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Thomas-the-Terrano2
10-03-2009, 19:05
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1920s, 30s , 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses full of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese & tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
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 or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took cadging lifts.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
A trip to the coast on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the stream and NOT from a bottle.
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Kebabs.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and only opened for a few hours at weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner shop and buy fruit Spangles and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
We ate buns, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks 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 mobile phones & no one was able to reach us all day. And we were always O.K.
We would spend hours building our trolleys out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in streams with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on Sky, no video tape or DVD movies, no surround sound,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
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross buns at Easter time........no really!
We had air guns and catapults for our birthdays,
We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them from the street!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
Mum & dad didn't need Brandy, Whisky whatever when they came in from work!
Footy had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather straps and bulliesalways ruled the playground at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.They actually sided with the law!
Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kylie' and 'Blade'
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 70 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?!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1920s, 30s , 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses full of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese & tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
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 or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took cadging lifts.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
A trip to the coast on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the stream and NOT from a bottle.
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Kebabs.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and only opened for a few hours at weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner shop and buy fruit Spangles and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
We ate buns, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks 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 mobile phones & no one was able to reach us all day. And we were always O.K.
We would spend hours building our trolleys out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in streams with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on Sky, no video tape or DVD movies, no surround sound,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
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross buns at Easter time........no really!
We had air guns and catapults for our birthdays,
We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them from the street!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
Mum & dad didn't need Brandy, Whisky whatever when they came in from work!
Footy had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather straps and bulliesalways ruled the playground at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.They actually sided with the law!
Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kylie' and 'Blade'
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 70 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?!
Didn't know you grew up in Dublin LOL. You have described the exact childhood that I had. Well, not actually perfect but a damn sight better than current childhood. Just one thing you forgot, it also spawned the muppets who have totally taken the risk out of living and turned the world into a world of wimps, especially the men.
About the Spangles, we only got them a couple of times a year when my aunt in London sent over parcels. Now that was a parcel worth waiting for as we hadn't got Spangles in Ireland, well maybe Northern Ireland but that was no good to us in Dublin (too far to travel for sweets).
makeitfit
10-03-2009, 21:08
Oh joy, someone from the real world:thumbs
Welcome freind I love you:lol
Please stand for president or at least lead the revolution:sly
I remember going to cubs and scouts where we actualy had a dirty great knife straped to our legs:cool:mmm and we never stabbed each other. We got to use an axe and set fire to stuff, build dodgey rope bridges and fall off alot:thumbs
On the way home we'd get at least 8 or 9 of us in a triumph herald:clap
Oh empty out a bunch of bangers into an old toilet roll!!!!
That'll be loud then:D
lacroupade
10-03-2009, 23:51
ahh cubs and scouts - dib dib dob dob and woggles.....happy days!
I remember going to the seaside as a kid. Not many people had cars in the street I lived in (god I sound old but am only 35 really!!). So my uncle used to take us and half the street in his escort estate. Guess where the 5 kids went????-- In the boot. God it was a treat:lol No seat belts and about10 in the car. The only health and safety that was mentioned was my mum screaming at us to stop putting our heads out the window in case it was cut off:doh.
I also remember being away with the St. John ambulance cadets. We went into the town and told to bugger off for 3 hours. The only rule was that we had to stay in groups of 3. Now my kids are so restricted with what the GOVERNMENT tells us that their emotional growth is stunted. Oh and if the leaders at the cadets were to do that now - they would be thrown out and the parents likely to sue!!
Lee
I used get the pony I had just been given to break and ride it through the high street to teach it to get used to traffic no saddle no back protector and no hat!!!!!:eek:
Now we have to spend an age backing them long reining them etc
I learned to ride bare back (no saddle you lot:rolleyes:) now you have to be so carefull no one gets a chance to have fun:)
My first pony was bought at Talybont a 2 year old off the mountain.
I loaded it in a trailer brought it back to England and rode it about like you would a bike no breaking no backing just got on with it:lol I had no saddle no money to buy one :lol
But by the time I had the money to buy one the pony was backed:thumbs:thumbs
Happy days:):):)
lacroupade
11-03-2009, 00:13
when i was little (and I'm 54 until Sunday!) my dad used to cart my mum and four kids around in an old Robin Reliant, one of the really early ones with the rounded bodyshell....terrific little car it was! Almost as good as an MR2 in many ways.... :augie
lacroupade
11-03-2009, 00:13
...and of course we lived in a shoebox in't middle't road...
