To be annoyed by the 'in my day' comments

[Citycat1]

I'm 40, and it seems I am encountering more and more comments from people above 60 saying life was so different 'in their day'

Examples:
L.A issue a heat warning on FB. Relative starts a rather negative reply about how in their day, in the summer of '76 they used common sense. Yes, I get it, and I LOVE the heat, but there are many vulnerable people that may suffer or end up in a&e and the NHS is put under strain. I'm thinking frail elderly as one example group. So I cab see why warnings are in place.

My DD currently has chicken pox. I ask a lady (staff in boots) for some zinc oxide cream. She says there's no calamine lotion. I explain politely that actually that's not recommended anymore as it dries the skin and makes itching worse. I get 'in my day it was fine' and a roll of the eyes.

My mum regularly tells me how things in the 70's were so much better. I'm sure some things were....but some were not. And to berate my whole generation because you don't understand the next one is belittling.

I'm sure it happens in each generation but it just irks me. Or AIBU and things really were better 'in their day ?

Things were different back 'in the day' and I find it interesting to hear about those differences.

Many things were better. Many things were worse

I am not going to read the whole thread as just a glance at it and I can see its filled with ageism.

I'm only late 30s but occasional find myself thinking " we just got on with it 15-20 years ago" particularly with regards to some aspects of parenting.

Things change. Some things are better. Some worse.

My nieces post and share some crap. Usually about 'how much better it was when we left the house at 7am and didn't come home till dinner time blah blah' they are in their 30s. They did none of that.

1976 was miserable as hell. It wasn't as hot as now but it was more prolonged. Schools definitely closed, water ban, burns etc

1971 was also hot, I was 10yrs old and wheeled into the garden with a few plaster casts on, stitches and bandages having been in a road accident, mum said it was healthy! No hats, no sunscreen.

We all remember the bits we want, I don't say 'in my day' very often but I'm pretty sure our children will also be saying it to theirs in yrs to come.

OMG, I'm with you, OP.

Fits into with 'pregnancy is not an illness' brigade.

It effin is for some people!

Which groups were associated with Yacht Rock pit of interest

Not Sailor (joke)

Things weren't better then
Things aren't better now
Things are just different

(I do remember mid 70s with the tar on the road sticking to the soles of my sandals, getting a row having to pick the tar off them)

It's the same with people talking about 50s wives. 50s wives had a full time job looking after the home with virtually no appliances. Things we take for granted now took up all their time.

We didn't have a fridge days like this the milkman would deliver the milk and it would be going off before we could use it. Lots of things like that are so much better now.

The intriguing one I heard, was they did not have sun cream years ago, and survived, so why do we need it today. It's like omg 😲

Music has 100% been better in previous decades, as pp have said. And that wasn't "in my day" but I'd totally accept that from someone who lived through the years of Hendrix, the Doors, Janis Joplin, the Beatles, Clapton, Santana, Pink Floyd, etc etc and then again even for grunge and indie in the 90s. Oof and back to the 70s for Ska and Punk.

We've got Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift. Not really the same is it.

I'm oldish and we had suncream.

Everyone does it, you might too one day.

It used to annoy the hell out of me. Sadly I now find myself sometimes literally biting my own lip off to prevent me from coming out with it! I think it’s a gene that kicks in when you reach a certain age! Give it 10 years and you will find out. By the way 80s music though? It really was better in my day 😂

38-40 is quite a big difference. Things actually stop working in this country…

@UWhatNow I am not stuck in the past of any of that music - I was too young for all of it! And sought it out above and beyond any newer offerings because subjectively (eg to me!), it's better. I do enjoy quite a lot of newer music coming through, but I don't think it's arrogant to suggest that those big seismic cultural musical movements haven't been matched in a couple of decades.

I do agree.
My teenage years where the 80s and to me that's the best decade .

It reminds me of young carefree days,boys and finding my feet.

The music now to me is boring somewhat.
Ed Sheeran, Taylor swift and Adele are so middle of the road.
And safe.
Not really what the music of your youth is supposed to be.