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LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 year ago

What's something common from your childhood that you never see anymore?

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What's something common from your childhood that you never see anymore?

LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 year ago
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    Kids playing in the streets.

    Kids having semi autonomy.

    Cheap rent.

    Glass fold food and beverage bottles and jars.

    A middle class.

    Hope.

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      Man, I miss hope. It was so great.

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        There is always hope, and things have always been quite bad one way or another. You’re looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses, and forgetting how bad it was too

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          Yes, but it’s not that things in the past were perfect, it’s that you could identify a general trend of things getting better. Sure, there were still huge problems, but you could believe it was just problems we hadn’t gotten to yet. Now we live in a world that’s actively going backwards.

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            I get what you mean.

            Personally I am unsure of whether it’s one of two things

            1. Things are getting better now as they were back then but now I am older and more cynical so I don’t accept they really are improving as a whole. Much like many people my age probably did when I was younger.

            2. Things are getting worse and we’re all fucked.

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              I have absolutely no faith and see zero evidence of it being 1. I’d love to be proven wrong though.

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                Same mate. The jury is still out on that one.

                I think an actual left wing political party as an option would be a bloody good start.

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                  I agree with you, but I’m too old and worn down to do it, and nobody else seems to be in much of a hurry either.

                  I don’t think it’s coming in my lifetime.

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                    I have started donating to Corby 's new party, whatever it’ll be called. Hopefully it’ll grow into something meaningful

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                    I have hope!

                    Hopefully it is although, not knowing how old you are I just hope it happens quickly!

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        It’s a nice town. But it’s so small you could almost miss it as you drove through.

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        Or to keep us docile/fighting each other while they build their arks and bunkers.

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      Glass fold ?

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        Food and beverage.

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      Jumpers for goal posts.

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      “We’re all middle class now”

      John Prescott - 1997

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      1, 2 could be explained by pedophiles are on the prowl, plus people have IPAD/youtube kids now.

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        Now they’re grooming your kids through the iPads, en masse.

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        Paedophiles are no more prevalent now than they were. The fear of paedophiles is through the roof though.

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