Choose lifeOriginally Posted by Qatar-wol
Choose Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and hope that someone, somewhere cares
Choose looking up old flames, wishing you’d done it all differently
And choose watching history repeat itself
Choose your future
Choose reality TV, slut shaming, revenge porn
Choose a zero hour contract, a two hour journey to work
And choose the same for your kids, only worse, and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody’s kitchen.
Choose your future.
Choose life.
Who have never sat petrified in the front passenger seat with no seat belt on while your dad rolls a fag while steering the car with his knees. When you got older, 8 or so, you would be instructed to keep the car going in a straight line with one hand.
Heard the word 'NO' from their parents....
..... or understand what that word really means?Heard the word 'NO' from their parents....
My wife's phrase to the boys: "What part of NO is it you don't understand? The first part of the second?"
Never did that as a child TBH.
..........not knowing what its like to play out with your mates at the local park at the age of 9-10, playing football, rugby and cricket with the bigger kids, having to get your ball back off 'em because you had to be home by 7:30, running home with sound of the town hall clock chiming and knowing you were late. Playing in the woods near the local stream and throwing half-bricks at the rats, making a trolly out of old pram wheels and wood, then crashing it into a lamp-post and wrecking it. Those were the days, my childhood memories ca 1967.
Phone a girl from a phonebox that stank of stale piss because you didn`t want your parents to know what you were up to......happy days!
This exactly. Where you stuck to what you said you would do.
Not like they do today.
Getting smacked across the back of you hand with a folded 3 foot boxwood ruler for daring to talking back to a one of the Joiners. Part of everyday life of an apprentice Joiner circa 1964.
Happy days.
Anyone mentioned the joy of hedge porn yet?
Ahh, the holy grail of the walk home from school.
Call Dial-a-disc from a telephone box to listen to the latest record and have the money run out before it reaches the end of the song. .
Need to visit a library.
Buy a car from an ad in the local paper.
Drive a car with no seatbelts fitted.
Reversing the charges from a public phone box.
Taking an empty bottle back to claim your 10p.
I know i'm getting old and pessamistic but kids nowadays are screwed imo. Snowflake generation.
The correct term appears to be "Kipling Smog"But then the same generation get to see HUGE plumes of fog bellowing from car windows as if some sort of cool status symbol, their own ‘look at me cloud’.
Surprising those young uns haven't ever seen one being used on the telly ???Sonoma b..
Or buy a tax disc from the post office.
Buy a pack of cigs for 40p
Smoke at work
Smoke on the tube
Smoke in the cinema
Smoke on a plane
Smoke on a train
Smoke a pipe
Smoke
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The local library is shut half of the week. When I was at school, the library was open fully from Monday to Saturday and not five minutes here and there.
Who have never put a bit of tape over a VCR record tab or faffed about writing titles on the tape side in ever decreasing sizes.
J
who have never recorded the top 40 on the radio using a cassette deck and microphone....And tried to pause just at the right time not to have the DJ's voice
Call it a come back! It's the government vision for the poor to sift through landfill for the deposit...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46594380
Gone into a ‘video’ shop and had to reserve the new film you were desperate to watch for the next weekend because the 20 VCR copies of it are already out.
..who have never been on a holiday to a rental property....
...where their parents booked through a brochure with only a stamp sized photo and a phone number
....and then phoned the AA to send them a print out route planner of how to get there or used a road atlas
Short sidestep (this thread is too nice to drift off): money for bottles is common here. 90% of all plastic/glass bottles are being returned.
Sat glued to Ceefax waiting for the scores to update.
J
...had to not use the phone while the dial-up modem was in use for t'internet...
...along with a tablespoon of malt extract; not sure which was worse :(
who won't experience:
Hot (and cold) vinyl car seats;
Outdoor toilets (at home and the pub);
No central heating;
Liked that!
Got scared by Dr Who
... who don't know the routine of the coal scuttle... mom would send you off to the barn/garage/shed for coal. Worse thing: cold(er) weather implied more trips for coal...
Menno
Putting a newspaper over the opening of the fire place to draw the fire.
We used to do that in the early 70s, ended up with recordings of the dog barking a few times
Load a computer game from a cassette player. Save your work on a floppy disk and print on a dot matrix printer.
I saw this on The daily mash and instantly thought of this thread. Got to love an arse photocopy!!
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...20181221180868
And I think this is my favourite TZ thread ever.
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Got the cane for misbehaving at school
Had a clip round the ear from a policeman
...not buying 10 Sovereign and a book of matches for 9 1/2p
...not eating Brain's faggots
...not being allowed to say faggots
...not eating chicken kiev and thinking it's posh nosh.
...not going down with asbestosis
Sat Glued to Ceefax , because you forgot to ‘Hold’ page 25 and now need to wait until Page 25 scrolls back again....
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Who wouldn't understand the 'dictaphone' joke
Hold on, isn't this the generation who can't tie shoe laces because mummy thought velcro fasteners were easier. AND struggle to read the time on an analogue clock
(Edited to remove incredulous/gratuitous bad language)
Those that don't get the
"Book him Danno"
"Who luv's you Baby"
"just one more thing"
"what do points make - points make prizes"
"Not like that, like this"
"Loads of money"
etc references
And who will never have to endure a Black and White Minstel show
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh I don't know - some parents are making sure their kids gets a taste of 'the good old days':
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...movement-grows
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