Olden days were the best or summat...

oboogie · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:09 pm

davidjay wrote:

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England's First Public Park was at DERBY. J. C. Loudon to created a "Pleasure Ground" or "Recreation Ground" "to offer the inhabitants of the town the opportunity of enjoying, with their families, exercise, and recreation in the fresh air, in public walks and grounds devoted to that purpose". on Wed Sept 16th 1840.. Law Olmsted, designer of Central Park, New York was influenced by the park and his design for Central Park, sections of which bear a close resemblance to Derby Arboretum.
- John, Wales, 17/4/2012 11:26

What the blue fuck is so bad about this post that it's been red arrowed?

It contains facts?

ezinra · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:11 pm

It's by John, Wales. Always worth a red arrow from me, even when he's just cut and pasted something from wikipedia.

oboogie · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:54 pm

ezinra wrote:

It's by John, Wales. Always worth a red arrow from me, even when he's just cut and pasted something from wikipedia.

Ah. But then you know him better than me. :wink:

Arnold · **Posted:** Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:01 pm

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Meet the original Dita Von Teese: Saucy vintage burlesque posters go on display

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1tRDIdl9l

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

Has any country ever changed so much in 60 years? Enchanting photos show what life was like when our Queen came to the throne

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... hrone.html

A pretty standard load of old 1950s were the greatest guff, but noteworthy as further evidence that cycling was totally acceptable and fine in the 1950s, unlike now.

Pedal power: A family go for a 1953 picnic in the Cotswolds by bicycle. A Thermos of tea for Mum and Dad and pop for the kids

Crossroads: Women on a weekend cycling trip through Lincolnshire pose beside a road sign near a meadow

There's a picture of giraffes at London zoo in the 1950s, which is slightly baffling, in that I'm not too sure how it shows how much Britain has changed. Is the DM trying to suggest that giraffes were better in teh olden dayz? Must have been a better class of giraffe back then.

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Pretty pictures. Sadly, all those lovely memories? They never existed. Half the kids I started school with in 1946 were dead before 1966. TB, Polio, blood diseases, you name it. In 1952 much was still on ration. When rationing finally ended a year later, the home business of choice for east Londoners, being foster parents, wasn't that attractive anymore. School dinner consisted of meat from the government freezers, that had been in store since 1928/30, cooked until it was little more than cardboard, cabbage boiled down to white stalks and pom (potato powder) so thinly mixed, it ran like water. Cellulose and cardboard. Times were not better then, just different. Every winter, as soon as the fires were lit London became blanked out with smog. Bronchitis was endemic and doctors were advising anyone with a chest infection to smoke and open the tubes!! They still used that line for TB patients in the sanatoriums of the sixties. Never long for yesterday, twas but an illusion.

- Dominic Fahr, Oxford, 2/6/2012 12:17

Althea · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 1:31 pm

This fits in here.
Her reign has seen the worst period of national decline in our history. Yet she will be judged one of our greatest monarchs
(I assume 'her' refers to the lady known around these parts as 'Brenda')
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... archs.html

Amazing quotes include:

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We are certainly much more tolerant. Landladies, thank goodness, no longer put signs in their windows reading: ‘No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs.’ Homosexuality is no longer a bar to success in public life; indeed, far from punishing difference, we are now encouraged to celebrate it.

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Yet there could be no better sign of her achievement than the fact the monarchy is just as popular today as it was back in the Fifties. Polls show that seven out of ten of us believe we are better off with the monarchy; little wonder, then, that active republicanism is limited to a bitter handful of fanatics.

Dan · **Joined:** Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:32 pm **Posts:** 233

I think with the pictures, the Mailites have just jumped to the conclusion that because everybody is white and, seemingly, heterosexual, it's paradise. They have actually achieved the mental trick of believing that the man and the woman got married quickly, had two children, the mum stayed at home, raised the kids, knew her place and didn't answer back while dad went to work, came home and ruffled the kids' hair and the imaginary threat of the back of his hand made him a good parent because he was the provider and if he was banging the secretary over his desk after work, well, you know how men are with the stresses of work and family. He needed to relieve it - on her face, most likely but we don't talk about the horrors of working women and things like that.

The working class also knew their place too. We left them to their grotty pubs but they got on with it, knew that Mr and Mrs Middle-Class of Perfect Street Suburbia were their betters, did our manual labour and left us to our garden parties where we discussed the glorious Empire. This was before B-Liar and McBroon socially engineered the country to the point where we couldn't freely scream the N-word at the few blacks we saw and we had to show humility to our social inferiors.

And as for sex? No thank you, we're British. In the married home, she lays back and she thinks of England for it's her duty. Stiff upper lip remember? And there would be no sick filth on TV, every show was charming and quaint, as Britain should be.

