Health and Safety. What's that?
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Fabulously unsafe.
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Car scrapping in 1965
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We have some early cine film of me, aged about 6, discovering an old Ford Popular/Anglia/Prefect on the disused railway line near Thorner (*), and having great fun pretending to drive it. My dad found an old tool set in the boot and still has some of the spanners and screwdrivers that were in it.
When we went on holiday to a caravan site near West Witton in Wensleydale, I found an old quarry pit that was full of dumped cars, went back for my screwdriver and liberated a few speedos etc that I adorned my "den" with when we got back from holiday. While I was there, a chap drove up with an Austin 1100 on the back of a tractor trailer, and my dad and I help him push it into the gully - it made a very satisfying crash as it hit the bottom. We didn't think about the possibility that there may have been any other little boys in the cars in the gully who might have been crushed by the falling car. That was in the late 60s.
(*) Between Leeds and Wetherby
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Excellent.
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Total nostalgia...life was better then even so.
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1 min in "The dustmen etc"
Some things never change. They have never been happy unless they are on strike.
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Unless you were born at 25 weeks or needed complex surgery or had any sort of oncological problem.
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Then you just died.
Happy.
A short happy life is better than a long miserable one
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I'd ask those experiencing it
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I have
Experienced it
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So why haven't you ended it (your life that is), what's the point of a lon g and miserable life ?
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Just get a divorce instead.
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Bceasue that wont get me a short happy one will it?
Christ some people are thick.
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nearly there....
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The expert speaks. ;-)
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Too late now to put him out of his misery ...
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"Shedding 100 lbs of unsightly fat."
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We didn't have cancer back then. Enjoying cigarettes and booze with no health warnings or "unit" limits; racing through tight country lanes at
100mph pissed out of our heads on snakebite. It was a wonderful time. Today is s**te by comparison, as anyone over a certain age will know from personal experience.- Vote on answer
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The way it should be.
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They're happy now, they take great delight in putting stickers on bins because you've put the wrong thing in it, despite having previously told you in person that it's ok to put that in there.
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Good god! Brent was actually quite beautiful half a century ago. The contrast with today is simply staggering. :(