EC21
Apprentice
Ok, I have thought about this post for a while. I know a lot of you are older than me so you might well recognise what I am putting down here. I was born in 1956. When I was 4 we moved to Rugby into a bungalow in a nice part of Rugby, Warren Road, you can google it, we lived at number 29, it was sold for 350 grand about 5 years ago. The only issue was that my father bought a house that had had fook all done to it for many years, like since it was built in the 1930s. From the outside it looked ok. Inside it was a whole different story.
My older brother, who sadly passed last year, was 5 years older than me, we shared a bedroom from 1960-1965 which was that damp we never had wallpaper on the walls, it would have just slid off. That never bothered me, I didn't know any different. We had no central heating, just an electric fire in the front room with one of those fake coal bottoms where some circular thing went round making it look like a coal fire. That fire was the only point of heat in that house. During those 5 years, we went through the harsh winter of 1963 in a house like that. It never bothered me, never felt hard done by at all, it was just what life was.
There was no fridge, we had a pantry, fooking awful place. In the bathroom we had one of those circular boiler things with that thin pipular arm sh1t that you moved out to where you wanted it. When the gas kicked in it nearly blew the windows out. No problem, we thought that was normal.
We went to school that 1963 winter in at least 18 inches of snow, no days off, all the teachers lived near the school, it lasted 3 months. That school luckily for me was just a few minutes from my house. I remember those school days where you shoved all your damp clothes on those big old radiators to dry them out for later when you got to school. I only had normal shoes with holes in where you put cardboard in, I can remember putting cardboard in my shoes ffs, so socks were wet by time I got to school. I never felt hard done to about that at all, I thought it was normal. There was a boiler house at school, and all I remember was a massive pile of coal outside it and the poor fooks or fook who maintained the school for heat would be shovelling that lot in during those cold times.
What I am saying is, you got used to what you thought was normal, and it was normal to live in a house with one source of heat, bar the cooker of course. We never complained as kids, we just thought that was life, and it was. Then as we all got older, we got used to a better life, central heating, comfortable homes. That clearly made us all more comfortable, some say soft, I don't, it was just a decent way to live. Why should living in cold damp houses be "normal"? That is just pure gaslighting to think that sort of life is "great"
So we all got used to better living standards as time went on through the 70s 80s 90's to now etc. Yet now that is being used to say that we are soft and that we are now soft twats for not being able to cope with living how we did as kids in the 1960s. What the f*ck has happened here? I have been reducing my heating use last 2 months, as most people will have.
I actually bought onesies for me and the missus a few months ago anticipating the expensive sh1t we are now in with gas prices, they are bloody brilliant by the way. Missus has to answer the door though obviously:lol:, some casual mysogyny there
, sorry, I am only kidding, I answer the fooker most days, just glad I didn't get the cat faced fook. Anyway, last few days boiler has packed in. Now, normally that would be an utter disaster, but I am now that used to keeping the heating off, it is like a minor issue. Guy came out today and said he couldn't get the part he needed until tomorrow, it is a circuit board, so you know it won't be cheap. Twelve months ago I would have had a panic attack, but because we have all been conditioned to reduce our gas usage, it didn't seem that much of an inconvenience. Even though it is fooking freezing here.
I suppose what I am saying is just how we are being trained to accept living with such low expectations under this tory scum, you can train a society to accept very low standards of living in a very short time I am starting to think.
I am 66, I have never lived with such low standards of life, heating, food prices etc as an adult. If I was 6 again I would think it was just like it is, this is normal life, but now I know we are so being sh1t on by this vile regime.
Am I alone in thinking like this? We are no further forward this winter than we were in the early 1960s. But clearly some are doing just fine and dandy of course.
I hope this doesn't come across like Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch, its not meant to be, I suppose it will though
My point is, when you train someone to accept low standards, they eventually put up with them, no matter what their age is.
My older brother, who sadly passed last year, was 5 years older than me, we shared a bedroom from 1960-1965 which was that damp we never had wallpaper on the walls, it would have just slid off. That never bothered me, I didn't know any different. We had no central heating, just an electric fire in the front room with one of those fake coal bottoms where some circular thing went round making it look like a coal fire. That fire was the only point of heat in that house. During those 5 years, we went through the harsh winter of 1963 in a house like that. It never bothered me, never felt hard done by at all, it was just what life was.
There was no fridge, we had a pantry, fooking awful place. In the bathroom we had one of those circular boiler things with that thin pipular arm sh1t that you moved out to where you wanted it. When the gas kicked in it nearly blew the windows out. No problem, we thought that was normal.
We went to school that 1963 winter in at least 18 inches of snow, no days off, all the teachers lived near the school, it lasted 3 months. That school luckily for me was just a few minutes from my house. I remember those school days where you shoved all your damp clothes on those big old radiators to dry them out for later when you got to school. I only had normal shoes with holes in where you put cardboard in, I can remember putting cardboard in my shoes ffs, so socks were wet by time I got to school. I never felt hard done to about that at all, I thought it was normal. There was a boiler house at school, and all I remember was a massive pile of coal outside it and the poor fooks or fook who maintained the school for heat would be shovelling that lot in during those cold times.
What I am saying is, you got used to what you thought was normal, and it was normal to live in a house with one source of heat, bar the cooker of course. We never complained as kids, we just thought that was life, and it was. Then as we all got older, we got used to a better life, central heating, comfortable homes. That clearly made us all more comfortable, some say soft, I don't, it was just a decent way to live. Why should living in cold damp houses be "normal"? That is just pure gaslighting to think that sort of life is "great"
So we all got used to better living standards as time went on through the 70s 80s 90's to now etc. Yet now that is being used to say that we are soft and that we are now soft twats for not being able to cope with living how we did as kids in the 1960s. What the f*ck has happened here? I have been reducing my heating use last 2 months, as most people will have.
I actually bought onesies for me and the missus a few months ago anticipating the expensive sh1t we are now in with gas prices, they are bloody brilliant by the way. Missus has to answer the door though obviously:lol:, some casual mysogyny there
, sorry, I am only kidding, I answer the fooker most days, just glad I didn't get the cat faced fook. Anyway, last few days boiler has packed in. Now, normally that would be an utter disaster, but I am now that used to keeping the heating off, it is like a minor issue. Guy came out today and said he couldn't get the part he needed until tomorrow, it is a circuit board, so you know it won't be cheap. Twelve months ago I would have had a panic attack, but because we have all been conditioned to reduce our gas usage, it didn't seem that much of an inconvenience. Even though it is fooking freezing here.I suppose what I am saying is just how we are being trained to accept living with such low expectations under this tory scum, you can train a society to accept very low standards of living in a very short time I am starting to think.
I am 66, I have never lived with such low standards of life, heating, food prices etc as an adult. If I was 6 again I would think it was just like it is, this is normal life, but now I know we are so being sh1t on by this vile regime.
Am I alone in thinking like this? We are no further forward this winter than we were in the early 1960s. But clearly some are doing just fine and dandy of course.
I hope this doesn't come across like Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch, its not meant to be, I suppose it will though
My point is, when you train someone to accept low standards, they eventually put up with them, no matter what their age is.
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