When did it all go wrong?

[Cartman]

Life in Britain was, at one time, brilliant😀 I loved it when I was a teenager in the 70s, great TV, music, motors, fashion, the freedom to go where you wanted and of expression. Now I can't stand it. Music has basically gone, TV is full of rubbish, motors are boring domestic appliances, fashion is, I suppose, ok ish, granted, but there's way too much censorship and restrictions on movement and expression, anything which goes against the agenda is shouted down, trial by social media.

What was the approximate point where this started? IMO, life here was still ok into the early/mid 2000s, but since then it's gone into sharp decline. What does anyone else think?

[Del Boy]

Hard to pinpoint Carty. The technology that appeared in the 90s honed in the 00s was on the whole beneficial. Its probably costing jobs for people in some areas these days. 
That bloody virus certainly left its mark in a lot of areas of peoples lives. 

[Cartman]

I think it was a gradual decline. To me it started in about the middle of the 80s in some respects, but there was a brief upturn again in the mid/late 90s, which continued into the 2000s, then everything started to unravel. Agree, a few beneficial things here and there, after all, without tech we wouldn't be having interesting discussions on here!😀

[Lord Emsworth]

Some things are a lot better

Some things are a lot worse

Every generation ever thinks that things were better in their day

I'm a glass half full kinda fellow and prefer to focus on all the good stuff, and there's so much of it, you just have to seek it out and embrace it

#thoughtfortheday

[Three Litre]

Mar 31, 2024 8:22:47 GMT Cartman said:

Life in Britain was, at one time, brilliant😀 I loved it when I was a teenager in the 70s, great TV, music, motors, fashion, the freedom to go where you wanted and of expression. Now I can't stand it. Music has basically gone, TV is full of rubbish, motors are boring domestic appliances, fashion is, I suppose, ok ish, granted, but there's way too much censorship and restrictions on movement and expression, anything which goes against the agenda is shouted down, trial by social media.

What was the approximate point where this started? IMO, life here was still ok into the early/mid 2000s, but since then it's gone into sharp decline. What does anyone else think?

I reckon from the mid 90s when political correctness was born. Followed by lots of special interest groups concerned with sexuality, gender etc and the drive to make everything "fair". Somethings can't be fair, that's the way it is matey.

[Nightfly]

Mar 31, 2024 8:22:47 GMT Cartman said:

What was the approximate point where this started? IMO, life here was still ok into the early/mid 2000s, but since then it's gone into sharp decline. What does anyone else think?

I've been a bit of a political gob**  over the last 40 years, so I'm keeping my mouth shut. I'd say there were certain years that were milestones in the decline-recovery-decline cycle.

Brian Connolly leaving The Sweet in the late 70s didn't help either.

[Three Litre]

Apr 5, 2024 19:16:08 GMT Nightfly said:

Mar 31, 2024 8:22:47 GMT Cartman said:

What was the approximate point where this started? IMO, life here was still ok into the early/mid 2000s, but since then it's gone into sharp decline. What does anyone else think?

I've been a bit of a political gob**  over the last 40 years, so I'm keeping my mouth shut. I'd say there were certain years that were milestones in the decline-recovery-decline cycle.

Brian Connolly leaving The Sweet in the late 70s didn't help either.

I bloody knew it was your faulty Nighty!

Lets face it, shoulder pads steepened the decline.

[Cartman]

Apr 5, 2024 18:16:16 GMT Three Litre said:

Mar 31, 2024 8:22:47 GMT Cartman said:

Life in Britain was, at one time, brilliant😀 I loved it when I was a teenager in the 70s, great TV, music, motors, fashion, the freedom to go where you wanted and of expression. Now I can't stand it. Music has basically gone, TV is full of rubbish, motors are boring domestic appliances, fashion is, I suppose, ok ish, granted, but there's way too much censorship and restrictions on movement and expression, anything which goes against the agenda is shouted down, trial by social media.

What was the approximate point where this started? IMO, life here was still ok into the early/mid 2000s, but since then it's gone into sharp decline. What does anyone else think?

I reckon from the mid 90s when political correctness was born. Followed by lots of special interest groups concerned with sexuality, gender etc and the drive to make everything "fair". Somethings can't be fair, that's the way it is matey.

This gender stuff has got out of control. The thing is, anyone who calls it out gets abuse, J K Rowling for example. It's been allowed to fester unchecked.

[Nightfly]

Apr 5, 2024 19:26:54 GMT Three Litre said:

Apr 5, 2024 19:16:08 GMT Nightfly said:

I've been a bit of a political gob**  over the last 40 years, so I'm keeping my mouth shut. I'd say there were certain years that were milestones in the decline-recovery-decline cycle.

I bloody knew it was your faulty Nighty!

Lets face it, shoulder pads steepened the decline.

Absolutely, 3L. But I suppose that highlights the see-sawing social movement of the 80s. Shoulder pads being a negative - but then again there were multi-coloured wool leggings worn over denim to balance it all out.......Just me then ?

[Sam Tyler]

Apr 6, 2024 11:54:21 GMT Nightfly said:

Apr 5, 2024 19:26:54 GMT Three Litre said:

I bloody knew it was your faulty Nighty!

Lets face it, shoulder pads steepened the decline.

Absolutely, 3L. But I suppose that highlights the see-sawing social movement of the 80s. Shoulder pads being a negative - but then again there were multi-coloured wool leggings worn over denim to balance it all out.......Just me then ?

Hmmm, it depended on how slim the legs were and how tight the denim was! 

The decline in fashion started before shoulder pads. Who in their right mind decided that the 'boob tube' should no longer be fashionable?

Sam.