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over a year ago
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My mum used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread butter on bread on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.
Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting E. coli
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake or at the beach instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
We all took PE ..... and risked permanent injury with a pair of Dunlop sandshoes instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors that cost as much as a small car.
I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.
We got the cane for doing something wrong at school, they used to call it discipline yet we all grew up to accept the rules and to honour & respect those older than us.
We had 30+ kids in our class and we all learned to read and write, do maths and spell almost all the words needed to write a grammatically correct letter......., FUNNY THAT!!
We all said prayers in school and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
I thought that I was supposed to ‘accomplish something’ before I was allowed to be proud of myself?
I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. We weren't!!
Oh yeah ... and where was the antibiotics and sterilisation kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
We played “King of the Hill” on piles of gravel left on vacant building sites and when we got hurt, mum pulled out the 2/6p bottle of iodine and then we got our arses slapped.
Now it's a trip to A&E, followed by a 10 day dose of antibiotics & mum calling lawyers to sue the contractor for leaving a ‘vicious pile of gravel’ where it was such a threat.
To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a ‘dysfunctional family’. How could we possibly have known that?
We never needed to get into group therapy and/or anger management classes.
We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!
How did we ever survive?
LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA. AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING!
Pass this to someone and remember that life's most simple pleasures are very often the best. AAAAh, those WERE the days!!!!
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I can remember having a bag of marbles all day and still having fun, playing with my skipping rope, now they have mobiles, paying 10p to use a red telephone box.
No sell by dates, eating banana sandwiches as they were good for me, playing in the streets of London, with no worry as people looked out for each other.
I had no Tele stereo nothing like today in my bedroom but still having good fun, and making me streetwise for not having those. |
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Not all the kids in my class learned to read and write. Some of my friends had proper tennis shoes too. And my mum was always giving us dodgy stomachs. Like just seemed better when we were kids |
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"I can remember having a bag of marbles all day and still having fun, playing with my skipping rope, now they have mobiles, paying 10p to use a red telephone box.
No sell by dates, eating banana sandwiches as they were good for me, playing in the streets of London, with no worry as people looked out for each other.
I had no Tele stereo nothing like today in my bedroom but still having good fun, and making me streetwise for not having those."
I swallowed a marble once. Being stupid with it in my mouth. I'm lucky to be alive |
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"My mum used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread butter on bread on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.
Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting E. coli
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake or at the beach instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
We all took PE ..... and risked permanent injury with a pair of Dunlop sandshoes instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors that cost as much as a small car.
I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.
We got the cane for doing something wrong at school, they used to call it discipline yet we all grew up to accept the rules and to honour & respect those older than us.
We had 30+ kids in our class and we all learned to read and write, do maths and spell almost all the words needed to write a grammatically correct letter......., FUNNY THAT!!
We all said prayers in school and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
I thought that I was supposed to ‘accomplish something’ before I was allowed to be proud of myself?
I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. We weren't!!
Oh yeah ... and where was the antibiotics and sterilisation kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
We played “King of the Hill” on piles of gravel left on vacant building sites and when we got hurt, mum pulled out the 2/6p bottle of iodine and then we got our arses slapped.
Now it's a trip to A&E, followed by a 10 day dose of antibiotics & mum calling lawyers to sue the contractor for leaving a ‘vicious pile of gravel’ where it was such a threat.
To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a ‘dysfunctional family’. How could we possibly have known that?
We never needed to get into group therapy and/or anger management classes.
We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!
How did we ever survive?
LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA. AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING!
Pass this to someone and remember that life's most simple pleasures are very often the best. AAAAh, those WERE the days!!!!
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Because you are controlled more than ever now.
You can do anything you want but live in fear |
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"I can remember having a bag of marbles all day and still having fun, playing with my skipping rope, now they have mobiles, paying 10p to use a red telephone box.
No sell by dates, eating banana sandwiches as they were good for me, playing in the streets of London, with no worry as people looked out for each other.
I had no Tele stereo nothing like today in my bedroom but still having good fun, and making me streetwise for not having those.
I swallowed a marble once. Being stupid with it in my mouth. I'm lucky to be alive "
Same here, my mum panicked and the neighbour came round and got me to cough it up!!! |
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The good old days when i spent most of my school days standing by the wall during break times and ending up getting in to more trouble because of it hahaha
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