indiana123 Posted August 3, 2021 #326 Share Posted August 3, 2021 I found Queen Elizabeth the friendliest and happiest ship of them all. In view of my post above, when standing on her deck it did cross my mind "how did I end up here? We usually go P and O. We love the overall experience. We have never encountered real nastiness on any ship. Thank goodness. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobstheboy Posted August 3, 2021 #327 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Snobbish behaviour and snobs generally are not my favourite people. I met a few during my police career, guess who came out on top !!!!? 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanlyon Posted August 3, 2021 #328 Share Posted August 3, 2021 (edited) I was lucky, lived in a semi with our own bathroom. My parents held down 4 jobs at one point to bring 2 of us up. I thought the person above thought Queen Elizabeth was the most friendly person they had met, until I read further!!🤣 Edited August 3, 2021 by jeanlyon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Peterson Posted August 3, 2021 #329 Share Posted August 3, 2021 3 minutes ago, bobstheboy said: Snobbish behaviour and snobs generally are not my favourite people. I met a few during my police career, guess who came out on top !!!!? Hopefully, the law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian1 Posted August 4, 2021 #330 Share Posted August 4, 2021 10 hours ago, indiana123 said: I was brought up in an attic in a large victorian house so I'm upper class with you. (we wont mention sharing a toilet with two other families (11 people), or that the water supply was behind a curtain across a landing down a flight of stairs, or sharing my parents room till I was 15, or having to ask the landlady if we could have a bath every now and then!!!!🤣 Blimey,you didn't live next door to Charles Dickens did you? He lived in Kent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkshirephil Posted August 4, 2021 #331 Share Posted August 4, 2021 11 hours ago, indiana123 said: I was brought up in an attic in a large victorian house so I'm upper class with you. (we wont mention sharing a toilet with two other families (11 people), or that the water supply was behind a curtain across a landing down a flight of stairs, or sharing my parents room till I was 15, or having to ask the landlady if we could have a bath every now and then!!!!🤣 Thats nowt, wen a'wor a lad there were 26 of us lived in a shoe box at bottom of a swamp, we used to get up 2 hours before we went to bed and work a 25 hour day dahn t'pit 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohnonotmeagain Posted August 4, 2021 #332 Share Posted August 4, 2021 19 minutes ago, yorkshirephil said: Thats nowt, wen a'wor a lad there were 26 of us lived in a shoe box at bottom of a swamp, we used to get up 2 hours before we went to bed and work a 25 hour day dahn t'pit And you tell the young people of today and they don't believe you ! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian1 Posted August 4, 2021 #333 Share Posted August 4, 2021 37 minutes ago, yorkshirephil said: Thats nowt, wen a'wor a lad there were 26 of us lived in a shoe box at bottom of a swamp, we used to get up 2 hours before we went to bed and work a 25 hour day dahn t'pit Blooooody loooxery.Me Mum made me sleep inside chimney at the top.Made me sweep it on't way down soes I got a bowl of soot fors me breakfast.Werent all bad,me Da used to light fire int winter. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobstheboy Posted August 4, 2021 #334 Share Posted August 4, 2021 11 hours ago, Harry Peterson said: Hopefully, the law. Every time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indiana123 Posted August 4, 2021 #335 Share Posted August 4, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, brian1 said: Blimey,you didn't live next door to Charles Dickens did you? He lived in Kent. No we lived in Southeast London. I think there was a class system in each catagory. We lived in Honor Oak, East Dulwich which was definitely classed as posher than surrounding areas even though it was mostly working class and even though we lived in the attic🤣) BUT we always had nice food on the table..stodge maybe.. but that was how it was then. Surely I'm not the only kid on here who scraped the ice off the inside of the bedroom windows before school. Edited August 4, 2021 by indiana123 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalos Posted August 4, 2021 #336 Share Posted August 4, 2021 1 hour ago, brian1 said: Blooooody loooxery.Me Mum made me sleep inside chimney at the top.Made me sweep it on't way down soes I got a bowl of soot fors me breakfast.Werent all bad,me Da used to light fire int winter. We lived like that for a while until the chimney got struck with lightening and I was then forced to sleep on the fire itself but as we couldn't afford to light it things didn't seem so bad . Over the years though things got better when my dad got a job as a scarecrow impersonator We then became what some would call "middle class " as my dad was outstanding in the field that he worked . I remember he once gave me a shiny old penny and said " Lad go and buy thee summat but don't buy rubbish " So with no more to do I went down town and bought me a 3 piece suit and booked a cruise on the old Queen Mary . On my return home my dad seemed pleased to see me and more so when I gave him his halfpenny change . See I remembered where I had came from and was honest enough to give dad his change . But as said by others they never believe you when you tell others . 