[News] Life was less complicated three or four decades back…….

[Deportivo Seagull]

Exactly, I know a bloke who's wife's friend's cousin's husband's golf-buddy's window cleaner got PUT IN PRISON for wishing a MUSLIN "Merry Christmas"

I know, It’s f***ing outrageous. I was beheaded the other day for saying hello to a MUSLIN.

 

[seagurl]

I was born in 69, I wish i was born in 1946 and be a fully fledged Baby Boomer, quite literally the golden generation with privilege’s never to be seen again!

Yep..a good time to be born. Antibiotics still in the early stages. A cancer diagnosis would usually mean a death sentence. Polio , small pox, scarlet fever still around sometimes as epidemics. Elderly and mentally ill often incacerated in long stay Victorian institutions. Illegal to be gay and if you were unmarried and pregnant, well we all know what could happen as its been well documented. Rose tinted glasses are a wonderful thing. Born in the 1950s I know some things were great. But not for everyone.

 

[Jack Straw]

"Sussex Police confirmed it received a report of young people with a suspected firearm in Hangleton Way at around 17:30 GMT on Saturday."

I imagine it would have been pretty dark at this time, so I can understand why someone THESE DAYS would think the gun could have been real if they couldn't see it properly.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

I knew it wouldn't be long before salmon started the fish puns.

Surf and Nerf

 

[Chicken Run]

Yep..a good time to be born. Antibiotics still in the early stages. A cancer diagnosis would usually mean a death sentence. Polio , small pox, scarlet fever still around sometimes as epidemics. Elderly and mentally ill often incacerated in long stay Victorian institutions. Illegal to be gay and if you were unmarried and pregnant, well we all know what could happen as its been well documented. Rose tinted glasses are a wonderful thing. Born in the 1950s I know some things were great. But not for everyone.

We’ll head over to Holmbush M & S on a Saturday and meet the survivors, they are like locusts, rinsing what’s left of the NHS with their multiple joint replacements, double cataracts and 10 pills a day whilst moaning about smart meters and bank closures

 

[US Seagull]

I can remember having a very realistic looking cap gun as a kid. They had a whole range of them on sale at a shop in Brighton. I doubt they'd get away it now.

 

[Birdie Boy]

I remember in the late eighties going under the shoreham flyover with a shotgun shooting pigeons. Pellets in my lunch was a nightmare but no sign of the cops. Greater times.

 

[Anger]

I remember in the late eighties going under the shoreham flyover with a shotgun shooting pigeons. Pellets in my lunch was a nightmare but no sign of the cops. Greater times.

You need to change your username then.

Shooting birds was (and still is) a pretty poor excuse for fun.

 

[Birdie Boy]

You need to change your username then.

Shooting birds was (and still is) a pretty poor excuse for fun.

Good point well made.
I was young and pigeons are vermin.

 

[Bodian]

I knew it wouldn't be long before salmon started the fish puns.

I can't believe after reading so many fish puns on NSC over the years that there are still new ones (or new to me anyway). Chapeau.

 

[BadFish]

As long as you are born a straight white male with no disabilities of course.

And of course we mustn't mention that so many of said boomer and X generation have chosen to vote for an end to the policies that created the golden age.

 

[BadFish]

The best years to live were before 2000, maybe stretched to the financial crash of 2008.

Simpler times. More enjoyable times.

No social media to destroy society. No AI and Robotics ( strangely from the same and similar tech oligarchs ) advancing menacingly to steal our jobs.

I can't wait for a time machine to be invented. I'll be straight back to the 80s.

Late 80s early 90s for me. What a time to be a young un.

 

[dazzer6666]

At 13 I had an air rifle, a catapult and used to go hunting with a 410 shotgun with my old man (12-bore had a bit too much recoil)

 

[GT49er]

The best years to live were before 2000, maybe stretched to the financial crash of 2008.

Simpler times. More enjoyable times.

No social media to destroy society. No AI and Robotics ( strangely from the same and similar tech oligarchs ) advancing menacingly to steal our jobs.

I can't wait for a time machine to be invented. I'll be straight back to the 80s.

I'll drop you off in the 80s when I get mine working then - I'm going 10 or 15 years further on. Bloody thing came in kit form, though, with instructions curtesy of Google translate. It seems that you to scan something called a QR code to download an App (??) and then if my phone is smart enough I can log into some FAQs and I'll be on my way!



May take some time though .............................................

 

[Bodian]

But it's good to see that some things haven't actually changed in 30-40 years, and bumper stickers are still a 'thing'.

Chester woman to stand trial accused of displaying threatening bumper sticker

Georgia Venables, who allegedly had sticker on her car featuring C-word, has pleaded not guilty to single charge

www.theguardian.com

 

[Gary1]

I was born in 69, I wish i was born in 1946 and be a fully fledged Baby Boomer, quite literally the golden generation with privilege’s never to be seen again!

Although you would have spent the first few years in hardship due to ongoing rationing from the war. Easy to say Boomers have this privileged life but their childhood years were nothing like as privileged as the generations since then. Something that is not realised or easily forgotten!

 

[Eeyore]

I do rather think that the 'old days were better' stories are less to do with better lives and more to do with folk now being closer to the grave than the cradle. So memories become clouded by a sense of current mortality.

In terms of health and life comforts, we live in the most affluence ever. In terms of social attitudes, the least cruel and discriminating. And we talk about shortcomings as if we are not part of that.

The only downside is we're all going to be dieing a lot sooner than we were back then.

 

[portlock seagull]

I do rather think that the 'old days were better' stories are less to do with better lives and more to do with folk now being closer to the grave than the cradle. So memories become clouded by a sense of current mortality.

In terms of health and life comforts, we live in the most affluence ever. In terms of social attitudes, the least cruel and discriminating. And we talk about shortcomings as if we are not part of that.

The only downside is we're all going to be dieing a lot sooner than we were back then.

I think that’s a fairly common appraisal but think it’s wholly inaccurate on many fronts depending on how your measure stuff

 

[Eeyore]

I think that’s a fairly common appraisal but think it’s wholly inaccurate on many fronts depending on how your measure stuff

Oh, I wouldn't deny there were aspects of life that were better than now. But when I weigh it all up, assuming I couldn't mix eras, I'd run with today as better.

I think that, ultimately, we have more control over how life happens than we allow ourselves to think. And we can change more things.

I could give an example. As a kid I spent a lot of time around my cousins. I bemoaned how my family connections seemed to have drifted to a Facebook comment here and there. I then closed my Facebook account, and took down the details of people that mattered. The week before last I had dinner with two cousins, one of which I hadn't seen for three years. Within the next two weeks I'm meeting one I haven't seen for 16 years.

I told myself that I was the problem in much of what I bemoan about modern life, not life itself.

But, as I say, there are things I wish were as before. For sure.

 

[Sussexscots]

Anybody else get one of these for Christmas in the early 1970's? I recall my dad wasn't happy when he came under withering fire from my brother and I when trying to set the table for Christmas Dinner.

You'd have SWAT at the door now.