10-10-2020, 01:03 PM
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Re: What Things Have You Learned On This Forum?
Originally Posted by TessA
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Ha! I've been here for nearly 8 years and only just decided that I'm wasting my time trying to lift some opinions out of the 1950's!
10-10-2020, 01:05 PM
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Re: What Things Have You Learned On This Forum?
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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I wish we could go back to the 1950's TessA....
Life seemed so much more........Well friendlier and community driven....The music was good, the BBC reported proper news, you could sit in a pub and have a pint and a fag, you didn't feel guilty about damaging the planet cos nobody (except the doctor) had a car, your brain wasn't full of useless information off tinternet, you could have a proper conversation with your kids without them being glued to a screen, villages were just small hamlets of farms instead of massive housing estates, and only burglars and the lone ranger wore masks! Kimosabi!
Yes, and we were proud to be still leading the world in some aspects of science and technology.
10-10-2020, 01:13 PM
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Re: What Things Have You Learned On This Forum?
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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I wish we could go back to the 1950's TessA....Life seemed so much more........Well friendlier and community driven....The music was good, the BBC reported proper news, you could sit in a pub and have a pint and a fag, you didn't feel guilty about damaging the planet cos nobody (except the doctor) had a car, your brain wasn't full of useless information off tinternet, you could have a proper conversation with your kids without them being glued to a screen, villages were just small hamlets of farms instead of massive housing estates, and only burglars and the lone ranger wore masks! Kimosabi!
11-10-2020, 11:24 AM
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Re: What Things Have You Learned On This Forum?
Originally Posted by TessA
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It was better in some ways Foxy, but we didn't have any insight on certain things, were much more discriminatory and judgemental. Heaven help anyone who was "different".
"were much more discriminatory and judgemental. Heaven help anyone who was "different"
You mean we called the fat kid 'Fat' and the spotty kid 'Spotty'...Despite that, there were hardly any suicides. Now we find excuses and give them posh medical names, but the suicide rate is astronomical...
I can't speak for anywhere else TessA, but there were no blacks or muslims round here in those days, and interlopers were looked on with suspicion until they made a name for themselves. Once you were accepted though, be it black, white or Muslim, you joined a caring, sharing, community, and were part of the family. Nowadays, people don't even know who lives three doors down the street.
11-10-2020, 11:36 AM
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Re: What Things Have You Learned On This Forum?
Originally Posted by Vlad
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Bloody hell, this thread is sooo depressing.
11-10-2020, 11:43 AM
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Re: What Things Have You Learned On This Forum?
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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Sometimes life is a bitch Vlad......
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