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Now we blame the parents of kids who have nowt.. we blame the parents for kids sittin indoors but at the same time don

Just a gripe!

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Jes.. this edit thing has gone to far.
Anyway I was saying when WE were kids the only entertianment was outside.. but people always complain that these days the kids spend to much time indoors on PC's or watching telly.. but when they are outdoors the same people complain..you can't have it both ways.. would you rather them indoors or outdoors?

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Are you talking to yourself again?:D

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Neither.

Workhouses, like in Oliver Twist, were a good idea.:D

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I mean people complain about kids hangin around outside.. and in the same breath complain that kids sit at home on the playstation or watching telly.. so what do the bods that moan about unruly kids on here have to say... playstation or hangin around outside?

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the owd saying comes to mind "childer shud bi sin an not erd " providing they are not kicking a football at my gable end wall let them run free'
the young-uns should be allowed to make their own fun , my local area just spent thousands on a new skate park designed and built by college educated experts with degrees in youth motivation and creative expession (I kid you not)and the kids dont/wont use it , they prefer the old one they built themselves out of salvaged lumber and stuff ,

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and getting exercise! ;)

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love to see kids playing outside, so long as they take their footballs to parks n spare land,theres no substitute for imagination.

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Where it's safe....... indoors !!

I'd rather she spends her time creating websites than being the subject of some pedo's website. When the streets are safe I might change my mind.

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Well i prefer mine out not because im tight, but to enjoy the outdoors, fresh air, exercise, social interaction & fun in the local vacinity. Also to not fear the outside world but also teach them street wise attitude & safety, especially in this day & age, altho there were pedo's & flasers about when i was little & was fortunate not to come across them as such, as warned about street safety. But as far as how much freedom i do give as to where they go or roam then that depends where & who & whether its suitable for their age & maturity also with whom.

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Hehehehe had to laugh a few summers back after giving my oldest a lecture & chucked out to play, then asked me, "how do i make a den then?" & "i'll need to get this that & tother from house to furnish it" :rofl38:, geee we just went out & made one with whatever we could find, i had a good few dens up Peel Park, kids today have no clue & no imagination or intuition on it but expect things to be made or done on tap like their console games!!

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I think a mixture of both, I dont think children should be on the computers/gaming all day or watching tv for that matter but there's nothing wrong with a balance. We were always outside as kids but I think it was safer back then but some of the things we used to get up to I wouldn't like Ellie to do!:o

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that also lancsdave, dont know whos lurking about these days!:(

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In my day the boys made dens and the girls had to be persuaded to enter them :D

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In an ideal world they'd all be outside'playing football,tig,japs & commandoes,riding bikes;) alas the world is a totally different place to what it used to be.In some parts parents must dread them going to something as innocent as junior or pre school these days.Upstairs watching TV or on the X Box......no worries(exept corruption of their minds,and the leccy bill)

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hold on a minute, who can really blame parents for letting there kids stay in all the time?? there's murderers and rapists out there, i'd rather reece stay in and be safe than go out on the streets and be killed, he does play out some of the time, but i'd rather he be where i can see him and i know he is safe, when i was ickle (many many moons ago) you seldom heard of anyone being raped or murdered

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Me & Tinks did law & we had this very same discussion involving Jamie Bulger case & the discussion came up about being over protective as was result for parents after [turned into a riot actually hehehehehe:p] but the implications of over protectiveness was far more worrying basing that protection on a could happen, as it inhibits growth in independance & the outside world, something they need to learn & adapt to for growing up - obviously going the other way & letting your kids out doing anything & not caring where that child is etc is the opposite effect.

Like Grego it should be a bit of both:D

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They 'had' to be persuaded hehehehehehehe cant of been a good den then:p :D

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I used to love making dens when i was a kid!
using smelly settees and old wood..........i can smell it now......LOL

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Not my writing,but funny all the same------



CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun.
We drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TODEAL WITH IT ALL!
YOU maybe one of them, if so. CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
PS -The BIG type is because your eyes are shot at your age
__________________

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already been done!! :D:D on another thread!

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and i did it:D

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yep i can relate to all that........those were the days..

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aye they were!

wish I could be a kid again for a day, especially with what i know now!:D:D

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Thanks for that TubbyLes. It’s one for my “Memories” scrapbook.

Being born in 1937 I can relate to it with fond memories.

I can almost feel a cop’s slap round me ears and hear the threat, “If I catch you again I’ll let your dad deal with you.” Words that would put the fear of God into most kids. Better a clout from a copper than the strap from me dad.

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You were dead right tellytubbies we never ailed owt that Fennings Fever Cure couldn't put right, todays kids are allergect to everything even work, they know nowt about making their own entertainment thus have little imagination beyond the vidio games.

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Easy enough for you to say Ianto :D... (don't suppose anyone on here knows how they broke the enigma code) ? :D

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Allan Turing broke the Enigma Code mancie, he was born in Manchester and lead a team of code breakers at Cheltenham. The Enigma machine was first discovered by Polish Partisans and given to us. The Germans added another wheel to the machine when they knew we had it. The capture of a crippled German Submarine with the naval codes helped to over- come this added wheel. Allan Turing is celebrated at the imperial war museum with a plaque, unfortunatly like all great men he had his 'Achilees heel' and committed suicide to save his aged mother the scandal.
This country owes Allan Turing more than we ever gave him.

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Sorry Ianto.W .......have to disagree ;) here is a link to the true American/ Hollywood version :rolleyes: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141926/
not a Brit or a Pole in site
:D :D :D :D :D

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Here's his statue that is in Sackville Park, Manchester.


http://content.answers.com/main/cont...ial_Closer.jpg

http://www.answers.com/topic/alan-turing-memorial

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I am only quoting the facts as I know them. As far as anything that comes out of Hollywood is concerned it has no credibility with me, the Americans did not enter this war untill the Japaneese kicked their backsides and put us in debt that has just been cleared! Hollywood bunkum.:mad:

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Got the location wrong the work was done at Blechley Park, when Turing and his fellow mathematicians had the gist of how the code woked, on a random number daily change system, each service had its own codes (army,navy, luftwaffe), a machine was developed to assist in the sorting of bollions of different combinations. This cut the 'options' and they then hand sorted the codes many women and men made up the team. Now then Steeljack let us have 'John Waynes' version.

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When me and Tinks were growing up we were never in the house. I remember one 6 weeks holiday, we used to get up at the crack of dawn, get dressed and go out on a mission. This mission was to go down to Accy stan's training field and do a dawn raid on a den that had been made by a bunch of 14 year olds. They had a stash of magazines in there ( now use your imagination these lads were 14):D and we used to nick them and burn em.:D After a while they started setting really dangerous traps to catch us. They would dig really deep holes and place bin liners with grass so we would fall down them. But we never did, we were to clever for them.:D We would then climb a tree and sit and wait to see their faces when they realized their mags had been stolen :D

One day they chased us all the way up whinny hill right into Huncoat lmao. OH the memories.

We never stayed in the house because it was more fun outside causing mischief and we loved it.

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Your facts after your correction are correct Ianto.W. I would just add that the engineer who actually built the computer was a GPO engineer and he begged, stole and borrowed the thousands of valves that were needed as well as buying some out of his own pocket.

The Yanks fight a good war in the movies but when it comes to the real thing – ‘nuff said!

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Without wanting to appear to anti yank, as I have gained a lot of friends from over the pond on accyweb, who's friendship has been a great comfort to me in hours of darkness, as yours has, but I draw the line at the lovely Alan Turing, a truly remarkable man.