Children of the 70s

[Deleted member 26715]

I won't treat folk to a certain other kinda related northern phrase.

Like, That's as funny as copulation ?

 

[Blue Hills]

Like, That's as funny as copulation ?

?

 

[Deleted member 26715]

?

Around here there is a Northern expression with is a 4 letter word for copulation which I'm pretty sure I can't type here, well I know I can type it, but it would not be acceptable.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Funny as work?

 

[MichaelW2]

For me, born in 1960s but with a 70s childhood, it was a time of modernisation, progress, upward mobility, blurring of class divides, cub scouts, white dog poo, Blue Peter rather than Magpie, Tomorrow's World, package holidays, avacado, shrimp salad, black forest gateaux. Flamboyant clothing and a Gary Glitter who to me seemed somehow creepy. Britain looked up, out and forward and occasionally behind.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Whatever era you were a child or teenager in was great in hindsight. No responsibilities

But if you were an adult in the 70s it was, compared to today, pretty crap. People were poorer, less healthy, less socially mobile, less tolerant

70s or 60s or whatever weren't great, they were crap compared to now. It was your childhood that was great

Well, the 80's were a bit crap with all that unemployment and an intransigent uncaring Tory Govt....bit like now?.

 

[raleighnut]

I never called it a Ramones look, but that was me in the late 80s

79 for me. , I was going more for the Rocker/Ted style to be honest but there were Joey and the Boys dressed pretty much the same, mind you most of the lads who were 'Punks' looked like Rik

 

[Deleted member 26715]

We were never called latch key kids as nobody locked their doors

 

[Rocky]

We were never called latch key kids as nobody locked their doors

You were lucky, we didn't even have a door. We lived in a hole in the ground.

 

[Levo-Lon]

You were lucky, we didn't even have a door. We lived in a hole in the ground.

You were lucky
Our hole was a pond

 

[Dirk]

You were lucky
Our hole was a pond

We couldn't afford to dig a hole.......

 

[GM]

When I was about 10, the Teddy Boy era was just fading out, and I really wished I could grow a pair of those big bushy sideburns.

 

[Poacher]

I was a 60’s child and a 70’s late teens.
What a great place England was then, not like now.
This country has become an armpit of a dog hole, for all and sundry.
This country actually makes me physically sick these days.

I totally agree; the xenophobia and racism I encounter on a daily basis make me sick too!
So glad we agree on this!

 

[classic33]

Don't forget that the Irish helped build Britain back then.

 

[Slick]

Put the computer down Mick.