Well in thoughs days you could live in the middle of the road there was'nt any traffic:lol:lol
makeitfit
11-03-2009, 00:21
I think they saw you coming!
Horses, montains, money!!!!!
That should be horse mountain box home:thumbs
mmm Bareback, reverse cowgirl, hmm mayb this riding thing has something:cool:
I think they saw you coming!
Horses, montains, money!!!!!
That should be horse mountain box home:thumbs
mmm Bareback, reverse cowgirl, hmm mayb this riding thing has something:cool:
It sure has its moments:lol:lol
lacroupade
11-03-2009, 00:34
Makefit you're such a tart! :D
makeitfit
11-03-2009, 00:38
Makefit you're such a tart! :D
I'd prefer the creamhorn :cool:
lacroupade
11-03-2009, 00:52
:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
robobone
11-03-2009, 09:24
oh so true i was born in the late 50's and when i grew up life was so simple as described as above.
the good old days
extreme-4x4
11-03-2009, 11:22
I think they saw you coming!
Horses, montains, money!!!!!
That should be horse mountain box home:thumbs
mmm Bareback, reverse cowgirl, hmm mayb this riding thing has something:cool:
OMFG....... i have been ill for a couple of days...... funny the things you miss:o
makeitfit
11-03-2009, 11:26
Is that why you're not in work today?
I'm here for a min till my driver arrives!
Good news though Swansea have reissued my license today so I'll be getting the truck back Friday:thumbs
extreme-4x4
11-03-2009, 11:30
work is just as and when they want me at the mo (i need more).... but this time it was me being ill .... got to sort the gaylander out for collection tomorrow and parts i got for sale of the mav...... oh and hope to get the shogun this week and sorting out this lock up
makeitfit
11-03-2009, 11:46
Sounds like there's no time for work at the mo then!
Good luck, off now to work tara:confused:
extreme-4x4
11-03-2009, 11:50
well its more of a back up plan really..... there is nothing happening in construction.
car parts and cheep cars is probably a goer with the financial situation as it is
zippy656
11-03-2009, 11:53
Is that why you're not in work today?
I'm here for a min till my driver arrives!
Good news though Swansea have reissued my license today so I'll be getting the truck back Friday:thumbs
thats great news.
then out to play saturday i bet
The good old days ??? Doodlebugs (flying bombs) v2 rockets, food rationing, national service, my 1st Land rover, ex army jeeps, petrol rationing (coupons), No speed limits out of town, empty roads, White Doctors and nurses, nurses...................................oh Yes, The good old days yes yes yes!!!!
Bob
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zippy656
11-03-2009, 12:11
carefull,, you'll do yourself a mischef!
And it was a real event when the Corona pop van used to come round the estate, you could slurp the chemically red stuff down after playing football in the estate road with your mates. Can we have our ball back was the rallying cry!
I'll stop now before I get all nostalgic, but things were certainly simpler...
White Doctors and nurses, nurses...................................oh Yes, The good old days yes yes yes!!!!Bob
.
Careful now - Im a nurse but I dont think Im your type:lol
Lee
Nurses are everybody's type, everyone knows that!!
We all still on the good old days then:thumbs
Here goes
I was single had my own place and car good job enjoying life:thumbs:thumbs
Then I got married:lol:lol:lol:lol end of the good old days
Nurses are everybody's type, everyone knows that!!
Well Im a fella:eek:
We all still on the good old days then:thumbs
Here goes
I was single had my own place and car good job enjoying life:thumbs:thumbs
Then I got married:lol:lol:lol:lol end of the good old days
My best days started after i got married - it would be perfect now except for the wife:rolleyes::lol
zippy656
12-03-2009, 07:09
My best days started after i got married - it would be perfect now except for the wife:rolleyes::lol
i take it she dont read thing you say on here then??
