Old Codger Musings:

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I had a similar upbringing to you Milord, although I did blow things up. After making my own cannon I needed gunpowder, to operate it so I made lots of the stuff , blowing up any thing that looked interesting. I would load up the cannon and sit on top of the hill that overlooked a river, then fire clay cannon balls at the wild ducks over half a km away. Sadly it all came to a end when I overloaded one day and the barrel burst, spinning itself around and put a hole through a 500 gallon water tank. Although I survived the blast I didn't survive the beating my mother gave me.
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I remember the bogeyman was scarier in those days - I am a child of the sixties but my childhood was in the seventies. Our first B&W television when I was in high school, sneaking a watch of The Box and Number 96 when left home alone at night (shock) and The Kenny Everett Video Show with Hot Chocolate when no one was looking in the afternoons (although it clashed with The Goodies). I lost more friends to suicide than to accidents or town trolls - the times, they were a'changing.
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Duncan wrote:Although I survived the blast I didn't survive the beating my mother gave me.
Apparently you did!
StroppyChops wrote:I remember the bogeyman was scarier in those days - I am a child of the sixties but my childhood was in the seventies. Our first B&W television when I was in high school, sneaking a watch of The Box and Number 96 when left home alone at night (shock) and The Kenny Everett Video Show with Hot Chocolate when no one was looking in the afternoons (although it clashed with The Goodies). I lost more friends to suicide than to accidents or town trolls - the times, they were a'changing.
I guess you mean Hot Gossip rather than Hot Chocolate; I know which of the two I preferred watching. And it's all done in the best possible taste :-)
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walkjivefly wrote:
Duncan wrote:Although I survived the blast I didn't survive the beating my mother gave me.
Apparently you did!
I had man-flu when I first arrived in the Kingdom, died twice...
walkjivefly wrote:
StroppyChops wrote:The Kenny Everett Video Show with Hot Chocolate...
I guess you mean Hot Gossip rather than Hot Chocolate; I know which of the two I preferred watching. And it's all done in the best possible taste :-)
I guess you're right! Every young boy's delight:

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Yes, those were the days. Chemistry set and Erector set at 7 or 8 years of age. First rifle/shotgun and hunting at 9, parents taking me to buy fireworks while they smoked away in the closed car, no seatbelts, no crash bumpers, a paddling at home or school if you got bad and the parents/school principle didn't get thrown in jail and tons of attorneys didn't get involved, snowball fights (and you put a rock in the middle of the snowball for good measure), lots of fatty food, real milk (not the 2% BS), taking off with friends on your bicycle all day and the parents didn't have the police searching for you, rifle hanging in the back window of my truck in the high school parking lot (deer hunting after school) and the police didn't send in a SWAT team to shoot me.
How did we ever survive to be old farts? Are we any better off with the nanny-states(countries) we have now? I think not.
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^so true.

I think the Internet has eroded Trust.

Politicians and Cops can't hide behind the MSM the way they used to.

Corrupt Banks, Business, and People have not been punished, so instead of being a deterrent, have become a model of sorts.

Fake News has the highest ratings.

We're fucked.
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May i quote one of my favorite authors"

"The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten." :thumb:

"There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die."
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so, we're Seriously Fucked then.

I thought it was just my imagination.
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phuketrichard wrote:May i quote one of my favorite authors"

"The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten." :thumb:

"There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die."
Re the sex comment, I've noticed that there's a big gap between those who are part of the AIDS generation (myself, Sir Queefy) and those who aren't.
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