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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: johnnycboy on 01 March 2009, 13:28:46
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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1930's 40'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 can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking .
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose 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 video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, 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 ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many 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!
Football teams had trials and 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?! :D :D :D :D :D
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Aww, I'm an early 80's kid - guess that's me had it then! ;)
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Oh dear, I remember all that. Think I need to Sue someone :y
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Aww, I'm an early 80's kid - guess that's me had it then! ;)
You poor dear ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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That is so spot on --- not convinced about the worms though -- I might still have them !!!! ::) None of us were allergic to anything either !!!!!!!
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Aww, I'm an early 80's kid - guess that's me had it then! ;)
same here
81 i was born 8-)
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83 for me, so I was (un)lucky enough to catch the start of the computer game craze! I remember my dad bringing home a commodore 64 - we thought it was the height of technology back then! ;D
Apart from that though, I hardly spent anytime in the house, we were always getting chased out of the golf course when we went sledging, or down at the corporation swimming pool.
I remember I did get my first mobile phone for my birthday in my last year of school, seemed great at the time, but I'm sure it was just so my folks could keep tabs on me - in fact they're still doing it now and I'm 26!
I've somehow managed to make it this far in life without breaking any bones though, so maybe there's something to be said for growing up in the 80's!!! :D :D :D
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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1930's 40'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 can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking .
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose 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 video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, 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 ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many 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!
Football teams had trials and 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?! :D :D :D :D :D
How true all that is,
plus:
"eating" your brothers toy lead soldiers;
going all round the streets collecting jam jars and glass bottles to be paid pennies for them;
at six walking to and from school across busy roads;
breathing in the soot from coal fired steam engines and the chimneys of factories and houses;
drinking and eating dairy and meat products never being kept in a fridge
doing the shopping for mum at the shops, unaccompanied, when just seven;
consuming full fat, full sugar, full salt everything, and yes,
as already mentioned - the classic box cart - riding on your brothers cart, with useless brakes, balancing on the back hurtling down paths / roads / anywhere "dangerous"!
But yes, we survived!! :D :D 8-) 8-) 8-)
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The Commodore 64, what a machine.
Half the fun was the excitment of not knowing whether your game would actually load or not!
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The Commodore 64, what a machine.
Half the fun was the excitment of not knowing whether your game would actually load or not![/quote]
But when it did, wow the graphics were just amazing - sometimes you got four colours on the screen at the same time! ;D
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Nah ZX Spectrum. Still got mine in the loft with about 200 games. OOOOHHHH Horace goes skiing!!! :y
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The Commodore 64, what a machine.
Half the fun was the excitment of not knowing whether your game would actually load or not!
Still got a couple!! Used an american disk drive (compat with the 1571 (?)) - 5¼ floppy discs - load games from tape, turbo them and save to disc. Games that took 20 mins to load off tape drive took seconds off the disc drive. This drive was never available in the UK afaik - I bought mine in the states.
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What's all this talk about PC's? :-? :-?
In the years of this thread, well up until the start of the early seventies for most of us, we didn't even have electronic calculators!! ::) ::) :D :D ;)
Computers were something big business, like banks had, in whole rooms filled with at most a few IBM 360's! :D :D :D ;)
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I was born 1960 so fully agree with everything in the OP, my youngest (19 yrs) cannot understand how we ever got by without a mobile phone !!!
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I was born 1960 so fully agree with everything in the OP, my youngest (19 yrs) cannot understand how we ever got by without a mobile phone !!!
lol. The only phone most of us had in my early years was the GPO A & B button telephone in the kiosk at the end of the street! :D :D :D And you often had to wait in a queue for that!! ::) ::) :D ;)
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I was born 1960 so fully agree with everything in the OP, my youngest (19 yrs) cannot understand how we ever got by without a mobile phone !!!
1957 and the kid's can't imagine what it was like not to have a TV in our bedroom, let alone music of any sort. We all sat at night in front of the only fire in the house watching a Black and White TV. ::)
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I was born 1960 so fully agree with everything in the OP, my youngest (19 yrs) cannot understand how we ever got by without a mobile phone !!!
lol. The only phone most of us had in my early years was the GPO A & B button telephone in the kiosk at the end of the street! :D :D :D And you often had to wait in a queue for that!! ::) ::) :D ;)
And party lines ---- the other end of ours used to go mad as I was listening to dial-a-disc all the time ...... dad used to go mad too ::)!!!
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I was born 1960 so fully agree with everything in the OP, my youngest (19 yrs) cannot understand how we ever got by without a mobile phone !!!
1957 and the kid's can't imagine what it was like not to have a TV in our bedroom, let alone music of any sort. We all sat at night in front of the only fire in the house watching a Black and White TV. ::)
All 3 channels -- actually we were blessed -- with the right weather conditions we could get 4 (ish) !
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I also survived the workhouse and climbing up and down all those chimneys :y
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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1930's 40'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 can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking .
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose 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 video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, 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 ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many 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!
Football teams had trials and 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?! :D :D :D :D :D
How true all that is,
plus:
"eating" your brothers toy lead soldiers;
going all round the streets collecting jam jars and glass bottles to be paid pennies for them;
at six walking to and from school across busy roads;
breathing in the soot from coal fired steam engines and the chimneys of factories and houses; drinking and eating dairy and meat products never being kept in a fridge
doing the shopping for mum at the shops, unaccompanied, when just seven;
consuming full fat, full sugar, full salt everything, and yes,
as already mentioned - the classic box cart - riding on your brothers cart, with useless brakes, balancing on the back hurtling down paths / roads / anywhere "dangerous"!
But yes, we survived!! :D :D 8-) 8-) 8-)
But too be fair in the 1900"s things were different..... ;D
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Anybody remember Fire Cans?
Tate & Lyle treacle tin with holes bodged in the sides, piece of wire as a handle, light a fire in it, using plenty of coal slack.
Swing it around above your head, looked spectacular in the dark.
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Anybody remember Fire Cans?
Tate & Lyle treacle tin with holes bodged in the sides, piece of wire as a handle, light a fire in it, using plenty of coal slack.
Swing it around above your head, looked spectacular in the dark.
Yep, never flung them around but spent hours with kids just keeping them burning with chippings or any bits you could find. Catering tins were best. :y
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Being country folk -- our delight was to slip bangers ( firework - not sausage) into cow pats ::) :D
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Being country folk -- our delight was to slip bangers ( firework - not sausage) into cow pats ::) :D
Hooligan :D
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Born in 1959,used to spend tuppence (when I had it )in the phonebox on "dial a disc". ::)
when I was 6 I nicked my dads car :
When I was old enough to walk to the shop around the corner,my granny used to send me to buy her 10 woodbines. ::)
Didnt kill me,but the adults would probably get locked up these days.