The Oldies Thread

[LEONARD]

Anybody remember playing a game called split the kipper ?
You stood a couple of yards a part from a mate and threw a knife at your mates feet and they had to stretch one of there feet where it landed as long as it stuck in.
Can't remember how you won, not very PC these days

It's a miracle we all made it to adulthood.

 

[Methuselah]

Top of Abingdon Road, opposite Walton Hall Park.

A time when all fares on the bus were 25p!

My Dad was in the Fire Service during the blitz. He was stationed locally in Abingdon Road. The fire station building was next to Florence Melly school.

 

[LEONARD]

My Dad was in the Fire Service during the blitz. He was stationed locally in Abingdon Road. The fire station building was next to Florence Melly school.

Yes I attended Flo Melly from 1962, that part of Walton was a nice place to grow up then.

Sadly, It went quickly downhill in the late 70's.

 

[peteblue]

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This is The Oldies Thread, not the Dead Thread…….

 

[Eggs]

 

[tonyhorne]

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Most of those come with "attitudes of the time" warnings when shown on satellite channels these days.

What chance Till Death us do Part?

 

[woodsyni]

Anybody remember playing a game called split the kipper ?
You stood a couple of yards a part from a mate and threw a knife at your mates feet and they had to stretch one of there feet where it landed as long as it stuck in.
Can't remember how you won, not very PC these days

Forgot about that one. We called it 'Splits'. What could go wrong?

 

[Eggs]

….Roe St, Liverpool 1951.

 

[Eggs]

….bus to Kirkby on Scotland Road.

 

[LEONARD]

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Now all verboten due to racism, sexism, homophobia, and every other sensitivity you could mention.

 

[woodsyni]

Now all verboten due to racism, sexism, homophobia, and every other sensitivity you could mention.

To be fair, a lot of them were racist, sexist and homophobic. Enjoyed them at the time though. It can be unfair to judge a past era with present attitudes though.

 

[LEONARD]

To be fair, a lot of them were racist, sexist and homophobic. Enjoyed them at the time though. It can be unfair to judge a past era with present attitudes though.

Very true, I wince when watching them now.

We all live in very different times, and in lot's of way's far more tolerant.

The pendulum may have swung too far in the other direction I think.

Still love, Steptoe and Son, some fantastic Cockney rhyming Slang.

 

[woodsyni]

I have certainly grown and changed as a person but it's easy to get called for slights that simply weren't there at times. People getting offended on other people's behalf etc.

 

[roydo]

I have certainly grown and changed as a person but it's easy to get called for slights that simply weren't there at times. People getting offended on other people's behalf etc.

I sometimes wonder at what is currently perfectly normal behaviour today, will be seen as bad in 30 years time. Burning fuel to drive things maybe?

 

[woodsyni]

I sometimes wonder at what is currently perfectly normal behaviour today, will be seen as bad in 30 years time. Burning fuel to drive things maybe?

Absolutely! Times change, people change. We can just try to be the best people we can be and try not to harm as few people and as few things as we can in the meantime.