Days of Old

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

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?!

[Liam]

Originally Posted by Thomas-the-Terrano2

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]

Oh joy, someone from the real world
Welcome freind I love you
Please stand for president or at least lead the revolution


I remember going to cubs and scouts where we actualy had a dirty great knife straped to our legsmmm 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
On the way home we'd get at least 8 or 9 of us in a triumph herald

Oh empty out a bunch of bangers into an old toilet roll!!!!
That'll be loud then

[lacroupade]

ahh cubs and scouts - dib dib dob dob and woggles.....happy days!

[zippy]

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 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.

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

[willow]

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!!!!!

Now we have to spend an age backing them long reining them etc

I learned to ride bare back (no saddle you lot) 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 I had no saddle no money to buy one
But by the time I had the money to buy one the pony was backed
Happy days

[lacroupade]

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....

[lacroupade]

...and of course we lived in a shoebox in't middle't road...

[willow]

Well in thoughs days you could live in the middle of the road there was'nt any traffic

[makeitfit]

I think they saw you coming!
Horses, montains, money!!!!!
That should be horse mountain box home

mmm Bareback, reverse cowgirl, hmm mayb this riding thing has something

[willow]

Originally Posted by makeitfit

I think they saw you coming!
Horses, montains, money!!!!!
That should be horse mountain box home

mmm Bareback, reverse cowgirl, hmm mayb this riding thing has something

It sure has its moments

[lacroupade]

Makefit you're such a tart!

[makeitfit]

Originally Posted by lacroupade

Makefit you're such a tart!

I'd prefer the creamhorn

[lacroupade]

[robobone]

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