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Do you miss the 70's?
« on: April 12, 2005, 03:16:07 PM »
Turn up the volume and enjoy ;D

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Re: Do you miss the 70's?
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2005, 01:49:17 AM »
I was at Uni in the 70's and still have my Pink Floyd / Black Sabbath / Deep Purple / Led Zep T-Shirts.

My kids have uploaded all my old LP's (if you remember them) onto the PC and have an itunes playlist called "Dad's Dinosaurs" !!!

It's great to just click on "Random", sit back and see what plays.

I can't open the video here at work because of our corporate network police but will have a look later at home

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Re: Do you miss the 70's?
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2005, 03:44:21 AM »
Welcome to the <70's Even my mother wouldn't let me cut my hair.

Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.

When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and fluorescent 'clackers' on our wheels.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the passenger seat was a treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle - tasted the same.

We ate dripping sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no one actually died from this.

We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles at times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us all day and no one minded.

We did not have Playstations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went outside and found them.

We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt.

We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits. They were accidents. We learnt not to do the same thing again.

We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue - we learned to get over it.

We walked to friend's homes.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate live stuff, and although we were told it would happen, we did not have very many eyes out, nor did the live stuff live inside us forever.

We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.

Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that!

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Re: Do you miss the 70's?
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2005, 04:00:14 AM »
Agree with all that, though you may have to explain dripping sandwiches to our vegemite-loving friends.

Add:

We NEVER tidied our room (no change there then)

We played our music really loud and our parents hated it (no change there then)

Petrol (gas) was 2 shillings a gallon (ok - early 70's), that's, um, um, 2.2p/litre (US$0.04/liter)
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Re: Do you miss the 70's?
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2005, 05:13:37 AM »
And we didn’t find the need to stock-up on 27 different products offering to eradicate every single species of bacteria and virus on earth. I seem to recall good old Ivory soap worked fine provided you followed your mother sage advice (or carping) to “wash your hands before you eat.”
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Re: Do you miss the 70's?
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2005, 08:03:32 PM »
 Do I miss the 70's???????/  Hell what year is this anyway?

Movies for a buck
Gas .65
smokes .50
My first new car $1497.00
Mickey D's hamburger .25
Arby's Roast beef .99
Can of Skoal .35
Lunch at school .60
Set of tires for anything 100.00
a nickel bag 5.00
can of beer .25
pack of gum .05

Yes I do miss the 70's,  But the news on TV still looks the same

Jimmy Carter
Waiting in like for gas.
Watching gas go to 1.68 in 30 days
The draft
Watching the Vets come home while the media and "some" fools booing them.
AMC motors
Watching the news cover stories about how hard the draft dodgers had it in Canada.
10th grade
Maybe I do not miss the 70's that much now that I think about it.
« Last Edit: April 15, 2005, 08:24:18 AM by QUAIL »
These wonderful little birds are great flyers, delicious eating, excellent for training your hunting dog, and just fun to shoot,or stuff and keep around the house.  Bobwhites can be put with other types of Quail and have very large penis's.  Quail are very popular with the babes.

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Re: Do you miss the 70's?
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2005, 11:38:32 AM »
Very well put, Paul.

We never needed reminding to get some fresh air.

We never looked pale.

We meet our friends in the woods, on the soccer pitch, playgrounds, rivers ... anywhere but inside.

We did not know what "online" was.

And the Rock and Motown and The Beatles and Alice Cooper/10cc/Golden Earring/Chicago/Lynyrd Skynyrd/BTO/ and all the rest of it kept us moving.

I guess we were a lucky bunch of guys to grow up in the 70's.


Geez, that's more than 30 years ago now. I am getting old.

Cheers, Stephen in Ontario
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Re: Do you miss the 70's?
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2005, 02:47:34 PM »
Speaking of the music.  The music of the 70's made you think about your life.  It did not tell me my life su-ked and I should kill myself and everyone around me.  They made love songs that your girl said was 'our' song. It was no bed of roses, we were still pushed by bullies and had to decide to run or fight. Mom and Dad were may not have been married but at least you knew your Dad. If your dog bit someone they told you about it instead of thier lawyer. The doctors made the same mistakes but they only charged you what you could afford, but you did not sue them when they were wrong eather.  You did not date the #$%*es and Ho's they were for something else and they were offended if you called them that.  Yes I am getting old and yes the old days were better. We were happier but why can"t I convince my kids that?
« Last Edit: April 22, 2005, 06:10:43 AM by QUAIL »
These wonderful little birds are great flyers, delicious eating, excellent for training your hunting dog, and just fun to shoot,or stuff and keep around the house.  Bobwhites can be put with other types of Quail and have very large penis's.  Quail are very popular with the babes.

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Re: Do you miss the 70's?
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2007, 02:03:12 AM »
Ill second Quails opinion. I can hardly wait to see my future kids base the rules of life on Judge Joe Brown and whoevers baby daddy cheated on so and so, & its ok to accept cell phones from friends and not pay for it, & its better to get on wellfare and dope right after school instead of job and college... & you get the point.   

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Re: Do you miss the 70's?
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2007, 08:28:34 AM »
It's threads like this one that bring back truly happy memories.

I started my working career as an apprentice optician in 1972, with a steady income for the first time... 10 pounds a week, less National Insurance of 57p. On that I had a life!. 3 pounds to mum for room and board, 2 pounds a week for the loan payment of my '72 CB175, a little for savings and the rest blown on Thursday night down the pub, followed by a Chinese take-out (Meal 'A').

Society's biggest hang up was what the skinheads were going to do next, the spiralling cost of petrol and the threat of all of the ration coupons for a possible petrol shortage. The break-up of the Beatles was ancient history, England was deciding whether it should join the EU (my first ever opportunity to vote) and beer was 15p a pint.

And ditto to all of the sentiments already mentioned.

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Re: Do you miss the 70's?
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2007, 08:44:34 AM »
15p a pint! I SERVED it at 1/10p (! shilling and 10 pence= just less than 10 new pence) got paid £35 a month and digs and a full tank of petrol for the Enfield 250 Crusader was £2/10/6 and lasted 3 1/2 weeks---had to walk for the last 1/2 week!
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Re: Do you miss the 70's?
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2007, 10:53:09 AM »
We're beginning to sound like the geezers in the Monty Python skit..... we used to live in a cardboard box in the middle of the road...
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« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2007, 08:54:32 AM »
And whats wrong with cardboard!
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Re: Do you miss the 70's?
« Reply #13 on: March 30, 2007, 07:03:10 PM »
Whoever invented the halter top should've been president.

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Re: Do you miss the 70's?
« Reply #14 on: April 12, 2007, 02:01:15 AM »
No...  I wasnt even born
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Re: Do you miss the 70's?
« Reply #15 on: April 13, 2007, 07:06:47 PM »
The Tube Top inventer should've been president, the halter top inventer should've been vice president

Whoever invented the halter top should've been president.
These wonderful little birds are great flyers, delicious eating, excellent for training your hunting dog, and just fun to shoot,or stuff and keep around the house.  Bobwhites can be put with other types of Quail and have very large penis's.  Quail are very popular with the babes.

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Re: Do you miss the 70's?
« Reply #16 on: April 14, 2007, 06:40:06 PM »
OK, but then there a downside.....

For my birthday, I got the first season of Saturday Night Live(1975).  I now have to explain to my 21 year old son things like "The Lockers", and the clothing we used to wear, and the music.  You know, the not-so=popular stuff, not the great music that still lives on the retro stations today.  Yes I miss the seventies, but I'm also somewhat embarrassed.
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