Caporegime
One of my daughters friends is one of 6. I asked whether they've got a telly.
Modern life
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Soldato
I would guess our leisure time is linked to our technology and amount of free time we have. Before electric you would have been busy trying to not die of plague or small pox or whatever illness . Maybe the act of being able to feed one's self was seen a leisure time.
1800's life wasn't all about avoiding the plague or pox though was it.
You'd be a bigger part of a local community than today, which I think makes people happier.
deffo not happier. Far more stressed than we used to be. Look at how kids behave these days? all about being connected and showing off whatever they can.
So given the choice would you give it up, going back to the old way of life?
I'd like my kids to have the same experience as me. I fear that once I have them and they grow they will have too much access to tech. An imagination is key to a good experience as a kid.
Soldato
No, there was cholera, typhus, yellow fever and a world wide flu pandemic. Again, people were poorer, things were harder for the average man on the street. Children would play with wooden toys and use their imaginations more. Men would busy working every hour to make 6d every four years, eat a lump of freezing cold poison, our mum would murder us each and every night and dance on a graves singing hallelujah.
Luxury!
Thanks for that, was an interesting article. My missus and I often wake mid sleep for sex
Caporegime
Posted to the social section of a computer gaming forum via computer/tablet/phone.
Social media has a lot to answer for but I also think overpopulation is another. I was looking at some statistics this morning and when my parents were born (~1950) the world population was only 2.5 billion, and now it's tripled to 7.5 billion+. We live in a world where you walk along a street passing a stranger and neither person acknowledges each other. To me that is weird. The 'white noise' between each person on the planet has increased creating less meaningful connections and social media has exacerbated that. I think in future people will look back at the baby boomer generation and realise they had the best quality of life since the hunter gatherer days.
Most definitely. My childhood was equal parts outside and inside but at least back then computer games were 8-bit/16-bit and left a lot to your imagination. Now so many games strive for realism. No idea how active kids are these days but I suspect the jumpers for goal posts concept is less common now.
Most definitely. My childhood was equal parts outside and inside but at least back then computer games were 8-bit/16-bit and left a lot to your imagination. Now so many games strive for realism. No idea how active kids are these days but I suspect the jumpers for goal posts concept is less common now.
Caporegime
I'm exactly the same. So many half way through, have a few weeks where I can't read, lose my position on it mentally and don't want to read the first part over and over again.
Soldato
There is a generation coming who will not get the reference. I pity them.
Soldato
my childhood was first wave of skateboarding (gullwing trucks and kryptonics) messing about on wasteland or push bikes ,playing board games like escape from colditz ,messing about with chemistry sets. lots of reading
Soldato
As kids we used to play army and shoot each other with pellet guns. Wonder how long we'd last today before the ARV's rolled up and arrested us at gunpoint?
Soldato
"Smart"phones and anti-social media are ruining people and they don't know it. Phone zombies are everywhere.