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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
Just to give you my date of birth - its 28/12/1951 - which makes me 64 (65 in December).
When l was born, there was 2 TV channels, l used to pay money into our TV - coin slot telly.
Poverty, was big when l was brought up. Shops closed on a Sunday. When l grew up, we had to buy patches for trousers, the house l was brought up in. We had to boile the water, as the pipes were dirty.
Phone was a luxury, We got most of food from the waste of Hammersmith Market. We would go down on a Saturday night, when they threw all the food onto a pile. And had to push people out of the way to get the good stuff.
Plus there is more.
Yes, poverty was real and l made a vow to my Scottish wife, that l would NEVER go back to those days.
Sadly, those times are coming back.
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This is my main argument, DC spending millions on overseas aid.
There should be more to solve this problem |
Just two TV channels does not add up to poverty..At least you has a TV. The rest of it was the leftover attitude of may do and recycle. I had clothes that my mother remodelled from her old clothes on her old electric sowing machine.It wasn't that we were poor it was just what people did in the 40s,50s and 60s..She used cheaper cuts of meat because having lived through the war that's what lots of people did and not because we were poor.
Sorry Arthur Maybe you were poor but I saw what real poverty was back then.I spent the first 6 years of my life in Nigeria where my father worked for the Colonial Service as a Medic. He went out into the bush to give medical aid such as vaccinations,give help to pregnant native women,deal with some pretty exotic diseases such as sleeping sickness,malaria,elephantiasis so and so forth.No NHS,no running water,no way to keep food fresh..and in some parts of the world such poverty still exists.