Whatever happened to the good old days?

Question

wow....!

*speechless @ Jen*

Answer 1

Do you mean the good old days when we sent small children up chimneys, there was no free healthcare and women weren't allowed to vote? Or are you thinking of some utopian ideal which never existed in reality?

Answer 2

Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read
this...............

Close your eyes and go back in time...
Before the Internet...Before semi-automatics, joy riders and crack....
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
Way back........
I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park.
The corner shop.
Hopscotch.
Butterscotch.
Skipping.
Handstands.
Football with an old can.
Fingerbob.
Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the menace.
Roly Poly.
Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams.
The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.
Bazooka Joe bubble gum.
An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a
tune.
Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps screwball.
Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials or the flicks.
Children's Film Foundation, The Double Deckers, Red Hand Gang,
Tomorrow People, Tiswas or Swapshop?, and 'Why Don't You'?- or staying up for Doctor Who.
When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like
going
somewhere.
Earwigs wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings.
Sticky fingers.
Playing Marbles. Ball bearings. Big 'uns and Little 'uns.
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.
Climbing trees.
Making igloos out of snow banks.
Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your
stomach
hurt.

Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights.
Spinning around on roundabouts, getting dizzy and falling down was
cause
for giggles.
Being tired from playing....remember that?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
Choppers and Grifters.
Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops. Vimto and Jubbly lollies
Remember when...
There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and Dunlop Green flash
- and the only time you wore them at School was for P.E.
(and they were called gym shoes or if you are older - plimsolls)
You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents.
It wasn't odd to have two or three 'best' friends.
You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve.
When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.
When 25p was decent pocket money
Curly Whirlys.
Space Dust.
Toffo's.
Top Trumps.
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there.
When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to
carry
groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate
that
awaited a misbehaving pupil at home.
Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of
drive-by
shootings, drugs, gangs etc.
Parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat and some of us are
still
afraid of them.
Didn't that feel good?
Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
Remember when....
Decisions were made by going "Ip, Dip, Dog Sh*t"
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.
And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.
It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic
event.

Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult.
Nobody was prettier than Mum.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.
Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest
protectors.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their grown life...
I DOUBLE-DARE YOU

Answer 3

The Good Old days...when life seemed simpler...
before you grew up?

or Before life as we know it wasn't filled with the threat of terrorism?

When you didn't have to 'almost undress' at airports?

Or when you didn't have to worry about locking your front door?

Each generation has a Good Old Days - except the present generation. What this generation mostly has is a widespread influx of technology and new diseases. I now see kids roller skating down the street with a Cell phone to their ear...or an Ipod.

Still the 1930-40's had the Stock market Crash and a World War Two.

The early 1900's had the Spanish Influenza (which killed millions) and World War One.

Each generation of this century has had something special that got lost along the way.

What I look forward to is the time the Bible foretold - Revelation 21:4,5 - when He shall clear this planet of all the ills we have to live in, and make way for a new system of living. Then there will be no "good old days" to speak of, but a brand new life under God's Kingdom.

Answer 4

Nothing is good or bad. Just because you remember some old things does not means it is good. Its a game of life in which we remember somethings and forgot somethings, it totally depends on the taste of the individual which decides what to remember and what not to.

Anyways, the good old days are always with the individuals, it is just that the real life experiences are turn to memories and since the experiences were good (pleasing) so the memories are good.

Answer 5

The good old days were and will always be around as long people go out and make good friends and collect great memories through there lives! that then in later life will become "the good old days"

Answer 6

Well it has been 60 years since the second world war. The swinging 60s is long gone and so is the great 50s.

Other countries like India, China and UAE is coming up fast. No one is as rich as it used to be and all of us have to work hard and doubly fast to keep control of the business.

So, this is the life we have today.

Hush! Why do you need to ask this question? I feel so disappointed.

Answer 7

'Nostalgia' as they say. Is a thing of the past....

Or do you mean the days before militant extremists hijacked the women's liberation movement to make unreasonable demands under the guise of feminism?

Answer 8

the good old days .... spangles sweets, bay city rollers, crisps stuffed in a bread roll for lunch, innocence, leaving your door open so neighbours could just pop in for a chat, letting children out side to play, less traffic on the roads, i could go on for ever......

Answer 9

THESE are the good ole days for a whole generation. Scary huh?

Answer 10

The good old days, they are tomorrows yesterdays .