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DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?
It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a a shilling was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore stockings that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore ties and female teachers had
their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and petrol pumped,
without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air?
Cereals had free toys hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a year if they failed. . .and they did?
When a 57 Holden was everyone's dream car
No one ever asked where the car keys were
because they were always in the car,
in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a "
and playing footy with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the shop came without safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once,
you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace,
and share it with the children of today
smudgley
06-12-2005, 04:10 PM
:cry:
I love reading things like that - but it makes me sad that society is the way it is now. I often wish my kids could go back in time 20 years & see what my chilhood was all about:cool:
*sigh* Yes - to most of those, but I don't know what a 57 Holden is/was.
I do remember b/w tellies and one that had only 2 buttons on top of the set; tuning and volume. The buttons were under a flap the you pressed and when if flipped up the TV came on . . . slowly :-D it had little splayed out, screw-in spindly legs like so much else 50s furniture.
Thats the difference, we had a real childhood, Kids nowadays don't have half the freedon we had!!!
smudgley
06-12-2005, 04:14 PM
Thats the difference, we had a real childhood, Kids nowadays don't have half the freedon we had!!!
True Mol & so sad :cry:
Unfortunately I remember most of those too.......oh what the kids of today are missing out on!
dinahsmum
06-12-2005, 04:27 PM
.....and do you remember how the pic on the telly always slipped top to bottom....except sometimes when it went side to side instead? And you had knobs to stop it?
Ah..............
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......and if something went wrong with it, you had to give it a sharp thump!!:roll: :lol:
Yup - I was the telly thumper in our house (coz parents couldn't be bothered to get out of chairs ;) :-D ;) )
I remember the test card on the tv!!!
....and Coronation Street in black & white:roll:
dinahsmum
06-12-2005, 05:02 PM
.....and the potter's wheel
Andy Pandy and Bill & Ben,&The wooden tops....
dinahsmum
06-12-2005, 05:32 PM
....and Rag, Tag and Bobtail (Thursdays) but not Picture Book - didn't like her!
What about OMO soap powder??
.....and Tide (and sore hands!!)
I would like to take the kids back to my childhood. we had respect for our parents.. we had respect for older people..we had Hitler bombing our chip shops.. we spent nights in anderson shelters.ah well life moves on
I would like to take the kids back to my childhood. we had respect for our parents.. we had respect for older people..we had Hitler bombing our chip shops.. we spent nights in anderson shelters.ah well life moves on
I agree John..some fond memories but some not so fond :(
I think im just showing my age
I think im just showing my age..
Respect is the biggest loss over the years:roll:
Donna
06-12-2005, 11:28 PM
Respect is the biggest loss over the years:roll:
So true there Mags:(
Donna, where has your avatar gone?:?
Donna
06-12-2005, 11:31 PM
Donna, where has your avatar gone?:?
I can see it on my pc! Can everyone not see it there?
its a word that should be taught in schools.with the meaning of course
I can see it on my pc! Can everyone not see it there?I can see it Donna, you got gremlins again Mags???
I can see it on my pc! Can everyone not see it there?
I can't see it either Donna :(
dinahsmum
06-12-2005, 11:35 PM
I can see it(!?!?)
its a word that should be taught in schools.with the meaning of course
I agree John but kids need to learn by experience and example too and repect is something that doesn't seem to get a look in in children's upbringings these days :?
Donna
06-12-2005, 11:35 PM
Oh how does that work then? Some of you can see it, I can see it, but some of you cant!!
HELP PLEASE!!!!!:?
There's just a little red cross in the box here:shock:
dinahsmum
06-12-2005, 11:37 PM
There's just a little red cross in the box here:shock:
It must be poorly!
I can see it(!?!?)
:smt017 Both Mags and I must have the gremlins then :shock:
All I can see is a little red x and words Donna avatar but no piccie :?
It must be poorly!:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I can see it Donna, you got gremlins again Mags???
Don't tell me it's my fault again Moli!:mad: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I can see it, who else can see it???
:smt017 Both Mags and I must have the gremlins then :shock:
All I can see is a little red x and words Donna avatar but no piccie :?
Same here Fran:roll:
looks alright to me Donna
I can see it, who else can see it???
:cat11 I can't see it :(
Donna
06-12-2005, 11:40 PM
I am all confused!!
