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)

Yeah and so … what?

You want to go back to the 1960s so you don’t see fat people?

I mean, I do get some nostalgia. I for one would love to go to the Body Shop and buy some ice blue shampoo and I’d like to have the figure and skin I did in 1995, but of all the reasons to go back in time ‘so I don’t see a FAT person’ is fucking bananas 😂

Before 24 hr cctv tracking and digital monitoring was a thing. You can't go or be anywhere now without being tracked in some way or another.

I'd go back to the 70s before comprehensive schools thrashed our once-excellent schools system. Yes, it wasn't perfect, but it did what it said on the tin. The obvious problems of selection by test at 10 years old could have been dealt with by fairer methods and "secondary moderns" could have been beefed up to include better options for those who could stretch to O and A levels, either by teaching those or having a workable method of changing schools from a sec mod to a grammar for those who were later developers academically etc. There would have been ways to make the older system work rather than scrapping it all.

The current disastrous shortage of the trades and other "manual workers" can be traced right back to comprehensives and the lie at the time that all kids would get a "grammar" education at your local comp! By encouraging the lie that all kids could get O levels, A levels and ultimately degrees, (well they can, because we've devalued them so much, but they mean less now), we've screwed the education system and screwed the employment system too. We've ended up with kids being led up the garden path believing they were on the road to top jobs, but ending up with a degree but still working in shops or call centres, then going home to find they can't find someone to fix their leaky tap or repair their roof.

Nothing wrong at all with learning a trade, but schools (and parents) have had a few decades of spouting the nonsense that their "little Jimmy is too good to get his hands dirty", when in reality, as we now see, it's often decent skilled tradesmen who are the ones earning good money, and not Jeremy with his degree making coffees all day on minimum wage!

We really threw the baby out with the bathwater when we scrapped sec mods and grammars instead of dealing with the undeniable problems with selection too early and lack of options afterwards. But, as usual, lazy politicians took the easy option and the public fell for the "grammar for all" lies!

1986 for me please, as one way ticket.

We didn't drive everywhere

I'm with everyone who thinks the mid 90's were the best time to be a teenager.

You only have to look at clothes sizes. A size ten now is not what a size ten was in the seventies even. If you watch old tv shows the women were much slimmer. The men too. Women had smaller busts in general too.

Too many seriously overweight children now, that’s shocking. Rewind 40 years & didn’t go to primary with any overweight kids & secondary there were very few, primary now is full of fat kids…that’s shocking

Did I say I was amazed at the fact that obesity was far less prevalent? No, I didn't - I said I was amazed at posters trying to claim that no-one was ever overweight in previous decades, when in my experience, although it obviously wasn't as prevalent, there were overweight people. Are you incapable of reading a post beyond the first sentance?

No. Bullying and sexual abuse were accepted as part of life back then

When the roads had barely any cars on them. We used to travel from Staffordshire to the Sussex coast and barely see any other cars. There were no traffic jams, you could pull in at the side of any road for a picnic. You could always find a parking space, there was barely any street furniture (signs, lights etc..) This was the late 1970s. It was quiet.

When insects and other wildlife were abundant. Bees, beetles, grubs, butterflies in their hundreds, swallows, bats, dragonflies, thrushes, hedgehogs, ladybirds.

When people dressed up to go out - both in everyday life and for special occasions. Dresses or shirts and trousers to go to the shops, suits and special outfits for christenings/weddings/funerals etc..

People being quiet and respectful in public.

This in a nutshell.

Everything is so difficult now due to overpopulation.

We weren't that far away from rationing I'm the 60s (ended in '54) so people were used to less food. Plus there was a lot less choice and food was seasonal. Also nowadays the food industry pumps a lot of shit into our food..palm oil etc.
A lot of the smaller busts thing is down to boob jobs, IMO. They're so mainstream now.

No one said there wasn’t a single fat person around then, you must surely have understood what they meant 🙄

Doctors do house visits every day. Where I work there are at least three per day, sometimes ten. Obviously if you can get to the surgery you don't get a visit.

Not just boob jobs but the pill and HRT - both made my boobs gigantic. I had boobs like Pamela Anderson when i was on Logynon.

Yes mine increased in size on the pill and never went down to their original size either .

When there were no mobile phones and nobody (work emails, family/friends messages) expected you to be on call 24/7.
Pay phones to talk when out and proper books to research a topic.

I yearn for this.

Small problem that my job wouldn't really exist

We love in a time when everybody has a phone, yet it's impossible to phone a company and actually speak to a human. 'Listen to the following options ' makes me crazy, and they seem to have largely done away with the 'speak to an operator ' option.