Old films of British life...

[SPLINE]

This one shows some prices of a supermarket shop in the 70s. Notice that meat is among the cheapest things in the basket; now it is the dearest.

 

[fillyboy]

I disagree. Life was simpler maybe.

Rose-tinted glasses.

TB, ringworm, polio, war damage, cold wet houses, back-street abortionists, organised crime paying off the Sweeney.

Er yeah, that's why I disagreed that 'life was better'.

Although to be fair, I never had TB, ringworm, polio or an abortion, back street or otherwise.

 

[THFC]

Amazing that this was the 1970s. Although I'm sure it was a pretty old-fashioned thing to still be around then.

We had an automatic washing machine then. Grandma was still using the twin-tub (indoors though!).

Sorry, quoted the wrong post

 

[THFC]

Here is one from a washhouse in London.

There are loads more, and not just about washhouses.

This one reminded me of the old joke "I haven't laughed so much since me mum caught her left tit in the mangle"

 

[carmanmemoranda]

I disagree. Life was simpler maybe.

Not often I agree with you but I do on this.

Rose tinted specs are ok but I don't think many would give up what they take for granted now, to go back to those days

 

[carmanmemoranda]

This one shows some prices of a supermarket shop in the 70s. Notice that meat is among the cheapest things in the basket; now it is the dearest.

House prices were better too.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

They'll be weeping about the Empirical heady days of The Raj next....."it was great when we had slaves and women knew their place..."

But strangely you support muslims who force their women to walk around dressed as letterboxes. What an absolutely bonkers set of blatant double standards. Liberals must be racist as they don't notice or care about the sufferings of women from other races.

But that's liberals - full of hypocrisy and thwanked by his two co-conspirators.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Almost every aspect of life was better in the past.

Growing up in the 70s/80s we knew all our near neighbours. When my parents bought their house new in 1961 the gardens were unmaid/not landscaped. All the neighbours pitched in and laboured to get each others' plots turned into proper gardens.

Now wouldn't have a clue who the neighbours are. Lot of them are tenants and they come and go without any interest in those around them. Very insular. Some are foreigners with poor English. But according to the know fck all liberals on here - that's just nostalgia and things weren't better.

 

[Odds]

Another attempt to bring back the good old days when everyone was allwhite and knew their place.

Splineless needs a history lesson: From Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts in the 1930s through to the National Front, the British National party and the English Defence League, the far right in Britain has been part of the political landscape for decades. Now anti-immigration sentiment is moving closer to the mainstream and far right extremism is a growing cause for concern.

 

[SPLINE]

Trust Odds to make it about race! (I wonder if anyone has ever been prosecuted for the slander of calling someone racist?).

Anyroad, another fab film, this time on the ever-popular subject of getting stuck in the snow...

 

[Odds]

England, whose England?

...funded by Counterblast Film Fund. This documentary may be hard to watch due to racist and anti-immigrant language used by many throughout; illustrating the level of rhetoric exploited by far right groups in the 60s and 70s. They still say the same things 50 years ago as they do today.

The difference is people like Spline sound like his grandad, yearning for a country lost to time. He still can't see and fails to recognise the real reason our country is not the 'green and pleasant land' it once was. Can you guess what it is?