tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565399.post3859558463608354806..comments2024-03-21T09:30:11.468+00:00Comments on Man in a Shed: My memories of 30 years agoMan in a Shedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00990902055642035293noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565399.post-86949114497052548862009-05-05T21:21:00.000+01:002009-05-05T21:21:00.000+01:00Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be y...Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,<br />But to be young was very heaven!<br /><br />Except that I was 18 - not as young as yo but not old - and the French Revolution was trash and Wordsworth came to hate it and became a pretty good conservative in good time.<br /><br />And I helped her to win.<br />Three times.<br /><br />Yey, old Young Conservatives.North Northwesterhttp://theyrejokingarentthey.blogspot.com/2009/05/it-was-30-years-ago-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565399.post-20410976171834361402009-05-05T13:12:00.000+01:002009-05-05T13:12:00.000+01:00During the "I Love The 1970s" series, the BBC wilf...During the "I Love The 1970s" series, the BBC wilfully misrepresented the decade. They imported pop culture from the 1960s and 1980s to make their version of the 1970s glow.<br /><br />Ah, but that series was about pop culture, you say, not politics. But the underlying theme was "70s good, 80s bad". By reporting several much-loved '80s fads as "70s", this gave Auntie the opportunity to present the 80s as greed unlimited, with nothing good to recall in the present, no happy memories, in its following "I Love 1980s" series.<br /><br />I studied this trend at the time. It's all about brainwashing - rewriting history to a version the BBC and some of the political Left would like you to believe. '70s = warm, innovative, happy, better than the 60s; 80s = cold, heartless, stagnant, Thatcher.Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02476860681853867684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565399.post-58702633564782653702009-05-05T09:01:00.000+01:002009-05-05T09:01:00.000+01:00I remember somebody saying on Radio Sheffield that...I remember somebody saying on Radio Sheffield that after flour and sugar there would be salt shortages next.<br /><br />It sparked panic buying of salt in local shops.<br /><br />I sometimes wonder why more people our age and above don't have similarly clear memories of what the 1970s were really like.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02948105455433369982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565399.post-13520210397088728802009-05-04T13:08:00.000+01:002009-05-04T13:08:00.000+01:00A great example of left wing journalistic fantasy ...A great example of left wing journalistic fantasy history is provided by the Guardian's Neil Clark <A HREF="http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/47328,opinion,dont-believe-the-myth-margaret-thatcher-ruined-egalitarian-1970s-britain" REL="nofollow">here</A>.<br /><br />This hints at the underlying problem with left wing politics, essentially is disconnection with reality.Man in a Shedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00990902055642035293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565399.post-72574515035852181682009-05-04T12:44:00.000+01:002009-05-04T12:44:00.000+01:00Mmmm... I did not like Thatcher, but you're quite ...Mmmm... I did not like Thatcher, but you're quite right - the '70s were awful. There's loads of "'70s hype" these days, inventions and pop culture from the '60s/'80s are transported to the '70s by '70s hypists - and these people, who basically LIE to make the '70s look good, are often journalists!<br /><br />People nowadays live in La La Land, with the '80s scapegoated as pure evil. Not true. <br /><br />Now all we needed was Reagan (elected late 1980, inaugurated early 1981) and the '80s could really begin...<br /><br />For better or worse... but certainly not ALL for the worst!Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02476860681853867684noreply@blogger.com