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when ya where a wee boy / girl memories
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i wonder what the kids of today will remember,, | |||
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"I remember playing out in the streets with kids. Its rare to see kids playing now without a Nintendo ds or ipod in their hands. " yeah your so right there. Constantly walking round looking down at a screen | |||
Playing hopscotch or skittles or leggings or french skipping ... such innocent fun  | |||
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"dressing up the dog and putting her in a buggy lol " That is priceless!!! | |||
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"I remember playing out in the streets with kids. Its rare to see kids playing now without a Nintendo ds or ipod in their hands. " yea me too when we were kids we were never in doors!now kids just stay on the internet all day or playstation | |||
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"Walking to and from school barefoot, uphill both ways "jesus michael u could have painted ur feet black and laced ur toes together no one would have noticed loll  | |||
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"We were so poor that on Christmas eve, my father went up in the attic and fired off the shotgun. Then he came down and told us that Santa had committed suicide "ahh thats why he never came to our house... poor!!!.. our dad said we were the only really good kids on the street and thats why we left the contents of our money boxes out christmas eve for santa...he said karma would pay us back....if i ever find that greedy karma bollocks im gonna batter him | |||
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"We were so poor, if you didn't wake up on Christmas morning with a hard on you would have nothing to play with." No, we were poorer
If one of us wanted a warm shower, somebody had to drink a bucket of water and go up on the roof | |||
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"Ok i will always remember when i got , thomas the Tank engine Talc for christmass , and the spangles in the stockings , my little toy projector that ya pushed the slides of pictures through, the Big green bar of lifebouy soap ,, my first three wheel tricyle with the boot on the back . ya know what ..... i now think i can remember when my life was a whole lot better
i wonder what the kids of today will remember,, "Ill never forget my first visit to mc donalds with my mammy, i was 27, happy times indeed,,,,  | |||
"We didn't even have a washing machine. I remember one time as a child I asked my mother how to put on my jocks. She replied.. "ffs, how many times do I have to tell you? It's yellow to the front and brown to the back!" "haha and yur still a dirty git lol  | |||
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"Overwashing your jocks only washes the goodness out of them "what goodness?yur full of badness thru and thru | |||
"Overwashing your jocks only washes the goodness out of them
what goodness?yur full of badness thru and thru "I really wish that was true | |||
"Ok i will always remember when i got , thomas the Tank engine Talc for christmass , and the spangles in the stockings , my little toy projector that ya pushed the slides of pictures through, the Big green bar of lifebouy soap ,, my first three wheel tricyle with the boot on the back . ya know what ..... i now think i can remember when my life was a whole lot better
i wonder what the kids of today will remember,,
Ill never forget my first visit to mc donalds with my mammy, i was 27, happy times indeed,,,, "Were you still sleeping in ur parents bed aswell | |||
"Ok i will always remember when i got , thomas the Tank engine Talc for christmass , and the spangles in the stockings , my little toy projector that ya pushed the slides of pictures through, the Big green bar of lifebouy soap ,, my first three wheel tricyle with the boot on the back . ya know what ..... i now think i can remember when my life was a whole lot better
i wonder what the kids of today will remember,,
Ill never forget my first visit to mc donalds with my mammy, i was 27, happy times indeed,,,,
Were you still sleeping in ur parents bed aswell"No,,,that only happens in dublin,,, | |||
"Ok i will always remember when i got , thomas the Tank engine Talc for christmass , and the spangles in the stockings , my little toy projector that ya pushed the slides of pictures through, the Big green bar of lifebouy soap ,, my first three wheel tricyle with the boot on the back . ya know what ..... i now think i can remember when my life was a whole lot better
i wonder what the kids of today will remember,,
Ill never forget my first visit to mc donalds with my mammy, i was 27, happy times indeed,,,,
Were you still sleeping in ur parents bed aswell
No,,,that only happens in dublin,,,"Ha ha...and I thought that happened everywhere.  | |||
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"Ok i will always remember when i got , thomas the Tank engine Talc for christmass , and the spangles in the stockings , my little toy projector that ya pushed the slides of pictures through, the Big green bar of lifebouy soap ,, my first three wheel tricyle with the boot on the back . ya know what ..... i now think i can remember when my life was a whole lot better
i wonder what the kids of today will remember,,
Ill never forget my first visit to mc donalds with my mammy, i was 27, happy times indeed,,,,
Were you still sleeping in ur parents bed aswell
No,,,that only happens in dublin,,,"ah no,thts just happens with u culchies lol | |||
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"According to today’s regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s probably shouldn’t have survived because: Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead- based pain which was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets, and it was fine to play with pans. When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent ‘clacker’ on our wheels. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the passenger seat was a treat. We drank water from the garden hose, and not from a bottle that tasted the same. We ate ‘dripping’ sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing. We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this. We would spend hours building go-karts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No-one was able to reach us all day and no-one minded. We did not have PlayStations, or X Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, Ipads/IPods, no personal computers, no Internet chat rooms, and definitely no Facebook! We had friends – we just went outside and found them. We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt. We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits, no health and safety bullsh*t! There were accidents, but we learned not to do the same again. We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue, but we soon learned to get over it. We actually walked to our friend’s house. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate live stuff, and although we were told it would happen, we very rarely had any eyes poked out, nor did the live stuff live inside us forever! We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. The idea of a parent actually bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that today!! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers ever. The past 50 years has been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to cope and deal with it all. "  | |||
