No Safe Way To Tan

Russ77 said:
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personally I'd rather live to 70 having enjoyed my life, doing/eating/drinking things I like than living to a miserable 90 :LOL:
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ah well only another couple of weeks and i,m there then ,on the 70 bit anyway .you missed out the fornicating but each to there own , and despite what my dad said i haven't gone blind yet ,i preferred to listen to me mum who told me if i,m not in bed by one a.m come home :agree::jimlad:
 
Cobra said:
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As the saying goes, do you really want to step into your grave in a perfectly preserved body?
Or slide sideways, screaming Wahoooooooooooooooo what a ride!
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I,ll go for the latter. I'm way too far down the road of bad living to even hope for the other. Pickled maybe but not well preserved :plus1:
 
BruceMo said:
I,ll go for the latter. I'm way too far down the road of bad living to even hope for the other. Pickled maybe but not well preserved :plus1:
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Lets be honest about this, us of a certain age, (most of) our mums smoked and probably had a few gins too, while carrying us, we slept in cots painted with lead paint, which I'm sure we chewed
Were out playing till dusk, climbing trees breaking limbs or at the very least skinning our knees, we were educated in classrooms that has asbestos ceilings and that was the good bits :D .......
If the experts of today are to be believed we shouldn't have made it out of our teens...
 
Cobra said:
Lets be honest about this, us of a certain age, (most of) our mums smoked and probably had a few gins too, while carrying us, we slept in cots painted with lead paint, which I'm sure we chewed
Were out playing till dusk, climbing trees breaking limbs or at the very least skinning our knees, we were educated in classrooms that has asbestos ceilings and that was the good bits :D .......
If the experts of today are to be believed we shouldn't have made it out of our teens...
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And they ate liver and bacon whilst pregnant. :)
 
I am still surprised that I made it through my 20s!

Lived fast, failed to die young and there was never a chance of me leaving a good looking corpse... :P :D

Never managed to get a tan (even bottled stuff slides off me!) so slap on high factor, long sleeves and trousers unless we're on the beach where it's a PITA to keep undressing/redressing between snorkelling sessions. Even working outside all day doesn't brown me, although it does brown me off that sunscreen isn't a allowable tax expense for outdoors workers. Below the t-shirt line does go slightly off white at the end of the summer but only a shade.

IIRC, sunburn is classes as a self inflicted wound in the forces, alongside tattoos gone bad and VD.
 
Nod said:
Below the t-shirt line does go slightly off white at the end of the summer but only a shade..
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I hope the stuff in that bottle beside you is mind-bleach, and not just sun cream. :p
 
Cobra said:
I'm sure & I still do :thumbs:
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Sure not when you are pregnant :p

Actually my wife ordered that on our first date at quaglino's in st James' instead of some silly salad. A nice proper meal.
 
BruceMo said:
Probably the only thing that wasn't deep fried in lard too.
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I wouldn't bet on it :D

My mum always kept a pot of used Lard in the larder, I couldn't wait till she got the the bottom of it, that congealed jelly at the bottom was mine!
Spread on bread, with more than a little salt ...

How did we ever make it past 5 years old?
 
Until '67 (?) Drinking and Driving wasn't an offence.

I can remember steering the car while sitting on Mum's lap, on the road, no seatbelt. Must have been early '70s.
 
Nod said:
I can remember steering the car while sitting on Mum's lap
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Ah yes that too, only mum couldn't drive so it was Dads
and his MK8 ( I think, the same as the police had, in cream too ) Jag (y)
 
Cobra said:
I wouldn't bet on it :D

My mum always kept a pot of used Lard in the larder, I couldn't wait till she got the the bottom of it, that congealed jelly at the bottom was mine!
Spread on bread, with more than a little salt ...

