Title: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: Nightfly on February 10, 2006, 09:52:32 PM TO ALL THE KIDS
WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs 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, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking. As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat. We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolade made with sugar, 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 O.K. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms.......... WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. We weren't given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them! Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! If YOU are one of them . . . CONGRATULATIONS! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?! Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: madasahatstand on February 10, 2006, 10:22:47 PM yes it makes me want to run out of the house and play 2 man hunt. we didnt think it was sexist then to say two man hunt or two man tent etc.
im a bit worried about the eating worm thing though. i didnt think people actually did that. yuck. big fat juicy ones wee skinny linky ones, see how they wriggle and squirm. you chop off their legs, sook oot the blood and throw the skins away. nobody knows how i survive on worms 3 time a day.............yum yum...lmao Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: ericstoner on February 10, 2006, 10:37:09 PM We played on building sites, fell meny floors through scaffolding.
We climbed trees, and fell out, or avoided our friends chucking stones at us. We played 15 a side football over the summer hols,and kept records or the results. We played hookey from school, and rode the trains all day for nothing. We got drunk on quarter bottles of bacardi mixed with bottle of coke,and were brought home by the local cops. We got beaten black and blue, by our parents, yet still loved them to pieces. We knew who all the 'funny men were' and just avoided them, and kept an eye out for our mates. we had fights. We went shoplifting after school. we fumbled in the dark with our mates sister, listerning to 'Band of gold' We watched what dad wanted to on the telly,except for Top of the pops, which he would let us see, so he could ogle BABS out of 'Pans people' We stayed out all night in the graveyard, but put the willies up each other. We played on ' the swings' includeing the whiches hat the roundabout the big slide etc. We played 40 man british bulldog. We went round jonny moufarge's mums flat, who although she had no furniture, or carpets,we would tuck into homemade apple pie. We went to saturday morming pictures. Later we went to sat morning Top rank, whare we slow danced with a girl. Later still. We found PUNK. (by the way Anarcy in the UK, Sex pistols,was released 30 years ago this week.) We did a Paper round,and knicked ciggies and sweets from old Mr barnet. We got the cane........at 9 years old. We found stuff on demolision sites,and we built camps. We came down in the morning and got dressed in frount of a three bar fire (All three of my brothers) We slept with our brother till we were 15. We had mum, dad, five kids, and two lodgers in a terraced house. We spent the evening sat outside the pub, remember that waft of heat and small of beer when the door opened. We dreaded getting up, on a snowswept morning to give dads car a bump start. We looked forward all week to dad bringing home a 'wagon wheel' from the pub on sunday night. We had nothing. But we had everything. Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: charmaine on February 10, 2006, 10:53:49 PM All the above makes me glad i was born in 67 , until i realise how old i am >:( lol.
Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: RED-DOG on February 10, 2006, 10:59:22 PM Eh? I still do all that stuff!
Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: RED-DOG on February 10, 2006, 11:00:38 PM All the above makes me glad i was born in 67 , until i realise how old i am >:( lol. 02/03/1958 (The year of the dog) Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: suzanne on February 10, 2006, 11:05:56 PM We came down in the morning and got dressed in frount of a three bar fire
That was daft...you should of did what I did and got dressed under the blankets. :D Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: Karabiner on February 10, 2006, 11:08:23 PM Get us a few wagon wheels please Tom, I used to like them :D
Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: thetank on February 10, 2006, 11:08:57 PM We went shoplifting after school. Those were the days. Bloomin video cameras and "only one schoolchild in the shop at any time" rules. Kids have got to pay for stuff now, what a joke. We've had to resort to pickpocketing instead. Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: Karabiner on February 10, 2006, 11:14:07 PM When I saw that Tank had posted I was expecting to hear that
Wagon Wheels were freely available deep fried in all good Scottish chippies :D Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: Newmanseye on February 10, 2006, 11:15:39 PM When I saw that Tank had posted I was expecting to hear that Wagon Wheels were freely available deep fried in all good Scottish chippies :D :redcard: :redcard: :redcard: Urban myth that one Although the deep fried jaffa cakes were great. Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: Karabiner on February 10, 2006, 11:19:53 PM Okay I admit "freely available" was a bit OTT ::)
Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: charmaine on February 10, 2006, 11:30:26 PM "We spent the evening sat outside the pub, remember that waft of heat and small of beer when the door opened " dad used to bring us out a bottle of coke and packet of crisps , i loved those loooong days outside the Yorkshire Gray lol.
Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: sharpy on February 11, 2006, 12:35:59 AM Quote We had nothing. But we had everything. Too True Too True Wasn't it great Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: RED-DOG on February 11, 2006, 01:02:43 AM We played on building sites, fell meny floors through scaffolding. We climbed trees, and fell out, or avoided our friends chucking stones at us. We played 15 a side football over the summer hols,and kept records or the results. We played hookey from school, and rode the trains all day for nothing. We got drunk on quarter bottles of bacardi mixed with bottle of coke,and were brought home by the local cops. We got beaten black and blue, by our parents, yet still loved them to pieces. We knew who all the 'funny men were' and just avoided them, and kept an eye out for our mates. we had fights. We went shoplifting after school. we fumbled in the dark with our mates sister, listerning to 'Band of gold' We watched what dad wanted to on the telly,except for Top of the pops, which he would let us see, so he could ogle BABS out of 'Pans people' We stayed out all night in the graveyard, but put the willies up each other. We played on ' the swings' includeing the whiches hat the roundabout the big slide etc. We played 40 man british bulldog. We went round jonny moufarge's mums flat, who although she had no furniture, or carpets,we would tuck into homemade apple pie. We went to saturday morming pictures. Later we went to sat morning Top rank, whare we slow danced with a girl. Later still. We found PUNK. (by the way Anarcy in the UK, Sex pistols,was released 30 years ago this week.) We did a Paper round,and knicked ciggies and sweets from old Mr barnet. We got the cane........at 9 years old. We found stuff on demolision sites,and we built camps. We came down in the morning and got dressed in frount of a three bar fire (All three of my brothers) We slept with our brother till we were 15. We had mum, dad, five kids, and two lodgers in a terraced house. We spent the evening sat outside the pub, remember that waft of heat and small of beer when the door opened. We dreaded getting up, on a snowswept morning to give dads car a bump start. We looked forward all week to dad bringing home a 'wagon wheel' from the pub on sunday night. We had nothing. But we had everything. What an absolutely fantastic post, I read it with a lump in my throat and a smile on my face We were the lucky ones Eric, I want to go around again ;applause; ;applause; :respect: :respect: Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: Dewi_cool on February 11, 2006, 01:35:16 AM We played on building sites, fell meny floors through scaffolding. We climbed trees, and fell out, or avoided our friends chucking stones at us. We played 15 a side football over the summer hols,and kept records or the results. We played hookey from school, and rode the trains all day for nothing. We got drunk on quarter bottles of bacardi mixed with bottle of coke,and were brought home by the local cops. We got beaten black and blue, by our parents, yet still loved them to pieces. We knew who all the 'funny men were' and just avoided them, and kept an eye out for our mates. we had fights. We went shoplifting after school. we fumbled in the dark with our mates sister, listerning to 'Band of gold' We watched what dad wanted to on the telly,except for Top of the pops, which he would let us see, so he could ogle BABS out of 'Pans people' We stayed out all night in the graveyard, but put the willies up each other. We played on ' the swings' includeing the whiches hat the roundabout the big slide etc. We played 40 man british bulldog. We went round jonny moufarge's mums flat, who although she had no furniture, or carpets,we would tuck into homemade apple pie. We went to saturday morming pictures. Later we went to sat morning Top rank, whare we slow danced with a girl. Later still. We found PUNK. (by the way Anarcy in the UK, Sex pistols,was released 30 years ago this week.) We did a Paper round,and knicked ciggies and sweets from old Mr barnet. We got the cane........at 9 years old. We found stuff on demolision sites,and we built camps. We came down in the morning and got dressed in frount of a three bar fire (All three of my brothers) We slept with our brother till we were 15. We had mum, dad, five kids, and two lodgers in a terraced house. We spent the evening sat outside the pub, remember that waft of heat and small of beer when the door opened. We dreaded getting up, on a snowswept morning to give dads car a bump start. We looked forward all week to dad bringing home a 'wagon wheel' from the pub on sunday night. We had nothing. But we had everything. Eric, you the same age as me, sounds so real!!!! Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: thetank on February 11, 2006, 01:41:34 AM Whats to say the kids born between 1980 and 2029 won't look back with similarly fond memories when they reach a similar vintage as you fuddy duddys.
