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clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

I was rummaging through some old photos from the 50s and found one of me wearing short trousers. I was about 9 or 10, and you always wore the obligatory snake belt to hold them up. Couldnt wait to get to high school to get into long trousers. Nearly all the boys of that age wore short trousers. I can never remember as a kid ever having a pair of jeans. What a photo I am also wearing a cardigan buttoned up wrongly. Typical schoolboy of that era I suppose. Not like that now with all the designer clothes costing the same as a marina with an MOT Laughing

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peppiB · Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:52 pm Post subject:

The short trousers weren't so bad - it was the hand knitted swimming trunks that got me. Into the water, get them wet, stand up and ......... Shocked

Ghost · Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 75

A neighbour tells me that her 10 year old son will not go to school unless he has Calvin Klein underpants. She also has to take him to and collect from school, a 10min walk, but they go by car. Let's hope, following all this indulgence, the little chap grows up to be a genius and changes society for the better. But I have to warn you all that having met him I think this is unlikely! Is it me or has the world gone made?

clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

Yes Ghost the world has gone mad. I used to walk 3 miles to school with my pals and that was primary school !. Now their parents turn up with the Chelsea Tractor to take them home. Mind you in the 50s there wasnt as much badness on the go. Not like now...changed days eh. Its true no one locked their doors then, probably because no one had anything worth pinching. Sad

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buzzy bee · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire

Hi

It has changed hell of alot since I was at primary school, only 15 years ago! hehe

We used to cycle there, walk there, and the parents used to drive in all sorts of normal cars, went past recently, and there was not one old car, they all had bentley's, 4x4's or big posh cars.

You want to see what I wear, not exactly designer, why you need fancy clothes etc, god knows. I don't give a damn what I look like, people can think I am a scruff, or what they like, I really don't care! I will wear/look like what I want!

Cheers

Dave

Brian M · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:55 am Post subject:

The infants school on my way to work started a "Walking Bus" scheme. When I saw the 20 or so children all in their yellow jackets, I thought great - 15-20 less cars on the road.

Now we have our neighbours in their Chelsea Tractors dropping their children off at the start point of the Walking Bus that is fifty yards from their house!
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roverdriver · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:24 am Post subject:

Spring 1950, I was five years old, and had only been in Australia a few months. I was walking the four miles home from school, when a kindly local orchardist offered me a ride in his 1927 Packard that had been converted to a farm truck. I refused on the grounds that I didn't want to ride in such an old vehicle.

Fast forward ten years and I was working for that same orchardist, and arranging to purchase my first motor vehicle. He gave me some ribbing and reminded me of what had happened in 1950, when he found out that I was purchasing a 1918 Ford TT one ton truck!
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Keith D · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:36 pm Post subject:

The best one I heard was from my neices a few years ago. My brother, a single father, was picking his girls up from school in his beautiful RM Riley, when the girls calmly asked him if he would mind parking around the corner where their mates could not see the old Riley. I was with him at the time and went ballistic, only to be told by my brother not to have a go at his daughters! The irony was that a few of their mates had seen the Riley and reckoned it a "cool car"! Everything changed, he had to collect them everyday in it!

Keith

Greeney in France · Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:21 am Post subject:

Thank fully this attitude hasn't arrived in France, anyone drives anything and classics are cool. I was in the DS prestige last week and parked next to a ferrari at a ville foire, on the other side was a Panhard... NO ONE really looked at the Ferrari or spoke to the owner Rolling Eyes

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