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Old school tough….

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Let’s for a minute all agree that our parents were tougher than us snowflakes nowadays…

What tough things did the last generation do that makes you think, damn, they were old school tough.

I remember Geoff Capes wripping a phone book in half, you don’t see that on BBC one lately

But in the building trade, power tools have replaced the hand tool, and everyone uses machines, don’t want blisters do we?

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By *ris GrayMan
over a year ago

Dorchester

My dad started work at 13 and worked in many industries all hands on he had big hands

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

My dad cycled seven miles each way to work on a building site and when he'd finished worked until nine in the evening shop fitting. He only did the evening job temporarily though.

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By *orenzoVonMatterhornMan
over a year ago

Lincoln

My parents walked fifty miles to school seven days a week, uphill both ways, and then did a forty hour shift in the factory

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

My mum had an old fashioned copper boiler to do the washing, no fridge of freezer for many years and walked everywhere

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My parents watched tv in standard definition. Poor buggers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Norman Wisdom walked from London to Wales looking for work.

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

I work in a physically demanding job, much less now than my predecessors, actually much less now than when I started 40 years ago.

When I look back at what was standard practise for my fathers generation, handling 2cwt sacks and I don’t mean the odd one or two, they used to load and unload lorry loads at a time.

I can remember unloading 10 tonne lorries of 1cwt sacks when I started, that was bad enough, nowadays the most you are supposed to lift on your own is less than half a cwt.

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By *ife NinjaMan
over a year ago

Dunfermline

Never mind my parents, I walked two miles to school, there and back in all weather's.

Tougher than a HB pencil me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Apparently I'm old school tough as I didn't have Google growing up!

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By *ife NinjaMan
over a year ago

Dunfermline


"Apparently I'm old school tough as I didn't have Google growing up! "

How did we cope? Going to the library to look at books

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By *929Man
over a year ago

newcastle

I like to think I’m at least equal to my dad work wise I started for him when leaving school abs we had dug and and mixed absolutely everything, worst ever day was digging footings for an extension, hand dug them to 3ft in a day building inspector showed up in afternoon said they have to go down to the depth of the adjacent manhole which was 6ft next day we show up it’s snowing and there’s a foot of water in the trench by the time we hit depth I was digging in the trench and passing each shovel full up to my dad so he could put it in skip. We drove home naked as was coated head to toe in clarts.

Of course machinery has its place not so much to make job easier just faster abs more effecient, faster = more potential earning. We still break concrete out by sledgehammer and hand dig the odd job with no digger access but do use the digger whenever we can not getting any younger haha the latest generation is the worst most are soft as fucking shit and won’t graft to save their life

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

They couldn't just press the back button on Netflix, they had to rewind the VHS tapes before physically taking them back to Blockbuster

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Toilets used to be outhouses and in the winter you'd have to break the ice to remove the products

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By *ife NinjaMan
over a year ago

Dunfermline


"Toilets used to be outhouses and in the winter you'd have to break the ice to remove the products "

Izal paper. Only tough people could get rid of the skiddies with that

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By *owestoft ManMan
over a year ago

Lowestoft

Hmm where does the Tough the Snow Flake line start? I'm 61 now and used to ride my motox bike to work with just a T-Shirt and Shorts on. No shoes and those bloody foot rests could cause some injuries lol. Got industrial deafness from lack of correct safety equipment. But my parents always used to say us kids had it so easy compared to their days.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All of those fdom the "tough" generation would have picked an easier life if they could. Embrace progress

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By *hrek101Man
over a year ago

Herts

My parents had people just walk up to them in the street and run a finger down their face to see if the colour came off

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

We had to straighten our hair using an iron with a teatowel covering our hair.

Strangely though, we had crimping irons.

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By *illiam101000Man
over a year ago

Melton Mowbray


"Norman Wisdom walked from London to Wales looking for work."

I think he was walking the wrong way.lol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can see this fast turning into the Yorkshiremen sketch.

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands

Grew up with a push button tv, no remote and had an under counter fridge freezer in one.

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