Were you born in the 40's , 50's , 60's or 70
Not exactly G related but it certainly struck a cord with myself.
Found this the other day, wish I could claim it as my own but I don’t think the person who came up with it will mind me copying it :D :D
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's !
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos..
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, 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 colored 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 the weekends, 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, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter 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,
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,
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!
RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the 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 bully's always ruled the playground at school.
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!
And YOU are one of them!
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.
:lol: ah nostalgia most of that strikes a cord with me thanks 4 sharing
all of it strikes a cord with me, how true, remember cilmbing over the council yard wall, stealing the wheels of the gang mowers to use on our wooden go-kart ! , peeling chewing gum of the floor eat, and yet I've only become a fat bastard since, mcdonalds, kfc and playstation !
mate,it brings back memories...... :cry:
evil kenevel was THE christmas must have :!:
remember the cricket bat too... :shock: and Mr SCHOFIELD :( :(
i loved the pink custard and pink cake at school, who cared about coloured preservatives...
All true, I would not want to be a kid growing up today, life is just to complex. On a more salutory note when the oil runs out life will revert to a simpler pattern, instead of surfing the internet people will need to be in their gardens growing food or out foraging for wood. Then we will all look back (if we are lucky enough to be still alive) and realise we never had it so good.
It was great wasn't it :D
The only thing that was different for me was that my mum worked (and still does despite being 70 something) but no child minders, after school clubs - i just went to a neighbour if I had a problem..........
As part of my varied working life i am currently working with our local youth, encouraging healthy eating by getting them to try different foods and cooking with them. My courses have been given the thumbs up by the burocrats because of the 'risk taking' i am encouraging them to do! (i.e trying new foods!)
in my teens risk taking was: -
* hanging off a bridge over a shallow fast flowing river - dare you to try it (I wouldn't now)
* driving fast around farmland in a clapped out old mini or 2CV
* going for 40 miles cycle rides without telling anyone where we were going
* scrumping apples, pears, or what ever fruit was in season.
*hitching into town and winding up the 'townies' without the threat of being raped, stabbed or murdered just chased and thumped if caught.
* dodging bus fares
*playing in the derelict house - spooky
* and my favourite was sneaking into grandads shed and drinking his 'apple juice' (thats what he called it!) - recently discovered that it was very strong cider. no wonder we used to get giggly :lol: :P
at the risk of sounding old - THOSE WERE THE DAYS 8)
It was great wasn't it :D
The only thing that was different for me was that my mum worked (and still does despite being 70 something) but no child minders, after school clubs - i just went to a neighbour if I had a problem..........
As part of my varied working life i am currently working with our local youth, encouraging healthy eating by getting them to try different foods and cooking with them. My courses have been given the thumbs up by the burocrats because of the 'risk taking' i am encouraging them to do! (i.e trying new foods!)
in my teens risk taking was: -
* hanging off a bridge over a shallow fast flowing river - dare you to try it (I wouldn't now)
* driving fast around farmland in a clapped out old mini or 2CV
* going for 40 miles cycle rides without telling anyone where we were going
* scrumping apples, pears, or what ever fruit was in season.
*hitching into town and winding up the 'townies' without the threat of being raped, stabbed or murdered just chased and thumped if caught.
* dodging bus fares
*playing in the derelict house - spooky
* and my favourite was sneaking into grandads shed and drinking his 'apple juice' (thats what he called it!) - recently discovered that it was very strong cider. no wonder we used to get giggly :lol: :P
at the risk of sounding old - THOSE WERE THE DAYS 8)
Ah yes the good old days
messing about with home made explosives,
dumping unspeaking gunk from our barn on to the Sunday School kids at the Chapel next door,
trying to figure out what left foot braking was all about in a Series III LR locked in 4WD (yes I’m from the Audi Quattro era)
towing each other behind said LandRover on compacted snow whilst sitting in big nylon bags on the end of 10metres of rope, on public roads of course.
Someone once said the good old days were always 10 yrs ago, in the present climate replace that with 10 weeks ago :D
Thanks for that Russ,
Both myself and the better half enjoyed that very much. It is so simply a life that it crosses international boundaries. We may have called the same thing by a different name but we all basically did the same thing in whatever country you chose to imagine.
And, yes maybe we might return to some of those simple pleasures again the way world economics is going.
