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The good ol’ days
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with massive interest rates...(but yes easier to get on the ladder)BR7_addick said:
Say good ole days I mean 80s/90s, low deposits and easier to get on the ladder.BR7_addick said:I’ve got a genuine one:
Buying a house, surely this was easier/better back in the good ole days??2 -
The good old 13.5% interest, then negative equity & being repossessed days.BR7_addick said:
Say good ole days I mean 80s/90s, low deposits and easier to get on the ladder.BR7_addick said:I’ve got a genuine one:
Buying a house, surely this was easier/better back in the good ole days??
I remember it well.1 -
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I did put a ? After I made the point to be fair!KBslittlesis said:
The good old 13.5% interest, then negative equity & being repossessed days.BR7_addick said:
Say good ole days I mean 80s/90s, low deposits and easier to get on the ladder.BR7_addick said:I’ve got a genuine one:
Buying a house, surely this was easier/better back in the good ole days??
I remember it well.1 -
Not to forget the lovely Endowment Mortgage you were sold!4
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*mis-sold.SE7toSG3 said:Not to forget the lovely Endowment Mortgage you were sold!1 -
That's also when we only got snowflakes in winter.BR7_addick said:0 -
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In the good old days, I had to wear short trousers to school, Even in the winter. And I had to walk 3 miles to school and back. It used to be so cold, the insides of the windows used to freeze over. You youngsters never had it so good1
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Quite the opposite, if people back in the good ole days were the ones concerned with how men or women dressed then that suggests that they are generation snowflake.redbuttle said:
That's also when we only got snowflakes in winter.BR7_addick said:7 -
letthegoodtimesroll said:
Balaclavas...blimey, that brings back memoriesbolloxbolder said:I was telling my kids about my memories of getting to school in the mid 60s. The 3 of us used to take turns to wash in a bowl around the fire, where we got dressed.
It was always so cold that a balaclava was mandatory under your parka coat as were woollens. It was nearly always foggy, but on route to school, sightings of hedgehogs and stray dogs were regular occurrences.Armed bank jobs, that’s something you don’t see much of these days.4 -
The good old days when we didn’t have to wear face masks in public or sit 2m away from people in pubs0
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One of my first memories of an English winter was lying in bed in Bromley and looking down at my jeans which were lying frozen on the bedroom floor. They were stiff when I picked them up.
Either JS couldn't afford to have central heating installed, or he thought it was soft. Probably the latter.0 -
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Bought my 3 year old panini stickers, 90p a pack now, back in the 90s (when I was a lad) they were 35p. Just used online RPI and they should really only be about 70p!Surely we can all agree on this one..2
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That sounds considerably better than walking to school barefoot.iaitch said:
Kids can't walk 20 yards to school now, mummy has to transport them in a massive 4x4 vehicle with mum ensuring that have a bottle of water so they don't dehydrate.se9addick said:I think people make up the “we used to walk 20 miles to school in our bare feet” stuff.2 -
Yeah my grandad is from Skye, grew up in a similar time period to your folks. Family members have told me he had to walk five miles to and from school everyday barefoot, I just don’t believe them.KBslittlesis said:
Nope, our parents walked bare foot to school.se9addick said:I think people make up the “we used to walk 20 miles to school in our bare feet” stuff.
But that was rural Ireland in the 30\40’s.
And because of that they were never in too much of a hurry to modernise.
By the time I was going to school in the 70’s I was still waking up to ice inside the windows. Dressing in front of the gas fire listening to the Hairy Cornflake and realising my one pair of school shoes per term had already worn a hole in the sole & that until Dad could get to Woolworths to get a new sole, the cut out from the tissue box would have to do.
