OT: Are you one?
Gyp
don't know there born" <Chuckle>
Enjoy..Or at the very least be slightly irritated that its wasted you time
Gyp
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were
kids in the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's probably shouldn't have survived.
Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which
was promptly chewed and licked.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or
cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and
fluorescent clackers' on our wheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle - tasted the same.
We ate dripping sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop
with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always
outside playing.
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one
actually died from this.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top
speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running
into
stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were
back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us all day and no one
minded.
We did not have Playstations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99
channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones,
no personal computers, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went
outside and found them.
We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were
no lawsuits. They were accidents. We learnt not to do the same thing again.
We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue - we
learned to get over it.
We walked to friend's homes.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate live stuff, and
although we were told it would happen, we did not have very many eyes
out, nor did the live stuff live inside us forever.
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. The idea of a
parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually
sided with the law. Imagine that!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and 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 to deal with it all.
Peter
Peter.
Stephen Baker
>Was sent this not so long ago, struck a cord as "Young folk these days
>don't know there born" <Chuckle>
>
>Enjoy..Or at the very least be slightly irritated that its wasted you time
<snip the good stuff>
As a child of the 50's, I certainly did all that. Except wearing my coat only
by the hood. And the fluorescent clacker thing.
I also played in haybarns, practised falling by jumping off balconies (like
training for a race by riding your bike, no?)
Steve
MattB
news:bc47ab$8jc$1...@sparta.btinternet.com...
> Was sent this not so long ago, struck a cord as "Young folk these days
> don't know there born" <Chuckle>
>
> Enjoy..Or at the very least be slightly irritated that its wasted you time
>
> Gyp
>
> We did not have Playstations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99
> channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones,
> no personal computers, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went
> outside and found them.
>
I was one too, but being in the 70's and 80's, we did eventually have a
computer (1984 Mac), and even before that I was playing Pong, Tank Battle,
and Pac Man on my Atari 2600. We even got one of those enormous top-loading
VCRs with the _wired_ remote.
Somehow I think I still turned out OK (although this may be debatable).
Matt
Dave W
wrote:
ABSO-FREAKIN LUTELY!!
Well put Gyp!!
Dave
ctg
"Technician" <trav...@nospam.megalink.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.194fb3d34...@news.megalink.net...
> Yeah, i remember most of that, though it wasn't just the crib that was
> painted with lead, but the whole house.
>
> And i remember eating rocks as a kid, and somehow, when they came out
> the other end, they were 10" earth worms. and i lived through it all.
> ~Travis
Thanks Travis, I'm actually teary from the laughter.
Chris
Westie
> ctg <ctg...@SPAMtalon.net> spoke thusly...
> things in jars! i mean, damn, what the hell was she thinking? though, if
> i recall, this is the same babysitter who had a sheep die, and she left
> it there for about a week or so. looking back, it is damn amazing i am
> still alive.
> --
> ~Travis
>
> travis57 at megalink dot net
> http://www.megalink.net/~farmers/
Stop it! You're gonna kill us. Can a person die from laughing too much
:-)
--
Westie - And yeah, I know cause I'm a Kiwi - sheep are difficult to kill.