I wasn't, I've grown as a person and my views and beliefs have changed, and now I consider myself to be a lot stronger human being. Growing older does have it's advantages.
#7- Doctors. I had the same doctor from about 12 yrs old to about 50 yrs old. it was a big old house with a "doctors wing". Once he retired i had to go to medical complex and they just don't know you or care to know you. i'm no longer a patient, i'm a customer. ❤️🇺🇸 Great job on the vids!! I'm a new subscriber 👍🏼
I’m 78 years old and I totally agree and relate to everything you said. I’m grateful I was raised WITHOUT TELEVISION and SOCIAL MEDIA! My brothers and I played outside, built forts, rode our bicycles, and read books!! Both my sons were born in late 60’s and I’m so glad they grew up without television as well. I now have 2 grandchildren and one great grandchild. It’s kind of amusing to listen to my sons complain about social media and how their children have become so attached to their phones. I live alone and am quite lonely. I actually look forward to “going home.” I recently found your channel and I agree, lots of very nearly interesting stuff you have to offer. (I was born and raised in Southern California, but now live in Florida. Weather is nice, but don’t get me started on what I encounter in Walmart! So many people don’t seem to give a damn how they present themselves in public!) Thanks for giving me some space to rant 😵💫
You are always welcome to rant here Barbara. What a lovely comment to read, I have so enjoyed that. I’m of the same generation of your sons and I can say that they’re correct … my children always have a device in their hands too 🙄. Florida is the only part of USA I have visited … Kissimmee and Clearwater in 1990!! Thank you so much for your comment and thank you for watching. Tez 😊
@@verynearlyinteresting You’re welcome! I have always wanted to visit England. Too late now (couldn’t take the long plane ride). I love to watch drone videos of the English countryside while I listen to an audiobook. RUclips thought I’d be interested in your channel, and they got it right! This is the 2nd video I’ve watched. I plan to browse through what else you have to offer, much like browsing through the public library to find my next book. First video RUclips offered of your’s was about that photograph of the little girl with what looked like a spaceman (or something) behind her. So I subscribed. Oh, and music of the 80’s was THE BEST! I never listen to the radio. I have a mountain of cd’s of music from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s! (cd’s? What? Something else that swiftly came and went) 😱
@@BarbaraKelley347 that’s so nice of you Barbara. Even if you can’t come I’m pleased you can see a bit of England on my channel. I’ve been out for a meal tonight (it’s almost 9pm here) and I’ve just put my feet up in front of the TV and I’ve enjoyed your lovely comments! And yes, CD’s did come and go a bit quick didn’t they!!?? Tez
Hi Barbara, 🎉❤I read your comment this evening. I hope you are keeping well. I like to suggest the Craig and Jane show (Craig Hamilton Parker) on YT at 7pm UK time or 6 or 7 hours behind where you are in Florida. It is usually Live and has nice Live chat online community during show. I live alone too and I understand your comment how u look forward to 'going home'. ❤
I never agreed with someone so much in my entire life! 30 years ago was so much better than today. Thank you Very Nearly Interesting for getting the word out!
I was born in 76 and cant agree more that the world today is shite. I honestly think that around the turn of the millennium the world went wrong, throw away culture, food, art, society. Nothing is valued anymore. A more connected world has somehow pushed us further apart.
Unit is a scan . Get in debt and then end up working in a shop. No disrespect to shop assistants. In fact many shop assistants these days don't know their stock because they don't want to work in that centre. And banks. Last bank in the UK I went to with a question, the bloke there had rubber gloves on. I told him what I wanted and he told me to google it. He's putting a noose around the neck of his career. Thirty years ago people didn't have phones but could arrange a meeting somewhere and get there on time.
it's nice to finally see someone over 40 agreeing that the financial situation is terrible for younger people these days. We hit a sweet spot in the 50s through the 90s. now its all down hill.
Nostalgia has more power than we usual give it, but I cannot agree with you more. As a 52 year old, it is gut wrenching that my children and grandchildren will never know what life should be like. Especially when it comes to housing. My oldest daughter started thinking about purchasing a home this past year, and it looks like a pipe dream; far too expensive or rather expensive but in a crime-ridden neighborhood. I was four years younger when I purchased my first home, easily, and I was not rich. Life was much better 30 years ago.
You are so right I really miss the eighties I started on The post office as a cadet and at 18 became a postman driver back then it was expanding 200.000 postal workers 50.000 vehicles and at 16 I was on £110 a week after tax ,music was the best I only listen to gold or heart 80s now,hardly any stabbing or shooting if it happened was rare ,Tv was better London’s burning ,the bill ,great game shows etc Brucie hehe ,no take me back to size 28 waist black hair and one of the best jobs to me in the world now Royal Mail is just another logistics firm 😢 Cheers 😊😊
In some ways, you're right..the mid '70s through early 2000s was a good time in history. I grew up un the '70s, mostly. I had a lot if freedom , as did my friends. Technically, things are safer now in many ways. Crime, overall, has been dropping since the '90s. Cars are safer...if you got in a serious crash in a '74 Vega, you're probably history. My freedom was backed with trust. My parents knew I was out doing what nerds do. Though they might not know exactly where I was, they probably could have made two phone calls and found out at least the general area where I was. I had ro be back by dark, or, if not, call. Maybe it's Friday and I met up with my nerdy group of friends and we wanted to see a movie. I could call, say what theater, what time the movie would be over, who I was with. ...that was generally ok, un summer, or weekend. I made money picking up deposit bottles. A dime a bottle, mid '70s. I made between $5 and $60 a week off bottles. We lived in a semi rural area, and harvest time meant loads of bottles in roadside ditches. There were school sponsored clubs as well. I was in a physics and science fiction club. Sometimes, we went on field trips to interesting places. Group activities were more common, though they're making a comeback. I work with people 30 and under for the most part, and, in many ways I feel sorry for them.
You sound neither bitter nor twisted Just nostalgic That's a cool thing about this channel. You seem like a genuine, funny, nice man! Very relatable to those of us of a certain age. Thank you
I got a Welding apprenticeship and left home at 19. Everyone I know who got an apprenticeship with me have gone on to do well. My son is 19, brighter and achieved more at school than I did. Can he get an apprenticeship? No, it's incredibly difficult, its just crappy zero hour contracts now at minimum wages, having to wait a month to get paid. A lot of his peers are in the same boat, bright willing intelligent lads, just so difficult for them now. How did it come to this?
I know … it’s awful. I’ve got three sons which is probably why this part bothers me the most. I hope your lad finds something worthy of his talents. Tez.
Lots of truth there. Some things are much more difficult yet some things are so much easier today. Searching for and applying for job openings anywhere in the world is now just a few mouse clicks away. Couldn't dream of doing that 30 years ago. I was limited to my local newspaper "help wanted" ads back then. Inflation has cut many people off at the knees since then though as they try to climb the economic ladder. At least my University education was somewhat affordable. Tuitions, student housing, books and fees today are unreasonable. Imagine owing $80k+ to a bank from student loans before you've earned dollar one from your career. And the cellphone addiction today is abhorrent. I went out to eat with some colleagues during a rare work trip recently and I might as well have gone out and eaten alone. Every one of them staring at their phones and feverishly texting all during the meal. Physically there but not at all present.
Sorry but I disagree with your first point, although I am coming from a UK point of view and from what you say, I'm assuming you are in the US. Thirty years ago in the UK, if you wanted to find a job you went to the Jobcentre, of which there were thousands across the country. Inside the Jobcentre, all round the walls were boards with headers such as 'driving', 'catering', 'admin', etc., containing 6"x4" cards showing all the jobs available locally in that field. If you found one you liked the look of, you took the card to the desk where a member of staff (an actual, real person!!!) would give you all the details of the job and they would usually phone the employer then and there to arrange an interview for you. If you couldn't find anything at the Jobcentre there were employment agencies who had an office you could just turn up at where the process was pretty much the same. This morning I spent well over 2 hours trawling through endless job websites and I eventually found one to apply for, so I clicked on the 'apply for this job' button, filled out my name and email and that was it. I have no idea if or when anyone will see my 'application', or even if the job is still available. If I had done this through a Jobcentre, I would probably now have an interview arranged for a job I know definitely exists! I agree with you about people on their phones though! Ignorant arseholes! 🤨
I hate to admit it but I actually miss the anticipation of things, not having everything on demand right now. I remember having clippings from magazines and newspapers from films coming out (like Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and just lovingly looking at them all the time, going over every inch of them. Now I can literally look up MILLIONS of images of these things. It's the same music...going to the record store, listening to the album in your room and taking in every note and looking over the artwork/lyrics. I don't do that anymore, I just listening digitally on my walks.
Everyone is too impatient now, they want everything straight away. They’ll binge watch a new series or film but have no one to talk to about it coz no one else has got round to watching it coz they were doing something else. It was more sociable to watch something at the same time when it was broadcast on tv then everyone could talk about it the next day even if they hadn’t watched it together
My paternal grandparents were born at the end of the First World War. My father was born at the beginning of the second world war. My father often tells me that his mother used to say in the 00's; in the times gone by, everything used to be better. With this pointing to the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. My father himself now in his 80s, now understands what his mother meant. I am now 50 and I also say that things were so much better back in the day than now (with the exception of a few things). I think you are absolutely right with the 6 points you mention.
Hahaha, you must be my age! All the movies you listed are among my favorites, especially This is Spinal Tap. Had the opportunity to see them live before the move was released. Good times.
Born in 67, yes I can say life was much better for me growing up in a small US city, Phoenix, Arizona. There was all sorts of stuff to do here. We easily had 2-3 times as much to do as kids of today. I could go on all day about it, one thing that does bother me about it. Is how we took it all for granted, we figured it would all last forever. One thing I was very glad to have lived through was the pop culture explosion of the eighties. Many aspects of which people do not convey, most were not there. But boy can they sure talk about it. Imagine every week new movies, new music, new TV shows, new arcade games, new clothes, etc, etc. Yes every week, sure some weeks were slow some were hot. For a geek in high school it was paradise. One little aside, it took months for stuff to get here from the UK. I mean things like music.
Okay, so we must be the same age. And I totally agree with you on all points. However, I can't dwell on it too much as I have two young men to send out into the world and as much as it terrifies me (because of much that you've mentioned and more), I have to think that there is a way for them to navigate this "brand new world" and create a positive outcome for themselves. There's soooo much I miss about being a teen through the 80s liked you mention, the music was everything, socialising in unique and individual pubs/clubs/movie theatres etc. I could bang on for hours but instead, I'll just listen to you doing it 😂👍 Cheers!
Hi Beverley, how nice to hear from you again! I know what you mean … I have three boys too so yes I agree, we can’t dwell on it too much can we? Your line about letting me do the ranting gave me a giggle 🤣. Tez
I've noticed a great number of businesses today fail to realize that the art of business is as much a social interaction as much as an economic one. It's as if they feel entitled to your money rather than to work to earn it. They've become more predatory.
Agree with everything. Except Ed Sheeran. He's the summation (see what i did there?) of the problem with the modern music industry which just regurgitates the same thing over and over. There's plenty of good bands but everything is so fractured you have to look really hard to find them and without backing from satan like Sheeran (I can't think of another explanation for his popularity) they will remain in obscurity, performing to a small cohort on social bleeding media. Gave you a sub anyway❤
You are spot on people with their phones drive you mad .We went to a Sea life Centre and were the only people looking at the fish everybody else was looking through their phones and missing so much crazy.
Going to a concert was much better without everyone in front of you blocking your view with their phones. They're too busy filming to enjoy the show. And you pay a LOT more for tickets now.
When men were men, and women were women. My one and only son was three, now i have two grandsons as well... somethings today are better. Nice work pal.😊
It's all true. I believe it's the credit bureaus, property management companies and skyrocketing college tuitioin that's causied the homelessness crisis. Mainly just that. 30 years ago I got up in the morning and got the kids to school, cleaned, got ready for work, did the shopping and had dinner ready by 6:00. On weedends I took care of the gardening, maybe went to a movie, went for walks and hikes and spent time on hobbies. I wake up these days and start looking online for anything interesting instead of getting things done. I was much, much happier then than I am now.
I’m 67 (😮when did that happen!) and grew up in South London. I left home at 19 and rented a room in Kingston upon Thames and was happy as larry. You’d go for a job interview and they’d say on the spot ‘Great, when can you start?’ Nowadays application forms are like War & Peace and there’s three rounds of interviews even for the crappiest jobs. I feel sad for young people now. The music scene was fantastic back then - I felt so lucky to be in the London area. Hammersmith Odeon, The Fulham Palace Road Greyhound pub, The Roundhouse. I saw Led Zeppelin at Ally Pally (Alexandra Palace) in ‘74 while still at school. We had a coach load of 14-16 yr olds, no parents, it was all pretty innocent and what a great memory! I saw so many great bands in the 70’s & 80’s - The Who, Pink Floyd, The Stones, I could go on for ages. I like some of the music around now (love Billie Eilish) but no-one of that stature. I banked with William & Glyn’s in Kingston. I was just a teenage office girl earning a pittance but they would greet me by name and when I needed a loan to buy a car I was ushered into an office, had a short chat and it was arranged on the spot. That bank was brilliant. Recently I wanted to open a savings account with a bank I’m already banking with and they couldn’t help me in the branch, I had to go online and fill in a (long) form. Cinema, as you said, was an event. Nowadays I go to the cinema every week - buying popcorn & a drink is out of the question, too expensive, and there'll be a few people, mostly older like me. So much regurgitated, formulaic rubbish often. Pubs were social centres where you’d know people and the beer was affordable! A round now will set you back a hefty sum. And phones…I have to ‘fess up to being permanently connected to mine as both my daughters live in the US so thank goodness for that ease of communication but I go to a restaurant, for example, and see couples and whole tables of people all staring at their phones. So I’m with you - in many ways life is not better but worse. I think it’s more convenient in some ways but QoL is plummeting. Love your content! ❤
What a brilliant comment, I’ve really enjoyed reading that. We definitely think alike don’t we!?? (And I know what you mean … I have a son in Canada so I’m grateful for modern comms too!). Thank you so much for this lovely comment, Tez 😊
Four tv channels. A big tv event on any one of them meant that at least 10 million people would watch it at the time of broadcast and as a society we had that in common.The next day on the bus, we'd hear conversations about it - at work and school. We settled down on Thursday evening for Top Of The Pops and we knew what in the Top 20. I remember seeing on Twitter a few years ago some people going nuts over the latest episode of Game Of Thrones, and I wondered what that was! Most people hadn't really heard of Johnny Depp until Edward Scissorhands, despite his breakout role in 21 Jump Street - only shown on Sky. So we as a society had that little bit more cohesion as we all watched big events together, in our own separate homes. These days? I don't even watch live tv - it's all streaming for me; and sometimes, I just flip from video to video here on RUclips all evening... a completely solo experience.
I’ve practically said the same as you! Even if you weren’t physically together watching something you’d all have something to talk about after coz everyone had watched the same thing. Now everyone watches what they want when they want almost like everyone is on a different page. I started watching Game of thrones last year and people are shocked I haven’t seen it coz I’ve got other things to do. I haven’t binged on it either so people are asking what part I’m up to when I only watch a couple a week and haven’t for about six months
the late 90s and early 00s is when it started to go down hill. im guessing it was the internet that started the depression in people. like you said we only thought about things in our little worlds and now we know whats going on everywhere. and that is going to be full of depressing things. so yes its cause of internet !!
Sadly I think you’re right Steve. I appreciate you watching and commenting. Tez 😊 (The irony of using the internet to communicate with you is not lost on me btw.🙄)
Yep. Agree totally. Regarding movies...they were certainly an event...the cinematography was better, the posters were awesome, the scores were better. I saw a clip of ET a moment ago and the music...wow. That was down to John Williams though...his scores were epic and so emotive. Who do we have today doing the same? Nobody really. Think the last movie I saw which was a bit of an event...full auditorium...atmosphere etc was Terminator II. Happiness...yes...folk were happier back then. I work retail now and folk are so bloody miserable nowadays they grunt instead of speak. I listen to 80's music at work primarily because it's happy and fun and keeps me smiling. I prescribe more folk should listen to the music of that era more...they may just break into a smile. Work...back then you literally fell into a job...nowadays there's a lot of hoop jumping. Behaviours and SMART or whatever it is fill me with dread and make me shudder. Thankfully I fell into my present job after being made redundant from my last of 35 years. I've just recently discovered your channel and subscribed. Keep up the good work.
I cannot tell you how many times I have shared this life was better. I cannot get enough of sharing it. You are so right. Please consider making another life was better to add to this outstanding point.
Hi Brian. I was just about to slope off to bed when I read your comment. What a lovely thing to say and I’m so grateful to you for sharing the video. It’s thanks to the likes of you that this channel has grown recently. I will indeed follow this up this year and when I do so it’ll be because you have motivated me to do it. Thanks Brian and kind regards to you, Terry (or Tez).
((I’M BATMAN)) 1989 was the year of that great first Batman movie. Since that one in the 60s, which sucked in a good way. Still Love Adam West. I just do.
It's so much easier now to access information, if I want to do some cycle maintenance for example..watch some videos, order the parts. Back in the 80's you went to the library to look for a book the books were often crap and you would give up.
Thanks, you make some great points. On charts, another major factor is the way charts are determined now; streaming counts allows non-single tracks to be counted. Would be interesting to be able to see those stats historically. Lots of classic albums where the most played tracks likely wouldn't be the singles. On banking, that special relationshop had broken down years before the branches started closing. High street banks have been reduced to loan and credit shops with sales targets for decades. If you need to see a business or mortgage specialist, you have to wait for the regional adviser to be scheduled for that branch (this is in a major UK city). Let's be honest though, the main reason things were better 30 years ago is that we were 30 years younger!
I think that 30 years ago was the beginning of the end. 40 years ago was the middle of my teenage years when music was even better. I went to a gig once or twice a week not big just pub gigs but I could afford to on apprentice pay. We looked forward to things, worked and played hard and really enjoyed life. Now I’m disabled and just reminisce about the past. I think there are a huge amount of 50 somethings who would pay good money to go somewhere that had 80s food, drink and sweets with nothing on the jukebox (real not digital) past 1990.
The problem with music now is how homogenized radio and media is. There are tons of great bands on spotify, bandcamp and so on that just aren't getting the promotion of the big name artists you're mentioning. Part of it is because we don't consume music the same way, but also apps like spotify continually promote only thr biggest and most commercially viable artists.
Very well put. I wouldn’t have been able to put it as well as you do but I am aware that this is an issue. I’m sure there’s lots of great bands out there that can’t get a foot hold. Tez
Yes you're right, us older folk are aware of this. I'm sure though that the youngsters today will themselves be saying the same in thirty years ,well,similar. Just as our parents did. Great video. Groove on.
Completely agree with you. Just to add an extra comment on the music. Most of the headline acts for Glastonbury were bands and people form the 1980's (Elton John, Blondie, Guns 'n' Roses ext). Well this would be like a 1980's Glastonbury having Vera Lynn as a headline act, unthinkable. Who will Glastonbury have as a headline act in 40 years time? It would seem that Ed Shearan would have to headline every single year.
Great video once again. And seriously sobering points you've made. Imagine the state we could be in 30 years from now. Scary thought. Maybe that can be the basis for another video on the subject?!?
I’ve only just started watching your channel and you know in life when you just click with someone… Tez that’s you mate I’d definitely buy you a pint and chew the fat over some mysteries and nostalgia. Totally agree with what your saying… Especially movies. Not only entertaining but taught me some life values growing up. Die Hard 1988 - wasn’t just a good film because of the action but John McClane felt like a real person with real flaws. Out of all the excitement and explosions I came away with a character that I looked up too… Even at the age of 14 when I was watching a certificate 18 I wasn’t supposed too 😂 Today I watch a CGI movie with a 250 million budget that does absolutely nothing for me…. Totally forgettable. So I’m I’m totally on board with you 👊
What a lovely comment thank you so much! (Means a lot) Yes I'm, 100% with you - a $250 m budget means nothing to me too! So pleased you're enjoying the videos - I will keep 'em coming! Thanks again, Tez.
I'm a millennial from '86, so I've experienced the 90's pretty solid as well. But on the music and film topic, I think it's more like 10 years ago rather than 30... In the 2000's we've had some great music artists as well, like The Prodigy, Linkin Park, Evanescence and dozens more. Same for movies. We've had stuff like the first three Star Wars movies and Avatar. But right now they're also competing with the gaming and streaming industry, where there's also an incredible amount of talent. Take the latest Baldur's Gate game for example: the cinematics and story of that game are amazing, and make for better entertainment than watching a movie to a lot of people. On the topics of work and housing you are right. It's seriously underestimated by older people how difficult it is for younger people to actually build their own lives. It's not "a lack of effort" or "a lazy youth" as is often said, it's simply that much more difficult to actually build up something for yourself now...
As a 26 year old, I wish I had gotten to see life through this lens. The amount of opportunity and community that has been lost I believe through the technological “advancement” of the internet is so sad. It’s done so much harm to our psyches. We weren’t built to handle this endless amount of information and connectivity . It has its pros but so many cons. And economically everywhere is just the result of extreme lack of forethought and future planning for equality, years of greedy corporations and people who only care about themselves now they own all the money and us 99% get to complain about it to our algorithms and nothing changes. I hope I can buy a house one day but my rent goes up faster than our wages and I’d like to have a child yet my friends pay as much as their rent costs for childcare.
Hi Emma. You’ve put that very well indeed and I agree with you. You have headwinds against you that previous generations did not have and, to me, it seems so unfair. Don’t lose hope though, you’ll get there in the end and I wish you all the very best for a happy and prosperous future. Tez.
Recently, I asked to see a manager at a supermarket, and who appeared was a very bored-looking woman with tattoos on her arms. For a moment I completely forgot the nature of my complaint.
I turned 30 in 2008... Just about managed to buy my own home before the crisis (still in it). I was also the final year of students on the grant system. Skin of my teeth really, If I were just a few years younger I'd be screwed. I worry for my children.
I agree with most of what you said. The problem is that 30 years ago I had just taken out a mortgage on the cheapest house I could afford in the UK at the time. I struggled for the next 17 years to pay that mortgage. But now I am watching this video from an apartment that overlooks Sydney Harbour, the Opera House and a famous bridge, earning much more than I could have ever hoped to earn in the UK. Things weren't better 30 years ago. Things are what you make of the opportunities.
@@JoeBlow-fp5ng i just find that for every advancement in technology which has made our lives better … we manage to take two steps back in other areas.
@@verynearlyinteresting I forgot to add that I got made redundant during the financial crisis of 2008/9, which was a real low. But by complete chance is how I ended up here!
I’ve noticed gen z are either the media obsessed narcissistic ones who think life 30yrs ago must’ve been horrible and boring coz of hardly any tv channels so couldn’t watch whatever they want straightaway, no social media, couldn’t order everything online, couldn’t make TikTok dance videos for likes, usually have a lot of surgery and very image orientated. Then there’s the other gen z who aren’t so worried about social credit and validation from strangers, they seem to have nostalgia for a time they never lived saying it seemed a lot calmer, more free, not constantly on a phone but actually interacting with people, they prefer the music, films, tv shows. I’m always surprised when a lot of them say they love 80/90s blockbuster classic films and music better than todays stuff
I know for a fact that life was better thirty years ago. I was there. It was even better 50 years ago. I was there too. I was fourteen years old 50 years ago, definitely old enough to know how things were. And I've watched things decline ever since. Trash technology and an almost complete loss of moral values are destroying the human species.
I was still in high school 30 years ago but my social life was so much richer. I remember going to school dances and going to clubs to dance on the weekends. You had to know where the pay phones were if you needed to call home. The music was great as well. Love this video!
I go to concerts to see good cover bands so I can hear good music live. First job was fliping burgers 1985😊. Wnet to see Indiana Jones every weekend until they pulled it from theaters. Once it was gone....it was gone. Unless you had $500 for a video player😂
You definitely sound like me 🤣🤣. We didn’t have a VCR til I was 15 and that was second hand with those awful lever keys that kept jamming 🙄. Thanks again Steve.
The mid 70s was also a horrible time for much of the same reasons you list here. As we move through linear time there are rises and falls in our civilization. In every field and in different rhythms. Art, science, politics, economics, they are all constantly undulating to their own patterns of boon and bust. Depending on which direction you look, you will see entropy or thriving and growing. It all depends on what you look at and how you choose to view it.
Life was better then. I knew all of my neighbours. Where I live now no one talks to each other. Also, we have become americanised, with the language especially. Since when has a film become a movie?!
Mate. None of the people on my childhood street talked to each other. That was in the 1970s. I'm glad he had a fulfilling career in banking, but back then there were YTS schemes where 16-18-yr-olds worked 40-hr weeks in idiot-level jobs , being paid £30/ week under the guise of 'training' just to be let go when the scheme came to an end. Thatcher was getting rid of every industry this country ever had, and then demonising unemployed people for not having the jobs her govt just took away from them. And if you think music was better 30 years ago you weren't there. 80s music was endless shite, from Madonna, to Michael Jackson's falsetto squeakings, and tedious dance wankathons, through Prince's 'Robert-Plant-love-god-but-through-the-vehicle-of-a-repressed-in-denial-gay-dwarf' persona on to Stock Aitken and Waterman. Oh. And Jackmix. There is a very good reason so much of the significant music remembered from the 80s is alternative. The Good Ole Days is nothing but an illusion. It's just this guy is giving us an updated version of it, that's all.
I enjoy RUclips and Facebook. However, being able to mortgage your first house when you're relatively young is a very important thing regarding long term security. As for the term 'Renters' it's conditioning the young of today not to think in terms of a Tenancy as a contract with rights and responsibilities which you have for as long as you wish, provided you pay the rent. Renter as a fashionable term encourages acceptance that you pay money to occupy just like a hotel stay. No wonder birth rates are falling.
Even as someone who didn't grow up then, I think your points are pretty valid. Our movies and music sucks, and I honest don't know the last time I've watched one. When it comes to the topics you mentioned, I think your correct, though now there are other things I'm sure will be talked about this way in the future, like video games, the early days of the internet, and the ability to make your voice heard through platforms like RUclips. I think saying one is definitively better than the other doesn't account for how much things have changed (though financially it is literally just worse). I also imagine things are only getting worse, and we'll be talking about how good we had it soon. Still, I can respect you for using actual arguments, and not just complaining.
