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[Shackeng]

Unfortunately people grow up never having been exposed to danger and learning how to deal with it. Probably the only ones that do have learned by playing truant and getting into mischief. The rest are so mollycoddled by parents frightened of bogeymen, and schools frightened of lawsuits and E&S. Result = reaching"kidulthood" with no concept of danger at all. As a youth I was let out to play after breakfast and left to my own devices.

[Diamond Black Geezer]

I remember feeling ruddy terrified when I walked out into the actual real world aged 18. After my cotton wool cocoon it was a shock. Raised by parents who were the generation of eating mud and playing outside for 12 hours without any means of mobile communication. Strange.

[Mister Rog]

Unfortunately people grow up never having been exposed to danger and learning how to deal with it. Probably the only ones that do have learned by playing truant and getting into mischief. The rest are so mollycoddled by parents frightened of bogeymen, and schools frightened of lawsuits and E&S. Result = reaching"kidulthood" with no concept of danger at all. As a youth I was let out to play after breakfast and left to my own devices.

Well yes. I would have been mortified if my children had done half of what I got up to as a kid

[aaronjb]

This topic came up on the radio this morning - about how kids now get ferried here, there and everywhere for the entire six week summer holiday, but how "in our day" you had a one week family holiday and for the other five you were left to fend for yourself.. even I (a very much indoor child!) remember going out in the morning and not coming home till dinner time; either to a friends house, out on our bikes..

When I think now where we used to go with no mobile phones - middle of rural Yorkshire, probably 5-10 miles from home on our bikes, two or three of us but otherwise alone.. fields, barns, mischief to get into. Kids these days will never know that kind of fun, I'm sure

[Andy B]

....
 and not coming home till dinner time;  ....

is that dinner time (in the afternoon) or tea time (in the evening)? 

[aaronjb]

....
 and not coming home till dinner time;  ....

is that dinner time (in the afternoon) or tea time (in the evening)? 

Tea time for you common folk 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I was on Charmouth beach a couple of weeks ago here in West Dorset and the amount of people hacking away at the cliffs in search of fossils despite all the warning signs of unstable cliffs was shocking!   

The ones that really shocked me was a teenage lad digging away at the base of the cliff in a spot where the top hung over him.  His mother was doing the same about 15 feet away....  Surely candidates for the Darwin Award? 

You were young once. Don't tell me you never crawled under your car whilst using a scissor jack, I know I did. 

Scissor jack......luxury.

Crumbling bricks for me. None of this healthy and safety rubbish when I was was young and stupid.

[Nick W]

....
 and not coming home till dinner time;  ....

is that dinner time (in the afternoon) or tea time (in the evening)? 

Aren't those the wrong way round?
Like this:
Breakfast
Lunch
Tea
Dinner

Leading to:
Overweight
Diabetes
Amputated foot
Heart attack at 57

[Andy B]

....
 and not coming home till dinner time;  ....

is that dinner time (in the afternoon) or tea time (in the evening)? 

Aren't those the wrong way round?
Like this:
Breakfast
Lunch
Tea
Dinner

Leading to:
Overweight
Diabetes
Amputated foot
Heart attack at 57

No ....... it's breakfast then dinner and then tea. If you're hungry before bed you have supper.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

In refined circles it is breakfast......lunch........dinner.

[Nick W]

No ....... it's breakfast then dinner and then tea. If you're hungry before bed you have supper.

But that would mean dressing for dinner in the early afternoon. Which is ridiculous 

[X30XE]

....
 and not coming home till dinner time;  ....

is that dinner time (in the afternoon) or tea time (in the evening)? 

...

Leading to:
Overweight
Diabetes
Amputated foot
Heart attack at 57

AaaaHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 

[Andy B]

In refined circles it is breakfast......lunch........dinner.

That'll be where I'm going wrong 

[henryd]

....
 and not coming home till dinner time;  ....

is that dinner time (in the afternoon) or tea time (in the evening)? 

Aren't those the wrong way round?
Like this:
Breakfast
Lunch
Tea
Dinner

Leading to:
Overweight
Diabetes
Amputated foot
Heart attack at 57

No ....... it's breakfast then dinner and then tea. If you're hungry before bed you have supper.

I've been trying to tell my wife thats how it is down here but she's from London ,nuff said

[Nick W]

....
 and not coming home till dinner time;  ....

is that dinner time (in the afternoon) or tea time (in the evening)? 

Aren't those the wrong way round?
Like this:
Breakfast
Lunch
Tea
Dinner

Leading to:
Overweight
Diabetes
Amputated foot
Heart attack at 57

No ....... it's breakfast then dinner and then tea. If you're hungry before bed you have supper.

I've been trying to tell my wife thats how it is down here but she's from London ,nuff said

That would make elevenses a pre-breakfast snack then?