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Thread ID: 150946	2022-10-17 04:51:00	A poem	B.M. (505)	PC World Chat

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1488883	2022-10-17 04:51:00	For us old Geezers I remember the cheese of my childhood and the bread that we cut with a knife. When the children helped with the housework, and the men went to work, not the wife. The cheese never needed a fridge and the bread was so crusty and hot. The children were seldom unhappy and the wife was content with her lot. I remember the milk from the bottle, with the yummy cream on the top. Our dinner came hot from the oven, and not from the fridge in the shop The kids were a lot more contented, they didn't need money for kicks. Just a game with their mates in the road and sometimes the Saturday flicks. I remember the shop on the corner, where a pen'orth of sweets was sold. Do you think I'm a bit too nostalgic? Or is it....I'm just getting old? I remember the 'loo' was the lavvy and the bogey man came in the night. It wasn't the least bit funny going "out back" with no light. Hung on a peg in that loo, were interesting items to view, from newspapers cut into squares. It took little to keep us amused. Dirty clothes were boiled in the copper, with plenty of rich foamy suds. But the ironing seemed never ending as Mum pressed everyone's 'duds'. I remember the slap on my backside and the taste of soap if I swore. Anorexia and diets weren't heard of and we hadn't much choice what we wore. Do you think that bruised our ego? or our initiative was destroyed? We ate what was put on the table and I think life was better enjoyed. But a huge fact not hereto mentioned in this tale of nostalgic rejoice, is the reason we all "enjoyed" our lot We had NO BLOODY CHOICE! No idea who to credit for the writing but They'd been there. :thumbs:	B.M. (505)
1488884	2022-10-17 06:09:00	Oh the memories - oh so true!	Bryan (147)
1488885	2022-10-17 07:43:00	Oh the memories - oh so true! Agreed. Great years.	Colpol (444)
1488886	2022-10-17 07:55:00	Yep, life sure was simple then. :) Ken	kenj (9738)
1488887	2022-10-17 08:02:00	I sure miss having to catch the horse before I can ride to work.	Blue Druid (4480)
1488888	2022-10-17 08:23:00	Well, you're welcome to go back to living like it's the 1940s if you think it'd make you feel better!	Agent_24 (57)
1488889	2022-10-17 15:10:00	Oh no. I'm thinking of the 1910s when transport was tramcars (or horses) and we played cricket on the village green and shove ha'penny in the pub. Truthfully, looking back, I far preferred the less sophisticated life growing up in the 1940s and 50s. For all our modern conveniences, I feel we lost a lot when we lost our simplicity. No TV or internet telling us lies, the doctor lived around the corner and made house calls and kids knew what gender they were.	Blue Druid (4480)
1488890	2022-10-17 16:42:00	I feel like a lot of that sentiment could be summed up with "ignorance is bliss", and I'm sure that the rosy effect of nostalgia also plays a part. Don't forget, those times also came with some pretty terrible ideas, like drinking radium water for your health, using asbestos in everything, and a bunch of awful/useless medical practices. Good luck if you had cancer, and MRI machines didn't exist. Questions about sexuality and gender would be unheard of as that sort of thing would likely have brought you to some lunatic "doctor" for a lobotomy. No, some things are best left well in the past where they belong. I'm glad a lot of things have changed. But I can understand a desire for simplicity, and in this modern world we are exposed to a huge amount of information compared to the past. These days we must process more data in a year than older generations did in a lifetime. The modern world is a much more complex and mentally demanding one, and I'm not sure that's healthy.	Agent_24 (57)
1488891	2022-10-17 20:37:00	"Same as it ever was" - Talking Heads	zqwerty (97)
1488892	2022-10-17 23:53:00	and the men went to work, not the wife. The children were seldom unhappy and the wife was content with her lot. The kids were a lot more contented, and sometimes the Saturday flicks. Do you think I'm a bit too nostalgic? Anorexia and diets weren't heard of We ate what was put on the table is the reason we all "enjoyed" our lot We had [B]NO BLOODY CHOICE! : Yes. Husband lived in a 3 room shack. 1 tap, not hot water, mum, dad, baby in 1, the other 4 kids in other, 1 ran away to stay with nana and refused to come back...1 yet to be born. Coal range, nana helping out. She sold eggs to supplement income, the first 4 kids were all stunted, nor fed enough as kids, well enough protein anyway. He got given malt extract by doctor. He worked in market gardens after school and said remembering being so hungry he ate some of it. Raw swede and so on not just the yummy stuff. And fishing, with pan, knife and matches down the river aged 8, 9. Eating some before going home so he didn't have to share. As for his mum, happy? When they announced they were moving to Akld, he asked his mum, does "X" have to come? His dad, never was called dad, only by his name. One sister got anorexia. It's not about food you know, it's about trying to get some kind of control. Roast dinner on a Sunday, but the kids didn't really get much meat. Bath on Sunday too, he was oldest so he got the water first, then the other kids...the copper in the main room... Having fun...yep, chase the chickens round the yard until he got yelled at, stirring the "barrel", he fell in once, this was the stuff from the outhouse, before it got spread across the paddock (the animal paddocks). After they moved, his mum got a job in a factory and she bought every appliance known at the time, she was a bit hoardy with it all. Yes, I bet. The shower was massively popular. And 4 bedrooms, PLus 4 other rooms too - whoohoo, for the 9 of them. I used to think really? The 1950s, not the 1850s!! No wonder his mum died age 54.	piroska (17583)
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