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Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

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! :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

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

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:01 am

we played british bulldogs in the street trying to dodge our mates as well as oncoming cars, would the term british bulldogs be ok now with the PC brigade :roll: :roll:

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:01 am

i know im 40 years to young to write on this thread ;)

but well done to all you boring old farts, your true heroes 8-) :D

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:11 am

Fantastic read although we sometimes look back through rose tinted glasses. TBH I was a right tw*t in school, always in trouble but I did get my just rewards (a blackboard rubber in the head :lol: ).

It's funny to think of how the TV was back then, no breakfast or afternoon programming and evening programmes closedown at 11pm, but I can remember 1971 when Saturday morning TV first appeared and thinking it was amazing.

However, most of my childhood was spent playing football in the street or park and that laid the foundation for my lifetime love of the game, although Cardiff City (& Wales) has sorely tested that love on several occasions since. ;)

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:14 am

ME AN MY MATES USE TO SMOKE USED DOG ENDS OFF THE STREET AND PICK OLD CHEWING GUM
OFF THE TARMAC,I HAD A FEW CRACKED TEETH,BUT LIVED TO TELL THE TAIL :old: :lol: :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:34 am

A brilliant post, I had forgotten how wonderful my childhood was,out all day in all weathers (cant remember ever having a cold either) playing football on the street , we never stopped play when a car would go past (as it wasn't that often) we would run alongside it so nobody could tackle you.
Now I can say back in my day, I have now turned into that old guy in the pub :old: (but no way am I playing dominoes and wearing a cardigan with fake leather buttons). :oops:
:ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 11:09 am

Saturday matinee,bus fare, sweets and a bag of chips all for six pence, played fox and hounds until it went dark, kicked lumps out of one another (no shin pads then) playing football and games woud often last 4-5 hours with a score of 103 - 98 :lol:

Mother would say before you went out 'if you break your leg don't come running to me' :D went down the swings and swung as hard and as high as we could before jumping off we called it parachutes, scrumped apples and got chased by the farmer, sat on a roller skate and a book (The pedecesor of the skate board) and hurtled down the hill with no way of stopping, grazed knees and elbows!

Proper fighting at football not all the bouncing you see now but 2 sets of like minded supporters having a go at one another and to anyone who says they never run i say bollocks!! (Not condoning the violence but it was a fact of life in the 70's and 80's)

Yep those were the days and yes i am officially an old fart :old: :ayatollah:

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 11:15 am

Not quite 40 but enjoyed most of the things listed as a kid. Remember playing 'Releego' (?) for days at a time, with the only boundaries being the St Mellons estate (both sides of Tesco) :lol:

Making (and chucking spears), stone fights, rat a tat ginger and 'Spot On'.

Then the advent of Roller Hockey in the street with everyone wearing Bauer or Roces skates from Unique Skate Inn under the arches in town.

Great days indeed, but I've got to admit I'm loving my 30s just as much, if not more

:ayatollah:

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 11:20 am

I'm fifty this year,,,& i don't need viagra yet either!!! :D :old: :lol: :oops:

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 11:24 am

making and throwing chinese arrows down the woods,swinging across streams on home made swings,standing on the wooden grangeend after travelling down on the valleys special unique and speial times :cry: :cry: :cry:

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 12:41 pm

nicking the empty corona (pop) bottles from around the back of the shop, then brassnecked taking them back in the front door to get the 5d refund to spend on singles and sweets :)
racing down the eglwysilan mountain rd on gokarts made from fencing off the A4070 with no regard for anything that may have been coming up the lanes toward us (went through the hedge many a time to avoid a car) then later in 76-77 doing the same with skateboards my brother and i brought back from the states :) mad mad mad :D

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

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! :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

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.


and yet you still managed to get banged up

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

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! :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

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



Keith, From a Friend of mine who now lives in Majorca, Called Terry, Had enough of Britain :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:00 pm

AHERNE wrote:THE GOOD OLD DAYS! :ayatollah: 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!




i remember getting caned in assembly one morning and i dare not go home and tell my dad as i would get a hiding from him.
the only time i got to be teachers pet was that i played up so much that she kept me in the cage at the back of the class .
:lol:

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:09 pm

Pipe and slippers bragade here! Sorry for being young lads, Not a lot I can do about it, I feel left out. :cry:

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:28 pm

Annis, that took me back to my childhood.
Can relate to 95% of that thread, and great days they where.
They say "never look back" but after reading that, it reminds you how luck we were as kids with not a care in the world and allowed to live our life free of restrictions and EU rules.
GREAT DAYS! :D :D :D

:ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:53 pm

superb post annis, i loved the 6 weeks holiday, i lived up them mountains in merthyr camping all summer.

and when i was really young a week in happy valley,

the dirty duck, and the jolly sailor,

nothing was plenty. :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

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 8-) :D

:lol: :lol: :ayatollah:

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:46 pm

Well done you old buggers :lol:

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:07 pm

this is another reason, why the children, of today get a lot more illnesses,rapped up in cotton wool today,,, that includes my own children?

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:11 pm

today its what is called progress----? :old:

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:28 pm

The odd thing is the generation who went through all this are now running the world and bringing up the next generation. If anyone's to blame for putting kids in cotton wool it's you lot! :D

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:47 pm

Uncle Fester wrote:
bluebirdbaz wrote:i made it :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah: 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! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
i bet :lol: :lol: :lol: 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 missing :o

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:50 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 8-) :D
you havnt lived milly ask your dad he has some stories :D

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

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! :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

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



I read it here years ago, but it has been going the rounds again recently

http://forums.techguy.org/random-discus ... s-50s.html

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

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!


People in glass houses?!

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

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! :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

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.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkKt6zz6mws

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:39 pm

Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and
'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:55 pm

i remember playing football with my mates and the games lasted for 2 days and it still ended a draw.

going up the mountain in the morning and coming home just before dark.

I got 3 kids now and Annis your right i won't let them out of my sight. Sad but a reality of today.
The best thing is we do try and go up the mountains and down the river with the kids and i've been teaching them to climb trees.

I see some kids of today trying to get out there and do Free running which i think is fantastic. I recently heard that if there are more than 6 free runners together at one time they can get an asbo. How sad is that when young people tyrying to express themselves WITHOUT DOING HARM OR DAMAGE get treated like that.

Anyway try and stay young and teach the kids how to have fun outside. :old:

Re: " CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO "

Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:41 am

IT CERTAINLY BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES READING ALL YOUR POSTS and GOOD ONES TOO :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah: