Back in the Day

I went into the old folks home yesterday to thank the girls who looked after my Mum (Rose was loved by everyone, and a real character and could swear like a professional, bless her.
I noted that they've got a full house again, every time someone dies, there's someone else to take their room. I've booked myself in early to avoid disappointment, I'd rather choose my own home than have the kids do it for me.............. I don't want any revenge pact going on and be sent to Cornwall or Scotland. Send me somewhere I could go without a vaccination passport.

 I was talking to a visitor there who thought that all old people were like the old man in the corner; bemoaning his lot and making life a misery for those around him. I told the visitor, (and this is the truth) that I knew the man forty years ago when he lived and worked locally. He was a miserable belligerent bastard then and had no respect for his family or for himself, he made life a misery for everyone and anyone he could. Life's like that, people don't often change into someone nasty; they were born that way. There's a good few like him around today, you and I know who they are, but being polite, we give them the benefit of the doubt that they might change..............but there's more chance of Oprah Winfry being named the slimmer of the year.

There's an ideal opportunity for a reality TV game show here, to gather all the people we don't like and put them in the jungle (ring any bells?) well the difference being that one of them would be Hannibal Lecter with several bottles of Chianti; he knows what to do. Now that would give them something to whine about. My two favourites would be Tony Blair and Joe Biden along with the yuppie halfwit up the road who wears a red bandanna to cover his bald patch and who calls his children Porcha and Zowie, (the prick).
Bush tucker trials would take on a whole new meaning. Michael Barrymore would be an excellent special guest, where he should be force fed all the drugs he secretly fed his party guests and let loose blindfolded in the jungle. Ant and Dec could replaced by Ted Bundy and Jeffery Dahmer. A reality show with no winners.................or survivors. How environmentally friendly is that? and talking of being green:

I was told by a very pretentious young shit recently that my generation is responsible for the state the world is in, and my generation wasn't green thinking; Oh really!.

That's right, we didn't have the green thing in my day. Back then,
we returned our milk bottles, Coke bottles and beer bottles to the
store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilised
and refilled, using the same bottles over and over. So they really were
recycled. But they didn't have the green thing back in my day.

In my day, we walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator
in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and
didn't climb into a 3 litre machine every time we had to the shop.

But he's right. We didn't have the green thing in my day.

Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because they didn't have the
throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line,( not in an energygobbling
machine burning up "wind and solar power") that really did dry the
clothes. Children got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters,
not always brand-new clothing. But that young shit is right, we didn't
have the green thing back in myday.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house not a Tv in every
room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a dinnerplate, not a
screen the size of a car. In the kitchen, we blended
and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do
everything for you. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the
mail, we used wadded up newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or
plastic bubble wrap.

Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn fuel just to cut
the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised
by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on
treadmills that operate on electricity. We ate fish n chips wrapped in newspaper

and then used the paper to light the fire the next day.

But he's right, we didn't
have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountains when we were thirsty, instead of using a
cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We
refilled pens with ink, instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced
the razor blades in a razors instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the
blade got dull. We didn't have plastic knives and forks because we were too idle to wash them.

But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the bus or train and kids rode their bikes to school
or rode the school bus, instead of turning their Mums into a 24-hour
taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire
bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerised
gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 24,000 miles out in
space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.

It was my job to put the dustbin out on a Friday, it was no big deal because there

was hardly anything in it apart for the ashes from the fire and a few tin cans.

But that young shit is right. We didn't have the green thing back in my
day.

Talking of the young generation......what the hell happened to them?

What happened to the angry young men and Women who wanted to change the world with 

rock and roll

Rock and Roll died along with spoiled kids who have had everything thrown at their feet.

I couldn't wait to leave my home as a teenager and stand on my own two feet. Today kids want to be at home until theyre thirty plus. 

Here in england we gave the world :

Black Sabbath, judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Venom, Motor head, Def Leppard, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Beatles, The Smiths, The Cure, The Damned, The Jam, The Police, The Sex Pistols, The Crush, The Kinks, The Stone Roses, The Clash, The Verve, The Animals, The Manic Street Preachers, Peter Gabrielle, Kate Bush, Jarvis Cocker, David Bowie, Queen, Pink Floyd, Radio head, Supertramp, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Oasis, Joy Division, T. REX, Blur, Stone Roses, Richard Thomson, Amy Winehouse, Artic Monkeys, Eric Clapton, Happy Mondays, Dire Straits, Genesis, Madness, Elbow and A Show of Hands..... to name just some. Thanks to Steve Hughes for this list.