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I'm sorry, but someone has to say this - not again! This has been going around for 10 years!

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Got this from one of my sisters and thought it was amusing enough to post

For those of us who are old enough to remember this............

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE


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 hose pipe 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 Play stations, 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 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.

 



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 scissors, doesn't it?!







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

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Deimos Newbie

Deimos

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[quote user="Mister Fluffy"]

(Nice to see you getting in there, Ian - never miss an opportunity, so long as someone else has the bottle to start it, eh?)
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Just because you have seen it and think it's "old" why start digging at the original poster. Many comments about it being good - yet whoever you are you don't seem to like my comments.

I assume you are an old member who has come back to the forum as your number of posts is high but you seem to only have recently started posting again. Personal criticism is no longer permitted so your comment is unnecessary. People can post things like that as you are not the only person to read threads and many (myself included) liked the post.

As you seem to have only recently started posting on the forum you probably have not noticed that I do start some threads and do not just post to other people's threads. Before criticising others wait and become more familiar with how the forum works these days.

Ian

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Nope, ropes still too high, have you got one with the ropes the right height Twinks and where's the geezer munching the orange gone?

On a point of order, I think number eight has gone out of sequence, she's holding up a big 2 (and no smarmy answers either) [;-)]

Can't wait for round 3.

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Sorry about that Egotherpeut1!

I was telling some friends who have two young children about the statement you posted on this thread.  They just kept nodding in agreement.   We discussed how much everything has become so 'sterilised'.  However in the rural parts of France (and probably Spain and loads of other countries) kids aren't as cocooned as they are in the cities.  They still have the oportunity to ride their bikes without crash helmets and pick up worms and dead birds that the cat leaves on the doorstep.  An open field at the bottom of the garden beats Nintendo or Play Station any day! 

 

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