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Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 4:40 pm
by Clive Evans
Please list & compare. For me:
1 Travelling to away matches. Had to be at Stamford Bridge at Midnight to catch the coach to : Sunderland, Huddersfield, Stoke, Liverpool etc.
2 Cold houses, in my house only one or two rooms were heated. Had to have a hot water bottle in Winter. Net curtains often froze to window pane.
3 Sweets were rationed, in 1950 the ration went down to 4oz / week
4 Winter evenings, no TV until as was 9 ( that was fairly early for most ). My mum & her cousin did embroidery or sewing whilst listening to the radio
5 Food was boring. Meat & cheese were rationed. Could only get Government Cheddar Cheese.
What hardships do you remember?
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 4:43 pm
by Max B Gold
My greatest hardship was when penny carmels went up to tuppence. I was incandescent with rage.
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 4:46 pm
by Ronnie Hotdogs
No more labour governments.
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 4:50 pm
by Long slender neck
Internet porn
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 4:51 pm
by PutneyO
Conscription abolished
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 5:07 pm
by tuffers#1
we didnt have to carry the fizzy drinks bottles back to get 5 pence back .
Plastic is so much easier to throw away in a bin &
will eventually break down in a million years time
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 5:08 pm
by OyinbO
Vastly improved healthcare
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 5:13 pm
by Smendrick Feaselberg
Much better footballers
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 5:28 pm
by HARVEY T DENTON
No Keith Day in a match squad .
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 5:39 pm
by Cheshunto
Smoking abolished in pubs, restaurants and on trains
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 5:49 pm
by Omygawd
The end of Peters and Lee
Sweet cigarettes banned
Usable toilets in each stand
Balti Pies
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:16 pm
by Chicken Dhansak
Motorways and straight cucumbers.
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:31 pm
by Constanza
No more ABBA songs.
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:51 pm
by Rich Tea Wellin
Great point. Watching euro 96 re runs, it was entertaining but no one could string 2 passes together. Drinan would have started alongside Shearer had he been around then!
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:52 pm
by Long slender neck
Apple Wumble wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:51 pm
Great point. Watching euro 96 re runs, it was entertaining but no one could string 2 passes together. Drinan would have started alongside Shearer had he been around then!
Even though hes Irish?
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:54 pm
by Rich Tea Wellin
Prestige Worldwide wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:52 pm
Apple Wumble wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:51 pm
Great point. Watching euro 96 re runs, it was entertaining but no one could string 2 passes together. Drinan would have started alongside Shearer had he been around then!
Even though hes Irish?
If Jackie grealish can do it…
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:58 pm
by KC & sunshine band
anaesthetic
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:02 pm
by Long slender neck
Vacuum cleaners
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:07 pm
by LeapsAndBounds
Fun runs for all. From Peoples Marathons and Half Marathons in the eighties to Park Runs now . Truly wonderful.
Email as opposed to writing letters. Great way to stay in touch with friends.
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:09 pm
by Stamford O
Soft toilet paper.that izal stuff was rough and slippery
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:14 pm
by KC & sunshine band
toilets in the house
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:47 pm
by BoniO
My gonads dropped.
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:47 pm
by y o y o y
Cars that start first time on a cold morning.
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:39 pm
by one o in huntingdon
Decent beer in the South, only ever got a good pint at away games like Blackburn.
That was apart from Youngs or Fullers, not an over abundance of their pubs North of the Thames.
Re: Improvements Since You Were a Youngster
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:42 pm
by Currywurst and Chips
Pretty much everything