OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979...

[Dewi_cool]

Eric, I am 46 in two weeks, thought you had it spot on,  and good luck

[BlueWolf]

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

[dik9]

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

[RED-DOG]

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

[Sark79]

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.

[madasahatstand]

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

[ifm]

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?

[Newmanseye]

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.

[dik9]

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

[Ginger]

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.

[RED-DOG]

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"

[Claw75]

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!

[charmaine]

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  

[mikkyT]

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

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

[ruthless1]

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!