Old subject, new comments?

[happydog]

OK, so this has been around for a while, but as this is a new forum I thought maybe there might be one of two of you who haven't come across it before.

Who knows, it might even precipitate some comments and, :shock: dare I suggest even a discussion. I, for one think it is soooo true (but then I am 'old') ;)

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE


1930's 1940'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 tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cots 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 van - loose - was always great fun.

We drank water from the garden hosepipe 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, Ipods - no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no text messaging, 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 played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any 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!

Local teams 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!


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 a hatchet, doesn't it?!

PS -The BIG type is because your eyes are shot at your age

[lyn]

i love this one, makes me feel like i had a great childhood with loads of fun and no restrictions :12:

[Aearoniel]

Can we add a straggler from the 80's I did all that stuff :) the only computer game we had was the type where you spent hours typing in the code to the machine and it took so long you got bored with the game in about 5 minutes!

[Simon]

OMG - I remember doing that too! On a Vic 20! A game called Blitz.... took like an hour to enter the code.

:12:

[lyn]

i clearly remember our first computer and there was a game that looked good. the only problem with it was it wasn't on a disc or anything if you wanted to play it you had to install it by typing in the whole thing. it was pages and pages long but one morning i decided i was going to do it. i had 4 kids running riot all day as i diligently typed and typed.by the time jim came home from work i had just one and a half pages to go but i told him he had to wait for his dinner(i was a slow typer then as i am now) after waiting for an hour and me only having half a page left the git went and turned off the lecky at the mains :04: god i freaked out big time, we very nearly split up over it. ooh i still fume when i think about it now :04: :04: :04:

[happydog]

I remember Space Invaders and a Table tennis game was all there was and they were only in amusement arcades at the seaside :oops: . :11: and that when at school a computer would fill a whole room and were considered awesome. When we were told that one day everyone would have them at home we just laughed :11: I couldn't understand the concept of email at all :?

[happydog]

What about this one? (With apologies to anyone living in Norh Lincolnshire).

NOAH'S ARK

In the year 2007 the Lord came unto Noah, who was now living in the UK and said, "Once again, the earth has become wicked and over-populated, and I see the end of all flesh before me. Build another Ark and save 2 of every living thing along with a few good humans." He gave Noah the CAD drawings, saying, "You have 6 months to build the Ark before I will start the unending rain for 40 days and 40 nights."

Six months later, the Lord looked down and saw Noah weeping in his yard - but no Ark.

"Noah!" He roared, "I'm about to start the rain! Where is the Ark ?"

"Forgive me, Lord," begged Noah, "but things have changed. I needed Building Regulations Approval. I've been arguing with the Fire Brigade about the need for a sprinkler system. My neighbours claim that I should have obtained planning permission for building the Ark in my garden because it is development of the site, even though in my view it is a temporary structure. We had to go to appeal to the Secretary of State for a decision. Then the Department of Transport demanded a bond be posted for the future costs of moving power lines and other overhead obstructions to clear the passage for the Ark 's move to the sea. I told them that the sea would be coming to us, but they would hear nothing of it. Getting the wood was another problem. All the decent trees have Tree Preservation Orders on them and we live in a Site of Special Scientific Interest set up in order to protect the spotted owl. I tried to convince the environmentalists that I needed the wood to save the owls - but no go! When I started gathering the animals, the RSPCA prosecuted me. They insisted that I was confining wild animals against their will. They argued the accommodation was too restrictive, and it was cruel and inhumane to put so many animals in a confined space. Then the Council, the Environment Agency and the Rivers Authority ruled that I couldn't build the Ark until they'd conducted an environmental impact study on your proposed flood. I'm still trying to resolve a complaint with the Equal Opportunities Commission on how many BMEs I'm supposed to hire for my building team. The trades unions say I can't use my sons. They insist I have to hire only CSCS accredited workers with Ark-building experience. To make matters worse, Customs and Excise seized all my assets on two counts, claiming I'm falsely claiming exemption from paying VAT despite me telling them the Ark is going to be exported and for trying to leave the country illegally with endangered species. So, forgive me, Lord, but it would take at least 10 years for me to finish this Ark. "

Suddenly the skies cleared, the sun began to shine, and a Rainbow stretched across the sky.

Noah looked up in wonder and asked, "You mean you're not going to destroy the world?"

"No," said the Lord. "North Lincolnshire Council seem to have beaten me to it"