You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a FUCKING UTOPIA! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the bloody library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take, like, a week to get there! Stamps were 5 pence!
Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick the shit out of us! Nowhere was safe!
There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and fuck it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone. Cause - that's how we rolled, dig?
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mum, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!!!
There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you SPOILED LITTLE RAT BASTARDS!!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the cooker! Imagine that!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You little arseholes wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or before!
Digger said
Oct 14 4:06 PM, 2019
This was from Facebook btw
Digger said
Oct 14 4:07 PM, 2019
Sweets were for weekends, too
Syl said
Oct 14 5:15 PM, 2019
Haha....brilliant. And for all the lack of everything kids take for granted nowadays, us kids back in the day were free to play out, had loads of actual friends not virtual ones, and bulimia, anorexia, self harming and kids suffering from stress were unheard of too.
rollup said
Oct 14 5:28 PM, 2019
Seasons weren't just about sunshine and rain either but what food was available.
The seasons dictated what you did and didn't eat.
Easter eggs and chocolate on Xmas trees were special because chocolate wasn't something you could have so easily everyday.
Magica said
Oct 14 6:43 PM, 2019
Yes, chocolate was a treat not the norm when we were kids.
rollup said
Oct 14 6:55 PM, 2019
The swinging 60's .... with coal milk hardware groceries delivered by horse and cart .... they were everywhere as were cobbles and gas lights looking back at some of the pictures it really wasn't all that swinging!
-- Edited by rollup on Monday 14th of October 2019 06:55:56 PM
rollup said
Oct 14 6:56 PM, 2019
Electric busses!
Called trolley buses nice and clean no pollution in the street ... apart from horse shit.
Vicks said
Oct 15 4:18 AM, 2019
I never played "Hedge Hoping" I played all the others though and I played Peever.
We always wall walked , leaping over gates and drives, its much more elaborate now and called Parkour ( free running, my grandkids did it in Glasgow ( but a safe place) they had no idea I did it as a kid.
Anonymous said
Oct 15 8:22 AM, 2019
Syl wrote:
Haha....brilliant. And for all the lack of everything kids take for granted nowadays, us kids back in the day were free to play out, had loads of actual friends not virtual ones, and bulimia, anorexia, self harming and kids suffering from stress were unheard of too.
It's not brilliant, it's just typical of the bigoted ignorance you read on the internet, but admittedly a recurring theme.
The illnesses you listed were unheard of in your world because it was not the done thing to talk about them. And look at the number of historic abuse cases only recently coming to light because society in general didn't want to listen at the time. Sorry, but you and many others in their middle age are trying to revive their own youth with a fantasy of how wonderful life was at the time - I lived it too and the reality didn't correspond to the illusions that people seem to have. And as for the belief that modern teenagers have it easy and are effectively useless is part of the same blinkered blindness - they don't and they aren't.
Vicks said
Oct 15 8:23 AM, 2019
Oh and it's "Chap door run away" here.
We chap doors, we don't knock them.
😎
Anonymous said
Oct 15 8:38 AM, 2019
Vicks wrote:
Oh and it's "Chap door run away" here.
We chap doors, we don't knock them.
😎
'We' call it harassment and antisocial behaviour 'here'.
Digger said
Oct 15 9:37 AM, 2019
Anonymous wrote:
Syl wrote:
Haha....brilliant. And for all the lack of everything kids take for granted nowadays, us kids back in the day were free to play out, had loads of actual friends not virtual ones, and bulimia, anorexia, self harming and kids suffering from stress were unheard of too.
It's not brilliant, it's just typical of the bigoted ignorance you read on the internet, but admittedly a recurring theme.
The illnesses you listed were unheard of in your world because it was not the done thing to talk about them. And look at the number of historic abuse cases only recently coming to light because society in general didn't want to listen at the time. Sorry, but you and many others in their middle age are trying to revive their own youth with a fantasy of how wonderful life was at the time - I lived it too and the reality didn't correspond to the illusions that people seem to have. And as for the belief that modern teenagers have it easy and are effectively useless is part of the same blinkered blindness - they don't and they aren't.