That’s a great comment Carol and I agree completely, that was such a good read. It was nice that you said I’m not just complaining … but I must admit the older I get a seem to be doing a lot of it 😆. Thank you again for your lovely comment. Tez
Ofc it was better, it was before enforced cultural enrichment and waving the Union Jack wasn’t considered a hate crime, and LGBT hadn’t taken over every major political and corporate institution.
Agree one hundred percent with everything you say. But also, everything is based on social media and speed of production, and as a result, culture is dumbed down to rock bottom. Social media is stuffed full of the most arbitrary bollocks which spreads through the whole of culture. And women, who think they are so much more liberated, also think they need to have a thick layer of makeup, massive lips and plastic surgery to be beautiful, which is definitely not liberating, again spread by social media. The music in particular now is bland, bland, bland.
No draft, better medical care, free online courses, lots of diverse and good new music to be found on streaming sites, people are living longer. Those are some of the "perks" of our current era.
Reality is just a matter of perspective. You and I could live on the same street in the same town and yet live in two completely different universes. Want to change the world? It's easy. Just change your perspective.
People mistakes technology and society Better technology does not make a better society Countries are run off spreadsheets now days For example how do you fix a low birth rate ? A : find out what’s causing the low birth rate and try and implement policies that cost a lot of money to increase the birth rate B : increase immigration to offset the people who aren’t being born There is fixing the problem and There is shortcuts that don’t fix the problem This is just one of many examples
‘Better technology does not make better society.’ I could have made a video just saying that one line. Thanks so much for watching, I really appreciate it. Tez😊
I would argue that the moral and social decline started during the cultural revolution of the Sixties.Of course there are benefits from living in the present.However whilst most of us have improved in the material sense,in general our modern world has not brought the moral stability customs and values we were just starting to lose in the sixties.I'd recommend Peter Hitchen's Abolition of Britain for a closer examination of this interesting subject.
I said to my granson 'who do you hang out with after school' he said once a week one of three friend come to the house for a few hours i ask what they did he said they play on computer games, so i asked what do you do the rest of the week he said play on computer games with one of his three mates joining in from their computer, i said to him after school i met up with a group of friends over the park n we listen to our sterio and danced or went for long walks (dossing) or fishing, oh yeah nan how many friends did you have he says cockily, loads i said and who ever could be there would turn up so always a group....he says with a grin...ive got over 100 people on my friends list ...what these friends you never see other than three scarcely WTF is the world coming to
You're both the same You had loads of "friends" who would worget about you the moment you part ways,he has 100 strangers in his friendlist Out of them all,there are only a couple TRUE friends Not "pals who you sometimes hang out with",friends. Just like you called "friend" every random guy you barely knew,he calls people in facebook/whateverthekidsusethesedaysidkwehaveourownsocialnetworksinmycountry friend list his "friends" and probably thinks that the more the number there is,the better. I ddi the same thing. I outgrew it. Now I delete EVERY person I don't need from my social networks accounts. He'll outgrow it too. Nothing really changed. Several true friends,and the facade around it.
The evidence shows that purchasing power has gone down regardless of inflation. 30 years ago you could buy a house for less than $100k. I am not able to live the life my parents lived when they were my age because things are more expensive now.
Hey mate, at 05:30 where you quite rightly talk about inadequate working hours you failed to mention the single worst culprit: Amazon Where almost everyone is on so-called 'zero-hours' contracts.
It's called progress, 30 years ago people would have said a similar thing, that life was better 30 years ago. It's just different, the thing about the banks people were warned, when you went into a bank and they would tell you to do internet banking and I said no I prefer to go into my bank the bank workers looked at me as if I was crazy, now they are unemployed. Cinema Yes it was better but the problems are that they have to make money, so they have to make the screens smaller and offer more films or they go bust. Over all somethings were better but then people used their money spent it on things they wanted, disposable income. Buying a house, the problem with that has been that all those that bought and now want to sell are selling at extortionate prices. Pretty much everyone wants to make a profit on the house they live in, and the estate agents are responsible for this. I could go on about how things have changed but the changes never benefit the people only those at the top. When I was a kid I was told the future with computers would see us all having lots of free time, time to enjoy life as the computers would take over all the jobs that could be done on a computer, what they forgot to mention was that those jobs lost would mean lower wages lower skill levels, mind numbing jobs that computers struggle with and no future prospects as by the time you get to a certain age a new computer will have taken your job. It's progress yay.
I'm 60 years of age, male and 99.9% agree with you. I'm now retired thanks to a final salary pension. My two favourite female singers though are Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus 😂 Miley Cyrus, for example, I challenge anyone to listen to her sing Malibu live (better than the studio version in my view) and question her talent
Well done to you on the pension Ian!!! (I’ve got a couple more years to wait 🙄). I do agree … I didn’t really mean to mock the people I listed and I don’t doubt their talent. All of them are probably benefiting from a lack of competition though I would suggest. Thanks for watching and commenting Ian, it’s very much appreciated. Tez 😊
Thank you Tez for your reply, I mentioned the final salary pension of course as a further example of better times in years gone by! I appreciate you weren't doubting their talent and I fully agree there's very little competition unlike in the 80s in particular. All the very best to you!
Yes, things were better for me 30 years ago. I WAS 30 YEARS YOUNGER!!
That's a good point Constance. So was I come to think about it!
I wasn't, I've grown as a person and my views and beliefs have changed, and now I consider myself to be a lot stronger human being.
Growing older does have it's advantages.
@@GrouchoMarx-MaGeorge growing old is not of the faint of heart. Being young was fun.
#7- Doctors. I had the same doctor from about 12 yrs old to about 50 yrs old. it was a big old house with a "doctors wing". Once he retired i had to go to medical complex and they just don't know you or care to know you. i'm no longer a patient, i'm a customer. ❤️🇺🇸
Great job on the vids!! I'm a new subscriber 👍🏼
That’s exactly as it is here … so yeah, that could have been point 7. Thanks so much for subscribing Scotty, much appreciated! Tez
I’m 78 years old and I totally agree and relate to everything you said. I’m grateful I was raised WITHOUT TELEVISION and SOCIAL MEDIA! My brothers and I played outside, built forts, rode our bicycles, and read books!! Both my sons were born in late 60’s and I’m so glad they grew up without television as well. I now have 2 grandchildren and one great grandchild. It’s kind of amusing to listen to my sons complain about social media and how their children have become so attached to their phones. I live alone and am quite lonely. I actually look forward to “going home.” I recently
found your channel and I agree, lots of very nearly interesting stuff you have to offer. (I was born and raised in Southern California, but now live in Florida. Weather is nice, but don’t get me started on what I encounter in Walmart! So many people don’t seem to give a damn how they present themselves in public!)
Thanks for giving me some space to rant 😵💫
You are always welcome to rant here Barbara. What a lovely comment to read, I have so enjoyed that. I’m of the same generation of your sons and I can say that they’re correct … my children always have a device in their hands too 🙄. Florida is the only part of USA I have visited … Kissimmee and Clearwater in 1990!! Thank you so much for your comment and thank you for watching. Tez 😊
@@verynearlyinteresting You’re welcome! I have always wanted to visit England. Too late now (couldn’t take the long plane ride). I love to watch drone videos of the English countryside while I listen to an audiobook. RUclips thought I’d be interested in your channel, and they got it right! This is the 2nd video I’ve watched. I plan to browse through what else you have to offer, much like browsing through the public library to find my next book. First video RUclips offered of your’s was about that photograph of the little girl with what looked like a spaceman (or something) behind her. So I subscribed. Oh, and music of the 80’s was THE BEST! I never listen to the radio. I have a mountain of cd’s of music from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s! (cd’s? What? Something else that swiftly came and went) 😱
@@BarbaraKelley347 that’s so nice of you Barbara. Even if you can’t come I’m pleased you can see a bit of England on my channel. I’ve been out for a meal tonight (it’s almost 9pm here) and I’ve just put my feet up in front of the TV and I’ve enjoyed your lovely comments! And yes, CD’s did come and go a bit quick didn’t they!!?? Tez
Hi Barbara, 🎉❤I read your comment this evening. I hope you are keeping well. I like to suggest the Craig and Jane show (Craig Hamilton Parker) on YT at 7pm UK time or 6 or 7 hours behind where you are in Florida. It is usually Live and has nice Live chat online community during show. I live alone too and I understand your comment how u look forward to 'going home'. ❤
I’m now 61 and wish I was back in 85 there was something about that year
Agreed!!! 😊
If I could only hop into a deLorian I'd go back to the early 1980's, or late 1970's, and never coming back.
I never agreed with someone so much in my entire life! 30 years ago was so much better than today. Thank you Very Nearly Interesting for getting the word out!
Ahh thanks Razor!!! :)
30 years ago my back and knees did not hurt
I'm 62. And this age sucks. Good points you make. And here in the US the crime is awful. Crazy crime that is just plain evil.
I was born in 76 and cant agree more that the world today is shite.
I honestly think that around the turn of the millennium the world went wrong, throw away culture, food, art, society. Nothing is valued anymore. A more connected world has somehow pushed us further apart.
