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by **RED BEERGOGGLES** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:19 pm

Shamelessly lifted this off another site ...but its so true its scary

CONGRATULATIONS
TO ALL THE KIDS
WHO WERE BORN IN
THE
1930'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.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese
dressing, tuna from a can, and
didn't get tested for diabetes.
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, 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.

We shared one soft drink with four
friends, from one bottle and NO
ONE actually died from this.
We ate cakes, white bread and real
butter and drank pop 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. 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. After
running into the bushes a few
times, we learned to solve the
problem.
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
cellphones, 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.

We ate worms and mud pies made from
dirt, and the worms did not live in us
forever.
Wemade up games with sticks and
tennis balls and although we were told it
would happen, we did not put out very
many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a
friend's house and knocked on the
door or rang the bell, or just yelled
for them!

Football teams had trials and not
everyone made the team. Those who
didn't had to learn to deal with
disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we
broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of
the best risk-takers, 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 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?!

How f ucking true is that ?
link to site

by **redhayesy** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:47 pm

brilliant post mate,so true it made my Laugh & want to cry at the same time mate! also made me feel old as well!

but they were genuinally happy Days!

by **RED BEERGOGGLES** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:57 pm

redhayesy wrote:brilliant post mate,so true it made my Laugh & want to cry at the same time mate! also made me feel old as well! but they were genuinally happy Days!

Hard as nails our generation mate ...I can remember walking across spiked railings in my slippers

by **J*o*n*D*o*e** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:39 pm

brilliant read that Red.

i too lived through those dark days

kids today dont have a clue what it means to play out.

by **redhayesy** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:00 am

RED BEERGOGGLES wrote:
redhayesy wrote:brilliant post mate,so true it made my Laugh & want to cry at the same time mate! also made me feel old as well! but they were genuinally happy Days!

Hard as nails our generation mate ...I can remember walking across spiked railings in my slippers

slippers? what were they! we had to walk across them bare foot mate.

(superb topic this) i can also remember the great days of playing footy without shin pads!- or if you were lucky you could steal a couple of sheets of the daily newspaper of your folks before it went on the fire for fuel!

20 a side footy games were the norm then- get in from skool,shove yer scran down yers ,then straight to the park to meet up with everyone else in the area!

great memories mate-also when you had to make a bike out of different wheels & frames etc. the saying we had feck all,but made the best of it was so true,& we had better fun then without doubt for me. BTW- loved the bit about eating dirt,mud pies etc classic mate,brilliant!

by **RED BEERGOGGLES** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:21 am

redhayesy wrote:slippers? what were they! we had to walk across them bare foot mate. (superb topic this) i can also remember the great days of playing footy without shin pads!- or if you were lucky you could steal a couple of sheets of the daily newspaper of your folks before it went on the fire for fuel! 20 a side footy games were the norm then- get in from skool,shove yer scran down yers ,then straight to the park to meet up with everyone else in the area!

great memories mate-also when you had to make a bike out of different wheels & frames etc. the saying we had feck all,but made the best of it was so true,& we had better fun then without doubt for me. BTW- loved the bit about eating dirt,mud pies etc classic mate,brilliant!

Remember when every illness could be cured by being force fed yellow fish by your Mum ..... and the cure for chickenpox was to be painted head to toe in Calamine lotion, until you resembled Casper the Ghost .....
and how come no Kid choked on those fucking giant gobstoppers not one casualty ,you could play a game of kick the can and then British Bulldog with one of those monsters in your grid

....and how hard were we tackling a Iced jubilee or a Tip Top ,there was no fucking slushes back then ....its a wonder we have a tooth left ..... solid we were

by **RED BEERGOGGLES** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:38 am

Two lolly ice sticks held together with a lump of tar ...and in the right hands as lethal as a Ninja star

by **Kharhaz** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:28 am

Good read that. In fairness to kids nowadays though, a majority of them do want to go out but there is simply nowhere for them to go. Back then we had parks, with massive slides etc, but now they are gone. As a kid all I needed was a football and I was good. Not all kids like football though (my 2 oldest for instance, I dont know where I went wrong there !) but they still want to go out, especially during summer. The government and councils have taken everything away though. We know longer have a youth club, a park, or a library. Hell, they cant even play on the field as it is reserved for pub football matches.

Back in our day we had more freedom, today however, all they have is video games.

by **laza** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:25 am

Yeah I died three times in 70s during my childhood but you trying telling kids that today and they just dont believe you

by **tonyeh** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:39 pm

We used to jump off of our garden shed, which was 8 feet, pretending to be the "Fall Guy" when we were kids.

Our mothers used to sit there all proud, as we tried to feckin kill ourselves.

by **tonyeh** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:42 pm

The Fall Guy...for all you kids who wouldn't have a clue.

The fall Guy

by **worcester_red** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 3:00 pm

Far to much paranoia these days whipped up by the bloody media, things were simpler before, ignorance truly is bliss

by **RED BEERGOGGLES** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 3:24 pm

laza wrote:Yeah I died three times in 70s during my childhood but you trying telling kids that today and they just dont believe you

Just threes times eh ? well you had it easy ...we would pass away quietly in our sleep 6 times and have to be resuscitated by our Dad with a medicine ball ....but you try telling the Kids of today and they wont believe you

by **andy_g** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 4:23 pm

its only a matter of time before the monty python sketch is quoted or posted...

personally i think its correct that kids are now shut up inside with tvs, videos and playstations. it means we don't have to see or hear the snotty little feckers.

by **RED BEERGOGGLES** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 4:43 pm

andy_g wrote:its only a matter of time before the monty python sketch is quoted or posted...

personally i think its correct that kids are now shut up inside with tvs, videos and playstations. it means we don't have to see or hear the snotty little feckers.

Snot ? ....dont talk to me about snot .......snot was all we had to eat in those days

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