Oh, get over yourself you miserable twat.
Anonymous said
Oct 15 9:45 AM, 2019
Digger wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Syl wrote:
Haha....brilliant. And for all the lack of everything kids take for granted nowadays, us kids back in the day were free to play out, had loads of actual friends not virtual ones, and bulimia, anorexia, self harming and kids suffering from stress were unheard of too.
It's not brilliant, it's just typical of the bigoted ignorance you read on the internet, but admittedly a recurring theme.
The illnesses you listed were unheard of in your world because it was not the done thing to talk about them. And look at the number of historic abuse cases only recently coming to light because society in general didn't want to listen at the time. Sorry, but you and many others in their middle age are trying to revive their own youth with a fantasy of how wonderful life was at the time - I lived it too and the reality didn't correspond to the illusions that people seem to have. And as for the belief that modern teenagers have it easy and are effectively useless is part of the same blinkered blindness - they don't and they aren't.
Oh, get over yourself you miserable twat.
By that do you mean you disagree with what I said?
Digger said
Oct 15 10:06 AM, 2019
Anonymous wrote:
Digger wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Syl wrote:
Haha....brilliant. And for all the lack of everything kids take for granted nowadays, us kids back in the day were free to play out, had loads of actual friends not virtual ones, and bulimia, anorexia, self harming and kids suffering from stress were unheard of too.
It's not brilliant, it's just typical of the bigoted ignorance you read on the internet, but admittedly a recurring theme.
The illnesses you listed were unheard of in your world because it was not the done thing to talk about them. And look at the number of historic abuse cases only recently coming to light because society in general didn't want to listen at the time. Sorry, but you and many others in their middle age are trying to revive their own youth with a fantasy of how wonderful life was at the time - I lived it too and the reality didn't correspond to the illusions that people seem to have. And as for the belief that modern teenagers have it easy and are effectively useless is part of the same blinkered blindness - they don't and they aren't.
Oh, get over yourself you miserable twat.
By that do you mean you disagree with what I said?
Disagree with what? Nobody said kids today have it easy. But they don't have it that hard either. Today, there's more help and societal resources for young people than there's ever been. Let's take mental health issues. Years ago, you'd have been bunged in an asylum for depression, never mind autism, which was never even understood back then. It took until 1980 for autism to be differentiated from other mental health conditions. If you were slow at school, or had learning difficulties you were sat at the back of the class and ignored. Teachers abused pupils. Kids died from illnesses they don't die from now. There were no rights in the workplace. Homosexuality was illegal. The list is endless.
Anonymous said
Oct 15 10:25 AM, 2019
Digger wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Digger wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Syl wrote:
Haha....brilliant. And for all the lack of everything kids take for granted nowadays, us kids back in the day were free to play out, had loads of actual friends not virtual ones, and bulimia, anorexia, self harming and kids suffering from stress were unheard of too.
It's not brilliant, it's just typical of the bigoted ignorance you read on the internet, but admittedly a recurring theme.
The illnesses you listed were unheard of in your world because it was not the done thing to talk about them. And look at the number of historic abuse cases only recently coming to light because society in general didn't want to listen at the time. Sorry, but you and many others in their middle age are trying to revive their own youth with a fantasy of how wonderful life was at the time - I lived it too and the reality didn't correspond to the illusions that people seem to have. And as for the belief that modern teenagers have it easy and are effectively useless is part of the same blinkered blindness - they don't and they aren't.
Oh, get over yourself you miserable twat.
By that do you mean you disagree with what I said?
Disagree with what? Nobody said kids today have it easy.
They did. It's the opening line of your first post here!
Digger said
Oct 15 10:27 AM, 2019
Anonymous wrote:
Digger wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Digger wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Syl wrote:
Haha....brilliant. And for all the lack of everything kids take for granted nowadays, us kids back in the day were free to play out, had loads of actual friends not virtual ones, and bulimia, anorexia, self harming and kids suffering from stress were unheard of too.
