Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:54 am
Forever Blue wrote:WHO SAW LIFE HOW IT REALLY SHOULD STILL BE instead of Know it Alls and Nerds Trying to Run Our Lifes.
Congratulation to all my friends who are 40+....!!!!
WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER...
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940s, 50s and 60s... Here is WHY.......
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank Sherry
while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, 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 coated 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, all 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 and Bubble Gum with the change.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real buttermilk from the cow, 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 (no mobiles) 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'd 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, or colour TV, 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.
Imagine that now.
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'.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL !
And if 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.
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Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:22 pm
Forever Blue wrote:WHO SAW LIFE HOW IT REALLY SHOULD STILL BE instead of Know it Alls and Nerds Trying to Run Our Lifes.
Congratulation to all my friends who are 40+....!!!!
WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER...
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940s, 50s and 60s... Here is WHY.......
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank Sherry
while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, 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 coated 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, all 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 and Bubble Gum with the change.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real buttermilk from the cow, 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 (no mobiles) 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'd 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, or colour TV, 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.
Imagine that now.
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'.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL !
And if 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.
Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:51 pm
since62 wrote:Forever Blue wrote:WHO SAW LIFE HOW IT REALLY SHOULD STILL BE instead of Know it Alls and Nerds Trying to Run Our Lifes.
Congratulation to all my friends who are 40+....!!!!
WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER...
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940s, 50s and 60s... Here is WHY.......
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank Sherry
while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, 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 coated 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, all 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 and Bubble Gum with the change.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real buttermilk from the cow, 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 (no mobiles) 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'd 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, or colour TV, 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.
Imagine that now.
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'.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL !
And if 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.
Where did you get this from Annis?
I can remember reading something similar ages ago and agreeing with a lot of the sentiments, but can`t remember where (it may have been one of those spam type E-mails that get circulated to mailing lists).
Keith
Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:00 pm
AHERNE wrote:THE GOOD OLD DAYS! do you know i actually hate mobile phones, i wish the things had never been invented! .... we had social networking back then too! it was called OUTSIDE!
Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:09 pm
Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:28 pm
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Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:01 pm
milly44 wrote:i know im 40 years to young to write on this thread
but well done to all you boring old farts, your true heroes
Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:46 pm
Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:07 pm
Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:11 pm
Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:28 pm
Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:47 pm
i bet today kids just spend their lives in front of the telly, but is it safe for them to do what we done ???? we would be calling the police after 3 hours to report them missingUncle Fester wrote:bluebirdbaz wrote:i made it remember the summer holidays when as soon as i got up i was out until bedtime.....................................no olaystations or x box's
we had real fun!!!!
Baz, I even went fishing on Christmas day with my new gear! I went before anyone got up and came back after dark.
I got battered!
Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:50 pm
you havnt lived milly ask your dad he has some storiesmilly44 wrote:i know im 40 years to young to write on this thread
but well done to all you boring old farts, your true heroes
Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:08 pm
since62 wrote:Forever Blue wrote:WHO SAW LIFE HOW IT REALLY SHOULD STILL BE instead of Know it Alls and Nerds Trying to Run Our Lifes.
Congratulation to all my friends who are 40+....!!!!
WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER...
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940s, 50s and 60s... Here is WHY.......
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank Sherry
while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, 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 coated 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, all 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 and Bubble Gum with the change.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real buttermilk from the cow, 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 (no mobiles) 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'd 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, or colour TV, 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.
Imagine that now.
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'.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL !
And if 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.
Where did you get this from Annis?
I can remember reading something similar ages ago and agreeing with a lot of the sentiments, but can`t remember where (it may have been one of those spam type E-mails that get circulated to mailing lists).
Keith
Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:41 pm
bill2232 wrote:We can string sentences together and spell and have proper conversations
because of a good, solid, three R's education.
"WHO SAW LIFE HOW IT REALLY SHOULD STILL BE instead of Know it Alls and Nerds Trying to Run Our Lifes."
Maybe you should of left out the part about being able to string a sentence together, you obviously can't! One of the most basic rules of grammar is that you should not use capital letters in the middle of a sentence!
Bit of older generation hypocrisy here. I remember this e-mail being sent around few years ago, it was boring then and it's boring now!
Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:50 pm
Forever Blue wrote:WHO SAW LIFE HOW IT REALLY SHOULD STILL BE instead of Know it Alls and Nerds Trying to Run Our Lifes.
Congratulation to all my friends who are 40+....!!!!
WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER...
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940s, 50s and 60s... Here is WHY.......
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank Sherry
while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, 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 coated 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, all 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 and Bubble Gum with the change.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real buttermilk from the cow, 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 (no mobiles) 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'd 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, or colour TV, 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.
Imagine that now.
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'.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL !
And if 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.
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Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:41 am