[Closed] When we where children,compared to now.

ernie_lynch - Member
My old man got a good telling off when I had all the dustbin men cowering behind their cart with my air gun.
Oh but how you must've all laughed about it afterwards, eh ?

Yeah - as if, i was ducking him for weeks after that, even i wondered why I was so stupid, but it just seemed a laugh at the time, think what would happen to a kid who did that now, armed response, the kid in care, the old man probably in jail..

Yeah - as if, i was ducking him for weeks after that

Really ? He didn't arrange for the local bobby to come round and give you a good ol' fashion clip round the ear ? How strange 😕

Tell me more about 'chucking rocks at coppers' and how 'pervs were dealt with'. That sounds fascinating.

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Derek griffiths
Oliver Postgate

etc

People I seriously admire not some names that pop up in the tabloids every day hey. I have no idea how to even start to respond to this

you can't get a decent Oz of red seal for love nor money round this way any more..

Brian Cant http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134454/
Derek griffiths
Oliver Postgate

Johnny Ball.
Tony Hart.

Brian Cant http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134454/
Derek griffiths
Oliver Postgate
Johnny Ball.
Tony Hart.

Jimmy Saville
Gary Glitter

I do wonder, y'know, if the 'yoof of today' would be a lot more pride-inducing if the adults of today hadn't spent the last fifteen years repeatedly telling them that that they're all scumbags that will never amount to anything.

Don't like the state of the nation and how the kids are behaving? It's your own fault.

Also,

I don't think the world is any more dangerous for kids now than it's ever been. As Yunki so helpfully demonstrates, we're simply much better at reporting it and sensationalising it, even when there's not actually any evidence to back it up.

"Likes children" = "good parent."

"Likes children" + slightly eccentric" = "nonce."

But back in the day

"Likes children + slightly eccentric + 44 years old and still lives with his mother and collection of specialist porn" = "scout master"

Hmm, I wonder how this conversation would be going in the catholic priests' school?

ernie_lynch - Member
Yeah - as if, i was ducking him for weeks after that
Really ? He didn't arrange for the local bobby to come round and give you a good ol' fashion clip round the ear ? How strange

Tell me more about 'chucking rocks at coppers' and how 'pervs were dealt with'. That sounds fascinating.

So, life was very different back then to the way it is now, as to the bobby or my old man catching me, I had an escape route, up through the loft out onto the rooftops and away, so they very rarely caught me.

Chucking rocks at coppers (to try and knock their helmet off), was a pretty standard activity amongst most street kids where i was dragged up.

Pervs? One incident that brings this to mind was some old perv trying to get us to go with him under the arches to 'see something' my sister, who was probably a bit more 'perv aware' than me, blew the whistle and a copper got hold of him and literally beat the bastard to the ground and sent him on his way, we never saw him round our way ever again.

Chucking rocks at coppers (to try and knock their helmet off), was a pretty standard activity amongst most street kids where i was dragged up.

But when they caught you then :

Coppers would clout you round the head and send you on your way if they caught you after chucking rocks at them.

So just a clout round the head then.......haha what a larf. I bet you were glad that they didn't 'literally beat you to the ground' before they sent you own your way - like they did to the perv.

Seems like it was a right larf when you were a kid. Shame the pervs didn't get a criminal record though ..... dontcha reckon ?

In 'merica, even our large federal agencies do what is needed to keep children safe from [url= http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/dhs-kinder-surprise-easter-eggs-too-dangerous/466336 ]threats[/url] to their safety!

so basically.. as has already been said.. not much has changed really, other than the superficial..

and as if to prove the point, some people, upon reaching a certain stage of maturity, will freak out big time and apocalyptically bemoan the fate of our youth in predictably exactly the same way that every generation of neurotic men before them has done since time immemorial..

pretty much..