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Them £1 mobile barbecues like this one:

 

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not even a quid,a flat lolly stick rounded off works very well.Plus all main supermarkets give tokens if asked,they have to,discrimination if they don't,something about equal rights.When you used to have to put a real euro in to get a caddy, smart arsed kids made a fortune going round the supermarkets poking them out with an ice-cream pallet.

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Down in Albion

they're black and blue

But we don't talk about that

Are you from 'round here?

How do you do?

I'd like to talk about that

 

Talk over

Gin in teacups

And leaves on the lawn

Violence in bus stops

And the pale thin girl with eyes forlorn

 

gin in teacups

And leaves on the lawn

Violence in dole queues

And the pale thin girl behind the checkout

 

But if you're looking for a cheap talk

Glint with perspiration

There's a four-mile queue

Outside the disused power station

Now come away, won't you come away

We'll go to

Deptford, Digby...

Anywhere in Albion

 

Yellowing classics

And canons at dawn

...

Reebok classics

And canons at dawn

...

 

But if you're looking for a cheap sort

That's in false anticipation

It'll be waiting in the photo booth

At the railway station

 

Ah come away, won't you come away

We're going to...

Watford, London Fields

Anywhere oh

 

If you're looking for a cheap sort

That's in false anticipation

It'll be waiting in the photo booth

At the underground station

 

Good song but not a patch on John Cooper Clarke's Chickentown

 

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Lidl/Aldi, or in even more run down areas, "independent supermarkets" serving food from around the globe. (Especially Polish.) I was in Hounslow today as you can tell.

 

CCTV on every street.

 

Police that prefer doing paperwork.

 

Litter next to a bin. (The bin may or may not have been set on fire.)

 

Bus Stops that smell like fresh sex.

 

A general smell of wee or poo.

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Years ago there would have never been a subject like this,because most people would have lived in similar areas and everyone would have roughly earned the same and all had the same outlook on things.Sure there were richer places to live,but most of us would never have had the chance.

Its a sad day that we now look down on people because they are in different circumstances.The trouble nowdays is most working class people now think they are "Middle Class",because their salaries have risen higher.I bet most of these new middle class spent their childhoods on council estates.Now im all for people being able to better themselfs,but while doing so,dont look down on others who cant or havent the ability to do so.

This snobbery is a direct result of the selfish Thatcher years and the way the greedy Tories have told us how to live.

Very sad indeed.

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Years ago there would have never been a subject like this,because most people would have lived in similar areas and everyone would have roughly earned the same and all had the same outlook on things.Sure there were richer places to live,but most of us would never have had the chance.

Its a sad day that we now look down on people because they are in different circumstances.The trouble nowdays is most working class people now think they are "Middle Class",because their salaries have risen higher.I bet most of these new middle class spent their childhoods on council estates.Now im all for people being able to better themselfs,but while doing so,dont look down on others who cant or havent the ability to do so.

This snobbery is a direct result of the selfish Thatcher years and the way the greedy Tories have told us how to live.

Very sad indeed.

sorry, but a load of crap

I grew up with nothing (born in 1980) and nothing actually meant nothing then

now, nothing still means, sky dish, computer, bus passes

 

 

I was LUCKY because I got free school meals

 

sorry, what a load of crap you just spotted

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Years ago there would have never been a subject like this,because most people would have lived in similar areas and everyone would have roughly earned the same and all had the same outlook on things.Sure there were richer places to live,but most of us would never have had the chance.

Its a sad day that we now look down on people because they are in different circumstances.The trouble nowdays is most working class people now think they are "Middle Class",because their salaries have risen higher.I bet most of these new middle class spent their childhoods on council estates.Now im all for people being able to better themselfs,but while doing so,dont look down on others who cant or havent the ability to do so.

This snobbery is a direct result of the selfish Thatcher years and the way the greedy Tories have told us how to live.

Very sad indeed.

 

Well that's rubbish. Years ago people were glad of a council house and they looked after it and it's garden.

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The Delldays and Dune,you make goods points and i cant argue ,but i feel you are both missing the point i was trying to make.

Years ago you never had the class snobbery you have today.Just because someone has a council house,this doesnt make them a lowlife.

Perhaps people just stuck together more than they do today?

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The Delldays and Dune,you make goods points and i cant argue ,but i feel you are both missing the point i was trying to make.

