Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be

[Shadow]

I don’t want to take another thread off topic so I thought I’d start one instead.

I was typing this

a frank discussion in which all you will say is “yes sir” followed by “yes sir” followed by being on receive for an extended period in which your character, parentage, personal habits, hygiene, intelligence, taste in music, preferred sporting team and any other aspect of your existence will be called into question. You will then say “thank you sir” and march out To an extended period of no time off and permanent polishing and cleaning interspersed with guard duty and ###### jobs in the kitchens

and I found myself actually getting nostalgic for a simpler time. Having both given and received these performances I miss the clarity to life in those days.

Am I alone ? 

[ckn]

No, I miss the simpler life at times. 

I did a job straight out of uni until I could find something better, fixing computers. When I went in, they were broken, when I left they were fixed. Absolute job satisfaction because it was a binary outcome. Shockingly low pay though  

Same as in the army, sometimes going “just bloody do it” and knowing it’d be done was a simpler life. 

Then knowing that if x happened then y was the consequence regardless of intent certainly made people try harder to make sure x didn’t happen!

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Yeah I know what you mean. We had a new central heating boiler installed last week. To set the wall mounted timer you need to talk to it via your smart phone ( I haven't got one ) or your IPad ! Just crazy. All I need is for it to come on at 7.30 and go off at 10.30 then come on at 4.30 and go off at 11.00.

The plumber installing it couldn't set it and I had to call out a pal of mine who's an IT specialist to set it up ! It's great if you want to turn your heating up and down from outer space though.

It reminds me of a recent cartoon in " Private Eye ". An old guy is putting some bread into the toaster. He turns to his wife and says - " What did you say the password was for this toaster dear ? "

[graveyard johnny]

12 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Yeah I know what you mean. We had a new central heating boiler installed last week. To set the wall mounted timer you need to talk to it via your smart phone ( I haven't got one ) or your IPad ! Just crazy. All I need is for it to come on at 7.30 and go off at 10.30 then come on at 4.30 and go off at 11.00.

The plumber installing it couldn't set it and I had to call out a pal of mine who's an IT specialist to set it up ! It's great if you want to turn your heating up and down from outer space though.

It reminds me of a recent cartoon in " Private Eye ". An old guy is putting some bread into the toaster. He turns to his wife and says - " What did you say the password was for this toaster dear ? "

yep- u will need to download an app before u go for a sh...………. soon

[DavidM]

My parents are both in their 70s and the number of businesses who ring up or inform them they can or need to do this or that on the internet ... I mean really they can barely turn the telly on . And stuff gets upgraded or changed , like a benefit , to a new way of operating for your ease - but makes things more complicated for people like that who don’t like change !

[Clogiron]

2 hours ago, graveyard johnny said:

yep- u will need to download an app before u go for a sh...………. soon

Now that's one thing that will never be totally online, there's always gonna be a paper trail......

[Bleep1673]

There are certain things I miss, and certain things I can do without. I miss being able to attend RUGBY LEAGUE Games, I miss working, I miss seeing my daughter every day & cooking new ideas for her, I miss my parents, even though they passed away in 1993 & 2007. I miss foreign travel that will be harder & more expensive after BREXIT (enjoy your holiday CKN).

I don't miss booze (I've been dry for 16 months), I don't miss London (although job opportunities...), I don't miss being able to drive (Medical), I don't miss (or try not to) the seagulls when I cycling.

[tim2]

16 hours ago, graveyard johnny said:

yep- u will need to download an app before u go for a sh...………. soon

Don't get it from Apple, you'll have to pay for a new iToilet every 6 months and then it will just get stuck...

[Robin Evans]

My knees ache and I wish they wouldn't. 

The music or fashion scene isn't what is was but the food scene is immensely better, as are cinemas, cars, tech etc.

I don't miss the homophobia, racist and religious marginalised comments of my youth, but I do miss social discourse, respect and manners that (to me at least) don't seem as important now.

Lots of stuff has improved massively. My mate Brian has a 1977 Stratocaster that plays so much better than the new one his son bought. C'est la vie

[graveyard johnny]

4 hours ago, Robin Evans said:

My knees ache and I wish they wouldn't. 

The music or fashion scene isn't what is was but the food scene is immensely better, as are cinemas, cars, tech etc.

