The world we left behind

[7616]

I have been farming all my life,a long time,remember 1976 36c and no ac,this year 41c very hot.After Writtle college 6 of us drove to Benidorn Spain in a 109 long wheel base land rover took 2 days no problem,those were good days.

 

[Still Farming]

Yes it seems a stranger place every day, these days.

 

[topground]

I remember when the majority of actors appearing in TV adverts were white.

 

[Kidds]

I remember when the majority of actors appearing in TV adverts were white.

I can even remember when their partners were white too.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Nothing much changed the last 40 years the big change was before, a lot before my time

Or do you want to go back to cutting hay with a Scythe

 

[yellowbelly]

I can even remember when their partners were white too.

....
and of the opposite sex.

 

[Mickey mouse]

I have been farming all my life,a long time,remember 1976 36c and no ac,this year 41c very hot.After Writtle college 6 of us drove to Benidorn Spain in a 109 long wheel base land rover took 2 days no problem,those were good days.

Yt

 

[yellowbelly]

I have been farming all my life,a long time,remember 1976 36c and no ac,this year 41c very hot.After Writtle college 6 of us drove to Benidorn Spain in a 109 long wheel base land rover took 2 days no problem,those were good days.

In those days there was always a lot of comudgionly, grumpy old farmers about........



...........there still is.

The only difference is that we are them, nowadays

 

[Mickey mouse]

I have been farming all my life,a long time,remember 1976 36c and no ac,this year 41c very hot.After Writtle college 6 of us drove to Benidorn Spain in a 109 long wheel base land rover took 2 days no problem,those were good days.

I remember1976 very hot.
There was common sense in those days even I politics to a certain extent.
Also no do gooders.woke, gender id.pc correct, and less red tape for farming.
A better world than the mess we have now.

 

[Mickey mouse]

I can even remember when their partners were white too.

It's all propaganda now on tv even the Ads.are PC.corect.

 

[robs1]

It's all propaganda now on tv even the Ads.are PC.corect.

Dont worry it's the same in france just seen an advert with a gay white couple and black child.

 

[caveman]

Only all white ads on the telly are for saga type cruises.
They don't show the boiler stokers down below.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Farmers moan a lot more now
I the good old days ,if someone gave you a spade to go a dig a ditch you got on with it , now life's never been so good and all you lot do is f in moan

 

[Bury the Trash]

It's the People we left behind with those days that are so missed .

 

[TheTallGuy]

Rampant racism, sexism, homophobia, misogyny, wife beating, police corruption...

 

[Steevo]

Have I stumbled on the anti-woke thread?!

 

[BrianV]

Farmers moan a lot more now
I the good old days ,if someone gave you a spade to go a dig a ditch you got on with it , now life's never been so good and all you lot do is f in moan

The sad thing these days is that for far too many farmers farming is a lonely profession, in the 70s most farms even smaller ones could afford a workman, someone to joke with & someone to share problems with, in summer there was plenty of casual help with the hay, nowadays to afford a workman you need to be farming three or four hundred acres & are both running like hell just to stand still & cope with all the paperwork.

 

[tullah]

Everyone had time. The beet factory fieldsman would drop in for the morning to go through the contract or talk about chemicals. Even the factory manager knew all of us.
It's all phone and email now

 

[ford 7810]

My neighbour said to me one day all the old characters have gone.no I said it’s you and me now.we used to be the young lads in the village we’re the old buggers now.

 

[David.]

To be honest I don't remember much good about the late 70s early 80s, it was mostly grey, strikes, rampant inflation, cars that if you had an accident you were 50/50 dead or seriously injured.
I remember it as being shite.