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raymond hall
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dear roly.i dont often disagree with you,in fact up to date i dont think i have, but with your reference to old time foggies" ime afraid I have to. you seem to forget that the 16 19 20 tr olds are tomorrows future,and o them,what you and I think doent mean athing thanks to the welfare state,if they cant get a job centrelink will provide for them,as long as they go through the motions of looking for a job. and they get paid more than my pension! and I have been working for 60 yrs. there is no incentive for them to work so in a lot of cases they say why should I.I better stop now before I get really wound up.nothing personal mate ,just an old foggies opinion regards ray

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24/02/2012 07:04:22

Steve Greenwood
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I agree with you, Roly. We tend to remember our childhood days with nostalgia because they were the days that were imprinted on our minds.
The generation that followed us have their own memories of a safer world that had Nuclear weapons and other wars like Korea and Suez and, later the Falklands.
It appears to me that we never learn from our mistakes or failures because we still have young men and women dying in far off lands.
Maybe they were the ’Good old days’ in many peoples minds but don’t dig too much under the surface because you may be surprised in what you find .

Live long and prosper

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24/02/2012 08:28:54

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You can still get cod liver oil and malt from Boots last week they were selling it buy two jars and get one free, my old lemon and me take it every day in the winter, a true reminder of the old days when as kids we would line up and have a spoonful each all with the same spoon, can you see that happening to-day?

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24/02/2012 10:18:34

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Syd Jones did you say "Dip" was when you had BEEF and red hot fat or dripping running over your hands. What was beef?? My mother told us all the animals on four legs were moved away to other countries . I can’t remember having any kind of meat or anything that wasn’t powdered. The dip we had was a large bowl of chicken or other bones boiled up and we dipped our bread into the resulting fluids. Beef??? were you middle class?? One of 7 kids.

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24/02/2012 14:01:32

Terry Carey
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Quoting: raymond hall
dear roly.i dont often disagree with you,in fact up to date i dont think i have, but with your reference to old time foggies" ime afraid I have to. you seem to forget that the 16 19 20 tr olds are tomorrows future,and o them,what you and I think doent mean athing thanks to the welfare state,if they cant get a job centrelink will provide for them,as long as they go through the motions of looking for a job. and they get paid more than my pension! and I have been working for 60 yrs. there is no incentive for them to work so in a lot of cases they say why should I.I better stop now before I get really wound up.nothing personal mate ,just an old foggies opinion regards ray

Hi Ray,

I think you rather missed Roly’s humour in his remarks. He’s not calling anyone so I think, with all respect, you ought to just lighten up. We old buggers who’ve been around on here for a while all know him and he’s NEVER nasty.

TC.

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