Now vs Then - the nostalgiafest match
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teagar wrote:If you rate nostalgia it's your conscious brain telling you that you are old.
For me, being nostalgic extends to "not having to think about a career". Can't really be nostalgic about coming home off the school bus with new bruises.
And now is the time to hunt them down and take revenge.0 -
johnfinch wrote:teagar wrote:If you rate nostalgia it's your conscious brain telling you that you are old.
For me, being nostalgic extends to "not having to think about a career". Can't really be nostalgic about coming home off the school bus with new bruises.
And now is the time to hunt them down and take revenge.
No, that's what they did for me dobbing.
:roll:Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.0 -
teagar wrote:If you rate nostalgia it's your conscious brain telling you that you are old.
For me, being nostalgic extends to "not having to think about a career".
Nah, being old is when you think everything was better in the old days. I'm only nostalgic for certain things, others I'd quite happily erase from my memory. 2unlimited... shudder. My attempt at a Paul Weller haircut... cringe. Vicar of Dibley on the TV :x
Not having to think about a career is the best thing ever. Especially as most careers involve sitting at a desk staring a computer screen with the sun shining outside your window.
Anyway, back to revenge... they wouldn't have to know it's you this time.
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johnfinch wrote:teagar wrote:If you rate nostalgia it's your conscious brain telling you that you are old.
For me, being nostalgic extends to "not having to think about a career".
Nah, being old is when you think everything was better in the old days. I'm only nostalgic for certain things, others I'd quite happily erase from my memory. 2unlimited... shudder. My attempt at a Paul Weller haircut... cringe. Vicar of Dibley on the TV :x
Not having to think about a career is the best thing ever. Especially as most careers involve sitting at a desk staring a computer screen with the sun shining outside your window.
Anyway, back to revenge... they wouldn't have to know it's you this time.
Their parole officer might. :P
I like to try and be the bigger man.
Squeezing the balloon mind.
Still though.Not a fan of nostalgia. Just makes your current state of affairs seem worse.Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.0 -
Better now: bikes
Better then: cycling.
As kids in the 60s, we thought nothing of wandering down from London to the south coast and back, for no better reason than it looked like a nice day for a ride on the weekend morning. (London - Soton - London my longest) No helmets, no cycle lanes, no health and safety issues other than basic road sense. And drivers didn't mind sharing the roads as much as they do now - it didn't even occur to them to have an us v them mentality - we shared the road. Summat changed though, starting in the mid-70s, cars got faster, roads got less cycle-friendly. It's everybody's loss, though only a few will remember what exactly it was that was lost.
In all fairness to the tincanistas, though, I should add:
Better now: cars
Better then: driving....0 -
Better now : women
Better then : sex
.... yeah I'm old now..... :?0 -
Better then: Going to the Arsenal (think Fever Pitch)
Better now: Watching the Arsenal (even despite recent results)0 -
Better then : Ben Shaw's fizzy orange pop0
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Then: Better computer game playability but crap graphics
Now: Better graphics but crap games
Viva Jet Set Willy, Manic Miner, Knightlore etc etc 0 -
More about music
Better then.. music (CD) etc shops. By and large today's shops are truly awful if and where they exist, I used to love browsing and spending my hard earned pennies
Better now .. ability to get obscure music. Although the browsing is online, Amazon etc let me get stuff that people in our current awful music shops have never even heard of."The only absolute statement is that everything is relative" - anon0 -
Better now - being able to buy stuff for your bike online.0
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Better now:
MP3 players: never got on with vinyl to be honest - I'm the only bloke I know over 40 who will say this! Bloody nuisance vinyl - always scratching or wearing out - one bad needle and your collection is wiped out. Now I have 3000 albums on a computer disc and can have whatever music I want instantly!
Amazon: CDs and books in the post - brilliant
internet
cars - one car - ten years - breaks down twice - it would never have happened in the 70s.
Worse now:
mobile phones - bast@rd things!!!
politicians - there was a time when only about 90% of politicians were cvnts!
civil liberties - on their way out - people used to stand up for their rights, now they don;t give a sh1t.
television - but only just
music - but then we've still got all that old stuff
festivals - less commercial and better music and cheaper
supermarkets - every fecking where - I like little shops
second hand book shops - it's amazon's fault of course, so I can't complain.0 -
Better then: television chefs. All the likes of Delia Smith or Robert Carrier seemed to do was write cookbooks that gathered dust on the kitchen shelves plus appear in the odd telly commercial [1], rather than penning inflammatory bilge in reactionary tabloid newspapers.
David
[1] From childhood memory, I think Carrier (or Robert Carrier-Bag as Dad insisted on calling him) did Tesco adverts in the late 70s/early 80s."It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal0 -
Porgy wrote:Better now:
cars - one car - ten years - breaks down twice - it would never have happened in the 70s.
Although from my dad's long experience as a motorist, he reckons cars back then were easier to deal with when they went wrong as they could easily be repaired by Joe Public armed with a toolkit and Haynes manual, rather than paying an arm and a leg at the local garage.
David"It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal0 -
Nuggs wrote:
I have no idea what Elite or Halo is. This might make two catergories of people feel better
1. The other fogies who were too timid to say so.
2. The "yoof" who can mock my ignorance.Where the neon madmen climb0 -
Ah, nostalgia. It isn't what it used to be....
