human nature.
we are better off than weve ever been yet still people moan.
we were the best off' family down our street but i only had two holidays as a kid. +two school journey's
we had the first inside loo and proper bath, we also always had a car.
the bloke up the road was posher than us cos he had a phone.
i wont let my kids have all they want because im concerned about their values. they still have a laptop each, ipods, sooper dooper phones.
they will go to uni and never work using their backs,
they havent had paper rounds
i remember under thatcher that nobody knew if they had a job the next day and there was genuine fear for the future. i can remember the delight all round when she got booted out.
i can remenber john selwyn gummer feeding his daughter beefbuger on the tele when he had said there was no BSE(mad cow)
how can it be that these things are forgotten?
we have a moan about blair or brown because we might have to buy a japanese car instead of the german one we really wanted.
our mrs scrubs up at 40! yet when we were young, most women were well shot by 40 (think of your mates mums)
i washed my hair in the shower after playing ten pin bowling with the shampoo's and conditioners..... i mean ten pin because there were so many to choose from.. i washed myself in 'brunette expressions'
my nan used to scrub me with 'wrights coal tar' soap with the flannel over my eyes because it stung. this was in the tin bath; hair rinsed with the same water my sister and little brother had already been in. it was grey with soap by then.
i love football but get a bit sick of the amount thats on (too much) and i get peeved when ive seen all the sky films that month. poor me! match of the day and the big match on sunday....when i would be out on my bike.
no morning or afternoon tele bbc1 or itv.... we got bbc2 early and no-one at school knew what it was.
we watched the eurovision song contest to see if england might actually win.
we dreamed of our dad having a car with a stick on numberplate on the bonnet (mk one consul)
we told our friends when we'd seen an aston martin or rolls royce... they never believed it until you told them how many exhaust pipes the aston had.
we walked to school and run home with our hands over our bums when we needed a poo
my mate got a radiogram with bass and treble but ours only had a tone button.
i got a cassette recorder when i was 14 so i could. tape the top twenty on sunday night and hope that the dj wouldnt speak over the song...which they always did
i wore shorts till i was 11 and when you fell off your bike or from a tree you didnt think to cry. you worried more that you had made your clothes dirty than about any blood. blood was cleaned with a snot rag if you had one, with a bit of spit so the cut or graze didnt look so bad when you saw your mum.
i would never have nicked anything for fear of the law and upsetting my dad. i would fear a crucifixtion if a policeman had even spoken to my mum but i never actually got a smack from my dad that i can remember.
kids have no fear now and very little respect.
central heating! what was that!
internet shopping, bmw's, fitness equipment unscratched records, ipods,
screwfix, uk gold, saucy looking yummy mummies.....
we never had any of that !
we go to our fridge 'with freezer' and get out our dirt cheap lager and maybee eat some ben and jerries ice cream.
we sit on leather settees from dfs and have cream carpets rather than practical patterns..
we have clothes with labels to show everyone how much they cost or to identify ourselves to a group to which we aspire.. M&S wont do nowdays.
most modern problems are because we have become soft ponces. we allow thing like unecsasary health and saftey and dont have personal responsibilty.
we put money before people.
we should be happier and should realise what we have, but without remembering what it was like, we will never enjoy what we do have and will always want more...
and moan when we dont get it!
women and childbirth.... it was always the worst birth ever, so painful and they wish that you could have a tenth of the pain simply because you're man!
two years later they want another baby and they get all gooey about baby clothes...
same thing!
they forget
i will be thinking about this all day now
bring back kickstarts on motorbikes i say!
