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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Richie London on 15 November 2011, 13:26:39
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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70's !
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos...
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
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 or shoes, 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.
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos...
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on a Sunday, somehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks 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 old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY ,no video/dvd films,
no mobile 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.
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...
We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet because we didn’t need to keep up with the Jones’s!
Not everyone made the rugby/football/cricket/netball team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT
Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and throw the blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren’t concentrating .
We can string sentences together and spell and have proper conversations because of a good, solid three R’s education.
Our parents would tell us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla' and 'Tiger'
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL !
And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!
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That has just been printed off and stuck on the bedroom door of my 16 year old son.
I awaite the moans and groans later about how as adults, we just don't understand ............... ;D ;D ;D
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my eldest is Kevin from harry enfield and chums at the moment, everyone Hates him he says ;D ;D
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Ah, this one doing the rounds again ;D
This one predates email ::)
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They missed the bit about my little brothers surviving me attacking them with a 500V bridge megger on a regular basis. :-X
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We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.........................
We used to take the bottles from behind the offlicence and go in the front door with them to get the money for them. :-X :-X :y ;D
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We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.........................
We used to take the bottles from behind the offlicence and go in the front door with them to get the money for them. :-X :-X :y ;D
mmmm i know that trick well. ;D
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They missed the bit about my little brothers surviving me attacking them with a 500V bridge megger on a regular basis. :-X
My younger brother and me installed one to our brand new bicycle then if somebody borrowed we gave that with joy... ;) ;) ;) The stronger they pushed the pedal the stronger was the shock they felt... UuaaaaAAAA ;D ;D ;D There is a hun saying : "The youth is madness" if I translate well...
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I know we have seen it before but it is so bloomin true........ :y :y :y
Funny though, all, well most, of the parents I speak with agree that today's kids do not get outside enough, spend to much time on computers / games machines etc, locally we are spoilt and the kids do tend to have the same freedom, as long as she has her mobile with her.... :D :D :D
Good job we lead by example and are not stuck on lap tops or computers while the kids just copy...... :D :D :D
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amen to that.
old man bottings at the bottom of the hill used to put a plank across the path at 2pm during the school holidays so we wouldnt disturb he s afternoon nap.
out of respect for the guy we would move the the plank..just made a jump out of it. ;D