Better then:
- James Bond. When it had great one-liners and craaaaaazy plots.
- League football on muddy pitches in light snow with an orange ball and players who were not a bunch of cynical, overpaid tw@ts.
- An underlying feeling of pride and a certain satisfaction in being British.
- Linda Lusardi.
Better now:
- My iPod.
- My son.
- Trousers that fit.Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs0 -
Better now-food(such a wide variety of choice)
Better then-football(biased as my team is Ipswich!)0 -
pottssteve wrote:Ah, nostalgia. It isn't what it used to be....
Better then:
- James Bond. When it had great one-liners.
Ah, but are you talking Moore-era or Connery-era?
(If favouring the former, would have to disagree and describe your choice as "shocking, positively shocking" in the words of 007 himself ).
David"It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal0 -
Better then: pork chops and chicken. Can't remember the last time I ate a pork chop now that they're tasteless, stringy things. They used to be delicious and succulent. A highlight was getting the bone and sucking the marrow out. Yummmmm!
And onions. Extreme measures had to be taken to stop your eyes watering. Now, to get the same effect, you've got to actively rub them into your eyeballs with some vigour.A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill0 -
Then
Finding scuddy mags in the woods.
Now
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Crapaud wrote:Now, to get the same effect, you've got to actively rub them into your eyeballs with some vigour.
You're not doing it right. My recommended method for streaming eyes; brisk commute home from work, preferably into a headwind to get the eyeballs nice and tender to start with [1]. Get in, start cooking immediately. Select dish with onions in it. Start chopping cooking onions....and hey presto.
David
[1] Even if wearing cycling glasses, same thing happens with the eyes in my experience."It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal0 -
Crapaud wrote:Better then: pork chops and chicken. Can't remember the last time I ate a pork chop now that they're tasteless, stringy things. They used to be delicious and succulent. A highlight was getting the bone and sucking the marrow out. Yummmmm!
And onions. Extreme measures had to be taken to stop your eyes watering. Now, to get the same effect, you've got to actively rub them into your eyeballs with some vigour.
Bacon used to have hard white bits in it - gristle or bone I assume - but you never get that now.
What's the deal with that then? :?0 -
Cartilage, I think, and what's that white stuff that oozes out of the bacon? Do they inject it with other animal proteins like they do with chicken? Bacon never used to shrink to the size of a 50p piece either. :evil:Porgy wrote:Bacon used to have hard white bits in it - gristle or bone I assume - but you never get that now.
What's the deal with that then? :?A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill0 -
Crapaud wrote:
Cartilage, I think, and what's that white stuff that oozes out of the bacon? Do they inject it with other animal proteins like they do with chicken? Bacon never used to shrink to the size of a 50p piece either. :evil:Porgy wrote:Bacon used to have hard white bits in it - gristle or bone I assume - but you never get that now.
What's the deal with that then? :?
Probably - when I buy the proper thing - butcher's from oop north at Borough Market - it doesn't ooze the white stuff and sometimes you get the white bits - trouble is it's about three times the price. Tastes nice though! 8)
That's the modern world for you though - the food that we thought was just normal food 30 years ago is now sold to us as "Special" or "Premium" or "organic" or some such bollocks and at ludicrous prices.0 -
DavidBelcher wrote:pottssteve wrote:Ah, nostalgia. It isn't what it used to be....
Better then:
- James Bond. When it had great one-liners.
Ah, but are you talking Moore-era or Connery-era?
(If favouring the former, would have to disagree and describe your choice as "shocking, positively shocking" in the words of 007 himself ).
David
Although it may be heresy, my favourite 007 film is OHMSS with Lazenby. However, Connery is the best Bond, of course....
Better then: the future
Better now: the past
I think I'll have that as my new sig...
SteveHead Hands Heart Lungs Legs0 -
pottssteve wrote:
Although it may be heresy, my favourite 007 film is OHMSS with Lazenby. However, Connery is the best Bond, of course....
Steve
Never yet seen OHMSS, but have indeed read various comments in the past to the effect that it's a good movie in spite of Lazenby being a naff Bond. I'll check it out next time it pops up on one of the many digital ITV channels.
David"It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal0 -
pottssteve wrote:Although it may be heresy, my favourite 007 film is OHMSS with Lazenby. However, Connery is the best Bond, of course....
Steve
Not heresy. Just wrong. And unforgivable. You have failed.
Course not, you're entitled to your opinion, even if anyone who doesn't say that From Russia With Love is the best 007 film has a worthless, ill-informed, flea-ridden, pus-filled mind with which to form their so-called opinions which make me puke and then vomit.
Sorry, a bit nervous today, I'm doing a trial lesson over Skype for a teaching job. So I'm taking it out on you, cos my girlfriend isn't here for me to pi55 off.0 -
Mr Finch,
Of course you are entitled to your opinion, however misguided you appear to be.
Here is why OHMSS is best:
1. Best Bond girl - Diana Rigg
2. Best Bond song - We have all the time in the world by Louis Armstrong
3. Most stupid plot - Telly Savalas as Blofeld, cutting off his ear lobes and using a group of allergic international babes to poison the world.
4. Best ending - Because it's unexpected and un-Bond.
Give my sympathies to your girlfriend...
SteveHead Hands Heart Lungs Legs0
