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When young savages are attacking emergency services doing their jobs there has to be a serious break down going on. When I was that age it would have been unthinkable.
When young savages are attacking emergency services doing their jobs there has to be a serious break down going on. When I was that age it would have been unthinkable.
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It all went wrong when the little loves were given human rights by the wonderful, wonderful pc brigade !!! You simply cannot chastise them these days and boy do they know it. I remember a few years ago when a friend had a teenager running wild, she was at her wits end and one day his Nan clipped him around the earhole after he had been particularly obnoxious and what...
15:54 Thu 28th Jun 2018
1st ABer:
Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?
2nd ABer:
In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea
3rd ABer:
A cup o' cold tea
1st ABer:
Without milk or sugar
3rd ABer:
Or tea
4th ABer:
In a cracked cup, an' all
1st ABer:
Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper
2nd ABer:
The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth
3rd ABer:
But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor
4th ABer:
Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son"
1st ABer:
Aye, 'e was right
4th ABer:
Aye, 'e was
1st ABer:
I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof
2nd ABer:
House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling
3rd ABer:
Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!
4th ABer:
Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh
1st ABer:
Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us
2nd ABer:
We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake
3rd ABer:
You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road
4th ABer:
Cardboard box?
3rd ABer:
Aye
4th ABer:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt
2nd ABer:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
3rd ABer:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife
1st ABer:
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah
4th ABer:
And you try and tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe you
ALL:
They won't!
Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?
2nd ABer:
In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea
3rd ABer:
A cup o' cold tea
1st ABer:
Without milk or sugar
3rd ABer:
Or tea
4th ABer:
In a cracked cup, an' all
1st ABer:
Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper
2nd ABer:
The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth
3rd ABer:
But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor
4th ABer:
Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son"
1st ABer:
Aye, 'e was right
4th ABer:
Aye, 'e was
1st ABer:
I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof
2nd ABer:
House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling
3rd ABer:
Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!
4th ABer:
Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh
1st ABer:
Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us
2nd ABer:
We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake
3rd ABer:
You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road
4th ABer:
Cardboard box?
3rd ABer:
Aye
4th ABer:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt
2nd ABer:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
3rd ABer:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife
1st ABer:
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah
4th ABer:
And you try and tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe you
ALL:
They won't!
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Mamy is right you can start your own one man band business anywhere Spath, and people should. I know of plenty of people who have managed it from stately homes to sinkhole housing estates with little kids to bring up. There is something EVERYONE can do or is good at, just do it, eventually something works.
I think it's a bit unfair on spath to expect him to know what life was like years ago.
I remember the 50s when on leaving school you could walk into a job almost immediately. The three tier school system catered for all abilities . Grammar school kids either stayed on to do A-levels and Uni. or left at sixteen to pursue their chosen career. The Secondary Modern leavers went into Nursing, hairdressing ,office work amongst numerous other occupations. The Technical College leavers moved into electrical, building, catering and other apprenticeships . At least that's how it was in our area (Lancs). The mill and factory jobs paid the most money and even without any exams under your belt there were plenty of jobs available. No benefits back then. After doing a full days work most would be too tired to go rampaging around at night. Not that they would have been allowed to.
Now what have the youth of today got to look forward to. No jobs ,not even for some of the students with degrees . A large majority seem to spend their time lounging around all day. Drugs and alcohol.Disregard for law and order . No work ethic( why should they when the State will provide?Gang culture, knife and gun crime. Attacks on old people in their own homes.And so it goes on and on.
The most disturbing fact about some of the youth of today is that in a few years time they will be parents of the future generation.
I remember the 50s when on leaving school you could walk into a job almost immediately. The three tier school system catered for all abilities . Grammar school kids either stayed on to do A-levels and Uni. or left at sixteen to pursue their chosen career. The Secondary Modern leavers went into Nursing, hairdressing ,office work amongst numerous other occupations. The Technical College leavers moved into electrical, building, catering and other apprenticeships . At least that's how it was in our area (Lancs). The mill and factory jobs paid the most money and even without any exams under your belt there were plenty of jobs available. No benefits back then. After doing a full days work most would be too tired to go rampaging around at night. Not that they would have been allowed to.
Now what have the youth of today got to look forward to. No jobs ,not even for some of the students with degrees . A large majority seem to spend their time lounging around all day. Drugs and alcohol.Disregard for law and order . No work ethic( why should they when the State will provide?Gang culture, knife and gun crime. Attacks on old people in their own homes.And so it goes on and on.
The most disturbing fact about some of the youth of today is that in a few years time they will be parents of the future generation.
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