I knew we were poor when I was a lad because..(non footy).

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  1. Geo

    GeorgeRobledo Well-Known Member

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    My mother used to say "Don't spill anything on the tablecloth ....
    Your father hasn't read it yet.

    I knew my family were poor...if I hadn't been born a boy, I wouldn't have had anything to play with.

    My mother made me go next door and beg for a slice of bread and ask if they would cut it with a jammy knife!

    Any more???
     
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    Asking to borrow next doors roast to make gravy.
    'We got evicted from our hole in the ground'
     
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    Cardboard box? Luxury, we lived in a paper bag in a septic tank.
     
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    Funny.
    But very patronising coming from a set of Oxbridge toffs.
    So not that funny.
     
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    Patronising really? It's either funny to you or not????
     
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    When you had no running hot water a tin bath & yer mam used to bath you int twin tub mid week, I kid you not. Also the windows used freeze on the inside, no inside toilet or shoes that fit properly n first up best dressed, a could go on & on.....Great days :)
     
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    Don't think that's fair.
    All the python's except Palin were from what could then be considered working class backgrounds. Parents professions included insurance salesman and policeman. It is clear though that all were bright individuals and did rather well as a consequence.
     
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    Oh yes another thing, when that fake mice came out (Quorn stuff) that was it, no mice beef from then on, wern't too bad actually.
     
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    Until I started school and met other kids I thought ice cream vans were mobile churches.
     
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    Them fake mice were great!

    [​IMG]
     
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    Cardboard or thick paper cut the shape of your shoes and put inside them because you had holes in the soles
     
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    OOOPS hears the missing N
     
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    Ice on inside of windows, the only central heating was a coal fire in the middle room, coits on't bed so you could not move.
     
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    Patches sown on my trousers/jeans to cover holes on the knees

    My kids would die now if we did that
     
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    I used to love an elephant patch I had sewn on to a pair of trousers when I was around 5 or so. I even had my school photo taken with 'em on as I loved it that much.
     
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    The rag and bone man (remember him?) didn't collect at our house, he delivered to it.
     
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    Nudger Nudger winker winker
     
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    You really are a long way out there aren't you?
     
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