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How has the world changed?

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On the footie theme.

When I was a kid...

Goodison was one of the finest stadiums in Britain.
No agents.
No sporting directors.
Most fans didn't seem to have a clue/or care about who were the chairmen of most clubs.
We didn't know what players' wives looked like in most cases.
The only live matches on telly were internationals and cup finals.
The balls for league matches were white except for the orange ones when it snowed.
There was a full set of fixtures played on Saturday at 3.00pm.
 
Summer holidays aged 15-18.

Paper round at 6.45. Mum and Dad left for work by 7.30 am. Get breakfast and then meet mates on Bankfield, Clubmoor Rec, or field behind Maiden Lane.

Play cricket or golf until 1pm. Quick lunch at mates or Basil's chip shop on Lisburn Lane, back to cricket and golf.

Home by 5.30, tea (dinner) and back out again until dark.

Supper (round of toast) with parents and bed.

Repeat throughout summer holidays apart from 2 weeks away with parents and occasional cricket game at Aigburth to watch Lancs, or Old Trafford Test Match.
 
Kids were fit we played footie every day played curbs played kick the can played knock and run climbed trees went on bike rides we done stuff .
 
Everything is now hi-tech and apparently everything gives you cancer
i remember the good old days sitting on grandpappy's knee and sucking on his werther's originals
i know one thing my mind has not aged but my body is starting to let me down
 

TheFinnFan said:
theres no natural play places anymore for kids. ffs they have to go to some effing play hall to get kicks.

when i was a kid we practically spended summers in one ditch ffs. doing dams and stuff,,
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That's just not true. Yes a lot of open spaces have been lost to development, but unless you're living inner-city then there's still plenty of places to go and play.

It's the fear factor that's preventing them.
 
The Cowboy said:
That's just not true. Yes a lot of open spaces have been lost to development, but unless you're living inner-city then there's still plenty of places to go and play.

It's the fear factor that's preventing them.
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True, I was a bit harsh there. Peeps who dont live in the cement Jungle have it better. Luckily we have fields and woods just next to our house
 
One thing thats changed is that if there is any community within a street / area nowdays it seems to be criminally formed. Never really come accross people just getting along, more to do with knowing the name of a burgaler or a drug dealer, keeping shtum about it.

the world in general has become so money orientated that soon enough it will be the death of us all. Things get smaller but more expensive, the rich get richer to a greater extent and the poor get poorer because of it. Kids are either poverty or spoiled at the best of times (in my world lol) Religion is being used as a weapon for fear and big business is killing what little bit of britian we had left.

just a few thoughts.
 

Ashtonian said:
One thing thats changed is that if there is any community within a street / area nowdays it seems to be criminally formed. Never really come accross people just getting along, more to do with knowing the name of a burgaler or a drug dealer, keeping shtum about it.

the world in general has become so money orientated that soon enough it will be the death of us all. Things get smaller but more expensive, the rich get richer to a greater extent and the poor get poorer because of it. Kids are either poverty or spoiled at the best of times (in my world lol) Religion is being used as a weapon for fear and big business is killing what little bit of britian we had left.

just a few thoughts.
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Christ pass me the rope...
 
steken1 said:
Things have changed since I was little...

You don't see kids climbing trees, playing footie in the street etc..

How has the world changed since you were a lad or girl?
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Both those things happen on my street. Kid fell out of a tree a few weeks ago and broke both arms and a leg. Had to have the air ambulance take him to hospital.

I have to dodge a football or a kid on my way home most nights, too.
 
harris78 said:
Christ pass me the rope...
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Just a thought lol

to be honest kids dont seem to play with toys as much anymore, it may be games or tech they use but there seems to be less toy demand and must have toys outside the apple store. I dont think in 6 years so far i have had to buy my son a must have toy and watching the tv channels he does there doesnt seem to be any ads pushing them either. Theres a load of random toy ads but nothing to make you want them any more than the next one will.

Back when i was a kid i really wanted the power rangers toys, i really wanted ghostbusters toys before that. They were in demand.

there isnt any collectables for kids either. growing up people gave a damn about stickers and albums, pokemon cards, tazos, pogs, the pogs and stuff out the crisps (and feeling the packets of crisps every morning in the co-op before school to get one). Never mind conkers or marbles like the old folks here, for me having the tazos and pogs were a big deal, people had a yoyo fad for some crazy reason, there was fads even! they were great. A sign of growing up was when a fad went from what collectable you had to what shoes was cool to wear but still it was still part of growing up and knowing you had cool shoes on (or in my case, la coste shoes which trumped the cheaper kickers cool shoes but still lost out to rockport).
 
Moomin said:
Kids these days don't know their born, the nightmare we had loading games on our Spectrum 48k. Took forever for them to load, and it used to crash just before it finished loading.

Porn videos, if you had one you were a legend in school.

Fingering was the thing back in the day, kids these days have access to the likes of bukkake on mobile phones. We will have a generation of proper deviants soon.
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True this.

Can you imagine how they'd go at it nowadays if it was their first time... there'd be digits up hoops, donkey punches, spaffing in grids and all sorts. Poor buggers will be traumatised for years.

The days of Dawson's Creek style romance is dead.
 

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