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adawn47 Posted August 4, 2021 #337 Share Posted August 4, 2021 1 hour ago, ohnonotmeagain said: And you tell the young people of today and they don't believe you ! I can't understand why😇 Avril 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adawn47 Posted August 4, 2021 #338 Share Posted August 4, 2021 20 minutes ago, indiana123 said: Surely I'm not the only kid on here who scraped the ice off the inside of the bedroom windows before school. Indeed you're not. A hot brick wrapped in a towel in my bed to get it warm, a thick coat thrown over the blankets in case it got extra cold during the night. I loved looking at the frost ferns on the window or searching for the longest icicle on the guttering while snuggled in a warm bed. Eee, these young un's today dun't know the born.😊 Avril 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobstheboy Posted August 4, 2021 #339 Share Posted August 4, 2021 1 hour ago, indiana123 said: No we lived in Southeast London. I think there was a class system in each catagory. We lived in Honor Oak, East Dulwich which was definitely classed as posher than surrounding areas even though it was mostly working class and even though we lived in the attic🤣) BUT we always had nice food on the table..stodge maybe.. but that was how it was then. Surely I'm not the only kid on here who scraped the ice off the inside of the bedroom windows before school. Not only when at school. My first married quarter when I joined the police had no central heating or double glazing. I would get up for earlies, 5am, and have to wash and shave with ice inside the windows. My first two children were born and lived until the eldest was 4 in those conditions ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian1 Posted August 4, 2021 #340 Share Posted August 4, 2021 2 hours ago, indiana123 said: No we lived in Southeast London. I think there was a class system in each catagory. We lived in Honor Oak, East Dulwich which was definitely classed as posher than surrounding areas even though it was mostly working class and even though we lived in the attic🤣) BUT we always had nice food on the table..stodge maybe.. but that was how it was then. Surely I'm not the only kid on here who scraped the ice off the inside of the bedroom windows before school. I remember all that when we moved to our luxury council house in the country (Dagenham).No fridge,milk in a bowl of water on doorstep.Gas copper in kitchen with hand pump to get water in the bath upstairs,lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josy1953 Posted August 4, 2021 #341 Share Posted August 4, 2021 2 hours ago, Adawn47 said: Indeed you're not. A hot brick wrapped in a towel in my bed to get it warm, a thick coat thrown over the blankets in case it got extra cold during the night. I loved looking at the frost ferns on the window or searching for the longest icicle on the guttering while snuggled in a warm bed. Eee, these young un's today dun't know the born.😊 Avril I remember all of this too well and I am glad that those days are gone, give me a nice centrally heated home any day. I used to love getting home from school in the winter because mum would give us bovril to drink while we waited for our evening meal. I will have to buy some bovril next winter lol. My parents believed in cooking for the season, we had what ever vegetables were in season and during the winter there were homemade soups, stews and pies. Thd kids today have no idea about seasonality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Peterson Posted August 4, 2021 #342 Share Posted August 4, 2021 To be fair to our younger cruising generation (and I speak as a Boomer), our generation may have had outside toilets, no central heating, lino and maybe rugs on the floors, ice on the inside of the windows, no fitted kitchens and tin baths in the kitchen - but we also had free university education (not just tuition fees but also living grants), a sufficient supply of houses enabling many to buy their own houses on marriage, and enough local authority rental housing to accommodate those who couldn't. Very few homeless people then, jobs were secure, and final salary pension schemes were common. We bought our first place in outer London (West Wickham) without any parental help in our very early twenties, and so did most of our friends - almost unheard of now. I think we are very much the favoured generation. 