To all of us that are older than they care to say!!! (40+)

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE



1920's, 30's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!


First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.







They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints. ​

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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 hitchhiking. ​

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As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. ​

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We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. [FONT=Times New
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Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Wimpy, Subway.





Even though all the shops closed at 5.30pm and didn't open on Sundays, 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 store and buy fruit Spangles, Love Hearts, Fruit Polos, Palm Toffee, Gob Stoppers and Black Jacks.





We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in them, but we weren't overweight because......

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WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! ​

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We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. ​

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No one was able to reach us all day. And we were OK.​

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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. We built tree houses and cubby holes and played in river beds with matchbox cars. ​

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We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile ​

phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD REAL FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! ​

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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! ​

And in December, there was only one festive holiday....... CHRISTMAS ...... and everyone wished each other MERRY CHRISTMAS! and NOT.... HAPPY HOLIDAYS..... take it or leave it! ​

We were given air rifles and Catapults for our 10th birthdays, ​

We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing at Maralinga in 1956. ​

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! ​

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet! ​

RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT AND NOT DUE TO BLACKMAIL, THREATS AND GUILT FROM THE PAST..... strange but true!​

Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather straps and bullies always 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 "Brooklyn" and "Paris" and ​

"FiFi Trixibelle" ​

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! ​

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The past 70 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. ​

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We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned ​

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HOW TO​

DEAL WITH IT ALL!​

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And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!​

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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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And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were. ​

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Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?! ​

PS -The large type is because your eyes are short-sighted at your age!

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Lol, I was born in 1985 and I'm pleased and proud to say that I shared some of these experiences which are extinct today.

I played outside all day everyday, ate massive amounts of sugar based products, lived in a terraced house and made dens in the Coal filled shed. Computers obviously were around, but time spent on them was balanced, not because my parents enforced it, but because there was a want to go outside and meet real people and have fun.


Today I get so fed up of the plug n play lifestyle and the health conscious marketing. I actually like Robinsons squash with sugar in it, now you seem to only find the 'no added sugar' variety. E-numbers are awesome but now I can't have them anymore...they may over stimulate childrens brains but the publicised behavioural problems are a result of bad parenting not sugary sweets. Where is the choice?

I have similar issues with the education system. The interactive fully involved, everybody wins approach doesn't work, I quit teacher training because of it. When I was 5 years old they made me stand up and chant the times tables...I've never forgotten the rhymes and answers since...today your average 16 yr old B&Q monkey can't count his own fingers without the till calculator.

Anyway. I love your post, I may not be 40+ but I certainly know what you mean.

Rant over.

 

no love for the 80s? :crying:

nice read [SIZE=-1]nonetheless :thumbsup:

and I agree with Twimfy [/SIZE]"Lol, I was born in 1985 and I'm pleased and proud to say that I shared some of these experiences which are extinct today." (except I wasn't born 85)

 

And this is why we have all the chronic illnesses we have now. The majority of people who have these diseases are in4 your age range..... if it weren't for you guinea pigs we wouldn't come up with the medicine in time to help ourselves ;-).

 

Kid's today are so wimpy...

 

Amen, I had a Capri-sun the other day to find out it had gone the same way, it was disgusting and don`t get me started on the fact they completely messed up Smarties!

 

Bah, Your age range is who are ***king us over now.

But I do admit kids need to get off their fat asses more often.

 

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flibbety flabbity flobbity floo

... but that was the way it was and we LIKED it!

 

Being a child of the 70's i completly agree!

Gone are the times of Dolly parton records, Painted glass elvis pictures on the wall, garish wallpaper, *PROPER* BMX Bikes, Choppers, The convoy movie at christmas

AHHHH the memories!

 

...The over-used word 'retro' had never been invented when I was a kid, thank fcuk!

 

Yeah, we had real "antiques" you could guarentee if you watched antiqure roadshow on a sunday night either your nan or grandad would say they had at least one thing on there

And least we forgot the winters! proper winters! snowfall as high as your waist, neighbors actually speaking to eachother and huge streetwide snowball fights!

when fireworks were a luxary that you got off "irish bob" down the social club, and they were set off ONE night a year!, new year was about knocking on your neighbors door smashed off your tits and dragging them outside in the freezing cold doing the conga down the street

 

Happy days

...Other Christmas related things that spring to mind were...

Food: You had dates (in a wooden box with a little plastic fork), tangerines, turkish delight (in a wooden box covered in icing sugar) brazil nuts, walnut, chestnuts and almonds all in shells that u had to spend 10 minutes cracking open each one to enjoy....these things were a luxury, u only got them once a year, now u can buy 'em all year round. Same could be said for Creme Eggs, you only got them once a year as well.

Presents: You never usually got what you wanted or asked for, not out of spite, or even cost, but merely demand outstripped supply in ways that far outweigh todays standards. I remember wanting the wind up Evel Keneval stunt motorbike, never got it tho, never even saw one in real life, none of my mates ever got one either!

 

So lets see...im a '79, do i still count in?

Nice post! Lovely character size!!

 

Coming home when the street lights came on.

OH MAN that takes me back, that and my bicycle damn I loved that bike.

Born in '70 myself.

 

And yet a bunch of absolute idiots still managed to survive that all...

 

ASSEMblergames.com - home of the old farts :thumbsup:

(If this site were dominated by only younger people, I'd have to say I wouldn't like it as much. It's great having a variety of people of ages here.)

 

I may be old, and i may fart a lot, but..... where was i going with this again?

 

I think I grew up right before all these retarded things really started to catch on. When I grew up you didn't worry about junk food, you did play outside, etc. None of the bullshit you hear about nowdays.

 

In that list of sweets you forgot to mention my all time favourite - The Texan bar. Here it is on CyberCandy (oddly dubious sounding Internet name for a genuine candy store) - sadly they have sold out!http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/aaasmt/index.php/url_indprod?xlc=2177

Also this conversation reminds me of my first love - one Sarah who is now the singer in a well known Scottish group, who to spare us all embarrassment I shall not mention ;-)