Thanks again for a good laugh.
Regards,
Mike
Good find!
What about conkers? did not need safety glasses or gloves
'Clackers'
Experiments in the class room did not involve standing 10 meters back behind safety glass
Learning how to 'hot wire' the Schools Land rovers
Learning how to pick locks to the tuck shop
How to strip, clean and fire, Lee Enfields, Browning pistols, Bren Guns, GPMG's SLR and the odd M-16 and AK47!
Being allowed to administer the Cain!
Understanding that with age came privilege
Understanding there was no such thing as 'deferred success' - you were either good at something or not!
Dorm raids!
Would agree with the Landy , rope and Nylon sacks in the snow.
Trying to instill the same with my kids and explaining that their world will not end if they don't have a mobile phone or access to a PlayStation (That's my privilege! :))
Spider1V - is it me or are kids today soft and rude?
A few of you mentioned snow - WOW did we have snow when I was a kid, snow drifts cut us off from civilization for a week or two several times but it wasn't a problem, mum made homemade bread and we played, built igloos once and sledging down a very steep hill with a pond at the bottom - no one would be allowed to do that now for H&S reasons!! several of us went into the pond and went home wet and cut and bruised and got into trouble for getting wet!
As far as kids being soft today - some are, but mine won't be as for all the mod cons they desire and have we still ensure loads of of outdoor activities, sleeping out in the woods (with Dad) in shelters they build themselves, camp fires etc etc.
Rob has just read this and said that he used to send his mum to the chemists for chemicals to make his own fireworks - do you think she knew :?:
All this thinking about the past............................. don't even get me started about the summer of 76 :D
The snow and nylon bags wasn't actually that long ago. You spend the rest of your life grown up so why rush it? :lol: :lol:
Good find!
Trying to instill the same with my kids and explaining that their world will not end if they don't have a mobile phone or access to a PlayStation (That's my privilege! :))
Spider1V - is it me or are kids today soft and rude?
Ah the Evils of Computer Games:
http://www.gwoa.co.uk/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=48223#48223
Now it's
* hanging off a bridge over a railway - spraying obscenities
* driving fast around farmland in a stolen BMW
* going for 40 miles joy rides
* scrumping car stereos
*hitching into town and beating up the 'townies'
* mugging bus drivers
*torching derelict houses
* and sneaking into the off license and nicking 'apple juice'
(this is NOT from personal experience)
On another note, our chemistry teacher always used to say that if we wanted to conduct an experiment, and he could help, then anything was pretty much fair game. A lot of stuff used to get blown up :)
Russ, when was the pic of the G in the snow taken and where?
I would love to drive my G in snow like that. The nearest I've been to real snow in mine was a few years ago and we had a 'freak' snow storm and I was the only vehicle not sliding all over the place. Dawney and I actually went looking for fresh snow to drive on in our G's, found some great country lanes with hills for sledging and a decent pub - perfect 8)
All this reminising has made me make bread and a cake take the kids to the woods for some serious tree climbing plus bought back some dead stuff for the fire. its really cosy here - raging fire, cuppa with cake and the kids are worn out - perfect 2
Russ, when was the pic of the G in the snow taken and where?
I would love to drive my G in snow like that. The nearest I've been to real snow in mine was a few years ago and we had a 'freak' snow storm and I was the only vehicle not sliding all over the place. Dawney and I actually went looking for fresh snow to drive on in our G's, found some great country lanes with hills for sledging and a decent pub - perfect 8)
All this reminising has made me make bread and a cake take the kids to the woods for some serious tree climbing plus bought back some dead stuff for the fire. its really cosy here - raging fire, cuppa with cake and the kids are worn out - perfect 2
Snow is always a laugh so long as you don’t really have to go anywhere or share the roads with anyone else :D
They were taken in 07 and 06, nothing in 08/9 yet, mostly within 10 miles of our front door. Some pictures in photobucket:
http://s441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/RussG300/Snow/
hey hey hey, anybody was born in the 80s here??
hey hey hey, anybody was born in the 80s here??
Not at this time of night Pok, its past their bedtime :lol: :lol: :lol:
murrrrrrr!!! Perhaps some of them are revising for their exams??
Tom and Jack the lad are in the 80's me thinks...
Spider1V - The 80's were great clubbing times!
Spider1V - The 80's were great clubbing times!
