Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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14 February 2010
02:3340526#1
Do you get sentimental over anything? I do. Lots. Steam locomotives, old buses, aircraft, ships, buildings, cemetries, Dennis the the Menace, Desperate Dan, Golliwogs, ................ Just the British one`s, nothing against foreign, it`s just that there`s something about my own country`s past that I love. Nothing to do with politics, nationalism, just plain, simple, uncomplicated pure sentimentality. I love the past, hate the present, and hope the future is better for all. You?
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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14 February 2010
08:2640535#2
Nostalgia Colin.
I seem to have it more as I've got older; either that or the past just seems so much better -less violent, less nastiness, less laziness by so many people.
The past is always seen through rose-tinted testicles, sorry, spectacles though isn't it ?
I always look to the future and have high hopes for it, but there are certain aspects of it that scare me.
Roger
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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14 February 2010
09:3940546#3
Yes, I often think I was born in the wrong time!
I agree with Roger in that we often see the past through rose-tinted spectacles.
14 February 2010
11:1040549#4
Ah - nostalgia. It's not what it used to be. (sorry, just had to say it). However, I think it is people and what we used to do with them that we miss. I remember Sunday walks through Dover with my father, the warm streets, the smell of a myriad dinners cooking and then down to the Docks where he seemed to know everybody and took me across the lock gates (incidentally leaving me with a life long fear of same which did not work out well when I went on a narrow boat holiday).
14 February 2010
12:1540553#5
It is also that lovely time when we didn't have the responsibilities and losses we now have, at our age. The older I get, the more losses and pains I have, the more I remember the past as a beautiful country!!
14 February 2010
12:2540561#6
I do get sentimental over steam trains and some of the classic old films that tug at the heart strings. The Yearling and Gone With the Wind for instance.
But that's it. Life is all about NOW and to spend time looking back and wishing for those long gone days is to miss the opportunity that life presents today. I will always prefer to look forward than backward.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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14 February 2010
12:3240563#7
Same here Sid, life is now, and I don`t want to give the impression I want the past back. The steam locomotive was an often filthy, dirty uneconomical machine, and I view everything else with it as pure nostalgia. Hating the present just refers to me and my personal interest`s, along with the disappointment`s. I`m always looking at the future. Got my 2 precious daughter`s so I`m happy in that respect.
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14 February 2010
13:0740566#8
Without looking back, though, we risk making the same silly mistakes. Some of those silly mistakes, though, were fun, it has to be said..........
Terry Nunn
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14 February 2010
13:2340567#9
Decca F-3638.
Magic, brings tears to my eyes.
Terry
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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14 February 2010
14:1640569#10
I've still got a Decca SG 188, I wonder how much it's worth
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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14 February 2010
14:3940578#11
For me its the sight of a Spitfire or Hurricane flying overhead with the distinctive sound of the Merlin engine roaring away.......
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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14 February 2010
15:0640584#12
Great Barry, and the sound of cannon and machine gun fire as you fly low over Brussel`s.
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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14 February 2010
16:4540589#13
Trouble is Barry W-S, it doesn't get BBC7!
Terry
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14 February 2010
17:0740592#14
Love BBC 7 - Tony Hancock, Roy Hudd, The navy Lark - mmmmmmmm, love it!!
Guest 666- Registered: 25 Mar 2008
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14 February 2010
18:4240604#15
I love my vinyl Lp's and the Linn system that I play them on - I sold my car to by the system back in the 80s and I'm sure that they sound far superior to CD's.
Play a tune and you are right back there, transported through without need for a souped-up DeLorean, Tardis or anything.
Tavares and 'Don't take away the music' or 'Heaven must be missing an angel' do it for me every time - pure sentiment and nostalgia.
Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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14 February 2010
19:2940609#16
I'd have thought it might be True Love Ways Buddy - especially today !
Roger
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14 February 2010
19:4940615#17
True Terry, but the sound is very retro
14 February 2010
22:0940633#18
Oh I miss good old fashioned virtues, discipline & respect - please bring it back x
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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14 February 2010
22:1540635#19
Waspy waists and lots of petticoats .Stockings and high heels .Flick ups for hair dos
I used to have to sleep with cotton wool in my hair so the flick ups remained .
Someone pass the smelling salts all this talk of days gone by.
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
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14 February 2010
22:1540636#20
I'm with you there Terrismark.
Phil West
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