Good old coal fires ,no need to recycle everything went on it.Liquorice root,imps,Bangers that would blow door off telephone box, Proper beer or stout no poncy lager or alcopops then.Gay meant fun or colours not hallo sweety[sorry neil]Grumpy old 56
Still got petrol coupons for motor bike from 1970 when petrol looked like being rationed,Proper music that you can understand lyrics.No speed cameras/Gatso.No mot.
i take it she dont read thing you say on here then??
She does - thats why I have two black eyes:naughty
zippy656
12-03-2009, 19:05
Ah.. thats not to clever then..
must be some thing to do with the NAME
Zippy
poppypiesdad
12-03-2009, 19:34
I thought these people might have had spangles but no i was wrong
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/index.php
jamie
Well Im a fella:eek:
Even male nurses need love toohttp://www.websmileys.com/sm/happy/059.gif
I thought these people might have had spangles but no i was wrong
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/index.php
jamie
Nice link,Jamie, I might have to avail of their services for somebody's birthday.
I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park.
The shop down the road,
Hopscotch, Donkey, skipping, handstands, stuck in the mud, football with
an old can, Dandy, Beano,
Twinkle and Roly Poly, Hula Hoops, Jumping the stream, building a swing
from a tyre and a piece of rope tied to a
tree,(If you live in Dublin the lampost), building tree-houses, climbing
up onto roofs.
Tennis on the street, the smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.
Hubba Bubba bubble gum and 2p Flogs, macaroon bars and woppas, 3p
Refreshers and wham bars,
superhero chewing gum, golf ball chewing gums and liquorice whips,
desperate dan and roy of the rovers,
sherbit dips and Mr.freezes, marathon bars and everlasting gobstoppers.
An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune
chocolate or vanilla
or strawberry or maybe neopolitan
Wait ... Watching Saturday Morning cartoons ... short commercials,
Battle of the Planets, Road Runner, He-Man, Swapshop, and Why Don't You?,
Transformers, How do you do?, Bosco(SANDY), Forty-coats,
The Littlest Hobo and Lassie, Chucklevision, The Muppet Show, MacGyver,
Scarecrow and Mrs King, Little House on the Prairie and Highway to Heaven,
or staying up
for Knight Rider and Magnum PI.
When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like
going somewhere.
A million midget bites, sticky fingers and mud all over you, knee-pads on
your jeans,
Cops and Robbers, Rounders, tip the Can, Queenie-I-O,
climbing trees, spin the bottle, building igloos out of snow banks,
walking to school, no matter what the weather, running till you were out
of breath.
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt, Jumping on the bed. Pillow
fights,
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles,
Being tired from playing... Remember that?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon
Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle
And don't forget the Marietta sandwiches we'd make by buttering a cupla
Marietta biscuits and stickin' them together.
And that quare oul mixture made in a tall glass with HB ice cream and
Taylor Keith Red Lemonade.
I'm not finished just yet...
Eating raw jelly, orange squash ice pops
Remember when ... There were two types of sneakers - girls and boys and
Dunlop Green Flash and the only time you wore them at school, was for
'P.E.', Gola football boots.
It wasn't odd to have two or three 'best' friends, when nobody owned a
pure bred dog,
when 25p was decent pocket money, when you'd reach into a muddy gutter for
a penny,
when nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there,
when it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a
real restaurant with your parents
When any parent could discipline any kid or use him to carry groceries and
nobody, not even the kid,
thought a thing of it.
When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate that
awaited a misbehaving student at home.
Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of
muggings, drugs, gangs, etc.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! and some of us are
still afraid of them!!!
Remember when....
Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-mo.' Mistakes were
corrected by simply exclaiming, 'do over!'
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in 'Monopoly', the
game of life and
connect four, atari 2600's and commadore 64's.
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.
It was unbelievable that Red rover wasn't an Olympic event...
Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a biro barrel pea
shooter or an elastic band.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better,
Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable vitamins,
Ice cream was considered a basic food group..
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.. Abilities were discovered
because of a 'double dare'
Older siblings were the worst tormentors,but also the fiercest protectors
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!!!
pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'grown up' life...
I DOUBLE DARE YA!!! Bagsy it, no returns and no magical changes
those were the good days!!!!!
And you will feel OLD after reading the lot, LOL
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