Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Time to dust this down again.


We were the lucky ones !!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN the 1930's, 40's, 50's, and 60's.
WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER!"

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, and 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 d idn'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 OK. 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 riverbeds 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 In ternet or Internet chat rooms.......... WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cuts, 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 because we didn't need to keep up with the Jones's!

Not everyone made the rugby/football/cricket/net ball 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 threw the blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren't concentrating.
We can s tring 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!
　
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".
Tell all this to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

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This thread is beginning to resemble the groans in a geriatric ward.

"beginning to" !

How so so true and wonderfully written brings a few of those wet things ddripping from the old eye.

Makes a change for a political broadcast for the Ffing Labour Party though eh, Prick!

skinny you are correct again ,
i am 65 fit as a fiddle and have been out this morning and have cleared
8 drives they are in there 80s
all these paths covered in snow and all the lazy people on the dole
the gov need to stop this put them on snow duty and if they fail to work stop there money you would soon find out who do not want work

Hope the eh, Prick was not referring to me chris carson.

Health and safety experts warn: don't clear icy pavements, you could get sued

the left wing LABOUR party have fcuked the uk
but just look at them BLAIR KINOCKS MANDLESON AND LOADS MORE MILLIONAIRES now they are just blantant liars

we never want a fcuking labour party again
vote UKIP now pushing 29% by the election 55%
the uk people are waking up to a EU that is destroying the country
CAMERON HESLTINE HOY CLEGGS FAMILY GET MILLIONS EVER YEAR
FROM LANDSUBIDES FROM THE EU

you can not be sued for clearing snow it is a load of toss .
check the regulations

go to your local council offices they will all be cleared of snow that is the works fisrt
task of the day

Under current legislation, householders and companies open themselves up to legal action if they try to clear a public pavement outside their property. If they leave the path in a treacherous condition, they cannot be sued.

3m There is only one Prick on here, clue begins with F and ends in New.

Sorry Tanker but one can ger sued - we think we can help - check the regulations and believe me it beggars belief.

DC - try editing your last post lol! ..... we know what you're trying to say, and in principle your are correct, the emphasis being on the word "public", but probably a difficult charge to make stick unless you were shown to have sprayed it with water or something equally stupid

A funny story a few years back of a burglar breaking into a house and got badly burnt on the gas outlet from the house involved. The Pipe did not have a wire cover fixed over it. The owners were taken to court and lost, had to pay compensation to the thief. lol there you go.

Let's get everyones BP up.

Ridiculous compensation culture claims and pay-outs burden on tourist attractions

dream remember that case
if you read the regulation it says if you make it worse by building up the snow on the path to block other users which would be silly to do

There's a nursing home just down the road from me - one of the nurses walked through the snow for an hour to get to work. I put a lot of the blame on the councils who will not spend the money on gritting the roads properly. Thirty years ago not only did the main roads get gritted, the side roads and pavements were also gritted. This country seems to have unlimited amounts of money to spend on foreign aid, but not enough money to keep our own country functioning properly when we have a few inches of snow.