You have a great life today

Lucozade man

When i grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, my family had no running water we got our water for a well, we had no cooker, we cooked our food over an open fire, we went to the toilet outside in the garden.

Debthree

You had a garden? We lived in a sewerage pipe.

Metallitroll

keep gluggin the zany-ade

landsleaving

Where did you live? 70's and 80's and no water?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahdBUnVEuYM

AgileMyth

You had a fire?

We had to rub our food vigorously until it was cooked.

Debthree

^^^ You were able to rub? We had no hands.

piotrish

All we had was a big pot of spuds on the table, and sure what more could you ask for

Dangerous Man

Your upbringing was a fucking disgrace. You had terrible parents and you should have been taken away. Unless you were living in Ethiopia.

hondasam

sounds like something from Angela's Ashes :eek:

Senna

Thats nothing, we were so poor my mum cut holes in all our pockets so we'd have something to play with.













Grabs bin bag













Cant afford a coat

shuvly

Am only speaking as a la from ...like em now...5 inch heals...my arse...and it's a ladder ye can go and find...

Links234

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

hinault

"You think you have it bad? When I was young I had to get up at......................"

(continued to page 23).

deathrider

No water? No cooker? No jacks? Next you'll be telling me you had no internet.

Mackman

Did you have to walk 15 miles through the snow barefoot to get to school/shop?

Jesus Wept

What happened to your masturbation thread?

AskMyChocolate

AgileMyth wrote: »

You had a fire?

We had to rub our food vigorously until it was cooked.

Debthree wrote: »

^^^ You were able to rub? We had no hands.

We eat the hands off our clock.

Sergeant

But we were so happy. Christmas was different then, less commercial. You never had to lock your doors, and the neighbours would drop in every day for the tea.

congo_90

loike get ouver yourself op who cares sure even teh scobies have it better than you. my main man deso said some scobie came to ruggers in weso so true loike my gf cried.

Ev84

Lucozade man wrote: »

we got our water for a well, we went to the toilet outside in the garden.

Did you ever pull the bucket up from the well and shout :eek: IT'S A FLOATERRRRRRR!!! (Kevin and Perry go large)

Lucozade man

Lucozade man wrote: »

When i grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, my family had no running water we got our water for a well, we had no cooker, we cooked our food over an open fire, we went to the toilet outside in the garden.

You got water FOR the well? Where did you get that water from? :pac:

chicken fingers

Mackman wrote: »

Did you have to walk 15 miles through the snow barefoot to get to school/shop?

Yup. Uphill both ways.

dubtom

Sergeant wrote: »

But we were so happy. Christmas was different then, less commercial. You never had to lock your doors, and the neighbours would drop in every day for the tea.

Our neighbours dropped in everyday too,we eventually started locking the door so they at least had to knock,they never even brought biscuits.

stateofflux

back in my day we did'nt even have lucozade...still tho, summer of 1922 was serious craic

rainbowdrop

Back in my day we had no heating, we used to go to bed at 6pm just to stay warm, all 10 of us sharing a double bed.................

Sanjuro

Back in my day, Snickers were Marathons.

Duggy747

We were so poor we had to kill my fat dog and eat it.

I had to walk for 3 days to the local well for a glass of water, you could only go at certain times as they would lock it away after 6pm.

To get by we would sell 2 cabbages, a rope that was 2 years long, and 2/3rds of a donkey in exchange for a cup of fire. You could get a while out of that amount.

Our clothes were made of skin from thiefs who would break into our cardboard box to steal our hair.

We would keep our poo and make candles out of them, you'd get used to the smell of burnt shìte after a while. Cups of tea was just black and boiled piss.


Yep, living in Co.Roscommon was tough up until a few years ago.

MistyCheese

Sanjuro wrote: »

Back in my day, Snickers were Marathons.

Ah come on now, I know chocolate bars were bigger back in your day but they weren't that big!

dilbert2

Lucozade man wrote: »

When i grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, my family had no running water we got our water for a well, we had no cooker, we cooked our food over an open fire, we went to the toilet outside in the garden.

If this is some Fianna Fail hack, could you please try harder in future when attempting to justify our current economic woes. Then again, maybe if we had never had idiots like De Valera in power along with his demented economic and social ideas– you wouldn’t have been in such a state as late as the 1970s and 1980s.


If this a joke though - em, ok fair enough.

this is arse

Debthree wrote: »

You had a garden? We lived in a sewerage pipe.

you lucky basterd, we lived in an old boot

_feedback_

Back in the day, when we used to walk barefoot five miles to the school, with nothin' but a sod of turf in the hand for the fire to keep the school warm.

Lucozade man

landsleaving wrote: »

Where did you live? 70's and 80's and no water?
A small village in the west of ireland

FreudianSlippers

This thread is full of dirty poor people.

Lucozade man

Mackman wrote: »

Did you have to walk 15 miles through the snow barefoot to get to school/shop?

No we had shoes and we got the bus to school, but we had lots of hard work to do on the farm and on the bog

HooterSnout

You think you had it bad??? When I was young I had to get up while it was still dark, well actually we didn't sleep in my day, walk 5 miles barefoot to fill two 25 litre drums of water. Carry them back on our heads. Then I used to have to build a fire out of wood I had collected the night before to boil the water.

While that was boiling I had to rebuild our tent made out of twigs and branches that used to blow down every time a gust of wind came along.

Those were the days. But we're better for it now aren't we.

Snakeblood

Debthree wrote: »

^^^ You were able to rub? We had no hands.

Luxury.

upandcumming

Lucozade man wrote: »

When i grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, my family had no running water we got our water for a well, we had no cooker, we cooked our food over an open fire, we went to the toilet outside in the garden.

You can't compare the 1970s and 80s with now.

FreudianSlippers

Ah man, when I was a kid we used to have to eat Sevruga caviar and we didn't even have mother of pearl spoons.

bonerm

Links234 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Bar steward! I wanted to post this clip.

Which reminds me, back in my day we had to download this clip using carrier pigeons laden with a series of 5.25 inch floppy disks. Took forever!

Sea Sharp

When I was young we didn't have the internet and mobile phones didn't have coloured screens. :mad:
You kids have it so easy.

Alter-Ego

When I was a yung'fleh we had to make do with Sky Analogue and Dial-up interwebs.

Ev84

Lucozade man wrote: »

When i grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, my family had no running water, we got our water from a well, we went to the toilet outside in the garden.

I wouldn't drink that water

FreudianSlippers

Why do poor people have to drink out of wells?

admiralofthefleet

hondasam wrote: »

sounds like something from Angela's Ashes :eek:

limerick hasnt changed one iota

billymitchell

Thanks, I do have a great life.

opinion guy

And take it away Weird Al.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aluCuP_D_FU

Ghost Estate

Lucozade man wrote: »

When i grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, my family had no running water we got our water for a well, we had no cooker, we cooked our food over an open fire, we went to the toilet outside in the garden.

Doesn't sound like a bad life tbh

Apolloyon

You think you had it bad?

Until 1985, my family including myself were entirely fictional!

lolie

We were so poor growing up that unless i woke up with a horn on christmas morning i had nothing to play with

Ghost Estate

HooterSnout wrote: »

While that was boiling I had to rebuild our tent made out of twigs and branches that used to blow down every time a gust of wind came along.

Heh. In my day we didn't even have twigs

Blondini

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