I don't miss the homophobia, racist and religious marginalised comments of my youth, but I do miss social discourse, respect and manners that (to me at least) don't seem as important now.

Lots of stuff has improved massively. My mate Brian has a 1977 Stratocaster that plays so much better than the new one his son bought. C'est la vie

I wouldn't say cars are better, maybe better built but they all look the same

[JohnM]

Cars are undoubtely better. More reliable, more durable, safer, more economic, less polution, quieter, less effort to drive.

Tvs are better, too, as are many programmes. Even the liberal left bias of the BBC is better, more subtle and more pervasive thsn ever.

However, I don't agree with the premis that nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Nostalgia is better than ever! There is a proliferation of channels devoted to old films, old sitcoms, old TOTPs etc. There are more and more museums devoted to the way things used to be, as a reminder of the bad old post war days. 

[Clogiron]

5 hours ago, graveyard johnny said:

I wouldn't say cars are better, maybe better built but they all look the same

There's a guy who drives a MK3 Ford Cortina around here, it's not what you would describe as restored show condition more 44 year old dark blue hue.  Surprised it's not rotted away by now but what really gets me is how small it looks with really small, thin wheels.  Back in the day I worked at a Ford dealers and it always looked and felt like a big car to drive then with suspension that rolled like a half full bathtub if you got a moove on, it even has the ultimate Ford item of it's time a vinyl roof so it must be a XL or GXL model, such luxury!

[Futtocks]

I may have told this tale before.

While in between jobs, I did a bit of work at a charity shop. One item we had in stock was an old 35mm camera. A teenage girl brought it up to the counter and asked how you got the pictures onto your computer, because she couldn't see a USB socket.

I explained how you got pictures off such a device and, while she seemed impressed by my archaeological knowledge, she also looked utterly appalled by the long-winded rigmarole that used to be accepted as an everyday thing not very long ago.

She didn't buy the camera. I felt very old. Taking pictures ain't what it used to be... unless you deliberately choose it to be so, of course. A week or so later, the camera was bought by a hipster type.

[tim2]

8 hours ago, graveyard johnny said:

I wouldn't say cars are better, maybe better built but they all look the same

There's no maybe about it!

 

[Wholly Trinity]

[Wiltshire Rhino]

48 minutes ago, Wholly Trinity said:

Steroids? 

[gingerjon]

10 hours ago, Futtocks said:

A week or so later, the camera was bought by a hipster type.

My proudest moment ever was when Chrissie Hynde told me I had a nice camera. Using a nice old Canonet, I was.

But, anyway, I was explaining 'how we used to take pictures' to Tiny Ginger the other day. Up to and including the stickers that Boots would put on your prints. I'm really not sure he believed me.

[Bob8]

2 minutes ago, Johnoco said:

I was gonna make exactly the same point. Minis are huge now compared with the original.

A cocuple of years ago, I saw a four door Mini parked next to an old 1950's Jeep.

They were about the same size.

[gingerjon]

4 minutes ago, Johnoco said:

Boots? Local chemist for us.

Luxury.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

This made me feel ancient. I was looking at a job a student had faced up in a lathe at the school I worked at. The finish was pretty rough so I said to the kid " You've got a finish like an LP on that job son ".

He said " What's an LP ? "

[JDINTHEHIZZOUSE]

Chips wrapped in newspapers,nuff said!

[DavidM]

Proper sized chocolate bars . Lilliputian nowadays . Yorkie ... pathetic 

[Bob8]

I am 42.  Just about old enough.

Life is far better now that twenty years ago.  Back then I had ignorant Essex ##### assuming they were smarter because they said things like "Ere, why dont you talk pwoper like wot we do". 

Back then, I need to eat a huge amount and fat people would be morally indignant that a man half their weight actually needed to eat as much as them.

Everything seems better.

Except the conversation on the rugby league forum, because I miss Mad Dai from Ponty.

[Futtocks]

All minor things for me, but life is better than ever.

An Albanian friend of mine, however, has had a bit more of a life change; he's now a happily-married and successful academic, compared to the days not all that long ago when the secret police were threatening him in the middle of the night for pulling down Stalinist statues.

It's all relative.

[JohnM]

23 hours ago, DavidM said:

Proper sized chocolate bars . Lilliputian nowadays . Yorkie ... pathetic 

Buy several!