10y agoI think you withdraw after a time and become deeply cynically. For her trump, stalin, mao, the duce, hitler, the italian king.. it must all look like endless repetitions of the same boring theme, broken by endless promises of learning from past mistakes. All your friends are gone- only you - the relic dwell on. Even your sons and daugthers are dead. The lonesome george of mankind. One of my ancestors comes from a Italian mountain village near Lago di Garda. Those villages are very poor, but also fascinating. They did a study on longevity and health - in which they found that farmers whos field would run up the mountain and down the mountain lived longer then farmers who fields did not have such height difference.
- warent 10y agoIt's all in perception, she could also have seen those as triumphs of humans coming together, including space travel which wasn't even considered remotely possible or understood when she was a young woman. I have doubts anyone can live to be that age with a perpetually negative outlook on life
- PKop 10y agoMao - 40,000,000 http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm#Mao http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm#Mao Stalin - 20,000,000 http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm#Stalin http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm#Stalin Hitler - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust#Victims_enumerated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust#Victims_enumerat... Trump? Yea, I'm sure she thinks Trump is as bad as the 20th century's most brutal dictators. I'm sure she doesn't think the millennial's who think this are embarrassingly and shamefully naive and exaggerating, if the word exaggerating even captures the absurdity well enough.
- nso 10y agoHe did not compare them.
- jeffdavis 10y agoJuxtaposition is a form of implicit comparison.
- scrollaway 10y agoThe parent you're replying to did not draw conclusions, merely talked about patterns. Kinda like I see a pattern in you, within 48 hours, defending climate change denial, religious oppression and now Trump. Humans do that - they look at the world and see patterns all the time. Some people are worse at it than others.
- PKop 10y ago*catastrophic climate change. Not that its not changing, since that is literally always true. But that the fear mongers making outlandish predictions haven't been accurate. And that the prescriptions they advocate would cause a whole lot of suffering especially for the poorest people.
- wellboy 10y agoWhat kind of scientific projections were outlandish if I may ask?
- Banthum 10y agoThe weak "you've stated opinions of the wrong tribe in other discussions, therefore nobody should believe you" character attacks are a boring waste of time. Please respond to the comment at hand; digging through post history to find character attack material really isn't great on multiple levels.
- scrollaway 10y ago
- noonespecial 10y agoAnd at 117 you might have to specify which 20s!
- zeptomu 10y agoActually ... not in this case. She was born around 1900 and was twenty in the 1920s.
- paulddraper 10y agoIt was hypothetical
- zeptomu 10y agoOh, sry, I read that wrong.
- MichaelMoser123 10y agothe fashion bit is a small part: it must have been hard to stay sane - look at all the political changes that happened during the last 117 years in Italy
- oneeyedpigeon 10y agoJust think about the changes in technology since 1900. There are adults living today who don't remember a time before the internet, imagine being able to remember when pretty much every technology in your home was introduced. This woman would (hopefully) remember when households started acquiring fridges, when she was in her teens!
- MichaelMoser123 10y agoInteresting if she had a cell phone.