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Post by supersmashinggreat on Jul 22, 2008 7:14:50 GMT
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1940's, 50's, 60's 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 exciting and great fun.
We drank water from the garden hose or tap and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no one actually died from this.
We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank cordial 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, No video games at all, No 99 channels,No Pay TV, No cable, No DVD movies or surround sound.
No mobile phones, No text mes sa ging, 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 didn't poke out anyone's eye.
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 di sa ppointment. 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.
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Post by frasier37 on Jul 22, 2008 7:19:01 GMT
So true SSG, so true  |
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Post by leeklad on Jul 22, 2008 7:27:44 GMT
superb thread have a KARMA fellow stokie
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Post by jacksscfc on Jul 22, 2008 7:49:40 GMT
Agreed Leek, great thread.
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Post by edinburghstokie on Jul 22, 2008 8:14:10 GMT
I would like to include the 80's (only very early ones though) in that too.
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Post by supersmashinggreat on Jul 22, 2008 8:17:23 GMT
Mmm, i might just lose all my karma with my other thread though ;D
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Post by Arthurdollar on Jul 22, 2008 8:17:31 GMT
I went Wembley 72 and both the European ties home and away. Kaiserlauten and Ajax. And the Centenary game and Matthew´s Testimonial. So i am dead old now  |
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Post by Rebelliousjukebox on Jul 22, 2008 8:23:28 GMT
Born in the 60's - can't say that all of that applies to me, but my Mum did break her leg when 6 months pregnant with me, and had to give birth with her leg in plaster.  |
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Jul 22, 2008 10:16:43 GMT
The fun we had in the 50s,with just a stick & a pile of shit to play with.  |
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Jul 22, 2008 10:38:10 GMT
We had great fun climbing up those chimneys  |
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Post by mermaidsal on Jul 22, 2008 11:27:31 GMT
It had all gone a bit sensible by the time I arrived in the 70s... not too sensible though thankfully (and my kids get to do plenty of those things now, I'm also glad to say)
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Post by PotteringThrough on Jul 22, 2008 11:46:16 GMT
I was born in 86 and a lot of those apply to me especially WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
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Post by JetBlack on Jul 22, 2008 12:41:02 GMT
Don't forget making camps, out of corrugated metal! We never even thought of brakes on our carts!We used to call 'em trolleys. I think it's too much trouble for the 'little darlings' of today to go out n play.
We used to play 'Kick the can' it was great.
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Post by OldStokie on Jul 22, 2008 15:28:45 GMT
The real downside to being born in those eras was that we didn't have Spongebob.  Mind you, we weren't locked up for playing 'Robber's knock'...probably because we could run too fast. As an addendum to today's world, all the kids at my grandkid's school have been stopped from playing on the play equipment after school while we're waiting for the older kids to come out. They've got a teacher on guard now. Why? Because a parent is sueing the school because there little 'Willie' fell off and hurt his hand. Apparently, the school should have been supervising him. Of course, his parent who was standing there is completely blameless. OS. |
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Post by Cityfullergoals on Jul 22, 2008 15:47:14 GMT
I went Wembley 72 and both the European ties home and away. Kaiserlauten and Ajax. And the Centenary game and Matthew´s Testimonial. So i am dead old now |
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Post by n01stokie on Jul 22, 2008 16:42:16 GMT
the thing was in those days there weren't as many cars on the roads, thus they were safer! AND there weren't any freaks abducting and raping little kids, hiwever i agree kids are wrapped in cotton wool hese days
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Post by daverichards on Jul 22, 2008 18:11:57 GMT
I'm trying to remember which decade I first read this circular email in , was it the 90s or the early 00's ;D
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Post by Dallas Cowboy on Jul 23, 2008 18:58:20 GMT
"AND there weren't any freaks abducting and raping little kids"
You have obviously never heard of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley or Raymond Leslie Morris who raped and murdered a seven-year-old on Cannock Chase. I should imagine there are many more. The freaks always have and always will be with us, it's just that modern day parents have caught the twin American diseases of paranoia and litigation.
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Post by Stafford-Stokie on Jul 23, 2008 20:08:49 GMT
I got my Mrs to buy a proper chip pan and a couple of blocks of lard last week. If her and the kids want oven chips or veggie oil they can. Me? I want to enjoy my food while I still can. ;D
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Post by trebor63 on Jul 23, 2008 21:41:06 GMT
That thread brought back some very happy memories ;D
Making a go cart with a plank of wood a rope for steering and pram wheels was brilliant, We used to head down the slope from Ludlow Avenue down to the brook (for those that know Crewe) and every single time we had to throw ourselves off the kaet before we got dunked in the brook. Brilliant days!
Tarzy ropes especially the ones over water where you could 'get stranded' and threrefore a drefinite drop into the brook were also a massive favourite'
Playing footy hide and seek kick the can and tracker were brilliant and the core fitness of the average teenager from then to now must be MASSIVE.
I'm sooooo glad I'm not a kid now in this sterile pc world
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Post by burnsidepotter on Jul 24, 2008 16:32:48 GMT
Oh boy I watched Stanleys last 2 home games at the Brit I must be ancient.......... Pass me zimmer woman
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Post by Yorkshirepotter on Jul 27, 2008 16:07:39 GMT
Im going to print this off to remind myself not to be an overprotective prick when my daughters old enough to do the things on the list.
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