Phube Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1920's, 30'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 and lived in houses made of asbestos. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer. 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 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 a stream and NOT from a bottle. Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on t! he weekends, 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 fruit spangles and some straws to blow up frogs with. We ate sponge cake, 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. And with no mobile phone 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. We built tree houses and made camps in the woods and played in the gutters with matchbox cars. 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 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 and no waiting at A&E for the host people from all over the World who can't spell Accident and Emergency to be seen before us. 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.......no really! We were given pellet guns and Bow and arrows for our 10th birthdays and we did not grow up to be muggers or hold up shops. We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! after walking in. Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet! Football had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that! Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather straps and bullies always ruled the playground at school. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like "Sky" and "Blade" This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 70 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?!
Daggers Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 Singing the praises of rank stupidity? The person who wrote that, for the most part, is a fooking moron.
Phube Posted 2 July 2007 Author Posted 2 July 2007 Singing the praises of rank stupidity?The person who wrote that, for the most part, is a fooking moron. I bet you had your own bottle/can and didn't share!!!
Daggers Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 I bet you had your own bottle/can and didn't share!!! While playing outside I got smacked in the face with a bunch of sticks, when I was 10 years old. I cried tears of joy when they started scheduling TV programs throughout the day so I didn't have to go back out there...
Guest Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 We ate sponge cakeSod the cake, I used to eat the cake mix, containing raw egg, and never fell ill. Well, not with food poisoning, anyway.While playing outside I got smacked in the face with a bunch of sticks, when I was 10 years old.I cried tears of joy when they started scheduling TV programs throughout the day so I didn't have to go back out there... I bet you watched "Why don't you".
hairy Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 While playing outside I got smacked in the face with a bunch of sticks, when I was 10 years old.I cried tears of joy when they started scheduling TV programs throughout the day so I didn't have to go back out there... Its all starting to make sense now. Is there anything else you need to share with us Dave?
Daggers Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 Its all starting to make sense now. Is there anything else you need to share with us Dave? I have a morbid fear of roads, hair scares me and if the telephone rings I wet myself
hairy Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 I have a morbid fear of roads, hair scares me and if the telephone rings I wet myself I appears Dave was beaten with sticks on a road by hairy kids. And you also have watched The Ring too much or is still worried to this day that Cheggers might phone with a swap.
Daggers Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 I appears Dave was beaten with sticks on a road by hairy kids. And you also have watched The Ring too much or is still worried to this day that Cheggers might phone with a swap. I'm wobbling like a jelly just at the mention Oh no...it's just my gut...
Zingari Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 and when we got home , our dads would thrash us to sleep with his belt
Webbo Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 We ate sponge cake, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar You were posh, we had that god awful Kraft margarine in the big tub.
Daggers Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 You were posh, we had that god awful Kraft margarine in the big tub. We had a sodastream
Webbo Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 We had a sodastream I bet you had a portable TV in your bedroom too. Bloody posh kids
Daggers Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 I bet you had a portable TV in your bedroom too.Bloody posh kids Yup. Black and white with a bendy aerial. We used to take it in the caravan for our holidays in the Lake District too.
Webbo Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 Yup.Black and white with a bendy aerial. We used to take it in the caravan for our holidays in the Lake District too. Wasn't all fun then.
Daggers Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 Wasn't all fun then. I don't think there's anything better for a young 15 year old boy than to be standing in the rain on the top of Striding Edge or lost in fog on Scafell Pike. No, nothing better at all. I certainly would not have liked to have been in a place with 15 year old girls, sneaking drinks of cider and having a disco or something nearby. No. I fully support my parents in their decision to go to the bleakest parts of the country each and every holiday. Character building they called it...and it didn't do me any harm. Erm....
stez Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 Sod the cake, I used to eat the cake mix, containing raw egg, and never fell ill. Well, not with food poisoning, anyway.I bet you watched "Why don't you". "go out and do something less boring instead?" it wasn't a ringing endorsement of what you were about to endure. what used to annoy me living in leicestershire was getting a week of pebble mill at one and missing the climax of the series' i'd been watching all summer, because our holidays were all out of kilter with the rest of the country. Yup.Black and white with a bendy aerial. We used to take it in the caravan for our holidays in the Lake District too. did it have a nob you had to turn to tune it in? we used to take our telly to cornwall with us, an run it off the car battery
Daggers Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 did it have a nob you had to turn to tune it in? we used to take our telly to cornwall with us, an run it off the car battery Yea. We used to watch loads of stuff on it... Here is Match of the Day: Here is Wimbledon: ...and all the family loved it when we could sit and watch The Dog Show with our labrador:
Thracian Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 What no mention of rose hip syrup or condensed milk sandwiches.
Zingari Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 What no mention of rose hip syrup or condensed milk sandwiches. or cod liver oil and malt
Webbo Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 . what used to annoy me living in leicestershire was getting a week of pebble mill at one and missing the climax of the series' i'd been watching all summer, because our holidays were all out of kilter with the rest of the country. Damn right, I never did find out how Robinson Crusoe ended. What really annoyed me was Wimbledon on the telly on both BBC 1&2. They even showed repeats of the last years final if it rained.
Zingari Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 Damn right, I never did find out how Robinson Crusoe ended.What really annoyed me was Wimbledon on the telly on both BBC 1&2. They even showed repeats of the last years final if it rained. he left friday
stez Posted 2 July 2007 Posted 2 July 2007 Damn right, I never did find out how Robinson Crusoe ended.What really annoyed me was Wimbledon on the telly on both BBC 1&2. They even showed repeats of the last years final if it rained. don't get me started on wimbledon it took me years to find out how ulysses 31 and mysterious cities of gold finished <_<
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