Travelling the world (well some of it anyway)- footloose and fancy free for me :P I didn't realise how good i'd got it :!:
before our rose tinted specs completely steam up, it wasn't all good in the 50's 60's and 70's, cars were pretty universally awful and the music in the early 70's and the fashions that accompanied this were truly dire. Yes I know that there were a few pretty cars like the E-type and the DB5, but who could afford them? Not my family, we had rubbish from BMC and Triumph, the 1st half decent car we had was a Renault 16. Food wasn't to clever either lacking variety and snow in winter meant it was very cold. A box of dates and a selection box for Xmas didn't exactly fill my heart with joy but at least it was an improvement on an orange an apple and a piece of coal. Which my father claimed was his lot.
A box of dates and a selection box for Xmas didn't exactly fill my heart with joy but at least it was an improvement on an orange an apple and a piece of coal. Which my father claimed was his lot.
So when did you get your Hoop and Stick?
Spider1V - Arrrr we 'had things in them days that you don't have now - like Hitler and ringworm! :lol:
before our rose tinted specs completely steam up, it wasn't all good in the 50's 60's and 70's, cars were pretty universally awful and the music in the early 70's and the fashions that accompanied this were truly dire. Yes I know that there were a few pretty cars like the E-type and the DB5, but who could afford them? Not my family, we had rubbish from BMC and Triumph, the 1st half decent car we had was a Renault 16. Food wasn't to clever either lacking variety and snow in winter meant it was very cold. A box of dates and a selection box for Xmas didn't exactly fill my heart with joy but at least it was an improvement on an orange an apple and a piece of coal. Which my father claimed was his lot.
The 70's fashion is back as we speak AND whats wrong with a Triumph - my first car was a Dolomite :evil:
my 1st car was a Marina very bit as bad as a Doly, yes 70's fashion is back, so is slump, unemployment and measles, I rest my case.
Yep which was why we were wearing our 'rose tinted specs' when Reminiscing - being upbeat is more fun!
I loved my Dolomite, roomy, leather and walnut interior, fast (well seemed fast when i had just passed my test) and so reliable!!!!!
my 1st car was a Marina very bit as bad as a Doly, yes 70's fashion is back, so is slump, unemployment and measles, I rest my case.
3 day week, National strikes and power cuts to come then? Don;t you just love a labour government! :roll:
Spider1V
Sleeping between sheets sewn from Mortons flour bags?
Sharing a Mars bar with big sister, and that was a rare treat.
Porrige for an evening meal?, I thought that was normal
1963, snow up to the eaves, and I still remember playing in it, aged four.
Winter tyres? anyone else.
I think I remember the summer of '76,
helping build 18 " by 9" by 6" bastard blocks, 4 stone apiece and me only weighing 8 stone when wet.
driving up over the mountain to Claudy in the snow, about 1980, a Hillman Hunter, rear wheel drive of course, a couple of bags of grit in the boot for ballast , and let her at it, 80mph on smooth hard packed snow, straight road, no other traffic, full moon and perfect visibility.
sigh
Marcus, the summer of 76 was the long hot one......................... drought conditions in the UK.
I just remember 8 weeks of school holidays spent swimming in the river Teise EVERY DAY. Huge amounts of kids converged on the river and we had boats, rafts, inner tubes, picnic lunches, no one drowned. I do remember also the river authority man warning us of the dangers of weils disease but no-one took any notice and no-one caught it :!:
Brilliant fun and one of my most vivid memories of childhood. :P
I take my kids there on hot summer days and we almost always have it all to ourselves. they have dingies and play for hours while I sunbathe or read a book or do some marking :roll:
1976 *sigh*
Long and hot - great summer holidays - we had just had the pool installed -was rather popular that summer :wink:
My first kiss by the pool
Having to walk the woods at night with dad and his friends doing Fire watch (excitiing and slightly cooler - but not by much)
Days down at Hayling Island
Covered in tar spray from my bike
Home made Lemonade and Ice cream
Mind you it was a rather hard winter that winter
Spider1V - it were great in them thar days! 8)
Spider wrote;
"3 day week, National strikes and power cuts to come then? Don't you just love a labour government!"
These were all in Heath's Conservative Government not Labour
Spider wrote;
"3 day week, National strikes and power cuts to come then? Don't you just love a labour government!"
