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Sent to me by a south Australian friend: Those were the days - A Bit of Nostalgia My mum used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread butter on bread on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting E.coli. Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the creek, the lake or at the beach instead of a pristine chlorinated pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then either?. We all took PE ..... And risked permanent injury with a pair of Dunlop sandshoes or bare feet if you couldn’t afford the runners instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built-in light reflectors that cost as much as a small car. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now. We got the cane or the strap for doing something wrong at school, they used to call it discipline yet we all grew up to accept the rules and to honour & respect those older than us. We had at least 40 kids in our class and somehow we all learned to read and write, do maths and spell almost all the words needed to write a grammatically correct letter......., FUNNY THAT!! We all said prayers in school irrespective of our religion, sang the national anthem and saluted the Flag and no one got upset. Staying in detention after school netted us all sorts of negative attention we wish we hadn't got. And we all knew we had to accomplish something before we were allowed to be proud of ourselves. I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. We weren't!! Don’t even mention about the rope swing into the river or climbing trees Oh yeah ... And where were the antibiotics and sterilisation kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed! We played "King of the Castle" on piles of dirt or gravel left on vacant building sites and when we got hurt, mum pulled out the 2/6p bottle of iodine and then we got our backside spanked. Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10 day dose of antibiotics and then mum calls the lawyer to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat. To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that? We never needed to get into group therapy and/or anger management classes. We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! BUGGER ME!! How did we ever survive? LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING! Pass this to someone and remember that life's most simple pleasures are very often the best. AAAAh, those WERE the days!!!! Probably need to be of an age similar to mine to remember how things were. Cheers
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That hits the nail on the head
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Playing in the dirt and rubble is what kept us healthy, plus the Friday night dose of castor oil whether we needed it or not. It built up our immune systems properly.
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Never heard of a peanut allergy until recently. Now it's more like a fashion trend.
Mum1 to mum2: my child is allergic to nuts! Mum2: my child is coeliac! Mum1: Touché |
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Many things went undiagnosed in years gone by. Go to a cemetery and have a look at the ages of many people from earlier generations. Lots of children and younger people feature and many died from diseases that are survivable today. People that talk favorably about 'the good ol' days' generally have the worst memories.
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I have also seen mothers destroy birthday parties, cricket and football matches because "her son has a nut allergy". That's also not nice. Everyone present knows what's going on and no nuts is the order of the day. Has anyone told/ordered you to throw out your peanut butter? |
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what you describe above has nothing to do with allergies or diseases. Just humans. Humans of all types have existed in all generations.
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Polio, asbestos and drink driving were all awesome too
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Uhh- I can add personally- tuberculosis.
What about thalidomide babies. People smoking like chimney's and the horrific lung cancers... Ah yes- the good old days.
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Every era has their good and bad. The notion that things were entirely better in the old days is bloody ridiculous.
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Yea but we didnt have the internet to tell us that so we carried on quite happily oblivious to how ridiculous it was and enjoyed every minute of it.
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My 6th grade teacher circa mid 1970's was respected as a community leader, experienced teacher and strict disciplinarian.
Looking back now; he had a huge chip on his shoulder because he worked in a "womens job" and felt he should have been paid more. He clearly had mental health issues and would go on and on to the class about the unfairness of his life. He would physically; punch, slap, kick, pull the hair and belittle disruptive members of the class. Looking back, who we called trouble makes back then are now known as; Aspergers, Dyslexic, left handed or needing some support. Looking back at the good old days may require some really thick rose coloured glasses...
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Back in the old days you knew how to fix your car - because you bloody had too. Back then you had to adjust points, carbys, oil and filter every 3000miles, suspension rubbers/ball joints every year or 2 etc etc. Nowadays you drive for 15,000km, pay someone $300 for a "service" then drive another 15,000km reliably.
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Backyard sprinkler and swinging on the hills hoist.
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Bossxr8 some bloody great posts by you here.
I too get tired of hearing the good ol days bs. |
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yep them good ol days
every one got in an did their share we didnt even hear from them bs complainers ![]() tell that to the youngen of today n they wodnt belivesya
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The good old days when people lives weren't owned by a cell phone, plus the desire to take a pic every scrap of food while you are at dinner with them then broadcasting it to the world, all the while ignoring the people around them...
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in my day we ate maccas out of styrofoam and threw the grabage out the car window and the cops didnt care. now days you get fined for being outside without an excuse. snowflake cops are the cause
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As a kid I remember coming home from school to work on my 'oval' . At the back of our house we had a clearing big enough to make a semi permanent sports ground and being able to kick a footy around with some home made goal posts. My dad , my next door neighbours dad and friends close by would come up to the "oval" on warm summer nights after tea to pick up teams and play cricket til nearly dark. Dad, Mr Spilsbury Mr Webb would sometimes play or watch , otherwise umpire after the garden watering or watching the ABC news was done of course . Then in winter we'd re install the saplings we cut for one set of four goal posts to emulate Polly Farmer , Royce Hart , Ian Stewart etc goal kicking exploits .
We had an old Victa mower we used to cut the cricket pitch into the ground and any stringy patches of bush grass that appeared here and there. If that didn't start via the wind up ratchet start , the Spilsbury's old Pope rope pull mower got wrecked for the same essential chore . The larger outfield was boundered mostly by wattles and there was a couple of tree stumps on the playing area that needed avoiding when trying to take a catch .No tennis ball cricket either . My Uncle Harold scrounged up occasionally old leather practice balls from the cricket club and we used the cheap compo balls otherwise. Later on we'd all joint the Cricket and Footy club as we got old enough and most cricket and footy clubs were made up of pretty much 100% locals . Now all we have is a T20 team that plays a few games a year and the football club folded in the mid 1990's. Another thing I recall with fondness was bonfire/cracker night . I wan't terrified of the big bangers but I was of the string of tom thumbs and I recall the sparklers you held .. Being a kid in the late 60's to mid 70's relied in a lot of 'making your own fun'..but I certainly yearn for those days again often . Last edited by roddy1960; 10-04-2020 at 09:53 AM. |
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Pump up tyred Cyclops scooters and then progressing on to a 10 speed Malvern star pushy.
As a kid you could ride all over Sydney in the 70's and everyone was respectful towards each other on the road. Fuel shortages saw to that as most motorist rode as much as drove.
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The older I get the betterer I wuz
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Them good 'ol days when we referred to mobile.phones instead of "cell phones".
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The good old days of the 50s and 60s where whatever stupid thing you got up to (and survived) wasn't broadcast over the internet for the rest of the world to see.
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