When We Was Young, We Didn't Complain

 

Who remembers

ice on the inside of the windows

no central heating

knitted blankets not quilts

we thought an eiderdown was a brand of cider

Who remembers

two channels on the telly

and a remote control

was the youngest member

of the family, getting up to change channels

We didn’t have computers

an Apple Mac was a Scottish fruit

A PC was a

look fuck off ok it was SHIT

FUCKING SHIT

Things have got materially better

so fuck off with this arse-headed nostalgia

for times when people were fucking cold and hungry

and had fewer options

and you're posting it on fucking FACEBOOK you

- and if I can use an ancient, nostalgic word here I will -

cunts