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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Let’s for a minute all agree that our parents were tougher than us snowflakes nowadays… 
What tough things did the last generation do that makes you think, damn, they were old school tough.
I remember Geoff Capes wripping a phone book in half, you don’t see that on BBC one lately 
But in the building trade, power tools have replaced the hand tool, and everyone uses machines, don’t want blisters do we?
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I work in a physically demanding job, much less now than my predecessors, actually much less now than when I started 40 years ago.
When I look back at what was standard practise for my fathers generation, handling 2cwt sacks and I don’t mean the odd one or two, they used to load and unload lorry loads at a time.
I can remember unloading 10 tonne lorries of 1cwt sacks when I started, that was bad enough, nowadays the most you are supposed to lift on your own is less than half a cwt. |
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By *929Man
over a year ago
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I like to think I’m at least equal to my dad work wise I started for him when leaving school abs we had dug and and mixed absolutely everything, worst ever day was digging footings for an extension, hand dug them to 3ft in a day building inspector showed up in afternoon said they have to go down to the depth of the adjacent manhole which was 6ft next day we show up it’s snowing and there’s a foot of water in the trench by the time we hit depth I was digging in the trench and passing each shovel full up to my dad so he could put it in skip. We drove home naked as was coated head to toe in clarts.
Of course machinery has its place not so much to make job easier just faster abs more effecient, faster = more potential earning. We still break concrete out by sledgehammer and hand dig the odd job with no digger access but do use the digger whenever we can not getting any younger haha the latest generation is the worst most are soft as fucking shit and won’t graft to save their life |
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Hmm where does the Tough the Snow Flake line start? I'm 61 now and used to ride my motox bike to work with just a T-Shirt and Shorts on. No shoes and those bloody foot rests could cause some injuries lol. Got industrial deafness from lack of correct safety equipment. But my parents always used to say us kids had it so easy compared to their days. |
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