Being of the younger generation I was just curious to see what changed your generations way of thinking. This could be anything from wars that were controversial to tech advancements
When I was a kid, we had a radio, but no TV. We had no running water and it had to be fetched from the village well in buckets. The toilet wa outside and was a (very) deep hole with a wooden cover and two holes.
Few people had cars and mother did her shopping at the village store, because there were no supermarkets. Most people caught a bus or walked to work, and you could be fired at a minute’s notice with no compensation. My sister and I walked the couple of miles to school which was heated in the winter, like everywhere else, by coal fires. Milk, bread and meat were delivered in horse drawn carts. Sweets and some other stuff was still on ration.
Trucks were mostly two or three axle flat beds - noisy, belching fumes, and definitely no sleeper cabs, night heaters (often no heater at all), satnav systems, power steering, sprung seats, or power assisted clutches. The drivers were usually in overall covered in grease. They were paid and treated as labourers. (plus ça change).
We knew, and were probably related to most of the people in the village. My sister and I scrumped apples from our uncle’s orchard, collected wool from the hedge and fences on a cousin’s fields, and helped to milk the cows in our Godparents’ dairy. At weekends we would take some bread, an apple and some cheese and go on an expedition up or down the river. At tea time we would likely arrive home on the back of someone’s trailer, or in their car, tired, scratched by brambles, dirty and happy. We would get a smack on the legs for tearing our clothes before tea and bed.
Santa that’s not what I had in mind what I had in mind was things that changed how you went on or changed the world
Eg for my generation 9/11 changed air travel dramatically (not starting a who done what and why just saying this changed air travel by tightening security)
Santa:
When I was a kid, we had a radio, but no TV. We had no running water and it had to be fetched from the village well in buckets. The toilet wa outside and was a (very) deep hole with a wooden cover and two holes.Few people had cars and mother did her shopping at the village store, because there were no supermarkets. Most people caught a bus or walked to work, and you could be fired at a minute’s notice with no compensation. My sister and I walked the couple of miles to school which was heated in the winter, like everywhere else, by coal fires. Milk, bread and meat were delivered in horse drawn carts. Sweets and some other stuff was still on ration.
Trucks were mostly two or three axle flat beds - noisy, belching fumes, and definitely no sleeper cabs, night heaters (often no heater at all), satnav systems, power steering, sprung seats, or power assisted clutches. The drivers were usually in overall covered in grease. They were paid and treated as labourers. (plus ça change).
We knew, and were probably related to most of the people in the village. My sister and I scrumped apples from our uncle’s orchard, collected wool from the hedge and fences on a cousin’s fields, and helped to milk the cows in our Godparents’ dairy. At weekends we would take some bread, an apple and some cheese and go on an expedition up or down the river. At tea time we would likely arrive home on the back of someone’s trailer, or in their car, tired, scratched by brambles, dirty and happy. We would get a smack on the legs for tearing our clothes before tea and bed.
Oh, Enid Blyton loves you!
Well when I was 18 (1994), beer was £1.50 a pint (I refuse to include the nats ■■■■ sold for 78p called scotch bitter available at this up and coming chain called Weatherspoons) , petrol was 54p /litre, and diesel 48p / litre. VAT was 15 %.
So basically the good and useful things in life now cost a heck of a lot more, and wages haven’t increased proportionally.
Possibly biggest change is that we have moved from being able to smoke almost anywhere to practically nowhere, and I pity those hooked as life must be pretty nasty now.
The do gooder elf & safety brigade encrouching on every aspect of your life, thinking they know whats best for every body
Midnight Rambler:
The do gooder elf & safety brigade encrouching on every aspect of your life, thinking they know whats best for every body
+1 more and more laws banning common sense from every situation you encounter in a job.
the thing that changed my , and everyone’s life was the so called common market and then the eu . federal superstate by any other name . human rights laws , elf n safety , government trying to micromanage our lives . everyone is on the take in high places and the employers want to take conditions back 100 years . i’m in my 70s now and i dread what the future will bring to my grandchildren and their children .
In the 90’s i was paid £2500 per trip to Gib or Lisbon.One trip per week on red diesel at 12 pence per litre then with fuel tanks that hold 1500 litres.You do the maths on the mileage from Caen.
Fill up heating oil in France at As 24 stations.
With my own lorry.Weekends sunbathing on Cascais or Estoril beaches.
Lots of things have changed, some for the better others for the worse but I can think of 2 issues that have changed my lifestyle
1 the advent of cheap foreign travel.
2 the increase of 24/7 life and work.
The Internet what ever did we do before !
cb radios were are first sort of sat nav and early road warning conditions ahead
then someone said its unsafe so out it goes
smoking was acceptable till someone said they dont like it so out it goes
stopping off at layby cafes or vans was a good thing for us drivers and many happy morning laughs would be had while having a bacon butty and trying to chat up the women in the van until someone said there not safe and they got hounded out of the game.
trucks have improved there is no doubt about that having night heaters was a big one and as i am a small bloke having seats that could get me in a comfy position was brill. i remember when i passed my test i struggled to double clutch as my leg had to sort of out reach itself two times with each change as it was so hard for me to reach the pedals lol so the examiner told me hes happy to tell me i have passed my test and he gave me a tip
he advised me to get some blocks made so i could reach the pedals with ease
those were the days : ) now of course i can reach the pedals, the problem for the big guys is they can never enter the drivers seat after i have been in the unit not without banging something usely there knees on the steering column when they climb in
Free love in the 60’s, now top that.
Ossie
Punk rock!
race and religion
You cant say Jack S*1t without someone calling on one of the yellow cards
As a kid lets say, Wholemeal who lived 4 doors up would call me Sunblest and we’d call him Toasty we was best mates 
even his mum called us little white mice. nothing was ever malice.
She made the best goat curry I ever had 
Uncapped immigration has changed all our lives despite it being non PC to say so, they have to be housed, and they have to be serviced, whats left of the country is being concreted over and you can’t move for traffic on our ever more overcrowded road network.
We once made almost all things we needed here, we had working factories in every town providing meaningful employment to all, now those town factories are housing estates or shopping centres, and the warehouses stuffed to the rafters with Chinese made tat spread every further like a rash.
The country i loved, and described so beautifully above by Santa, has vanished, RIP Britain.
Seems quite a bit has changed in the world then
I just find learning about my history and what made me me interesting and also what affects me being me
Younger generation of today don’t know what hard work is… they want the most amount of money for the least amount of work, expecting everything on a plate for them…
When I was working in my last industry… you started at the bottom and worked your way up… but today newbies expect to run before they can walk
I still can’t get my head around this new-fangled money, what was wrong with threepenny bits and half-crowns anyway? 
OssieD:
Free love in the 60’s, now top that.Ossie
if it was free how come I always ended up out of pocket ?