What the hell have we done to our lives???

Royboy39 · 06-08-2007, 21:31

We had dog tracks and stock car racing.
We had pubs with entertainers.
We had working mens clubs for snooker etc.,
We could go out for a social drink without being abused.
Where the hell are we going???????????

MargaretR · 06-08-2007, 22:05

We are becoming non smoking, non drinking, celebate, god fearing, vegetarian, long living, super healthy
MISERABLE OLD GITS

garinda · 06-08-2007, 22:08

You wanna go dahn sarf Lahndan.

All the things you mentioned you'll find in my old Manor.

glasgow guy · 06-08-2007, 22:12

I know of various areas in the east of scotland and upwards that still has those..

your not looking hard enough...

MargaretR · 06-08-2007, 22:14

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Originally Posted by garinda

You wanna go dahn sarf Lahndan.

All the things you mentioned you'll find in my old Manor.

Nostalgia is a thing of the past -soon will need big wellies and a snorkle to live there man

PS -I have said it before - draw the scottish border at Birmingham

garinda · 06-08-2007, 22:16

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Originally Posted by Royboy39

We had dog tracks and stock car racing.
We had pubs with entertainers.
We had working mens clubs for snooker etc.,
We could go out for a social drink without being abused.
Where the hell are we going???????????

We had bear baiting and dog fights.
We had gin palaces were you'd be stabbed for a farthing.
We had brothels employing 25,000 children in our great capital city alone.
We had poverty, rickets, and a life expectancy of 40.
Happy, bygone days.
Where the hell did we go wrong?

MargaretR · 06-08-2007, 22:21

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Originally Posted by garinda

We had bear baiting and dog fights.
We had gin palaces were you'd be stabbed for a farthing.
We had brothels employing 25,000 children in our great capital city alone.
We had poverty, rickets, and a life expectancy of 40.
Happy, bygone days.
Where the hell did we go wrong?

All of those things are the same except life expectancy - we can be miserable for longer

cashman · 06-08-2007, 23:34

i know were royboys coming from and agree,happier,safer,times alas gone forever,coarse ya can go further back to the gin house days n they were bad and hellish times,it just boils down to this, we were lucky we had the best.

Eric · 07-08-2007, 00:03

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Originally Posted by garinda

We had bear baiting and dog fights.
We had gin palaces were you'd be stabbed for a farthing.
We had brothels employing 25,000 children in our great capital city alone.
We had poverty, rickets, and a life expectancy of 40.
Happy, bygone days.
Where the hell did we go wrong?

But he is not talking about some mythical Golden Age, some Arcadia, that can be obliterated by well chosen statistics, but of a time remembered, one that did exist.

garinda · 07-08-2007, 00:05

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Originally Posted by cashman

i know were royboys coming from and agree,happier,safer,times alas gone forever,coarse ya can go further back to the gin house days n they were bad and hellish times,it just boils down to this, we were lucky we had the best.

So if the 'good old days' weren't the Victorian age, when were they?

First twenty years of the century, when millions died in the Great War, or perished by contracting the flu endemic?

The 1920's and 30's, when millions were unemployed because of the depression, and no welfare state, only the workhouse, to catch the poor?

Perhaps the forties, when yet more millions of service men and women died, never mind the civilian casualties.

50's, after rationing had ended, and before all the peace and free love of the 60's had started?

I've worked it out. The halcyon days of old were from January 1954- May 1957.

garinda · 07-08-2007, 00:06

...or perhaps the good old days are whenever we were young?

cashman · 07-08-2007, 00:21

personally i think the best days were 50/60s on the basis that everyone that wanted had a full time job and with it the dosh to enjoy it,think most folk enjoy their youth/teens in any generation,would be very surprised if they didn,t,times moved on and in some respects its better,some worse.