And there was none of this gay agenda being forced upon us by the likes of Broon and Cam-wrong. They didn't exist in them days and there was no crime, we had street parties every other day where we'd sit, drink ginger beer and discuss how delightfully middle-class we all are. No such thing as teenage pregnancy either although we did find that a lot of women were having kids without us knowing they were pregnant...

No crime either and if there was, it was by good criminals like the Krays who were such nice boys to their old mum despite their penchant for sticking swords through the gobs of people who irritated them. Kept the community tidy though and would never knock over an old lady so I won't hear that they were vile, egotistical, mentally deranged psychopaths, that's a lie that is used by cultural marxists to bring down this once great country and fill it with hoodie, criminal scum...

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7342

I'm just amazed that they could fit a family of 4 onto 2 bikes, or 3 young women onto a single bicycle in those days.

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 3:10 pm

What a crock article that is - right down a Mailtards street. Good, 'nice' pictures (ripped off of National Geographic) with captions written by a moron for morons. With a moron sub-ed that pastes them straight onto the page from Microshaft Orifice without converting the copy. Morons.

Did I mention morons?

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

Anyone care to own up to this?

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THINGS WAS BETTER THAN , WE HAD PROPER EDUCATON NOT FEREL COMPEREHNSIVE SCHOOLS , WOMEN KNEW THERE PLACE AND THAY WASNT FAT , CHILDREN WAS DISAPLINED LIKE THAY SHOULD BE , IF YOU WAS BEATEN YOU DESRVERED IT , THERE WAS MORE GOOD WHITE PEOPLE ABOUT UNLIKE TO-DAY. SAD . IF YOUR GOING TO CRITASISE MY SPELLING AND GRAMMER I CAN SPELL HOW I LIKE , DOESNT MEAN YOUR BETTER THEN ME , END OF .

- LIKE IT IS, ENGLAND WHAT WAS ONCE BUT ISNT ANYMOR, 2/6/2012 14:32

This one, however, does not appear to be a pisstake.

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How wonderful all normal looking white decent people makes me sick when i think what we have here now.

- des hump, devon england, 2/6/2012 15:06

Daley Mayle · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 3:47 pm

I happen to notice that the three ladies are wearing the stiff, cone shaped bras of the time. When I was a hormonally charged lad all we had for our masturbatory material were Grattan catalogues and the American starlets who spawned the fashion. I was surprised when a few years later I copped a feel and they were quite different to what I imagined.

Those kids these day with unfettered access to extreme porn, they don't know how lucky they are.

The 50s were crap and much of the early 60s as well.

jguazu · **Joined:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:09 pm **Posts:** 458

From those pictures it looks like people in the fifties spent half of their time leaning through windows and the other half grinning inanely at each other. Plus, what's with the daft headline?

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Has any country ever changed so much in 60 years?

Well, I'm sure Germany, Spain, China and the entire Eastern Bloc have changed more than the UK over the last 60 years - do they think the UK is the only place that bothered to modernise during the last half-century?

Abernathy · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 8:21 pm

Daley Mayle wrote:

I happen to notice that the three ladies are wearing the stiff, cone shaped bras of the time. When I was a hormonally charged lad all we had for our masturbatory material were Grattan catalogues and the American starlets who spawned the fashion. I was surprised when a few years later I copped a feel and they were quite different to what I imagined.

Those kids these day with unfettered access to extreme porn, they don't know how lucky they are.

The 50s were crap and much of the early 60s as well.

Yeah, I thought they'd be like Toblerone. Nice to find that they weren't, mind. That said, we did have access to more than the Grattan catalogue, though of course nae interweb. For some reason you could always find a few discarded nudie mags under a hedge. If you were really lucky not many of the pages would be stuck together.

Dan · **Joined:** Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:32 pm **Posts:** 233

jguazu wrote:

From those pictures it looks like people in the fifties spent half of their time leaning through windows and the other half grinning inanely at each other. Plus, what's with the daft headline?

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Has any country ever changed so much in 60 years?

Well, I'm sure Germany, Spain, China and the entire Eastern Bloc have changed more than the UK over the last 60 years - do they think the UK is the only place that bothered to modernise during the last half-century?

They're just pandering to the view that liberals have sent the country to hell in a handcart, wasn't it great when everyone was white, heterosexual and Christian and women knew their place etc. It's a question with a specific answer in mind. It's designed to whip them into anger that everything isn't as "perfect" as it was then.

TonyHoyle · **Joined:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:48 pm **Posts:** 212

Looking at those pictures there's nothing there I couldn't do tomorrow*, if the weather was suitable.

So.. nothing really changed then. Unless they're claiming the bad weather is down to 'PC gorn mad' or something.

* OK I admit I lack the required children, bicycles and perky tits...

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