to want to go on a visit to the 70s

[morningtoncrescent62]

I'm not dewy-eyed about the 1970s, and I know it was a time of unchecked sexism, racism, homophobia etc., with levels of child abuse that are only now becoming evident. I don't want everything to go back to how it was then. But I do sometimes feel left behind and overwhelmed by how much has changed since I was growing up - a bit like having culture shock when you go to an unfamiliar country. I just long to have a couple of weeks in the early 70s. I'll sing a few New Seekers songs, hang out on a picket line for a bit, do some shopping in Woolworths and C&As and then I'll come back and get on with my life here. AIBU?

Yanbu... Pipperdee pyjams to keep you warm.. Proper weather , bloody lovely simple living, potatoe strike..living on smash , Yep, Sunday's were peaceful , roasts dinners , family time and camping.. Never went abroad .
Yes times must have been harder but we appreciated what we had... I miss the loving times sitting at the table all together for a meal .. Times have changed , bit sad

To be fair, from what I can make out of seventies culture, although he was a depressing reminder of attitudes that were, from what people say, very common in the seventies, I think Alf Garnett was a satirical parody of a racist sexist man. His function therefore wouldn't be to condone those attitudes but to provide a context in which to counter him and those kinds of attitudes. But watching that character can't have been comfortable for anyone who had to deal with people like that in real life.

Iced Alf Garnett was written as a parody, but condoned by most viewers.

Well yes, he wouldn't have been very useful as a satire if those views didn't exist in real life. There are a lot of, let's say, not very perceptive people who are unable to see that while Alf Garnett the character was on their side, nobody involved in making the programme was on Alf Garnett's side. The programme takes the mick out of the socialist character too, and while I'm a socialist I can tell when I'm being taken the mick out of, and that some of the hypocrisies that are being criticised in him are common among us

The YouTube comments on episodes of Till Death can be extremely depressing, though. Lots of nasty comments from people who don't get (and don't want to get) that it's a satire.