A few threads lately. Mostly Billys 'things your parents used to say' and Dorty caravan 'sign needed' threads have got me thinking about how things change. From when you were young. I honestly cant remember hearing my dad swear. Unless you class bugger as swearing. I cant recall ever seeing a woman with a tattoo. Women smoking? Going to the caravan. Ok my parents still own one, but this was common at one time. Going to the pictures. Always went. Never think of going now. Never being in the house. Always out to play. Do kids even venture outside these days? Going to the chippie for scran. Do you ever go now? Getting on a bus. So many things. What differences can you think of?
Not as many as you lol I don't swear Neither of us have tattoos Neither of us smoke Until a few years ago when the kids were stil at school we had caravan holidays every year We went to the pictures last week. Spend a lot of time outdoors walking the dog and the kids spend the vast majority of time out of the house (they left home for uni five years ago!) We get fish and chips most Friday nights. But it is unusual to get a bus as the service is very poor. So not much has changed in our house, other that the March of technology. Very little live TV is watched, we can talk to the kids via Skype chat with friends we have never met on here and other places. Other things which have changed very few newspapers are bought just read on line less time in the pub as the old local dies to be replaced by eating rather than drinking pubs.
The newspaper point is a good one. Did you ever used to have a paper delivered? Or milk. Do milkmen still exsist?
Chips wrapped in proper newspaper & eating them walking along the sea front on our rare trips to the seaside. Harvest festivals. Collecting food from the people in the village to give to the old folk. Being sent to the pub to get my dads tabs. Hardly any man being on the dole. Jumpers for goal posts & drawing cricket stumps on the wall with chalk.
You cant leave your door open any more. In the "olden" days we used to leave our doors unlocked and there was never any problems. Your neighbours would just knock and come in but that doesn't happen any more. Still go to the pictures and regularly have fish n chips. Buy milk at the supermarket and only get a paper on a Saturday. Never had holidays and hate caravans, blow the mobile ****ers up but the permanent ones are sort of ok. My old man swore when my mam wasn't there. Got no tats and neither has the wife but i do like them. Main thing that has changed for me is that you don't really know your neighbours any more.
Ok. Seems going to the pictures maybe more popular than i thought. You are spot on about the neighbours.
pictures is ****in expensive now though, the wife gets discounted tickets where she works so its not too bad for us.
U Expensive as in? Ive no idea. What say a family of 4 with some ****e popcorn and some cokes. What are we talking?
Arghh. You are gonna give me nightmares. I remember getting dragged around them. Come out statching with all them old flea ridden items people tried to fob off. Car boot sales. Still happen?
I reckon she will have. The women had washing days back then as you had to drag it out from under the bench & fill it with hot water. If you were really posh you had a twin tub.
Me dad making his home brew muck. Me mam making bread and putting it in the airing cupboard. The hole smelled bloody lovely.
Being able to spell the thread title correctly would be a good start. How thinks have changed. Thinks wtf are thinks
