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Originally Posted by Reg
Chained to metal pole!
See kids today are spoiled, when I were a lad, we were lashed to a railway sleeper with rusty barbed wire..
.. and we were grateful.
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Originally Posted by lumberjim
luxury!
when we were young, our parents nailed our heads to a log!
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Originally Posted by ZenGum
Who could afford nails?
Our dad used to cut our legs off with axe, soon as we're born, so's we cou'nt run awa'.
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Originally Posted by Undertoad
With axe? You 'ad it looky! We wished we would have axe! We had to gnaw through our own legs at age two, and use the remains as meat at tea.
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
Ah, you were one of those priviledged families with teeth! We all had to pass around the one set of old wooden dentures, waiting our turn before our legs could get gnawed off. And believe you me, you didn't want to have to go after granddad, no sir!
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr
You don't know how good you had it. Family? Piffle. I was raised in a flower pot by a local herb woman until I was twelve. (I escaped when they took me out to toss me on the compost heap.)
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Gaww, a silver spoon it was you had, what with that woman to care and tend fer yer. From the age of two I lived alone in a drainpipe wi nought to eat but worms, unless the rats got to em first.
And I still di'nt have any legs, mind you.