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"I really remember how bad those blackboard rubbers elt. One particuarly sadistic teacher used to twist you by the hair by your ears and depending how naughty you had been dictated the laps of the hall you did... thsoe were the days! " you are only 4 years older than me, ben, corporal punishment was banned when I was in the infant school...... | |||
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"Agree, they are just days, but still a part of our history and culture and sometimes interesting to see how much in common people actually had. Don't like the over-romancing of it tho. I hated always wearing second hand clothes, hand-me-downs and clodhoppers, truth be told and no one mentions the dentist who drilled our teeth and filled our teeth because it was "the thing". (My sons are 25 and 27 now and not a filling between them.) Surely we did not need them, rarely did we get enough sweets? Our sweets were scrumped apples. My mum did have to work part time for a while or the ends would not have met as there were 8 young mouths to feed and my big brother started to go of the lines and she had to give that up. Yeah it was good but mainly because we were loved. " yup agreed x, just more about the last 20 years coming back...and heavy nostalgia over the 90s as a time of 'high' creativity surely is the biggest joke.It really wasnt that long ago, and it really wasnt that an iconic era. | |||
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"must be fantastic to leave your front door open and get back to find your house the way it was when u left it ... we can remember the days before burglar alarms / car alarms and the likes... does anyone give a flying fook if they hear a house or car alarm anyway.. ?? " We rarely lock our doors, none of our neighbours do either, | |||
"must be fantastic to leave your front door open and get back to find your house the way it was when u left it ... we can remember the days before burglar alarms / car alarms and the likes... does anyone give a flying fook if they hear a house or car alarm anyway.. ?? We rarely lock our doors, none of our neighbours do either," what part of Hexam? | |||
"well said and especially this bit ........... my mum worked,her mum worked, my great gran worked,it is a middle class myth that there was a period when all women stayed home.The working classes could never afford that. .............. spot on " Thanks Gets my goat that one does...i am the first,as far as anyone knows on either side to be able to stay at home...proper middle class me | |||
"must be fantastic to leave your front door open and get back to find your house the way it was when u left it ... we can remember the days before burglar alarms / car alarms and the likes... does anyone give a flying fook if they hear a house or car alarm anyway.. ?? We rarely lock our doors, none of our neighbours do either, what part of Hexam?" We dont live in hexham | |||
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"must be fantastic to leave your front door open and get back to find your house the way it was when u left it ... we can remember the days before burglar alarms / car alarms and the likes... does anyone give a flying fook if they hear a house or car alarm anyway.. ?? " as most of the older generation in my family say, they left their doors open cos there was sod all to steal.... | |||
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"Yeah I read it too, and loved it, ESP the taking of the pop bottles back and buying a quarter of whatever with the money.... My Dad even gave us the money to get his cigarettes while we were there and they served us too......" yeah like we are gonna believe that. | |||
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"Yeah I read it too, and loved it, ESP the taking of the pop bottles back and buying a quarter of whatever with the money.... My Dad even gave us the money to get his cigarettes while we were there and they served us too...... yeah like we are gonna believe that. " That happened in my village too lol I used to go for my dads fags until he died And i was 10 when he died Never any problem xx | |||
"i remember finishing school as a 7 year old and going to the park with my friends then home for tea, back out to the park till 7 then back home to wind down and ready for bed. no worry's of gangs, pedo's or anything else. we had a community who looked out for everyone. that was in inner city birmingham. we had some amazing times back then and i know 99% of kids today will miss out on what were vital development years that an xbox can never replace " no pedophiles?- seriously dunno how thats came into ur mind 99% of the kids today can wipe our arses in war games...(pretty much early versions of military simulators) crime and gangs have always been around...just so happens they spilled over into 'senseless' violent gangs-"my uncles a gangster", and so on. I seriously think some people sweep so much what was wrong in Britain under the carpet and cling to those good old days... when basically we had fewer rights on the whole...and much much less accountability. Our issues now are financial ones namely in the problems with heavy corporate capitalism. We arent the big British Empire anymore, we are an American product(just be glad they find us quaint for now) so just in general to the nostalgic ones, some good memories yes...but remember ur innocence only hid the changing world and some of its horrible bits, whether its better or worse, its here...in 2012 | |||
"i remember finishing school as a 7 year old and going to the park with my friends then home for tea, back out to the park till 7 then back home to wind down and ready for bed. no worry's of gangs, pedo's or anything else. we had a community who looked out for everyone. that was in inner city birmingham. we had some amazing times back then and i know 99% of kids today will miss out on what were vital development years that an xbox can never replace no pedophiles?- seriously dunno how thats came into ur mind 99% of the kids today can wipe our arses in war games...(pretty much early versions of military simulators) crime and gangs have always been around...just so happens they spilled over into 'senseless' violent gangs-"my uncles a gangster", and so on. I seriously think some people sweep so much what was wrong in Britain under the carpet and cling to those good old days... when basically we had fewer rights on the whole...and much much less accountability. Our issues now are financial ones namely in the problems with heavy corporate capitalism. We arent the big British Empire anymore, we are an American product(just be glad they find us quaint for now) so just in general to the nostalgic ones, some good memories yes...but remember ur innocence only hid the changing world and some of its horrible bits, whether its better or worse, its here...in 2012" don't get me wrong, i know that there were gangs, pedo's and all sorts back then but what i said was "without the worry" back then it wasn't splashed across the media so the paranoia hadn't set in. i can imagine it was actually worse back then as detection and prevention is much better now, but what we didn't know didn't stop us from being allowed to be out and enjoying ourselves. | |||
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"i remember finishing school as a 7 year old and going to the park with my friends then home for tea, back out to the park till 7 then back home to wind down and ready for bed. no worry's of gangs, pedo's or anything else. we had a community who looked out for everyone. that was in inner city birmingham. we had some amazing times back then and i know 99% of kids today will miss out on what were vital development years that an xbox can never replace " Sorry, but the fact that you didn't notice it doesn't mean child abuse wasn't happening - it just means it wasn't happening to you. | |||
"must be fantastic to leave your front door open and get back to find your house the way it was when u left it ... we can remember the days before burglar alarms / car alarms and the likes... does anyone give a flying fook if they hear a house or car alarm anyway.. ?? " Probably not because they're last century solutions... Burglary and twoccing have reduced because of uPVC doors with five point locks and immobilizers. Anyone who's in the domestic burglar alarm business these days must find it getting tougher. Mind you, there have been some burglaries round here where the thief has drilled a lock and levered the five point, so you never know, police might have to go looking for guys wandering the streets with Bosch cordless drills.... | |||
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