Children of the 70s

[Jody]

I sense a certain confusion the thread between "born in the 70s" and adult in the 70s

Neither lady quoted in post 1 or 2 were born in the 70's. Shouldn't the thread be called 60's children?

 

[Cycleops]

Fags were cheap, and you could get a pint of Watney's Red Barrel for 16p.

And you could have a damn good night out ending with some fish and chips and still have change from half a crown!

 

[winjim]

I hold the door for old ladies
Run into fires and save babies
I went to school in the eighties


I'm the shoot​

 

[Deleted member 26715]

You seem to have misread my post. I didn't say that I was stuck in the 1970s, this thread is about people who are.

No I don't think I did, I'm not sure this post is anything to do with when people were born, for instance your 2 examples were both born in the 60's, clearly both have irritated you in some way, maybe because they are women, or maybe because they are of colour, maybe both, I notice you don't mention Jacob Rees Mogg, who although born in the last year of the 60's would have been a child of the 70's & is definitely stuck there.

Neither lady quoted in post 1 or 2 were born in the 70's. Shouldn't the thread be called 60's children?

No I think it is more sinister than that.

And you could have a damn good night out ending with some fish and chips and still have change from half a crown!

Only for the 1st year

 

[winjim]

No I don't think I did, I'm not sure this post is anything to do with when people were born, for instance your 2 examples were both born in the 60's, clearly both have irritated you in some way, maybe because they are women, or maybe because they are of colour,

You do know who those people are?

 

[Venod]

I notice you don't mention Jacob Rees Mogg, who although born in the last year of the 60's would have been a child of the 70's & is definitely stuck there.

But he is stuck in the 1870's not 1970's

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Child of the seventies.

People older than me and people younger than me balk when I drink straight from the hosepipe.

You've moved on from urinals then?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I was born in 1952, I don't remember anything from 1969/70, in fact 67 to about 76 are a bit of a mystery, the eldest was born 1977 and he is a bit of a mystery.

He wasn't born he was delivered from Littlewoods after that drunken order you made from the catalogue.

 

[Chris S]

No I don't think I did, I'm not sure this post is anything to do with when people were born, for instance your 2 examples were both born in the 60's, clearly both have irritated you in some way, maybe because they are women, or maybe because they are of colour, maybe both, I notice you don't mention Jacob Rees Mogg, who although born in the last year of the 60's would have been a child of the 70's & is definitely stuck there.

So you know my intentions better than me?

Oh, and Angela Smith and Amber Rudd both grew up in the 70s and the last time I looked they were both white.

 

[Smokin Joe]

You didn’t care because you barely watched tv as you had plenty to amuse you. You only used your car for long journeys and holidays and it was 7/ 6d a gallon and you had several well stocked village shops with fresh produce from the local farms and employed several of the village population. I know which I prefer too.

Thank God those days have gone. For all the local shops employing local people unemployment was higher than it is now, wages were lower in real terms and a lot of the industries that we fondly remember through rose coloured specs involved back breaking work carried out in unsafe conditions. The food we got from those local shops wasn't all that either, a lot of it was kept in conditions that were less than hygienic.

It is no accident that people now live longer and enjoy good health far later in life than they used to.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Decimalisation was the start of the rot, my pocket money went from 1s/3d to 6 1/2 new pence overnight.
In order to recoup my losses I had to start working, too young for a paper round so I was cutting lawns (with a push mower) and fetching shopping to make ends meet.

You were lucky, we lived in a cardboard box.. Lived on dripping like..

That decimalisation was a bugger, money got all tiny and worthless

 

[lane]

Born in the 1960s. Good to see recently via Elon Musk that we are developing the capacity to put people into space again. Be sending them to the moon again soon I expect.

I recon all in all the 60s was a good time to be born, growing up in the 70s, university with no debt and buying my first house for £19k with a 100% mortgage. Still my son thinks it must have been unimaginably awful with no computing or internet but I recon that was a blessing to.

 

[User6179]

No I don't think I did, I'm not sure this post is anything to do with when people were born, for instance your 2 examples were both born in the 60's, clearly both have irritated you in some way, maybe because they are women, or maybe because they are of colour, maybe both, I notice you don't mention Jacob Rees Mogg, who although born in the last year of the 60's would have been a child of the 70's & is definitely stuck there.

No I think it is more sinister than that.


I don't think you could mischaracterise a posters post more than you have did here.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Fags were cheap, and you could get a pint of Watney's Red Barrel for 16p.

My first pack of No6 were 26p or was it 23p...they went up quickly

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You were lucky, we lived in a cardboard box.. Lived on dripping like..

That decimalisation was a bugger, money got all tiny and worthless

Living off the fat of the land. We could only dream of that.