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Thread ID: 113341	2010-10-15 05:00:00	The Great Depression #1	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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1145090	2010-10-16 23:16:00	The scary thing is that I think it was really only the start of the Second World War that got the world out of the depression putting men back to work in Yeah, war is perverse in many ways. You take your able bodied, fit, young productive people and send them off to be slaughtered. Meanwhile everyone who remains 'at home' is expected to work extra hard to keep the country productive and to support the war effort. Once the war is over your have reduced unemployment due to the fact that a whole bunch of formerly able bodied workers are now deceased thanks to the war, and that there is added demand for work in the rebuilding phase of things. From a gene pool perspective it is also interesting... send off your fit and strong, meanwhile your weak and sickly remain home to breed. Perhaps mankinds violent history has served to make us far less than we could have been... if we could just have been more cooperative and less posessive throughout history.	Paul.Cov (425)
1145091	2010-10-17 03:02:00	My parents were young adults during the depression and WW2 years. They have always shown a very frugal streak, which has lasted pretty much all these years. Dad would have seemed tighter than a Scotsman. Nothing would ever get thrown away. Used nails would be hammered straight and kept for re-use. Any and every old bolt and nut would go into a jar. My father was the same, anything usable was saved. he was very versatile and had a good set of tools, some from my grandfather and some acquired along the way, mostly second hand and most of which I now use. He repaired and resoled shoes, fixed home appliances, repaired the car including an engine rebuild, designed and built an extension for the house and anything else he needed to do. We even had a orchard in our suburban back yard with tamarillos, grapes, lemons, oranges, peaches, nectarines, plums, and an apple tree with three different varieties grafted on in addition to the original. He was also a multi-instrumental musician and a good artist. I inherited his practical skills and all his tools, boxes of nails, screws and bolts, and a box of assorted 'stuff' that 'might come in handy' one day. I can fix just about anything, but I have a black thumb and everything I ever planted just shrivelled up and died! They had to do it through the depression years and then through WWII, and they never lost the habit. I don't think he was all that unique either, many people had to adapt to survive and you don't know what you can do until you are forced to try. In today's disposable society it is just as easy to toss something that's broken or call in a tradesman even for little jobs. My son is pretty much hopeless at anything other than music, but Mrs T taught him to cook and bake, so he can certainly feed himself. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
1145092	2010-10-17 06:04:00	My father . . . , anything usable was saved . In today's disposable society it is just as easy to toss something that's broken or call in a tradesman even for little jobs . Plenty of people who don't throw things away around still . But yeah, a lack of them that can actually fix things . That may partly be because most things aren't designed to be fixed now - you are supposed to be buying a new plastic widget every 5 minutes . Even we, who between us can fix most things have discovered that . Even we techs - we don't FIX them as such - we swap out parts .	pctek (84)
1145093	2010-10-17 08:24:00	Yes Joe, the Great Depression had a huge impact on New Zealand and its echos still ring today. My mother as a child on a farm remembers the tramps coming to the door looking for a bit of work and some food. There were work gangs on the roads employed by the government. Much of NZ's pine forests were planted as a result of the Depression. My parents grew up in austerity and lived that way all of their lives. Never borrow, do not waste, all the things posted above, and their children learned those lessons. Personally I have always felt I was a child of the Depression because it was commonly mentioned in our home and we lived as though another one was just around the corner.	Winston001 (3612)
1145094	2010-10-17 09:07:00	Yes Joe, the Great Depression had a huge impact on New Zealand and its echos still ring today. My mother as a child on a farm remembers the tramps coming to the door looking for a bit of work and some food. There were work gangs on the roads employed by the government. Much of NZ's pine forests were planted as a result of the Depression. My parents grew up in austerity and lived that way all of their lives. Never borrow, do not waste, all the things posted above, and their children learned those lessons. Personally I have always felt I was a child of the Depression because it was commonly mentioned in our home and we lived as though another one was just around the corner. Amazing isnt it? that a crash in usa impacted straight away in NZ and was just as harsh as the usa. I got the impression and I could be wrong (never know they are all looking at the potatoes from underneath) they thought the depression was was worse than WW2. Our family didnt lose any members to the Germans, Italians, Hungarians, Rumanian's and Japanese. So that might be why.	prefect (6291)
1145095	2010-10-18 01:36:00	Here's a link to old NZ newspapers [from 1800s to 1950's] paperspast.natlib.govt.nz Haven't seen any articles on the Depression yet , only been reading NZs relationship with South Pacific Islands in the 1800s.	victorcharlie (442)
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