do you remember a time when it was a better place to live

[opmania]

I remember when news agents had a stand out the front

with Papers under a rock

You took a Paper and left the money on the stand

Now days they would steal the money,the papers and the stand

and throw the rock through the window as they were running away

[opmania]

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@grace.under.water wrote:

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@opmania wrote:

I remember when gay was a girls name

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I remember when gays were treated like girls - thankgod the world has moved on, even if some here haven't!!!

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Don't gays want to be treated like girls ?

[i-need-a-martini]

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@joz*garage wrote:

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@opmania wrote:

I remember when gay was a girls name

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how long ago was that?!

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About 1913 I think.

[chuk_77]

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@opmania wrote:

not yet

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so you are making stuff up then? Not remembering the "good old days"

[opmania]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

A time when women weren't allowed to vote, indigenous people weren't classed as citizens, we deferred everything to England, divorce was illegal, unmarried mothers were ostracized, homosexuals were imprisoned.

When we had 4 channels on the TV and they all ceased at 10pm. When trains stopped at 9pm. When pubs closed early and didn't allow women to sit at the same bar.

You mean those times?

I'll take the bad with the good and be grateful for progress thanks.

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yep those were the days alright

[opmania]

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@joz*garage wrote:

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@opmania wrote:

I remember when gay was a girls name

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how long ago was that?!

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about the early 70's never even new what a gay was

I had a friend that I worked with and we used to go out for drinks after work

I knew him for ages and then one night he told me he was gay and I said what do you mean

Homosexual and it blew me away never even knew about them - most were in the closet back in those days

[grace.under.water]

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@opmania wrote:

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@grace.under.water wrote:

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@opmania wrote:

I remember when gay was a girls name

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I remember when gays were treated like girls - thankgod the world has moved on, even if some here haven't!!!

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Don't gays want to be treated like girls ?

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Hell no - would anyone?

[lind9650]

I remember when telephones were on Street corners and you needed coins to call someone. Not everyone had a telephone in their home. One visited friends and family to hae a cuppa and a chat face to face.

I remember when the Bakers cart came every morning to deliver the fresh bread and rolls that people ordered by leaving a note and the money in a bread tin on the front verandah.

The Milko delivered the same way. Milk and cream in separate continers with the order written on a piece of paper and the money stuck inside of the billy can.

I remember when almost everyone had a job and thought it was for the rest of their life. When credit was not thrown at people regardless of their ability to repay a loan. One had to have a certificate from their employer that they had a permanent job, other factors were considered about a persons living expenses, before the Bank considered how much one could afford on repayments.

I remember when courtesy was a norm. Young people would offer a seat on a bus or train to an elderly person or a visibly pregnant woman. I remember when PLEASE and THANK YOU were inbred in peoples minds and young girls never used foul language in public for fear to sully their reputation.

I remember an awful lot of things, Good and bad, but then again, I am an old woman that does not like to wallow in the past. Today is today, tomorrow the world will change again. Perhaps for something better, perhaps for another slide down hill. I remember many things that were better then, but progress has changed the world. Not always for the better.

Erica

[opmania]

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@chuk_77 wrote:

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@opmania wrote:

not yet

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so you are making stuff up then? Not remembering the "good old days"

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if you read the thread again I didn't say I was on a bus that blew up

otherwise I probably wouldn't be talking to you

I said thinking about It blowing up and in case you haven't heard

It's quite a regular occurence in other parts of the world now days

[kopenhagen5]

I think opmania is saying the days earlier were easier, not needing to think of those sorts of things.

How the ways of today or yesteryear seem to be disappearing.

I too remember a time of less worries, less complications and certain minority groups happy to not receive noteriety, remaining busy doing their own things in privacy.

[chuk_77]

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@opmania wrote:

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@chuk_77 wrote:

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@opmania wrote:

not yet

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so you are making stuff up then? Not remembering the "good old days"

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if you read the thread again I didn't say I was on a bus that blew up

otherwise I probably wouldn't be talking to you

I said thinking about It blowing up and in case you haven't heard

It's quite a regular occurence in other parts of the world now days

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I never said you were on a bus that blew up, that would just be a stupid thing to say. 

I asked when does it happen as you said not yet. That tends to mean your statement hasnt come to fruition yet but it will or may.

So you first statement about travelling on a bus without worrying it would blow up is not a common occurance today. YOu made it sound like it was.