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By (user no longer on site) 24 weeks ago
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My house growing up was never deplete of love, kindness, or meaningful experiences. The ability to think, question, ponder, and disagree was cemented into my core at home. Kindness for others, sharing, helping out was something not only said with words but through actions. Love - giving it and receiving it in and of itself without conditions or demands was something I grew up with.
As for material things, there was nothing I grew up without as my life was exactly as it should have been. |
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Butter
Safety
Beef
Television
Central Heating
Carpets
Salmon
Spin Dryer
Tumble Dryer
Washing machine
Hot water unless a fire was lit
and probably a zillion other things that are today considered essential
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"Actually, it was sky tv"
Sky Television (1984–1990)
BskyB (1990-2022)
Sky Uk (2002 -
In October 2022, Comcast announced that it had written off US$8.6 billion of its valuation of Sky, with its third-quarter sales dropping 14.7 percent to $4.3 bn  |
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"Actually, it was sky tv
Sky Television (1984–1990)
BskyB (1990-2022)
Sky Uk (2002 -
In October 2022, Comcast announced that it had written off US$8.6 billion of its valuation of Sky, with its third-quarter sales dropping 14.7 percent to $4.3 bn "
What was the cable box called? I just knew it as cable |
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We didn't have a fridge, telephone, colour tv, central heating, or even a car! The internet hadn't been invented.....and yet I survived! 
We had family time, lots of love, friends and no gadgets whatsoever. |
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"Actually, it was sky tv
Sky Television (1984–1990)
BskyB (1990-2022)
Sky Uk (2002 -
In October 2022, Comcast announced that it had written off US$8.6 billion of its valuation of Sky, with its third-quarter sales dropping 14.7 percent to $4.3 bn
What was the cable box called? I just knew it as cable "
NTL |
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We were talking about this earlier.
We both come from poor but not impoverished back grounds.
I remember being hungry but never going without food.
Wearing hand me downs but never being without clothes.
Sharing a mars bar with two of my brothers. The fights over who had the biggest bit  !
Very rarely having pocket money.
All the stuff that causes some old people to utter the timeless phrase
'kids today don't know they're born'
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By *usie pTV/TS 24 weeks ago
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Lol well remember the ice on the inside of the bedroom windows and that was with 6 of us sleeping in the bedroom, one day out to weymouth once a year, heck we enjoyed that day out, gutted when we went to weston super mare one year and never saw the sea all day, bath night sunday evening only tin bath with us all sharing lol seems impossible now doesn't it, no telly but listened to the archers every night I think on the radio and the flying doctors, but fook me I think we were in a much better place. |
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"We were talking about this earlier.
We both come from poor but not impoverished back grounds.
I remember being hungry but never going without food.
Wearing hand me downs but never being without clothes.
Sharing a mars bar with two of my brothers. The fights over who had the biggest bit !
Very rarely having pocket money.
All the stuff that causes some old people to utter the timeless phrase
'kids today don't know they're born'
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When we split a mars one of us would shout....... wahhhhhh he's took the biggest half...
Then we'd get the maths lecture about there being no such thing as a biggest half... |
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"We were talking about this earlier.
We both come from poor but not impoverished back grounds.
I remember being hungry but never going without food.
Wearing hand me downs but never being without clothes.
Sharing a mars bar with two of my brothers. The fights over who had the biggest bit !
Very rarely having pocket money.
All the stuff that causes some old people to utter the timeless phrase
'kids today don't know they're born'
When we split a mars one of us would shout....... wahhhhhh he's took the biggest half...
Then we'd get the maths lecture about there being no such thing as a biggest half... "
. We used to argue over who got the middle piece and a lecture about one third is larger than one quarter. |
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First time I ever had sky was in 2001 (9/11, you can imagine what was on all day, sky news). Mum and dad didn't get sky until grandkids came along 
Despite the sky issue (or cable for that matter), we did have internet when it was still fairly new, we had a dvd player before most of my friends, my dad is very much a man that goes into Currys and looks at something, a salesman comes up and he buys it, even though he was just looking, the amount of electrical stuff we had was ridiculous just because he can't say no lol. |
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I never grew up with Sky and my parents were always cheap when it came to buying me casual trainers (no air max Nike for me) I still had a very comfortable upbringing though. But because of the trainers kids in school just assumed my family was poor. |
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"Tom never had sky TV in the house when he grew up.. It had not been invented then ..
What did you go without..."
It's the things we did have that I remember and was grateful for. I have never coveted others, not an ounce of jealousy, and just happy I grew up a confident man content with my lot in life.... |
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I think he has been slightly unfairly treated on this statement
He was asked what he grew up without, and his peers would have had it. It’s not a competition like on Monty Python as to how poor they are. I think he meant it as a slightly humorous reply to a sky reporter who asked the question |
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"I think he has been slightly unfairly treated on this statement
He was asked what he grew up without, and his peers would have had it. It’s not a competition like on Monty Python as to how poor they are. I think he meant it as a slightly humorous reply to a sky reporter who asked the question "
I don't think he's been unfairly treated, he'd make much of a similar gaffe by Kier Starmer. This campaign is nasty.
An experienced and well advised politician would have followed the royal familie's line and set their face in a sympathetic expression while expressing sympathy and understanding for people who went without whilst carefully side stepping the issue of their immense privilege.
He's proving time and time again that he's unable to read the mood. |
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"I think he has been slightly unfairly treated on this statement
He was asked what he grew up without, and his peers would have had it. It’s not a competition like on Monty Python as to how poor they are. I think he meant it as a slightly humorous reply to a sky reporter who asked the question "
No, it's reported he struggled to identify anything his family lacked and happened upon the Sky TV after a good sift through his brain.
It's of interest to ordinary people as to whether their leaders have any lived experience in the "real" world. Can leaders empathise with them? I would suggest R. Sunak cannot empathise with the ordinary person. |
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"Actually, it was sky tv
Sky Television (1984–1990)
BskyB (1990-2022)
Sky Uk (2002 -
In October 2022, Comcast announced that it had written off US$8.6 billion of its valuation of Sky, with its third-quarter sales dropping 14.7 percent to $4.3 bn
What was the cable box called? I just knew it as cable "
Different Names
One was Yorkshire Cable they put all the place what virgin or bt use now ! |
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My childhood lacked a lot of material things
It was, however, full of love, affection, positive parenting, good times and laughs
I never felt that I missed out
Most of my friends were in the same boat |
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We only had Betamax … all the best films were in VHS.
An Atari. My dad went and bought a piece of crap “Vectrex” thing that cost like 3x the price of an Atari and it was crap.