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Anarchy Posted August 4, 2021 #343 Share Posted August 4, 2021 35 minutes ago, Josy1953 said: I remember all of this too well and I am glad that those days are gone, give me a nice centrally heated home any day. I used to love getting home from school in the winter because mum would give us bovril to drink while we waited for our evening meal. I will have to buy some bovril next winter lol. My parents believed in cooking for the season, we had what ever vegetables were in season and during the winter there were homemade soups, stews and pies. Thd kids today have no idea about seasonality. Bovril - lovely stuff. Used to take a flask to work on winter nights. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkshirephil Posted August 4, 2021 #344 Share Posted August 4, 2021 6 hours ago, brian1 said: Da used to light fire int winter. Now that was luxury, me dad used to suck a victory V lozenger and we sat round his tongue to keep warm. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ccpm Posted August 4, 2021 #345 Share Posted August 4, 2021 2 hours ago, Harry Peterson said: To be fair to our younger cruising generation (and I speak as a Boomer), our generation may have had outside toilets, no central heating, lino and maybe rugs on the floors, ice on the inside of the windows, no fitted kitchens and tin baths in the kitchen - but we also had free university education (not just tuition fees but also living grants), a sufficient supply of houses enabling many to buy their own houses on marriage, and enough local authority rental housing to accommodate those who couldn't. Very few homeless people then, jobs were secure, and final salary pension schemes were common. We bought our first place in outer London (West Wickham) without any parental help in our very early twenties, and so did most of our friends - almost unheard of now. I think we are very much the favoured generation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ccpm Posted August 4, 2021 #346 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Just now, ccpm said: Wholeheartedly agree with financial bits but a lot of youngsters expect a lot now. For example my nephew was telling me the other day that yes hw was a bit down as he could't afford the latest apple watch as he had to get his dishwasher repaired. He has his own home at 24, a well paid job but his heart is broken because he wants everything now, right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobblehat71 Posted August 4, 2021 #347 Share Posted August 4, 2021 2 hours ago, Harry Peterson said: To be fair to our younger cruising generation (and I speak as a Boomer), our generation may have had outside toilets, no central heating, lino and maybe rugs on the floors, ice on the inside of the windows, no fitted kitchens and tin baths in the kitchen - but we also had free university education (not just tuition fees but also living grants), a sufficient supply of houses enabling many to buy their own houses on marriage, and enough local authority rental housing to accommodate those who couldn't. Very few homeless people then, jobs were secure, and final salary pension schemes were common. We bought our first place in outer London (West Wickham) without any parental help in our very early twenties, and so did most of our friends - almost unheard of now. I think we are very much the favoured generation. You forgot those nice Final Salary Pensions that so many of my fellow cruisers are so keen to tell me about over dinner 🤬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazrat Posted August 4, 2021 #348 Share Posted August 4, 2021 10 minutes ago, Bobblehat71 said: You forgot those nice Final Salary Pensions that so many of my fellow cruisers are so keen to tell me about over dinner 🤬 Correct the final salary pension some of us never got the opportunity to have, even though we kept the wheels of industry turning. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazrat Posted August 4, 2021 #349 Share Posted August 4, 2021 2 hours ago, Son of Anarchy said: Bovril - lovely stuff. Used to take a flask to work on winter nights. Bovril 🤨😖😣🥴🤢🤮 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobblehat71 Posted August 4, 2021 #350 Share Posted August 4, 2021 2 minutes ago, Bazrat said: Correct the final salary pension some of us never got the opportunity to have, even though we kept the wheels of industry turning. Some of us still are keeping the wheels of industry turning and will be for sometime 😪 Bring on the big ships and all inclusive drinks !! I think Arvia could do with a few waterslides and a go-kart track to 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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