The Pessimist: Life is worse
Since I were a kid things have gone down hill a bit in some
ways:
The dustman won't collect the bin from your alley.
You can't watch The Ashes on normal telly.
You have to pay for prescriptions.
Both parents have to work.
More countries have nuclear weapons.
Reading books are more bland.
The postman only makes one delivery (and is more likely to steal your birthday money).
You can't watch the European Cup on normal telly.
You can't smoke in any pub.
There's a greater threat of terrorism.
You might catch AIDS.
You can't drink as much and still be legal to drive.
University costs £27,000 + expenses.
You can't watch boxing on telly.
There are less Post Offices.
You are being spied on all the time.
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The dustman won't collect the bin from your alley.
You can't watch The Ashes on normal telly.
You have to pay for prescriptions.
Both parents have to work.
More countries have nuclear weapons.
Reading books are more bland.
The postman only makes one delivery (and is more likely to steal your birthday money).
You can't watch the European Cup on normal telly.
You can't smoke in any pub.
There's a greater threat of terrorism.
You might catch AIDS.
You can't drink as much and still be legal to drive.
University costs £27,000 + expenses.
You can't watch boxing on telly.
There are less Post Offices.
You are being spied on all the time.
...
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You can't watch The Ashes on normal telly
You can't watch the European Cup on normal telly.
You can't smoke in any pub.
You can't watch boxing on telly.
There are no more new episodes of Lost.
There are no more new episodes of Ali McBeal.
Aren't they?
Scuse me everyone, I've gone off on a reverie. What were we talking about?
Kinda free kinda WOW! ~ Charlie
while you were splashing it on all over no doubt ! Happy daze . . .
Lipsmackinthirstquenchinacetastinmotivatingoodbuzzincooltalkinhighwalkingfastlivinevergivincoolfizzin...Pepsi!
I miss avocado bathroom suites complete with bidet
And drinking Pernod and Black. Don't suppose anyone does that any more...
Jaffa Cakes are smaller.
Marathons are called Snickers.
And rich tea biscuits are now so small that you can dunk the whole thing in your mug of tea without having to break it in half first. Oh wait, that's a good thing!! Ditto wagon wheels! have to admit, i have angel delight in the cupboard.
Orange is an ace colour - just so long as it's blazing orange. None of these half hearted, maybe-it's-orange-maybe-it's-mud variations. Give me colours that jump out of the shirt, grab people by the (eye)balls and snarl "I'm orange, okay?"
Now it's Star Wars or Simpsons or the Eastenders version or the elctronic one or the kiddies edition..and thousands more that I can't be arsed to mention.
Lego too. We currently have boxes of the ''City Lego'', ''Star Wars Lego'', ''Ninjago Lego (???)'' and now the kids have spotted the ''Pirates of the Carribean bloody Lego''. When I was a kid there was just Lego- and it came in either red or white bricks with green sheets that formed floors. I built houses with mine. My kids build the Millenium Falcon and Fire Stations and Police Stations complete with miniature loos and security cameras. Actually- kids don't build them because you need at least 5 GCSE's to read the instructions and my kids are only 5 and 3 so me and the husband build them but after a few weeks bits of the City Lego get mixed up with the Star Wars Lego and the 3 year old won't leave us alone til we rebuild his Fire Station and it takes almost a week's worth of evenings building the bloody thing only for his brother to fall on it.
And are Wagon Wheels realy smaller? I thought they were until I returned, recently, to a dolmen we used to play on as kids. The 'huge' boulders seemed to have shrunk to half the size they used to be! So I thought maybe it was the same effect with Wagon Wheels.
On the other hand, the temptation to play Halo Reach on the xBox means that the phrase "Advance to Mayfair" is less likely to be heard than the boast "I killed dad with a head-shot".
Recently went through old toys and games in parents' loft- forgotten gems like my Fuzzy Felts and a game called Coppit, but my Weebles were missing.
My Grandad's Austin Allegro was tango orange, it became my first car in 1990, square steering wheel and all. For some reason it didn't seem to impress when going out on dates.
But ah yes! Someone else who remembers that long-vanished building set, which if my memory doesn't fail me was actually spelt Bayko. God, the nostalgia....
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