Do you remember the good ol days, when you could breathe in and out without the aid of a machine. (While your pals threw rocks at you) When we had to drive around on the ground. When if wanted to go to the moon, you had to train as an astronaut. Those were the days.... Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: suzanne on February 11, 2006, 01:52:30 AM "We spent the evening sat outside the pub, remember that waft of heat and small of beer when the door opened " dad used to bring us out a bottle of coke and packet of crisps , i loved those loooong days outside the Yorkshire Gray lol. My memories are not so fond. Sitting on a stone wall that froze your butt. Being so cold that your fingers were shaking as you ate your packet of crisps..the bottle of coke came an hour later with the promises of "just 10 more minutes". As for getting some heat when the door opened...it was safer to sit on the wall. In some ways times have changed for the better. Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: dik9 on February 11, 2006, 04:08:38 AM ericstoner HOW POSH ARE YOU?? Bacardi???? I had to get drunk on Maddog 50/50 or Thunderbirds Blue.
I swallowed chewing gum without getting it wrapped round my intestines. I sang baa baa black sheep without any malice My mom took photos of me in the nativity play And I enjoyed something called Christmas (I believe its called Winterville in Birmingham now) regardless of presents. An orange in the stocking with some chocolate or even a chocolate orange if i was lucky, was a stocking filler. Now a stocking filler is expected to cost about 40 quid an item???? I had a life and then these bloody computer things came along (god bless em) :D Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: dik9 on February 11, 2006, 04:15:21 AM Oh and we used to watch Tiswas with a quart of Blue Kali whilst the posh peeps watched Swap Shop and ate Orange Spacedust out of a packet.
The Phantom flan flinger and the dying fly will never be forgotten ;tk; Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: suzanne on February 11, 2006, 05:02:09 AM A vivid memory is of an approaching Halloween, asking mum for money for a tumshie (thats a turnip to you English) with the usual responce "do you think im made of money"
So, plan B Cash can be made by knocking on doors but we needed a turnip...end off. So.1 Steal it from a greengrocers display......nope they had bouncers on patrol that week and no amount of distractions would steer him away from the turnip stand...a true pro. Plan C.....there wasnt one Plan D ....pinch one from the farm up the road. By up the road I mean quite a trek as I lived in Edinburgh and the nearest farm was quite a distance but this was the only plan so off we went. We walked for MILES and MILES or so it seemed till we finally got to fields and what was an obvious farm. Now even back then I wasnt totally stupid and I had studied the average turnip realising i would need to reconize it by its leaves as it lived underground. So we walked from field to field..me my mate and my very tired younger brother and sister till I reconized the leaves that I thought was a turnip...excitedly I ripped one out of the ground......jackpot..... a turnip but it was the size of a tennis ball. Ok I thought ....im on the right trail so we moved further down the field. The further we went the bigger the turnips got.....then BANG!!!!!!! WTF was that I thought but dismissed it as grabbing a big juicy turnip was all I was thinking of Next thing out of NOWHERE 3/4 or 60 girt big dogs were running towards us and I realized then that the bang was the farmer shooting a gun........I grabbed my 2 siblings by the hands and said RUUUUUUUUUN. We ran like mary out of hell with those dogs at our heels and a gun poppin behind us and I can honestly say it was the most scariest moment in my short life. Only a short distance from the gate that we can leap over and know we r safe, my younger sister falls flat on her face...the dogs are just about on top of us now. I scream at my brother to keep running and I run towards the dogs shouting for all im worth thinking this is it.....Im dead but im not going down without a fight. Suddenly ..the dogs stop.... and race for home. Im guessing the farmer whistled them back but OMG i thought I was a goner. AYE the good old days :-) Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: suzanne on February 11, 2006, 05:12:08 AM TISWAS RULESSSSSSS
Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: suzanne on February 11, 2006, 05:35:53 AM Im possibly a wee bit older than most of you and younger than some.
I remember my dad letting me stay up to watch the moon landing even thought I fell asleep The first digital watch which had a black background and red numbers and cost the EARTH When telly went colour (it wasnt that long ago) When STV finished at 11.30ish (only 3 channels back then) with the good reverend Mr I M Aburke giving a good night speech. The Beta video recorder.....mind blowing Getting a line phone.....can still remember our first number...dark grey square looking phone that made the most AWFUL trill noise Im off to bed ........if you think about it.......i would have been there at 11.30 30 years ago with a nice guy who was probably giving the local barmaid one but with no video cams I wouldnt know. Ignorance is bliss Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: dik9 on February 11, 2006, 05:40:37 AM Chips wrapped up in newspaper, haven't tasted the same since.
any year many memories APART FROM BLOODY TIZWAS !!! http://www.skooldays.com/vbindex.php?page=prime Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: Sark79 on February 11, 2006, 10:30:43 AM I was born on the divide between the late seventies and the start of the easily accessable home computers age.
I remember all of the things mentioned in Red-Dog's post. But I also remember happy memories of the zx spectrum 48k, C64 and those calculator watches every kid wanted. I always think 30/12/79 was a great time to be born. It allowed me to experience what kids got up to before the mass home computer age. But I was also given the opportunity to experience the beginings of what kids do today for entertainment. Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: ifm on February 11, 2006, 10:56:34 AM Ahh the old betamax videos..........
We had the first microwave in our grove about a year before everyone else I remember having a remote control for the telly, you couldn't lose that bugger, it had a wire attaching it to the telly!! cigarettes were 55p for 10 (i didn't smoke) a friend of mine got a mobile phone that came in a suitcase to accomodate the battery Going to town on our own to buy LP's (i recently took my collection out and my eldest was totally bemused "what are they dad?") Travelling anywhere on the buses for 2p Having blankets on the bed ??? quilts are a modern miracle! 4 TV channels, Tiswas was the best, being from Birmingham everyone i know was on it at some point :D Wagging it from school in the cafe and sending Leeroy Saddler over to Tesco to shoplift lunch (till he got caught and sent the police and wagman over to catch the rest of us) Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: MPOWER on February 11, 2006, 11:00:03 AM I was born in 1968
I grew up from 4 to 16 living in a new housing estate Surrounded by Woods as time went on the developers came in, our favorite game was standing on small hills as Earth Movers cut into the side to level the ground for building, not wanting to get picked up in the scoop. At weekends I stayed at a freinds farm in Caythorpe Notts. I used to cycle Friday after school the 6 miles in record time thinking what adventure we'd be upto weather going Pike fishing for tea or ferreting, the best fun was running accross the roofs of old barn sheds, huge things with asbestos roofs creaking and cracking as you ran for your life, any loose asbestos you would burn and watch it explode, nothing left to burn we would then head for the quarry and gravel pits riding on Conveyer belts carrying stones making sure you jumped off before going over the end into a silo. As for eating at the weekend well that depended how clean the steam looked and what you caught. We used to make a good ammount of cash maybe a few quid picking bluebuttons and selling them to the local pubs. All good fun then Astro wars and Packman came along and I never went out again ever Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: zelda on February 11, 2006, 11:14:24 AM This is so true!!! I had a great childhood - out all day in the fields, making dens and rope swings, riding bareback without even a headcollar - would I let my children do that? No way!!! The world has changed - but we have let it...:(
Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: ACE2M on February 11, 2006, 11:34:43 AM I have wonderful memories of most of it and how we ever made it to adult life is truly a miracle as some of the quite simply insane stuff we used to do makes me shudder nowadays. Jackass stunts were tame compared to our madness. Thankyou for so much stuff Kipper, erin, jasper, dave, steve, arran... mentalists everyone of you.
Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: ericstoner on February 12, 2006, 12:17:30 AM Sorry for late reply Dewi.......I'm 48 years young, bah bet i'm older than you ,you look about 40 in your pic. ;tk;
Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: Dewi_cool on February 12, 2006, 12:21:16 AM Eric, I am 46 in two weeks, thought you had it spot on, :goodpost: and good luck
Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: BlueWolf on February 12, 2006, 11:51:33 AM gotta agree with tank on this.. Imagine what kids these days will write in relation but i'm still
youngish and dont remember much of the above although i do remember tv remotes that were actually connected to the TV, the cable was always so short, and top loading VCR's so much fun when they got stuck lol Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: dik9 on February 12, 2006, 01:53:46 PM Yeah but top loaders were easier to fix than front loaders, especially when the tape got chewed up. I have chucked loads of front loading VCRs away because there was a video jammed well and truly in there. And it was too embarrassing to take to shop because it was inevitably porn :D
Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: RED-DOG on February 12, 2006, 01:57:40 PM This thread will mean more to you if , like me, you still have to convert things back in to Feet and inches, or pounds, stones and hundredweights before they make any sense
Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: Sark79 on February 12, 2006, 02:01:55 PM It is strange. I went to school in the early eighties up till the late 90's. But I prefer to work in feet and inches and pounds and stones. I know what 6 inches is, I know what 6 stone is and I know what 6 feet is. But I have to really think what 6 metres is or what 60kg is.
Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: madasahatstand on February 12, 2006, 02:07:34 PM IM the same. whats wrong with stones and feet for goodness sake. one thing that really got me confused is the gallon measurement. apparently a uk gallon is differrrent from a usa gallon. now how am i suppossed to know how much water to put in my herb tea? depends on the recipe and where it comes from i suppose
lol Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: ifm on February 12, 2006, 02:10:03 PM IM the same. whats wrong with stones and feet for goodness sake. one thing that really got me confused is the gallon measurement. apparently a uk gallon is differrrent from a usa gallon. now how am i suppossed to know how much water to put in my herb tea? depends on the recipe and where it comes from i suppose lol LOL you make tea in 7 pint pots? :D Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: Newmanseye on February 12, 2006, 02:18:29 PM I think you are all missing a big point here, Do you remember when we were kids and we got a toy, we could take it out of the of the box and play with it, not requiring the use of a screwdriver or having to undo 3 dozen wire-ties.
Another thing on toys from our era, the quality was so much better, as they wouold always stand up to a good days play in the street with your mates. these days you need bubble wrap for all toys incase they break. Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: dik9 on February 12, 2006, 02:22:45 PM I bought MY OWN tin train from an antique Toy Shop in Birmingham, I know its mine cuz my initials were scratched on the bottom, and I remember being walloped for doing it the day after my birthday. (but I was making a claim (IT WAS MY TRAIN!)) Glad i did now. Anyway I had to pay £45 for my own toy.......how does that work? And it still works perfect :D
Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: Ginger on February 12, 2006, 02:28:07 PM This thread will mean more to you if, like me, you still have to convert things back in to Feet and inches, or pounds, stones and hundredweights before they make any sense I was born in 1972 RED, the year of the change from imperial to metric, even though I should of learnt all metric at school, the carried on teaching imperial for years, I still think it was because some of the teachers couldn't get to grips with it lol. This is a lovely thread, and has reminded me of some wonderful childhood times, I do think that my children are missing out on so much compared to the freedom we had as kids. We thought nothing of going on a bike ride "round the block" which as we lived in a small village, our version of "round the block" stretched for miles, and would take several hours! We would come back with bags of apples that we had scrumped from the orchard a few miles away, and balancing the bags on the handle bars took some practice lol. Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: RED-DOG on February 12, 2006, 02:31:48 PM 100% correct Ginge, thats the one thing we had that kids of today don't have, freedom!
Eric said it best "We had nothing, but we had everything" Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: Claw75 on February 12, 2006, 02:31:59 PM great post....made me think if I let my daughter have the kind of childhood I had I'd probably have social services at my door!
Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: charmaine on February 12, 2006, 02:36:30 PM I remember my brothers fiddling round with there bikes constantly , we always had bike parts in the garden.
Nothing changed there though , my 14 year old was fixing bikes 2 summers ago to earn xtra money , was great to see :) I remember getting a musical doll that twirled around whilst the song from butch cassidy and the sundance kid was playing , about 5 years ago i found one identical to it ....... i bought it and remembered my childhood with much fondness :) In Pauls fathers loft are all his tonka toys from boyhood :) Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: mikkyT on February 12, 2006, 04:06:17 PM This thread will mean more to you if , like me, you still have to convert things back in to Feet and inches, or pounds, stones and hundredweights before they make any sense I do that and I'm only 28 :D I still remember all the things in this thread, being born in 1978 I got to experience both the old and the coming of the new. But even now, times are changing Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: ruthless1 on February 12, 2006, 04:52:11 PM I was born in 1974,
I use to love the school summer holidays, spent most of the time down Margate beach, would play in the sea alday, the smell of candy floss, sounds of people screaming on the fairground rides, in the back ground, noises from the arcade machines, prize bingo, they where great summers, Being 14, and my dad telling me not to go to the seafront on the bank holiday mondays when the scooterists and skinheads were down,they where great times, The summers have changed hardly any holiday makers, its like a ghost town now, shame my kids would love the old Margate, To much volience down there now, kids getting robbed, flashers in the parks, whats this world coming too! Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: madasahatstand on February 12, 2006, 05:40:51 PM IM the same. whats wrong with stones and feet for goodness sake. one thing that really got me confused is the gallon measurement. apparently a uk gallon is differrrent from a usa gallon. now how am i suppossed to know how much water to put in my herb tea? depends on the recipe and where it comes from i suppose lol LOL you make tea in 7 pint pots? :D yes i was making this special cancer cure tea called essiac and had all the chemist bottles all sterilised and my tea boiling away and sitting overnight. my mum shouting over, 'eye of toad, leg of newt' . it was the latest herbal cancer cure we were trying. ive ordered bulk from a shop is usa so if anyone knows anyone who needs essiac, let me know cause i got a whole load of stuff i wont be brewing up now. ive also got the whole kit for bottling and wuld be happy to give it away Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: suzanne on February 12, 2006, 11:06:20 PM IM the same. whats wrong with stones and feet for goodness sake. one thing that really got me confused is the gallon measurement. apparently a uk gallon is differrrent from a usa gallon. now how am i suppossed to know how much water to put in my herb tea? depends on the recipe and where it comes from i suppose lol LOL you make tea in 7 pint pots? :D yes i was making this special cancer cure tea called essiac and had all the chemist bottles all sterilised and my tea boiling away and sitting overnight. my mum shouting over, 'eye of toad, leg of newt' . it was the latest herbal cancer cure we were trying. ive ordered bulk from a shop is usa so if anyone knows anyone who needs essiac, let me know cause i got a whole load of stuff i wont be brewing up now. ive also got the whole kit for bottling and wuld be happy to give it away I read about this not so long ago. Apparently there was a Canadian clinic back in the 1950 (I think) that found this tea could cure cancer. The big pharmaceuticals tried to buy the copyrights but the person refused to sell and was found to have died myseriously with all paperwork on the recipe having disappeared and the clinic was closed down. Makes you wonder doesn't it.... Back to the original thread...I was walking through a car boot last summer when I spotted a STYLOPHONE. OMG does that bring back memories. I couldn't wait to get home to play with it. My kids looked at me like I was mad rotflmfao Turns out it was £2 well spent as they are selling on ebay for about £30 ...but im not ready to give it up just yet. [attachment deleted by admin] Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: Newmanseye on February 13, 2006, 12:30:36 AM Here's another thing about modern toys, I remember I had Transformers the first time round, and when they were a car or a boat or a plane, you had no idea it was a robot it was so well designed.
These days it's like the designers could not be arsed to finish the job and design them properly Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: Card_Shark on February 13, 2006, 04:30:15 AM 22.08.64
20 years ago i used to leave my yuppie car golf gti unlocked in my driveway overnight. it was never touched. Title: Re: OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979... Post by: peeveen on February 13, 2006, 09:31:56 AM Born in 75, it was all good until the nineties.
I remember one summer, the scaffolding went up around a block of nearby houses ... we would clamber up and down it like monkeys, firing catapults at anything and everything from two storeys up. And using the piles of scaffolding wood to build the biggest mother of a bike ramp I've ever seen ... about five feet tall, it was ... must've knackered my bike, but it was fun fun fun. Going long walks into the wilderness with my pals, eating elderberries. We once found a load of coils of metal wire that someone had dumped in the middle of a field, so we carted the whole lot down to the scrap merchant ... backbreaking work, but he gave us a fiver for it all, which we spent on sweets and the 10p arcade games. If I was born these days, I doubt my folks would let me wander past the front gate. And whatever happened to PROPER SNOW?? The stuff you get these days seems to last about ten minutes before turning to mush, and is never anymore than an inch or two deep. Absolutely pathetic. I remember one winter, it was like the entire town went sledging on this one particular hill, most of us on dustbin lids ... a brilliant night ... does anyone do that kind of thing anymore? |