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If you were born before 1970

chas_41_uk

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If you were born before 1970. Does it ring any bells?

WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER!!

“And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993″!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940’s, 50’s, and 60’s

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, 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 didn’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 O.K.

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 river beds 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 Internet or Internet chat rooms………..

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, 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/netball 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 throw the blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren’t concentrating.

We can string 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.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.


Of course, personally I’m FAR too young to remember any of this……..or could it be I’ve forgotten……!!!!!!!!!!

PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age anymore.
 

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Real butter, are you avin a larf, it was margarine or dripping. I do remember getting hit with a blackboard rubber right on my eyebrow and when I told my dad I got a good leathering before I could tell him that it was meant for the lad behind me. I broke my leg whilst playing on a moving steam roller and the driver, when challenged by me mam, gave me 10 bob, so that was okay.

Peter
 

Jim

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I recall taking back the pop bottles and buying Bazooka bubble gum .. :goesred:
 

Terry Q

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Born 1950 oldest of 6. Grew up on a farm. 160 acres. Dad raised dairy and beef cattle also a few hogs. In the summer I lived bare footed and stepped in a lot of "stuff". Drank fresh milk every day. Mom cooked with lard. Breakfast was bacon and eggs every day. Sodas were a special treat. We got ice cream in a 5 gallon container brought by the man who picked up the milk. House walls were not insulted bedroom was extremely cold in the winter, hot in the summer. Worked hard and played hard, raised by God fearing, loving parents. Wouldn't trade that for anything.
 

Indie Shed

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Aye there's loads of things they had then they don't have today, rickets, diphtheria and all your heads painted purple cos you had ringworm!
 

Jimjam66

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I sort of squeaked into this one, born in the '60s. i well remember being painted purple for any excuse - er, reason. How sad you can't buy Gentian Violet/Mercurochrome anymore ...

:funny::funny::funny:
 

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Blackjacks were four for a penny..Yep a 1d coin as big as your hand..

Wagon wheels were bigger definitely.

We climbed trees and fell out or jumped because it was quicker.

Which meant scuffed kness, and TCP then Zambuk

We walked to school or caught a bus to be picked up by your Nan, no chelsea tractors parked double deep outside school

Dr Who wasn't as good though

And we had a winning football team. MOT

And I remember driving my first vehicle a MK1 Escort van , and petrol was 37 1/2 pence a gallon, not 113.9 pence for a bloody litre, and whats 0.9 of a pence, do I have to shave 10% off a 1p coin.

Good and bad times, power strikes, coal miners out, car workers out, steel workers out, bin men out, not much left of these industries now.

Can't wait to retire I want to be a grown up kid again, none of this pain in the bum working lark.
 
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