I'm Old Enough To Remember...

[ozleicester]

1 minute ago, Buce said:

 

I don’t know how it is down under, Oz, but a succession of changes in the law have severely curtailed the effectiveness of strike action in this country. 

Pretty much the same.. but its more than the law. It is the working class believing they arent working class because theyve got two grands worth of blue chip stocks and then siding with "management" rather than supporting people around them.

 

We are reaching a time where there will never be enough jobs and we will have to provide a basic living wage just to ensure we can continue to consume.

[Webbo]

Shops having half day closing on a Thursday.

[m4DD0gg]

 

[winteriscoming]

1 hour ago, m4DD0gg said:

 

Yes used to love this also knightmare - oohh nasty!!! 

[La-Sayona]

'Winfield' brand football boots and cheap, nasty consumer electricals from Woolworths...

[VLC86]

When fingering still happened.

[TiffToff88]

19 hours ago, m4DD0gg said:

 

The theme tune is very familiar but i can't recall the actual tv show

[Parafox]

When road works used to have a night watchman who sat in a 3 sided tent thing with a coal brazier to keep him warm.

[davieG]

1 minute ago, Parafox said:

When road works used to have a night watchman who sat in a 3 sided tent thing with a coal brazier to keep him warm.

....and when filling a pot hole in didn't require the whole street to be shut down for a week (exaggerated to make a point)

[Wymsey]

When politics (political corrections) and religion don't make you have to think of the consequences of your actions you may make/cause controversy to those of certain beliefs/their ideology of life.

[notnow john]

On 18 January 2018 at 17:18, Webbo said:

Shops having half day closing on a Thursday.

And closed for an hour at lunch.

 

Telephone boxes that had phones in!

[UpTheLeagueFox]

On 1/17/2018 at 05:17, ozleicester said:

when working people supported those going on strike, because they recognised that unless they were supported, we would all be worse off. I think that stopped around 1988 and now where are we?

The unions in the 70s had way too much power. They thought they could continue that in the 80s but Thatcher took them on and walloped them. Had the unions been reasonable, rather than militant, there could well have been a different story. The unions, for all the good they've done (especially pre-70s), can be too aggressive.

[ozleicester]

8 hours ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

The unions in the 70s had way too much power. They thought they could continue that in the 80s but Thatcher took them on and walloped them. Had the unions been reasonable, rather than militant, there could well have been a different story. The unions, for all the good they've done (especially pre-70s), can be too aggressive.

Better a militant, over aggressive over powerful union, than the world we live in today. Where people who work still cannot support their family, where people are forced onto zero hour contracts, where corporate profits go up by 20% while wages only rise by 2%. 

 

 

#eattherich

Edited 12 February 2018 by ozleicester

[Milo]

9 hours ago, ozleicester said:

Better a militant, over aggressive over powerful union, than the world we live in today. Where people who work still cannot support their family, where people are forced onto zero hour contracts, where corporate profits go up by 20% while wages only rise by 2%

Nope, not really. 

 

Zero hour contracts and large tax avoiding corporations are abhorrent. 

But as the title of the thread says, I’m old enough to remember 3 day weeks, bankrupt country, piles of stinking rubbish on the streets because the bin men were on strike, train stiles (oh, hang on...), etc. 

 

Not all all unions are bad, and rightly protect people at work. Not all companies are bad and abuse their employees. 

 

Powerful militant unions are bad, and greedy abusive companies are bad. 

 

Theres a whole happy, productive  workforce in between your two polar examples. 

 

 

[Parafox]

I'm old enough to remember the Abbey Park show. It was brilliant, as I recall.

 

And this...

[davieG]

15 minutes ago, Parafox said:

I'm old enough to remember the Abbey Park show. It was brilliant, as I recall.

 

And this...

I think the train rides still go on from Easter or at least certain weekends throughout the summer.

[Parafox]

11 minutes ago, davieG said:

I think the train rides still go on from Easter or at least certain weekends throughout the summer.

I think I'm probably too old to have a go, these days 

[Carl the Llama]

43 minutes ago, Parafox said:

I'm old enough to remember the Abbey Park show. It was brilliant, as I recall.

 

And this...

Pretty sure they still have one of those at Twycross last time I went (a decade or so ago tbf but hardly ancient history).

[Parafox]

I remember chemist shops and tobacconists having yellow cellophane on the shop window to protect stuff from sunlight.

Edited 12 February 2018 by Parafox

[Buce]

23 minutes ago, Parafox said:

I think I'm probably too old to have a go, these days 

 

Not so, Para - I used to go on them with my daughter when she was too young to go alone.

 

Release your inner child!

[Tuna]

The Beazer homes, Doc Martens and Diadora leagues. 

 

Non league teams like Leicester United,  VS Rugby and Bromsgrove Rovers.

[Turbogre]

The Swimming pool on Braunstone Park

[ozleicester]

2 hours ago, Milo said:

Nope, not really. 

 

Zero hour contracts and large tax avoiding corporations are abhorrent. 

But as the title of the thread says, I’m old enough to remember 3 day weeks, bankrupt country, piles of stinking rubbish on the streets because the bin men were on strike, train stiles (oh, hang on...), etc. 

 

Not all all unions are bad, and rightly protect people at work. Not all companies are bad and abuse their employees. 

 

Powerful militant unions are bad, and greedy abusive companies are bad. 

 

Theres a whole happy, productive  workforce in between your two polar examples. 

 

 

Id like to agree.... but that doesnt seem to be true.

 

It appears to be an either/or situation... and i prefer the unions have power rather than the super rich (current)

[Parafox]

The Odeon cinema in the Market Place.

 

Bailey's cabaret club.

 

When you were taught hand signals in your driving lessons, having to manually wind the window down first.

 

Setting spark plug gaps and rotary arm contacts with a feeler gauge.

 

When petrol had a star rating. There's a garage in Rothley that still sells leaded 4 star.

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

On 1/18/2018 at 19:05, winteriscoming said:

Yes used to love this also knightmare - oohh nasty!!! 

 

Challenge on Freeview occasionally still shows old Knightmare episodes, just as freaky now as it was when I was a kid