ITS NO JOKE

[citronut]

someone sent me this


: Bring back any memories?

Someone asked me the other day, 'What was your favourite 'fast food' when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.
'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called "home", I explained.
'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'

By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.

But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I'd figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, or wore jeans, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card.

My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).

We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 pm, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 6 pm. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people...

I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line...

Pizzas were not delivered to our home.. But milk was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --My brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.

Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost anything offensive.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend:

My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it... I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.

How many do you remember?

Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.
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Older Than Dirt Quiz:

Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.

1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5.. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.. (There were only 2 channels [if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with levers
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14.. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-3 = You’re still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age
If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient!

I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends....I just did!!!!!!!!!

(PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily)


regards malcolm

[myglaren]

1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5.. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.. (There were only 2 channels [if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with levers
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14.. Wash tub wringers

All of the above

[addo]

I scored 11 out of 14 in that "poll".

Interestingly I was arguing with my mother the other day about children who harm themselves after protracted cyber-bullying. She was of the opinion they should HTFU. My contention was that because they had nil (or negligible) exposure to life in a more rough-and-tumble environment, there was basically no other sense of reality they could use as a foil to reason against.

[CitroJim]

1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5.. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.. (There were only 2 channels [if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with levers
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14.. Wash tub wringers

All of the above

Me too

[Xaccers]

Apparently I'm ancient...

I think you're right Addo, Danielle and I lament at some of the young kids today, with their lack of imagination and risk averse parents (or is it just easier to keep your kid indoors glued to the gogglebox?).
Take my niece for instance, she's had an ipod touch since before she was 3, my sister posted on Facebook last year that she didn't actually have any toys.
She's a bright kid, and may turn out OK in spite of these things, but with her dad being a huge Apple fan, I sometimes wonder

Our kids, if we're lucky enough to have some, will have books, and puzzles, stickle brix, duplo and lego. Mr Men cartoons to go with the books, Bagpus, Button Moon, Fingerbobs, Disney (mostly the old stuff), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Little Prince, and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (the good version with Gene Wilder).
They'll be taken to the park and on picnics, caravaning in the new forest, rockpooling in Cornwall. Kite flying will be a must (though not in low cloud up a mountain surrounded by unseen pylons like one time when I was a kid. Well, my parents say they didn't know the pylons were there, but then they used to let me swim in the Red Sea for hours on my own so maybe they weren't that keen on me...)
When they're old enough to go out and play on their own, they'd better come back covered in mud, that's what washing machines are for (and play clothes).
I want them to make rope swings like I did as a kid, or dam up streams and build dens.
The problem will be, will their friends want to do any of that? I remember some of my friends didn't want to do anything other than sit in their bedroom watching TV.

[lexi]

Remember the lot.
Didn't have any bike for school ......we walked happily. Our chip shop had a lemonade bottle with vinegar in it
and holes pierced in top of bottle. I had 4 houses with shared outside toilets. You could pass a neighbour at 11 pm as you went in and he went out.

An old bus used to come and park up and this was the barbers for the day. Bookies "runners" would stand in the back courts and take bets.
Sometimes singers would come round the back courts and if they were any good they got coins thrown out of windows.If they were bad the coins got heated in oven so that their fingers got burned when they picked them up.

Women went to washhouses to do the washing. They could be seen loading prams up and proudly parading their clean washing along street. They went for gossip and company too. They hung their carpets out on a line and beat them with cane carpet beater. The fire brigade would come round and fine you if your chimney caught fire. Lamplighters came round to light the gas lighting in close. They had a tiny ladder and carried it in unmistakable style with full uniform and hat.

Rag and bone men journeyed in horse and cart. They always blew a bugle and kids would get excited like a strange Landrover had entered a remote African village. `

TV repair men always came in to house with a doctors bag full of spare valves and soldering iron. To us these guys were Gods as we all sat in the gloom .
waiting for telly to be fixed. We let up a huge roar when it came back on as though we were on a castaway island and had just seen a ship

In Glasgows Gorbals I remember mothers would throw jam sandwiches out of windows in a wrapper to their kids.
When a baby got Christened and the couple walked home from Church with the baby wrapped in it's fancy gear the couple would stop the first kid they met. They would receive a Christening biscuit and a half crown........that was serious pocket money. It was a "luck" thing and it happened to me twice as a 5year old........probably cos I was never in

I wont go on!

[citronut]

my parents say they didn't know the pylons were there, but then they used to let me swim in the Red Sea for hours on my own so maybe they weren't that keen on me...)

When they're old enough to go out and play on their own,

what your parent Xac

regards malcolm

[Xaccers]

my parents say they didn't know the pylons were there, but then they used to let me swim in the Red Sea for hours on my own so maybe they weren't that keen on me...)

When they're old enough to go out and play on their own,

what your parent Xac

regards malcolm

My parents still can't be trusted out on their own

[Citroenmad]

I remember two ... Milk bottles were still being delivered up until about 7 years ago by an electric float. We still have a Hi-Fi in the living room, though thats just what we call it, its really a modern thing

Though I am young-ish

No doubt more to add onto that list would be Ice on the inside of house windows, a bath tub in the kitchen, self-made clothes, back streets, people leaving bikes unattended and cars with keys inside ... My parents keep me up to date with the past

[addo]

Lexi, a mate grew up not far from you. Aside from most of what you added, his mother used to ride a bike to their allotment - and the locals would throw rocks at her... Oh, and he said the paper run was a "run" because if you stopped too long you'd get attacked or challenged for a fight.

[Xaccers]

Some kid would regularly try and attack me on my paper round, once with an axe!

[xmexclusive]

A tick every box for me as well and some.
Just too different compared to today to want to think hard about it.

John

[CitroJim]

TV repair men always came in to house with a doctors bag full of spare valves and soldering iron. To us these guys were Gods as we all sat in the gloom .
waiting for telly to be fixed. We let up a huge roar when it came back on as though we were on a castaway island and had just seen a ship

My first job Indeed, people were so happy when the one-eyed monster worked again and I so remember the feeling of doom when the fault was too big for home repair and the poor telly had to go back to the workshop for repair. We used to carry loan sets to alleviate some of the grief...

Imagine a fault on a colour telly in those days, gosh they were fearsome beasts, which needed it to go to telly hospital and the loan set was a manky old 405 line black and white set Some were not best pleased... Later we had loan colour sets for our best customers...

Some people treated their tellies almost like they were a priceless piece of antique furniture and they almost revered them. Polished to the hilt (wooden cabinets) with cloth runners, doilies and certainly the centre-piece of the room.

Some houses were not nice to visit. When you left footprints in carpets you just knew that wherever the fault was, it was going back to base so we could be out of there ASAP. Then the bloody set, being so filthy, would stink the van (and workshop) out

Happy memories...

[citronut]

i spoz the first and formost thing to add to the list should be
common courtesy as the link below

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... 20Courtesy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

regards malcolm