It's not brilliant, it's just typical of the bigoted ignorance you read on the internet, but admittedly a recurring theme.
The illnesses you listed were unheard of in your world because it was not the done thing to talk about them. And look at the number of historic abuse cases only recently coming to light because society in general didn't want to listen at the time. Sorry, but you and many others in their middle age are trying to revive their own youth with a fantasy of how wonderful life was at the time - I lived it too and the reality didn't correspond to the illusions that people seem to have. And as for the belief that modern teenagers have it easy and are effectively useless is part of the same blinkered blindness - they don't and they aren't.
Oh, get over yourself you miserable twat.
By that do you mean you disagree with what I said?
Disagree with what? Nobody said kids today have it easy.
They did. It's the opening line of your first post here!
I didn't write it, you fool. It's a post that's doing the rounds on FB.
Anonymous said
Oct 15 10:43 AM, 2019
Digger wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Digger wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Digger wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Syl wrote:
Haha....brilliant. And for all the lack of everything kids take for granted nowadays, us kids back in the day were free to play out, had loads of actual friends not virtual ones, and bulimia, anorexia, self harming and kids suffering from stress were unheard of too.
It's not brilliant, it's just typical of the bigoted ignorance you read on the internet, but admittedly a recurring theme.
The illnesses you listed were unheard of in your world because it was not the done thing to talk about them. And look at the number of historic abuse cases only recently coming to light because society in general didn't want to listen at the time. Sorry, but you and many others in their middle age are trying to revive their own youth with a fantasy of how wonderful life was at the time - I lived it too and the reality didn't correspond to the illusions that people seem to have. And as for the belief that modern teenagers have it easy and are effectively useless is part of the same blinkered blindness - they don't and they aren't.
Oh, get over yourself you miserable twat.
By that do you mean you disagree with what I said?
Disagree with what? Nobody said kids today have it easy.
They did. It's the opening line of your first post here!
I didn't write it, you fool. It's a post that's doing the rounds on FB.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a FUCKING UTOPIA!
And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the bloody library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen!
Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take, like, a week to get there!
Stamps were 5 pence!
Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick the shit out of us! Nowhere was safe!
There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and fuck it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone. Cause - that's how we rolled, dig?
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mum, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... forever!
And you could never win.
The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!
NO REMOTES!!!
There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you SPOILED LITTLE RAT BASTARDS!!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the cooker! Imagine that!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You little arseholes wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or before!
Sweets were for weekends, too
The seasons dictated what you did and didn't eat.
Easter eggs and chocolate on Xmas trees were special because chocolate wasn't something you could have so easily everyday.
The swinging 60's .... with coal milk hardware groceries delivered by horse and cart .... they were everywhere as were cobbles and gas lights looking back at some of the pictures it really wasn't all that swinging!
-- Edited by rollup on Monday 14th of October 2019 06:55:56 PM
Called trolley buses nice and clean no pollution in the street ... apart from horse shit.
I never played "Hedge Hoping" I played all the others though and I played Peever.
Of course we say Peever, you say Hopscotch.
We always wall walked , leaping over gates and drives, its much more elaborate now and called Parkour ( free running, my grandkids did it in Glasgow ( but a safe place) they had no idea I did it as a kid.
We chap doors, we don't knock them.
😎
'We' call it harassment and antisocial behaviour 'here'.
Oh, get over yourself you miserable twat.
By that do you mean you disagree with what I said?
Disagree with what? Nobody said kids today have it easy. But they don't have it that hard either. Today, there's more help and societal resources for young people than there's ever been. Let's take mental health issues. Years ago, you'd have been bunged in an asylum for depression, never mind autism, which was never even understood back then. It took until 1980 for autism to be differentiated from other mental health conditions. If you were slow at school, or had learning difficulties you were sat at the back of the class and ignored. Teachers abused pupils. Kids died from illnesses they don't die from now. There were no rights in the workplace. Homosexuality was illegal. The list is endless.
They did. It's the opening line of your first post here!
I didn't write it, you fool. It's a post that's doing the rounds on FB.
Hmm.. maybe one us is sounding like a fool then.