How did we ever make it past 5 years old?
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Cheerful reading.... All these "bad" life style choices could be my memoirs, and I grew up under an electric pylon and worked delivering milk around twelve years old, then started in the building trade at 15 where it was mandatory to drink far too much on rainy days
Wonder why us scots die young :LOL:
 
BruceMo said:
Cheerful reading.... All these "bad" life style choices could be my memoirs, and I grew up under an electric pylon
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I forgot that, not a Pylon, but a brickyard belching out sulphurous smoke 24/7
The only compliant that I remember was mum moaning about the black bits on her white washing on the line, if the wind was in the wrong direction.
 
All a picture of health in here then. I think genetics plays a huge part too
 
Cobra said:
I forgot that, not a Pylon, but a brickyard belching out sulphurous smoke 24/7
The only compliant that I remember was mum moaning about the black bits on her white washing on the line, if the wind was in the wrong direction.
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And I bet most of us have warm memories of growing up among all that madness. I wonder if today's kids will have such happy memories of this new health and safety era
I never lived far from the farms around Dundee and the farmer used to send tractor and trailers to ferry berry packers up to the fields. We'd all clamber aboard best we could often while it was moving and be general idiots on the journey as young boys would. All seemed perfectly normal but the farmer would be jailed now I suppose
 
BruceMo said:
Wonder why us scots die young
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Nah! only the good die young :D
( I guess I'm gonna live forever too :D )
BruceMo said:
I wonder if today's kids will have such happy memories of this new health and safety era
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Hardly likely is it? They'll just remember who had the highest score on the Xplaybox thing on any given day :rolleyes:

BruceMo said:
All seemed perfectly normal but the farmer would be jailed now I suppose
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I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest!
All good fun though :D
 
Funny how things trigger memories ,my favourite sun tan lotion back in the 60's was virgin olive oil ( yep seriously) hopefully applied by a about not to be a virgin .luckily I only have to look at the sun to go a darker shade of bronze . So olive oil was fine ,I think I tried paraffin wax as well coupled with lots of dips in the sea of Brighton or Margate
 
Nod said:
Until '67 (?) Drinking and Driving wasn't an offence.
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It's been an offence since the 1920s. You're thinking of the breathalyser and the 80mg/100mls of blood limit.
 
dejongj said:
And they ate liver and bacon whilst pregnant. :)
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I was advised of liver as a good source of iron when I was pregnant...and that was only 12 years ago!
 
viv1969 said:
I was advised of liver as a good source of iron when I was pregnant...and that was only 12 years ago!
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Lol so were we with my eldest. And then with my youngest we were advised not too. Grrr.

Ah well more Fegato al Venezia for me :)

Damn I really want liver now. In Holland the company canteen used to do chicken livers, mushroom and toast for lunch. Yum. With s nice glass of table wine as well.
 
Love the sun but don't go mad in it. My view is a little of what you fancy does ya good.

However, those who preach about sunscreen should read what goes in it.

including PETROCHEMICALS
 
dejongj said:
Lol so were we with my eldest. And then with my youngest we were advised not too. Grrr.

Ah well more Fegato al Venezia for me :)

Damn I really want liver now. In Holland the company canteen used to do chicken livers, mushroom and toast for lunch. Yum. With s nice glass of table wine as well.
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Now that does sound tasty!
 
dejongj said:
In Holland the company canteen used to do chicken livers, mushroom and toast for lunch. Yum. With s nice glass of table wine as well.
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Chianti? (& fava beans?)
 
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Cobra said:
Lets be honest about this, us of a certain age, (most of) our mums smoked and probably had a few gins too, while carrying us, we slept in cots painted with lead paint, which I'm sure we chewed
Were out playing till dusk, climbing trees breaking limbs or at the very least skinning our knees, we were educated in classrooms that has asbestos ceilings and that was the good bits :D .......
If the experts of today are to be believed we shouldn't have made it out of our teens...
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to be fair infant and neonatal mortality has fallen significantly over the past 30 to 40 years.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_300596.pdf
 
MartynK said:
It's been an offence since the 1920s. You're thinking of the breathalyser and the 80mg/100mls of blood limit.
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Well, sort of. DRUNK driving was the offence but was rather hard to prove, the breathalyser made it measurable so easier to quantify.
 
