Eeee, when I were a lad…

Martinr36

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This is brilliant......

KIDS THESE DAYS WOULD LAUGH AT THIS, BUT IT'S SO TRUE…..

When I grew up our tea time was at a regular time, Sunday’s was a roast, simple as that!
Eating out was not heard of, we only had a take away on special occasions, only received a present on birthdays and at Christmas. None of this Halloween, Easter and congratulations you have a pulse day 🙄.
Fast food was fish and chips and having a bottle of panda pop from the shop was a real treat.
You took your school clothes off as soon as you got home and put on your 'playing out' clothes. - children looked like children, we didn't pout, wear makeup or have anxiety. There was no taking or picking you up in the car, you walked or rode your bike!
Our house phone had a cord attached, so there was no such things as private conversations or mobile phones! Ours was out in the hall.
We didn’t have Now TV, Sky or Netflix, we had only 3 channels to watch. Channel 4 and 5 was an exciting addition! 😁 we had to watch all of the adverts unless you switched to BBC.
We played Army, British Bull Dog, Kerby, Hide & Seek, knock or door run, Tag, Football, climbed trees, made mud pies, daisy chains, rose perfume 😂😂 never smelt brill and Rode Bikes.
Everyone could play ball! We used tops for goalposts and even made a ball out of paper if we needed to. A wheelie and bunnyhop on your bike was a standard skill and we used cartons in tyres so it sounded like a motorbike.
Staying in the house was a PUNISHMENT and the only thing we knew about "bored" was --- "You better find something to do, before I find it for you!"
We ate what mum made for our tea or we ate nothing at all. If we rushed our tea we weren't allowed to go back out and if we didn't eat it, we weren't allowed back out either 😅
Bottled water was not a thing; we drank from the tap.
We had scraps, some we lost, some we won but we always had a go back.... Or we got another one when we got home 😂
We watched cartoons on Saturday mornings, and rode our bikes for hours and ran around.
We weren't AFRAID OF ANYTHING. We played till dark... street lights were our alarm.
If someone had a fight, that's what it was and we were friends again a week later, if not SOONER.
We watched our MOUTHS around our elders because ALL of our aunts, uncles, grandpas, grandmas, AND our parents' best friends were all extensions of our PARENTS and you didn't want them telling your parents if you misbehaved! Or they would give you something to cry about. Everyone had respect.
I did my research by borrowing books from the library. Internet was non existent and no Google! 😮
We saw toys on adverts and had to wait until 'santa' came before we expected. None of the amazon same day crap🤔
These were the good days. So many kids today will never know how it feels to be a real kid 😁.
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davhun

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Martinr36 said:
This is brilliant......

KIDS THESE DAYS WOULD LAUGH AT THIS, BUT IT'S SO TRUE…..

When I grew up our tea time was at a regular time, Sunday’s was a roast, simple as that!
Eating out was not heard of, we only had a take away on special occasions, only received a present on birthdays and at Christmas. None of this Halloween, Easter and congratulations you have a pulse day 🙄.
Fast food was fish and chips and having a bottle of panda pop from the shop was a real treat.
You took your school clothes off as soon as you got home and put on your 'playing out' clothes. - children looked like children, we didn't pout, wear makeup or have anxiety. There was no taking or picking you up in the car, you walked or rode your bike!
Our house phone had a cord attached, so there was no such things as private conversations or mobile phones! Ours was out in the hall.
We didn’t have Now TV, Sky or Netflix, we had only 3 channels to watch. Channel 4 and 5 was an exciting addition! 😁 we had to watch all of the adverts unless you switched to BBC.
We played Army, British Bull Dog, Kerby, Hide & Seek, knock or door run, Tag, Football, climbed trees, made mud pies, daisy chains, rose perfume 😂😂 never smelt brill and Rode Bikes.
Everyone could play ball! We used tops for goalposts and even made a ball out of paper if we needed to. A wheelie and bunnyhop on your bike was a standard skill and we used cartons in tyres so it sounded like a motorbike.
Staying in the house was a PUNISHMENT and the only thing we knew about "bored" was --- "You better find something to do, before I find it for you!"
We ate what mum made for our tea or we ate nothing at all. If we rushed our tea we weren't allowed to go back out and if we didn't eat it, we weren't allowed back out either 😅
Bottled water was not a thing; we drank from the tap.
We had scraps, some we lost, some we won but we always had a go back.... Or we got another one when we got home 😂
We watched cartoons on Saturday mornings, and rode our bikes for hours and ran around.
We weren't AFRAID OF ANYTHING. We played till dark... street lights were our alarm.
If someone had a fight, that's what it was and we were friends again a week later, if not SOONER.
We watched our MOUTHS around our elders because ALL of our aunts, uncles, grandpas, grandmas, AND our parents' best friends were all extensions of our PARENTS and you didn't want them telling your parents if you misbehaved! Or they would give you something to cry about. Everyone had respect.
I did my research by borrowing books from the library. Internet was non existent and no Google! 😮
We saw toys on adverts and had to wait until 'santa' came before we expected. None of the amazon same day crap🤔
These were the good days. So many kids today will never know how it feels to be a real kid 😁.
Copied and pasted. Feel free to do the same...... Best days of our lives!
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Yes, things were different then. I'm talking about the 1950's. Fights did occur between rival groups but these were always only fisticuffs and did not involve the general public. A penknife was a tool of nescessity and carried by almost everyone while scouts, of course, had sheath knives.
Ques of traffic were generally unknown and if a vehicle came up behind you, you slowed a bit and waved it by. Just don't see that hand signal nowadays.
When people talk about hot summers I always remember 1947. Spent every day on the beach during the school holidays.
 
