FabSwingers.com forum: Rose Tinted Past

By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

As I was driving this morning I passed through the well-to-do Jewish community and saw everyone dressed in their Sabbath best. I had a little flashback to when people used to dress up on a Sunday and felt a little saddened that Sunday best is rare now and Sunday clothes are usually for slobbing around.

Then I remembered the cheap, scratchy fabrics and how uncomfortable it was to sit through church in them and then keeping them neat and clean all day for fear of being told off.

Nostalgia - it ain't what it used to be.

What's your rose tinted memory?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Long summer holidays from school, it never rained.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Long summer holidays from school, it never rained. "

Well, to be fair, for us (and others our age), it really didn't for at least two years.

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By *mokeybanditMan
over a year ago

lichfield

God yes, the scratchy clothes for church in a Sunday morning. Then having to keep them on for the weekly trip to nan and grandads in the afternoon.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That Britain in charge of its own destiny was so much better than today.

Then I remembered the 3 day week, racial conflict, illegal homosexuality...

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"That Britain in charge of its own destiny was so much better than today.

Then I remembered the 3 day week, racial conflict, illegal homosexuality..."

Effluent on the beaches... But let's not take this into a politics forum thread; that's a whole different rose tinting of Fab fora BB and PB.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"That Britain in charge of its own destiny was so much better than today.

Then I remembered the 3 day week, racial conflict, illegal homosexuality...

Effluent on the beaches... But let's not take this into a politics forum thread; that's a whole different rose tinting of Fab fora BB and PB."

True!

AB rather than BB?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No shops open on Sundays. Ahhhh I loved that, the fact that it was a day of just being, you know 'still' somehow.

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"No shops open on Sundays. Ahhhh I loved that, the fact that it was a day of just being, you know 'still' somehow. "

I'd still like that

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"No shops open on Sundays. Ahhhh I loved that, the fact that it was a day of just being, you know 'still' somehow. "

That is one that I do miss. I know the world has shifted but I really enjoy visiting places where Sunday is still a day of rest.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"No shops open on Sundays. Ahhhh I loved that, the fact that it was a day of just being, you know 'still' somehow.

That is one that I do miss. I know the world has shifted but I really enjoy visiting places where Sunday is still a day of rest.

Fair enough, but I wish we'd just stop messing around and let all shops open all the time, I find it ridiculous that my nearest Sainsburys can be open as long as it wants (it's a 'Local') but that it's big brother up the road can't.

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

"No shops open on Sundays. Ahhhh I loved that, the fact that it was a day of just being, you know 'still' somehow.

That is one that I do miss. I know the world has shifted but I really enjoy visiting places where Sunday is still a day of rest.

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but did we want the world to shift or did we allow it to shift because we were told it would be better ? and if so better for whom certainley not the workers

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By *yldstyleWoman
over a year ago

A world of my own

Not a memory more just my preferred image of current circumstances

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"No shops open on Sundays. Ahhhh I loved that, the fact that it was a day of just being, you know 'still' somehow.

That is one that I do miss. I know the world has shifted but I really enjoy visiting places where Sunday is still a day of rest.

but did we want the world to shift or did we allow it to shift because we were told it would be better ? and if so better for whom certainley not the workers "

I think we have allowed a lot of things to shift and then get used to them. I refused to go shopping on a Sunday for the first 10 years and then drifted into it, like everyone else.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

People used to be respectful and polite to each other. Kids respected their elders. Everyone was happy.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"People used to be respectful and polite to each other. Kids respected their elders. Everyone was happy.

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By *elma and ShaggyCouple
over a year ago

Bedworth

I remember Saturdays visiting my grandparents. We watched the muppets and wrestling on the but had to be quiet while grandad listened to the football pools.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"I remember Saturdays visiting my grandparents. We watched the muppets and wrestling on the but had to be quiet while grandad listened to the football pools."

