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  • #16
    Originally posted by Incy View Post
    My Dad made go-carts for us too but we never had an engine either although he would have been capable of making us one Mind you that would have been alot of engines to make. lol
    You don't need an engine, just a hill (or a couple of lads to push). Fun times.
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    • #17
      Sorry to rain on the parade, but

      the good ole days weren't all that good.

      - In the 50s and 60s the death rate from lung cancer in men doubled, reflecting smoking trends from 30 years earlier.

      - in the 1960s the outlook from childhood cancer was bleak: only 3 in 10 children survived their cancer diagnosis.

      - The peak of asbestos exposure in Great Britain is thought to have been around the mid-to late 1960s. The annual number of mesothelioma deaths is predicted to ... rise until ... 2015, because of the long latency period.

      - In 1962 only 9% of higher degrees obtained were by women. By 1993/94 the proportion of women obtaining higher degrees had increased to 37%

      - petrol was more expensive during the Suez war (1956) and the 1970s than it is today

      - The mid-1960s saw the introduction of the ‘Beeching Plan’, which proposed the closure of around half the 27,000 kilometres of the national rail network

      - and I had to wear this:



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      • #18
        Originally posted by Florence Fennel View Post
        We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
        I still do
        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by SarzWix View Post
          Pinksleepybear, I'm sure that not everybody had a totally idyllic childhood, but this is a light-hearted look at the past, a joke one might say. Lets try and keep it that way?
          I agree in principle Sarah but can also relate to PSB. I think we all had personal stories which were unkind but hey, we're still here........
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          • #20
            Originally posted by Bigmallly View Post
            ...can also relate to PSB...
            Purple Sprouting Broccoli?

            I'll be disapointed if my kids don't grow up with scars on their knees!
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            • #21
              Originally posted by OllieMartin View Post
              Purple Sprouting Broccoli?

              I'll be disapointed if my kids don't grow up with scars on their knees!
              So you've got past the proposal bit and you're onto talking about kids already!? Good lad.
              A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
                the good ole days weren't all that good.

                - - and I had to wear this:



                Bless you TS, reckon youve got a case for child cruelty
                WPC F Hobbit, Shire police

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by HeyWayne View Post
                  So you've got past the proposal bit and you're onto talking about kids already!? Good lad.
                  Where's an interrobang when you need one?

                  Same rationale as my plans on winning the lottery; I know what I'll do with the money, but I haven't bought a ticket!
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                  • #24
                    Im the one on the right!
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                    • #25
                      We had a new fangled thing called a skate board we all took turns to see if we made it to the bottom of the hill, when we'd accomplished that it was ages before we could actually turn at the bottom without hitting the road at full pelt no pads, no helmet, just plasters afterwards
                      Hayley B

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                      • #26
                        Did you ever hang on to a mates bike wearing a pair of roller skates? Now that was fun!
                        WPC F Hobbit, Shire police

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                        • #27
                          Our skateboard was a piece of wood with a roller skate nailed to the bottom of it. You just sat on it (unless you were brave enough to stand) and went hell for leather down the hill.
                          S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
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                          • #28
                            Using milk crates to go downhill on snow.....before sledges were invented.........
                            sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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                            • #29
                              I was born in 1970, so I think I can join this very special club Sarz, I made my own bogey - from a single parent family (and in the 70's that was still shocking!) I can remember being forced to wear velour dresses then tartan flares and polo necks (all because of the Bay City Rollers). Anyone remember Vesta curries when they first appeared in the shops - the height of exotica. Or how about buying butter not packaged - wee woman behind the counter got the pats out and patted out a pound of butter. Never got the cane at school but it was certainly used frequently in my Primary School.

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                              • #30
                                Oh yes Vesta curries, they all tasted the same
                                Hayley B

                                John Wayne's daughter, Marisa Wayne, will be competing with my Other Half, in the Macmillan 4x4 Challenge (in its 10th year) in March 2011, all sponsorship money goes to Macmillan Cancer Support, please sponsor them at http://www.justgiving.com/Mac4x4TeamDuke'

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