We was brung up proper!

[Whitebootman]

I was a 70's child. The question is if these decades produced such wonderfully rounded adults who the **** is raising all the problem children now?

People forget the bad stuff, 3 day weeks, mass unemployment, heroin epidemic, fear of all out nuclear war, songs of praise![/QUOTE]

The downside.

 

[degsy]

WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER !!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930s, 40s, 50s, and 60s

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank sherry while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer. Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags if our parents had a car! We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Nando’s. Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on a Sunday, somehow we didn't starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy toffees, gobstoppers and bubble gum.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter, milk from the cow and drank soft drinks with sugar in them, but we weren't overweight because,

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were OK.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.

We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars. We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY, no video/DVD films, or colour TV; no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms......... WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

Only girls had pierced ears!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...

We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet because we didn't need to keep up with the Jones's!

Not everyone made the rugby/football/cricket/netball team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT!

Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and throw the blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren't concentrating. We can string sentences together and spell and have proper conversations because of a good, solid three R's education.

Our parents would tell us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

not to mention...

lead water pipes and it was that cold back then that the pipes in the kitchen froze solid, we had frost on the INSIDE of our bedroom windows....nobody died of hypothermia, nobody 'had depression' or asthma, nobody was allergic to peanuts.

All 5 of the adults smoked inside the house, but none of us kids took it up in adulthood, nobody as yet has died as a result of passive smoking.

will post more as they come to me

and they do...

nobody had heard of trick or 'kin treat, it was halloween or duck apple night.

kids could build a bommy on some waste ground without the health and safety nazis getting involved...AND SET FIRE TO IT.

Nobody catholic or proddy ate meat on good friday all the shops were shut and everything else

shops closed at 1-00pm on weds

page 3 had news on it

the echo as a semi decent newspaper

liverpool had 1 sometimes 2 conservative MPs

you could get milk in sq bottle from reece's

A mars bar cost 2d so did a packet of crisps...and there were only smiths crisps with a little packet of salt in a twist of blue paper

kids could buy looseys ( 1 cigarette + a match ) from the local sweet shop

 

[degsy]

And we used to live in a cardboard box in middle of road. And my dad used to come home and kill us.

Any we were happy.

LUXURY

 

[degsy]

Spangles and Cabannas..............thats all we needed to make us happy...oh and a stick.....we all had a stick which went everywhere with us,, used to keep it by the side of the bin in the porch at nightime.

You had a porch...did the butler have one as well

LUXURY

 

[degsy]

The ammount of stuff people manage to use to feel superior to other people is astonishing.

In another week someone will be posting how they're better than everyone else because their crap is a deeper shade of brown.

Mine is

LUXURY

 

[degsy]

can anyone tell what I could make out of a length of 2" x 1" wood about 2 foot long, a few elastic bands and 2 pegs ???

If you remember you must be over 30 years of age like me.

you had TWO!!! pegs


LUXURY

 

[degsy]

kick the can knock and run and the fair at Speke park

I survived St Ambrose AND the Noahs Ark

 

[degsy]

If you're under the age of thirty then you don't know sh*t so pipe the [Poor language removed] down and sit there being obedient in the corner.

is 'kin right and maybe make it 40 -45

 

[thisGRAEME]

Born in 1988.

Did most of those things.

 

[peteblue]

This should be in the Oldies Thread, now tidy your room......