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.
Sorry, quoted the wrong postAmazing 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!).
This one reminded me of the old joke "I haven't laughed so much since me mum caught her left tit in the mangle"Here is one from a washhouse in London.
There are loads more, and not just about washhouses.

Not often I agree with you but I do on this.I disagree. Life was simpler maybe.

House prices were better too.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.
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..."
Almost every aspect of life was better in the past.
That’s because the rich keep buying farms like Clarkson.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.
Yeah because right wing politics flogged all the council houses and made property an investment opportunity.Lot of them are tenants

If like to see all this support that keeps getting mentionedBut strangely you support muslims who force their women to walk around dressed as letterboxes.
Right or wrong. Some of our problems arise from sticking our noses into other countries affairs. Is it right how they treat some people ? No. Is it better to force our views on them ?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.
And that's the rwr for you. It's always somebody else's faultBut that's liberals - full of hypocrisy and thwanked by his two co-conspirators.![]()
you mean back in the 1960s abd 1970s before Thatcherism flogged everything to private ownership.Almost every aspect of life was better in the past.