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To having been born in the 1970s and see how much the world has changed?

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Deeperthantheocean · 01/08/2024 23:23

Yes, so a '70s child so have lived through everything beyond the days of MN world, with advice and experiences of parents and grandparents.

I feel so fortunate to have embraced technology. I am in awe of how the world has been revolutionised it as mostly to the greater good of mankind in many ways.

Just from a personal perspective, I feel it's so sad that the school playgrounds we used to go to to play the sports with our friends are all now barricaded, the youth clubs we went to and had a 10p drink and 12p bag of crisps for a night our aged 13, also the innocent early 1980s school discos we did just dance and had fun with our dowdy outfits. My Mum made me a rara skirt from an old skirt to look more modern, amazing talent among so many others.

So, back to my title, oh boy the works has changed so much! My generation knows how much our parents' generation had it hard and those before then so much harder. Poverty was working to be able to work and buy food on rations, that was women also.

Now we do generally have to work as parents but please don't forget our Mums and grandmother's also did, but after looking after children. Unsociable hours, after hours, basically anytime husbands were home to listen out for anything.

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Timeisnevertimeatall · 01/08/2024 23:27

It was 50 years ago, not 100, no need for so much sepia tinged nostalgia!! I'm a 70s baby and you make it sound like the olden days.

Zonder · 01/08/2024 23:30

I'm older than you and don't share your rose coloured glasses.

Deeperthantheocean · 01/08/2024 23:30

Sorry, I do see some grammatical errors, please forgive. I do only look and post after a few sherbets as when in the daily stress of life I just don't the time or energy to engage. Xx

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Sugarlily · 01/08/2024 23:33

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bergamotorange · 01/08/2024 23:33

It wasn't better, you were just younger!

EmeraldRoulette · 01/08/2024 23:34

@Deeperthantheocean Not sure what you’re trying to say but I’m really struggling with tech aspects. Even the creators of AI are starting to say they feel they created a monster.

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That sounds right to me for youth clubs in the 80s? Maybe 20p?

Sugarlily · 01/08/2024 23:36

@EmeraldRoulette i wasn’t arguing about the price of a bag of crisps….

startstopengine · 01/08/2024 23:39

Be nice! The OP was just having a nice time remembering the simply times, grouchy bunch this evening.

And also a 70s baby here.

sleekcat · 01/08/2024 23:39

I mean, I’m sure I do remember buying crisps for 10p in the early 80s…

EmeraldRoulette · 01/08/2024 23:40

Sugarlily · 01/08/2024 23:36

@EmeraldRoulette i wasn’t arguing about the price of a bag of crisps….

What are you arguing about and why are you arguing?

Screamingabdabz · 01/08/2024 23:41

I was born in the early 70s and virtually everything from that era makes me shudder and cringe. I do appreciate some things were more wholesome and organic back then but I’m very much choosing to live in the present.

EmeraldRoulette · 01/08/2024 23:41

sleekcat · 01/08/2024 23:39

I mean, I’m sure I do remember buying crisps for 10p in the early 80s…

Discos were 10p I think? They were the cheapest ones 😂

lavenderlou · 01/08/2024 23:42

I was born in the 70s. Some things were better - a lot of things were worse. It's normal to look back on your childhood with rose-tinted glasses. My DC have had some experiences that were very similar to my childhood (toys, books, holidays, activities) and things that are very different, especially technology.

Some things were terrible in the 70s though - women were for the most part still very dependent on men, there was a lot of neglectful parenting, schools were pretty rubbish - especially if you had any additional needs. Im

IneedAbiggerWindchime · 01/08/2024 23:42

I'm a 70s baby and I was never allowed to go to youth clubs anyway. The world has changed a lot, agree there. I'm glad some social issues and attitudes have changed and I love the access to information now but, on the whole, I do wonder if things were a bit better when life was simpler (before the internet).

JuneSoon · 01/08/2024 23:43

startstopengine · 01/08/2024 23:39

Be nice! The OP was just having a nice time remembering the simply times, grouchy bunch this evening.

And also a 70s baby here.

I know. Don't know why people are being so obnoxious.

SocksAndTheCity · 01/08/2024 23:43

EmeraldRoulette · 01/08/2024 23:41

Discos were 10p I think? They were the cheapest ones 😂

And Space Raiders 👍

sleekcat · 01/08/2024 23:44

EmeraldRoulette · 01/08/2024 23:41

Discos were 10p I think? They were the cheapest ones 😂

I think Snaps were 10p too? 🤣

Sugarlily · 01/08/2024 23:46

@EmeraldRoulette arguing in the debating sense of the word. As in positing an argument.

that those born in the mid 70’s were like 18 in 1993 which wasn’t the kind of age the op was positioning as hanging out in youth clubs and at playgrounds.

Persiancouscous · 01/08/2024 23:48

Everyone striked in the 70s, power cuts, no bin collections etc.

Poverty were people didn't have carpets, shoes, nicked each others milk.

Everyone smoked, the average age of death was much younger.

Ira and bombings/ shootings

Sounds like a dream 😂

BigLicks · 01/08/2024 23:50

Yep space raiders were 10p in 1994 at my high school

Chocolatewafflesforbreakfast · 01/08/2024 23:52

I was born late 70’s, space raiders were indeed 10p and 10p mixes

Sublunar · 01/08/2024 23:58

I love seventies Ikea although it’s way out of my price range to collect many pieces. Also love so much of the fashion and music of the 70s. Both my parents worked and socialised hard and I don’t relate to the women and domesticity thing, maybe that was an earlier generation? Sounds Victorian, the Angel in the house.

MerylSqueak · 02/08/2024 00:02

Oh give over with your 10p being the cheapest crisps!

I was born in 1973 and I could save 10p of my lunch money and buy me and my friend a 5p bag each from our newsagents on the way home.

They were quite small though.

Doubleender · 02/08/2024 00:08

Yeah the 80s were great. Internet and social media has ruined life as we know it. Such a shame. Life has basically been the same since the 00s, music, film etc, all the same. No more defining decades, just one worsening homogenised mess of iphones and zombie behaviour. Its absolutely awful.

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