What is meant by 'The Good Old Days'

[Grisu]

Originally posted by Flak
Just think, one day, these will be the 'Good Old Days' for a lot of us.

yes, and everything we have now, will have been better then...boy, I'm getting confused with the tenses here

 

[Panda]

The good old days, when my grand father was a child and we had a civil war, famine and an agricultural society afraid of a Soviet invasion?

Or the good really old days, when an evil Empire had annexed Finland, tried to stamp out every aspect of our national identity, women couldn't vote, homosexuals were locked up, and bars were closed at 11?

How about life today?

Watch an American movie on your Japanese TV while munching Turkish kebabs, go down to the pub in a German car to drink some Irish whiskey and pick up a drunken Swedish girl.

I say this is a no-brainer for me to pick from.

 

[bigfatron]

Originally posted by Pillager
I can agree with a fair amount of that. If I had to give a list of what most older people would say:

- When crime was far, far lower than today.
- People in authority were far more respected. E.g., the police, teachers, vicars etc.
- Those people had the ability to enforce their authority. No liberals bleating about corporal punishment.
- When no-one would dream of writing the things they write nowadays about the Royal Family.
- Far more people went to church, and promoting Christianity wasn't frowded upon.
- When children respected their elders.
- Children were actually taught this country's history in schools.
- Our history was something to be proud of.
- Multiculturalism didn't exist is probably one for many, too.

Oh for the times when we were all more compliant and did as we were told - us oiks shouldn't worry our little minds about what is right or proper, just trust the upper classes to run the country and take the big decisions for us. Warm beer and cricket on the green for Daily Mail readers while the lower classes enjoy their back-to-back houses with communal toilets.

The world's moved on, for better and for worse - identify real problems with tehcurrent world, propose real solutions; just don't moon over some Telegraph style fantasy-England that ever actually existed...

Oh, and on another point, my kids certainly ARE being taught the history if this country in school, just the whole thing - the bits we can be proud of and the bits we maybe can't. Personally I think that's a good thing.

 

[scotland_no1]

at school i am being taught the history of this country, history doesnt have to be good, we dont hide propaganda nowadays like right wing faciasts. we let people see what we were really like, i mean we were the first people to use chemical weapons in iraq

i dont call them the good old days, i call them the bad old days

 

[Vote BNP]

Thats wrong. They were the good old days and young people learn more about political correctness than they do about the actual history of their country. Schools should do more than exercises in feeling guilty about supposed excesses.

 

[scotland_no1]

you cant tell someone their opinion is wrong, its their opinion... however you faciasts are the same, we wouldn't have an opinion anymore if you came into power

 

[Peri]

Originally posted by Vote BNP
Thats wrong. They were the good old days and young people learn more about political correctness than they do about the actual history of their country. Schools should do more than exercises in feeling guilty about supposed excesses.

Would you be kind enough to provide actual evidence of this claim.
Also what are these 'supposed excesses'?

 

[yaroslav]

Ehhh - Are you aware that some old sumerian cuneiform writing tell us that even in these days the senior people were whining about the 'good old days'?

 

[Archer 007]

Originally posted by Ohwell
I enjoy how you say propoganda is a good thing though, BNP boy.

So i see you found that funny also?

 

[Archer 007]

Originally posted by col
There's a lot you dont know about the BNP and it is nothing like the Republican party. But I'm sure VoteBNP will enlighten us the coming weeks as to the real nature of his party.

But you might be interested in reading this

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/programmes/2001/bnp_special/default.stm

Thanks for that article. Ive really wanted to know what this madness is about. After reading, the sound like pro-Confederacy nuts in the southern United States.

 

[allhailIndia]

Originally posted by Vote BNP
Schools should do more than exercises in feeling guilty about supposed excesses.

I'm sure the Jallianwallah Bagh Massacre was just in the imaginations of the 120 dead people, who got so scared of imaginary bullets fored by a non-existent General Dyer that they just dies of fright

Or perhaps all the millions of Indians beaten down and imprisoned during the freedom struggle just imagined it

Get the hell out of your ivory tower, before you talk about history

 

[MrPresident]

Originally posted by allhailIndia
Or perhaps all the millions of Indians beaten down and imprisoned during the freedom struggle just imagined it

Yeah, sorry about that. But we did teach you cricket and let you beat us all the time. So I suppose we're even.

Originally posted by Vote BNP
They were the good old days and young people learn more about political correctness than they do about the actual history of their country.

Do you know what irony is?