four-wheel-drive Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 The only problem about all of this is that we are the stupid boogers who let all of this happen if we had not just stood by when all of these stupid health and safety etc things was brought in so in the end it is us who are responsible for it we could have stopped it at the time but it was to much bother and that is it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 Found this on the BBC today, interesting. More evidence confirming what we already knew that the term 'H&S' is sadly abused... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19366433 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksdad Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 (edited) To 4WD Sorry, can't read that huge sentence Edited August 24, 2012 by jacksdad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bala Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 good post mate, those that didnt live it, wouldnt understand it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 You rode a motorbike with no helmet. "and of course the passenger deathrate per accident was considerably higher then". I don`t recall it was as there were less vehicles and less speed machines. Precisely why I quoted death-rate per accident. The introduction of seat-belts significantly improved accident survivability. and yes, in the sixties, I did ride bikes occasionally without a helmet, but the statistics (and my mum) convinced me to get a Bell as soon as I could afford one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weejase Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 That`s why I have a shed full of these Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 (edited) We didn't have a bathroom 'til I was 10;toilet was outside next to the coal shed.Bathnights was in a zinc bath in front of the fire,shared with the little lass from next door(same age as me),and if anyone wanted to make a phone call they would have to use the public phone on the corner below the railway bridge!Do I miss those days?Do I ****! Good post though flynny,enjoyed it. EEE it were tough, but we was 'appy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo Edited August 24, 2012 by amateur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flynny Posted August 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 Very true! I can't stand it when I'm in a queue in a shop and some teenage oik just grunts what it wants at the person behind the counter, then they just do as it says! I'd be saying "Whats the Magic Word? or Sorry, I don't speak twatish" or suchlike! The nail has been hit on the head mate, my misses says I,m a ****** for it, ie if you open a door for someone and they walk straight thru without saying cheers or thanks etc I say in a rather loud voice "it's a pleasure thank you very much thanks a lot thanks mate" you usually get a mumered thanks etc to which I reply" manners cost nowt love/mate". I once made a copper say thanks after doing the same thing my misses nearly died there and then . I don't care who you are if you were " brung up right" you don't need reminding to say please and thank you etc,, please note I'm only 39 not 69 me mam and dad didn't have much money but they still knew how to use there manners coz there mam and dads "brung em up right also, Atb flynny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flynny Posted August 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 That`s why I have a shed full of these My god I had one of them and our kid had a grifter, I fell off his grifter and the back brake lever stuck in my thigh ha ha ha happy days, I've still got the scar, Nice one mate Atb flynny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flynny Posted August 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 EEE it were tough, but we was 'appy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo Nice one mate , a cracking peice of old school comedy, this post is bringing back some cracking memories for myself and by the looks of it some of the PW masses, happy days ha ha lmao, Atb flynny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
den5008 Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER !! "And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993"!!! CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO WERE BORN IN THE1940's, 50's, 60's, and 70’s.First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank Sherry while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos...They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos.Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on a Sunday, somehow we didn't starve to death!We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers and Bubble Gum.We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter,milk from the cow,and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because...... WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O..K.We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY , no video/dvd films, or colour TV, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms...........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no Lawsuits from these accidents. Only girls had pierced ears! We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time..... We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,( The start of greater things to come ) We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet because we didn't need to keep up with the Jones's! Not everyone made the rugby/football/cricket/netball team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and throw the blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren't concentrating .We can string sentences together and spell and have proper conversations because of a good, solid three R's education. Our parents would tell us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road.The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla' We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL ! IF you were born in these times CONGRATULATIONS! