Post by Crusoe on Dec 13, 2005 9:27:44 GMT -5
rosalie said:
I thought this could've been the the DID of any number of ordinary people…I suppose quite a comforting DID which only goes to show that all celebrities don't have exciting and glamourous lives, in fact some of them like Mr Firth are less interesting than your own friends. Hee hee. Damning with faint praise. But a pretty accurate description of the show, I think.
rosalie said:
Loads of people have slept on others floors when you move around when you're young. We certainly had people sleeping on our floors for weeks at a time in the late 70s.Blanche said:
It was the the same in my household. I suppose floor altruism is alien to the majority of personnel within R4 because they're posh (the same would apply to a large section of the listening audience), so they regard it as quaint and worth a mention? The same applies to hitch-hiking – and I’d love to hear a DID guest telling stories about their hitch-hiking experiences. I wonder if this is more a time issue than a location/ class issue? I get the feeling that although the Seventies was a pretty grim period (perhaps because it was a grim period?), people did have a greater tendency to muck in together. I get t he feeling that in the Eighties people felt a lot more aspirational and the people would no longer want to sleep on others’ floors. As for hitch-hiking, I believe it is in decline because we are always told the dangers of picking up strangers who might (according to the scare-stories) mug you or worse. Similarly youngsters are warned of the dangers of accepting lifts from strangers.