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Do you remember when. . . . . .

Do you remember when:
- Christmas festivities, the switch on of lights, the putting up of Christmas trees and the arrival on Santa was on 6th December, Saint Nicholas Day
- the first two weeks of January were completely Valentine Card free
- comedians on TV didn't swear
- a world without Greta Thunberg
- a world without airport security
- you didn't need an Equity card to be a professional wrestler
- Bohemian Rhapsody set the bar to reach for popular songwriting
- people had to speak English correctly to get a job on TV
- you had to go out to get a takeaway
- there was no ITVbe or Metro 'newspaper'
- people used only "he" or "she" to describe other people
- Christmas TV was watchable
- people didn't use "super" as their sole adjective
- there were no soshul influenzers
- people didn't say "I follow him/her (him/her being an otherwise useless, self-publicising nonentity) on Instagram
- drivers of Mercedes and BMW's used their indicators
- women didn't have duck lips
- when DFS/SCS didn't have a sale on
- when HR was "Personnel" and they actually knew what all the workers in their business did
- people covered with tattoos were only either porn stars or criminals
- TV advertising was interesting and not just rehashed rubbish stolen by uncreative advertising agencies for their own clients
- Cheetham Hill in Manchester was a vibrant local village and not just a glorified takeaway
- a child born out of wedlock was referred to as a ******* and most certainly never attended its parents' "white" wedding as a page boy or flower girl
- when TV programmes weren't sponsored by products you had absolutely nil interest in
- you had only your own original teeth in your mouth
- new drivers actually observed the "Rules of the Road" after passing their driving test
- celebrities were real celebrities who worked hard and used actual real talent to get to the top of their profession
- you didn't queue for 5 days outside a shop for the new iPhone or console game that would be in oversupply three weeks later
- you didn't use Facebook to show off where you were going on holiday to or to drop hints to grandparents for presents for your sprog's up and coming birthday
- £19.95 JML products were already available in the local crap shop for just a few pounds
- you didn't need a fake Louis Vuitton bag to try and impress people
- utter rubbish like "Love Island" wasn't the centre of peoples' attention to the ignorance of all else for weeks on end

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