you’d have to find some way of doing a runner and getting back to blighty in 2008 QUICKLY before you got slotted by their redneck dad who has a whole cupboard full of guns and burns a cross on the field every Sunday – or even some jealous American meth-head who had self-appointed himself as the girls pimp…

once again the reality of these places is way different (some of the survivors have put their memories online)

The British alternative culture of the 60s/70s wasn’t too bad, but what us younger lot forget is that today in the 21st century a ton of stuff which was once considered the depths of depravity is now grudgingly endured by “normal people”

I’ve chatted with older people (my parents sort of agegroup) and they had a fair few good events and festies but what they have said if the cops did get you they would fuck your life over and you’d often get a kicking and be treated like scum if you were involved with drugs – then it would be Court, name in the papers and no chance of getting a job in that town whatsover

In the 1960s (in fact maybe right up to the 1980s) if Amy Winehouse was around then and busted she wouldn’t have been able to sing “no no no” – for one thing all her records would have been banned from airplay and not stocked in the record stores thus denying her revenue stream and ending her career

her record company would then have dropped her like a hot potato

and eventually someone in uniform would chuck her into a secure room, and if she kicked up she would be slapped to the floor with a shout of “SHUT IT, YOU FUCKING SLAG!” and be forcibly injected with a tranquiliser (whilst nowadays people take these voluntarily)

and they would be working for the “caring” NHS, not even the Police..

there aren’t really any “good old days”. Nor are things that bad even today. Things just evolve….