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In some ways yes definitely. Our kids were safer, we were safer. I could go on and on, but will wait for someone else to join in the discussion. -
As today is the only day I've got I will stay in it thanks
Not much point to harking back to "better times"
Fairly sure this topics been done a few times.WPC F Hobbit, Shire police
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There were good things we seem to have lost. There were also some bad things we have lost.Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.Comment
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I'd disagree that we were safer but we didn't have papers shouting "DANGER" at us all the time which was definitely a bonus.Originally posted by rustylady View Post
Seriously though, some things were better, some things worse and that's about all you can say with any certainty.
Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.
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The TV programme certainly was. Leonard Sachs, I think, was chairman. Seem to remember something about "Chiefly Yourselves" catch phrase. Watched it with my mum when I was little while she was ironing and I grew up knowing all the words to the oldest music hall songs and still do!Granny on the Game in SheffieldComment
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Oh yes! Me too (but then I knew a lot of them for other reasons.....)Originally posted by Florence Fennel View PostFlowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.Comment
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They was the good old days really you know the pace off life was a lot less stressful no mobile phones four pennies in the slot time for people without home phones .
No health and safety wallas the only people that knocked your door were Indian chaps with a turban and a suitcase other people just knocked and walked in with a cup for some sugar .
No Supermarkets just corner shops and village bakerys i remember going shoping with mother and watching the shop owner cutting up the cheese it used to fascinate me and weighing up the loose sugar into blue paper bags .
so for me it the good old days . jacob
What lies behind us,And what lies before us,Are tiny matters compared to what lies Within us ...
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If I'd lived in the 1800's I'd have already died several times over
...wouldn't have been good for me...I clearly needed modern medicine to survive
Last edited by Nicos; 04-10-2010, 08:01 PM."Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple
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And if you'd been a caveman/woman you'd be dead more often!Originally posted by Nicos View PostIf I'd lived in the 1800's I'd have already died several times over
...wouldn't have been good for me...I clearly needed modern medicine to survive
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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Six of one & half a dozen of the other,except we have gone metric which makes the dozen is a thing of the past so we need a 21st century version .......... Fifty percent of one & half of the other perhaps ......... I miss the simplicity with which I viewed life in my youth,but enjoy the bounds in technology that I have in my senior yearsHe who smiles in the face of adversity,has already decided who to blame
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
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Im with Nicos on this one, would have been dead at least 7 years ago without modern medicine, and I talking medicine from the last 20 years, so no, not better.Comment
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I often wonder if we took away the news papers, radio and tv - would we all feel more relaxed? Yes I love to learn from the above but so much 'news' is focused on the depressing issues of life - swine flu coverage - need I say more? even to a point the recession- yes it was/is bad and I was certainly touched by it, but how much was down to the media setting in the panic aspect?
Good old days? as said before- some bits were so much better but some parts were dire!Comment
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Some were good others not so. I lost my dad at an early age - not good, we had fun care free days on the beach, didnt see the danger, we were allowed to go off to the park, ride our bikes, skip on the street, rope tied to a lamp post across the road, couldnt do that now. Money was tight, still is.
Lots of things I would change with hindsight, but go back, no way.Gardening ..... begins with daybreak
and ends with backache
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I fancy that one only remembers the good times and forgets the bad.Comment
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