Liverbirdie
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Unlike St.Helens and Johnny Vegas?
Did we have it better?
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Unlike St.Helens and Johnny Vegas?
6inchcup
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good riddance to him but he does still live here in a fashion and goes to the rugby,when was CILLA or TARBY rubbing shoulders with the common people in st johns market.
rickg
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Growing up in Yorkshire, I had 3 paper rounds (after school, Saturday's and Sunday's), a morning milk round before school and worked at the market fruit and veg stall Saturday's. Also played football, rugby and hockey for local sides....God only knows where I got the time to do it all....
As a result, always had money in my pocket, although it didn't stay there very long!
As a result, always had money in my pocket, although it didn't stay there very long!
Liverbirdie
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Glad we're rid of them, the're both knobs.
I think we had a great time, and to a certain extent made the best of the limited opportunities we had. Did we have it better? No, we had it different... kids today have opportunities to try vastly more past times and experience a wider world.
Not all of them, or even the majority, sit in front of the Xbox every spare moment.
Not all of them, or even the majority, sit in front of the Xbox every spare moment.
USER1999
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And since than, have you done one single days work?
I think we both know the answer to that. Of course he hasn't and now he's busy stalking Sophie at Centurion he's not going to start now
Crazyface
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My grandson, soon to be 13, is out of the house as soon as he can. He plays football as much as possible with mates, tennis squeezed in on a Saurday morning up to 3pm with me and my mum + one other to make the four. Footie team Sunday morning. Good at all sports, the jammy thing. Thank God he got my looks and not my sporting ability. 
john0
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Jimaroid
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I'm amused by the irony of a bunch of middle-aged men spending time on the Internet criticising the younger generation for spending too much time in front of computers. 
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
Foxholer
Blackballed
Absolutely agree with this!
bobmac
Major Champion
I'm amused by the irony of a bunch of middle-aged men spending time on the Internet criticising the younger generation for spending too much time in front of computers.
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
The OP was about did we have it better, not criticising today's kids
MegaSteve
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When I left school there were thousands of 'proper' apprenticeships on offer providing you a strong platform for the rest of your working life... All my grandchildren will have to look forward to will be zero hour contracts... Thank you David and George...
Zero hours contracts have been around long before David and George took office. The company I work for has been using them for at least 10yrs...
MegaSteve
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The company I work for now uses them for majority of its employment needs... It didn't before as it would have struggled to get folk to accept them... The climate brought about in the last five years has enabled them to now do so without real issue... Glad my working life is nearly at the end....
Rooter
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Society has deemed it impossible to give the freedom to kids that we had. Too many nutters and weirdo's about now. (not that there weren't any in the past!)
Jimaroid
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You started it on that line but it was rapidly extrapolated by others into criticism of our younger generation's habits. I just feel the young need a bit more of a fair representation. We were all in their shoes once and it's remarkable how easily we forget our parents' criticisms of what we did as teenagers isn't it?
Did we have it better? No, it was just different. What I hope is that people have the freedoms, opportunities and luck to lead a happy life however they choose, the same way we did.
MegaSteve
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When I were a lad we'd jump on our bikes and cycle for miles... Getting to all sorts of places... I'd be scared witless, these days, if my grandsons were out and about in similar fashion...
chrisd
Major Champion
I grew up in a council estate in Croydon as one of 5 kids and a mother with no money. Did my first paper round at 10 and then got a butchers boys job and worked their until I left school at 15. I had to help support the family from my job.
We did play football all day when the holidays came and, like Homer, at 11 we could much do what we liked, I remember going into London and roaming round the sights at weekends on an all day bus ticket going into Parliament and museums etc
Was it better than today, yes in many ways but most people made their own amusements, there was little money and we didn't have cars to ferry us. We were more streetwise than today's kids but never under so much pressure than they are now.
We did play football all day when the holidays came and, like Homer, at 11 we could much do what we liked, I remember going into London and roaming round the sights at weekends on an all day bus ticket going into Parliament and museums etc
Was it better than today, yes in many ways but most people made their own amusements, there was little money and we didn't have cars to ferry us. We were more streetwise than today's kids but never under so much pressure than they are now.
Foxholer
Blackballed
And when your parents or teacher or a policeman told you to do something, you didn't dare question it, you just did it.
Or was that just me?
I cant believe how many times I've seen under 10s argueing with their parents in shops
I'm sure I can remember 'But Mum...' being a fairly common start to a sentence 'back in those days' too. It always amused me to realise that the words i used to convince the lot I helped grow up were exactly the same words as my parents with us!
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