Do You Agree That The 70S Werent So Bad?

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9893459/As-David-Bowie-said-dont-diss-70s-says-MARY-ELLEN-SYNON.html

Mary Ellen Synon disagrees with Sarah Vine about the 1970s... whom do you agree with?

[youngmafbog]

They were a different time.

Some things were good, some things were bad.

[ToraToraTora]

great for music but terrible for most other things. The communist unions were running the country into the ground, until TGL saved us then we went into the greatest decade of all, the 80s!

[dannyk13]

Tend to agree with Sarah Vine.Can't remember anything particularly good about the seventies.

[LeonBlank1995]

We lost Elvis but gained Thatcher. No real British wars. But most importantly I married the love of my life. The 70's was a great decade.

[pixie374]

I was born in the 70s, so not entirely memory...
They had affordable housing, wages, pensions, retirement, so easily financially better off. And some good music.
Since then, there have been massive improvements in healthcare, technology, tolerance, education...
So, I think generally, better now, but good and bad in each decade.

[vulcan42]

Mary Ellen Synon in one line proves she knows very little about the seventies when she writes" nobody was sitting alone".

[Gromit]

When people get old, they get nostalgic for the times of their youth.
AOG thought the 1950s was our golden age. Of course it wasn’t.
Neither was the 1970s. Just old people remembering when their lives were simpler, happier. They remember the first music they listened to, the television programmes they watched, their first girl/boy friends. And they compare it to now when they may be ill, lonely, disappointed or just tired.
Rather than looking back, we should be discovering new music, new telly, meeting new people. When you stop doing that, you are in God’s Waiting Room.

[douglas9401]

It was a time of brown and orange, not forgetting the proliferation of Crimplene but for all that it was okay.

[Barsel]

Not a fan of the 70's. Didn't like men's hairstyles, flairs, glam rock, etc. Much preferred the late 50's and the 60's. Great music, films, clothes, hairstyles.

[Gromit]

Barsel
In the late 1950s/mid 1960s, were you 14 ?

[theshedman]

I remember the 70s well and yes there was hardship but also good times as well, for me anyway. Taught us to go without some things and not take everything for granted and be grateful for what we did have. My father was often on strike being in the car industry so some material things were in short supply but not the things that really matter.

[pixie374]

Yes, gromit... People remember it as the age they were then.

[davebro]

70s were great! My heyday.

[Barsel]

Gromit, yes I was 14 in 1960 so my teenage years started in '61 when I left school, started work and began having fun. Bouffant hair, beautiful flared dresses and high heels. Wish I could go back to those times.

[Jackdaw33]

In the 60s anyone who wanted a job got one. You left school on the Friday and started work the following Monday.

[Gromit]

Barsel,
I think everyone remembers their early teens, when everything was new and exciting, as a golden age.
Now we are older, we are more jaded.

So, neither pundit is right. The 1970s were not terrible, but neither was it Shangri-La.

[pixie374]

I've always found the same, jd. Usually quicker. Maybe people are fussiest, or have more assistance now?

[Barsel]

You're right Gromit. I'm sure that those who were teenagers in the 70's enjoyed it just as much as I enjoyed the 60's.

[Bobbisox1]

Arh the 70s, the Miners strike, the three day week, pwercuts and candles, sighhhh :0((

[pastafreak]

Short skirts, colourful clothes, bell bottom jeans, side burns and moustaches, long hair, earrings on everyone, ethnic dresses and jewellery. Great music, psychedelic art...

....and the Vietnam War, protests, draft evasion