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Back in those days my drinking philosophy went something along these lines...
Wednesday: mid week drink, pub.
Thursday: start of the weekend, pub.
Friday: weekend. Pub
Saturday: weekend. Pub
Sunday: last day of the weekend. Cheeky pub
Monday: first day of the week. Worth a visit to the pub.
Tuesday: traditionally a day off from drinking..what do you do on a day off? Pub.
I look back on those days with a mixture of happiness and milk thistle..
And that was the joy of licencing hours.. you had to be on parade in the pub or you'd miss the social gathering..esp Sundays 12.00 til 2.00p.m. AND BINGE!
The town I live in you could walk down the street and esp in the summer they'd be hanging out the windows stinkoed!.. and full til closing.. maybe Tuesdayn wednesday 'd be quiet..The weekend would start on Thursday and end Monday evening.. but now some of those that remain shut at 10-10.30... Sad... n thats why us oldies think things have changed for the worst!
And you know the country was in better shape then... than it is now!
or phoneing the pub to see who was there , and also telling the barman not to tell certain people you were there when you shouldnt have been , good times
I’m 51. I remember living in a new build Bovis home with single glazed windows that had ice on the inside in winter. I remember the lights going out to save coal on a regular basis. I remember the shops being shut all through Christmas. Worst of all I remember the pubs shutting at 10.30 on NYE if it was a Sunday...
Talking about pubs, does anyone remember when you used to go to the pub, un-arranged (pre mobiles), knowing that some mates would be there and if not there then in one of the other pubs that were nearby..
63 for me and just rolling my eyes at Greta Thunberg the 17-year old who is on BBC news preaching to the world....
Nice one Newbie
At the age of 68 my favourite year is 2020. As that’s when this company actually gives me the money to actually do what I want, not what my financial constraints allow me to do. GLA
1998-99?? and then of course we had the Y2K threat..the millenium bug.. oh.. and the fear that if our pubs were allowed to open all day us peasants would become a nation of alcoholics!!.. But sad to say Pubs have closed by the thousands :o(((
Jobs.. yes and a couple of my friends went to Germany because after the war and the collapse of communism there was a lot of building work going on.. ''Auf weidersein Pet'' was the TV show of the time!
And the irish came to England to build roads people moving to work is nothing new but it is easier due to.. not the eu but boeing & airbus.. Ryan Air/easyjet! These are the benefits of technology... but the wealth created by advances have not trickled down!
I’ll not get into whether things were better or worse. I do think the human condition is to always fondly look back.
But I would say things were ‘simplier’ in the70’s. Pace if change appears to be quicker.
There wasn't many things we've got nowadays but everything has changed and developed in last 25 years.... since computing and communication technology has developed...
.... but what about what one of my friends said about end of 60's and 70's (that time I wasn't here). He is a Yorkshireman, a businessman and he many time said that British forget nowadays how they were moving around Europe looking for the job, as I am not wrong he said mainly to Germany??? So I am not sure if it was so sweet time as you described it....
Of course I remember the times as you said the same was in Poland: women mainly stayed at homes and men were working for the families. The live was more simple not so luxuries and more easy then now....
But this is now the cost of the world development....
Yes We had to put up with smaller TVs that sat like a boulder in the corner.. no mobile/smart phones etc but at least my 1972 escort could wiz me a long at 70mph (top speed 89) wheres as now I have a car with lots of toys but can only achieve an average of 45 if I am lucky!
Drunk
It’s a slow news day for EUA so no problems reminiscing.
Yeah the 70’s were ok but..,,,,
Yes I am old and remember when you didnt have to weave around potholes in the roads that are worse than forest gravel roads back in the early 70's when there were few/none food banks, the NHS wasnt so desperate for funds n as a student I worked on a building site in the holidays building good sized semi detached houses with gardens costing £9000 for car workers dockers ordinary people..whose wives did not have to work so that they could look after the kids and of course bring us British workers cups of tea (& flirt with us) and in the evenings I'd drink with europeans who had come to work in the UK picking fruit etc.... and as you can imagine I could go on n on n on n on