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If you were raised on Rainbow, Blue Peter, and you played in the woods, fell out of trees and went home filthy and got a thick ear, had 4 TV channels & school started with the Lords prayer, had to be in at 7, rode home made go-karts with pram wheels, recorded the top 40 from the radio on a tape, drank from the tap, rode your BMX or Grifter all day, went to the corner shop for a 10p mix up and you still turned out ok. This is WHEN BRITAIN WAS GREAT |
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Drank from the same bottle of lemonade as 11 other mucky lads, sometimes you were lucky and were in the first 3."
Are you 100% certain it was lemonade in the bottle and not wee.   |
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Drank from the same bottle of lemonade as 11 other mucky lads, sometimes you were lucky and were in the first 3.
Are you 100% certain it was lemonade in the bottle and not wee. "
We survived.
And it depends on whose doing the weeing 
Anyone else have pissing contests, see how far up a shool drainpipe you could get it ( on the outside may i add )? |
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Not lemonade, Cream Soda, in bottles that were returned for the deposit on them and drank Stera milk too, and watched Knight Rider or the a- team on Saturday nights on a TV that had no remote, but buttons on it, happy days! |
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"If you were raised on Rainbow, Blue Peter, and you played in the woods, fell out of trees and went home filthy and got a thick ear, had 4 TV channels & school started with the Lords prayer, had to be in at 7, rode home made go-karts with pram wheels, recorded the top 40 from the radio on a tape, drank from the tap, rode your BMX or Grifter all day, went to the corner shop for a 10p mix up and you still turned out ok. This is WHEN BRITAIN WAS GREAT"
Before my time all that xx  |
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... when our neighbourhood was so friendly that our front door key actually rusted into the lock over time (true!) and no-one ever robbed us, the local garage gave our mum her car keys back after repair/service without fuss because they knew she was gonna pay the bill once payday came, and the ladies at the corner shop gave us a few sweets 'on account' because they knew our mum would pay the bill once payday came...
(i would've loved a Grifter!)
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Drank from the same bottle of lemonade as 11 other mucky lads, sometimes you were lucky and were in the first 3.
Are you 100% certain it was lemonade in the bottle and not wee.
We survived.
And it depends on whose doing the weeing
Anyone else have pissing contests, see how far up a shool drainpipe you could get it ( on the outside may i add )?"
No, but I recall trying to write my name in the snow with my wee. Got most of it done ok but the problem came trying the dot the 'i' as I couldn't stop in mid flow! |
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and three of us got a bollocking from teacher for being 30 minutes late for Chemistry.
"Soz, miss, we were up Daisy Hill"
And when the girl walked in 35 minutes late and teach asked if she'd been up Daisy Hill.
"No miss, i am Daisy Hill" |
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anyone born after 1980 will never understand the pleasures of the 60's and 70's..... life was fantastic and England was England ......such a shame it ever ended  |
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"Peter Sutcliffe, Ian Huntley, Derrick Bird, Raoul Moat, Fred West, Rosemary West, Michael Ryan, Thomas Hamilton....and many more monsters....
All brought up in those self same 'glory days'...."
As was anyone in our age group you plonker!  |
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"Peter Sutcliffe, Ian Huntley, Derrick Bird, Raoul Moat, Fred West, Rosemary West, Michael Ryan, Thomas Hamilton....and many more monsters....
All brought up in those self same 'glory days'...."
Oi, OI. What's Donald Neilson done to upset you? Another of Bradford's finest. |
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"Peter Sutcliffe, Ian Huntley, Derrick Bird, Raoul Moat, Fred West, Rosemary West, Michael Ryan, Thomas Hamilton....and many more monsters....
All brought up in those self same 'glory days'....