I am all confused!!Don't worry about it Donna, it's easy to get confused on here:roll: :lol: :lol: :lol: I am sure it's Mags's gremlins she lets them loose now and then:roll: :-D
Donna, I have your avatar back!! :smt026 :smt026 :smt026
Mags will you keep those gremlins of yours under control :roll:
I can see it now.......it just popped back on....wonder if Fran can see it too:?
Donna, I have your avatar back!! :smt026 :smt026 :smt026
Mags will you keep those gremlins of yours under control :roll:
I've locked them back in the cellar Fran:-D
Ooops posted at the same time Mags :-D
It's all the excitement on here tonight Fran!!!
Donna
06-12-2005, 11:56 PM
I am glad you have all put your gremlins away. Next time dont attack a novice as it scared me!!! Didnt know what to do!!! Thought I had pressed a wrong button!!!!
:p :p :p
I am glad you have all put your gremlins away. Next time dont attack a novice as it scared me!!! Didnt know what to do!!! Thought I had pressed a wrong button!!!!
:p :p :pYou will get used to Mags Donna, she is quite harmless really:roll: :-D
Donna
06-12-2005, 11:58 PM
You will get used to Mags Donna, she is quite harmless really:roll: :-D
I should of been warned!!!!:-D :-D :-D
It's all the excitement on here tonight Fran!!!
:roll: :roll: :roll: :-D
I am glad you have all put your gremlins away. Next time dont attack a novice as it scared me!!! Didnt know what to do!!! Thought I had pressed a wrong button!!!!
:p :p :p
:lol: @ Donna, you'll soon get used to Mags and her gremlins Donna oh and her senior moments :roll:
Donna
07-12-2005, 12:01 AM
Sounds very entertaining :p
You will get used to Mags Donna, she is quite harmless really:roll:
:-D
Moli locks me up at certain times:roll: :roll:
:lol: @ Donna, you'll soon get used to Mags and her gremlins Donna oh and her senior moments :roll::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Donna
07-12-2005, 12:03 AM
Moli locks me up at certain times:roll: :roll:
I think its cos you need a rest sometimes. Think it all gets a bit too much for you!!! Take it easy and have a lie down with a strong drink!:lol:
I think its cos you need a rest sometimes. Think it all gets a bit too much for you!!! Take it easy and have a lie down with a strong drink!:lol:You have Mags sussed already Donna, don't worry PK and I keep her in line!!!:roll: :-D
I think its cos you need a rest sometimes. Think it all gets a bit too much for you!!! Take it easy and have a lie down with a strong drink!:lol:
But I don't drink Donna:(
:shock: must be all that wiskey when you made that cake :lol:
I can remember not having a fridge, we had a larder, you put your milk on the windowcill at night, doors were never locked. We went out in the morning to play and came back when it was getting dark. We didnt have mobile's we didnt need them. We played on rope swings over the burn, went out on our "big" brothers bikes that they had out grown but painted another colour and no one laughed.
God this had made me realised how much time has changes and most certainly not for the better.
TV it was black and white and only really posh people had phones, some even shared the line!
alexgirl73
11-03-2007, 04:06 PM
Good grief this is an old thread! Not seen this one before! I remember when........
we lived in the tenamant blocks in Glasgow, and we played in the middens after school (the old stone bin shelters to those not in the know, lol), they were our dens, our gyms and our hidey holes! We shouted up to our mums to fling us a piece out if we were hungry. We played with scooshie bottles in the summer (empty washing up liquid bottles filled with water), we used the putty from newly fitted windows in the school as plasticine! We stayed out all day on our bikes, ran riot round the city streets, but never got up to anything bad. We gave up our seats on the bus to old ladies. Us girls played at the entrance to the 'close' with our dolls. We played marbles on the stanks!!(drain covers). Oh I could go on all day, what stifled lives our children lead!
................ and cats were fed on scraps from the table instead of tins of cat food! :shock:
This really does bring it all back eh?
We jumped the burn or the stank (river or ditch) mostly missed it.
and that was "bad" to come home covered in mud!
We camped out in the back garden with palls in the summer.
We had a field day just being kids.
My 5 year old wanted to know how babies got in your tummy yesterday! Shows you how things have changed.:roll:
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