Changes worth celebrating, that have happened in my lifetime

[Profpointy]

Where do you live swee'pea99? There's lots of racism, sexism and homophobia in Birmingham.

Probably nothing like as much as in the 70s or 80s say. Admittedly things are perhaps regressing somewhat at the moment, but even so ...

 

[swee'pea99]

Where do you live swee'pea99? There's lots of racism, sexism and homophobia in Birmingham.

'The hell that is' London. And of course it does still exist...just way, way less than when I was young.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Modern bikes.
Ebikes

 

[gavroche]

Camembert ,brie , croissants, petits pain au chocolat in British shops.

 

[winjim]

Techno

 

[Rusty Nails]

Peace in Europe since 1945.

Do the Balkans, Georgia, Ukraine etc count as Europe?

 

[Rusty Nails]

Running shoes with decent soles.

 

[jayonabike]

Google
Smart phones
Growing up in the rave scene

 

[All uphill]

Digital photography.

Easier access to reliable contraception.

Decline of the established church.

 

[MontyVeda]

The death of the compact cassette and the time wasted trying to untangle your favourite Dire Straits album from the internals of the car stereo.

Likewise VHS recorders.

I think your car stereo was trying to do you a favour

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Hubble telescope , the discovery of planets around other stars, the age of Universe determined, black holes photographed, gravitational waves detected.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

In Scotland, the decriminalisation of homosexual activity between consenting adults and also the court ruling that a husband could be charged with raping his wife.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The revival of real ale and smaller breweries.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Decent brakes on bikes.

 

[tyred]

Smoking ban in pubs.

It's amazing how attitude changed. When I was young everywhere you went was a haze of cigarette smoke and smokers were happy to light up in the home or the car of a non-smoker.

If you watch an old TV programme now it seems alien to see people smoking indoors and I find it hard to believe that I used to do it myself. I now find the very idea utterly absurd and hate being around smokers as I can smell it off my clothes.

I walk past a secondary school on my way to work and I see all the teenagers standing about outside and it is very rare to see one smoking whereas it would have been pretty normal to be having a a fag before going into school when I was a teenager. That really is a change for the better.