Martinr36

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davhun said:
Yes, things were different then. I'm talking about the 1950's. Fights did occur between rival groups but these were always only fisticuffs and did not involve the general public. A penknife was a tool of nescessity and carried by almost everyone while scouts, of course, had sheath knives.
Ques of traffic were generally unknown and if a vehicle came up behind you, you slowed a bit and waved it by. Just don't see that hand signal nowadays.
When people talk about hot summers I always remember 1947. Spent every day on the beach during the school holidays.
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Yeah I was born in the late 50's so the 1960's creeping into the 70's were my childhood years, and yes I carried a sheath knife as a scout
 
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Martinr36 said:
Yeah I was born in the late 50's so the 1960's creeping into the 70's were my childhood years, and yes I carried a sheath knife as a scout
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You youngsters never experienced the war years. However, I can't say I did much either. Born in 1938 I spent my early years on a farm in Hampshire before moving to the Isle of Wight in 1946. There I saw quite a lot of bomb damage. My youth has been my yardstick for how a lot of things have changed throughout my lifetime. Whatever happens now will not affect me but I think of my 15 yr old grandaughter who is growing up in a primarily internet world. I cannot imagine what it will be like in 80 years time. Arrrrrrrrrggghh.
 
ubuysa

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At school in the 1960's in woodwork class (which they don't have now because they can't afford the wood) most boys wanted to make a guitar. I made a box for the milkman to leave the milk bottles in, so that the blue tits couldn't peck at the aluminium foil caps. My mom was so pleased. I've never been more proud.

I do understand that anyone younger than about 60 years old will have no idea what I'm talking about.
 
Martinr36

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ubuysa said:
At school in the 1960's in woodwork class (which they don't have now because they can't afford the wood) most boys wanted to make a guitar. I made a box for the milkman to leave the milk bottles in, so that the blue tits couldn't peck at the aluminium foil caps. My mom was so pleased. I've never been more proud.

I do understand that anyone younger than about 60 years old will have no idea what I'm talking about.
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I got banned from the woodwork shop at secondary school...............
 
SpyderTracks

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ubuysa said:
At school in the 1960's in woodwork class (which they don't have now because they can't afford the wood) most boys wanted to make a guitar. I made a box for the milkman to leave the milk bottles in, so that the blue tits couldn't peck at the aluminium foil caps. My mom was so pleased. I've never been more proud.

I do understand that anyone younger than about 60 years old will have no idea what I'm talking about.
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We did woodwork, I made a birdhouse. I’m a way off 60, although it will probably be here in the blink of an eye.
 
sck451

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I'm 34 and I recognise at least two thirds of what's in that original post! (And what I don't recognise might be because I grew up in a super, super rural area, so there were no friends nearby!)

(I also did woodwork at school, as well as metalwork. I made a wooden candle-holder. It's still on my mother's mantle-piece. I got a B for it. Best thing I ever made.)
 
HomerJ

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"We saw toys on adverts and had to wait until 'santa' came before we expected. None of the amazon same day crap"

that was only say 15 yrs ago, remember watching sat morning tv and seeing the latest toys on the adverts that were must have
 
Martinr36

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HomerJ said:
"We saw toys on adverts and had to wait until 'santa' came before we expected. None of the amazon same day crap"

that was only say 15 yrs ago, remember watching sat morning tv and seeing the latest toys on the adverts that were must have
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We had to see them in some glossy mail order catalogue, and play "bagsy"
 
AgentCooper

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When I was young, at school we didn’t have pen and paper, we had to carve our essays into stone tablets with hammer and chisel. And we didn’t have a postman come round with his van to drop off letters, any important missives were on a rolled up scroll, sealed with wax and delivered by a man on horseback.

Oh, I’m not old, I’m just from Lancashire. It’s a different way of life there.
 
SpyderTracks

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AgentCooper said:
When I was young, at school we didn’t have pen and paper, we had to carve our essays into stone tablets with hammer and chisel. And we didn’t have a postman come round with his van to drop off letters, any important missives were on a rolled up scroll, sealed with wax and delivered by a man on horseback.

Oh, I’m not old, I’m just from Lancashire. It’s a different way of life there.
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Tablets? You were lucky! In my day we had reams of dust that we had to mark with our spit, you had seconds to read it before it evaporated. But we remembered every word
 
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Scott

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Back in my day.... etc, etc.... nostalgic stories.

I was drunk, a lot, from approx 13 on so I don't remember much :unsure:

I remember making a chap-door-run pulley using invisible fishing wire over the lamp post at around 12. I think that's when I realised I wanted to become an engineer. Had the guy going for a good 20 minutes.
 
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Yeah things change, I'm sure the generation before you would balk at the thought of street lights or not having to be evacuated to the countryside the same way people will laugh at our old landline phones or how we used to send text messages in the 90's and early 00's the same way the next generation will laugh at how this generation was obsessed with social media whether facebook or twitter or whatever will come next

I did pretty much everything in your the first post growing up with nothing in the 90's in the not so fun at the time N. Ireland, I can tell you for a fact that there was still plenty of anxiety, maybe I'm taking it too literally but it smacks of back in my day everything was sunshine and rainbows so long as we ignore absolutely everything that was terrible about it
 
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