Compo 10,328 Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 When I write in this forum I see everyone, myself included, as between 16 - 25yrs old - I suppose that must be my nostalgic age. I wonder if anyone else always visualises members as being a generic age rather than a real age? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Yes Compo, Me to. I find being older myself now I look on older people in a different light than I did when I was younger. It seemed at the time that Older people were people who were old. Never gave it a thought that they were once young. Now I see them as young people with wrinkles? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 I thought I was strange in thinking along those lines,maybe a combination of nostalgia and wishful thinking,but glad to know I'm not on my own. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Yes, I tend to think along those lines. I've put it down to the fact that my youth was spent in and around Nottingham. I emigrated when I was 25. So I suppose I'm stuck in a time warp. When folks write about Nottingham I still tend to visualise it as it was back in the 60s. I guess I'm still a teen/twenty something inside, but the snow on the roof and wrinkles on the face tell another story. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 I'm still in my early 20s too. Wish I knew then what I know now ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,473 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 As I am only 17 I am qualified to talk about this It's awkward to come to terms with the idea that an increasing percentage of the population is younger than yourself. I'm gradually coming round to it. I think one of the biggest factors is that "old" people are not acting the way "old" people used to behave. For instance, when I was a kid, anybody over the age of 60-ish was definitely an old person who looked like my grandparents, doddered around a bit, wore old fashioned clothes, and got confused with anything remotely modern. Now people over 60 can look and behave like much younger types, and don't look like grey wrinklies. Best example is look at the music business, people like Paul McCartney, Roger Daltrey (The Who), Mick Jagger etc etc. They are all well over 60, but did your grandparents look like that? These days old people are acting and looking like much younger people. It's all too confusing for us older types. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 There's also the drugs that they took Cliff !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted February 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Wouldn't it be nice (no, not the Beach Boys) if we could go back to our youth with the knowledge and money we have now? Even a pension of £100 per week would make us wealthy in comparison. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Think we learned the value of money in our youth and that it had to be earned because our parents didn't have a lot. 1£ for a mornings potato picking or 1£/10s for a days beet banging, mind you could do a lot more with it back then. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Just wish ide have carried a camera around as a kid. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 I never learned the value of money,didn't really have any.3 quid a week working 45 hours.pay for board,petrol for the bike. Things like the cinema were a treat. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dgbrit 258 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 What i remember at my age of 16 was Always being broke A 56lb bag of taters Feeding the meters if you had a penny even the Tv had a meter on it Planning when you could turn the immersion heater on to get some hot water Tv & radio licence Beer bottle bike licence Working 2 - 3 jobs before you figured out that it cost you more to get to the the jobs than you earned , I was told get a bicycle( Long Eaton to Carlton to Woolaton then home) .................................................................In your dreams & if you were going somewhere you always made a plan about a week before. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Beer bottle bike licence Aaaah the old Guinness label trick????????????????? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Bought my first car £120 ford kit car when I was on £8 a week...Jet petrol 5 gallons a quid.And don't remember being broke,I was out every night. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 and still had change fer a tanner....LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dgbrit 258 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Lucky Poo I was 21 when i finally finished my apprentiship & was now supposed to get 7 pounds 2/6 + a extra 5 shillings for passing the City & Guilds with credit but got the sack instead as i was too qualified. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Mackeson labels looked passable,as long as the disc holder was attached low down on the front fork. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 come on now you all know i am only 16 evenif its only in my head. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carltongal 101 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Yep me and you both Babs Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 I'm still 16, doin' all nighters at Dungeon, Mojo & the Wheel................if I could cadge a lift ...................lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Jackson and I grew up on the same street but once we left school, we didn't see each other much, then after marriage, we never saw each other again, and still haven't. I've not even seen a up-to-date photo of her so in my mind's eye, she is still looks like a teenager. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 Wishes Kath. I'll try and sort one out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 Kath, can you remember sitting on the pavement's edge back then and watching the world go by? The smell of newly laid tar and picking at it with a stick - for want of something better to do! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 Yup. especially on hot days when it got really gooey. Right near the kerb you could do this, the rest of the road had gravel chips on it. When you think about it, there was always someone walking about on the street, folks walked everywhere. Always something to look at. I did a street view of my bit of the street the other day on Google Earth. Crikey, what a diference to when I lived there. For one thing, the entrance to the old nursery is now the entrance to a whopping great school behind my house! Not sure if 'big park' is still there, if it is, it's much smaller and 'little park' is gone and a building in it's place [community centre?] Most of the front gardens are slabbed over for the cars to park on. To sum it up, it looks a bloody mess, LOL. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 In those days there was no traffic on a sunday. Less cars and everywhere closed so nowhere to go if you had one. As I remember, there were no cars at all at our end of Norton Street. The short bit off Hartley road. There was a guy on Crew Terrace that had a Dormobile. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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