These were all in Heath's Conservative Government not Labour
I know - two seperate comments
Spider1V
1976 *sigh*
Long and hot - great summer holidays - we had just had the pool installed -was rather popular that summer :wink:
My first kiss by the pool
Having to walk the woods at night with dad and his friends doing Fire watch (excitiing and slightly cooler - but not by much)
Days down at Hayling Island
Covered in tar spray from my bike
Home made Lemonade and Ice cream
Mind you it was a rather hard winter that winter
Spider1V - it were great in them thar days! 8)
I don't know :roll: - posh with your own pool and an early romantic starter - I was 12 in 76 (kissing was yuk) and you are younger than me I believe :lol:
I was 10 and women/girls found me attractive - what more can I say.....? :P :lol: :twisted:
As for being posh - well, not posh, just fortunately had a rich grandfather who had popped off a few months beforehand!
Could have been a 'baby dad' if I was not a strict catholic! :evil:
Spider1V - Had it in '76, got better in '86, wilted in '96 and died in '06 :(
Oh we had a pool..................................................a paddling pool. The river was much more exciting.
I think i was a late starter, stuck in a small all girls school in the middle of no-where till I was 16 didn't help - any boys that came within range were treated like criminals by the male staff!
But once let off the leash, well let just say those 'good' catholic boys were bad :evil:
well let just say those 'good' catholic boys were bad :evil:
MWHAHAHAHAHAHAH, mwhahahaahhahah! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Spider1V - A very naughty boy.........
im an 80's child, 87!
but i havent had the normal childhood being on the farm...
- making georges marvelous medicine with any fluid found
- making bike ramps with a barrel and a skinny plank
- playing hide and seek on the asbestos roof'd barns
- hunting anything from rats to foxes
- playing on the motorbikes, did start wearing a helmet tho, i remember when i got my first quad i was so excited i just put some overalls on over my pajamas and went out all day on it, i was so cold when i came in but was bloody happy.
- cycling in the old chalk mine in chalfont st giles woods
- fiddling about cutting wood on tha bench saws and sanders
- playing with bonfires and petrol, making flame shooters out of lenor bottles
- pulling apart an old mark 2 escort
- digging massive holes in the field to make dens in, then i remember one got overgrown and dad was driving through and fell in one in a little 3 1/2 tonnes digger
- also we built a new house on the farm so i spent most my spare time with builders and hanging off of the scaffolding!
helen a friend of the family's son has got a dolomite as his first car now, he loves it!
Tom - never had a game console in my life and has the scars to prove it!
oh and Doctors were not worried about lawyers and didnt have managers breathing down their backs about cutting costs - dont think ill ever get to experience that one :(
haha just seen this advert.....
How apt, shame its from a Government Initiative though, im guessing it wasnt cheap!
haha just seen this advert.....
How apt, shame its from a Government Initiative though, im guessing it wasnt cheap!
Kind of makes you fancy a jelly baby though :!:
Spider and Helen, stop flirting there are children reading
haha just seen this advert.....
How apt, shame its from a Government Initiative though, im guessing it wasnt cheap!
Meh - I found the comments from people underneath more entertaining.
Problem is you put a group of kids in a park these days and they will end up knifing each other. Your not allowed to climb trees any more (H&S), most of the swings available have been vandalised.
And I would like to apologies to PRWales, sorry I was unaware you were a minor. (Although where you get the idea Helen and I were flirting, I dunno??? - I thought that's what the PM's were for.......... :wink: )
Spider1V - Ahhh the good old day's , where are they now????
Yep which was why we were wearing our 'rose tinted specs' when Reminiscing - being upbeat is more fun!
I loved my Dolomite, roomy, leather and walnut interior, fast (well seemed fast when i had just passed my test) and so reliable!!!!!
My brother had a Dolly Sprint tweaked to 200bhp’ish. You haven’t driven a fast car until you’ve attempted to go fast in one of those……………………….truly scary :shock: :shock:
That engine was a great piece of engineering though, very innovative in it’s day but in typical BL fashion it wasn’t actually finished when they put it on the market
My 1st car was a Marina, excellent vehicle for leaning your limits
No brakes to speak of, sooo easy to drive sideways (even when you didn’t intend to) Try explaining that to a kid in his C2 VTS / Mitsu. Evo whatever, or the muppet in the 720bhp G :roll: :roll:
3 day week, power cuts……………..is that reminiscing or a prediction Spider?