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age anymore. arrh what memories if only we could turn back time,kids today don't know what there missing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 I spent some time drafting and re-drafting a 'dignity at work' policy for some crowd a while back (which you don't have to actually have) and by the end I wanted to smoke tabs, drive with no seat belt, make dens and share a cider bottle with anyone I could find. It's all true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arnieboy Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 we went ratting on the tip and always came home with a bike usually a grifter or chopper then rebuilt the good ones from the bad we swam in the quarry and told our mams we had been playing football we drank from springs and didnt die and i have manners Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flynny Posted August 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 we went ratting on the tip and always came home with a bike usually a grifter or chopper then rebuilt the good ones from the bad we swam in the quarry and told our mams we had been playing football we drank from springs and didnt die and i have manners Top man , we used to swim in the canal, that night when my old fella said right bath time( we didn't have a shower , get the violins out ha, ha) me and my brothers said " but dad we've been swimming in the canal today( and I must add jumping off the railway bridges into the canal, don't tell my mam ha ha) to which he replied " exactly you scruffy Arabs get in the bath" he didn't even bat an eye lid, I got 10p a day and me and my brothers and our mates Bought loads of toffees and pop, but always made sure we had 6p left for a box of Bryant and may matches, so we could have a fire on our travels round the woods/ canals / rivers, old mills etc etc, Atb flynny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flynny Posted August 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 Forgot to add on a Friday we got 50p spends, and at the 50p shop ( I ant kidding it was like the pound shops nowadays) I used to buy a bag of marbles for the black widow and knock pigeons off the old mills by the canal, Jesus you would get arrested for that nowadays, but dog walkers etc just said " how many have you had lads" Atb flynny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuji Shooter Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 can anyone remember it ever raining as a kid? summer holidays seemed to be weeks of endless baking sun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Clavata Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Exactly, as already said large dose of red tinted glasses. Lots of things are different, some for the better and some for the worse but on balance we have made progress. This good old days notion reflects a personal perspective of the best years of individual lives which regrettably for them most likely reflects the fact that their best years are behind them. Apologies if that offends anyone, I was brought up to respect elders but also to say things how I see them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshie Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Well that seems to have killed the thread stone dead doesn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flynny Posted August 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 Exactly, as already said large dose of red tinted glasses. Lots of things are different, some for the better and some for the worse but on balance we have made progress. This good old days notion reflects a personal perspective of the best years of individual lives which regrettably for them most likely reflects the fact that their best years are behind them. Apologies if that offends anyone, I was brought up to respect elders but also to say things how I see them. All the good times behind me ,I think not mate I do all the things I did as a kid but can pursue them better now I have a car money etc , I am only 39 , but i do I understand about the best years behind them if your are 75 etc, but possibly that age group enjoys passing there memories and knowledge down to us youngsters, ie they have done what I'm just starting to do , Atb flynny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 There was an interesting programme on R4 last week about the way we experience time subjectively as we age. I can't remember the figures but it was something like, when you hit 30 you will have 'experienced' what will feel like half your life total by that age, even if you live to be very old. Bit depressing really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cottonseed Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 Right. Can anyone tell me how this is such a great achievement, seeing how you guys raised/part of the current generation that's so readily (and you all agree with this) ******* everything up for the rest of us? That's a very good point I've pondered myself. I'm in my 60s now and have grandchildren. I think they were simpler times and better times than the 30s when my father grew up. But those simpler times were corrupted by the advance of consumerism driven by commercial TV. In the 50s and 60s things got better, but people became more acquisitive and more selfish. The advance in technology reduced work and jobs were shifted abroad to save money for other greedy people. The dog eat dog attitude went hand in hand with social mobility and the fear of losing your livelihood in a new world of easy credit. Looking back at my own life there were probably more distractions in life and more instant gratification available at a time when perhaps the rearing of children should've come first. My children grew up fine, many others haven't. In turn the downsides of their own upbringing has produced many indisciplined, mannerless kids. There seems nothing to look forward to for children these days where I felt there was everything to go for. My heart goes out to young people today in this absurdly regulated, PC country with a future where there will be few opportunities to forge a career without emigrating to, say, the Far east. I know my grandchildren will not have the relatively easy life I've had. Whatever anyone says, particularly the politicians, Britain is in terminal decline and all the Ipods, Tablets, TV, mobile phones in the world will not stop that downward spiral into Third World status. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 Once the house equity has gone on nursing home fees because families don't look after each other the young can't buy absurdly expensive houses etc etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretagentmole Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 (edited) can anyone remember it ever raining as a kid? summer holidays seemed to be weeks of endless baking sun. Yes I bleeding can, the summer of 1977 was as wet as an overfilled jug! I know we were on holiday in Cornwall at the time and saw HMY Britannia in the docks as the Queen toured Britain as part of her silver jubilee celebrations. Cornwall was constantly wet that blasted year and we were camping! Edited August 26, 2012 by secretagentmole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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