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roseway:
When you're 5, a year is 20% of your life so far, but when you're 50, it's only 2%. When another year has passed, you look back on it in the context of all the years you've lived. That (IMO) is why time seems to pass more quickly as you get older.

sevenlayermuddle:

--- Quote from: roseway on August 02, 2018, 10:53:44 PM ---When you're 5, a year is 20% of your life so far, but when you're 50, it's only 2%. When another year has passed, you look back on it in the context of all the years you've lived. That (IMO) is why time seems to pass more quickly as you get older.

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That’s the common theory.   I choose not to accept it, based on examples such as quoted earlier.   My own hypothesis is that speed of time simply varies and is somewhat spurious, and it varies for all people and all ages.   Generally it increases but last night, watching an awful movie that I did not choose, it slowed right down for a while.

I’d like to conduct some more intensive research to support my theories but at my age, not sure I have the attention span.   :D

johnson:

--- Quote from: sevenlayermuddle on August 02, 2018, 06:51:55 PM ---It was just over 20 years between the end of WW2 and all its tragedy, and the first broadcast of Dad’s Army, which exposed a “funny” side of WW2.   Pursued of course by others, such as Allo Allo.  I therefor surmise, in mid 20th century, 20 years was a long time.

These days, it is the blink of an eyelid.   Can anyone imagine making a TV sitcom about the Iraq Wars, or the Nato’s interventions in Bosnia, while it is all so fresh in mind?

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This is an interesting point, but I'd counter with Four Lions after 9/11... but I guess you'd call that pretty dark humour, which raises another point, was Dad's Army received as controversial or "out there" when it first aired?

sevenlayermuddle:

--- Quote from: johnson on August 02, 2018, 11:51:03 PM ---This is an interesting point, but I'd counter with Four Lions after 9/11... but I guess you'd call that pretty dark humour, which raises another point, was Dad's Army received as controversial or "out there" when it first aired?

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Not really familiar with Four Lions and don’t think I’ve seen it, but wasn’t it a one-off cinema movie, rather than a TV family sitcom?

Dad’s Army may well have been controversial.  In fact, not sure I was initially allowed to watch, being so young and Dad, who landed on a Normandy beach on D-Day, having quite understandable deep seated hatreds still lurking.   But by the second or third series, it was essential family viewing. :)

Emphasing my point more though, and moving away from any “religious war” aspects, even the Falklands war, now nearly 40 years ago, I suspect would be too fresh in the mind for a TV Sitcom. :-\

johnson:
It was indeed just a film, but its really very good and you should give it a watch if you get a chance. Does come from the mind of Chris Morris, don't know if you ever watched Brass Eye or The Day Today, but that guy, so not exactly mainstream. That one episode of Brass Eye was the most complained about thing on broadcast television for some time IIRC.

Hmmm.... Captain Team America? There was an awful BBC comedy about people serving in Afghanistan, "Bluestone 42".

Anyway I still think you're point stands, current events stay current for longer for some reason. Maybe the constant news streams or the sensationalism of coverage? I'm not sure and have a smaller reference frame than some, interesting to think about though.

Edit: Team not Captain

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