Quote: Rooface @ February 11 2012, 4:44 PM GMTYou could just say "Spacehoppers".
Things you miss from previous decades. Page 2
Quote: Rooface @ February 11 2012, 4:44 PM GMTYou could just say "Spacehoppers".
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ February 11 2012, 4:38 PM GMTI miss the 1940s - you could leave your door open and not worry about being burgled. Mainly because you had nothing worth stealing and you went to the toilet outside.
You could also walk the streets at night without being mugged - as long as you didn't mind be killed by the odd Nazi Doodlebug.
Yes, watching my neighbours children being crushed to death in their own home during the Blitz brings back so many happy memories.
TB, rickets, ration books, racism, nuclear bombs going off - those really were the good old days.
There was a documentary on the Beeb awhile ago with Frankie Fraser on it. About how during WW2 with all the coppers fighting, everyone looking for spies and the prisons emptying out. The streets were full of crims stabbing and robbing.
It was like Hackney was everywhere for 6 years.
I miss the cold war. I was oddly comforted by the knowledge there were a million communist atom bombs pointed at me and legions of tanks on the inner German border.
Made me feel special.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ February 11 2012, 4:38 PM GMTI miss the 1940s - you could leave your door open and not worry about being burgled. Mainly because you had nothing worth stealing and you went to the toilet outside.
You could also walk the streets at night without being mugged - as long as you didn't mind be killed by the odd Nazi Doodlebug.
Yes, watching my neighbours children being crushed to death in their own home during the Blitz brings back so many happy memories.
TB, rickets, ration books, racism, nuclear bombs going off - those really were the good old days.
It has rarely been mentioned but some poor parents during the war would sometimes kill their smallest child to feed the older children and themselves. They would simply say that the child went out to play and must have been killed by the bomb that landed nearby.
- Sorry, not funny but interesting to some I suppose 
Still happens near me.
Organic free range chavletter, ce'st bon
Hugh's cooking it on the next series of River Cottage,
Quote: Bob Hicks @ February 11 2012, 6:11 PM GMTIt has rarely been mentioned but some poor parents during the war would sometimes kill their smallest child to feed the older children and themselves. They would simply say that the child went out to play and must have been killed by the bomb that landed nearby.
- Sorry, not funny but interesting to some I suppose
Are you saying they saved money by having fewer children, or that THEY ATE THE BABY?
Quote: Rooface @ February 11 2012, 4:44 PM GMTYou could just say "Spacehoppers".
omg they scarred me for life
school sports day - circa 1979 ish when I was about six
i was entered in the space hopper race - didnt even know what one was, let aone how to drive one of the bloody things
so when the whistle went for the start I just sat there - when the others had all crossed the finish line I was still sat at the start being laughed at by the entire school
(i think this may be why I go out at night killing people)
Quote: zooo @ February 11 2012, 6:18 PM GMTAre you saying they saved money by having fewer children, or that THEY ATE THE BABY?
Eating your own baby is pretty poor form. There were a lot of cases of cannibalism recorded in China during Mao's monstrously stupid Great Leap Forward (1958-62), which killed about 40 million people. When starving families did eat a baby, generally they would not eat their own, but they would swap it for another family's newborn baby, as it was easier to kill and eat someone else's kid.
Quote: Kenneth @ February 11 2012, 6:45 PM GMTEating your own baby is pretty poor form. There were a lot of cases of cannibalism recorded in China during Mao's monstrously stupid Great Leap Forward (1958-62), which killed about 40 million people. When starving families did eat a baby, generally they would not eat their own, but they would swap it for another family's newborn baby, as it was easier to kill and eat someone else's kid.
How to kill a happy thread by Kenneth.
Imagine eating a baby with chopsticks
Quote: Kenneth @ February 11 2012, 6:45 PM GMTEating your own baby is pretty poor form.
Quite right old chap
Quote: Kenneth @ February 11 2012, 6:45 PM GMTEating your own baby is pretty poor form. There were a lot of cases of cannibalism recorded in China during Mao's monstrously stupid Great Leap Forward (1958-62), which killed about 40 million people. When starving families did eat a baby, generally they would not eat their own, but they would swap it for another family's newborn baby, as it was easier to kill and eat someone else's kid.
Aparently it's why the Queen Mum visited the East End in the Blitz...
I miss when babies were delivered at home by a 7 foot tall comedienne on a bicycle.
I miss fish 'n' chips being wrapped in newspaper, what a sensible way to recycle, plus you got something to read. But they had to ban it, because newspapers might be bad for you, while of course food deep-fried in super-saturated fat isn't, is it?