Oi, OI. What's Donald Neilson done to upset you? Another of Bradford's finest. "
How could I forget dear old Donald? |
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"If you were raised on Rainbow, Blue Peter, and you played in the woods, fell out of trees and went home filthy and got a thick ear, had 4 TV channels & school started with the Lords prayer, had to be in at 7, rode home made go-karts with pram wheels, recorded the top 40 from the radio on a tape, drank from the tap, rode your BMX or Grifter all day, went to the corner shop for a 10p mix up and you still turned out ok. This is WHEN BRITAIN WAS GREAT"
That's my facebook status |
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When Britain was Great,,,,,Men who dressed as women were on the telly every Saturday night and were called Danny La Rue...... and even the Queen tuned in to watched him!!!! so nur-nur,,,,
Sox is still available for Panto folks....  |
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"If you were raised on Rainbow, Blue Peter, and you played in the woods, fell out of trees and went home filthy and got a thick ear, had 4 TV channels & school started with the Lords prayer, had to be in at 7, rode home made go-karts with pram wheels, recorded the top 40 from the radio on a tape, drank from the tap, rode your BMX or Grifter all day, went to the corner shop for a 10p mix up and you still turned out ok. This is WHEN BRITAIN WAS GREAT
That's my facebook status"
its mine too just thought it would be gd to put it on here |
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And weren't part of Team fucking GB. "
Yeah lets return to the glory days of no funding, limitted facilities and little success in the majority of sports... |
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And weren't part of Team fucking GB.
Yeah lets return to the glory days of no funding, limitted facilities and little success in the majority of sports... "
Last week?? |
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When we had bakers and milkmen delivering to the house and the coalman came....when the rag and bone man gave you a goldfish for grandmas corsets. and sticklebacks were all the rage along with little green nets on poles |
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"If you were raised on Rainbow, Blue Peter, and you played in the woods, fell out of trees and went home filthy and got a thick ear, had 4 TV channels & school started with the Lords prayer, had to be in at 7, rode home made go-karts with pram wheels, recorded the top 40 from the radio on a tape, drank from the tap, rode your BMX or Grifter all day, went to the corner shop for a 10p mix up and you still turned out ok. This is WHEN BRITAIN WAS GREAT"
If you got beaten up for being gay,the boarding houses said no blacks no dogs no irish,there was no marital rape,women were slags or married, girls asked for it,the NF petrol bombed houses,the first victims of the yorkshire ripper were ignored cos they were sex workers, the black and white minstrels show was considered funny,pregnant bankworkers had to leave their jobs,and you still live in a nostalgic rose tinted view of the world...then you probably dont believe this is a great country to live in
i rewrote it |
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"If you were raised on Rainbow, Blue Peter, and you played in the woods, fell out of trees and went home filthy and got a thick ear, had 4 TV channels & school started with the Lords prayer, had to be in at 7, rode home made go-karts with pram wheels, recorded the top 40 from the radio on a tape, drank from the tap, rode your BMX or Grifter all day, went to the corner shop for a 10p mix up and you still turned out ok. This is WHEN BRITAIN WAS GREAT"
4 TV channells - bldy luxury! |
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"That's my facebook status
careful... in these sensitive times you'll be up before the beak for incitement to reminisce.... "
or intention to do nothing in particular! |
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"Not lemonade, Cream Soda, in bottles that were returned for the deposit on them and drank Stera milk too, and watched Knight Rider or the a- team on Saturday nights on a TV that had no remote, but buttons on it, happy days!"
We used to get our cream soda from the pop man who delivered it weekly. Alpine I think they were called, used to get 10p back for an empty bottle too. |
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"anyone born after 1980 will never understand the pleasures of the 60's and 70's..... life was fantastic and England was England ......such a shame it ever ended "
Aaah, parents called Sambo and nig nog, notices on homes, no blacks, because parents called "tap" "pipe" and "pipe" is the word you used in an essay put in "special needs" classes. Being one of the smartest in your school, straight As but sent to local comp as "no point" sending "my kind" to grammar school.
Growing up in 60s/70s England was really pleasurable for me and mine. Being abused daily was fantastic, shame it ended! |
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"I remember my summer of 69's .....
I do too, so snap.  "
Me too, and seeing Rolling Stones in Hyde Park and discovering funny smelling hippie cigarettes lol
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