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Originally Posted by gsgsgs
TV series called DEVS, excellent watch.
Thank you.
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Originally Posted by Hamble
1960'S
To view English life as I have seen in old films.
The sixties were reputed to be good times, with plenty of work for everyone, holidays by the seaside, rock and roll and flower power and easy living.
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Originally Posted by Little Londoner
You travel back in time to Downing St 1979 and you have a gun in your hand and SHE walks out of No10 you could save thousands of jobs and a hell of a lot of Industry. Wouldn't you pull the trigger especially if J.$aville was with her. You would have made a hell of a lot of happiness instead of the misery they both caused.
That would be tempting.
Or go back further and give her father a good kicking in the 'nads. Mean, but it would stop such misery.
Then again, someone like Tebbit might have risen through the ranks.
So I've got to find his father and his sodding bike and his 'nads. I start that and I'd have to go on a 'nad kicking spree throughout history. Save me actually killing anyone, but stopping untold amounts of grief.
And I'd have to be certain I had the right 'nads. I might crush Lee Harvey Oswald's Dad's nads, or James Earl Ray's Dad's nads, and their progeny were entirely innocent.
It's a lot of responsibility. I'll start a list.
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Originally Posted by said
The sixties were reputed to be good times, with plenty of work for everyone, holidays by the seaside, rock and roll and flower power and easy living.
*licks the tip of a pencil*
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Originally Posted by Hamble
True though would it not be wonderful if technology could produce a virtual reality travel back in time?
Yes that is true.
I can think of a few people who constantly harp on about good old days that were actually long before they were born. I'd send them back so they could see the grim reality.
War fetishists for a start.
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Originally Posted by said
The sixties were reputed to be good times, with plenty of work for everyone, holidays by the seaside, rock and roll and flower power and easy living.
I was a child in the 60's so part of it is nostalgia and part the stuff I never got to see.
I grew up a few miles from the Palace Hotel never saw it.
My parents went to Jazz concerts there.
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Originally Posted by salus.populi
Yes that is true.
I can think of a few people who constantly harp on about good old days that were actually long before they were born. I'd send them back so they could see the grim reality.
War fetishists for a start.
Absolutely.
The old buildings and train lines are the attraction for me.
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Originally Posted by Hamble
I was a child in the 60's so part of it is nostalgia and part the stuff I never got to see.
I grew up a few miles from the Palace Hotel never saw it.
My parents went to Jazz concerts there.
I was still at primary school then. Went along to the Palace with a football-mad classmate, for him to get an autograph of Pele (the famous footballer) who was staying there at the time. We never got any further than the foyer though....Seem to remember a staff member telling us the lift was haunted, when we asked to go up!
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Originally Posted by The PNP
I was still at primary school then. Went along to the Palace with a football-mad classmate, for him to get an autograph of Pele (the famous footballer) who was staying there at the time. We never got any further than the foyer though....Seem to remember a staff member telling us the lift was haunted, when we asked to go up!
Little boys and lifts not a good idea anyway.
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Originally Posted by Hamble
Absolutely.
The old buildings and train lines are the attraction for me.
Those train lines where they used explosive devices to warn the drivers of the trains when necessary?
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Originally Posted by Mr Saxon
I'd love to be able to go back to the 1970's, take a couple of hundred quid with me, open a bank account in somewhere like Barclays or Natwest and then travel forward a bit, collect the interest and then keep doing that. There's a few things I want to buy but they're not available in this time period.
I could warn everyone about COVID 19 as well while I'm there.
That would be fun - but people would not have believed you about the pandemic and all that you have been asked to do. They would have laughed at you and directed you to the nearest sanitorium.
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Originally Posted by said
That would be fun - but people would not have believed you about the pandemic and all that you have been asked to do. They would have laughed at you and directed you to the nearest sanitorium.
You're obviously forgetting about the large number of people who lived through the 1918 flu pandemic who were still around in the 70s. Most of them had good reason to remember it, having lost so many family members. The 'things you have been asked to do' during the Covid pandemic would be nothing new to them, and nothing to laugh about. Social distancing was recommended, along with hygiene measures and wearing a mask. Schools and other public buildings were closed. Those showing symptoms were told to quarantine for 14 days. The similarities between then and now are quite amazing considering it was just over 100 years ago.
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Originally Posted by seivad
You're obviously forgetting about the large number of people who lived through the 1918 flu pandemic who were still around in the 70s. Most of them had good reason to remember it, having lost so many family members. The 'things you have been asked to do' during the Covid pandemic would be nothing new to them, and nothing to laugh about. Social distancing was recommended, along with hygiene measures and wearing a mask. Schools and other public buildings were closed. Those showing symptoms were told to quarantine for 14 days. The similarities between then and now are quite amazing considering it was just over 100 years ago.
And it took 2 years to get rid of as well.
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I'd be happy to be back in 1970 with my wife and sons and, know what I know now.
Just be yourself, no one else is better qualified!!
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Originally Posted by Little Londoner
You travel back in time to Downing St 1979 and you have a gun in your hand and SHE walks out of No10 you could save thousands of jobs and a hell of a lot of Industry. Wouldn't you pull the trigger especially if J.$aville was with her. You would have made a hell of a lot of happiness instead of the misery they both caused.
I would give her a big kiss. The unions had been giving the labour government and the population a real kicking. As you know the winter of discontent was 1978/79. Someone ‘our Maggie’ had to sort them out. And so she did.
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Originally Posted by semah
I would give her a big kiss. The unions had been giving the labour government and the population a real kicking. As you know the winter of discontent was 1978/79. Someone ‘our Maggie’ had to sort them out. And so she did.
What do you think creates militant unions? let you into a little secret, a smooth running workforce does not become political assassinators, the trigger was very much inflation and poor management.
Thatcher’s answer was shut down or downgrade manufacturing in favour of the financiers, the false lure of easy earnings without producing anything worked for a while, until we suddenly discovered that those fabulous profits didn’t actually exist.
In Thatchers world she would buy from the cheapest, no matter the quality or the effects on British industry, the shopkeepers daughter with a shopkeeper’s mentality.
British industry was certainly in need of reform and modernising, but Thatcher’s emphasis was definitely anti manufacturing.
Sadly too much of British industry felt they could carry on in the same old way with no need to improve or change methods, no need to match the progress of industry in other countries, far too many British companies continued to produce the same goods without apparently even seeing that their products were already outdated, add that to a government which was quite content to see industries die and then be surprised at worker unrest.
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