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Frozen Britain...
It's on BBC as I type, and not really news.
Here's my 2p
When I was a lad, this _is_ how winter was in Britian 30 years ago, I went over to my fathers and we looked at old pics and chatted about it, it was like this every year, then it got warmer.
Since then the North Polar region has started to break up and now colder air finds it was down to us, and it will keep doing that for a long time.
The reason there is so many problems is how many more cars are on the road than there where 30 years ago.
People lived near where they worked and they walked in mostly anyway.
People cleared their own drives and part of the pavement and sometimes more for the older people.
We didn't need health and safety to tell us icy roads where dangerous, we fekin knew that for our selves and acted accordenly, either don't drive or drive very carefully, nothing got gritted so you learned to drive in it if you had too.
Heathrow has 100x times the people flying now than then, and it's run on a knife edge as it is, doesn't take much to balls it up; that and we are not allowed to take the risks we did, back then flying was dangerous so a bit of snow on a runway was just incidental.
Untill Eddie Laker only the very well off traveled anywhere by plane.
Now everyone does.
The planet has gotten smaller we keep hearing, but I think so have our minds in the same process.
I'm of this generation:--
"First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Nandos.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels or SKY, no video/dvd films,
no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
Lawsuits from these accidents.
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...
We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on - MERIT
Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bully's always ruled the playground at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!"
So sorry for the rant, but I don't think I am alone in this.
peace
cal
Here's my 2p
When I was a lad, this _is_ how winter was in Britian 30 years ago, I went over to my fathers and we looked at old pics and chatted about it, it was like this every year, then it got warmer.
Since then the North Polar region has started to break up and now colder air finds it was down to us, and it will keep doing that for a long time.
The reason there is so many problems is how many more cars are on the road than there where 30 years ago.
People lived near where they worked and they walked in mostly anyway.
People cleared their own drives and part of the pavement and sometimes more for the older people.
We didn't need health and safety to tell us icy roads where dangerous, we fekin knew that for our selves and acted accordenly, either don't drive or drive very carefully, nothing got gritted so you learned to drive in it if you had too.
Heathrow has 100x times the people flying now than then, and it's run on a knife edge as it is, doesn't take much to balls it up; that and we are not allowed to take the risks we did, back then flying was dangerous so a bit of snow on a runway was just incidental.
Untill Eddie Laker only the very well off traveled anywhere by plane.
Now everyone does.
The planet has gotten smaller we keep hearing, but I think so have our minds in the same process.
I'm of this generation:--
"First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Nandos.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels or SKY, no video/dvd films,
no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
Lawsuits from these accidents.
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...
We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on - MERIT
Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bully's always ruled the playground at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!"
So sorry for the rant, but I don't think I am alone in this.
peace
cal
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