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@robertrea @TudorBB36blue @BradfemlyWalsh Hamburgers in a tin definitely were a thing and Asda(amongst others) are still selling them.

@TudorBB36blue @bobangles12 @BradfemlyWalsh The 70s was 50 years ago, and even then “hamburgers in a tin” wasn’t a thing as far as I remember (maybe it was outside London?). At least our food isn’t 50% corn syrup

I know children struggle to comprehend that life was not the same when their parents were kids but this level of fantasy is encroaching into psychosis territory.

@Sassbass77 @TudorBB36blue @BradfemlyWalsh Only occasionally had them as mum used to make everything fresh. Had them with mashed potatoes and veg. No bread in sight.

@bobangles12 @TudorBB36blue @BradfemlyWalsh I have never seen anyone eat this kind of thing ever. It might be available but I have never known of it. We are fish fingers and frozen burgers. Nothing like this.

@BradfemlyWalsh To be honest I’m looking forward to trying one.

God yeah, all the pea sandwiches we're always eating here in the UK!

@TudorBB36blue @AlisonThisTime1 @BradfemlyWalsh Ooh I’ve never seen this before! Looks a bit dry though. Probably need some gravy to dip it in.

@AlisonThisTime1 @bobangles12 @BradfemlyWalsh And those godforsaken beans you have during breakfast. You guys are weird but I like how you are so verbally clever. English people are so great to talk with. You drink too much but I like the English quite a lot. Generally my favorite group.

@Sassbass77 @TudorBB36blue @BradfemlyWalsh

@bobangles12 @TudorBB36blue @BradfemlyWalsh Hamburgers in a tin? What? Can you explain please as I never saw this an I was born in the 70s.

@Fiona67D @TudorBB36blue @BradfemlyWalsh Cheese and mushroom for me!

@bobangles12 @TudorBB36blue @BradfemlyWalsh Bacon & cheese oatcake 😊

@TudorBB36blue @BradfemlyWalsh

@bobangles12 @BradfemlyWalsh Sounds so nasty and so English. Hamburgers in a tin sounds like the most English thing ever. You guys eat horrible stuff. The pea sandwiches look awful. Good luck.

@VeggieBeef @Bohemiangirl @TudorBB36blue @BradfemlyWalsh You can still get them in my local independent supermarket.

@Bohemiangirl @TudorBB36blue @bobangles12 @BradfemlyWalsh I have seen burgers in a tin but I’ve never eaten one. Don’t know anyone who has. We had frozen burgers when I was a kid. But, tbf, there was a lot of meat in tins in the 70s - spam, corned beef, Fray Bentos pies 🤷‍♀️

@puert50160 @MissLauraMarcus I had 3 older sisters. Nearly every thing I wore were hand me downs apart from the things my mum sewed or knitted. I remember sobbing at school when a boy laughed at my second hand shoes.

@MissLauraMarcus Yes I shared a wardrobe with my elder sister we only had half a dozen outfits & made the best of it .

Do read the comments! Boomers for the most part grew up with a lot less than many people have today. But we expected less. And consequently we were probably a lot happier than many people are today. I feel very lucky to have grown up in the 50s and 60s.

@TudorBB36blue @BradfemlyWalsh When I was growing up, in England in the 70’s, hamburgers came in a tin. And we actually thought they came from Hamburg.

@BradfemlyWalsh Hamburgers were 28 cents. Fast food exploded under the boomer lifespan but go on with the dustbowl kids "rare treat" larpathon

@FrancesLumsden @ArabelsRaven85 I’m so very sorry this happened to you Frances.xx

I was a tiny 4 year old girl when a ‘drinking friend’ of my father, shoved his penis down my throat. I could not breath, the pain ripped through my body rendering me paralysed. I thought I was going to die. His orgasm, which I came to understand later ( for as a child I had no concept of such a thing) was terrifying, his body shook as he abandoned himself to his pleasure. I remember his smell, his weight, his strength. I remember the pain, the terror, the total lack of understanding of what was happening to me. How can a 4 year old child “consent” to something she does not even understand? I was NOT traumatised by being told I was traumatised. I was traumatised by his violation of my body and mind. For he threatened me into silence. I stayed silent for 50 odds years. But not now. These paeodophile men can attempt to justify their wickedness til the moon turns to dust, they will still be abusers, violators, criminals, worse that any animal. They are self centred bastards, who ruin the lives of children. They should be put in jail in perpetuity. x.com/DutchForce17/s…

@JoeBangles11 Goodness. Sending best wishes and speedy recovery to Kirsty. What a shock.x

From birthday cake on Tuesday to a hospital ward on Wednesday. Kirsty survived a terrifying crash that could have taken her life. Somehow she escaped with only minor injuries. Babysitter number 2 is now home & safe x

@ayeshaijazkhan You couldn’t be more wrong. My Catholic Church is fuller than I’ve seen it in over 40 years.

