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A woman goes to her doctors with bruises all over her face. Doctor: "What happened?" Woman: "Doctor, I don't know what to do. Every time my husband comes home drunk he beats me to a pulp." Doctor: "I have a real good medicine for that. When your husband comes home drunk, just take a glass of sweet tea and start swishing it in your mouth. Just swish and swish but don't swallow until he goes to bed and is asleep." Two weeks later the woman comes back to the doctor looking fresh and reborn. Woman: "Doctor, that was a brilliant idea! Every time my husband came home drunk, I swished with sweet tea. I swished and swished, and he didn't touch me!" Doctor: "You see how much keeping your ****ing mouth shut helps?"
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On this day in 1963 John Lennon told the audience at The Royal Variety Performance, "Those in the cheap seats clap your hands, the rest just rattle your jewellery". What a different age, but as those tyere at the time will recall, what exciting times to be around in. Coming out of post war drabness, teenagers with their own money and fashions for tbe first time, more consumer goods about, barriers being broken down, England at the centre of the world for music, fashion, theatre, films and TV.
I believe that the nine and ten year-olds of those times were far more naive and less worldly than those today. How lucky we were.
The Beatles at the Royal Variety Performance. I refer telling my dad that him saying, like all adults at the time, (and who not long after was saying how good they were, and what nice boys as well, especially when the likes of the Stones came along)they couldn't play was wrong as if you listened to them, they were just like their records. Which I found out later was because it was their records, they were miming. Epstein wasn't daft, he didn't want to risk anything going wrong so,because Frank Sinatra had mined when he had a sore throat, the Beatles should bevallowed to do the same. Another sign of his his acumen was choosing a hit song, a standard to appeal to different age groups and a raver at the end, all of them songs which didn't have fade outs on the record. My dad said they wouldn't last. And I have to admit he was right. By 1970 they had gone. Of course parents views of them were irrelevant when the Stones came along not long after. Then there was something to really annoy them with. I told my dad years later that he, and others, would have avoided no end of arguments if they had said that Brian Jones looks great, why don't you grow your hair like him? Of course they were determined you weren't going to which made you all the more determined you were. Life was a lotbsompler in the skinhead area. It was a fait accompli, they couldn't haul you off to the barber' to have it undone.
A stupid comment which has duck all today with it. Today's young ones, despite the information available to them are clueless in the extreme. Nine and ten year olds got out and about without mummy and daddy chaperoning every move than nowadays. I am glad .I was a teenager then rather than now for many reasons, more freedom to go out and about until late safely first and foremost amongst them.
I wouldn' call knocking around the streets worldly. Except for the occasional nutter, kids were generally safe playing footie, hopscotch, etc.. Activity was so different and didn't the innocence from the child. The young ones I know are far from clueless, in fact I wish they could be about some things. I've always thought that my ability to be out and about as a child had more to do with my environment and the social standards of the day, which I believe were safer and easier to manage than today's. I certainly didn't have the distraction of the internet and modern marketing.
I would say my 14 year old self in 1964 was more worldly than today's 14 year olds being out and about and interacting in the real world than sat in a bedroom interacting electronically.
You did notice I deliberately targeted nine and ten year olds in my post. Maybe you equate your 14 year old self with them, but that would be your call...
