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Figarosmom

(11,253 posts) Sat Feb 28, 2026, 04:59 PM 18 hrs ago

Ohh That's Rich - When things seem hopeless do something good for yourself

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Ohh That's Rich - When things seem hopeless do something good for yourself (Original Post) Figarosmom 18 hrs ago OP

Yeah, you little whippersnapper, you should have turned to drugs like we did Warpy 17 hrs ago #1

I can't vouch for the attribution here ... I've heard other variations on this: eppur_se_muova 16 hrs ago #2

Warpy

(114,547 posts)

1. Yeah, you little whippersnapper, you should have turned to drugs like we did

Reply to Figarosmom (Original post)

Sat Feb 28, 2026, 05:56 PM

17 hrs ago

Seriously, this pissing and moaning about a younger generation not being proper clones of the elder has been going on and written down in every civilization that developed writing, formally and in graffiti.

Just be glad you escaped the regimented 1950s when as soon as a kid was born, s/he entered rigourous "training" that extended event to our hair.

Oh, and do buy that occasional coffee or candy bar or that new phone and take time to do absolutely nothing

eppur_se_muova

(41,597 posts)

2. I can't vouch for the attribution here ... I've heard other variations on this:

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 28, 2026, 06:39 PM

16 hrs ago

My grandpa notes the worlds worn cogs
And says we're going to the dogs.
His grandpa in a hut of logs
Vowed things were going to the dogs.
His grandpa in the Irish bogs
Swore things were going to the dogs
His grandpa dressed in caveman's togs
Moaned things were going to the dogs.
Now this is all I have to state
The dogs have had an awful wait.

Composed and Written

by G.W. Schill

https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/s96gio/help_found_an_old_handwritten_poem_in_this/

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