What's been lost

[rary]

Today while driving in the car the music for the film The Big Country was being played and listening to it took me back to seeing it in the cinema, I remember fantastic vistas in cinemascope while the music was adding to the splendour, I asked my wife if she remembered watching the film, which she did, and I thought that the grandchildren are missing out in this splendour, as nowadays it's in the home with DVDs, which by the way I am not criticizing as I think the cost of going to the pictures is ridiculous, plus in a lot of areas there are no cinemas locally, in my era there were 5 cinemas in a 7 mile radius, now they are all gone, all lost, and thinking on that made me wonder what other things that you might think has been lost to folks nowadays

[veggiechicken]

I don't wish to imply anything about your age, rary, but TV and DVD's hadn't been invented when you were first married, let alone when you were a child. I'm surprised it wasn't a silent movie!!
All the local cinemas have closed here too - just the multi screen places are open.

To me, people have lost their freedom and independence. Everyone, including children, seems to have mobile phones and can always be contacted and tracked down. We could go out for the day and nobody would know where we were except we'd be back for tea.

[rary]

VC I have had a TV in the house since I was 7 years of age, and yes you are right freedom has been lost with the phone, I remember my mother being asked if she wasn't worried by my brother and I being out all day, and her answer was, " no they always turn up for tea" and I never found out if it was a or a

[Jungle Jane]

I do like being able to phone my daughter & know she’s safe when she’s out past midnight,I worry sometimes,I know she’s safe tonight they’re getting a lift home with a friend,sometimes she phones me for a lift,it’s handy for all I don’t like the tracking apps people deserve freedom. Our old cinema from my childhood changed into a Wetherspoons decades ago. We were without a cinema here for about twenty years,then a few years ago they built a shopping centre with cinema & bowling,they’ve built about fifty million extra houses here too. Kids around here have more choices of things to do locally than when I was young. I went to the cinema with my daughter the other day £4.20 for one pepsi I couldn’t believe it & I told them that & repeated the price in an astounded voice to double check. My daughter gets embarrassed by me sometimes but it’s funny

[chillithyme]

My younger sister gets embarrassed by me, the other day I was really hot and went through a drive through, everything cold had run out so thought I'd ask for a cup of ice, she was mortified,haha.

I don't like that kids and adults including me are glued to our devices, I've been round to friends and everybody is sat using them when we could be well not using them and interacting. Good for checking up on each other, but shouldn't be used for every aspect of life I think. I occasionally use online maps, but prefer to check it up and try routes the good old way, it helps to create new routes through synapses in the brain and maintain them as we get older, it would be a shame to lose it and is something that is beneficial for all of us. The same was said to me about using calculators at school, to prove my point I'm ok at maths, im sure I would be better if I hadn't relied on the calculator, the only time I can do maths is when working out a discount in a sale
I also agree with being independent and having freedom.
Having said that my neighbour is great, her kids only have limited time on devices etc, the rest of the time they're in the garden or the park. Difficult to juggle with work etc, but the kids love it

[burnie]

Only thing is, we had less nasties and weirdos around when I was a yoof then nowadays, you could not let a 10 year old get on a train on his own whilst he went off train spotting all over the Midlands. One you'd probably be arrested for child neglect and two you might not see them again. Modern tech is here to stay, we might as well embrace it, though why you would want to track your kids is beyond me, it's not like you can react, only after the event, which seems pointless.

[Small pumpkin]

Manners and respect

[Miss Mousetrousers]

There seems to be a total loss of the simplest things that you so enjoyed in your childhood. The cinema was a real treat with all its regal splendour and the rather faded curtains, the choc ice lady, the funny intermission ads, and the B film they showed beforehand. Being trusted to go out to a dance on your own followed by the embarrassment when your dad came to pick you up before it had finished. I understand that technology in all its aspects has changed our lives, but it should not make us like robots who cannot live for 10 minutes without looking to see if they have any messages on their smartphones. Perhaps someone could do a documentary for the TV where these people are put on a Scottish island to see how they react and if they're any better for it.

[rary]

Did they show two different films in the one showing in the past Snoop?,,,,,,,

[Lumpy]

Saturday morning pictures that’s the way forward.
Ongoing series starring something that looked like a dumpling but was meant to be an out of space alien.

[Jungle Jane]

Did they show two different films in the one showing in the past Snoop?,,,,,,,

I can’t see Snoops post but with our previous cinema,I don’t remember much I was young but there was only one screen so not much choice

[1Bee]

The funny thing is there AREN'T more wierdos and nasties around these days. Statistically those children out playing away from home were more at risk of being abused and murdered at home, or with people they knew, than out and about. That's still true today. We're just a lot more aware. As for accidental deaths, children are a lot safer these days.

My children have vastly more freedom than I did. Given that they're 7 and 4 I still need to be with them, or, with the 7yo, know where he is and who he's with, but they can play in the river, visit their mates, play on the sports field, go puddle jumping down the lonning, dig holes at the plot... and the things they get taken to are lightyears away from the rusty swings and chained-off slide of my youth. Trampoline parks, soft play, caving adventure, small animal zoos, mountains, lakes, rivers, castles, trails, adventure play, zip wires...

There's still a lot that's been lost, especially in the local shops and high streets, I think. But I don't think this will matter to my children, who will grow up in a different world than we did. When they are grown, they'll be considering which electric auto-car to buy, which chip and pin to have implanted in their hand, and whether biometric security really works...

Many times I've tried to recreate happy childhood experiences of my own (often without realising that was what I was doing) my children have surprised me in finding a different aspect of it to enjoy and engage with. They are not me. Thank heavens.

The stories they tell of their childhood to (god willing) their children will be different ones. But they will be no less rich.

[1Bee]

And slime.

We never made slime when I was a kid.

Slime is awesome...

[Miss Mousetrousers]

When our niece brings her daughter for a visit, she likes nothing more than my OH stuffing little soft toys down a long cardboard tube then he puts a smaller one in and wacks them out the other end. We have a wind-up old cardboard musical box which has a clown that dances to the theme tune from the film "The Sting" which she always gets out and has a dance. We let her help to put new potatoes in a carrier bag when we dig them up, feed our cats, the hens, and the outdoor fish, pick fruit from the currant bushes, samples some of our strawberries or raspberries if we have any, and she goes home a very happy little girl. All we hope is that these memories will stay in her mind no matter what the future brings.

[Scarlet]

There’s a lovely cinema in Bath, it’s not used by the “youngsters” it has a selection of films that are a little different...( the last couple I’ve been to are live screenings of ballet - I’ve never been able to dance, but love to watch and the costumes are fabulous -I have a love of theatre design). They sell wine too