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)

This has made me depressed.

Life is so shit now. Our town is a mess. Graffiti, litter, pot holes in the roads, uncut grass verges, cars everywhere, front gardens all paved over, boarded up shops...and I live in an affluent town.

When the bus was 40p
and phone boxes were 20p
When we all had Nokia 3310s or no phones at all
Going to the library to photocopy info for a school project because no one had a printer or internet

Exactly 👏👏👏👏

Men didn’t go into a bank with a big sign round their neck you know saying ‘I’m gay’. It would be obvious if a woman was a woman though.

As per my other thread... when you could have a night out for a fiver...

Cheap nights out - how things have changed!

I know the past wasn't all great, but things are supposed to improve with the passage of time and, in many ways, I think we've failed at that. The Internet causes so many problems; readily available porn in the hands of children, people trying to outdo each other for likes on Facebook, unrealistic or downright fake 'my life' posts on Instagram, bad news24/7. Terrible for our mental health and downright dangerous, abusive sexual practices being routinely expected of girls. People being ostracised or losing jobs just for expressing valid opinions etc.

I'm happy to have a bit of lighthearted reminiscing about the good bits of the past to keep spirits up. I'd go back to life before the internet and before computers did away with so many jobs. Before rolling news coverage. When sitcoms were funny (I miss you - To The Manor Born, The Good Life, Hi De Hi). Even to having to get up to change the channel on the telly!

You must be as old as me !

You could afford a house on one salary.

A mum could stay home with the kids if she wanted to without struggling financially.

Internet wasn't so ubiquitous. Still there but not in our pockets always.

When you could actually access medical care!! My GP is actually fine but I've been on a waiting list for a year to see a gynaecologist for what is a very life altering problem.

If you cannot afford private you are just left 😞😞

1999 for me!

When a bag of crisps wasn't two thirds air

When Terry's Neapolitan chocolates existed

When a child could tell their parents "I think I'm really a girl or boy" and the parents would be able to say "well, you're not" and everyone carried on with their day

That's a good point. Homophobia was rampant and also women and children had fewer rights generally speaking. I'm still shocked that it took until the 1990s for marital rape to be illegal.

SM didn’t exist..£50 was more than a decent night out..people could be kind without suspicion…you could say what you felt without being judged for being rude..fake tan was acceptable regardless of how bad it was applied

Just come to Alum Rock. You'll see plenty of people parked where they want. Completely blocking the pavement, on the double yellows, right on the corner of the junction, on the narrow bit of the road leaving no space for a fire engine to pass, and if you go a bit further away you can probably find someone parked on the centre island of a roundabout.

Rant over.

Anyway, I wouldn't mind going back to the days when hackers were some kid in a basement with loads of intelligence and no wisdom, not foreign governments attacking us in an undeclared war.

On the other hand, I'm glad we're NOT still in the era of blaming "single mothers" for all of society's ills. The 90s were awful for that. It was always blaming the women and ignoring the behaviour of the fathers who as often as not had got a woman pregnant then ditched her.

2016, my dad died the year after so I would send that whole year with him and spoiling him rotten so he'd know what he meant to me. I wouldn't go back to any other time as life on this planet has shit points no matter which era you're in. Would be nice to be allowed to be a woman by virtue of birth again without being called entitled though.

@Wherestheheatwave i do know men didn’t go into a bank with a sign saying they were gay. The point was, they couldn’t be ‘out’ and live a ‘normal’ life without prejudice and without discrimination.

I do know the trans stuff is very worrying and I am certainly not in any way flippant about the implications for women. That doesn’t mean the past was some sort of blissful nirvana where women’s rights were upheld. In many ways I think that’s one of the important factors in the ongoing debate. Women have rights that are hard fought for. Women identifying as men want to access these rights, and as women we are seen as the party with privilege who must cede to these demands to ease their suffering.

That aside, it is a bit of a worry how many are disgusted by the sight of an overweight person and wish to go back to the past so they don’t have to clap eyes on them

Oh yes, please take me back to those times! A quality drama would do, there is no need for darkness.

Also as another poster said, a time when people had a backbone and weren't emotionally incontinent.

A time when you didn't have to think about every word you uttered in case someone was offended.

These "people weren't overweight" posts amaze me. I'm in my 60s and both my GMs were on the large size, and they weren't the only people I knew who were. There certainly weren't as many overweight people, but not everyone was stick thin either.

Take me back to the 70s/80s any day, when we just enjoyed life without having to put everything on social media.

I'm only mid 20's but I'd love to go back to the days when we went to blockbuster and picked out ps/ps2 games and a family movie and then got an asda make your own pizza for tea on a saturday and went home to watch xfactor and then whatever film we chose from blockbuster.
Also the days of fun cheap holidays and the growth of the computer and the transition to the touchscreen phone. Also being able to go to the cinema to see the new harry potter films and then the top 40 charts being brilliant every week and chris moyles being on radio 1 breakfast.

How can the fact that obesity was far far less prevalent “amaze” you?? 🤔

Look up the statistics if you don’t believe it.

Can’t speak for PP but it doesn’t amaze me. It’s just that of all the things I’d like to do a time travel for, not offending my eyes in case they see a fat person really isn’t one of them!

The media/society doesn't need single mothers any more. They've got benefit claimants, the disabled, immigrants and asylum seekers to hate on.

Back in the 1960s only 1% of men and 2% of women in England were classed as obese compared to today's 25.2% of men and 27.7% women

You need to look up correlation and causation.