Congratulations....
11-09-2008, 12:55 PM
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Congratulations....
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1940's, 50's, 60's AND 70's !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while
they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, liver pate
and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured
lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when
we rode our bikes, we had no helmets.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun.
We drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE
actually died from this.
We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it,
but we weren't overweight because.......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride
down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into
the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem .
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all,
no 99 channels on cable, no DVD's, no MP3's no surround sound, no mobile phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents .
We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We could read something twice without touching up our gran sexually and then shouting "repost"
Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it
would happen, we did not poke out any eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or
rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with
disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how
brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?
1940's, 50's, 60's AND 70's !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while
they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, liver pate
and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured
lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when
we rode our bikes, we had no helmets.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun.
We drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE
actually died from this.
We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it,
but we weren't overweight because.......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride
down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into
the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem .
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all,
no 99 channels on cable, no DVD's, no MP3's no surround sound, no mobile phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents .
We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We could read something twice without touching up our gran sexually and then shouting "repost"
Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it
would happen, we did not poke out any eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or
rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with
disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how
brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?
11-09-2008, 01:16 PM
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Wow how did i survive all that, and escaped the evil clutches of the modern invention of paedophilia after sitting on Santa's knee in woolworths many years ago.
11-09-2008, 01:21 PM
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Too foookin right chip!
I was explaining to my lad the other night (he's 9) about how cars never used to have seatbelts in the back, how it only became law to wear them in the front after 1981 (i think???), Airbags had never been thought of etc etc etc...
He looked at me as if i was from another dangerous carefree planet!
I was explaining to my lad the other night (he's 9) about how cars never used to have seatbelts in the back, how it only became law to wear them in the front after 1981 (i think???), Airbags had never been thought of etc etc etc...
He looked at me as if i was from another dangerous carefree planet!
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11-09-2008, 01:29 PM
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All so true, my teenage son thinks that the only way that you can make contact with friends is through msn or a mobile phone, nobody just goes and calls for anybody anymore, I was born in the 70's and I think growing up as a natural child without all the gadgetry and lawsuits was a million times better than the way kids grow up now, maybe thats this generation of teenagers is so horrible.
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11-09-2008, 05:11 PM
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I was born 82 and i fit right into that, me and a best mate often talk about it, we used to just "meet up" never put much thought into it. like where? when? or how? we just always managed to find at least a group of five troops playing around with a water logged mitre delta lol
I miss it bad and it makes me feel old, im only 26 and that makes me feel 40
I miss it bad and it makes me feel old, im only 26 and that makes me feel 40
11-09-2008, 07:18 PM
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11-09-2008, 07:24 PM
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I was born 82 and i fit right into that, me and a best mate often talk about it, we used to just "meet up" never put much thought into it. like where? when? or how? we just always managed to find at least a group of five troops playing around with a water logged mitre delta lol
I miss it bad and it makes me feel old, im only 26 and that makes me feel 40
I miss it bad and it makes me feel old, im only 26 and that makes me feel 40
I'm 22 and i know how you feel, it was mint being young. Kids these days are all far too lazy and soft. They break a leg or something and it gets them out of having to do anything, they can just sit inside and watch tv/play games etc. To us it was torture, hell we'd fuckin drag the cast around if we had to, just to be outside with friends.
