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> Black and White?
> (Under the age of 40? You won't understand.)
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> My mum used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread butter on bread on the
> same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't
> seem to get food poisoning.
>
> Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag,
> not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e. coli
>
> Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake or at the
> beach instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures
> then.
> We all took PE ..... and risked permanent injury with a pair of Dunlop
> sandshoes instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air
> cushion soles and built in light reflectors that cost as much as a
> small car. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened
> because they tell us how much safer we are now.
> We got the cane for doing something wrong at school, they used to call
> it discipline yet we all grew up to accept the rules and to honour &
> respect those older than us.
>
> We had 30+ kids in our class and we all learned to read and write, do
> maths and spell almost all the words needed to write a grammatically
> correct letter......., FUNNY THAT!!
>
> We all said prayers in school and sang the national anthem, and staying
> in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
>
> I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was
> allowed to be proud of myself.
>
> I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station,
> Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. We weren't!!
>
> Oh yeah ... and where was the antibiotics and sterilisation kit when I
> got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
>
> We played “King of the Hill” on piles of gravel left on vacant building
> sites and when we got hurt, mum pulled out the 2/6p bottle of iodine
> and then we got our backside spanked.
>
>
> Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10 day dose of
> antibiotics and then mum calls the lawyer to sue the contractor for
> leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
>
> To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they
> were from a dysfunctional family.
>
> How could we possibly have known that?
>
> We never needed to get into group therapy and/or anger management classes.
>
> We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't
> even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!
>
> How did we ever survive?
>
> (Under the age of 40? You won't understand.)
>
>
>
>
> My mum used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread butter on bread on the
> same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't
> seem to get food poisoning.
>
> Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag,
> not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e. coli
>
> Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake or at the
> beach instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures
> then.
> We all took PE ..... and risked permanent injury with a pair of Dunlop
> sandshoes instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air
> cushion soles and built in light reflectors that cost as much as a
> small car. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened
> because they tell us how much safer we are now.
> We got the cane for doing something wrong at school, they used to call
> it discipline yet we all grew up to accept the rules and to honour &
> respect those older than us.
>
> We had 30+ kids in our class and we all learned to read and write, do
> maths and spell almost all the words needed to write a grammatically
> correct letter......., FUNNY THAT!!
>
> We all said prayers in school and sang the national anthem, and staying
> in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
>
> I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was
> allowed to be proud of myself.
>
> I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station,
> Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. We weren't!!
>
> Oh yeah ... and where was the antibiotics and sterilisation kit when I
> got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
>
> We played “King of the Hill” on piles of gravel left on vacant building
> sites and when we got hurt, mum pulled out the 2/6p bottle of iodine
> and then we got our backside spanked.
>
>
> Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10 day dose of
> antibiotics and then mum calls the lawyer to sue the contractor for
> leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
>
> To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they
> were from a dysfunctional family.
>
> How could we possibly have known that?
>
> We never needed to get into group therapy and/or anger management classes.
>
> We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't
> even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!
>
> How did we ever survive?
>
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we used to eat bread and dripping how did we survive halcyon !
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Good wholesome food, why would you not survive ! ?
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Thankfully Lyle & Scott sweatrr
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Oops !, sweaters are still in fashion
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We are men halcyon,!
Today's youth are a bunch of softies with the attention span of a gnat |
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We played " King of the hill " on bomb sites.
We played football on a cinder pitch. We needed a ration card to buy sweets. We had to drink 1/3 pint of milk ( often warm ) at school. We wore " TUF " shoes because of the the three month guarantee. We had our feet Xrayed at shoe shops. We had to wear shorts to school. We dodged the bus conductor and jumped off the bus without paying. We bought penny stales from the bakers. We walked to school even if it was raining. |
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Concur parispike....
it's the world owes me a living/ it's not my fault age ! In essence, personal responsibility is a bygone concept ! kbf... it made you the person you are today !  |
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We stood on the terraces but bunked over the wall to get in . ( The Den )
We collected stamps. We only listened to the radio. We dodged policemen on the streets. We only knew PC to be a Police Constable. We were often " clipped round the ear " |
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Jeez, I remember climbing the walls to get away from you phuckers... circa '73 ( Aston Villa)... a moody place to travel to, The Den !
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We always pressed BUTTON B when passing
We played havoc at Saturday Morning cinema We had to go to church on Sundays We had to stand 12 in line to be inoculated without a change of needle |
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We were so poor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw |
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well they recon pure fat is really bad for ya
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Oh those rose-tinted fifties
The decade that is. |
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Still 'ere to tale the tale Foylsey !
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yep hd , the 60s for me as a young un were a great time hardly paid for anything ,cinema was free a bunch of mates put in a few pence each to pay for a mate to get in and open the fire exit (floodgates )for the rest , travel by train was free ,never paid ,went to footy matchs ,millwall one week Charlton the next climbed over the wall ,and had various schemes set up to make a few quid during the week great times .