Rapscallion said:
o be fair infant and neonatal mortality has fallen significantly over the past 30 to 40 years.
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My comments were a light hearted look at "my" childhood, everything we did then is wrong now, and yet here we are, a whole generation alive and kicking, that should have been pushing up daisies years ago.
And nothing to do with neonatal survival rates / deaths
 
Nod said:
Well, sort of. DRUNK driving was the offence but was rather hard to prove, the breathalyser made it measurable so easier to quantify.
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Sort of, but not exactly. The most important difference was the introduction of the prescribed limit (80ml/100mls), which made it unnecessary to prove that you were drunk or impaired. The breathalyser was just the tool for roadside tests at this point. It was also the first time refusing to provide a specimen of breath, blood or urine became an offence in itself.
 
Cobra said:
My comments were a light hearted look at "my" childhood, everything we did then is wrong now, and yet here we are, a whole generation alive and kicking, that should have been pushing up daisies years ago.
And nothing to do with neonatal survival rates / deaths
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I know exactly what you mean...... I turn 40 next year but still did things in my childhood that would have social services coming after my parents now but were perfectly acceptable then.

Sadly we are becoming more and more of a nanny state, the more common sense is eroded by the introduction of blanket rules & regs which we got by fine without years back, the less common sense future generations are going to have.

OK, the introduction of a drink/drive limit was a good thing (although IMO if you drink you don't drive... simples!), everyone having to wear seatbelts in cars and "proper" seats/restraints for babies/children are sensible safety measures (along with countless others) in a constantly changing and evolving World but when it seems that we're being told not to do stuff that's been going on for years with no real ill effects it's just a little crazy!
 
Russ77 said:
I know exactly what you mean...... I turn 40 next year but still did things in my childhood that would have social services coming after my parents now but were perfectly acceptable then.

Sadly we are becoming more and more of a nanny state, the more common sense is eroded by the introduction of blanket rules & regs which we got by fine without years back, the less common sense future generations are going to have.

OK, the introduction of a drink/drive limit was a good thing (although IMO if you drink you don't drive... simples!), everyone having to wear seatbelts in cars and "proper" seats/restraints for babies/children are sensible safety measures (along with countless others) in a constantly changing and evolving World but when it seems that we're being told not to do stuff that's been going on for years with no real ill effects it's just a little crazy!
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I would reply in detail but I have to do a couple of hundred risk assessments whilst wearing my hi vis jacks, steel boots and safety goggles.
 
Far, far fewer cars on the roads when Cobra was a kid than when I was and even more when you (Russ) were. Not to mention slower speeds (generally!), although I have a feeling that Cobra was around (though possibly not on the road) before the national speed limit was introduced on many roads. (Just checked - so was I, although I definitely wasn't even steering than!) :P

Fully agree with the drinking not driving - one or the other for me.
 
They did in Scotland, not sure if they're going to down here in civilisation!
 
Russ77 said:
I know exactly what you mean...... I turn 40 next year
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A mere babe in arms :D

Certainly, some things are just common sense "Do's and Don't's" :thumbs: but then perhaps we have as a society have evolved without any? ( :D )
Listening to all the latest expert advice over the years, closely followed by someone else finding "contradictory evidence", it would seem to justify their assistance, or even get their name in the media,
just makes me laugh TBH.

Nod said:
Far, far fewer cars on the roads when Cobra was a kid
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I remember playing in the road at "home" in total safety.

Nod said:
I have a feeling that Cobra was around (though possibly not on the road) before the national speed limit was introduced on many roads
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Indeed but not old enough to drive.
 
Peteaud said:
Aren't they supposed to be lowering the mg limit for breathalysers?
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Nod said:
They did in Scotland, not sure if they're going to down here in civilisation!
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Its under consideration following trials Ooop Norf, according the radio this morning.
 
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