@Shakyamuni 977145 wrote:
Freeloading on childrens labor, niceeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Although I am of part Chinese ancestry I’ wouldn’t be expecting them to make hundreds of the things (it is usually only a single coil on a ferrite core you need on the antenna connection to a HF radio), many kids are now genuinely interested in the “old style” stuff and it was TBH no worse than having (at age 7) to go to the petrol station and help Dad fill the 4,5 litre containers of paraffin (kerosene/mazoet) and haul one back home as we had not got central heating.
Even in the late 1970s a lot of British people would be horrified at the sight of this but it wasn’t that heavy and you felt like a big strong man doing it.
Or at age 16 for my Saturday job having to haul about 50 litres of Guinness about for the nuns out of the store room into the sisters shopping trolley; as I was the oldest male in the shop – although there was another lady who was older she was Muslim so that would be haraam (although it wasn’t strictly legal for me to be serving them and if the sister didn’t turn up by 14:00 the manager would put all the under 18s on shelf stacking duty as it usually meant the smartest of the 3 local bobbies was on patrol and would often do a licensing check……)
