This film is as old as I am...

Cressers
Cressers Posts: 1,329
edited July 2011 in The bottom bracket
No hi-vz jackets or severe hide-under-the-sofa weather warnings in sight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4pJwcE7JI

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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    People just got on the best they could.

    People weren't fat.

    Coincidence?

    I loved the irony of the steam engine being called "Barbados"!
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • john-e-big-guns
    john-e-big-guns Posts: 489
    I left school that year at Easter..schools didnt close back then because of a bit of snow.... walked to school[for me a mile each way] changed from ya wellies to P.E shoes....we just with life...just at a slower pace
    No Pain; No Gain;

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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    edited July 2011
    Nice film. I notice that the blokes shoveling snow weren't wearing gloves; work keeps you warm. This was a bit before my time (born in 1968), but at secondary school I remember having to do press-ups and sits ups in the snow on the touchline because the football pitch was frozen. Most of us are soft as sh!te now...
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  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    pottssteve wrote:
    Nice film. I notice that the blokes shoveling snow weren't wearing gloves; work keeps you warm. This was a bit before my time (born in '68), but at secondary school I remember having to do press-ups and sits ups in the snow on the touchline because the football pitch was frozen. Most of us are soft as sh!te now...

    Yeah, apprarently we are all 'soft' now but life expectancy continues to rise... :wink:
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    verylonglegs wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    Nice film. I notice that the blokes shoveling snow weren't wearing gloves; work keeps you warm. This was a bit before my time (born in '68), but at secondary school I remember having to do press-ups and sits ups in the snow on the touchline because the football pitch was frozen. Most of us are soft as sh!te now...

    Yeah, apprarently we are all 'soft' now but life expectancy continues to rise... :wink:

    Point taken. However, I did say that "most" of us were soft, not all. Also, rise in life expectancy is due to other factors such as medical advances, not just shoveling snow. :wink:
    And I think quality of life is important; I'd rather die at 65 having had an active and productive life than at 80 after 20 years of being obese and sedentary.....
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  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    pottssteve wrote:
    And I think quality of life is important; I'd rather die at 65 having had an active and productive life than at 80 after 20 years of being obese and sedentary.....

    Very true, the thought of taking 5 times as long to do simple tasks whilst waiting maybe 25 years for the reaper to turn up absolutely horrifies me if I'm honest...no doubt I'll change my mind when I'm 65 :lol:
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    I can't help but take being being 'soft' to be synonymous with comfortable, and 'hard' being uncomfortable.

    I can live with being comfortable.
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    I can't help but take being being 'soft' to be synonymous with comfortable, and 'hard' being uncomfortable.

    I can live with being comfortable.

    I think the point being that at the slightest hint of adverse conditions these days a large percentage of the population decide to be "comfortable" and the Country grinds to a halt when it really needn't be the case.
    For "comfortable" read lazy.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    When I was in Cambridge last christmas visiting my parents, we left behind in Austria half a meter of snow. Everything was business as usual. While in cambridge it snowed about an inch, and we tried to take a train to London for the day, and the bloody trains weren't even running because of the snow. Are you effing serious.
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  • BigG67
    BigG67 Posts: 582
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    BigG67 wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

    It's funny because it's true...... :lol:
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  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    I used to live in Canada. They have proper winters. They get on with it.
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    thegreatdivide wrote:
    I used to live in Canada. They have proper winters. They get on with it.

    As they're up to their bollox in snow for 6 months of the year, what choice have they got?
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