Those who claim things are getting better won’t.
The argument/complete nonsense thread...
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Not only the 1960's but every decade before that is also about half of what our current homicide trends are....seems no one wants to answer why murder rates have doubled the last 50 years ?
You forgot to mention the sexual revolution, although I was a bit like Philip Larkin, it passed me by until the release of the first ( maybe third or fourth) Beatles LP. Remember mini skirts though, and stockings. Bad schools dentists, free milk at school, paper rounds, fog, and hearing fog horns on the Humber, building bonfires, birds egging, hedgehogs, hearing Bob Dylan for the first time, standing where you like at City, football excursions, steam trains, milk machines in Paragon Station, bags of chips with scraps, one cig and a match for one penny at the corner shop, thinking Hull was the centre of the universe, saving up your school dinner money to be able to go to City, cigarette smoke everywhere, the lovely smell of beer when you walked past a pub......those where the days my friend...... because we didn't know any better.
Which,considering the amount of CCTV now prevalent,is quite telling.
Seems no records of homicide were kept before 2003.
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show 499 homicides were recorded by police in the 12 months to September 2025, a drop of 7% year on year from 539. These are the lowest overall homicide figures since records were first recorded in 2003.
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show 499 homicides were recorded by police in the 12 months to September 2025, a drop of 7% year on year from 539. These are the lowest overall homicide figures since records were first recorded in 2003.
60's statistics would've been worse if they'd caught me for my serial killing..........oops. 
Ahhhh ,the days of the school nurse coming and checking your hair for nits?
It isn’t. You said since 1918…That means it started and carried on. It seems it stopped in 1918.
I can't do catch up in 2026 FFS.You couldn’t do catch up in the 1960s. I remember my dad asking my mother if I was ill as he had never seen me in on a Friday night. It was because Ready Steady Go! was on. If you didn’t see it then you missed it. I remember them changing church service times because of the Forsyte Saga. Pub used to empty early when Monty Python was on. Stopped going to Sunday evening Sunday School because it clashed with Danger Man which caused a bit of an argument with the folks at the time,
Not the same somehow when everything is so easily available.
Don't suppose you frequented Barrowlands ballroom back in the day 'John'?(TwoWrights is obviously currently eating his evening offerings or he'd have been in there like a shot!!60's statistics would've been worse if they'd caught me for my serial killing..........oops.
I could've used you a couple of times in Glasgow Sheriff Court you wise old sage!!
You are Horace Rumpole and I claim the £5...
And don't forget the dreaded cough and drop
anyone remember the blue biro pens, with a domed transparent end? ... well on the nurse cupping my nuts... you know... I got a twitch on. She violently hit it with said pen, as if to cut the head of a snake!!!And don't forget the dreaded cough and drop
Happy days eh?
Murder rates are around the same now as they were in the 1970s.
No murders when dinosaurs ruled the world. Just a few old farts boring each other to death
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