You’re right. Tez.
The throw away part bothers me the most.
Spot on fellow
Music is too available. Finding a rarity was part of the fun.
Unit is a scan . Get in debt and then end up working in a shop. No disrespect to shop assistants. In fact many shop assistants these days don't know their stock because they don't want to work in that centre. And banks. Last bank in the UK I went to with a question, the bloke there had rubber gloves on. I told him what I wanted and he told me to google it. He's putting a noose around the neck of his career. Thirty years ago people didn't have phones but could arrange a meeting somewhere and get there on time.
it's nice to finally see someone over 40 agreeing that the financial situation is terrible for younger people these days. We hit a sweet spot in the 50s through the 90s. now its all down hill.
Things really were better thirty years ago, but it was even better than that fifty years ago. Music certainly was much, much better.
Yep, I'll take that Grok!
Sinatra was livid at 60's pop culture. Imagine his horror if he saw it now. What happens when Boomers die off and we stop clicking?
No uni tuition fees, affordable rent, owning a home was not an insane dream.
Spot on. I could have made a 3 hour video couldn’t I? Thanks for watching Jeff, Tez.
Nostalgia has more power than we usual give it, but I cannot agree with you more. As a 52 year old, it is gut wrenching that my children and grandchildren will never know what life should be like. Especially when it comes to housing. My oldest daughter started thinking about purchasing a home this past year, and it looks like a pipe dream; far too expensive or rather expensive but in a crime-ridden neighborhood. I was four years younger when I purchased my first home, easily, and I was not rich. Life was much better 30 years ago.
Thank you for your comment. I hope your daughter gets sorted soon … it’s so frustrating isn’t it!?? Tez
Spot on! Especially regarding social media and phones!
You are so right I really miss the eighties I started on The post office as a cadet and at 18 became a postman driver back then it was expanding 200.000 postal workers 50.000 vehicles and at 16 I was on £110 a week after tax ,music was the best I only listen to gold or heart 80s now,hardly any stabbing or shooting if it happened was rare ,Tv was better London’s burning ,the bill ,great game shows etc Brucie hehe ,no take me back to size 28 waist black hair and one of the best jobs to me in the world now Royal Mail is just another logistics firm 😢
Cheers 😊😊
You think like me, Mark. (Glad I’m not the only one 🙄.) Tez.
“It is the best of times…it is the worst of times “…and many would say that life was better 50 years ago than it was 30 years ago !
Well did you notice that I kept pushing the limit up to 40 years Christina?😆
@@verynearlyinteresting 👍
@@verynearlyinterestingyou’re getting closer to 50 with Bohemian Rhapsody
@@paulannable3734 That’s a fair point!!!
In some ways, you're right..the mid '70s through early 2000s was a good time in history. I grew up un the '70s, mostly. I had a lot if freedom , as did my friends.
Technically, things are safer now in many ways. Crime, overall, has been dropping since the '90s. Cars are safer...if you got in a serious crash in a '74 Vega, you're probably history.
My freedom was backed with trust. My parents knew I was out doing what nerds do. Though they might not know exactly where I was, they probably could have made two phone calls and found out at least the general area where I was. I had ro be back by dark, or, if not, call. Maybe it's Friday and I met up with my nerdy group of friends and we wanted to see a movie. I could call, say what theater, what time the movie would be over, who I was with. ...that was generally ok, un summer, or weekend.
I made money picking up deposit bottles. A dime a bottle, mid '70s. I made between $5 and $60 a week off bottles. We lived in a semi rural area, and harvest time meant loads of bottles in roadside ditches.
There were school sponsored clubs as well. I was in a physics and science fiction club. Sometimes, we went on field trips to interesting places.
Group activities were more common, though they're making a comeback. I work with people 30 and under for the most part, and, in many ways I feel sorry for them.
What a great comment Scott, I really enjoyed reading that, thank you. Tez
Crime has been dropping, where you been hiding????
You sound neither bitter nor twisted Just nostalgic That's a cool thing about this channel. You seem like a genuine, funny, nice man! Very relatable to those of us of a certain age. Thank you
What a nice thing to say, thank you very much Sarah. You’ve cheered me up. Tez 😊
I got a Welding apprenticeship and left home at 19. Everyone I know who got an apprenticeship with me have gone on to do well.
My son is 19, brighter and achieved more at school than I did.
Can he get an apprenticeship? No, it's incredibly difficult, its just crappy zero hour contracts now at minimum wages, having to wait a month to get paid. A lot of his peers are in the same boat, bright willing intelligent lads, just so difficult for them now.
How did it come to this?
I know … it’s awful. I’ve got three sons which is probably why this part bothers me the most. I hope your lad finds something worthy of his talents. Tez.
All these points are correct. I was there. I am grateful for the internet, but it is not my master, it is my servant.
Lots of truth there. Some things are much more difficult yet some things are so much easier today. Searching for and applying for job openings anywhere in the world is now just a few mouse clicks away. Couldn't dream of doing that 30 years ago. I was limited to my local newspaper "help wanted" ads back then. Inflation has cut many people off at the knees since then though as they try to climb the economic ladder. At least my University education was somewhat affordable. Tuitions, student housing, books and fees today are unreasonable. Imagine owing $80k+ to a bank from student loans before you've earned dollar one from your career. And the cellphone addiction today is abhorrent. I went out to eat with some colleagues during a rare work trip recently and I might as well have gone out and eaten alone. Every one of them staring at their phones and feverishly texting all during the meal. Physically there but not at all present.
I really couldn’t have put that any better myself Joe. Great critique. Tez.
Social media has brought distant people closer, and made close people more distant.
@@septembersurprise5178 I’ve never heard it put so succinctly. Tez.
Sorry but I disagree with your first point, although I am coming from a UK point of view and from what you say, I'm assuming you are in the US. Thirty years ago in the UK, if you wanted to find a job you went to the Jobcentre, of which there were thousands across the country. Inside the Jobcentre, all round the walls were boards with headers such as 'driving', 'catering', 'admin', etc., containing 6"x4" cards showing all the jobs available locally in that field. If you found one you liked the look of, you took the card to the desk where a member of staff (an actual, real person!!!) would give you all the details of the job and they would usually phone the employer then and there to arrange an interview for you. If you couldn't find anything at the Jobcentre there were employment agencies who had an office you could just turn up at where the process was pretty much the same. This morning I spent well over 2 hours trawling through endless job websites and I eventually found one to apply for, so I clicked on the 'apply for this job' button, filled out my name and email and that was it. I have no idea if or when anyone will see my 'application', or even if the job is still available. If I had done this through a Jobcentre, I would probably now have an interview arranged for a job I know definitely exists! I agree with you about people on their phones though! Ignorant arseholes! 🤨
The slow set ask any kid born after 1995 what was this and they have no idea lol it's all tinder and bumble now
I hate to admit it but I actually miss the anticipation of things, not having everything on demand right now. I remember having clippings from magazines and newspapers from films coming out (like Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and just lovingly looking at them all the time, going over every inch of them. Now I can literally look up MILLIONS of images of these things. It's the same music...going to the record store, listening to the album in your room and taking in every note and looking over the artwork/lyrics. I don't do that anymore, I just listening digitally on my walks.
I really know what you mean … things seemed a bit more special when you had to wait didn’t they? Tez
Everyone is too impatient now, they want everything straight away. They’ll binge watch a new series or film but have no one to talk to about it coz no one else has got round to watching it coz they were doing something else. It was more sociable to watch something at the same time when it was broadcast on tv then everyone could talk about it the next day even if they hadn’t watched it together
Amen, brother! Preach!!!
My paternal grandparents were born at the end of the First World War. My father was born at the beginning of the second world war. My father often tells me that his mother used to say in the 00's; in the times gone by, everything used to be better. With this pointing to the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. My father himself now in his 80s, now understands what his mother meant. I am now 50 and I also say that things were so much better back in the day than now (with the exception of a few things). I think you are absolutely right with the 6 points you mention.
Thanks for commenting, I enjoyed reading that. Tez
Hahaha, you must be my age! All the movies you listed are among my favorites, especially This is Spinal Tap. Had the opportunity to see them live before the move was released.
Good times.
30 years ago I wasn't born yet
Man,I miss these days😂
Born in 67, yes I can say life was much better for me growing up in a small US city, Phoenix, Arizona. There was all sorts of stuff to do here. We easily had 2-3 times as much to do as kids of today.
I could go on all day about it, one thing that does bother me about it. Is how we took it all for granted, we figured it would all last forever.
One thing I was very glad to have lived through was the pop culture explosion of the eighties. Many aspects of which people do not convey, most were not there. But boy can they sure talk about it. Imagine every week new movies, new music, new TV shows, new arcade games, new clothes, etc, etc. Yes every week, sure some weeks were slow some were hot. For a geek in high school it was paradise.
One little aside, it took months for stuff to get here from the UK. I mean things like music.
