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Post by Moose on Jul 22, 2015 20:49:34 GMT
I was up at my mum's earlier and as she flat our refused to watch Game of THrones and I might of died of boredom if I'd been forced to watch one more episode of Absolutely Fabulous (don't get me wrong, I do like it, but not THAT much) we compromised and watched the Good Life instead. I've seen them all before and rather liked them - gentle, non cheesy and well acted seventies comedy, and you don't necessarily get many of THOSE to the pound *pauses politely whilst anyone still reading contradicts this*. Okay the thing that struck me was...
GOD, the seventies look like they were BORING. The clothes looked boring. The houses looking boring. The decor looked boring. The hairstyles looked boring. I realise that I was alive during this period - well some of it - but fortunately I was too young to realise just how BORING it all was.
Am I the only person in the world who does not look back on the past as the 'good old days' and who is, in fact, extremely happy that we live in the age that we do? Yeah yeah I know that there's a lot of crap around now but let's be honest, it was around then too; people just pretend that it wasn't. Even life in middle class suburbia looks, from this sitcom, to be about as dull as listening to the shipping forecast in Albanian. I am so glad that I hit my *coughs* prime a little later on in humanity's progress
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Post by JoeP on Jul 22, 2015 21:00:09 GMT
When I saw the thread title I assumed you meant "before smartphones and Facebook and C**** C****".
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Post by Moose on Jul 22, 2015 21:09:20 GMT
Oh good, you heard me.
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Post by tangent on Jul 22, 2015 21:27:29 GMT
Life in the 50s was not at all boring. The late 40s had rationing and the 50s had all sorts of new foods. I watched my first TV programme, Muffin the Mule, in 1949 and was ecstatically happy - I was only five years old at the time. But since that time, TV programmes have taken off into the stratosphere. At one time, even David Dimbelby was an icon, he certainly was not boring.
Then came the Beatles, Tomorrow's World, the New Seekers, Greece the Movie, Doctor Who and all sorts of wonderful new ideas and inventions. Computers migrated from valves with 380 bytes of main store to 380 gigabytes of main store. There has never been a dull moment in the past fifty year.
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Post by Mari on Jul 23, 2015 10:24:59 GMT
If I could go back and live in the 60s and 70s for a couple of weeks I would love to. The 80s however seem very dull to me. The films and musicals of that era are not to my liking at all, nor are the clothes and houses. I guess it depends on the person.
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Post by Miisa on Jul 23, 2015 11:38:25 GMT
I couldn't get past the point of someone thinking AbFab was boring.
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Post by Moose on Jul 23, 2015 15:31:36 GMT
It's not boring, it's just I've seen all of them three million times
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Post by Miisa on Jul 23, 2015 15:52:09 GMT
My daughter keeps re-watching Miranda. But it never gets old.
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Post by Moose on Jul 23, 2015 17:20:34 GMT
Hmm I am not best keen on that. It's not awful but not something I'd watch voluntarily
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Jul 27, 2015 16:25:39 GMT
I did my best to stop the 60s from being boring. In 1967 a miss Williams and I invented sex. Do we get a single "thank you" ? Do we cupcakes! Where's the gratitude, I ask you?
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Post by Moose on Jul 27, 2015 20:38:01 GMT
I thought that Philip Larkin invented sex..
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Jul 27, 2015 20:52:59 GMT
Ah yes but my invention involved more than one person
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Post by Alvamiga on Jul 28, 2015 8:30:07 GMT
Philip Larkin did not invent sex! He was copying an idea his parents had.
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Post by tangent on Jul 28, 2015 10:54:49 GMT
I got married in the seventies. That wasn't dull.
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Post by Moose on Jul 28, 2015 20:23:15 GMT
You need to read some Philip Larkin, Col my love
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Post by robert on Jul 30, 2015 0:20:18 GMT
I think it is all about context. If the very thought of an iphone, laptop, netflix, etc. were in the minds of those in the 70's, I imagine television shows of the period, pong and all their forms of entertainment would have seemed dull. Hindsight does nothing to comparing the times.
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Jul 30, 2015 10:20:44 GMT
Month Python still stands up. So does Spike Milligan's output. So does Patrick McGoohan's "The Prisoner". So do all the films of both Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese. And George Lucas for that matter.
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Post by spaceflower on Aug 1, 2015 23:20:28 GMT
The seventies were not boring for people who were young then. There was something new happening all the time.
But TV-series generellay were less complicated then. We want everything to be faster, more complicated and less black and white. Are we more sophisticated? Or just more cynical?
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Post by jayme on Aug 2, 2015 1:34:12 GMT
I don't think the '70s were boring, but there was a lot of beige stuff back then, so it just looked boring.
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Post by Alvamiga on Aug 2, 2015 7:24:57 GMT
Much more interesting clothes!
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Post by jayme on Aug 2, 2015 14:02:57 GMT
Farrah Fawcett hair:
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Post by juju on Aug 2, 2015 19:56:56 GMT
70s decor, though. Brown, orange and avocado. I'm still having the nightmares.
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Post by tangent on Aug 2, 2015 21:51:41 GMT
Was this your house, juju?
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Post by jayme on Aug 2, 2015 21:58:46 GMT
Roller Disco! And socks that were longer than your pants!
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Post by juju on Aug 2, 2015 23:24:30 GMT
Was this your house, juju? No. Although when I was little we had a similar colour scheme in our hallway. Scarred for life, I am.
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Post by tangent on Aug 3, 2015 5:06:36 GMT
*nods understandingly*
We had something similar in our dining room in 1985, which we *coughs* chose ourselves.
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Post by Alvamiga on Aug 8, 2015 18:52:37 GMT
Give it a couple of decades and we'll all be complaining how bland everything is now! At least people's houses used to have some kind of variety and personalisation back then.
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Post by Alvamiga on Aug 8, 2015 18:54:10 GMT
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Post by Mari on Aug 30, 2015 11:09:17 GMT
That's true. There are too many houses (and people!) that look way too much like those faceless things in magazines.
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Post by spaceflower on Sept 5, 2015 14:36:03 GMT
Ah, those were the days! Artists had more clothes on then.
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