To find this fb poem awful.

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Several friends are sharing this and I feel really uncomfortable with it. Any thoughts?

In particular"the wife was content with her lot" riled me.

As if the problems now are wife's discontent.

You could always post something cheerful below that poem about the massive health and social care burden we are facing as current taxpayers as a result of current pensioners' lifestyle-related health problems - type 2 diabetes and heart disease from poor diets and lack of exercise, COPD from smoking, high numbers of lifestyle-related cancers from sunburn, diet, smoking and alcohol, as well as all those other serious health problems caused by the lack of workplace 'elf and safety in the good old days, such as mesothelioma. Though that might burst the delusional nostalgia bubble

All this rubbish about home cooked meals, ha ha! All my grandparents' generation that I knew of (now in their 80s and 90s) had spectacularly bad diets, were all addicted to processed foods and sugar (my grandparents basically existed on Spam, meat paste sandwiches, processed suet pies, Blue Riband biscuits and Mr Kipling fondant fancies as far as I could tell - not a sniff of a home-cooked meal in sight). They all had type 2 diabetes and heart and lung problems from smoking, all were overweight, all had false teeth as there teeth had all dropped out early in life through decay, and had a load of other health problems from a lifetime of poor diet, chain-smoking, the legacy of childhood illnesses pre-vaccination and so on. And they all, uniformly, had forms of depression and other mental health problems from alcohol addiction to OCD.

People in this country have a serious case of delusion about the lifestyle of past generations. A few years of being on powdered egg rations in the war doesn't compensate for the horrendously unhealthy diet and lifestyle of most of the rest of the twentieth century. And our current crises in funding the NHS are largely down to the needs of a huge bulge of existing and incoming pensioners with complex health problems, a lot of which result from poor diet and lifestyle choices.

Anything written in Comic Sans is automatically dreadful, no matter the content.

Ha ha ha. Life is SO MUCH better now then in the crap old days when everyone was poor and bored

I'd post that ^*

Just as an illustration, my grandparents (all working class, born in the 1920s/30s so exactly that wartime/1950s generation begin fetishised in the poem):

grandma 1. depression, attachment problems with her children, false teeth from an early age, diabetes resulting from poor diet, persistent anger and psychological problems relating to husband's affairs and money problems, miscarriages and emotional issues from early bereavement of her own parents
grandfather 1. died from 2 alcoholism-related cancers, lung disease and liver failure, had depression, many affairs in the 1950s and was alcoholic most of his life

grandma 2. grew up in horrendous tenement poverty, COPD from smoking, type 2 diabetes, horrendous diet, lost all teeth aged 24, mobility problems from weight, smoking and lack of exercise; agoraphobia, OCD, anxiety and panic attacks
grandpa 2. grew up in dire poverty as one of 13 children, depression, anger, smoking-related health problems, poor diet, heart problems from poor diet and lack of exercise, emotionally crippled and couldn't relate to his own children

Sounds great as a model for life! Where do I sign up for this 1950s nostalgia lark?