Brilliant comment … I enjoyed reading that, thank you. Tez
Okay, so we must be the same age. And I totally agree with you on all points. However, I can't dwell on it too much as I have two young men to send out into the world and as much as it terrifies me (because of much that you've mentioned and more), I have to think that there is a way for them to navigate this "brand new world" and create a positive outcome for themselves. There's soooo much I miss about being a teen through the 80s liked you mention, the music was everything, socialising in unique and individual pubs/clubs/movie theatres etc. I could bang on for hours but instead, I'll just listen to you doing it 😂👍 Cheers!
Hi Beverley, how nice to hear from you again! I know what you mean … I have three boys too so yes I agree, we can’t dwell on it too much can we? Your line about letting me do the ranting gave me a giggle 🤣. Tez
I like this. I like what you're doing here.
Keep it up. I hope to see your channel grow.
Thank you very much. That’s much appreciated. Tez 😊
I've noticed a great number of businesses today fail to realize that the art of business is as much a social interaction as much as an economic one. It's as if they feel entitled to your money rather than to work to earn it. They've become more predatory.
I completely agree Robert. Tez.
Amen! I completely concur!
Agree with everything. Except Ed Sheeran. He's the summation (see what i did there?) of the problem with the modern music industry which just regurgitates the same thing over and over. There's plenty of good bands but everything is so fractured you have to look really hard to find them and without backing from satan like Sheeran (I can't think of another explanation for his popularity) they will remain in obscurity, performing to a small cohort on social bleeding media.
Gave you a sub anyway❤
Loved your comment 😊 and thanks so much for commenting, means a lot. Tez.
You are spot on people with their phones drive you mad .We went to a Sea life Centre and were the only people looking at the fish everybody else was looking through their phones and missing so much crazy.
Going to a concert was much better without everyone in front of you blocking your view with their phones. They're too busy filming to enjoy the show. And you pay a LOT more for tickets now.
Huey Lewis and the news: I want a new drug. pretty good music - it made an 80s day cheery!! 😊
You’ve just nudged me to watch that on RUclips. Loved it and I do remember it from back in the day! Tez
When men were men, and women were women. My one and only son was three, now i have two grandsons as well... somethings today are better. Nice work pal.😊
That’s brilliant Phil, delighted for you 😊. Tez.
It's all true. I believe it's the credit bureaus, property management companies and skyrocketing college tuitioin that's causied the homelessness crisis. Mainly just that. 30 years ago I got up in the morning and got the kids to school, cleaned, got ready for work, did the shopping and had dinner ready by 6:00. On weedends I took care of the gardening, maybe went to a movie, went for walks and hikes and spent time on hobbies. I wake up these days and start looking online for anything interesting instead of getting things done. I was much, much happier then than I am now.
Very well put Ellen. Thanks for watching, Tez.
Just TOO TRUE! Great presentation of the Declining Condition of Life.
Thank you very much. Tez
I’m 67 (😮when did that happen!) and grew up in South London. I left home at 19 and rented a room in Kingston upon Thames and was happy as larry. You’d go for a job interview and they’d say on the spot ‘Great, when can you start?’ Nowadays application forms are like War & Peace and there’s three rounds of interviews even for the crappiest jobs. I feel sad for young people now. The music scene was fantastic back then - I felt so lucky to be in the London area. Hammersmith Odeon, The Fulham Palace Road Greyhound pub, The Roundhouse. I saw Led Zeppelin at Ally Pally (Alexandra Palace) in ‘74 while still at school. We had a coach load of 14-16 yr olds, no parents, it was all pretty innocent and what a great memory! I saw so many great bands in the 70’s & 80’s - The Who, Pink Floyd, The Stones, I could go on for ages. I like some of the music around now (love Billie Eilish) but no-one of that stature. I banked with William & Glyn’s in Kingston. I was just a teenage office girl earning a pittance but they would greet me by name and when I needed a loan to buy a car I was ushered into an office, had a short chat and it was arranged on the spot. That bank was brilliant. Recently I wanted to open a savings account with a bank I’m already banking with and they couldn’t help me in the branch, I had to go online and fill in a (long) form. Cinema, as you said, was an event. Nowadays I go to the cinema every week - buying popcorn & a drink is out of the question, too expensive, and there'll be a few people, mostly older like me. So much regurgitated, formulaic rubbish often. Pubs were social centres where you’d know people and the beer was affordable! A round now will set you back a hefty sum. And phones…I have to ‘fess up to being permanently connected to mine as both my daughters live in the US so thank goodness for that ease of communication but I go to a restaurant, for example, and see couples and whole tables of people all staring at their phones. So I’m with you - in many ways life is not better but worse. I think it’s more convenient in some ways but QoL is plummeting. Love your content! ❤
What a brilliant comment, I’ve really enjoyed reading that. We definitely think alike don’t we!?? (And I know what you mean … I have a son in Canada so I’m grateful for modern comms too!). Thank you so much for this lovely comment, Tez 😊
Four tv channels.
A big tv event on any one of them meant that at least 10 million people would watch it at the time of broadcast and as a society we had that in common.The next day on the bus, we'd hear conversations about it - at work and school. We settled down on Thursday evening for Top Of The Pops and we knew what in the Top 20.
I remember seeing on Twitter a few years ago some people going nuts over the latest episode of Game Of Thrones, and I wondered what that was! Most people hadn't really heard of Johnny Depp until Edward Scissorhands, despite his breakout role in 21 Jump Street - only shown on Sky.
So we as a society had that little bit more cohesion as we all watched big events together, in our own separate homes.
These days?
I don't even watch live tv - it's all streaming for me; and sometimes, I just flip from video to video here on RUclips all evening... a completely solo experience.
I’ve practically said the same as you! Even if you weren’t physically together watching something you’d all have something to talk about after coz everyone had watched the same thing. Now everyone watches what they want when they want almost like everyone is on a different page. I started watching Game of thrones last year and people are shocked I haven’t seen it coz I’ve got other things to do. I haven’t binged on it either so people are asking what part I’m up to when I only watch a couple a week and haven’t for about six months
the late 90s and early 00s is when it started to go down hill.
im guessing it was the internet that started the depression in people.
like you said we only thought about things in our little worlds and now we know whats going on everywhere.
and that is going to be full of depressing things. so yes its cause of internet !!
Sadly I think you’re right Steve. I appreciate you watching and commenting. Tez 😊 (The irony of using the internet to communicate with you is not lost on me btw.🙄)
My kids and their friends think I am blind to the today way of doing things. I cannot wait to share your content with them, then I am going fishing.
Brilliant and absoloutly right
Yep. Agree totally. Regarding movies...they were certainly an event...the cinematography was better, the posters were awesome, the scores were better. I saw a clip of ET a moment ago and the music...wow. That was down to John Williams though...his scores were epic and so emotive. Who do we have today doing the same? Nobody really. Think the last movie I saw which was a bit of an event...full auditorium...atmosphere etc was Terminator II.
Happiness...yes...folk were happier back then. I work retail now and folk are so bloody miserable nowadays they grunt instead of speak. I listen to 80's music at work primarily because it's happy and fun and keeps me smiling. I prescribe more folk should listen to the music of that era more...they may just break into a smile.
Work...back then you literally fell into a job...nowadays there's a lot of hoop jumping. Behaviours and SMART or whatever it is fill me with dread and make me shudder. Thankfully I fell into my present job after being made redundant from my last of 35 years.
I've just recently discovered your channel and subscribed. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for your great comment, I enjoyed reading that. And thank you SO much for subscribing. Tez 😊
Yes, I do agree with you, and yes, I am a bitter, grumpy old man. Thank you for taking the time to put these videos together. Very enjoyable.
That makes two of us then 🤣. Thank you for watching and commenting, much appreciated, Tez.
I cannot tell you how many times I have shared this life was better. I cannot get enough of sharing it. You are so right. Please consider making another life was better to add to this outstanding point.
Hi Brian. I was just about to slope off to bed when I read your comment. What a lovely thing to say and I’m so grateful to you for sharing the video. It’s thanks to the likes of you that this channel has grown recently. I will indeed follow this up this year and when I do so it’ll be because you have motivated me to do it. Thanks Brian and kind regards to you, Terry (or Tez).
thank you.... yahoo from East Bridgewater MA USA@@verynearlyinteresting
@@brianwolent9593 Oh wow!! Right back at you from Stafford, England. 😊
((I’M BATMAN)) 1989 was the year of that great first Batman movie. Since that one in the 60s, which sucked in a good way. Still Love Adam West. I just do.
😆Hi Chuk
@@verynearlyinteresting Hello Tez! You’re awesome!!
@@BadChizzle Thanks Chuk you’re very kind 😊.
It did suck in a good way didn’t it. It was so bad it was amazing hahaha
It's so much easier now to access information, if I want to do some cycle maintenance for example..watch some videos, order the parts. Back in the 80's you went to the library to look for a book the books were often crap and you would give up.
I agree … that part is undeniably better!
Thanks, you make some great points.
