Things aint like they used to be

3 channel TV was shite. 48 channel TV is still shite........apart from reruns of Dads Army.
Fat kids....something to do with remote controls I reckon....remember arguing about whose turn it was to get off your arse and change channel? Remember pre-push-button channel selection when you had to turn a dial. And didnt the sun always shine.........

bollocks did it.

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You harbour a thought. You don't harbour on about something. One is transitive and the other intransitive.

The white dog poo is something to do with chalk in dog food. Wasn't there one of those god awful TV nostaligia shows about that sort of thing?

Oh please give it a rest, theres more to life then correcting someone every second of the day !
Who cares if i harbored,or he harped really ?

theres more to life then correcting someone every second of the day !

I beg to differ

I feel cheated; I've never seen a white dog poo :(

I beg to differ

Why am i not surprised :~}

Remember pre-push-button channel selection when you had to turn a dial.

Had an old Sony TV with a dial when I was a kid that I got given to me by my grandparents after they bought a new TV. I knew exactly where all 4 channels were. Channel 4 reception was always really shite and had to watch Awakenings with big fuck off fuzzy lines all over the TV screen and a really grainy picture.

I feel cheated; I've never seen a white dog poo :
(

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Aubade

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
Till then I see what's really always there:
Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,
Making all thought impossible but how
And where and when I shall myself die.
Arid interrogation: yet the dread
Of dying, and being dead,
Flashes afresh to hold and horrify.
The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse

• The good not done, the love not given, time
  Torn off unused - nor wretchedly because
  An only life can take so long to climb
  Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never;
  But at the total emptiness for ever,
  The sure extinction that we travel to
  And shall be lost in always. Not to be here,
  Not to be anywhere,
  And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true.
  
  

This is a special way of being afraid
No trick dispels. Religion used to try,
That vast, moth-eaten musical brocade
Created to pretend we never die,
And specious stuff that says No rational being
Can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing
That this is what we fear - no sight, no sound,
No touch or taste or smell, nothing to think with,
Nothing to love or link with,
The anasthetic from which none come round.

And so it stays just on the edge of vision,
A small, unfocused blur, a standing chill
That slows each impulse down to indecision.
Most things may never happen: this one will,
And realisation of it rages out
In furnace-fear when we are caught without
People or drink. Courage is no good:
It means not scaring others. Being brave
Lets no one off the grave.
Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape.
It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know,
Have always known, know that we can't escape,
Yet can't accept. One side will have to go.
Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring
In locked-up offices, and all the uncaring
Intricate rented world begins to rouse.
The sky is white as clay, with no sun.
Work has to be done.
Postmen like doctors go from house to house.

Philip Larkin

White dog poo used to haunt me...

There is a country & western song about this

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Rednecks, beer, birds and bar fights, I love'em

The white dog poo is something to do with chalk in dog food. Wasn't there one of those god awful TV nostaligia shows about that sort of thing?

It's been the fodder of stand-up comedians for years now - although perhaps not literally.

I liked it back when nothing happened on a Sunday.

Before mobile phones people went where they said they were going to be, when they said they were going to be there.

I used to call on people to see if they were in. Now people phone you from outside your house to say they're outside.

Back in the 80's I used to think computers were for weirdos. Especially the guy who was always banging on about his 'modem' and how 'newsgroups' were going to change the world. I hate it that he was right!

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on DSTV, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

This 'Shirley' doesn't apply to a cycling forum? Everyone here likes riding their bikes around, whether they moan about it or not.

I used to call on people to see if they were in. Now people phone you from outside your house to say they're outside.

so true.

" just uncomfortable with the idea that things used to be better. I just don't and won't believe it."

i know one thing that was definitely better 25 years ago and that was the speed and amount of traffic on rural roads. i was allowed to ride my bike wherever i wanted (which was a radius of about 7miles around the village) from an early age and don't remember any problems with cars. back then a car doing 60mph down a twisty country road was quite hard to achieve as they were slow, had shit brakes and handled badly. now i wouldn't dream of letting a kid ride around there on their own, and have to think carefully about particular roads/corners and junctions i have to cycle around there.

yes there are more cars but i disagree - i'm sure the roads are much safer now that they used to be.

cars are more powerful but with ABS and modern technology their brakes are much better. obtaining a driving license is also harder than it used to be, so the standard of driving should have increased (in theory). drink driving used to be quite an acceptable thing to do, this is no longer the case. also think about speeding cameras, fines, cctv more police. it's harder to drive badly and get away with it.

i reckon the roads are as safe for two wheelers as they've ever been.

But there are loads of people driving pissed and/or without a licence.

And ABS could make the drivers a little more complacent about things like braking distances.

Some roads are worse to cycle on, a fact reflected in the demise of certain time trial courses (predominantly dual-carriageways).

You're wrong, and you're a grotesquely ugly freak.

The first part of your argument has lost all credibility thanks to the gibberish you followed it up with.

i reckon the roads are as safe for two wheelers as they've ever been.

I disagree. Bicycling was a lot safer before cars, I believe...

There's not much good that comes out of the whining nostalgia that the OP quoted. Shane Meadows has made a couple of OK films out of it, but beyond that it's just old bastards moaning.

I disagree. Bicycling was a lot safer before cars, I believe...

what, on those penny farthings, with no brakes, candle-powered front lights on potholed-to-fuck donkey roads. i dont think so.

The first part of your argument has lost all credibility thanks to the gibberish you followed it up with.

its a line from brass eye, i thought you would have got that, you roboplegic wrongcock.

Were you in this?
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I grew up close to lots of factories and industrial sites. A lot of the big ones are still here in Brum, proper towers of old cars etc to be crushed. And mandatory big bitey dogs.

I was always terrible at climbing but was always forced into it by people I was with, often to get to something cool on the other side like old junk, or skate spots when older.