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[Daviewonder]

I remember the good old days when........

[Moggyton]

I had no responsibility

[100ev8]

love thy neighbour

boys from the black stuff

captain scarlet

likely lads 

till death do us part 

thunderbirds 

tiswas

OTT

when coppers used to sit and have a fag with us when playing on motorbikes over the field !

Edited by 100ev8, 12 October 2013 - 10:44 PM.

[Sam]

You could fly from London to New York in a little over three hours...

[Daviewonder]

There were only 3 TV channels.

[jmmini]

Being nude wasn't frowned upon

[IainStallard]

AC/DC was the only band singing on a wrecking ball...

Oh and fuel was cheaper

[AVV IT]

You could still buy a brand new Mini.....

............. And an old one for £50!!!

[Carlos W]

I was 18 and had all the money in the world and no expenses other than my car and cider

[M J W J]

...there were only 150 pokemon (just seen the advert for pokemon x and y which made me think of this)

[Yoda]

You could still buy a brand new Mini.....

............. And an old one for £50!!!

 

Seconded and recommended as the best answer,

 

My first mini was less than fifty quid and that was a cooper S. wish i had kept it, but as another would only cost 50 quid, we never worried about it in those days!

[bpirie1000]

Minis were more common than these days..

[Yoda]

I remember the good old days when........

 

Just saw this. Make you wonder where it all went wrong!

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!! First, you survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, your baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when you rode your bikes, you had no helmets, not to mention, the risks you took hitchhiking .. As children, you would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun. You drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle. You shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. You ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but you weren't overweight because...... YOU WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! You would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach you all day. And you were OK. You would spend hours building your go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out you forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, you learned to solve the problem . You did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........YOU HAD FRIENDS and you went outside and found them! You fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents you played with worms(well most boys did) and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. You made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although you were told it would happen, you did not poke out any eyes. You rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing you out if you broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. You had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and you learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

[SecretSugar]

When things were cheaper! 

[Retro_1985]

i had money