The world we left behind

[britishblue]

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

Good to see some things never change

 

[icanshootwell]

I miss stand up comedians, taking the pi#s out of each other without being called a racist, come to think of it, i haven't heard a English, Scotsman and Irish joke for a long time, we have forgotten how to laugh.

 

[icanshootwell]

When I was a lad everybody in the village worked on the land or was a retired servant from the defunct big house. They were completely different people to the incomers we have now. The squire, who’d left the big house but lived in one of the farms still ran the village and ran it well compared to what we have now. The vicar was ex war time military who shot moles with a rifle. People had red faces and bow legs, mumbled and juntered, or cackled and sucked on pipes. They’d push bike into town for a pint on Saturday night and wobble back home again. Folk kept pigs in Nissen huts and nettlebeds abounded. The harvest festival was an unashamed blow out around groaning tables of sandwiches and cakes not an apology for destroying the planet.
Yeah. It was great.

It all sounds great, Have you seen the film "The wrong Turn" !!!!

 

[Hfd Cattle]

I miss stand up comedians, taking the pi#s out of each other without being called a racist, come to think of it, i haven't heard a English, Scotsman and Irish joke for a long time, we have forgotten how to laugh.

.......why are the Irish jokes so simple ? ......so the Welsh can understand them !!

........OK I'm on my way out !!

 

[kfpben]

When I was a lad everybody in the village worked on the land or was a retired servant from the defunct big house. They were completely different people to the incomers we have now. The squire, who’d left the big house but lived in one of the farms still ran the village and ran it well compared to what we have now. The vicar was ex war time military who shot moles with a rifle. People had red faces and bow legs, mumbled and juntered, or cackled and sucked on pipes. They’d push bike into town for a pint on Saturday night and wobble back home again. Folk kept pigs in Nissen huts and nettlebeds abounded. The harvest festival was an unashamed blow out around groaning tables of sandwiches and cakes not an apology for destroying the planet.
Yeah. It was great.

Proud to say my village ticks most of these boxes. Even still have a couple of pipe smokers and a handful of big beards. My legs are slightly bowed.

For the new residents the key is to get them involved early- head of the parish council goes round to meet anyone new who moves in: let’s them know about the church, pub, cricket club, village events, shooting/beating opportunities and hunt meets in the village if they’re into that kind of thing.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s some big London money rolling about, but also tradesmen and farm workers. There is some real poverty that goes unseen.

 

[Barleymow]

I can even remember when their partners were white too.

And of the opposite sex

 

[7610 super q]

I can remember decent farming forums like BFF.

 

[uztrac]

I still bear the scars from topping "sugar beet" on my left hand !!!!.Now I can sit in my heated 4x4 and enjoy watching todays multi row harvesters,yes life has got better.

 

[thorpe]

when you were trying to cut your hand off could you have ever imagined those harvesters of today?

 

[roscoe erf]

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

good old days down the pub then on the way home stopped by the local bobby for his hand out then home in time to beat the wife

 

[neilo]

I can remember decent farming forums like BFF.

Shh. The last person that mentioned those letters was ‘disappeared’…

 

[Two Tone]

Is it the world we left behind, or is it that the world has moved on and left us behind?
I hope it is the former, but fear it is the latter.

Specifications may have improved, but standards have definitely slipped.
Sometime it would be nice to have ‘woke’ up and discovered the dream was in fact a nightmare.

………But, Happy new year, everyone!

 

[quattro]

It’s the Sweeney for me. None of that community policing nonsense. A spade was a spade in those days. Or a c..n or a p.ki. Happy days.

Out of interest what does tv adverts consist of where you are
obviously not when your in lincs!!

 

[steveR]

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

You been watching re-runs of "comedy classics" from the early 70s.....

 

[steveR]

.......why are the Irish jokes so simple ? ......so the Welsh can understand them !!

........OK I'm on my way out !!

There speaks a man of the Marches.....!!!

 

[Lowland1]

Out of interest what does tv adverts consist of where you are
obviously not when your in lincs!!

I don’t actually watch much but there are no same sex couples, no mixed race couples and you are unlikely to see anyone who isn’t black. The good thing is DFS aren’t having a sale and funeral plans are a bit taboo but there are a lot of adverts for betting.

 

[Jackov Altraids]

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

I think people used to pretend they were but weren't.
Now everyone pretends they aren't when many are.

It's like greenwashing, it's all a dishonest cover to make people feel better about doing something they know is wrong.

 

[neilo]

There speaks a man of the Marches.....!!!

Who obviously hasn't seen that Offa's exaggerated ditch isn't going to protect him...

 

[Hilly]

I miss Bernard manning .

 

[bluebell]

The change, i first noticed at secondary school, (1971-76), there was two types of teachers the first lot had been in the war, one our chemistry teacher was in a lanchaster crew and had to bale out over berlin? these teachers were in their late 40s-50s had seen death distruction and real hardship, they were "old fashioned" in their dress haircut, and outlook? the other lot were the ones new into the "profession", young "hip" long hair and trendy, the product of the 60s" hippy" anti establishment generation, dont call me "sir" call me by my first name "lot" and there with much else lays the seeds of our present "troubles"