Years ago you never had the class snobbery you have today.Just because someone has a council house,this doesnt make them a lowlife.

Perhaps people just stuck together more than they do today?

well, like I said, born in 1980..and I would TOTALLY disagree with you on that from my experiences at school etc

 

I had to queue up in a separate line as I got free school meals at Tanners Brook....for us to be made fun of and had pennies/2ps etc throw at us

 

 

what you are saying is a just a trendy/anti tory thing to say

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The Delldays and Dune,you make goods points and i cant argue ,but i feel you are both missing the point i was trying to make.

Years ago you never had the class snobbery you have today.Just because someone has a council house,this doesnt make them a lowlife.

Perhaps people just stuck together more than they do today?

i agree and most poor people are decent and hard working but get linked with the benefit scroungers who sponge of everyone and last weeks echo we had greedy middle class scroungers who were getting good money claiming they were unemployed and getting benfits and they should have gone to jail.
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Years ago there would have never been a subject like this,because most people would have lived in similar areas and everyone would have roughly earned the same and all had the same outlook on things.Sure there were richer places to live,but most of us would never have had the chance.

Its a sad day that we now look down on people because they are in different circumstances.The trouble nowdays is most working class people now think they are "Middle Class",because their salaries have risen higher.I bet most of these new middle class spent their childhoods on council estates.Now im all for people being able to better themselfs,but while doing so,dont look down on others who cant or havent the ability to do so.

This snobbery is a direct result of the selfish Thatcher years and the way the greedy Tories have told us how to live.

Very sad indeed.

 

i agree and i was born in 1955 and lived in the flowers estate when it had a great family community on the estate but saw the decline in the 80,s when the high unemployment and drugs culture took over and the rise of the me me greed culture took over.

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The Delldays and Dune,you make goods points and i cant argue ,but i feel you are both missing the point i was trying to make.

Years ago you never had the class snobbery you have today.Just because someone has a council house,this doesnt make them a lowlife.

Perhaps people just stuck together more than they do today?

 

Has it not occured to you that we are just taking the p/ss on a poxy web forum?

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You have all just described where I was brought up in the '60's....minus the sky dishes of course. On the whole, the people on my estate were very friendly and there was never much trouble. However, I received a lot of negative comments at school, which was due to the fact that most of the kids came from an "affluent" area. The joke was that these areas weren't really that affluent at all. People are snobs, always have been and always will be. But it's good to laugh at yourself, and I enjoyed reading some of the observations posted on here - quite funny.

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You have all just described where I was brought up in the '60's....minus the sky dishes of course. On the whole, the people on my estate were very friendly and there was never much trouble. However, I received a lot of negative comments at school, which was due to the fact that most of the kids came from an "affluent" area. The joke was that these areas weren't really that affluent at all. People are snobs, always have been and always will be. But it's good to laugh at yourself, and I enjoyed reading some of the observations posted on here - quite funny.

 

Perhaps a difference , in that in the 1960's the occupiers of the estates described here were considered predominantly hard working, working class etc rather than the 'scrounge' culture that now exists.

 

"Never much trouble.." another difference in times.

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Perhaps a difference , in that in the 1960's the occupiers of the estates described here were considered predominantly hard working, working class etc rather than the 'scrounge' culture that now exists.

 

"Never much trouble.." another difference in times.

 

I think you will find its all walks of britsh society who want something for nothing culture now. The 80 s revolution that greed is good and there is no such thing has society has well and truley taken hold.

 

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I think you will find its all walks of britsh society who want something for nothing culture now. The 80 s revolution that greed is good and there is no such thing has society has well and truley taken hold.

 

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I grew up in the 80s and find it hard to be greedy when there was nothing to have..

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I grew up in the 80s and find it hard to be greedy when there was nothing to have..

 

I grew up in the 70s so I saw how society changed big time in the 80s and its values and that 80s the very rich grabbed a bigger share of our wealth which has carried on ever since.

 

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well, like I said, born in 1980..and I would TOTALLY disagree with you on that from my experiences at school etc

 

I had to queue up in a separate line as I got free school meals at Tanners Brook....for us to be made fun of and had pennies/2ps etc throw at us

 

 

what you are saying is a just a trendy/anti tory thing to say

 

Well if you were born in 1980 and grew up through Thatcher/Regan era and had those experiences, you prove his point don't you?

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