You have a great life today

Lucozade man · 17-02-2011 04:03AM #1

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 · 17-02-2011 04:04AM

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

Metallitroll · 17-02-2011 04:06AM

keep gluggin the zany-ade

landsleaving · 17-02-2011 04:06AM

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

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

AgileMyth · 17-02-2011 04:07AM

You had a fire?

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

Debthree · 17-02-2011 04:09AM

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

piotrish · 17-02-2011 04:10AM

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

Dangerous Man · 17-02-2011 04:10AM

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

hondasam · 17-02-2011 04:16AM

sounds like something from Angela's Ashes :eek:

Senna · 17-02-2011 04:16AM

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 · 17-02-2011 04:17AM

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 · 17-02-2011 04:18AM

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

hinault · 17-02-2011 04:27AM

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

(continued to page 23).

deathrider · 17-02-2011 05:24AM

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

Mackman · 17-02-2011 05:28AM

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

Jesus Wept · 17-02-2011 05:30AM

What happened to your masturbation thread?

AskMyChocolate · 17-02-2011 05:54AM

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 · 17-02-2011 06:04AM

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 · 17-02-2011 06:28AM

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 · 17-02-2011 06:29AM

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)

17-02-2011 08:15AM

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 · 17-02-2011 09:00AM

Mackman wrote: »

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

Yup. Uphill both ways.

dubtom · 17-02-2011 10:04AM

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 · 17-02-2011 10:55AM

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

rainbowdrop · 17-02-2011 11:11AM

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 · 17-02-2011 11:14AM

Back in my day, Snickers were Marathons.

Duggy747 · 17-02-2011 11:26AM

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 · 17-02-2011 12:40PM

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 · 17-02-2011 01:00PM

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 · 17-02-2011 01:13PM

Debthree wrote: »

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

you lucky basterd, we lived in an old boot

_feedback_ · 17-02-2011 01:16PM

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.

You have a great life today

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