Olden days were the best or summat...

oboogie · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:08 pm

But an earlier generation of parents had some big advantages in the moaning stakes though; the Great Depression, WWII, rationing, austerity, National Service, the Cold War.
A childhood in the 60s,70s and 80s doesn't really compete with that.
If parents in their 40s or 50s try to tell their teenage children how tough it was for them they are likely to be laughed at.

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3938

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1976! Well I was 12 and I didn't think of it as a wonderful summer. Millions of aphids, then millions of ladybirds (and I mean a plague!). One day they all went in my face as I was cycling along (parents couldn't afford a chopper - none of us had any money), and blinded, I went flying over the handlebars and took my kneecap out! We were always dirty because mum didn't want to waste water on us bathing (in those days we only had a bath once a week anyway!). And I got sunstroke that summer because the highest factor anyone ever used in the early 70s was 8! To top it off we had the wettest UK holiday ever, cos we went away on the Saturday the drought broke! Cromer in pouring rain and floods.........misery!
- Helen C, Herts, 19/3/2012 16:40

That's my kinda woman.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:15 am

1976. The kids went on strike because the school was too hot. I went out and joined them. So did the head.

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 7:04 pm

Regurgitated article about shit that's been on the Interwebs for years but seems to have passed the Mailites by

The comments! :roll:

Is it possible to be a gynæphobic misogynist?

oboogie · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:34 am

Parody? COTD? Looney? You decide.

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In the golden age of motoring, the 1920s and 30s, only the richest 10% of the population could afford cars. The middle classes could sometimes afford motorcycles and the working class rode bicycles or walked. The roads were empty and with so little traffic required little repair. That is the idyll which we need to return to, motoring is a privilege which should be the exclusive right of those who have earned it through considerable wealth. We have caused chaos by allowing the lower orders on to the roads. Why should an office worker or a shop keeper or factory worker be allowed to run a car? That's the kind of thing that happened in the Soviet Union. The sooner we price them off the roads the better. It has already been leaked that George Osborne is planning to raise duty so we will achieve £20 per litre by April 2013. That will certainly rally the Tory voters and upset the socialist traitors as a bonus. I predict a Tory landslide in 2015, Labour might as well give up now.
- MrMickRoach, England, 23/3/2012 22:46

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1pz0qy13l

Abernathy · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:35 am

Parody, undoubtedly.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:35 am

Parody. 0.85 of a Kadir-Buxton.

oboogie · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:44 am

I don't think the Mailturds get the joke - it's currently 12 in the red.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:47 am

Mailtards don't do irony shock horror!

I firmly believe that Mick is one of us, playing a double game. Or else Andy.

Apparently 'Mickroach' is a derogatory term for an Irish person.

oboogie · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:00 am

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Mailtards don't do irony shock horror!

I firmly believe that Mick is one of us, playing a double game. Or else Andy.

Well that's what I thought for a while except sometimes his posts are very sensible, and sometimes they're vile without any irony.
I've come to the conclusion that there's actually at least two of them, one's a cunt and the other(s) taking the piss - another Roger of England situation. I wonder what happened to him, he just disappeared one day in a wee puff of impotent rage.

Who's Andy?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:21 am

Andy Kadir-Buxton. My hero.
http://www.kadir-buxton.com/

Amazonian · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 5:24 am

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Is it possible to be a gynæphobic misogynist?

Are you thinking of martin, Middlesborough there, Carlos? The poor wee boy seems to have some sort of bee in the bonnet, seemingly every third comment on that article is by him.

oboogie · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 11:24 am

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Apparently 'Mickroach' is a derogatory term for an Irish person.

I didn't know that.
Makes sense, a google of his name reveals postings all over the place. He specialises in anti-Irish postings and claims he's ex-army with several tours of NI under his belt, but no-one seems to believe him.

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:46 pm

Amazonian wrote:

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Is it possible to be a gynæphobic misogynist?

Are you thinking of martin, Middlesborough there, Carlos? The poor wee boy seems to have some sort of bee in the bonnet, seemingly every third comment on that article is by him.

Yep, that's the one!

MrMickRoach is at it again. I think it's right to assume there are (at least) two of them.

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If bread wasn't so cheap maybe it wouldn't sell out so quickly. It is so inconvenient for decent people to get to the supermarket only to find that greedy socialists have hoarded it all to feed their hateful children. I think it should have a minimum price like alcohol to keep the poor away from it. About £10 per loaf should do it.
- MrMickRoach, England, 25/3/2012 18:19

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2120038/George-Osbornes-takeaway-tax-provokes-furious-backlash-savouries-subject-VAT.html#ixzz1q9TKE1sx

oboogie · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:02 pm

Carlos The Badger wrote:

MrMickRoach is at it again. I think it's right to assume there are (at least) two of them.

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If bread wasn't so cheap maybe it wouldn't sell out so quickly. It is so inconvenient for decent people to get to the supermarket only to find that greedy socialists have hoarded it all to feed their hateful children. I think it should have a minimum price like alcohol to keep the poor away from it. About £10 per loaf should do it.
- MrMickRoach, England, 25/3/2012 18:19

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2120038/George-Osbornes-takeaway-tax-provokes-furious-backlash-savouries-subject-VAT.html#ixzz1q9TKE1sx

Speaking as a greedy socialist I always hoard bread, it goes so well with the Halal meat I secretly force down the throats of unsuspecting decent people.

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