TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's

Loxy · Post by **Loxy** » September 20th, 2006, 11:44

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 cot's 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, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a car on a warm day was always a special treat.

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 Jam butties, white bread and real butter and Lemonade 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 cell 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.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given Air guns for our 10th birthdays, made 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 everywhere or sometimes walked to a friend's house and then knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Rugby and Cricket had tryouts 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!

Post by **fabyak** » September 20th, 2006, 12:03

and the 80's as well!

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » September 20th, 2006, 12:06

Oh cock nuts, I've done most of that. I'm a child of the 80s.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 20th, 2006, 12:07

80s here too, did pretty much everything on there and a fair bit more.

Post by **Grimmie** » September 20th, 2006, 12:15

Loxy · Post by **Loxy** » September 20th, 2006, 12:17

I was leaving school in 82 which makes you all very young!!!!

Chickenz · Post by **Chickenz** » September 20th, 2006, 12:21

Loxy wrote:I was leaving school in 82 which makes you all very young!!!!

i was minus 3 years old then

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 20th, 2006, 12:22

Loxy wrote:I was leaving school in 82 which makes you all very young!!!!

nah, just makes you very old.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » September 20th, 2006, 12:54

As a kid I knew someone that liked to eat slugs.

Post by **Dog Pants** » September 20th, 2006, 13:15

Hehe, I remember I used to drink out of puddles when I was a kid, and I'd eat flying saucers off the floor. When we found an intact Mars bar on a wall once nobody would eat it though because somebody had heard that people inject shit into them with needles and leave them for people to eat.

Arf!

shot2bits · Post by **shot2bits** » September 20th, 2006, 13:26

i was born on 1990 and done all that stuff apart from the not having technology stuff.

apart from my go cart was made out of a zbed and carried 6 of us at a time and we used a lump of metal that was already attached as a brake

friznit · Post by **friznit** » September 20th, 2006, 15:49

See, health and safety explosion and technicnology from t'internet! Who ever heard of brakes on a go kart! pah!

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » September 20th, 2006, 16:23

80'is here, anda fair bit more aswell, so wahooooo, atleast I'm not to blame

Duke of Ted · Post by **Duke of Ted** » September 20th, 2006, 19:49

Loxy wrote:I was leaving school in 82 which makes you all very young!!!!

the year i was born

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