EVERYONE had to be quiet for the pools. Do you remember Spot The Ball in the papers?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My rose tinted memory is before everyone had cell phones and not everything in life was being videoed and photographed. It aall seemed more relaxed and in the moment.

But then I remember having to walk miles in the middle of the night because our car broke down on the highway and we didn't have a cell. And fifty other similar stories.

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By *ongtalljonMan
over a year ago

North Wales

"As I was driving this morning I passed through the well-to-do Jewish community and saw everyone dressed in their Sabbath best. I had a little flashback to when people used to dress up on a Sunday and felt a little saddened that Sunday best is rare now and Sunday clothes are usually for slobbing around.

When Saturdays were as well revered as sundays and treated as though they were the Sabbath.

Then I remembered the cheap, scratchy fabrics and how uncomfortable it was to sit through church in them and then keeping them neat and clean all day for fear of being told off.

Nostalgia - it ain't what it used to be.

What's your rose tinted memory?

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By *ongtalljonMan
over a year ago

North Wales

When Saturdays were as well revered as sundays and treated as though they were the Sabbath.

Then I remembered the cheap, scratchy fabrics and how uncomfortable it was to sit through church in them and then keeping them neat and clean all day for fear of being told off.

Nostalgia - it ain't what it used to be.

What's your rose tinted memory?

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By *ongtalljonMan
over a year ago

North Wales

When Saturdays were as well revered as sundays and treated as though they were the Sabbath.

Then I remembered the cheap, scratchy fabrics and how uncomfortable it was to sit through church in them and then keeping them neat and clean all day for fear of being told off.

Nostalgia - it ain't what it used to be.

What's your rose tinted memory?

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By *ongtalljonMan
over a year ago

North Wales

When Saturdays were as well revered as sundays and treated as though they were the Sabbath.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It always seemed to snow as a kiddie, every year. There would always be a chance to go sledging every Winter. Now it happens one in three, maybe one in four years.

I said on another thread earlier that Doctor Who Tom Baker style was AWESOME as a kiddie. I've watched the repeats recently and, well, they weren't as good as I remember them!

My school memories are largely very positive and happy. Somehow I've managed to blank out liver and bacon for dinner and lumpy custard for dessert.

And that time I fell head first off my bike and half my face was one massive scab.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"My rose tinted memory is before everyone had cell phones and not everything in life was being videoed and photographed. It aall seemed more relaxed and in the moment.

But then I remember having to walk miles in the middle of the night because our car broke down on the highway and we didn't have a cell. And fifty other similar stories."

The always on, always available culture that has come with smart phones has had a detrimental effect on all our lives. I worry about the young people I know who live every moment via the screen; it hasn't happened unless there is a picture or video posted somewhere with a group chat about it.

I resisted getting a mobile until my car blew up on the slip road as I was getting on to a motorway. No one knew where I was, I wouldn't have been missed for at least three days and the emergency phones don't appear to be on the slip roads.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"It always seemed to snow as a kiddie, every year. There would always be a chance to go sledging every Winter. Now it happens one in three, maybe one in four years.

I said on another thread earlier that Doctor Who Tom Baker style was AWESOME as a kiddie. I've watched the repeats recently and, well, they weren't as good as I remember them!

My school memories are largely very positive and happy. Somehow I've managed to blank out liver and bacon for dinner and lumpy custard for dessert.

And that time I fell head first off my bike and half my face was one massive scab."

I had lovely school meals. Mainly because our school cook was from the same part of the World as me and cooked food I knew.

There's probably a few people reminiscing about their exotic school meals.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"When Saturdays were as well revered as sundays and treated as though they were the Sabbath.

Saturdays had a rhythm to them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember those school days in the summer when you'd lie out on the school playing fields in the grass with the sun beating down, making daisy chains and talking about *boys*....

(might just be me)

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"I remember those school days in the summer when you'd lie out on the school playing fields in the grass with the sun beating down, making daisy chains and talking about *boys*....

(might just be me)

Playing fields? We had concrete.

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