1950s not so great according to some of the guys I did my apprenticeship with, national service and being send off to nasty conflicts in the Middle East and Korea + rationing at home
I'm vicariously waiting for these fashion statements to return.
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At times like this i tend to remind people of the following extract.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man
written in about 700BC, to paraphrase, life is s*** it was better when i was a lad.
plus ca change!
I assume you know that homosexuality was a criminal offence in Scotland until 1980 and in Northern Ireland until 1982.That is only part of it though. Lots of reasons why people would have been happier. Post sexual revolution, starting to get the hang of race and gender,
industries dying and the growing realisation that we're just a little island at the edge of Europe. Three day weeks, power cuts, rubbish on the streets, the dead unburied, having to go to the IMF to borrow money...
We'll be back to that in a couple of years.
You had to pull out your choke to get your car to fire up from cold, and the windscreen washer button was bad
'tuning' your car engine using a glass spark plug. Emissions- who cares
redmex - MemberYou had to pull out your choke to get your car to fire up from cold,
That was empowerment! Today's cars will start with barely a by-your-leave. To get my motorbike to start on a freezing day needed a special dance and a sacrifice to the gods of carburation. So much more satisfying when first one piston fired, then some time later the other one caught up...
having to go to the IMF to borrow money...
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Life lost its luster fore when they stopped selling Quattro at the swimming baths