When did we go soft?

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  1. clueless1

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    The health and safety argument is just another part of my original question, ie when did we go soft?

    I remember when I was a kid, if it looked set to drop below freezing overnight, but the ground was dry, we used to actually chuck buckets of water on the floor to get it to ice over so we could make a skid track. Nobody cared, it was innocent fun (we didn't wet the roads).

    We used to build homemade sledges for winter and go-karts for the rest of the year, and race them down bank sides.

    We used to make death slides out of old rope tied between two trees, and then some random object to slot over it for us to grip and slide down.

    Of course, that was all kids stuff, but even in adult land, as recently as when I left school ( 1990 ) at work we used to carry heavy objects without having passed a certificate in the art of lifting things. If you needed to rearrange your work space you just did it.

    Much more recently it has all gone beyond funny and become weird. A few months ago I was moving to a different desk in our office. My new desk is about ten paces from my old one. I had to log a job with the helpdesk to have my computer and telephone moved, and somebody turned up with a big trolley. They forgot to move my small chest of draws, which sits under my desk and is on casters. I wheeled it out without thinking and got told off. Apparently my manual handling certificate has expired! I'd had enough, I told them they had a choice, they could either just ignore me or they could sack me, as I was moving the drawers my self and that was that.
     
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    :scratch: Sadley I think Ted Heath & Margaret Thatchers governments through the 70s & 80s had allot to do with it Clueless.... They started selling off all our Industry, encouraged foreign workers closed the mines etc etc etc the list goes on & somehow "Good Old Great Britain" lost it's identity.... God help us if there is another war as most of the country will not pull together & work together..........:(
     
  3. pete

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    I wondered how long it would be before Maggie got all the blame.:D

    Most of the population have become gutless or apathetic.

    If I dont go to work I dont get paid, its simple.

    Do some people get paid if they dont turn up then?


    It dont help when the police tell people to stay in doors as "the conditions are treacherous" we know that, they always are when it snows.
    But it does save them a lot of hassle.
     
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    It`s blo**dy central heating that`s at the root of it all, girt big marred lasses the lot of `em.
     
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    What central heating :cnfs:

    We don't have central heating or double glazing and yes, as in the 'old days'
    the inside of some of the windows have been icy! but we are surviving.


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    Claire, I suppose you've got to blame it on something :hehe:

    It's these youngsters, they don't know when they're well off. We fought in the wars for them ..... Hold on a moment, I've just transformed into my dad :old: :rotfl::rotfl:. I didn't fight in any war for them. :hehe:

    But we did have to scr*pe the ice off the inside of our bedroom windows, go to school even when the snow was a foot deep or the smog was so bad we couldn't see the ground, or the heating didn't work at school (which was most of the time). I remember quite often that we had to do exercises after assembly to warm up as the heating didn't work properly.

    At the weekends we still got chucked out to play in the streets doesn't matter how deep the snow was. I don't remember ever thinking that I felt cold. :scratch:
     
  7. pete

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    "At the weekends we still got chucked out to play in the streets doesn't matter how deep the snow was. I don't remember ever thinking that I felt cold. :scratch:"

    I bet you did, its just that we tend to have selective memories of the past.

    lets face it, it was cold dreary and miserable most of the time in the winter, its was just that we accepted things much more in those days.
     
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    And we didn`t feel cold because we just went straight to numb.:lollol:We didn`t feel anything.
     
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    Dee, ask Pete about 1963. I can`t remember that far back, only what my granny told me. But Pete will remember first hand.:gnthb::rotfl:
     
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    63 is just a dim and distant memory for me, but I do remember it was a good summer.:scratch:

    I think we went to Broadstairs, ( between Margate and Ramsgate), that year.:D


    Or was it Rimini?:scratch:
     
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    Or the media harping on about it constantly. Amazing, it snows in winter. The roads are therefore more dodgy so take more care. Hardly rocket science but everyone is still in a hurry and tailgate (see other thread :D)
     
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    Pete, I`m not talking 1863. I wish sarra were here, he`d know.:gnthb:
     
  14. pete

    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    I'm sure sarra is out there somewhere, but I'm not sure he is quite that old David.:D
     
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    He`s older than me.:gnthb:
     
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