Posted for all the lucky bastards who didn't have to live through them...

[Chips Rafferty]

.....but who long for the conservative's Golden days of yore!

Lost in the Fifties tonight!

 

[Diuretic]

I was there Chips.....I was there.....and it wasn't The Donna Reed Show

 

[Chips Rafferty]

I was there Chips.....I was there.....and it wasn't The Donna Reed Show

Ah but do you remember the days of no comedy on the radio before half-past one on Sunday afternoons ? Lest it gave decent Proddie people an alternative to going to church and caterwauling nauseating crawling crap like this,

Oh Lord, please don't burn us,
Don't grill or toast your flock,
Don't put us on the barbecue,
Or simmer us in stock,
Don't braise or bake or boil us,
Or stir-fry us in a wok...

Oh please don't lightly poach us,
Or baste us with hot fat,
Don't fricassee or roast us,
Or boil us in a vat,
And please don't stick thy servants Lord,
In a Rotissomat...

at the roof?

 

[Diuretic]

The 1950s were grey all over the world.....

 

[Gunny]

Curmugeons, the both of you.

 

[Diuretic]

Nah Gunny, for Americans the 1950s were the Golden Years indeed. In much of the rest of the world it was very grey. In the UK people were still using ration coupons from wartime as they rebuilt a severely damaged economy. In Australia there were severely repressive governments at both federal and state level and as Chips has pointed out, the religion wars were festering.

 

[Unkotare]

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[BlackFlag]

Sunday, Monday Happy Days!
Tuesday, Wednesday Happy Days!
Thursday, Friday Happy Days!
The weekend comes,
the ‘cycle hums,
Something something doo doo doooooooo