We are witnessing the dawn of a new age

[HairyToity]

Discuss.....

Oh, I thought Corona was beer, I never knew it was soda too!

Rancid "But it wouid mean you could check for vermin before disrobing"

Does it matter if a rat sees your nether regions?
Discuss....

@EmmaH2022

Oh, I thought Corona was beer, I never knew it was soda too!

You'll be telling us you don't remember phones with a dial instead of buttons next..? 🤔

@EmmaH2022

Rancid "But it wouid mean you could check for vermin before disrobing"

Does it matter if a rat sees your nether regions?
Discuss....

Of course not. Indeed they might even run up your leg because they're so interested by it all.

Of course not everyone wants critters as part of their loo trips. Nowt as queer as folk

@SamphiretheStickerist

It's going to be like the 1970s, but forever. Cold, dark, miserable, grim, crap food, power cuts and constant anxiety over The Bomb

Amazing freedoms as a child. Fewer cars; more dogs running loose; burning hot summers, cold snowy winters; seasonal food, mostly grown in UK/Europe, homemade - crinkle cut chips and the lethal chip pan; power cuts, candles; hand me down clothes, knowing how to sew/repair them; pockey money that bought a comic and handful of penny chews; friends, playing out, riding bikes, being out of sight; three day weeks, brown outs, and the Nuclear Clock.

I'd like to be in the 70s. OK by me in the 70s 3 channel TV in the 70s But I'm not 53 in the 70s.

Always read the rubric first!

The thing about the 1970s so was that you didn’t have some bastard on social media shoving it your face about how they could afford a cheese fondue set and have arctic roll for afters. We were miserable but ignorant. I am going back to those days. I may paint my kitchen orange and start cementing kids playgrounds. That’ll toughen them up for what’s to come.

3 channel of TV that broadcast only SOME of the time in the 70s @5128gap

And no, I wasn't 56 in the 70s

My grandparents were. They painted, pottered, worked in jobs that seemed enjoyable. Had friends, went to the NALGO, Butlins evenings out, next door neighbours they talked to, many small joys.

Small joys we don't seem to notice any more, with all the electronic gadgets etc.

May lead to introduction of free energy that is already known, just not used because there’s no profit in it

Yep. There is a whole tranche of 'free energy' that could be nationalised and sold to us at cost price. There will always be a cost price because of the doings required to maintain the network (some of which DH heps build).

Small joys we don't seem to notice any more, with all the electronic gadgets etc

You mean you didn't have an electric carving knife and a teasmaid?

I quite liked the 70s.

I don't remember the Winter of Discontent being that bad, either (ok I was only 10 but I can remember power cuts).

Maybe not a new age but return to an old age. War and a pandemic, it’s like when the clock went over to 2020 we ended up back at the start of the 20th century again - the 20th century but with social media Maybe there will be a recession too. Joy.

Tweet from HIGNFY:

"Despite overwhelming odds, 2022 is somehow already more shit than 2021"

We Are Witnessing The Dawn Of A New Age

This piece will examine the validity of this statement.

Every day heralds the beginning of something new and the end of many things. Lives marriages, wars, presidencies, hopes, dreams. In every day we have many arrivals and many departures.

2019 brought about the end of a pandemic free age. 2020 introduced panic, lockdowns, more economic instability, mental health issues en masse, the breakdown of unions and the surging tide of "I'm alright, Jack."

And it kept fucking going. Now everything is shit flavoured. What will 2023 usher into this new age? Flying rage spiders? Zombies that can run forever and are perpetually on fire? Unlikely, many may say. But look at the last two years. Just look. It's a fucking possibility, isn't it?

This is the dawn of a new age. The Fucked age.

More like Back to the Future for those of us old enough to have grown up pre widespread central heating. (Also remember 1970s power cuts plus and the 80s recession.)

@BarrowInFurnessRailwayStation

The only heating you had was one of these in the lounge. No central heating in the rest of the house. An electric heater thing in the bathroom and an immersion heater to heat hot water.

You only got a bath once a week because it took two days for the immersion heater to heat enough hot water (I might be lying about that though).

There was no double glazing either 🥶🥶🥶

Urgh. We had the dreaded ducted air. An asthmatics nightmare! (But you could lie down on the floor next to it and it would dry your hair) also good for thawing hands after building snowmen. My Mam once had a house party in 1979 and someone put all the LPs in front of the air ducts. That was a nice, melted mess the next day. Never mind, at least we had our (rented) Redifusion telly with the clicky dial on the wall. Surprised ours wasn't permanently buggered the amount of time I spent clicking it obsessively back and forth in through it's cycle of 3 channels.

Definitely think the world is changing. 7.2 billion people in the world, 100 years ago the number was roughly just over 2 billion. The question should be how many people can the earth sustain?

I remember pre-central heating at my grandparents' house in Sheffield. Had to sleep on my clothes in the winter, or they'd be stiff as a board and icy cold in the morning! Frost on the inside of the windows, that sort of thing. Electric bedpan was a step up from the bedpan filled with hot coal from the coal fire.

No one will be allowed to have coal fires instead of the electric or gas fired heating now - it will have to be wood instead (which doesn't burn as well in an open fire, better in a woodburner of course)

We had a kitchen stove that heated the hot water for the bath - yes to once a week, because it took all week to collect enough to burn to make enough hot water for that bath! My London grandparents had the same system. Central heating was put into our house in the mid 70s - grandparents (either set) never got it.

London grandparents used to get a delivery of coal for the fires, and coke for the boiler. Separate coal bunkers! We had the same at our house until the central heating went in. Can't even get coal now, as far as I know - not the real stuff, anyway. I live in Australia now, in a massive coal-production area - and WE can't get coal either, it all goes to the power stations or abroad to China and India, to their power stations.

I worry for my family in the UK, especially over the electricity bills - especially my Dad. It's an old, cold house he lives in - no double glazing or anything.

I'm rambling a bit - have crossed thought trains onto the rising power bills thread too.

@Sparklingbrook

Turn your papers over, you have two hours...

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack ...

Rancid I was trying to do a funny essay question, should have learned not to!

I remember going to someone's house for dinner and having Arctic roll. So exciting.

These are what toughened us up as kids. Suck the damn things until they were only a molecule thick then they'd slice open the roof of your mouth 😱

Oooooh! Spangles

I am sure I used to shave my tongue with them

If these are the years of the Arctic Roll, at least there's a Vienetta revival to look forwards to.

Be still my beating heart!

And Angel Delight!!!!

Tinned fruit cocktail with evap!?!?!?!

OMG!