Member Since: 22 Jun 2008
Location: West Midlands
Posts: 410
Born in the 20's 30's 40's 50's 60's or 70's
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1920s, 30s , 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses full 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 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 cadging lifts.As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
A trip to the coast on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the stream and NOT from a bottle.
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Kebabs.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and only opened for a few hours at 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 shop and buy fruit Spangles and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
We ate buns, 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 mobile phones & no one was able to reach us all day. And we were always O.K.
We would spend hours building our trolleys out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in streams with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on Sky, no video tape or DVD movies, no surround sound,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........no really!
We had air guns and catapults for our birthdays,
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 from the street!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
Mum & dad didn't need Brandy, Whisky whatever when they came in from work!
Footy had tryouts 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 bulliesalways 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 'Kylie' 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 learnedHOW 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?!
PS -The big type is because your eyes are shot at your age
20th Nov 2008 7:18 pm
heine
Member Since: 07 Feb 2007
Location: Midrand
Posts: 4054
20th Nov 2008 8:46 pm
heine
Member Since: 07 Feb 2007
Location: Midrand
Posts: 4054
20th Nov 2008 8:46 pm
character
Member Since: 01 Jan 2008
Location: wiltshire
Posts: 5781
second that
20th Nov 2008 9:03 pm
heine
Member Since: 07 Feb 2007
Location: Midrand
Posts: 4054
How true.... apart from the blowing up frogs with bangers As you slide down the banister of life
may no splinters point your way
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20th Nov 2008 10:09 pm
stevejhunt
Member Since: 26 Sep 2008
Location: Castleford
Posts: 129
How true
Mine are always amazed that we had a coal fire and no central heating that is permanently switched on. And we had ice on the inside of the bedroom windows in winter and yet barely ever caught a cold or, heaven forbid, had an allergy!!I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member...........
06 Buck Blue Disco 3 TDV6
84 Marine Blue Series 3 2.25 petrol
06 Silver Audi A4 Cabriolet (the wife's baby)
Snails & ant nests. Did you think I would leave you crying,
When there's room in my D3 for 7,
Climb in here Joe we'll soon be flying,
I can go just as fast with 7.
2005 TDV6 S with Terrain Response (& all that entails), Tasmods (gorn). 2008 TDV6 HSE (gone). A Dark Side umbrella (here) & car (here).
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