I have been interested in technology since the Commodore/Atari/Intel 386 computer era, but other technology also took my interest. VHS/Beta video, CD/DVD, anything technology I became an avid reader. But then technology just took off, mostly in directions that I didn't think of. Mobiles at first seemed laughable, they were like bricks but the tremendous advances, in such a short space of time, to our present £,1000 iPhones, has been staggering but also so has the ability for those of a devious disposition to cause mischief. Hackers, they have got more sophisticated with every countermeasure that has been implemented to thwart them. Even Yahoo was hacked, so have banks and other institutions, had your credit card hacked? I have and I hadn't even received the pin number to be able to use it at the time, work that one out. But now my latest reading has me thinking that we have embraced this digital world to easily, even wholeheartedly, this past week has been a bad one, not least for Facebook, was it 87,000,000 people have had their info 'scraped' by a Cambridge company, but the killer is, that it appears they have done no wrong. Now I have read about his: https://www.theinquirer.net/inquire...al-and-financial-records-found-exposed-online There can be no other conclusion other than the internet has turned into a monster on many levels, be it kids bullying to multi million pound scams. Maybe time to do to these massive tech companies what America did to the Standard Oil Company in 1911, just a thought: https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/...me-court-orders-standard-oil-to-be-broken-up/
Yeah, when did kids last play 14 a side down the street, until it got dark? Now they're on xbox / FIFA or summat playing teams from ****ing Brazil. Never kicked a ball in their lives and they're World Cup winners at 13. **** off technology. You're not wanted in my household. (As I post from my PC, watching manchester hunter v newton heath, whilst monitoring the progress of our pizzas on my mobile).
I had a chat with someone looking for a new business idea. I nearly sold him on the self reliant food production unit enterprise. He loved the idea that this unit would be a fully recyclable carbon neutral, environmentally friendly, non plastic reliant, with genuine health benefits and would introduce a comprehensive community dynamic. I sort of lost him with the name “The Allotment”.
The problem with the internet is that it’s about time that someone turned it off and turned it back on again
Socially it's a good point, but if they're at home playing online they aren't out on their bikes being dickheads. There's a bit of an issue with kids roaming the streets at night in Cott, my mate lives on Newland and he says it's a problem as well. Bloody poverty, get a Megadrive or something you knobs.
So, my next step to returning to normality, would be to say to those kids, 'hey kids, get off your fckking computer and go out and climb trees, jump over drains, practice wheelies on your bikes, make a bogie, you know, learn some social skills and get some fresh air in your lungs, and a bit of colour in your cheeks instead of looking like a fcuking pasty faced thumb flicking geek' 'And by the way if you fcuk about around Cott like you are currently doing, or elsewhere and some adult (or a copper) belts you round the ear hole, don't come round here ****ing bleating, because you'll get a matching one on the other lug ole from me'. I'm not sure about the restoration of Capital Punishment however.
At which point these kids would probably just tell you to **** off. There's nothing wrong with playing computer games, I play them all the time. A lot of the kids I teach are quite balanced and do go out a fair bit, I'd say 70% are members of sports clubs or do some kind of sport as a hobby, I don't know any children at that school who are shut ins, although I'm aware that some kids are like that. As long as my kids were happy, I wouldn't force them to play out. I'd rather they grew up to decide for themselves, than have a clone of my childhood (which was akin to what you described as being outdoors).
At which point afore mentioned lug oles on said pasty faced yoof, or yoofesses, would be ringing to the sound of bells. I, too, do not want my kids to be clones of me (poor bastards if that is what happened). I'd question whether computer games are ok. They soon gravitate from Donkey Kong or Mario Bros, to becoming a sniper shooting some ****ers head off. Perhaps in moderation they are ok, but all the while they are sat in front of a screen playing such games, they lose social skills. IMO
Back when I was younger , we would all go on the local school field and be out from morning till night , thinking back it was like a community meet , there would be groups of kids around 12-13 up to late teens and everybody would just mix together , at times even older blokes would stop by on there way to pub or sometimes on the way out of pub and join in with the kickabout . Not random nonces, they would be somebodies neighbour or older brothers mate, etc, but If that happened this day and age the older blokes would probably be lynched or arrested .
You must have lived in a better area than I did. Where I was the older kids would pick on the next age group down who in turn would pick on the next lot, and so on. If there were older blokes there they were generally up to something not good. Most of the time we were only outside because it was the only way we could communicate with our mates and anyway there was nothing to do inside.
Great post!! This has just jolted my memory from being a kid. I moved into Enstone Garth on Bransholme in 1970. There was a family at the end of the row called Bone. The 2 lads who where 17 and 18 used to get everybody involved in playing football for 3 or 4 years. As a kid it was fabulous and we had endless games of footy. I was 5 in 70 and it wasprob them that started my interest in soccer
Not associated with your post but my Nan moved into Innsworth Garth around the same time from Mayfield Street off Spring Bank. If I remember right they were in alphabetical order, you must have been nearby. There used to be a tree across the road (Noddle Hill Way?) we used to climb when we visited.