On charts, another major factor is the way charts are determined now; streaming counts allows non-single tracks to be counted. Would be interesting to be able to see those stats historically. Lots of classic albums where the most played tracks likely wouldn't be the singles.
On banking, that special relationshop had broken down years before the branches started closing. High street banks have been reduced to loan and credit shops with sales targets for decades. If you need to see a business or mortgage specialist, you have to wait for the regional adviser to be scheduled for that branch (this is in a major UK city).
Let's be honest though, the main reason things were better 30 years ago is that we were 30 years younger!
All excellent points!!!!
I think that 30 years ago was the beginning of the end. 40 years ago was the middle of my teenage years when music was even better. I went to a gig once or twice a week not big just pub gigs but I could afford to on apprentice pay. We looked forward to things, worked and played hard and really enjoyed life. Now I’m disabled and just reminisce about the past. I think there are a huge amount of 50 somethings who would pay good money to go somewhere that had 80s food, drink and sweets with nothing on the jukebox (real not digital) past 1990.
17 years ago when Bliar came to power
Aaah, Ferris and the beautiful Ferrari. My first dream car.
The problem with music now is how homogenized radio and media is. There are tons of great bands on spotify, bandcamp and so on that just aren't getting the promotion of the big name artists you're mentioning. Part of it is because we don't consume music the same way, but also apps like spotify continually promote only thr biggest and most commercially viable artists.
Very well put. I wouldn’t have been able to put it as well as you do but I am aware that this is an issue. I’m sure there’s lots of great bands out there that can’t get a foot hold. Tez
Yes you're right, us older folk are aware of this. I'm sure though that the youngsters today will themselves be saying the same in thirty years ,well,similar. Just as our parents did. Great video. Groove on.
Thanks Robby. And yes I’m sure they’ll be saying the same as us in 30 years time. I hope I’m there to tell them it was even better 60 years ago 🤣. Tez
A middle aged rant that's bang on the nail. I just wish I was this articulate.
Thank you Vivien, that's very kind of you. Tez.
You're totally right.
Completely agree with you. Just to add an extra comment on the music. Most of the headline acts for Glastonbury were bands and people form the 1980's (Elton John, Blondie, Guns 'n' Roses ext). Well this would be like a 1980's Glastonbury having Vera Lynn as a headline act, unthinkable. Who will Glastonbury have as a headline act in 40 years time? It would seem that Ed Shearan would have to headline every single year.
Wow Roger … I never thought of it like that. You’re right though, in the 80’s we didn’t need to dig up old acts. Great comment, Tez
Great new channel I love it!! 😜😜
Thank you very much, that's very nice of you to say so. Tez :)
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”
Great video once again. And seriously sobering points you've made. Imagine the state we could be in 30 years from now. Scary thought. Maybe that can be the basis for another video on the subject?!?
Yeah that might be worth doing Matt! Thanks for your comments, much appreciated. :) Tez.
Everything will be run and made by AI by 2050
@@rickrivethead you’re right 😫
I’ve only just started watching your channel and you know in life when you just click with someone… Tez that’s you mate I’d definitely buy you a pint and chew the fat over some mysteries and nostalgia.
Totally agree with what your saying… Especially movies. Not only entertaining but taught me some life values growing up. Die Hard 1988 - wasn’t just a good film because of the action but John McClane felt like a real person with real flaws. Out of all the excitement and explosions I came away with a character that I looked up too… Even at the age of 14 when I was watching a certificate 18 I wasn’t supposed too 😂
Today I watch a CGI movie with a 250 million budget that does absolutely nothing for me…. Totally forgettable.
So I’m I’m totally on board with you 👊
What a lovely comment thank you so much! (Means a lot) Yes I'm, 100% with you - a $250 m budget means nothing to me too! So pleased you're enjoying the videos - I will keep 'em coming! Thanks again, Tez.
I'm a millennial from '86, so I've experienced the 90's pretty solid as well. But on the music and film topic, I think it's more like 10 years ago rather than 30... In the 2000's we've had some great music artists as well, like The Prodigy, Linkin Park, Evanescence and dozens more. Same for movies. We've had stuff like the first three Star Wars movies and Avatar. But right now they're also competing with the gaming and streaming industry, where there's also an incredible amount of talent. Take the latest Baldur's Gate game for example: the cinematics and story of that game are amazing, and make for better entertainment than watching a movie to a lot of people.
On the topics of work and housing you are right. It's seriously underestimated by older people how difficult it is for younger people to actually build their own lives. It's not "a lack of effort" or "a lazy youth" as is often said, it's simply that much more difficult to actually build up something for yourself now...
I despair for the society we have created. The world we live in is quite horrible.
As a 26 year old, I wish I had gotten to see life through this lens. The amount of opportunity and community that has been lost I believe through the technological “advancement” of the internet is so sad. It’s done so much harm to our psyches. We weren’t built to handle this endless amount of information and connectivity . It has its pros but so many cons. And economically everywhere is just the result of extreme lack of forethought and future planning for equality, years of greedy corporations and people who only care about themselves now they own all the money and us 99% get to complain about it to our algorithms and nothing changes. I hope I can buy a house one day but my rent goes up faster than our wages and I’d like to have a child yet my friends pay as much as their rent costs for childcare.
Hi Emma. You’ve put that very well indeed and I agree with you. You have headwinds against you that previous generations did not have and, to me, it seems so unfair. Don’t lose hope though, you’ll get there in the end and I wish you all the very best for a happy and prosperous future. Tez.
Recently, I asked to see a manager at a supermarket, and who appeared was a very bored-looking woman with tattoos on her arms. For a moment I completely forgot the nature of my complaint.
I turned 30 in 2008... Just about managed to buy my own home before the crisis (still in it). I was also the final year of students on the grant system. Skin of my teeth really, If I were just a few years younger I'd be screwed. I worry for my children.
I agree with most of what you said. The problem is that 30 years ago I had just taken out a mortgage on the cheapest house I could afford in the UK at the time. I struggled for the next 17 years to pay that mortgage. But now I am watching this video from an apartment that overlooks Sydney Harbour, the Opera House and a famous bridge, earning much more than I could have ever hoped to earn in the UK. Things weren't better 30 years ago. Things are what you make of the opportunities.
That’s a good point Syd. And wow … WHAT a location. Congrats, that’s simply amazing 😊
Some things much better, many things much worse than 30 years ago IMO.
@@JoeBlow-fp5ng i just find that for every advancement in technology which has made our lives better … we manage to take two steps back in other areas.
@@verynearlyinteresting I forgot to add that I got made redundant during the financial crisis of 2008/9, which was a real low. But by complete chance is how I ended up here!
@@sydnorth5868 That’s incredible Syd. Talk about snatching triumph out of adversity!!!
I’ve noticed gen z are either the media obsessed narcissistic ones who think life 30yrs ago must’ve been horrible and boring coz of hardly any tv channels so couldn’t watch whatever they want straightaway, no social media, couldn’t order everything online, couldn’t make TikTok dance videos for likes, usually have a lot of surgery and very image orientated.
Then there’s the other gen z who aren’t so worried about social credit and validation from strangers, they seem to have nostalgia for a time they never lived saying it seemed a lot calmer, more free, not constantly on a phone but actually interacting with people, they prefer the music, films, tv shows. I’m always surprised when a lot of them say they love 80/90s blockbuster classic films and music better than todays stuff
Well said
Totally agree..
I know for a fact that life was better thirty years ago. I was there. It was even better 50 years ago. I was there too. I was fourteen years old 50 years ago, definitely old enough to know how things were. And I've watched things decline ever since. Trash technology and an almost complete loss of moral values are destroying the human species.
I was still in high school 30 years ago but my social life was so much richer. I remember going to school dances and going to clubs to dance on the weekends. You had to know where the pay phones were if you needed to call home. The music was great as well. Love this video!
Take me back to the 80’s please. Anyone got a Time Machine ?
Take me with you if you find one 🤣
I go to concerts to see good cover bands so I can hear good music live. First job was fliping burgers 1985😊. Wnet to see Indiana Jones every weekend until they pulled it from theaters. Once it was gone....it was gone. Unless you had $500 for a video player😂
You definitely sound like me 🤣🤣. We didn’t have a VCR til I was 15 and that was second hand with those awful lever keys that kept jamming 🙄. Thanks again Steve.
I agree with you but I'm a bitter, twisted old man.
I am too 🤣
The mid 70s was also a horrible time for much of the same reasons you list here.
As we move through linear time there are rises and falls in our civilization. In every field and in different rhythms. Art, science, politics, economics, they are all constantly undulating to their own patterns of boon and bust. Depending on which direction you look, you will see entropy or thriving and growing. It all depends on what you look at and how you choose to view it.
The 70's was great for music in my opinion
"It is from experiences such as mine that we get our education of life. We string them into jewels or into tinware, as we may choose."
- Mark Twain
Yeah, but we had Bowie and Parliament Funkadelic, so...
The 70's, my favorite time. The music, spectacular..
The early 2000s was peak living. We had some of the benefits of the digital era, without it bleeding into absolutely everything we did
By then, *everything* was already thoroughly ruined.
