I'm glad i'm 46 years old.

[Questions]

10p had to go in the back of our black and white set. Always went off at inopportune moments.

How did England fare by the way in that big game in the summer of 66 ?





edit : sorry 2 bob I mean

 

[Questions]

We had a big Grundig radio, with huge glowing valves in the back. It seemed magical back then.

did it make that lovely hummmmmmmmmmm on starting up. Gods sake. How can I be nostalgic for a hummmmmmmmmmm ?

 

[Gwylan]

10p had to go in the back of our black and white set. Always went off at inopportune moments.

How did England fare by the way in that big game in the summer of 66 ?

We had a telly by then - it was still a bit of a novelty to us - but it just seemed thrilling to watch a match live.

A few months later, I went to the cinema to watch Goal, which was film about the World Cup, showing the whole thing in colour. It made everything seem totally different.

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

Crisps from the milkman (3d and yes they had little blue bags of salt), the Corona lorry, waiting a minute for the radio to warm up (2 way family favourties and a joint of lamb roasting in the oven), bench seats in the front of the car so you could have 3 in the front and 3 in the back, the coal man, little red spiders crawling around the pink stone coal bunker, the soundof cars being turned over but not starting in the morning, all dressing in front of the fire in the morning, ice on the INSIDE of the bedroom windows...

marvellous isn't it?

 

[The Oldman]

Born 1942 so yes remember the days of no tele or phone, only one room heated by coal fire (coal delivered by Horse and cart), food rationing, walking or cycle to school, short trousers, school caps, mum using an old boiler washing machine and a mangle on Mondays.

Outside of home, Brighton Trolley buses , Southdown buses, The West Pier (which I always thought was boring compared to The Palace Pier), the Sports Stadium in West Street.

Good old days? Not really . Life is so much better now and I too feel priveleged to have lived through such exciting and changing times.

 

[smudge]

I'm 46 too. Football in the street was the norm' & a 20 a side game would go on until it was pitch black. My Mum used to shout when dinner was ready & you'd run in, get your fish fingers down asap then back out to hit the winner, marvellous scenes!
A council estate seemed a great place to grow up, (Landport in Lewes). I had shedloads of mates & we knew everyone in the street. If our ball went in someones garden, we used to go & knock on the door & ask if we could get it.
Then people started moving in to the street who OWNED their houses & thought they were better than us council house kids. Now everybody owns their houses....& from what I know, it's rougher than it ever was & nobody knows each other.....& there's certainly no games of football in the street as there's no space left.....and all the kids are on the internet or playing xbox or whatever it is.

I'm glad I was a kid when I was a kid.

 

[tedebear]

I'm glad I'm NOT 46 - thats well old

 

[smudge]

I'm glad I'm NOT 46 - thats well old

Yeah being 46 is pretty shit......but being a sprog in the 60's & early 70's was quality.

Wait till you're 46. Most of your generation will be a bunch of superfat lard arses from spending all that time indoors.

Me on the other hand. Well, chicks dig me still!

 

[British Bulldog]

I'm glad I'm NOT 46 - thats well old

It's a good age tede, Old enough to remember the old fashioned ways but still young enough to enjoy modern technology.