gnasher16 31,489 Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 Theres too much of a blame culture in todays society....too many folk blame things on drugs,blame it on society,blame it on your parents.....f**k me your a kid for 15 years your an adult for about 60 !.....if by your mid twenties your not getting a grip of life and an understanding of right and wrong then YOU are to blame.... I was brought up with f**k all as a kid in the 60,s in a very poor part of London,that dont give you an excuse as an adult to be a shitbag,if i was ever a shitbag its because i was wrong,me....not my parents or poverty or whatever other excuses folk like to pull out the air. People need to take responsibility for their actions....do right you get praised,do wrong you get punished its quite a simple choice to make,make a decision live with your decision.......regardless of what decade your brought up in. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stanleigh 135 Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 I,m not a sociologist ,I don,t know who ,what or if anyone is to blame for todays social problems , but I do know that my childhood was more fun ,more active and more character forming than what masquerades as a childhood nowdays. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
keeper 51 78 Posted April 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 I'm a 90's kid and can hapilly say I experienced the go cart building, bike riding, camping, fishing and that lot aswell! Best times of my life! Butch nice to hear that mate there still hope out there then best of luck with your new job mike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
paulus 26 Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 Theres too much of a blame culture in todays society....too many folk blame things on drugs,blame it on society,blame it on your parents.....f**k me your a kid for 15 years your an adult for about 60 !.....if by your mid twenties your not getting a grip of life and an understanding of right and wrong then YOU are to blame.... I was brought up with f**k all as a kid in the 60,s in a very poor part of London,that dont give you an excuse as an adult to be a shitbag,if i was ever a shitbag its because i was wrong,me....not my parents or poverty or whatever other excuses folk like to pull out the air. People need to take responsibility for their actions....do right you get praised,do wrong you get punished its quite a simple choice to make,make a decision live with your decision.......regardless of what decade your brought up in. the estate i was brought up on was as rough as they come back then yes it had its problems alcholisum being preverlant but other factors like unemployment ect all played a part but all in all it was a safe envioronment for for adults and kids, now its the complete opposite and this is squarely down to drugs and there cudos. as for passing the blame, the blame lies squarely at the authoritys feet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
keeper 51 78 Posted April 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 Theres too much of a blame culture in todays society....too many folk blame things on drugs,blame it on society,blame it on your parents.....f**k me your a kid for 15 years your an adult for about 60 !.....if by your mid twenties your not getting a grip of life and an understanding of right and wrong then YOU are to blame.... I was brought up with f**k all as a kid in the 60,s in a very poor part of London,that dont give you an excuse as an adult to be a shitbag,if i was ever a shitbag its because i was wrong,me....not my parents or poverty or whatever other excuses folk like to pull out the air. People need to take responsibility for their actions....do right you get praised,do wrong you get punished its quite a simple choice to make,make a decision live with your decision.......regardless of what decade your brought up in. well put mate 100 % agree if you do the crime take the punishment :hmm:the only problem i have is the punishment should fit the crime mike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
undisputed 1,664 Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER !! "And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993"!!! CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS 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. mike So true most kids these days havn't climbed a tree the worlds upside down Quote Link to post Share on other sites
secretagentmole 1,701 Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 When I was a kid I got a Hornby set for Christmas and could not my hands on it till new years day (father and uncles decided to recreate BR), the best prezzie was a Scalextrix as 2 had to play! TV actually shut down at nights, no 24 hour crap and there were only 3 channels! Furthermore my middle school maths teacher could turn any piece of chalk into an exocet missile, deadly at close range. We were taught to show respect to our elders, that way we would earn respect ourselves. Police were figures of authority not ridicule. I spent hours fishing, gathering seafood (cockles, shrimps, edible crabs, samphire), cycling all over the place, shooting air rifles, ferreting, being a cub and a scout, having a job when I was 14 until I left school! Was too damned busy to get into trouble! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ideation 8,217 Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 If all this is true, then how come there was any crime, or any social problems in years gone by, as it appears everyone was climbing trees and skipping through summer meadows Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lonedigga 23 Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 Might seem obvious,But who else thinks t'internet has a lot to answer for Although the parents should be in control of this..I've spent about 12hrs over the last couple of days sorting out my sis in laws garden after her o/h f****d off cos the lazy b*****d hadn't bothered to cut the grass for years..What really pissed me off was the fact that her own kids sat in the house f****n about on the net While my 2 boys where helping me.Not slagging their mother off as she works full time then comes home and does everything for them aged 16,15 and 13 so her only fault is that she's too soft on the lazy twats Quote Link to post Share on other sites
