Guest 713- Registered: 19 Mar 2011
- Posts: 342
My mum used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread butter on bread on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning..m
Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e... Coli
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake or at the beach instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
We all took PE ..... And risked permanent injury with a pair of Dunlop sandshoes instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors that cost as much as a small car. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.
We got the cane for doing something wrong at school, they used to call it discipline yet we all grew up to accept the rules and to honour & respect those older than us.
We had 30+ kids in our class and we all learned to read and write, do maths and spell almost all the words needed to write a grammatically correct letter......., FUNNY THAT!!
We all said prayers in school and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. We weren't!!
Oh yeah ... And where was the antibiotics and sterilisation kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
We played "King of the Hill" on piles of gravel left on vacant building sites and when we got hurt, mum pulled out the 2s bottle of iodine and then we got our backside spanked.
Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10 day dose of antibiotics and then mum calls the lawyer to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family.
How could we possibly have known that?
We never needed to get into group therapy and/or anger management classes.
We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!
How did we ever survive?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I c an remember being sent down the corner shop and getting an unwrapped loaf put in my bag without anyone checking it was clean. There was no "use by" dates then of course and I doubt that stomach upsets were any more prevalent then than now.
I feel sorry for children today with parents obsessed with the idea that paedophiles are around every corner, they have always been around but will only attack a lone child. As a kid when we went over the park a football match could be anything up to 15 a side.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
I agree so much with the last two posts
We were tough bunch and most of the time we were happy and content with our lot.
I will add we wore clothes that our parents chose and never complained as the item was something new, I do not remember choosing anything for myself until I went to work and paid for it.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
yep,they where the good old days...I remember my mother making meals out of left overs from the day before.no food wasted then.
Guest 1385- Registered: 27 Oct 2014
- Posts: 322
I wish I had kept some of my jeans with the knees holed. They call this fashion now.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Brian. I still make meals from left overs and the food my children sometimes waste really annoys me at times, especially if it is simply because of a sell by date.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
yes jan,mine are the same,its just shear wastefulness.
Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 595
Bread and dripping, how many eat that today, also brawn don't even see that today, let alone make it
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
I love bread and dripping and I had to order a pigs head from Clappers last time I made brawn as the pigs were no longer delivered with heads.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
Fish & chips wrapped in newspaper seemed to taste better somehow.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
bubble and squeak.
Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 509
There seems to be a mania for sterilising your house, then using all sorts of weird chemical combinations to make it, or your washing smell wonderful. I saw something for sale that had the fragrance of silk, and really couldn't work out what odour silk would have, assuming it was clean ! Then I realised that most of these products were coming from the usa, where it seems to be very important to have a 'lovely home', so in similar manner to most other american things, you can buy the smell of your 'lovely home' pre-packed so as not to offend your visitors' sensibilities with the smell of coffee, or bacon cooking.
That'll do, anti usa rant over for the day.
Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
- Posts: 637
The Black diamond fragrance for fabric softener has always amused me!
Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 595
I love the smell of fresh air in the washing that has been dried outside not in a drier
Guest 1385- Registered: 27 Oct 2014
- Posts: 322
As Sheila posted the smell of fresh air in the washing. Getting into a clean bed which has been dried on the line. Lovely
. Some people don't know how to use a washing line
Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 595
How many people do you see now cooking a fresh meal, home made Yorkshire puds, not Aunt Bessies, Roast Potatoes not frozen, fresh veg, and fresh meat again not frozen, bring back the days when a meals were made from scratch, today there is to much pampering going on, I will not buy potatoes if they have been washed,, I like to see dirt on them and know they are grown in soil