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I think this sums up Modern Life -
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We would play football every single day, from just playing kirby on the streets to knocking the ball about in our local courts. Before the courts opened we would just jump over fence and play in our school yard. Played cricket every Sunday’s for local team uptill under 17s and had training once a week. Was pretty occupied and everything was pretty much physical based.
Whilst sega, ps1, ps2 etc were popular back then too, much less time faffing about with digital stuff.
Kids in our family now are just constantly on their tablets, Youtube etc. No where near the amount of physical activities we were doing at their age but with that said we don’t really allow them to be as free as we used to be. For example we won’t allow them to go to the courts / park alone, even if playing in the streets you have one eye on them and call them in after about an hour. Where as us after school we would be out playing for hours and would get back in before 7-8 but still left us with plenty of time.
Whilst sega, ps1, ps2 etc were popular back then too, much less time faffing about with digital stuff.
Kids in our family now are just constantly on their tablets, Youtube etc. No where near the amount of physical activities we were doing at their age but with that said we don’t really allow them to be as free as we used to be. For example we won’t allow them to go to the courts / park alone, even if playing in the streets you have one eye on them and call them in after about an hour. Where as us after school we would be out playing for hours and would get back in before 7-8 but still left us with plenty of time.
I had 16 days in university hospital of North Durham with a typical pneumonia. There's next to no mobile signal so browsing the Web barely worked, none of the TV things over the bed worked and I had 3 bed moves, you could barely pick up a radio signal too. In the end I got my parents to buy me a portable dvd player, maybe after a week of thinking that I'll be out tomorrow.
That period was the most depressing of my life and I quickly came to the conclusion that if the worse came to the worse I don't want to die in a hospital or hospice and fully intend to end my days myself, preferably outdoors.
I think this sums up Modern Life -
A healthy human body will never have those negative reactions, especially to essential foods like milk and bread with gluten.
Places like social clubs were more popular when I was younger I remember my dad taking me to one by his house. Also as a kid tablets etc wasn’t about but I did have a NES and mega drives that was cool for the time but I did spend most my time down our bmx track jumping/ hurting myself
You can't carry a normal book with you but you can carry a Kindle?
Pretty much what I said!
A Kindle slips inside my back pocket in jeans, my dressing gown and most jackets I own, books not so much.
Aren't some people in the world intolerant to milk simply because their ancestors didn't farm cows? Probably similar for wheat I guess.
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I read something somewhere where they were saying humans shouldn’t really be drinking the milk of other animals in fact are the only species to do so and the only species to continue drinking milk into adulthood.
Yup, basically milk is a white person/Northern European thing, especially British(I think we've got the lowest intolerance to it). Asian and African's can't handle it so well presumably as they've not been consuming it over so many generations.
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Utter tripe.
Have you the remotest idea what you are saying?
So that's 4 BILLION otherwise healthy people who do not agree with you.
Why the lolz.
We put cow milk in cakes, as I said we make cheese, yogurt with it, etc... You obviously know nothing about the milk
In coffee yes, in tea no.
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People used to go out to meet other people in real life, they'd play board games, read, etc etc.
The main difference with me is that I watch TV/film more than reading these days, although I do always have a book on the go.
The main difference with me is that I watch TV/film more than reading these days, although I do always have a book on the go.
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The other way around, you monster!
LOLs, there is so much to do on this plant besides the things you mentioned. Sadly it took me many, many years to realise that pursuing those things was a waste of my life.
TV - mostly a load of crap.
Social media - entirely crap.
Gaming - this is fun but not exactly satisfying or fulfilling (spoken as a life-long gamer)
Tablet/Phone - aren't these just gateways to the above...?
Frankly there are many, many people where I live who apparently would rather stare at their phone than avoid being run over... I'm amazed that they aren't being knocked down in their thousands... but mostly that's due to drivers compensating for pedestrian phone-induced zombie-trance.
And it's mostly just bloomin' Facebook updates their worrying about... madness.
But yeah... there is a literally endless amount of things to learn... to become interested in... to excel at... to experience. Knowledge is infinite, seemingly. The 'net is great for delivering information about countless subjects. Or you can use it to follow the antics of some silly celebrity. Your call, man.
Just don't say that there's nothing to do except TV/games/whatever.
I think this sums up Modern Life -
I'm not sure that's true (that we're more stressed).
I think it's more accurate to say that we have much more time to think about ourselves - to worry about how stressed we are - and that we've become far more self-interested than previous generations.
Just imho.