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Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by Nig, Jun 12, 2021.

  1. rooch 3

    rooch 3 Well-Known Member

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    It’s not funny it was hand me down from my sister.
     
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  2. The Doodler

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    There's something about that sentence that makes me feel a tad uncomfortable.
     
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  3. Draig

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    So me mam said but we were never able to get them out ow pawn so I think maybe she was just stringing me along.
     
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  4. The Doodler

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    Good for you, that's an improvement on Rooch's hands-on crocheting
     
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  5. rooch 3

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    She might of had a vested interest in the pawn shop owner?
     
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  6. Nig

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    Them balls were much better for playing kerbsie.

    Do you remember playing "sixes"
    I think it was called.
    A goalie and a few outfield players, you had to score from a volley or header to knock one of six points off the goalie.
    If you put the ball out from a shot you went in goal.
    Or something like that :D
     
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  7. Draig

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    I remember it, though (perhaps because, depending on how long we had, the goalie didn’t always start on +6) we used to call it Snidey or Headers and Volleys.

    We also used to play World Cup. Any number of outfielders - every man for himself, score 1 goal to go through in the first round - whoever didn't progress went in goal next game. Then score 2 goals to go through, then three, etc,
     
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  8. rooch 3

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    I just remember SPOT where you only had one shot at the goal against the wall and when you’d missed enough to spell spot you were out
     
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  9. Draig

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    Never had a wall to play against, apart from at school - and there we played Soldiers on the Wall - a squash / dodge-ball hybrid.
     
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    Reading these comments re kids and lack 0f outside activities reminded me of a time when I was about ten. In the late 40s, one of the lads had sneaked his brothers leather football out of the house. We prepared the football pitch: cleared part of the street of stones and glass and placed our jumpers and coats as goal posts. We’d barely started to play when a wifey comes out and chases us away for making a noise. So we went to a grassed area behind some houses in Sunderland Rd. A bit bumpy but it would do. 2 minutes in and we were chased away by this bloke complaining about his greenhouse being at risk. Then we went to the Cleadon Rec. just inside the gate there was a level grassed area that wasn’t used for anything. We’d hardly kicked a ball when along came the “parky” to chase us away because he was going to lock the gate. By this time it was getting dark. With no more than alternatives available we ended up trying to play football, in the dark, in a bomb crater, down one side, through the mud at the bottom, and up the other side. Then we just gave up.
     
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  11. polyphemus

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    I hope this thought cheers you up.

    Your complaint is not new.
    Every generation says somthing like that about the yougsters coming through.

    If I may give you a quote from Socrates, not the Brazilian one, the old Greek gadgee 470 BC to 399 BC


    “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

    I suspect that most of us 'elderly souls', if we trhink back, will have had similar comment to those made to your grandson, directed our way from our elders and betters as we grew up.
    I know I did.

    It was ever thus :emoticon-0116-evilg







     
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  12. Nig

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    Point taken.
    Although I would suggest these were small increments over time.
    To the now general populous that have evolved into a "me me me, I want it now" .

    Apparently humans have evolved three main ways in the last 100 years.
    One of them is obesity.
    We're in the Fat age and that says two things.
    Greed, over eating. And
    Laziness, lack of exercise.
    :D
     
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  13. Sunderpitt

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    My current mob has been on a sim card for the last 6 months about £12 pm.

    I checked in at a shop yesterday to see if it was worth upgrading/updating... basically the upgrades are only slightly better than my existing phone... a phone that can do 5G might be worth it, but my area does not have 5G... so no upgrade atm.

    My PC keeps messaging that it is out of date for the apps I want to use.

    This is another problem with technology, it becomes obsolete very quickly often before it wears out.

    Although, I am likely to change my car for a hybrid soon, not sure about electric just yet.
     
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  14. polyphemus

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    From what I've read, mostly from articles on 'The Net', Hybrid Cars are getting to be yesterdays technology already.
    The 'Plug In's' which I had assumed to be a great idea are being phased out by the manufactuers.
    They MAY not qualify for a subsidy soon as research indicates that most owners can not be bothered to charge them and the main reaso to have one is to avoid congestion taxes.

    There is a lot of confusing information about, and I'm just sticking with what I have till I things become clearer.
     
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  15. spirit of 73

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    I have been told that if you buy a Nissan electric car you don't own the batteries and you have to pay an annual charge ( no pun intended) for these. Anyone shed any light on this?
     
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  16. Sunderpitt

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    I have also looked and tested a couple of electric cars. My conclusion was until there are a lot more and faster charging points around the country plus range has to be about 400mls... I've backed off electric.

    The hybrid I am now getting, can do 30 odd miles on a charge ( getting a charger fitted in the garage). 90% of my journeys are less than 30 miles, school run and back, golf course and back.

    However time will tell, bookmark this and ask me in 6 months time.
     
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