When was the time.

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  RHP User

  10 years ago

  Grow up in the late sixties and seventies...I don't think people were any happier...but there was almost no unemployment . We didn't have a lot of money but it didn't seem to matter. It's easy to romanticise times past..For Tony Abbot I imagine the 50s were it....xxFreya

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  RHP User

  10 years ago

  I've appreciated the times I've lived through..I've gone from a time where calculators weren't even available at school. There wasn't a TV and phone in every house..To a time where I can carry a phone in my pocket that has a calculator app and the ability to watch videos and programs on the go. WoW!.Peachy

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  RHP User

  10 years ago

  The free love sixties would have been cool but with that came Vietnam which may well have killed me, the cold war and the nuclear threat ensured I led a reckless and irresponsible life as it was !

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  RHP User

  10 years ago

  I remember a time kids were active and my mates and I rode our bikes miles, made forts/ go karts plusspent hours together.If you wanted to know where kids were just look for the pile of bikes.Even lots of children don't socialize much out of schoolas they text or play xbox.Even if I had those things when younger I would tryto stay away from them...

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  RHP User

  10 years ago

  I reminisce about people and the wonderful memories of times we have shared. I have never wished I had grown up in a different era because every era has its charms and its shortcomings. I have, however, often wondered how our world would be like without so much automation and connectivity - machines and software would not have taken over so many jobs, more jobs would exist to keep more people gainfully employed, and the social ills and repercussions of unemployment will not be such a major issue. The new psychological phenomenon of "serial dating" would not exist because there wouldn't be online dating sites. And how fabulous if honour and moral values were upheld and there was a sense of decorum. Was there ever an era where drugs and violence were never rampant issues? An era where women were ladies and men were gentlemen, (in public anyways)? LOL!!!

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  RHP User

  10 years ago

  I had a totally different childhood from my kids. But I also have to say that things are very different now, and have been for at least a couple of decades. The streets are not safe because... ironically, gangs of kids roam the streets. It can be very threatening, even for an adult. I remember roaming far and wide when I was a kid. Time spent at 'home' was as little as possible, lol. I have a lot of great memories I wish my kids could experience. Peachy :-)

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  RHP User

  10 years ago

  My observation is that the current generation or poor at risk assessment because they don't take risk often enough to learn the limits of the envelope.Result is when they do take risk they take bigger risks then we would have at the same age and only luck saves a lot of them. They are just not familiar with the limits and when they do they take it to dangerous levels. Motor racing for example, I raced in my twenties for years and we used to have many race classes and large entries.Now a shell of itself, everyone is doing safer activities for sport but then at some point they have an overnight revelation they are bullet proof and go out and do something insanely dangerous they never tried before and they die. And we cant blame them, its the parents who are all living vicariously through their kids and wont let go and want to control their lives to make sure they don't make the same mistakes, breeding clones.Everything fun is illegal, they have nothing they are allowed to do that involves risk all because of all the chattering mambsy pambsy muffin fucking do gooders. Here child, have an internet and STFU, that's all they get.They cant even buy decent drugs to numb their minds from the monotony of the suburban vanilla life mummy and daddy carved out for them in stone.

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  MsSuperFoxy

  10 years ago

  Ohhh yes please! fascinating.... Ms Foxy

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  RHP User

  10 years ago

  I don't know who originally spouted this aphorism, but I heard it on Top Gear, from that eschewer of all wisdom Jeremy Clarkson, that now is the time that current generations will be getting all nostalgic for in 50 years. I am nostalgic for various points in my history thus far: My childhood, the times I lived in small mining towns in outback Queensland, which was one of those idyllic times of free-ranging all over as long as you were back in time for dinner. Was a Countdown addict, loved music for as long as I can remember. My senior years of high school, with some of the best friends of my life, enjoying budding adulthood and all that it entailed - discovering alcohol, great parties, sex, freedom. Really crappy music that I hated at the time (this was the 80's) but I now love. My early twenties - moving to the Territory, meeting even more great lifelong friends, grooving to the (very tangible) Territory Lifestyle, learning to love beer. The Thirties - finally being taken seriously and treated like an adult, learning that I was actually attractive to some of the opposite sex (was completely hopeless and oblivious prior), finding my way into a career that I loved, discovering international travel (since become and addiction), fell deeply in love and got married. Found I didn't have much time (literally) for music. The Forties - best time of all thus far to be honest. Watched my marriage collapse in on itself, found yet more great friends in the process that I didn't even know I had who helped me through, care less about useless shite and love everything/everybody more. Travel heaps, love my own company but don't resist other people's. Rediscovered the joys of music, caught up on about a decade's worth. Flogged the shite out of iTunes. Have Spotify Premium (nothing worse than when you're in the zone and they chuck an ad in). I would go back in time to any of my previous chapters, even the bad ones, but I am perfectly fine where I am right now as well. I could well end up one of those sad, lonely types that have nothing but their memories - but hey, I'll cross that bridge if I come to it (and probably jump off it). Times come and go. Remember past times with fondness, but don't let them stop you from finding New Best Times. They are there for the taking.

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  RHP User

  10 years ago

  Purely for the fashion, I'd have loved to have lived in the 50's - but I do love being alive now. As for the xbox/ mobile phone thing for kids today, Chev, it's a different kind of socialisation. Only someone who has never played networked games would say that it's not a social activity!

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  RHP User

  10 years ago

  And young people...it is ever thus😝. The children now love luxury. They have bad manners ,contempt for authority,they show disrespect for elders and love chatter instead of exercise. Socrates 470-399 BC xxFreya

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  Baysidecouple214

  10 years ago

  Quoting 'Probity' My observation is that the current generation or poor at risk assessmentbecause they don't take risk often enough to learn the limits of the envelope.Result is when they do take risk they take bigger risks then we would have at the same age and only luck saves a lot of them. They are just not familiar with the limits and when they do they take it to dangerous levels. theory suggests we human beings, will become weaker time goes on and more issues with severe breakages, arthritis and other bone related ailments will flourish in later ages due to the body itself not being exposed. Helicopter parents and this inane persona that we have to shield kids from everything. That everything must be sterilised to the Ent degree. That dirt, water from the hose and pretty much eating anything while pregnant are big no, no's..... We will just end up like the cast members of Idiocracy , or WALLE. Going back to the OP original question... Either the 60/70's. So much iconic music was written and played on stage back then (and it didn't cost a fortune to attend). OR Victorian Era (not in Australia obviously).

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  RHP User

  10 years ago

  Paris before WW1...an extraordinary time . The Impressionists,Post Impressionists...Manet,Monet,Picasso ,Gauguin. Nijinsky and the Ballet Russe ,HemingwayJoyce,all hanging out together,I would have loved to be there,listening to those conversations ..Woody Allen's film Midnight In Paris kind of captures it xxFreya

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  AnnieWhichway

  10 years ago

  Apart from the novelty factor, to live in another period. We are just arriving at a time that accepts different people for what they are. Well almost anyway. Its important for me that i can walk down the street at night and not feel intimidated or threatened as far as being Annie I know its a limited view/reason but i like now. Just wish i was younger to enjoy the now. Dont be too quick to live in the past.

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  RHP User

  10 years ago

  The 60s and after had drug problems but it was a minoritywith some others trying it or recreation.It was rare I heard the words we are bored but now I hear mum I need a new game or an upgrade and when older themajority get into drugs as yet again we are bored or tryingto fit in.The older GEN can be just as bad becoming couch potatoesand reading about other people in magazines [ take 5, woman's dayWHO and so on instead of going out and having a life.The mobile phone has got others to call more often but to get togetherand be social has dropped off heaps.

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