remember when life used to be nice in Jamaica - part 2

[britisha]

Re: remember when life used to be nice in Jamaica - part 2

Originally posted by Q3210:
[qb] Nowadays pickney seem more depraved and rude because parents are all out working or hustling.
Days of old, at least one parent would always be at home, hence more supervision.
Emphasis is mostly in consumerism that favourite American dream. Americans do not have morning offerings and prayers that bring us all down back to a common level.
Today we tend to compete by buying things that we don`t really need, but just to show that we are keeping up with the Joneses.
We throw out the children with our bath water and what we reap is what we get in the behaviour patterns of people nowadays. [/qb]

***Clap Clap Clap*** Q you hit the nail right on the head. We weren't so wrapped up into consumerism nor competition. The stress and strain wasn't there to keep up with the Joneses. We simply lived life to the fullest with what we had, and appreciated everything around us no matter how simple....and oh yes, we remembered how to pray, something that held us together especially in times of hardships.

[Q3210]

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...and Britisha, to make more of a meal of it, we are led by maniacs who wonder way past their Texan sunsets into foreign territory like they did when they invaded the Native Indians, into the Arab world to shoot down a nation of Iraquis, because their chief doesn`t comply not with UN but with the lone super-power`s wishes.
Saddam is the scapegoat since Osama has evaded them.
Anyway, our children are never going to be like us.
Remember when we were rebellious teenagers and the generation gap started the segregation between us and parents.
Young folks generally think differently than we wiser older folks and so said Mommy and Daddy back in the days of old.
Not to be a doctor of doom, many of us have been at peace with our parents and have been very diplomatic about change.
Many of us who are here today over 40 are real survivors. We have tipped the scale and towed the line and never thought about joining the Texas Bush Club armed with rifles and weapons of mass destruction to go and implement forceful thinking.

[britisha]

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Not to veer off course, I am here thinking that the dillemma between the Texan and the Arab is the result of more than meets the naked eye. As them wudda seh in Jamdown; "someting innah someting." Hope we will be alive to hear tghe truth when it eventually comes out.

As for us as teeens, we went through the natural process of "rebellion" but we didn't get into any serious chubble to bring police to the gate as I am hearing about now, but at home and abroad. Things changed a lot and now-a-days kids are bombarded with too much negative influence compared to the times when we were kids, not to mention the lack of supervision in many cases.

Mi,memba when yuh cuddn hanswa back yuh parents, and Heaven helped the ones who did. Teenagers still got a whooping as tall as they were if they stepped out of line. Try it now if wi bad; dem chreaten fi call police pan yuh..dat a who noh lick back dem parents. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[Q3210]

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With a plum in my throat and a tear in my eye, Brit, student boxing back their teacher.
Some of them fighting and weilding knives in the classroom.
Remember the Ganja smoking issue at Munroe a couple years ago?
`bout letting off the boys and allowing them back after expulsion.
We have taken liberty too far with our youngsters.
All of us who have benefitted from a good whopping (not abuse) can attest to the fact that it made us into ladies and gentlemen with a fairly balanced outlook on life that made respect to oneself and to others a major virtue that bore us this liberty that we now overdo.

[ackeegirl]

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mi still nuh understand how when mi was a pickney and visitors came to the house and dem gather fi talk how dem used to send yuh to yuh room or tell yuh fi go outside and play pon di verandah..den dem proceed fi talk at di tap ah dem vice and yuh can hear wah dem saying clear outta street. wat dat was about? if dem neva want me fi hear di argument wah dem neva talk softer? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

My uncle used to have a frend who coulda cuss some rahtid badwud so much dat even di dawg in di yard used to lap him tail between him legs when di man start fi cuss and him nah cuss nobadi..is just talk him a talk and him used di badwuds as emphasis! kiss mi neckback. o/

one time mi repeat one ah di words di man said in the presence of an adult. di oooman hold me by mi ears and drag me home where dem proceed fi put soap in mi mouth. When mi father reach home and hear ...him cuss two badwuds and tell dem nuh fi try dat again wid me. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

mi did love mi father yuh see [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Q3210]

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AG, it never really mattered if you heard them older folks. What mattered was that you were not to be in their company or presence when `big people` were conversing.
Part of why when we kids were rude or out of order, we were sent packing to bed or to sit in the corner till called. Away from it all.

[ackeegirl]

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dat mek plenty sense, Q...good ting me did feel loved by di same ppl who used to punish me [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

by the way, wat ever happened to Count Prince Miller who did Mule Train back in 1971? Mi seh di man had a big mout like a yabba pat! Mi father had it pon vinyl and mi memba hearing di whip cracking when CPM bawl out Mullllllle Traiiiiiin! DWL!

[SandiF]

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britisha, yu used to stone di fruit trees inna Maypen Simitry??!!! If a laugh a dead!! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Fi mi parents neva ramp to mek us know our place and manners. It was customary to have a likkle "prayer meeting" in the family. Mi father would get very reverend then ~~ mi big sisters could a laugh yu si when daddy start to feel a likkle holiness moving through him!! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Wi couldn't watch "big people" show (shows with little hugging and kissing) with our parents present in the living room. Yu mad! Dem run wi out an sey "gwaan a yu bed a big people show dis!" It's so funny now thinking back.

Who remember one time JBC put on a very adult movie for Saturday Night Movie? Then Dennis Hall came on and apologised for the error!

Bwoy wi used to inprovise, as how we say in Jamaica, tun yu han' mek fashin. As poor as most of us may have been, we lived a rich full life in the poorness.

[ladydee1964]

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I was enjoying this so much I didn't want to intervene, but to answer a question of AG's:

by the way, wat ever happened to Count Prince Miller who did Mule Train back in 1971? Mi seh di man had a big mout like a yabba pat!

Count Prince Miller is alive and well and living in the UK and still performing as an impresario!

BTW, ow cum nobaddy noh menshun sea-grape?

[Q3210]

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Sea Grape? Who dat? Mi know is what dat but not who.
Sandi, Poor Dennis. Remember when reading the news on TV one evening, he suffered one of his coughing spasms. The news was disrupted for quite a while. When Dennis came back on air, he of course apologized.
RIP Dennis.
Mister School Challenge Quiz Master himself.

[ackeegirl]

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tks for the update ladydee! Glad to know he's well! If you happen to see him please don't tell him wat mi seh bout di size of him mout [img]/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

scratching head wondering what name sea grapes?

Q, yuh find out yet?

[SandiF]

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Mi know sea grape. you'll find the tree growing on coastal areas in the sandy beaches, the fruit grows in bunches, green in colour and pretty tasty.

didn't knew bout sea grapes 'til some 8 yrs ago.

[Q3210]

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A bit too saline for my taste buds from what I remember of sea grapes

[ackeegirl]

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Sea Grapes (Caulerpa racemosa) with
feathery green algae (Caulerpa sertularioides)
Sea grapes are also algae and are used as animal feed, human food (salads), medicine (antibacterial, antibiotic, antifungal, antitumour, lowers blood pressure, treats rheumatism, anesthetic)

this is what i found on seagrapes...they sure look like jimbilins to me [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Q3210]

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Slightly larger than a jimbilin. If I remember correctly, the sea grapes have a major seed in the centre therefore less fleshy.