You can scaremonger against Muslims all you want. But you can’t return to a “Christian Britain” because that doesn’t exist. The churches are empty. That’s not because of the Muslims. So when the only choice is between hedonism and Islam, who do you think will win?

I just finished an interview with Brad from Across Nigeria… and honestly, I’m sitting here stunned. Today, he buried 14 Christians in a mass grave. Two were infants. One was a 4-year-old child. And this isn’t some recycled internet story or political talking point. Brad was literally there today helping bury them. While on the way to investigate one attack, another Christian community was attacked. He said the violence is happening so fast they can barely keep up anymore. What shocked me even more is this: Brad shared that 72% of all Christians killed worldwide last year were killed in this region of Nigeria. 72%. And hardly anybody is talking about it. The mainstream media should be all over this. Instead, most people scrolling social media today have no idea our brothers and sisters in Christ are being slaughtered while churches are being forced underground. Guys… this matters. Please watch this interview. Please pray for these families. And PLEASE share this everywhere you can. At this point, WE are the media. WE are how people find out. WE are the distribution network. If enough ordinary people start sharing the truth, eventually the world will have to pay attention. Watch the full conversation and help us get this story out.

@capstellium @earthattorney Lost my 3yr old daughter in Mothercare once. Husband was watching her on the big slide while I was shopping & took his eye off her. Everyone in the shop looking for her. She was in a broken Postman Pat ride covered in a tarpaulin. Worst 5 minutes of my life.

@earthattorney you know sometimes people are just sharing things that happened in real life instead of crafting a perfect narrative

had the most insane experience at the legoland hotel. kids were playing in the lobby, had to make a quick call so asked my husband and mil to watch them, came back and my 2 year old was missing. 5 minutes of freaking out yelling her name looking everywhere and I find her behind a wall of soft blocks another family had built and then PICKED HER UP and placed her behind it, watched us all frantically searching and said nothing. when I found her I freaked out and went to tell my husband. she ran back over and they say to her, in front of my mil, "oh looks like your mommy isn't watching you again!" and my mil flipped the fuck out at them

@ThePosieParker Sending best wishes to her.x

Thoughts for my daughter please. Sepsis revisits.

@sueveneer I have 3 words that give me the shivers on X, problematic, nuanced and now purity.

British people calling a fringe “bangs”. #thingsthatmakemestabby

@SamaHoole Children can still get free milk until their 5th birthday in Reception class.

In 1946 the British government introduced free school milk for every child in the country. One third of a pint, every school day, from the age of five to the age of fifteen. The milk was whole. Full-fat. From British dairy herds. It was delivered to the school gate in small glass bottles with foil caps and left on the doorstep in metal crates, where it sat in the sun until morning break if the weather was warm and developed a slightly suspect taste that an entire generation of British adults can still describe with uncomfortable precision. The generation that grew up on school milk was, by every anthropometric measure, the healthiest generation of British children ever recorded. Average height increased. Bone density improved. Dental health, despite the sugar in everything else, improved. Iron deficiency rates among school-age children dropped. The growth charts that the Ministry of Health had been keeping since the war showed a consistent, measurable, year-on-year improvement that tracked precisely onto the introduction of the milk programme. In 1971 Margaret Thatcher, then Education Secretary, cut free school milk for children over seven. The tabloids called her Thatcher the Milk Snatcher. She was vilified. She kept the policy. The next generation of British children, the ones who grew up without the daily third of a pint, were measurably less healthy than the one before. The growth charts show it. The dental records show it. The conscription medicals, while they lasted, showed it. The thing the milk had been providing, the calcium, the vitamin D, the vitamin A, the complete amino acid profile, the conjugated linoleic acid, the fat-soluble nutrients that a growing skeleton requires in order to reach its genetic potential, was no longer arriving at morning break in a glass bottle with a foil cap. It was replaced, eventually, by nothing. Or by a carton of fruit juice. Or by a packet of crisps from the vending machine that appeared in the school corridor in the 1990s. The generation that drank the milk is now in its seventies and eighties. They are, on average, taller, stronger-boned, and longer-lived than the generation that came after them. The milk was not magic. The milk was milk. It was the thing the body needed, delivered at the time the body needed it, at a cost the government considered acceptable until it didn't. The cost of not providing it has been rather higher.

@kateStrasdin @RCT Her waist was tiny!

This was a lovely inclusion in Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style. A poodle skirt by Californian designer Juli Lynne Charlot featuring her signature appliquéd figures and animals. The Princess wore it to a square dance in Ottawa in 1951, a carefree moment captured here @RCT