keeper 51 78 Posted April 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 If all this is true, then how come there was any crime, or any social problems in years gone by, as it appears everyone was climbing trees and skipping through summer meadows Because all us oldies were goodies and never got caught doing anything wrong at least not more than once :vava: and we took it on the chin or the arse and made sure we did not get caught next time mike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
undisputed 1,664 Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 If all this is true, then how come there was any crime, or any social problems in years gone by, as it appears everyone was climbing trees and skipping through summer meadows There was still crime but the neds got sent to Borstal or YO not slapped on the wrist like now....I bet before the Internet you wrote to news papers complaining and signed it angry from Wales Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stanleigh 135 Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 If all this is true, then how come there was any crime, or any social problems in years gone by, as it appears everyone was climbing trees and skipping through summer meadows Different days , different crimes , no smack heads , no drug wars , plenty of poverty ,but to escape most people worked hard , as youngsters we weren,t hell bent on making other peoples lives a misery as seems to be the case today .ATB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
secretagentmole 1,701 Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 If all this is true, then how come there was any crime, or any social problems in years gone by, as it appears everyone was climbing trees and skipping through summer meadows Skipping through summer meadows? Bu99er that, I used to walk behind the combines in the fields with a big stick, as did a load of my friends, then when a rabbit was scared out by the combine we would deliver a little tap behind it's head (make that damned great whack), had many a rabbit that way, mind you with health and safety now that would not happen, not to mention the fact that combines are now a ruddy site faster! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Attack Fell Terrier 864 Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 And who put that original piece together? Some miserable old f*cker by the sounds of it. There is some truth too it and some of the laws in place today are pathetic, Just yesterday I was in the Bookies and told the woman to sort the light out in the toilets, she told me that the bulb needs changing and that they can't do nothing because of health and safety and that they need an Electrician to come in to change it I couldn't believe what I was hearing, I told her to get a grip that I'd change it and save everyone the bloody hassle but she said she couldn't allow me to do it. Things like that are ridiculous but I think there are too many people looking back with rose tinted glasses. I posted this it came in by email as for being an old fecker your right i am but sad i'm not only when i read posts like yours it amazes me that you feel the need to make silly comments about other peoples posts i ll tell you what lets change the thread so as to include your important revelation about the bulb in the toilet and your abilities on changing it why don't you go and try to poach someone else's thread perhaps they would like to know about your light bulb You misunderstand me, I wasn't calling you a miserable old fecker for starting the thread I was talking about the person who originally wrote the e-mail, so you can stop getting upset now pal if you like. They're going on like everything was great back then and the world we live in today is oh so very bad. I think to have that view, they or anyone else must be a miserable bitter old twit as it's not all bad now and back then wasn't as great as they'd like to make out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 31,489 Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 (edited) They're going on like everything was great back then and the world we live in today is oh so very bad. I think to have that view, they or anyone else must be a miserable bitter old twit as it's not all bad now and back then wasn't as great as they'd like to make out. Its very rare i disagree with you AFT as you speak sense.....on this occasion i cant agree with you.I wouldnt say im bitter or miserable as i enjoy life and accept that times change.......but few things have changed for the better,and personally i do think it was great back then. I think each generation believes their days were the best days i understand that.....but i fail to see what is better in todays times that outweigh yesterdays.Thats not bitter and miserable thats just being honest.But i guess it depends on the individual. Edited April 30, 2011 by gnasher16 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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