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What's something common from your childhood that you never see anymore?
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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.
Man, I miss hope. It was so great.
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
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.
I get what you mean.
Personally I am unsure of whether it's one of two things
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.
Things are getting worse and we're all fucked.
I have absolutely no faith and see zero evidence of it being 1. I'd love to be proven wrong though.
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.
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.
I have hope!
Hopefully it is although, not knowing how old you are I just hope it happens quickly!
I have started donating to Corby 's new party, whatever it'll be called. Hopefully it'll grow into something meaningful
It's a nice town. But it's so small you could almost miss it as you drove through.
Or to keep us docile/fighting each other while they build their arks and bunkers.
Food and beverage.
Jumpers for goal posts.
"We're all middle class now"
John Prescott - 1997
1, 2 could be explained by pedophiles are on the prowl, plus people have IPAD/youtube kids now.
Now they're grooming your kids through the iPads, en masse.
Paedophiles are no more prevalent now than they were. The fear of paedophiles is through the roof though.