
don't know you're born. Back in my day we had to walk 14 miles over broken glass and hot coal to get to school
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Tue 16 Dec 2003, 14:03,
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back in my day, we were lucky if we'd get 3 hours sleep before being mauled by bears
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Tue 16 Dec 2003, 14:04,
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we had to stay away and lick the streets clean before dawn...
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Tue 16 Dec 2003, 14:09,
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You don't know you're nborn. Back in my day it were nothing but Bob Monkhouse and Jimmy Tarbuck, mornin' noon and night.
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Tue 16 Dec 2003, 14:12,
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back in my day, it were in a perpetual state of temporal flux, none of these poncy modern 'hours'
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Tue 16 Dec 2003, 14:15,
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We couldn't afford temporal flux and had to make do with shifting the hands on the clock back and forwards a few times a day, but we were honest
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Tue 16 Dec 2003, 14:17,
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back in my day, we had to make do with a dustbin lid!
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Tue 16 Dec 2003, 14:18,
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We weren't able to move, not being possessed of a body, we existed and that were about the end of it. 'Cept there won't no end, nor a beginnning, nor even a middle.
(gone a bit Beckett now)
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Tue 16 Dec 2003, 14:20,
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(gone a bit Beckett now)

You people. You don't know you're born all this complaining about the younger generation. Back in my day we didn't have keyboards. We just imagined what it would be like if anyone gave a shit.
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Tue 16 Dec 2003, 14:19,
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You lucky, lucky sods. We couldn't afford noon, that was for uptown kids who had their own shoes. We made do with mid-day, and we were glad of it.
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Tue 16 Dec 2003, 14:16,
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we used to have to follow the townsfolk around, licking away their fresh muddy footprints.
if we were lucky, theyd spit on us
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Tue 16 Dec 2003, 14:13,
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if we were lucky, theyd spit on us

We used to DREAM of being mauled by bears. We had to do our best by enraging small rodents with ginger-coated twigs.
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Tue 16 Dec 2003, 14:11,
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