So what has changed in 50 years?

[FJRider]

I was one of those kids who got up everyday before day break to deliver your 4 cents a pint of milk & cream

We had a cow ...

[J.A.W.]

Yeah, my mum used to wait for those thievin' little bastards & eyeball 'em to make sure they didn't play dirty - too..

[Maha]

When Coke was Coca Cola and it tasted so much better than what they produce today.

[T.W.R]

Bread delivered to the gate in the mornings sometimes if you were lucky enough it'd still be warm.

Did the obligatory milk run job for a few years fit as a buck rat pushing a 6 crate trolley for a few hrs a night 3 nights a week; boss must have been reasonably OK, we were allocated 1 bottle of our choice of juice per section of the whole run (3 bottles a night).

[MD]

Well that song is still a good one after 50 years. Nothings changed there.

I did a milk round before High School. Had to meet the driver at 4.20am. Couldn't do that now with my...not so young body. I remember cursing those bloody frozen coins and tokens you couldn't get out of the bottles.

I am so, so, so grateful I was born to be a teenager through the 70s! Best decade EVER!!

[Voltaire]

Well that song is still a good one after 50 years. Nothings changed there.

I did a milk round before High School. Had to meet the driver at 4.20am. Couldn't do that now with my...not so young body. I remember cursing those bloody frozen coins and tokens you couldn't get out of the bottles.

I am so, so, so grateful I was born to be a teenager through the 70s! Best decade EVER!!

I told my teenagers a while back about " back in the day", you get your info from a Library, play board games, have only 2 tv channels, a phone connected to the wall that you can only talk on...they did not seem to think they had missed much.
On the other hand my 19 year old pretty much knows all the good music from the 60's and 70's.

[Maha]

The word Murder use to be rarely used, now its almost used in every News item.

[DamianW]

Happy childhood memories in the '70's of sitting down and enjoying family Sunday roasts. That hasn't changed because I still like to cook up a roast every week and invite the MIL over to see the grandkids. What has changed though is the veges are always spot on thanks to the microwave.

[swarfie]

Happy childhood memories in the '70's of sitting down and enjoying family Sunday roasts. That hasn't changed because I still like to cook up a roast every week and invite the MIL over to see the grandkids. What has changed though is the veges are always spot on thanks to the microwave.

Hahaha.... My old lady used to boil the crap out of the veges. My wife showed the old girl how to cook them and we've been having them crispy and tasty ever since.
My Dad says the only thing good about the "good old days" is that they're frigging gone (he had a hard childhood in the 30's and 40's) but I reckon the 70's were beaut. Best time as a teenager ever

[ellipsis]

...the seventies were not quite 50 years back...the air quality in many places was somewhat different...in the sixties my little town had so much smoke hanging around from the steam trains and the steam engined ships and coal burning fireplaces that you could not see the sky at times, anything you touched got you covered in creosote or soot and sticking your head out the window of the train in the tunnel was a silly thing to do, so we did it a lot...

[J.A.W.]

`70s were indeed a 'Golden Age'..

Standard of living was 1st world, but rich pricks, sheilas & natives alike, knew to be a bit bloody discreet..

Top international motorsport in the summer, & much less BS law/political correctness about..

SexdrugsR&R,+1/2 decent bikes.. yeah..

[Voltaire]

`70s were indeed a 'Golden Age'..

Standard of living was 1st world, but rich pricks, sheilas & natives alike, knew to be a bit bloody discreet..

Top international motorsport in the summer, & much less BS law/political correctness about..

SexdrugsR&R,+1/2 decent bikes.. yeah..

Golden Age for the Rich Pricks who held the licences for importing anything, car dealers who could sell useless Pommy heaps of shit at high prices due to restrictive tarrifs with " the motherland", oveseas funds, Unions, overstaffed inefficient govt departments, smokers, lack of selection for food and takeaways, DB and Lion Red pisswater,rubbish made in New Zealand stuff, unsafe working practices, expensive overseas travel, subsidised Farmers ....and so on. I do however like the Motorcycles and music ( excluding the disco and Yes shit)

[oldrider]

Golden Age for the Rich Pricks who held the licences for importing anything, car dealers who could sell useless Pommy heaps of shit at high prices due to restrictive tarrifs with " the motherland", oveseas funds, Unions, overstaffed inefficient govt departments, smokers, lack of selection for food and takeaways, DB and Lion Red pisswater,rubbish made in New Zealand stuff, unsafe working practices, expensive overseas travel, subsidised Farmers ....and so on. I do however like the Motorcycles and music ( excluding the disco and Yes shit)

Ah so - Confucius say - open the windows and you are bound to let in a few flies! . (Question is: - Are todays flies any more tolerable than yesterdays flies?)

[Big Dog]

The word Murder use to be rarely used, now its almost used in every News item.

That's because every second story they murder the English language just a little more.

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[Big Dog]

It didn't change 50 years ago and I wasn't born yet but certainly what I lament from my youth is the introduction of weekend trading. Now no fucker has time for their kids and most families have at least half the adults working at least one weekend day. That's progress.

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