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![]() this might have been posted before but what the hell...makes me feel young readin it
Not sure if this has been posted before, i hadn't seen it until today, quite amusing really According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived because first, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for diabetes, our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint, which was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans. When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags -riding in the passenger seat was a treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same. We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing. We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no one actually died from this. We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded. We did not have Play Stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went outside and found them. We played elastics and Rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt! We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no lawsuits. We had full on fistfights but no prosecution followed from other parents. We played Knock-down-Ginger and were actually afraid of the owners catching us. We walked to friends' homes. We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...They actually sided with the law. This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and 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're one of them. Congratulations! Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good. For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read about this. My friends, this is surprisingly frightening...and it might put a smile on your face: The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986...They are called youth. They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nenah Cherry or Belinda Carlisle. (Possibly not a bad thing of course....) For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam. AIDS has existed since they were born. CD's have existed since they were born. Michael Jackson has always been white. To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance. They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are films from last year. They can never imagine life before computers. They'll never have pretended to be the A Team, Red Hand Gang or the Famous Five. They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It or Why Don't You. They can't believe a black and white television ever existed. And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone. Now let's check if we're getting old... 1. You understand what was written above and you smiled. 2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out. 3. Your friends are getting married/already married. 4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers. 5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head. 6. You remember watching Dirty Den in EastEnders the first time around. 7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old days, repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together. 8. Having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some other friends because you think they will like it too... Yes, you're getting OLD! Have a good day!! |
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![]() Thanks, manitee. Good post!! For all of the technological advances we've had, they're not always the best for us, are they?
How do you play Knock-down-Ginger? Is bread and butter pudding like bread pudding here in the states?
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![]() bread and butter pudding is bread butter and sultanas ...beeeeeautiful...knock down ginger known as knock and run....you'd knock on a door and run away ....jeese happy memories
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![]() We always drank water from the hose....it was never an issue unless the sun was shining on it all day and it was burning hot, LOL.
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![]() We would leave home in the morning and could play all day,
as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded. this was soooooo me....we would leave early in the morning and not get back till dark only returning home if we got hungry or thirsty
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![]() We'd roam in the woods, only worried about snakes and poison ivy......
We'd get a thrill catching lightning bugs..... We unplugged everything in the house when a thunderstorm was coming..... ....and yes, many a chug of water came from the "green rubber snake". ![]() |
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and then you would also get that wonderful plastic taste
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![]() When we were out on a hot day, we might take salt tablets to help keep from being dehydrated. Oh - and we drank water because we were thirsty, not to help keep us hydrated.
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![]() Forget masturbating...
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![]() When you start sounding like your mother.
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![]() when you cut he cheese and your eyes start to water -
but you are just to dam lazy to get up and move - might be getting to old
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Now that's just funny as hell Ultimate!!!! LMFAO
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![]() When you actually look forward to bed to sleep
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![]() When you hear more Snap, Crackle and Pop from your joints than your breakfast cereal.
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singing sha la la la la la la la la... my brown-eyed girl!
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