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Redway
09-03-2013, 05:28 PM
Do you prefer the days of the 50s, 60s and 70s to the present age? Or would you rather live in a tolerant, more technological age?

InOne
09-03-2013, 05:30 PM
50's 60's 70's were all well and good if you had money but pretty bleak if you didn't. We can live a lot more comfortable on a lot less now. I don't think there's such a thing as 'The good old days'.

joeysteele
09-03-2013, 05:32 PM
I think from all I have heard from my family and older people I have had good chats with as to their past lives,I would rather go back to maybe the 50s and 60s.

I think maybe,there was a stronger community spirit between people and neighbours especially then and much more looking out for each other with far less selfishness.
I also have a great love of 60s music too so I would likely be over the moon.

Me. I Am Salman
09-03-2013, 05:34 PM
when most people say they prefer the 'early days' it's just nostalgia speaking

Redway
09-03-2013, 05:35 PM
I get sick and tired of people banging on about how swell life used to be though. Maybe if you were a rich, straight, white British male but other groups had it hard, did they not?

Got a lot better towards the 80s, mind. I actually wouldn't mind living in that era.

Lee.
09-03-2013, 05:35 PM
I think there's pros and cons to both. I agree with what joe said regarding the olden days being good only if you had money, but I think I would have liked to have experienced a time when men were gentlemen and eomen were ladies and it wasn't the norm for young couples to go out, get smashed and shag in full view of ahyone down theur local park.

Me. I Am Salman
09-03-2013, 05:37 PM
I get sick and tired of people banging on about how swell life used to be though. Maybe if you were a rich, straight, white British male but other groups had it hard, did they not?

Got a lot better towards the 80s, mind. I actually wouldn't mind living in that era.

yeah, my dad's family experienced horrendous things in the 60s and 70s. they had to always walk in groups

InOne
09-03-2013, 05:38 PM
I get sick and tired of people banging on about how swell life used to be though. Maybe if you were a rich, straight, white British male but other groups had it hard, did they not?

Got a lot better towards the 80s, mind. I actually wouldn't mind living in that era.

Thought 80's was the rise of the NF and stuff. Probably one of the most violent decades.

Redway
09-03-2013, 05:42 PM
yeah, my dad's family experienced horrendous things in the 60s and 70s. they had to always walk in groups

Exactly, otherwise you'd have been lynched or s/t. The ethnic population up here used to be confined to one particular place (Toxteth) for fear of racial abuse.

So it pisses me off when people moan about how things are these days when it was much worse than this at a point.

Scarlett.
09-03-2013, 05:43 PM
Exactly, otherwise you'd have been lynched or s/t. The ethnic population up here used to be confined to one particular place (Toxteth) for fear of racial abuse.

So it pisses me off when people moan about how things are these days when it was much worse than this at a point.

Yeah, people tend to forget the intolerance and poverty that happened the 20th Century, they prefer to remember how you seemingly didn't get robbed as much.

arista
09-03-2013, 05:45 PM
Do you prefer the days of the 50s, 60s and 70s to the present age? Or would you rather live in a tolerant, more technological age?



I want a Time Machine
so I can go back to 1930 set up the shares
then Jump to 1960
Collect the billions
then jump to 1969
NY Electric Lady Studio
give Jimi Hendrix a Digital Delay
made by Boss, tell him never to lend it
as he has the only one


Then Jump to 1974
buy a Quadraphonic Sony System
LP's in 4 ch. Quad.


Then Jump to
2001 June
With info on Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta
for FBI and CIA
who was taking flying lessons in Florida
he was learning to Fly Straight
nothing else , he did not want to learn to take off
or land.

A Female FBI officer gave data on him
but it was not looked at Properly.

He will then be arrested
9/11 is stopped.

And since I changed history
I have to stay at that year
which is fine as I can Double my Billions
in 2007 -2008 just before the American bank goes under.


And when Mark sets Up TIBB
I set up Funding for him to run the Site
A Bank Deal only to help TIBB
his baby.



Feel The Force

Redway
09-03-2013, 05:46 PM
They prefer to remember how you seemingly didn't get robbed as much.

Even that's ambiguous. I'm sure at a time you were legally allowed to carry knives.

Scarlett.
09-03-2013, 05:48 PM
Even that's ambiguous. I'm sure at a time you were legally allowed to carry knives.

Yup, people probably remember it that way, because they had a more innocent view of the world back then. Hell, I grew up in the 90s feeling pretty safe as a kid, but this was the decade when James Bulger was killed, among plenty of other horrific crimes.

MTVN
09-03-2013, 06:02 PM
I think its natural for people to feel an affinity for the period in which they grow up seeing as they are a product of that time, although the traditionalist in me does find the idea of living a few decades earlier quite appealing though that'd be holding a rose tinted view of it

AnnieK
09-03-2013, 06:19 PM
I would love to go back to the 20s....just for the clothes...

Marc
09-03-2013, 06:21 PM
Much better back then

Marc
09-03-2013, 06:23 PM
I think its natural for people to feel an affinity for the period in which they grow up seeing as they are a product of that time, although the traditionalist in me does find the idea of living a few decades earlier quite appealing though that'd be holding a rose tinted view of it

http://i.imgur.com/Lk6yWD2.gif

MTVN
09-03-2013, 06:24 PM
What's your problem son

Harry!
09-03-2013, 08:53 PM
I would like to experience the past but today's lifestyle seems more convenient.

Jesus.
09-03-2013, 08:57 PM
I think there's pros and cons to both. I agree with what joe said regarding the olden days being good only if you had money, but I think I would have liked to have experienced a time when men were gentlemen and eomen were ladies and it wasn't the norm for young couples to go out, get smashed and shag in full view of ahyone down theur local park.

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTk987wTq2QofoJNTdUSLjRS9jf7J9mr a6MeAx63MV-gThO6jI1

Plenty more where that came from.

http://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/tg/image/1338/19/1338192398792.gif

Jesus.
09-03-2013, 08:57 PM
Niamh has experienced both.

Brother Leon
09-03-2013, 08:58 PM
Ahh. I loved living in the 50s. Good times for me.

Lee.
09-03-2013, 08:59 PM
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTk987wTq2QofoJNTdUSLjRS9jf7J9mr a6MeAx63MV-gThO6jI1

Plenty more where that came from.

http://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/tg/image/1338/19/1338192398792.gif

Who in the name of god is that in that rather dashing gif??

Jesus.
09-03-2013, 09:00 PM
Who in the name of god is that in that rather dashing gif??

Thor.

Shaun
09-03-2013, 09:10 PM
chris hemsworth, lee :p

anyway I think everyone that looks back on the 90s (that's my age or something) as a better time now are largely influenced by the fact that they had no responsibilities then because they were kids

Ammi
10-03-2013, 05:48 AM
..yeah, what Shaun said..most people have an affinity to the time they grew up in..their first music idol..movie star..their first kiss etc..that doesn't mean those times were better..it was just 'their time'...and I never roll my eyes when people tell me about their time..I think it's lovely to hear people's stories and memories...