1994 was *the LAST really good year for the World.*
I miss the 90s 😢
Me too Sarah 🥲. Tez
you have an outstandingly good channel - first-rate! 5-star content ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🏆
Thank you so much!
Life was better then. I knew all of my neighbours. Where I live now no one talks to each other. Also, we have become americanised, with the language especially. Since when has a film become a movie?!
Mate. None of the people on my childhood street talked to each other. That was in the 1970s.
I'm glad he had a fulfilling career in banking, but back then there were YTS schemes where 16-18-yr-olds worked 40-hr weeks in idiot-level jobs , being paid £30/ week under the guise of 'training' just to be let go when the scheme came to an end.
Thatcher was getting rid of every industry this country ever had, and then demonising unemployed people for not having the jobs her govt just took away from them.
And if you think music was better 30 years ago you weren't there. 80s music was endless shite, from Madonna, to Michael Jackson's falsetto squeakings, and tedious dance wankathons, through Prince's 'Robert-Plant-love-god-but-through-the-vehicle-of-a-repressed-in-denial-gay-dwarf' persona on to Stock Aitken and Waterman. Oh. And Jackmix. There is a very good reason so much of the significant music remembered from the 80s is alternative.
The Good Ole Days is nothing but an illusion. It's just this guy is giving us an updated version of it, that's all.
@@nobbynoris I can assure you we knew everyone almost on our estate. Mid 80's was when I noticed a down turn.
Well,all hail progress then,because I don't feel like talking with random people I don't really care about😂
I enjoy RUclips and Facebook. However, being able to mortgage your first house when you're relatively young is a very important thing regarding long term security. As for the term 'Renters' it's conditioning the young of today not to think in terms of a Tenancy as a contract with rights and responsibilities which you have for as long as you wish, provided you pay the rent. Renter as a fashionable term encourages acceptance that you pay money to occupy just like a hotel stay. No wonder birth rates are falling.
Very well put indeed! Tez
The weather was better and that's all that mattered.
we were less controlled, but 30 years ago you were a different person than you are now. And we have better dentists now.
Very true. Tez
Even as someone who didn't grow up then, I think your points are pretty valid. Our movies and music sucks, and I honest don't know the last time I've watched one. When it comes to the topics you mentioned, I think your correct, though now there are other things I'm sure will be talked about this way in the future, like video games, the early days of the internet, and the ability to make your voice heard through platforms like RUclips. I think saying one is definitively better than the other doesn't account for how much things have changed (though financially it is literally just worse). I also imagine things are only getting worse, and we'll be talking about how good we had it soon. Still, I can respect you for using actual arguments, and not just complaining.
That’s a great comment Carol and I agree completely, that was such a good read. It was nice that you said I’m not just complaining … but I must admit the older I get a seem to be doing a lot of it 😆. Thank you again for your lovely comment. Tez
Totally agree. I hate mobile phones
Ofc it was better, it was before enforced cultural enrichment and waving the Union Jack wasn’t considered a hate crime, and LGBT hadn’t taken over every major political and corporate institution.
Agree one hundred percent with everything you say. But also, everything is based on social media and speed of production, and as a result, culture is dumbed down to rock bottom. Social media is stuffed full of the most arbitrary bollocks which spreads through the whole of culture. And women, who think they are so much more liberated, also think they need to have a thick layer of makeup, massive lips and plastic surgery to be beautiful, which is definitely not liberating, again spread by social media. The music in particular now is bland, bland, bland.
Exceedingly well put!
No draft, better medical care, free online courses, lots of diverse and good new music to be found on streaming sites, people are living longer. Those are some of the "perks" of our current era.
Very true.
Reality is just a matter of perspective.
You and I could live on the same street in the same town and yet live in two completely different universes.
Want to change the world? It's easy. Just change your perspective.
Very well put. Tez 😊
Thanks again. It was great, fun, and informative.
Thanks Bill
People mistakes technology and society
Better technology does not make a better society
Countries are run off spreadsheets now days
For example how do you fix a low birth rate ?
A : find out what’s causing the low birth rate and try and implement policies that cost a lot of money to increase the birth rate
B : increase immigration to offset the people who aren’t being born
There is fixing the problem and There is shortcuts that don’t fix the problem
This is just one of many examples
‘Better technology does not make better society.’ I could have made a video just saying that one line. Thanks so much for watching, I really appreciate it. Tez😊
I would argue that the moral and social decline started during the cultural revolution of the Sixties.Of course there are benefits from living in the present.However whilst most of us have improved in the material sense,in general our modern world has not brought the moral stability customs and values we were just starting to lose in the sixties.I'd recommend Peter Hitchen's Abolition of Britain for a closer examination of this interesting subject.
Yeah, today's music is "mostly" absolute bollocks. I do love the CHATS though!!
I said to my granson 'who do you hang out with after school' he said once a week one of three friend come to the house for a few hours i ask what they did he said they play on computer games, so i asked what do you do the rest of the week he said play on computer games with one of his three mates joining in from their computer, i said to him after school i met up with a group of friends over the park n we listen to our sterio and danced or went for long walks (dossing) or fishing, oh yeah nan how many friends did you have he says cockily, loads i said and who ever could be there would turn up so always a group....he says with a grin...ive got over 100 people on my friends list ...what these friends you never see other than three scarcely WTF is the world coming to
Very well said Victoria … I’ve got three boys and two still teenagers and I can relate to everything you have said here. Oh boy … 😣
You're both the same
You had loads of "friends" who would worget about you the moment you part ways,he has 100 strangers in his friendlist
Out of them all,there are only a couple TRUE friends
Not "pals who you sometimes hang out with",friends.
Just like you called "friend" every random guy you barely knew,he calls people in facebook/whateverthekidsusethesedaysidkwehaveourownsocialnetworksinmycountry friend list his "friends" and probably thinks that the more the number there is,the better.
I ddi the same thing.
I outgrew it.
Now I delete EVERY person I don't need from my social networks accounts.
He'll outgrow it too.
Nothing really changed.
Several true friends,and the facade around it.
The evidence shows that purchasing power has gone down regardless of inflation. 30 years ago you could buy a house for less than $100k. I am not able to live the life my parents lived when they were my age because things are more expensive now.
It’s so much harder for young people now … I totally agree. Tez
Hey mate, at 05:30 where you quite rightly talk about inadequate working hours you failed to mention the single worst culprit: Amazon
Where almost everyone is on so-called 'zero-hours' contracts.
This baffles me. They’d have a much happier and productive workforce if everyone felt valued and part of the team. *Sigh*. Tez
I totally agree with you and I love your channel! ❤
Ahh thanks Gail that’s very nice of you to say 😊. I’m so pleased you like it. Tez
It's called progress, 30 years ago people would have said a similar thing, that life was better 30 years ago.
It's just different, the thing about the banks people were warned, when you went into a bank and they would tell you to do internet banking and I said no I prefer to go into my bank the bank workers looked at me as if I was crazy, now they are unemployed.
Cinema Yes it was better but the problems are that they have to make money, so they have to make the screens smaller and offer more films or they go bust.
Over all somethings were better but then people used their money spent it on things they wanted, disposable income.
Buying a house, the problem with that has been that all those that bought and now want to sell are selling at extortionate prices. Pretty much everyone wants to make a profit on the house they live in, and the estate agents are responsible for this.
I could go on about how things have changed but the changes never benefit the people only those at the top.
When I was a kid I was told the future with computers would see us all having lots of free time, time to enjoy life as the computers would take over all the jobs that could be done on a computer, what they forgot to mention was that those jobs lost would mean lower wages lower skill levels, mind numbing jobs that computers struggle with and no future prospects as by the time you get to a certain age a new computer will have taken your job.
It's progress yay.
Brilliantly put!!!! Tez
I'm 60 years of age, male and 99.9% agree with you. I'm now retired thanks to a final salary pension. My two favourite female singers though are Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus 😂 Miley Cyrus, for example, I challenge anyone to listen to her sing Malibu live (better than the studio version in my view) and question her talent
Well done to you on the pension Ian!!! (I’ve got a couple more years to wait 🙄). I do agree … I didn’t really mean to mock the people I listed and I don’t doubt their talent. All of them are probably benefiting from a lack of competition though I would suggest. Thanks for watching and commenting Ian, it’s very much appreciated. Tez 😊
Thank you Tez for your reply, I mentioned the final salary pension of course as a further example of better times in years gone by! I appreciate you weren't doubting their talent and I fully agree there's very little competition unlike in the 80s in particular. All the very best to you!
@@ianward4686 I could have added pensions on to that list couldn’t I? What young person could look forward to that these days? Good point Ian
10000% correct
Hello again! And thank you 😊. Tez
Can't argue with ya ,life is crap in these times ,much harder more stressful,how do we fix it I ask
If only I knew the answer to that!
As someone who worked in the sphere of Mental Health I can assure you that Mental ill health is as old as Humanity
I love Rocky 23.
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