Was it better? I didn’t know any different but I have only fond memories of my young childhood. It was only when my siblings left & it was just myself & my parents & all my friends had moved on (central heating, video recorders etc) that it felt a bit shite tbh.0 -
They weren't concerned in those days. They were normal...BR7_addick said:
Quite the opposite, if people back in the good ole days were the ones concerned with how men or women dressed then that suggests that they are generation snowflake.redbuttle said:
That's also when we only got snowflakes in winter.BR7_addick said:0 -
'The good old days when people respected each other...'redbuttle said:
They weren't concerned in those days. They were normal...BR7_addick said:
Quite the opposite, if people back in the good ole days were the ones concerned with how men or women dressed then that suggests that they are generation snowflake.redbuttle said:
That's also when we only got snowflakes in winter.BR7_addick said:
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Male homosexuality was illegal and people went to prison up to 1967
No legal abortion until the same time.
Little female controlled contraception and then only for married women at first.
Rape within marriage legal, domestic abuse often ignored by the police, child abuse in many institutions common place and victims not believed (something we are still learning about now)
Unmarried mothers put in mental homes and had their children forcibly taken away
"No dogs, No Irish, No Blacks" signs quite legal although maybe not as common as now thought
Racial and sexual discrimination in the workplace (and elsewhere) common and legal. Women routinely paid less than men for the same or similar jobs.
Lot of very poor and sub-standard housing all over the UK, outside toilets, no bathrooms, overcrowding
Mumps, polio, german measles were all killers
Thalidomide
yes but men dressed like men and women dressed as women (whatever that means). Men in the 60s and 70s had long hair and platform shoes, like what women wear and women wore trousers like men. Disgusting!
No, the good old days were not all good. There were many good things, often things from our childhood that we remember but not the worries that our parents had at the time that we knew nothing about.
I was fortunate to grow up in a relatively OK income wise working class household. My dad was a painter and decorator so was in work most of the time. We didn't have a car, never went abroad on holiday but we had food on the table everyday and clothes and shoes to wear and I had loving parents which is most important. And the music in the 70s was the best ever.18 -
Good ol' Freddie.Henry Irving said:I was fortunate to grow up in a relatively OK income wise working class household. My dad was a painter and decorator so was in work most of the time. We didn't have a car, never went abroad on holiday but we had food on the table everyday and clothes and shoes to wear and I had loving parents which is most important. And the music in the 70s was the best ever.6 -
I had the same problems with socks (although it used to happen in summer as well)JamesSeed said:One of my first memories of an English winter was lying in bed in Bromley and looking down at my jeans which were lying frozen on the bedroom floor. They were stiff when I picked them up.
Either JS couldn't afford to have central heating installed, or he thought it was soft. Probably the latter.10 -
The good old days where cardigans were fashionable.8
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And Abba toocafcpolo said:
Good ol' Freddie.Henry Irving said:I was fortunate to grow up in a relatively OK income wise working class household. My dad was a painter and decorator so was in work most of the time. We didn't have a car, never went abroad on holiday but we had food on the table everyday and clothes and shoes to wear and I had loving parents which is most important. And the music in the 70s was the best ever.
Fortunately we had good music to drown out Queen who were considered a joke band at the time.2 -
Not a bad singer but I went off him after he ate the hamster.cafcpolo said:
Good ol' Freddie.Henry Irving said:I was fortunate to grow up in a relatively OK income wise working class household. My dad was a painter and decorator so was in work most of the time. We didn't have a car, never went abroad on holiday but we had food on the table everyday and clothes and shoes to wear and I had loving parents which is most important. And the music in the 70s was the best ever.1 -
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Blimey you have aged,You look nothing like that now😁Henry Irving said:0 -
Look at the price of Fredos. 😱BR7_addick said:Bought my 3 year old panini stickers, 90p a pack now, back in the 90s (when I was a lad) they were 35p. Just used online RPI and they should really only be about 70p!Surely we can all agree on this one..
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I remember taking my GF (now wife) to Eltham about that time to visit someone and the fog was so thick, we both had to have our heads out the car windows to see if we could see where we were goingrobinofottershaw said:Walking home from Sherrington Road Junior School with my sister (me age 7, her 9) in a pea-souper fog around 1962 when the school was closed early. I know there wasn’t as much road traffic then but cannot imagine a school allowing that nowadays!0
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