Let's go back to the days when . . .

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What would you like to go back to?

Example

When I was young you could turn up at your GP without an appointment and sit in the waiting room and wait to be seen. These open visits ran from 8am to 10am. After that the doctor would start their rounds.

I can't remember the last time a doctor made a house call.

Urgent appointments at my practice are like hens teeth. If you call at 8am there's already a queue of 30 people waiting to snap up the available appointments, then you have to phone back at 1pm to try again.

At least the old way you got to see a doctor on the day you were ill, even if you did have to wait for an hour. ( nowadays even a booked appointment can see you wait an hour anyway)

When jobs like park keepers and tea ladies existed - when companies were run for employees rather than shareholders.
When councils provided swimming pools and libraries and community centres.
When high streets had family run shops, not the same homogeneous chains.

What's bitter and horrible about it? Sounds like the opposite to me 🤔

We can't really time travel back. It's just wistful nostalgic yearnings for the positive things we might miss from the past. We know it wasn't perfect. Of course not.

This thread is really not showing a good side of some posters

Yes, this!

Did you mean to quote something? 😀

I'm not bitter, I'm just fucking tired of all the bullshit these days.

No matter what age you go too there is bad and there is good.

But I can be nostalgic and think of when I was young, watching trainspotting, drinking with friends, dancing like a fool to Bartender and the Thief. Not everything was perfect in the late 90s.
But not everything is perfect now, now is far shitter than it should be. We're supposed to improve things with every passing year, not make things worse.

When I felt optimistic about the future of the country

a time before social media ie the likes of Facebook and Instagram. So many people literally live to get content for these apps to get likes it’s quite sad. I’m glad I’m off them!

When we weren't so over-populated, so you could pretty easily find a house/flat to rent, where you didn't have to queue everywhere, where you didn't have to wait weeks for a GP, dentist or even optician appointment, when garages and tradesmen weren't booked up for weeks/months in advance, where you could actually park your car, where you could get a bus or train and not have to stand. Too many people has really screwed things up in a very short space of time!

Life before the Internet

What if the poster is? That’s her opinion and believe it or not people can have opinions that are not “popular” in 2023.

Schools used to be a place where children attended to be educated and not behave like animals. Teaching staff or anyone working in education were respected, without the fear of intimidation from pupils and their parents. Anyone working in education these days must feel they are walking on eggshells, there is absolutely no discipline in the majority of schools.

We have become a society that has become somewhat deluded in believing educational
standards have rose, they really have not in the majority of cases.

Parents seem to put more emphasis on purchasing the latest high tech phone for dd or ds, instead of putting the time, effort or paying for private tuition to enable and help children advance in subjects they find difficult.

The amount of posts regarding school
gate mums, is a sad indictment of superficial appearances and petty playground politics.

If your child had ambitions to go into higher education, in the past it would involve a disciplined routine of studying and revision. These days it would seem the main criteria for higher education for many is not on what the university has to offer more about the location of said establishment. With the introduction of what can be termed as “soft subject degrees” it is regarded by many as a 3 year party ride.
Until the ride stops, and the realisation will hit that there are very few opening positions in those fields.

Education used to be education in the past, in many cases these days it’s a glorified baby sitting club for badly behaved children who’s handwriting is barely decipherable, who are more interested in TikTok than being able to read.

No I am not condoning corporal punishment, what I am condoning is lazy and deluded parenting, who in the future will look to blame anybody and everybody for their children’s failure to fulfil their dreams and ambitions.

Better education in the past definitely superior to the majority of educational establishments today.

Before you were ID'd trying to go for a drink if you were in your late teens or early 20s

It’s been said I know! But I hate smart phones and social media! The way we’ve become so used to information and news constantly being fed into our brains! It’s such an unhealthy way to live! I think it has a huge huge impact on mental health! So with that said I’d go back to 80s or early 90s!
I feel sad for the children of today how they spend more time behind a screen than we did growing up! I don’t think times are changing for the better, I think we are going to sadly have more depressed teens and young adults in the future.
As a child we’d go out in the morning, call for your friends by knocking on the door, and would be out all day until it was going dark, with a bit of money for lunch, that we’d obviously spend on sweets, or chocolates. Then as it was starting to go dark I’d leg it home, have tea and sleep so well! They were good times!

There wasn't just Marvel films on that cinema.

Try again....yes this!

When you could get a mortgage for 1.5%

I am loving this thread...

I want to go back to when I go out clubbing from Thursday through to Sunday. I could dance all night get home have a shower, a strong black coffee then head out for a full days work. Saturday would be spent shopping - Ridley Road, Roman Road, Fonthill Road - for the outfit to wear that night.

Mid 80's would do me. Oh to have the energy of being young!

Really? Seriously? When there isn’t even a definition of what a woman is anymore?

Loved it when men groped my arse and made comments at me at work and there was nothing I could do

Loved it when I was sexually abused by the local paedo and everyone just accepted that he was a weirdo

Loved it when teachers hit children at school

Loved it when women didn't have the vote

Loved it when women couldn't get mortgages without men

Oh the good times

Really? Seriously? When there isn’t even a definition of what a woman is anymore?

I'm thinking your the young one? Have you any idea about how little value women had without men?

When council houses hadn’t been sold off…..

When NHS staff/teachers /police were respected and appreciated

when I could see Bands in the top 10 at my local student union bar for £3

When half a cider was 50p in the student union bar!

To the sort of lives we had around the mid 90’s probably

You were known as Mrs X or Miss Y and Mr D. My Nan was always referred to as Mrs (Name) and we all callled her friend Mrs (name). I'm 50 and not one otoubger person has called me Miss X it's always Ben hi DD/DS mun

So it’s better now that men can decide they are women at the drop of a hat , invade women’s spaces, play in women’s sports and women are now called ‘womb havers’ or ‘menstruators’?

Christ I should reread before I hit bloody send