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When we where children,compared to now.
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What have kids got now, ..,no jobs
That's because houses aren't built with coal fires today, so no chimneys for them to sweep. Instead they just persisit with endless pointless trolling on the internetPosted 1 year ago # -
that's just a myth which has existed for as long as I can remembe
It was always better back then - I can just imagine the conversation
"This broze stuff is just crap, remember when it were all stone, stuff lasted then, do you see caves made of bronze, no they don't last, stone age technology, that's what we want none of this bronze age rubbish"
You never hear single celled amoeba complaining about how great things were back then and kids nowadays, do you? QEDahhh, nostalgia, just not what it used to be
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do you see caves made of bronze
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20 years ago was much the same as now, except the bikes and computers were rubbish.
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20 years ago was much the same as now
I had a full head of hair!
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Are cubs and scouts still armed? 30 years ago we were equipped with a sheath knife and hand axe at the very least, and usually a felling axe too. I don't recall any serious injuries.
Mind you, a kid got stabbed at my school, and the perpetrator just got expelled, no police involvement, nothing in the papers, despite it being one of the best schools in the county. The little sh!t obviously hadn't been in the scouts.
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Rickets, do the kids up North still get them?
Polio, not much of that about now either, nor thalidomide..Got the cane at school for an uncontrollable fit of giggles in general studies in the library.
Coppers would clout you round the head and send you on your way if they caught you after chucking rocks at them.
Pervs were dealt with a tad more harshly
As Scouts we did have knives and a hand axe on a belt, but felling axes were only handed out at camp.
My old man got a good telling off when I had all the dustbin men cowering behind their cart with my air gun.
Building Soap Box carts and tracks with banked turns (now called berms) was all the rage and required bunking off from afternoon school, noone seemed that bothered
Deciding wether to ride your motorbike with or without a helmet was rightly your choice at 16 as was riding a 1000cc Indian with a sidecar on an L plate.
Beating up moddie ruperts was mostly only frowned on by Coppers since they all rode proper bikes so were 'greasers' off duty and mods took purple hearts so were druggies anyway, so it was open season when they came down to the coast at weekends.
Yep there was definitely more freedom in my sixties youth, I wouldn't want to be young today.
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My old man got a good telling off when I had all the dustbin men cowering behind their cart with my air gun.
Oh but how you must've all laughed about it afterwards, eh ?
Yes mate, spot on - they don't let kids enjoy the simple things in life anymore, like what we did.
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Loads of kids playing out in the street and woods round my way too. Have any of the moaners actually met a kid lately?
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ernie_lynch - Member
My old man got a good telling off when I had all the dustbin men cowering behind their cart with my air gun.
Oh but how you must've all laughed about it afterwards, eh ?Yeah - as if, i was ducking him for weeks after that, even i wondered why I was so stupid, but it just seemed a laugh at the time, think what would happen to a kid who did that now, armed response, the kid in care, the old man probably in jail..
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Yeah - as if, i was ducking him for weeks after that
Really ? He didn't arrange for the local bobby to come round and give you a good ol' fashion clip round the ear ? How strange
Tell me more about 'chucking rocks at coppers' and how 'pervs were dealt with'. That sounds fascinating.
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People I seriously admire not some names that pop up in the tabloids every day hey. I have no idea how to even start to respond to this
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you can't get a decent Oz of red seal for love nor money round this way any more..
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Derek griffiths
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Tony Hart.Posted 1 year ago # -
Brian Cant http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134454/
Derek griffiths
Oliver Postgate
Johnny Ball.
Tony Hart.Jimmy Saville
Gary GlitterPosted 1 year ago # -
I do wonder, y'know, if the 'yoof of today' would be a lot more pride-inducing if the adults of today hadn't spent the last fifteen years repeatedly telling them that that they're all scumbags that will never amount to anything.
Don't like the state of the nation and how the kids are behaving? It's your own fault.
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Also,
I don't think the world is any more dangerous for kids now than it's ever been. As Yunki so helpfully demonstrates, we're simply much better at reporting it and sensationalising it, even when there's not actually any evidence to back it up.
"Likes children" = "good parent."
"Likes children" + slightly eccentric" = "nonce."
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But back in the day
"Likes children + slightly eccentric + 44 years old and still lives with his mother and collection of specialist porn" = "scout master"
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Hmm, I wonder how this conversation would be going in the catholic priests' school?
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ernie_lynch - Member
Yeah - as if, i was ducking him for weeks after that
Really ? He didn't arrange for the local bobby to come round and give you a good ol' fashion clip round the ear ? How strangeTell me more about 'chucking rocks at coppers' and how 'pervs were dealt with'. That sounds fascinating.
So, life was very different back then to the way it is now, as to the bobby or my old man catching me, I had an escape route, up through the loft out onto the rooftops and away, so they very rarely caught me.
Chucking rocks at coppers (to try and knock their helmet off), was a pretty standard activity amongst most street kids where i was dragged up.
Pervs? One incident that brings this to mind was some old perv trying to get us to go with him under the arches to 'see something' my sister, who was probably a bit more 'perv aware' than me, blew the whistle and a copper got hold of him and literally beat the bastard to the ground and sent him on his way, we never saw him round our way ever again.
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Chucking rocks at coppers (to try and knock their helmet off), was a pretty standard activity amongst most street kids where i was dragged up.
But when they caught you then :
Coppers would clout you round the head and send you on your way if they caught you after chucking rocks at them.
So just a clout round the head then.......haha what a larf. I bet you were glad that they didn't 'literally beat you to the ground' before they sent you own your way - like they did to the perv.
Seems like it was a right larf when you were a kid. Shame the pervs didn't get a criminal record though ..... dontcha reckon ?
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so basically.. as has already been said.. not much has changed really, other than the superficial..
and as if to prove the point, some people, upon reaching a certain stage of maturity, will freak out big time and apocalyptically bemoan the fate of our youth in predictably exactly the same way that every generation of neurotic men before them has done since time immemorial..
pretty much..
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