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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Thexalon on Saturday October 28 2023, @10:45AM (2 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Saturday October 28 2023, @10:45AM (#1330624)

    I had to wake up at 10 o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."

    And if you try to tell the young people of today that, they won't believe you.

    As it is, I can truthfully say that I had to walk over a mile to school uphill through foot-deep snow. The way things are going, I think the youths will start answering "What's snow?"

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2023, @12:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2023, @12:10PM (#1330628)

    Well, I had to trudge down into the valley, before I could fight my way uphill through the snow. Which meant that when school let out, I had to go down into the valley, again, to barge through the snow to get home! The "city of seven hills" sounds cool, until you add snow to that picture.

  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday November 07 2023, @08:01AM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 07 2023, @08:01AM (#1331816) Journal

    When I was in primary school (early 80s) we had a teacher who seemed really ancient (she was probably in her fifties) who told us that when she was a child she used to have to walk, in bare feet, four miles from the next village to this very school where she now taught.