Those were the days

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....onic-scenes-past.html

Were we made of stronger stuff in days gone by?

I like this one, today they send them home if the heating goes off.

http://i.dailymail.co...00578-928_634x331.jpg

[pa___ul3]

ha, they're ace!!
I like the one with the kids in the buggy while the meerkats are walking.

[mccfluff]

i remember being sent home, it was snowing and there was no heating, what did we all spend the day doing....

sledging and having snowball fights :-)

since the meerkat adverts i know hate merrkats with a passion and if any of you ***** says "simples" i will hunt you down

[Zeuhl]

Is that a Meerkat in the front row?

What The Funicular

[steg]

lol
i think health & safety has changed things, but i think people haven't changed that much

[ChuckFickens]

"since the meerkat adverts i know hate merrkats with a passion and if any of you ***** says "simples" i will hunt you down"

You must love my facebook profile then :)

[pa___ul3]

I actually like the latest ad, the one on the plane, Sergei's funny!

[Zeuhl]

<<Were we made of stronger stuff in days gone by? >>

Well infant mortality was higher and life expectancy lower - so possibly not.

[ummmm]

Those were the days....

Glad I wasn't alive then :-)

[mccfluff]

i do chuckie i love it :-)

[seadogg]

The girls in the light machine shop (1950's) would down tools if the temperature dropped below a certain level. The good old days when Trade Unions were king!

[pa___ul3]

I'd love to argue that point Steve, 'cus I don't think I'm a wimp, but when I compare myself... or anyone, to the only person I know well from those times, my 88 year old grandad who runs 20 miles with cancer in every bone in his body, I'll back away from that argument!
You're as tough as you need to be, it's the hard work and resourcefulness of you oldies that has given us kids the cushy life!! You've only yourselves to blame!!

[rowanwitch]

I love them.... but the real ones are cuter

[Zeuhl]

<<there would be millions of deaf claims being issued to the luftwaffe & such >>

why be so selective steve?

How useless would today's youngsters have been in 1914-18?

When asked to hurl themselves in their thousands at inpenetrable enemy machine gun fire they would have asked awkward, arsey questions such as 'what for?' and 'are you stupid?'

'what was the point of the 50 yards of mud we captured last week at the cost of 100,000 of our mates' lives'.

And if we sent them home afterwards back to their insanitary slums and the dole queue they'd be up in arms protesting about those of us who got rich selling munitions and dealing in the financial markets.

Yes <today's society> would be useless at being exploited like that.

[Ankou]

lol, the one with the conker looks really sinister.

[rowanwitch]

you wouldn't want him near your kids he looks like he'd eat them

[craft1948]

At my infants' school we had big open fires at the front of each classroom........if you were sat at the back in winter you bloody froze.