Off Topic Top ten significant historic events....

Some positive, some not...........

Cuban Missile Crisis
The Beatles/British Invasion
60s Counterculture
Social Liberalism
Thatcher/ Reagan
Fall of Communism
Blair/Bush
The Worldwide Web
Radicle Islam
Trump/Brexit

 

All super additions in some way or another.
I'd like to add the Queens visit to Ireland and the reception she got over here.
Hairs standing up on the back of my neck time.

 

In my lifetime cuts out anything pre mid 1980's so...

1) 9/11 and the aftermath.
2) fall of the Berlin wall.
3) Thatcher and her government
4) 2004 Tsunami
5) Technological revolution...internet, smart phones etc etc.
6) Concorde crash and then being abandoned.
7) Brexit and general rise of right wing in Europe.
8) Mandella being released.
9) Diana's death and general decline in popularity of royalty.
10) all a bit serious and sad so far, so to show I do have some perspective on life...QPR 1 Chelsea 0 23.10.2011

 

I also hope that the doom and gloom isn't the case - but to look at the planet as a whole, unfortunately it's not possible.
Isolated, certain parts of the world, as far as advanced civilizations go, as we all know, they will survive better than others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

To think, as a human species, we were happy enough to think we can let these things be tested in supposed "isolated, remote regions" of the world.

And what of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? That 2011 Fukushima Japan Earthquake and Nuke disaster - the amount of rubbish that were sucked out to the ocean - it's incalculable. All that stuff is down there, and floating.

You know, the American comedian George Carlin used to talk about "NIMBY" - NOT IN MY BACK YARD - about something social a society needs -

 

I give a special like to your No 10.

 

1/ Ecstacy
2/.......who cares....let's dance

 

Striking for Christmas Stainsey?

American Airlines/BA kindly deleted my reservation for my return flights from the US last Thursday, because I was a 'no show' for a short internal flight from Chicago on the same booking. The fact that they had cancelled that flight because of snow (I drove for 3 hours instead) apparently immaterial, I was supposed to tell them I wasn't going to wait 24 hours to travel 200 miles. Then they sold my seats and could not reinstate my booking. The woman on the helpline tried to blame my company's travel agency. So I took an alternative airline instead. Handy reminder why I avoid BA and it's code share partners.

 

Well, I like to talk positives so let mention the British Invasion.

I've just spent the last two hours or so playing some of my favourite music from the late sixties.

The Beatles.
The Kinks.
Bad Finger.
The Who.
Eric Burdon of the Animals.
Gerry and the Pacemakers .........to name a few.
Long live the British Invasion!

 

On the ground it's business as normal mate, I was meant to be working Xmas day but luckily one of the Asian lads who doesn't celebrate is working for me so I can be with the family.
I won't go into the details of the ins and outs of the current industrial dispute on a public forum as all are pretty paranoid but I think you can guess who's side I'm on.

 

No problem with the industrial disputes mate, particularly if they are all well publicised. The pay for some of the cabin crew is scandalous. It's the way the airline is run that winds me up. Lufthansa have had plenty of disruption through industrial disputes over the last couple of years. I get loads of grovelling apologies and bonus air miles and status points from them.

 

Totally agree mate, some companies seem to be run in a way that tries at least, to look after the customer and to win their loyalty. Sadly others dont.

 

1. OBZ day

 

If that is true, that is seriously scary that people would that hard a job dealing with crazy people for that kind of money. Of course they get free food, hotels and some trips to destinations on the company coin, but to have only that kind of money to put in your pocket makes no sense.

I'd be depressed too and hit the drink like all them pilots.

 

1. Properties becoming a source of income
2. The Internet/Digitilisation
3. 9/11
4. "Globalisation"/Robotics
5. The end of importance of Religion in the West
6. Equal rights - only in the West and in name only
7. End of corporal punshment in the West
8. Easily available recreational drugs
9. Steve Ovett/Seb Coe 1980 Moscow Olympics - 800 & 1500
10. The Minstrel winning the 77 Derby under an incredible Lester Piggott drive to beat Hot Grove ridden by little Willie Carson by a nose.

 

the question is open to another question - did it affect me? however I will go for no it did not and what has changed the world we live in during my lifetime.

1. Vietnam War - total waste of time
2. Berlin Wall dismantled
3. Collapse of the USSR
4. EU and Britexit
5. Amercan, Brit and Aust politics in general, (lets follow the USA like sheep)
6. the rise of radical Islamists
7. the internet
8. immigration laws
9. the extinction of many species of animals
10. crime of politicians being ignored

 

Is it such a crime that politicians are ignored?

 

ok reworded to the blatant crimes of many politicians being ignored by the judicial system or covered up by their various political parties

 

Here's a few things gone/changed in our lifetime, not many for the better:

1, A proper postal system with domestic deliveries in the mornings.

2, Bin men that used to come through the side gate to collect your garbage from a proper round bin.

3, The coal man delivering.

4, Milk deliveries on milk floats.

5, The joy that there was a Bond movie on the box on Boxing Day.

6, When the Queen's Silver Jubilee was such a big event the whole country seemed to rejoice in.

7, The amount of sweets you could get in a Penny Mix-Up from a proper sweet shop with proper sweetie jars.

8, The joy of proper British comics like Valiant, Topper, Roy of the Rovers, The Eagle, Battle, Victor etc.

9, Rag and bone men.

10, When mothers used to scrub their front doorsteps, no matter how poor the household, because appearances and respectability were important.