To having been born in the 1970s and see how much the world has changed?

Yes, it was peaceful. Thats whats gone now. There is no rest from the media, from social media, from information, from data, whether thats at work or on yuor phone or one of the millions of screens we're bombarded with. Its getting impossible to go shopping without apps, unless you want to pay a premium. Parking, travel etc. Its all too connected. I miss the analogue age.

This . I was a 60s baby and my childhood was so easy . No technology,meeting friends without cancelling,tv after 2 pm …simple and relaxing.

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I'm a 1971 vintage person- Polos were 4p (fruit or mint) and a packet if Walkers were 10p in 1980ish. Started smoking in 1984 - 12/13 and 10 B&H were 52p so I had lunch every other day at school- got 60p a day so fags one day lunch the next.
There were power cuts- we always had candles on saucers under the sink cupboard (1970's) but it seemed really normal and we just played cards or a board game. Yes there was poverty but not necessarily worse than now. Even if people were poor it was different than now.
My childhood was fine- I was not scarred in anyway- it was different standards and times. Family and friends/neighbours helped out more.
IRA in the 70's was a worry and nuclear war in the early 80's too- very much so.

@TheM55 TFF?

I love how much 80s inspired music we have at the moment.

There’s so much I could say but it’s just going to be a bun fight which sums up the sadness of tech at present. It hasn’t always been this bad.

I’ve loved music since forever and love the contemporary stuff now, also love modern film and TV and usually prefer it.

I will say I’ve never heard of Snaps! Have I missed out? Going to guess they were corn maize type stuff?

I am not sure what the ask is on AIBU? but i was born in 1968 and I loved a lot of the things about the early '80s as a teenager including the crisps / pop / disco combo, the burgeoning interest in fashion (ra ra skirts, mini kilts, drainpipe jeans batwing jumpers, silky over the top blouses) the 80s music (duran, haircut, spandau, depeche, human league, japan, TFF, OMD) BUT the food was dreadful, the lack of understanding (racism, homophobia, sexism, and any SEN), the hitting by parents being normal, being bombed, being frightened of nuclear attack, the strikes, the poverty and quite difficult routes to get the info we all take constantly for granted now. We had some freedoms, but we also had plenty of restrictions too. You could at least buy a house I guess.

Yeah the 80s were great. Internet and social media has ruined life as we know it. Such a shame. Life has basically been the same since the 00s, music, film etc, all the same. No more defining decades, just one worsening homogenised mess of iphones and zombie behaviour. Its absolutely awful.

Oh give over with your 10p being the cheapest crisps!

I was born in 1973 and I could save 10p of my lunch money and buy me and my friend a 5p bag each from our newsagents on the way home.

They were quite small though.

I love seventies Ikea although it’s way out of my price range to collect many pieces. Also love so much of the fashion and music of the 70s. Both my parents worked and socialised hard and I don’t relate to the women and domesticity thing, maybe that was an earlier generation? Sounds Victorian, the Angel in the house.

I was born late 70’s, space raiders were indeed 10p and 10p mixes

Yep space raiders were 10p in 1994 at my high school

Everyone striked in the 70s, power cuts, no bin collections etc.

Poverty were people didn't have carpets, shoes, nicked each others milk.

Everyone smoked, the average age of death was much younger.

Ira and bombings/ shootings

Sounds like a dream 😂

@EmeraldRoulette arguing in the debating sense of the word. As in positing an argument.

that those born in the mid 70’s were like 18 in 1993 which wasn’t the kind of age the op was positioning as hanging out in youth clubs and at playgrounds.

I think Snaps were 10p too? 🤣

And Space Raiders 👍

I know. Don't know why people are being so obnoxious.

I'm a 70s baby and I was never allowed to go to youth clubs anyway. The world has changed a lot, agree there. I'm glad some social issues and attitudes have changed and I love the access to information now but, on the whole, I do wonder if things were a bit better when life was simpler (before the internet).

I was born in the 70s. Some things were better - a lot of things were worse. It's normal to look back on your childhood with rose-tinted glasses. My DC have had some experiences that were very similar to my childhood (toys, books, holidays, activities) and things that are very different, especially technology.

Some things were terrible in the 70s though - women were for the most part still very dependent on men, there was a lot of neglectful parenting, schools were pretty rubbish - especially if you had any additional needs. Im

Discos were 10p I think? They were the cheapest ones 😂

I was born in the early 70s and virtually everything from that era makes me shudder and cringe. I do appreciate some things were more wholesome and organic back then but I’m very much choosing to live in the present.

What are you arguing about and why are you arguing?

I mean, I’m sure I do remember buying crisps for 10p in the early 80s…

Be nice! The OP was just having a nice time remembering the simply times, grouchy bunch this evening.

And also a 70s baby here.