Page 38 | What do you wish people would stop romanticizing, because you’ve lived the reality of it?

Ownedbykitties · 19/04/2025 20:25

the myth that Baby Boomers had it all and life was so very easy for them.

Illegally18 · 19/04/2025 20:28

Bubblesgun · 19/04/2025 11:01

Why? I love being french and being a parisian.
i m not romantising it though. We re great people and fun, but yes we can be rude as very blunt. But every communities have their flaws. We re on the receiving end of good jokes though so you should love it.

life in paris can be very competitive and exhausting. Always have to sound and look smart, and very intellectual. We re quite judgemental too especially in the way you dress although this is changing. My mum for instance is a lot more tolerant of her grand daughters wearing leggings and hoodies outside of sport 🤣

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What you say is very true, but the rudeness is not just the bluntness ( or should I say the bluntness being rude); bluntness has its place. But, toutes les verites ne sont bonnes a dire...) . It's the desire to be disagreeable.....I can't get past the voluntarily disagreeable streak in the French nature. And, Christ, French women...not all of them of course, but so many of them are like agressive rats. When I meet a charming French woman I'm always surprised. And I'm French so I can say that.

Trolleysaregoodforemployment · 19/04/2025 20:31

Inclusion and altruism

Helen483 · 19/04/2025 20:33

Arniesaxe · 18/04/2025 13:28

To be fair I don't think people romanticise thar?

I agree totally. I remember being a teenager and smothering myself in vaseline before bed to stay warm.

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What???😲

How did that help? (Not criticising just genuinely curious)
How many tubs of vaseline did you use each week?
And didn't it make a mess of the sheets?

Helen483 · 19/04/2025 20:36

Bestbefore2030 · 18/04/2025 13:35

Schooldays are the happiest days of your life.

Absolutely! Whoever coined that phrase must have had a really sh*t life!

FozzieP · 19/04/2025 20:53

The good old days. It’s a lot better now whatever they say. Toilet at the bottom of the garden, bath in front of the fire and freezing cold in the bedrooms. You accepted it because that was how it was but no way would anyone choose to go back to that. However, it perhaps made us more resilient because we know, one way or another we’d cope if society as we know it broke down.
And no-one was fat. All through my schooldays from 4-18 I can only remember about three fat kids. They’re everywhere now.

Flossflower · 19/04/2025 20:56

MatildaTheCat · 18/04/2025 13:15

‘When I was a child we had to scrape the ice off the inside of the windows. No central heating back then!’

It was bloody miserable living in a draughty old house with minimal heating.

Yes it was horrible. Oh the cold houses. I still have the scars on my hands from chilblains I got as a child from the cold.

Wonderberry · 19/04/2025 20:59

Being a French child.

Actually we were just as naughty as anyone else (and throw in a good dose of xenophobia). Books that idolise French children and parenting are ridiculous.

ThatMellowLemonLurker · 19/04/2025 20:59

HazelMaker · 18/04/2025 13:11

The 1990s

Sorry I bloody loved the 90s. Was 15 in 1990 so the era of raves and super clubs, uni, no responsibilities. What was there not to love. All my nieces and nephews say how much they would love to have lived it. What I would do to go back just for one night 😍

PlumFairies · 19/04/2025 21:00

HazelMaker · 18/04/2025 13:11

The 1990s

I lived and loved the 90s what was wrong with them?

JHound · 19/04/2025 21:02

asrl78 · 19/04/2025 17:54

If it is that bad why are so many people married? I'd expect a country full of divorcees if marriage was really almost entirely work with little reward, that or you are doing it wrong.

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Lack of divorce does not mean a marriage is happy. And there still a lot of divorces.

Dontfencemein · 19/04/2025 21:08

Working for a charity.

Dogaredabomb · 19/04/2025 21:16

Consumption (looking at you Helen Burns).

Mo819 · 19/04/2025 21:17

Forces life
Nurseing

Dogaredabomb · 19/04/2025 21:20

FozzieP · 19/04/2025 20:53

The good old days. It’s a lot better now whatever they say. Toilet at the bottom of the garden, bath in front of the fire and freezing cold in the bedrooms. You accepted it because that was how it was but no way would anyone choose to go back to that. However, it perhaps made us more resilient because we know, one way or another we’d cope if society as we know it broke down.
And no-one was fat. All through my schooldays from 4-18 I can only remember about three fat kids. They’re everywhere now.

Look how skinny everyone was on top of the pops.

Festivespirit85 · 19/04/2025 21:23

Daisy75 · 18/04/2025 14:04

Mother and daughter relationships - and that one’s mother should be one’s best friend….

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This! It makes me cringe! Mines certainly not my best friend 🤣

Praying4Peace · 19/04/2025 21:31

eggandonion · 18/04/2025 13:50

An inheritance.
Because you are an orphan.

You can be an orphan and have no inheritance

Praying4Peace · 19/04/2025 21:34

Perfect marriages
Perfect children
Wonderful family Christmases

TOTAL BULLSHIT

BunnyLake · 19/04/2025 21:37

Flossflower · 19/04/2025 20:56

Yes it was horrible. Oh the cold houses. I still have the scars on my hands from chilblains I got as a child from the cold.

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I remember sitting in front of the only heating (a gas fire) until my legs were red and mottled. If I moved an inch further away I’d be too cold.

100PercentFaithful · 19/04/2025 21:44

Going to medical school - who in their right mind would want to be a doctor in 2025?
Doctors are absolutely brilliant people to do the job but it’s no life.

Overhaul54 · 19/04/2025 21:49

BunnyLake · 19/04/2025 21:37

I remember sitting in front of the only heating (a gas fire) until my legs were red and mottled. If I moved an inch further away I’d be too cold.

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Yes this. Also I only recently realised how impossible it was to do things like homework. One room was warm and it had sofas not the main table. It was shared by my parents siblings dogs and cats.Lovely in its way but not conductive academic study ( especially as you couldn’t move the dog lying over your legs).

Thistlewoman · 19/04/2025 21:51

pictoosh · 18/04/2025 13:36

Christmas as depicted on social media and adverts.

I'd love it if there was a national call to dial the whole thing the fuck down.

10000% this!

lifeonmars100 · 19/04/2025 22:07

BunnyLake · 19/04/2025 21:37

I remember sitting in front of the only heating (a gas fire) until my legs were red and mottled. If I moved an inch further away I’d be too cold.

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I remember that so well, only one side of your body was hot and often uncomfortably so and the non-fire side was still chilly

Thistlewoman · 19/04/2025 22:08

HazelMaker · 18/04/2025 13:11

The 1990s

Real wood floors 🤣

Sally20099 · 19/04/2025 22:12

PaintYourAssLikeRembrandt · 18/04/2025 13:17

Anything that suggests times were better when we could all have a bit of racist, sexist or homophobic "banter".

Yes, everyone used to be so racist, homophobic, sexist etc. So much nicer cancelling people for the slightest offence you might take on someone else’s behalf.