So how's about the good old days?

[Brengirl]

Were they?

[rustylady]

In some ways yes definitely. Our kids were safer, we were safer. I could go on and on, but will wait for someone else to join in the discussion.

[FionaH]

As today is the only day I've got I will stay in it thanks Not much point to harking back to "better times"

Fairly sure this topics been done a few times.

[Hilary B]

There were good things we seem to have lost. There were also some bad things we have lost.

[Alison]

In some ways yes definitely. Our kids were safer, we were safer. I could go on and on, but will wait for someone else to join in the discussion.

I'd disagree that we were safer but we didn't have papers shouting "DANGER" at us all the time which was definitely a bonus.

Seriously though, some things were better, some things worse and that's about all you can say with any certainty.

[Florence Fennel]

The TV programme certainly was. Leonard Sachs, I think, was chairman. Seem to remember something about "Chiefly Yourselves" catch phrase. Watched it with my mum when I was little while she was ironing and I grew up knowing all the words to the oldest music hall songs and still do!

[Hilary B]

The TV programme certainly was. Leonard Sachs, I think, was chairman. Seem to remember something about "Chiefly Yourselves" catch phrase. Watched it with my mum when I was little while she was ironing and I grew up knowing all the words to the oldest music hall songs and still do!

Oh yes! Me too (but then I knew a lot of them for other reasons.....)

[jacob marley]

They was the good old days really you know the pace off life was a lot less stressful no mobile phones four pennies in the slot time for people without home phones .
No health and safety wallas the only people that knocked your door were Indian chaps with a turban and a suitcase other people just knocked and walked in with a cup for some sugar .
No Supermarkets just corner shops and village bakerys i remember going shoping with mother and watching the shop owner cutting up the cheese it used to fascinate me and weighing up the loose sugar into blue paper bags .
so for me it the good old days . jacob

[Nicos]

If I'd lived in the 1800's I'd have already died several times over

...wouldn't have been good for me...I clearly needed modern medicine to survive

[Snadger]

If I'd lived in the 1800's I'd have already died several times over

...wouldn't have been good for me...I clearly needed modern medicine to survive

And if you'd been a caveman/woman you'd be dead more often!

[bearded bloke]

Six of one & half a dozen of the other,except we have gone metric which makes the dozen is a thing of the past so we need a 21st century version .......... Fifty percent of one & half of the other perhaps ......... I miss the simplicity with which I viewed life in my youth,but enjoy the bounds in technology that I have in my senior years

[lizzylemon]

Im with Nicos on this one, would have been dead at least 7 years ago without modern medicine, and I talking medicine from the last 20 years, so no, not better.

[Headfry]

I often wonder if we took away the news papers, radio and tv - would we all feel more relaxed? Yes I love to learn from the above but so much 'news' is focused on the depressing issues of life - swine flu coverage - need I say more? even to a point the recession- yes it was/is bad and I was certainly touched by it, but how much was down to the media setting in the panic aspect?
Good old days? as said before- some bits were so much better but some parts were dire!

[jackie j]

Some were good others not so. I lost my dad at an early age - not good, we had fun care free days on the beach, didnt see the danger, we were allowed to go off to the park, ride our bikes, skip on the street, rope tied to a lamp post across the road, couldnt do that now. Money was tight, still is.
Lots of things I would change with hindsight, but go back, no way.

[Polly Fouracre]

I fancy that one only remembers the good times and forgets the bad.