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Used to do that too.....preferable to pouring down the grid like lots of folk used to back then....
Literally...I remember my time in the '70s fondly, but there are many that don't.
And how many things in the 70's were much better for us than say, the 30's? And how many things will be better than right now in say, another 40 years?Literally...
Road deaths a third of what they were in the '70s despite the number of cars on the roads having tripled...
Infant mortality rate a third of what it was in the '70s...
Fatal work accidents a third of what it was in the '70s...
Winter deaths half what they were in the '70s despite an 18% increase in population...
Life expectancy (M/F) now 79/83 as opposed to 69/75 in the 70's
(maybe that inequality ought to be addressed in the serena williams topic?)
Possibly not.Glad I was born in 78’, sounds like I wouldn’t have survived if I were born any sooner!!
Tories in power a factor/coincidence?
I remember my time in the '70s fondly, but there are many that don't. I'm sure all those that were 'comforted' by Rolf, Jimmy, Max and the like. You could pinch a womans' erse and get away with it back then. Funny old chauvinistic times.
Yes, actually it was. Thousands of children were abused back then. Do you not reads the news? Care homes, hospitals, religious gatherings, relatives abusing kids etc. There was systematic abuse also. You are naïve if you think it was not going on and in a big way, in the 70's.I mean it's not like right now
and we had legs and co on TOTPs
You forgot to mention AID'sI was, I suspect, younger than some here in the seventies, but I thought it was brill, fab and ace (see what I did there?).
Abba, Scalextric, Choppers, Space hoppas, Space Dust, Smiths crisps and Cresta to name but a few.
Power cuts not so cool...