Come the revolution can we find the cretins who thought it was a good idea to burn OUR North Sea gas to generate cheap (read high shareholder profits) electricity and line them up against the wall? :evil:
was the Dolly Sprint the one with the two massive down draught carbs on? That was a rather fast car!
re the 3 day week, power cuts……………..is that reminiscing or a prediction Spider
A bit of both!
Spider1V
Uh oh! 3 day week, power cuts - I feel a baby boom coming on.............. :shock:
And Spider..........you really are a very bad boy :P
And there I thought all Marinas were good for was an very rapid "chemistry of corrosion" lesson. :roll:
And there I thought all Marinas were good for was an very rapid "chemistry of corrosion" lesson. :roll:
Ahhh yes - but BL listened to their customers and realised they had mad a dog of a car, so they spent a fortune with Bertoni to redesign the car and came up with the Ital - now there was a car!
All the same problems, but under an Italian designed body - almost like a Ferrari!
Spider1V - the TR7 looked so cool when it came out!
I found that putting wide alloys from a Lancia on the Marina improved its tendency to swap ends considerably but the consequence was that I drove it faster than the engine could cope with and I trashed 2 engines in less a year. Then I bought a Volkswagen and have never looked back. Yeah the TR7 looked cool but they were even more poorly assembled than a Skoda of the time.
I always reflect on the progress that Rover made from the P6, a very well built advanced design and the junk that was the SD1, where did we all go wrong? And the Range Rover, who on this forum has not considered at one time or other a Range Rover, I certainly have but have always been put off by reliability issues.
And the Range Rover, who on this forum has not considered at one time or other a Range Rover, I certainly have but have always been put off by reliability issues.
Before we got the G - we did a test on the TDV8 RR Vogue. Nice car, well appointed and we put down our £500 deposit. OK I was not to happy to lose 40% depreciation in the first year, but It was a RR. I had helped a mate who owned two Land Rover Experience sites and I was his designated RR Driver - so I know its capabilities.
But on paying our deposit, we were walking out just as a third RR TDV8 was being brought in on an AA low loader - screaming children and ratty mum, we also saw a really pi**ed of business man and a couple.
So we turned around and asked for our deposit back, which we got back once we showed the salesman the scene outside - he had no answer or glib comeback. We know a number of friends who have got the RR and almost all of them have had problems ad many of them will 'never again' look at them.
In their defense the drive and road manners are very good, well appointed inside and good ride height. But as one write up I read about the G - the thinking mans Range Rover!
Spider1V - One of the best car ever for me? 1986 Sirocco Storm
Jesus
prwales
Lancia
You have just named the only car that I know of that could out rust a Marina, and was, too boot, possibly even MORE unreliable
Scirocco storm, nice car, cosmos blue or havana brown, poor brakes though, I still have a 16v factory Scirocco in jade green which I have had for over 16 years, extraordinarily quick for its time and still quick today. The "alloys" were from a supercharged Lancia coupe and were aluminium not steel. Point taken though, I recall in the early 1980's a near new Fiat Miafiori which was badly rusted being driven around Swansea with the full details of the body anti rust warranty sign-written onto what was left of the paint work. A great act of retaliation!
We had a marina pick up when I was a kid. I thought it was a rust bucket coz dad used to drive in the sea with it to tow the boat up the beach - before he had a winch. obviously it would have rusted anyway, i'm glad he did not trash a good truck!!
That brings back another childhood memory, going to the beach in the back of the pick up, myself, 4 friends, 4 dogs and assorted dingies. for some reason you don't see kids in open backed vans these days........
TR7 :?: :?: TR6 much classier. - 'Uncle' Brendan had one, not really my uncle or anyone elses but we called him 'uncle' for some reason. Mad man used to lend it to me to drive to the pub :roll:
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We just all need a fusion reactor in our back gardens (one that you just need to chuck some limp cabbage leaves in to every couple of years to keep going) :lol: :lol:
Seriously IMHO we’re all stuffed until we can actually tap in to a cheap energy source.
Wood? Went in to a wood stove place before Christmas to get some spares for ours. They were sold out of stoves and had a 2 month waiting list. Where do these people think they are going to get the wood from? Unless you have a free source it’s got to be the most expensive fuel around.