Dumbleweed 8:56 Mon Apr 2
Growing up in the late 60s and early 70s
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Growing up in the late 60s and early 70s, I was hooked to the Apollo moon landings (except when they interfered with Jackanory).
What a time that was - anything was possible. The moon was just the start of what promised to be many more missions to other planets. It was an incredibly optimistic time. The Beatles blazed a trail in music and ideas. Revolution was in the air, freeing people from the stark shackles of post-war austerity.
People started replacing their old black and white 'television sets' with colour TVs - I used to go around to a friend's house just to witness TV in colour.
Sitting here in 2012 ain't much fun in comparison. We need a new revolution. Who's with me?
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mashed in maryland
12:22 Tue Apr 3
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I bet old people back then used to talk about how much better it was in the 20s/30s as well.
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BRANDED
9:09 Tue Apr 3
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Dumble, life's what you make of it. I grew up back then and as a kid everything can be exciting but there are loads of things that I wouldnt go back to.
Anyway, its about now. There are loads of choices you could make that would make your life more interesting without having a revolution. In the last year or so I have got into doing a bit of gardening and its fucking ace. Even 3 years ago I'd have thought it was shit but now I find it really interesting to nurture a seed through to being a plant I end up eating. Ok, maybe I'm lucky to have some garden to garden in.I've also found 3 or 4 great music venues I'd never been to before and enjoyed them all recently. I went to Brick Lane market and Columbia road on sunday. It was a lovely day and was really nice just wandering around. I've travelled the world and there arent many better places to spend a Sunday.
Life should be simple pleasures like a nice sausage roll or the spring sunshine after a miserable winter or even West Ham winning a game ( dont hold your breath). A nice long walk, particularly up a mountain or a pint of tasty beer.
I remember times when it was boring in my youth but you mostly remember the good things. Try and find interesting little things to do, there's loads and they'll all around you.
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Joke Whole
8:58 Tue Apr 3
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Sounds like you're the whole Mungo Jerry fan club there...
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appyhammer78
7:53 Tue Apr 3
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I'm gonna sending to outer space to find another race
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Ronald_antly
5:30 Tue Apr 3
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Hammerhermit 4:08 Tue Apr 3
Are you saying that the moon landings were faked in your gran's front room??
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Monk~koknee
4:43 Tue Apr 3
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Someone has to keep the past alive.
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Coffee
4:31 Tue Apr 3
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Your current look?
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Monk~koknee
4:17 Tue Apr 3
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To counterbalance all that dewy-eyed sentimentalism one has to throw in the afro perm, monster sideburns and facial hair, cheescloth shirts, satin jackets, flared trousers and platform shoes.
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mentor
4:11 Tue Apr 3
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60's &70's
When England was still England.
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Hammerhermit
4:08 Tue Apr 3
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I often think of my old grans life. She was a kid when the first flight was considered a success. A teenager when the super liner sunk in 1912. Saw wirelesses become common in homes. Silent movies turn into talking movies. TV black and white to colour, where she watched man land on the moon in her own front room having a cuppa.
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Fat Andy E.15
3:29 Tue Apr 3
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stamping down with the heel of your boots/shoes on a coke tin then walk about like youve got a giant blakeys on them
A bottle of "Sterra" off the milkman
looking out for the school board man when you made out you was ill to your mum and she let you have a day off school
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alphaharps
10:05 Mon Apr 2
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Science is so much more advanced now. Billions have been put into CERN and we are beginning to reap the rewards. It's not as sexy as a man on the moon, but much more significant
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Polska
9:32 Mon Apr 2
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BBC 2 are bringing out a documentary series about the 70s, w
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Joke Whole
9:15 Mon Apr 2
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My elder brother was born in 1953, when the UK still has at least a decade/decade & a half of post-war austerity/recovery ahead of it; my younger brother was born in 1959 - the perfect time for the bastard absent father of liberal political correctness to start fucking up the British education and social system.
I was born smack bang in the middle and rode the crest of the wave; education, science & society were still expanding whilst heeding the lessons of (recent) history.
There was hope and belief everywhere; hope from my parent's generation that mankind should never, again, suffer a war like they had to suffer - and belief from (many in) my generation that we never would.
What the fuck went wrong?
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inconsistant fc
9:05 Mon Apr 2
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YOU OLD CUNTS
*burns sepia-tinted specs*
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Fat Andy E.15
9:03 Mon Apr 2
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3 x telly channels I.T.V...BBC1....BBC2,that shut down around midnigh
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WHOicidal Maniac
1:40 Mon Apr 2
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Had the pleasure of meeting Alan Shepard, one of the Apollo 14 Astronaut in the 80's, a pleasant, articulate man who was fascinating to talk to.
I remember watching Space 1999 thinking that If I studied hard at school, I could fly the Eagle Transporter, but it seemed so far in the future.....
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The Mutts Nutz
12:56 Mon Apr 2
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No, not naive, Coffee, just felt like the very best of what it is to be Human, p'raps...
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Coffee
12:42 Mon Apr 2
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Was it naive, Muttz?
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The Mutts Nutz
12:41 Mon Apr 2
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Aye, we're all in the gutter, but this 10 year old was looking up a t' Stars at the time of the Moon Landings. Was taken to the premiere of 2001 - A Space Odyssey, where my jaw hit the floor, swept up in the naive optimism of the times. Wheres it all gone...?
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Northern Sold
12:37 Mon Apr 2
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banjo... You seen the film the Right Stuff?? All about the Mercury astronauts (Glenn, Sheppard etc)... spectacularly brilliant film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(film)
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