Olden days were the best or summat...

Amazonian · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:18 pm

"Giggle giggle, remember Spangles, Stew?..."

And I fucking HATE "Dancing Queen".

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7330

I remember trying to take my chopper out in the sun and the local bobby told me I'd be arrested if I did it again.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7330

Amazonian wrote:

"Giggle giggle, remember Spangles, Stew?..."

And I fucking HATE "Dancing Queen".

Remember King Paedo on top of the pops. Happy days.

Andy McDandy · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:50 pm

Yeah, nostalgia has a lot to answer for.

Aside from the fact that the average 70s kid, if shown a modern console, would wank their arm off for a go on one, let's not get to misty-eyed about the 70s. Sailor in the charts, Sutcliffe on the streets, and Japanese industrial waste turned into little octopuses to crawl down your windows.

Gourami · **Joined:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:51 pm **Posts:** 2005

Am I imagining all the kids on bikes I see everywhere I go?

storygirl · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:59 pm

Gourami wrote:

Am I imagining all the kids on bikes I see everywhere I go?

Yes, I have similar hallucinations of kids playing football on the street wherever I go.

Which raises a question. Do Mailites have no children, or are they as uninvolved in their lives as they are in anyone else's and so plonk them in front of tv and computers to avoid interaction?

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:11 pm

What I remember about the mid to late seventies was once being up at my grandmas and all the oldsters whinging and whining about the "good old days" and that "the country had gone to the dogs" and that "kids of today have no manners" blah, blah, blah.*

And my favourite uncle (who was (is) a bit of a dude) saying "Pay no heed son, the silly buggers were saying the same shit 20 years ago back in my day!".

*Not any racism, though - but that might be down to being in a small town in Durham where the first Asian family to move there (through a council house swap from somewhere in Lancashire) caused an immense amount of curiosity but absolutely no animosity.

cycloon · **Joined:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:07 pm **Posts:** 3246

I recently read an Amazon review that started off, vis a vis the 'youth of today' with the remarkable comment that 'in my day, us kids were in primary schools'.

/tumbleweed

Yes?

oboogie · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:39 pm

Carlos The Badger wrote:

What I remember about the mid to late seventies was once being up at my grandmas and all the oldsters whinging and whining about the "good old days" and that "the country had gone to the dogs" and that "kids of today have no manners" blah, blah, blah.*

And my favourite uncle (who was (is) a bit of a dude) saying "Pay no heed son, the silly buggers were saying the same shit 20 years ago back in my day!".

Socrates wrote:

“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:43 pm

oboogie wrote:

Carlos The Badger wrote:

What I remember about the mid to late seventies was once being up at my grandmas and all the oldsters whinging and whining about the "good old days" and that "the country had gone to the dogs" and that "kids of today have no manners" blah, blah, blah.*

And my favourite uncle (who was (is) a bit of a dude) saying "Pay no heed son, the silly buggers were saying the same shit 20 years ago back in my day!".

Socrates wrote:

“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”

Yep, and on it will go, ad infinitum. :evil:

Whinging old (and not so old) gits, that is.

Gourami · **Joined:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:51 pm **Posts:** 2005

In my day old people knew how to moan properly.

ponce on the heath · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:54 pm

This is why children chiding their parents for petty rebellious behaviour is, I'm led to believe, the gold standard of situational comedy.

Arnold · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:54 pm

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:58 pm

Never was.

DTR · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:11 pm

Mrs DTR's mother (who has mobility problems) often comments that when she comes to visit us in south London it's only ever the teenage 'hoodies' that give up their seat for her on the bus.

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