theshed:
OssieD:
Free love in the 60’s, now top that.Ossie
if it was free how come I always ended up out of pocket ?
Because you probably went all the way to Liverpool when you should have gotten off at Crewe, kids don’t come cheap you know… 
Pete.
The smoking ban is the one of the best things ever in my generation ,all that’s needed now is to get them banned out the doorway !
Harry Monk:
I still can’t get my head around this new-fangled money, what was wrong with threepenny bits and half-crowns anyway?
And green shield stamps 
I was born and lived in Soviet Union.
Juddian:
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.
Agree
Dan Punchard:
The smoking ban is the one of the best things ever in my generation
You don’t like smoking and as a result of people like you the tramper in the other truck over there isn’t allowed to smoke in his. And pubs up and down the land that you have never set foot in have closed and people have lost their jobs. Well done.
The biggest change I have seen in my life is the massive increase in control-freaks out there who can’t just live their own lives, but want to run everybody else’s too. 
People say that UKIP do not have any policies. In fact they do, and one of them is reversing the “Health Act 2006” whereby Old Etonians decided what the working class could and could not do in their life places. Yet another reason UKIP have got my vote.
The internet is a fantastic thing but the rise of agencies has done workers no good along with zero hour contracts.
trackers-completely ruined the job…
Swampey2418:
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…
Not seeing the problem with that myself. 
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
Now that I can agree with.
I think the mass ownership of mobiles changed things so far in my working life.
dafpower:
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 worldEg 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)
9/11 changed security for most for a long time, but is lapsing now, American airline security has always been lapse compared to British, my very first flight across the Atlantic was in July 1992, police in Gatwick carried machine guns even then, the luggage was properly searched as were we. In May 2001 my niece came over here on a visit, she flew on Continental to Newark, when we took her back I was shocked that at terminal ‘C’ we could all walk down to the gate with her without even being checked, at terminal ‘B’ which was run by BAA and used by European airlines such as Virgin and BA etc security was very tight, nobody other than the passengers were allowed near the gates.
Now we hear that for a $17.00 fee passengers can forego the strict searches and use express boarding, why don’t we just tell the terrorists to pay the $17.00 and they are in the pink 
Don’t think they have figured that out just yet
andrew.s:
trackers-completely ruined the job…
Yep, gone are the days when you could ‘Pop’ into the scrap yard or drive 30 miles out of your way with a trailer load of pallets for a few quid !
Also Curley Wurleys & Wagon Wheels have got smaller. Lol.
Written diesel receipts have all but disappeared (everything’s printed these days or everyone uses cards) some people on here will know what I’m on about.
All the London Docks have gone, (accepting general cargo, with the horrendous waits) along with Liverpool, Felixstowe, Southampton, Hull etc, it’s mostly containers now (unless you’re collecting Timber) We’ve got RDC’s every where now, so we’ve still got a lot of waiting around.
I’d like to nominate Facebook. Seems the entire population cannot function without it, taking up virtually all of their lives and if you’re not on it yourself you get looked at like you’ve got 2 heads.
Starting work in a highly unionised environment in the last dying years of an economy in which the unions were ( rightly ) stronger than the CBI.Then being hit by the new Thatcherite world in which everything I knew in that regard was turned on it’s head.
Then add to that the unbelievable levels of Political Correctness which have been continuously imposed on a rolling basis since then and the public acceptance of it and as represented in examples like the TV programme Life on Mars.In my case it’s been like the reverse situation of suddenly waking up in a different future world which I think is what they should have done as the sequel in transporting Gene Hunt forward from 1973 to 2006.
IE whatever happened it’s like being on a different planet and if only I could work out the reason maybe I could get home.By the way I forgot to mention the zb modern day music. 
Left hand down!:
I’d like to nominate Facebook. Seems the entire population cannot function without it, taking up virtually all of their lives and if you’re not on it yourself you get looked at like you’ve got 2 heads.
One of the lads at our place (not that I’m bitter after he stoved in my step and bumper) ran out of hours a couple of weeks back after having 5 drops in Central London.
Perhaps he’d have made it back if he hadn’t posted up 21 huge fb posts telling anyone that could be bothered that he was out of his depth.
By the way, I was shown the fb posts. I don’t have fb myself, used to, but it turned out that all the girls I wanted to nail at school and college are full-on hounds these days.
Left hand down!:
I’d like to nominate Facebook. Seems the entire population cannot function without it, taking up virtually all of their lives and if you’re not on it yourself you get looked at like you’ve got 2 heads.
If it’s not fb then it’s tnuk !
Internet, Smartphones, elf and safety, Polictical correctness gone mad, oh and the missus being more welcoming of coitus up the wrong un…
The future will see a generation where human realworld communcation takes a backseat to virtual interaction. I once spoke to my wife on facebook when we where in the same room… 
By the way, I was shown the fb posts. I don’t have fb myself, used to, but it turned out that all the girls I wanted to nail at school and college are full-on hounds these days.
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But on the up side some of the hounds have turned out to be very acceptable best advice is to get in early and take your chances you never know you might end up punching well above your weight
Have you ever added someone on fb just because of their name? IE they look better than the actual person on fb?
I have [WINKING FACE]
Then ended up nailing someone who is technically an absolute stranger.
I could sell some of the phone numbers I still have stored [SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH]