Hoi Les, Clocker, Kev et al

HOW TRUE IS THIS!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 50's, 60's and 70's !

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, 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. 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 Nandos. Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, 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, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, 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 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 did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels or SKY, no video/dvd films, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet 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.

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!

Football and rugby had tryouts and not everyone made the 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 bully's always ruled the playground at school. 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.

Infant death rates in 1948: 36 per 1000 live births
Infact death rates in 2000: 5.6 per 1000 live births

Source: Office of Health and Economics.

Just look at what happened to you lot after eating all that lead based paint :snooty:

Hoi, Dutch I was born in the sixties not the fucking forties.

ewe liar:lol:
you're at least hunners of years old, like.

Hoi GeorgeBoy, 1960 was in the sixties, fact.

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Hoi GeorgeBoy, 1860 was in the sixties, fact.

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fixed.

I suppose that's technically true, like.

:lol: :earl:

No ways are you only 48. That makes you only a few years older than my oldest brother and that would be weird. I'm going to keep on pretending you were born in 1949. There.

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:lol: :earl:

No ways are you only 48. That makes you only a few years older than my oldest brother and that would be weird. I'm going to keep on pretending you were born in 1949. There.

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I'm 47 bitchez.

You already knew that but.

Ewe are 47 bitchez?:O

That'd explain why ewe have so many accounts on here, like.

No I didn't, I thought you were a wee bit older than Les. :unsure:

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Ewe are 47 bitchez?:O

That'd explain why ewe have so many accounts on here, like.

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:shifty:

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As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

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My father built a rumble seat into the trunk of his Healey 3000 and I rode around in that.
Thought it was freakin cool.

Water from the garden hose was always hot if you didn't let it run for a while.

Tap water is better than bottled water. In Scotland anyway.

Splashing in rivers was top fun.

Polio never did Ian Dury any harm.

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Splashing in rivers was top fun.

Polio never did The Late Ian Dury any harm.

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Oh, swapped PCs btw.

Watching both games.

I hate Athletico Madrid.

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HOW TRUE IS THIS!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 50's, 60's and 70's !

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, 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. 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 Nandos. Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, 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, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, 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 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 did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels or SKY, no video/dvd films, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet 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.

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!

Football and rugby had tryouts and not everyone made the 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 bully's always ruled the playground at school. 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.

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Which one of you friggin' Brits wrote that.

It's all true, of course - the only thing I never used building a cart was a pram, and I had to twist arms to get people to play rugby 'cuz I thought it looked like fun.

There was certainly more to it, but you've captured the gist of it, I guess. :)

I was born in the 50s and most of that is true. Climbed trees, fell out of said trees, crashed my bike and had the most amazing black eye - which was way cool (after it stopped hurting like feck). Used dried cow pats as frisbees and sheep poo as catapult pellets. My Dad and I made a bow and a set of arrows from bamboo washed ashore from some cargo ship. Dad weighted the arrow heads with molten lead. The bow was orsum and it could shoot 100 feet straight up in the air (although you had to be careful where the arrow landed obviousment)

However, mortality was higher. I can't recall people in my school with allergies and the like. I assume this was because they were all dead. There were one two fat kids who were known as Fatty (bit harsh looking back on it) and car accidents were usually pretty nasty. Far fewer cars far more deaths on account of cars being fitted with sharp objects on the bonnet, spring loaded spikes in the steering wheel - that sort of thing.

Did you have to wear short trousers even in the winter?

So Kev, we know JP is 47, Les is nearing 53... How old are you then?

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:ermm: That would have been harsh - the winters were really cold back then.

How far did you have to walk to school? How much was the rent for your first flat?

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How far did you have to walk to school? How much was the rent for your first flat?

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First school was about half a mile I think. Second one was a couple of miles and I cycled.

No idea - it was back in 1975. £10 I think but shared with a couple of other people. Can't remember if that was a week or a month. Month I think :idunno:

Awwww, wee Les on his own. Where was this flat?

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Awwww, wee Les on his own. Where was this flat?

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Oban - with two mates. I confess I spent most of 1975 stoned out of my tree. Most of it is a blur :yup:

Oban?? What on earth made you go there?

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Oban?? What on earth made you go there?

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:unsure: I went to High School there. My folks moved away because my father's job entailed 4 yearish stints at various lighthouses around the country. I went back because I liked it there.

What happened to you in Oban :blink:

Nothing. I wasn't aware anything COULD ever happen to anyone in Oban.

So your dad was a lighthouse keeper?

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Nothing. I wasn't aware anything COULD ever happen to anyone in Oban.

So your dad was a lighthouse keeper?

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Well they made him give it back when they caught him but yes.

At 4 I could walk out of my back door, through the garden, over a wee bit of land and pretty much into the school. Not a street crossed, about 100 yards from my door to the school gate. True story. Home for lunch and then back to school.

All this was fields in them days tho'.

Where I was, yes.

Out the front door was exactly the same, straight into fields without crossing a road.

It's the same at your manor now, ya posh cunt!

Fair point. It's probly just a throwback to my childhood.

There's still only one road in Croy...

So Les, did yous actually live in lighthouses then?

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There's still only one road in Croy...

So Les, did yous actually live in lighthouses then?

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Yes - it was quite pleasant really although when I were but a lad at primary school we lived on an island with no electricity. We had a paraffin fridge.

True story!

I'm off to bed - been following the Merkin election and frightening myself with thoughts that the mad lady is but one heart beat away from the Presidency. :fear:

[QUOTE=Biggles;3023323]

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I'm off to bed - been following the Merkin election and frightening myself with thoughts that the mad lady is but one heart beat away from the Presidency. :fear:

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Well not really. By quite a long way.

So exotic Les...whatever happened to you? :p

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He ran away from the lighthouse to become an accountant.

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So Kev, we know JP is 47, Les is nearing 53... How old are you then?

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I thought Les was 51.

I'm 50.

I remember when my family moved from Philadelphia to a wee tiny village adjacent the Les Cheneaux Islands of Lake Huron here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

We had 640 acres of wild; mixed wood and a large lake.

Driveway was about a half mile long, down a large hill.

Quite a bit of Huck Finn; bamboo fishing poles, making slingshots, catching snakes, etc.

I spent quite a bit of time avoiding severe injury; I was something less than cautious.

Lucky to have survived my childhood, really.