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The Good Old Days (UK TV Series), The Good Old Days
The good old days is a term used when referring to better times in the past. Good Old Days may also refer to: Film and television *The Good Old Days (film), ''The Good Old Days'' (film), a 1940 British comedy set in 1840 *''The Good Old Days: The Love of AA'', a 2010 Ghanaian film *The Good Old Days (UK TV series), ''The Good Old Days'' (UK TV series), a popular BBC television light entertainment television program which ran from 1953 to 1983 *The Good Old Days (Hong Kong TV series), ''The Good Old Days'' (Hong Kong TV series), a 1996 Hong Kong drama series set in the early 20th century *Good Old Days (Thai TV series), ''Good Old Days'' (Thai TV series), a 2022 Thai drama television series Music *Good Old Days (Leroy Shield song), "Good Old Days" (Leroy Shield song), 1930 theme song for the Our Gang comedies, now known as The Little Rascals *Good Old Days (Macklemore song), "Good Old Days" (Macklemore song), 2017 *Good Ol' Days (album), "Good Ol' Days" (album), by the Reklaws, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Old Days
Good old days is a cliché in popular culture used to reference a time considered by the speaker to be better than the current era. It is a form of nostalgia which can reflect homesickness or yearning for long-gone moments. There is a predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, a form of survivorship bias, for people to view the past more favourably and future more negatively. Notable uses In literature In 1726, John Henley used this phrase in his book ''The Primitive Liturgy'' "to all honest Admirers of the good old Days of their best and wisest Fore-fathers, this first Part of the Primitive Liturgy Is most humbly dedicated". In 1727, Daniel Defoe wrote in ''The Complete English Tradesman'' "In the good old days of Trade, which our Fore-fathers plodded on in." In this part of his book, Defoe talks about how in 'the good old days' tradesman were better off than in Defoe's time. In music In 2015, musical duo Twenty One Pilots released Stressed Out, a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |