For all you over 35s read this

roddypoddy said:
I loved making those sort of go karts,spent many a summer searching the bomb pecks for old prams and floorboards.
But carpet,we never even had carpet in our house.:p
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lol well at least you had good wood. i did one with chipboard and as you can imagine it fell apart pretty quickly, bolt through the chassis to the steering strut? sheered off at speed, needed bigger washers looking back now. heh that one had a nice cool green carpet :p

ooo adventure playgrounds lol sooo dangerous mates used to break limbs in them! :eek:
 
roddypoddy said:
I loved making those sort of go karts,spent many a summer searching the bomb pecks for old prams and floorboards.
But carpet,we never even had carpet in our house.:p
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We did, but only in the living room, landing and bedrooms. The stairs has some, but only in the middle and the rest was painted white.

Lino in the hall, kitchen and bathroom.:p

I remember playing War, with old bits of wood and stuff as guns in the woods out back. I also remember the huge slide that was taller than our house in the old Rec. It had a wooden hut thing on the top and you climbed up these steps and then climbed over the hut to sit on its roof, if you fell it was bare concrete at the bottom.:eek:

There was a huge rocking horse as well, you could get 10 kids on it and go mental, making it stand right up and leaping off.

All taken away and banned as too dangerous now though.
 
[TW]Fox;16888449 said:
Yea, totally man. Nobody had pizza until 1986! You also had to walk 20 miles to school IN THE SNOW.
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I walked 2 miles to school on my own each day.
And as I was born in the late 50s and no there was no pizza places and no crapdonalds or places like that thank god.
 
Richiev4 said:
I think what we are getting at here is that with all the government interference is it really any better?

Rich
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I'd disagree with the 'all the government interference'...looking at the OP I think most of what is in there is down to parenting rather than the nonsense the papers keep spouting about the nanny state. What little government interference that there is, imo, a good thing - is the post really arguing against seat belts?

Also, is it me or is the first post basically saying 'Our parents were better at parenting than we are'?
 
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A lot of truth there- born in '64, played in the local woods, built camps, went for long cycle rides into the countryside and never heard of such a thing as a paedophile.

I feel sorry for kids now with the lack of the freedoms I enjoyed, and the disappearance of the open spaces where you could just run about without upsetting anyone or breaking umpteen byelaws.
 
[TW]Fox;16888449 said:
Yea, totally man. Nobody had pizza until 1986! You also had to walk 20 miles to school IN THE SNOW.
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Nope, I only walked 3 miles (EDIT: just checked 2.3 miles) to school since you ask, snow or not. Sometimes only to be sent home again because of said snow.
And you may have "totally man" had McDonalds if you lived in London (although I don't believe this was the case), I didn't see pizza or McDonalds until I was about 15, and I live in a reasnably sized town. :p
Nice that the omnipotent [TW]Fox knows better than the people that were actually there. You can Google all you want, but you don't know because you weren't there.

(EDIT:you think your first post wasn't trolling? :eek: )
 
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dmpoole said:
Apparently there are no more paedophiles now than there was back then, it just wasn't reported.
Of course we never heard the word paedophile because they were called dirty old men or kiddy ticklers.
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We called then nonces. We weren't scared of them either, we just threw eggs and poo at them, knocked on their doors and ran away and stuff.

They may not have actually been paedophiles mind.;)
 
Castiel said:
We called then nonces. We weren't scared of them either, we just threw eggs and poo at them, knocked on their doors and ran away and stuff.

They may not have actually been paedophiles mind.;)
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So it was you was it? :mad:
I've got thirty years of poo to throw back at you and I've been storing it all in a George Foreman grill to keep it nice and warm. REVENGE on you darn kids!
 
When i was a lad i walked 20 miles to school did 14 hours in pit, my dad would meet me for lunch, throttle me with his belt and make me walk 30 miles to the mill, set his wippet on me then throttle me with a lump of coal and an orange. I never had it so good.

I do remember the epic storm of 87 and school being closed and all of us playing on the fallen oak and chestnut trees in the streets, with firemen just chainsawing them up 4 feet away.
 
Castiel said:
The thing I really miss is Rissoles, I used to love them when I was a kid and now you can't get them anywhere. Shame.
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my parents still make them,usually on a monday using the leftovers from the sunday roast. they're fairly easy to make.

i think this is the recipe

Mix mash potato and your chosen meat/veg

dip in egg

cover with bread crumbs

fry it in a frying pan

then stick it in the oven.
 
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