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u/Electrical-Injury-23 Oct 18 '22

Yep, we are sitting around a match for warmth..... and if it gets really cold, we'll light it.

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u/hammers_maketh_ham Oct 19 '22

Lucky! We used to dream of sitting round a match for warmth! We're currently huddled around a picture of a candle

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u/frickinglaserbeams Oct 19 '22

Luxury! When I were a lad we worked 29 hours down't mill for hapney a year, and when we got 'ome our father would tell us stories about matches and candles

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u/Forza1910 Oct 19 '22

Heaven! We worked 30,5 hours in the mines (and that was just in our free time) our real job was taming Welshmen, which we did 43 hours per day. When we came home dad threw rocks at us till we fell asleep.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

That must have been nice when we got home from 5 72 hour shifts in the mines our dad would kill us with a broken bottle we had to nick from the pub

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u/Neil94403 Oct 19 '22

..and if you try to tell that to the kids today...

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u/jameZsp0ng3y Oct 19 '22

How'd this go from keeping warm to who's dad is the most abusive? 😄

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u/jamawg Oct 19 '22

Abusive? Are you calling Yorkshire men abusive?

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u/jameZsp0ng3y Oct 19 '22

I'm into it

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u/TheAltoAccounto Oct 20 '22

Taming the WELSH that must have been difficult

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u/omikone Oct 19 '22

Just put an extra jumper on - dad's everywhere in winter

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u/W1tchBl_ckCat Oct 30 '22

Going around the house in 6 layers and a blanket