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we started piling up bonfire wood 3 months before on the edge of a local lake .....we would make small fires from 2 weeks before 5th november and sit around it chatting for hours in the freezing cold at night ....no fighting , no sex and no drugs ......we were kids and allowed to be kids
we were able to hear the word no from our parents and say sorry mum for asking. There was no instant self gratification........i had the same bike for 7 years from the age of 8 and was happy with it. i learnt to fix everything on that bike I watched an hour of childrens TV every day and loved every moment...it didnt matter what was on !....and there were only 2 TV channels...before BBC 2 We appreciated everything . in the 5 th year at grammar school.......a school that local council estate kids would go to on merit at 11 and had a superb education .....2 people i knew went from the local large council estate went from the 6th form to Oxbridge........that would be impossible almost now. In the 5th year , almost everyone knew the complexities of cosines , logarithms and trigonometry , long before their exams......and of course , calculators were not allowed ...most didnt need them anyway. |
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that sounds precisely like my childhood pablo! I'm 60, you? Great times and not through rose tinted glasses either. I genuinely believe those in the late 40s early 50s had it best!
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56 my friend....great times indeed parispike ........spanish parents....but i was loved by all my friends as one of them
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i thank Halcyon for bringing this subject up .....it isnt the old fogies forum but everything else is discussed on here so why not this.
There were some truly astonishing customs and practices....if of course you compare to todays world. It would be interesting to find out if any of the younger brigade would like some of what we have discussed to return...of course it never can because of many reasons. |
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there is one massive omission here,
eating fish and chips out of old newspapers, TRIPLE STAR NAP |
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good stuff Happy ......and a free bag of small bits of fish and potatoes in piles of batter from the bottom of the fryer
my local fish and chip shop would seel people chips in accordance to how much money they had.......i would often get a few chips for 3 old pence...about 1 new pence in decimal currency .......when a bag of chips really cost 9 old pence |
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sell
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In January the condensation froze on the inside of the window
In February it was still frozen In March we took the daffodils we had grown over the winter to school for judging In April we made " Happy Easter" cards for our mum In May I got " National Savings Stamps " usually 2/6 worth for my birthday In June we went to Epsom on the Sunday In July we went swimming and bought a " Wagonwheel" In August we went hop picking In September we went conkering In October we wondered what " Back Mac " meant ( See 1959 General Election ) In November we had Banger Fights In December I got more b....Y National Savings Stamps |
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good stuff
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smiths crisps with the little blue salt packet ,Saturday morning pictures, place rammed full ! chestnuts sold on the street cooked in a hot coal fired brazier type contraption ,at least one would be rotten !spangles ,coconut ice ,and blancmange on sundays for afters
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* Once a week bath and wash hair.
* Getting chilblains from holding feet in front of the coal fire. * Directing motorists up someone's driveway during 'pea soupers'. * Scrumping. * Penny for the guy. * Sugar on buttered bread.Fried bread.Bread and lard with marmite. * Letting off stink bombs during Saturday morning pictures. * Games of 20 a side footy in the playground during break with nothing more than a tennis ball or a broken ball with no air in it. * Making massive long slides when there was snow. * Compressing farts against the chair in class to make them louder. * Substituting naughty words for words that began with a given letter during hymns. * Paper rounds. * Listening to 'Journey Into Space'on the radio. (Far more evocative than watching 'Star Wars'). * Mandy Rice-Davis and Christine Keeler. * Teachers who told us to think for ourselves and to question authority.(But gave you a clip round the ear if you did!) |
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My father was called for jury service at The Old Bailey when the Steven Ward trial took place. Unfortunately he got the short straw and ended up on a six week fraud case. |
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Climbing trees, do they still do that, god they seemed so high when you were 7 or 8, taught you how to be careful and about risk. What about the playgrounds. The slides where high, if you fell off you landed on concrete, you could also make those roundabouts go so fast to see who the first to fall off would be, and what about the swings, standing on the seats to see how high you could get. No council worried about getting sued if you hurt yourself, it was your own fault and you accepted that.
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Kpf.
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3d worth of broken biscuits from Woolies... the old gels behind the counter 'ud feel sorry for us street urchins and fill the bag right to the top... sheer heaven !
Really cold nights... Nicking R Whites pop bottles from behind the Pop Inn.... and getting the money back on the bottles at the offy to pay for a tanners worth of chips & two scollops' ! |
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Going to Villa Park as a ten year old and being absolutely spell bound by the drama and excitement of the crowd....
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Sitting in the bath to shrink your Levi jeans
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Slippy
... bleached in the 60s !Guineess gel still frothing ?.... |
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the evening news on Saturday night with the afternoons football results ,the toffee apple man ,old boy on a bike selling toffee apples shouting out toffee appeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel,the coconut ones always went sold first ,armchair theartre on the telly
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h d , I saw my first game at Selhurst Park in 1979, at home to the mighty Preston North End. It was chucking it down all night and finished 0-0. I thought it was great at the time. Little did I know that being a Palace man from then on would be such a life of misery and disappointment
 We are doomed this season to get relegated. |
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Slippy, not certain mate... any three from bottom eleven imvho !
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Wrestling in the mid 60s (Kent Walton)... as a youngster believing it was all legit !
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First stirrings in the groin area.... Emma Peel ( Diana Rigg) in The Avengers !
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shrimps and winkles from the seafood stall outside the pub on sunday afternoons !
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