A Realy Great One

[kankaroo]

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, 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 colored 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 hitchhiking.

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

Riding in the back of a Ute on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Red Rooster.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the 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 store and buy fruit tingles and some crackers to blow up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, 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 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. We built tree houses and cubby houses and played in creek beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, nosurround sound, no mobile phones, 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 were given BB guns and sling shots 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!

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 staps and bully's 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 "Kiora" and "Blade" (Ed. Nothing wrong with Blade (named in honour of champion ruckman Brendan Lade))

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 if 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.

I'm only 28 and I can relate to most of this !!

[qwertz]

Quote kankaroo: I'm only 28 and I can relate to most of this !!

What?

They still have gas lighting and rationing in Scotland?????????????????

[ilyushin]

Commonalities among expats living in Thailand and how the world today and yesterday have changed. You are off track young one.

That's an utterly facile argument. This discussion is best suited to bedlam or another webforum. Could i suggest www.ohlifeusedtobebetterthennow.com

Commonalities? Ok let's discuss commonalities. How about this one? All expats living in Thailand also have or had parents. If I started a thread saying - "my dad's name was Richard, what's yours?" - the principle would be the same. Would that be a useful Thaivisa thread. As humans we have a lot of commonalities.

The one commonality we share on Thaivisa is a connection to Thailand - hence the point about only Thai-related threads being acceptable. The purpose of Thaivisa is to provide a focal point for debate or information about Thailand, either visiting here or living here.

If the mods think this sort of dilution this is a useful addition, gawd help us.

I see now that this thread includes a post quoting, verbatim, a Monty Python sketch. You know a discussion is at its most assinine when that happens. The King of Cliches.

You are so right!

[observer21]

When i was 5 years old i travelled on the bus - about 4 miles - to the town centre to go to the saturday morning cinema, i was often responsible for my 4 year old sister.  All the kids in the town did.  Every one walked to school.  (1960's)

But, the point that seems to have been lost here is that - we are the generation allowing our children to be brought up in this politically correct society.  We allow ourselfs to be

dictated to by petty feeble minded bueracrats. In the Uk, at least, the state is slowly but

surely taking over the role of bringing up future generations

Edited June 21, 2007 by observer21

[qwertz]

Commonalities among expats living in Thailand and how the world today and yesterday have changed. You are off track young one.

That's an utterly facile argument. This discussion is best suited to bedlam or another webforum. Could i suggest www.ohlifeusedtobebetterthennow.com

Commonalities? Ok let's discuss commonalities. How about this one? All expats living in Thailand also have or had parents. If I started a thread saying - "my dad's name was Richard, what's yours?" - the principle would be the same. Would that be a useful Thaivisa thread. As humans we have a lot of commonalities.

The one commonality we share on Thaivisa is a connection to Thailand - hence the point about only Thai-related threads being acceptable. The purpose of Thaivisa is to provide a focal point for debate or information about Thailand, either visiting here or living here.

If the mods think this sort of dilution this is a useful addition, gawd help us.

I see now that this thread includes a post quoting, verbatim, a Monty Python sketch. You know a discussion is at its most assinine when that happens. The King of Cliches.

You are so right!

Bendix, Ilyushin, pleeeese be reasonable.

You're both talking as if this is the only thread TV allows to run.

Get real and cruise the board a little, you may even find something more suited to the superior intelligence.

Just a footnote: many expats are Brits and many post on this forum.

They cling to familiar remnants of their former life and the sketch you're dumping on is one such.

They run them in the bars and have a little chuckle; only Fools and Horses is still a great favourite too.

Please don't deny us hoipolloi a little fun in our exile.

P.S. There's no current thread for "Erudite input for superior people who find other people's threads boring and inane"

Why not start one and see if attracts more than 2 replies.

Edited June 21, 2007 by qwertz

[Ping]

Bendix baited the hook, and caught a few...

Another soul mate for Bendix

Qwertz it seems you missed the point... but not the hook (above)...

[SamuiJens]

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, 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 colored 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 hitchhiking.

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

Riding in the back of a Ute on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Red Rooster.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the 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 store and buy fruit tingles and some crackers to blow up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, 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 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. We built tree houses and cubby houses and played in creek beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, nosurround sound, no mobile phones, 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 were given BB guns and sling shots 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!

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 staps and bully's 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 "Kiora" and "Blade" (Ed. Nothing wrong with Blade (named in honour of champion ruckman Brendan Lade))

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 if 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.

highdiver, Excellent! I have been wanting to say this for years. Gonna send this link to a frew friends. Well done indeed.

Highdiver didn't write this, I got a copy from a friend 6-8 months before he put this on TV, just so the credit doesn't go to the wrong person!!!

[lazeeboy]

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, 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 colored 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 hitchhiking.

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

Riding in the back of a Ute on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Red Rooster.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the 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 store and buy fruit tingles and some crackers to blow up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, 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 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. We built tree houses and cubby houses and played in creek beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, nosurround sound, no mobile phones, 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 were given BB guns and sling shots 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!

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 staps and bully's 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 "Kiora" and "Blade" (Ed. Nothing wrong with Blade (named in honour of champion ruckman Brendan Lade))

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 if 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.

highdiver, Excellent! I have been wanting to say this for years. Gonna send this link to a frew friends. Well done indeed.

Highdiver didn't write this, I got a copy from a friend 6-8 months before he put this on TV, just so the credit doesn't go to the wrong person!!!

and your freind got it some where else ,at least highdiver posted it

[SamuiJens]

There was the McDonalds arches with "Now sold 100,000 burgers in about 67-68!

Ya, Lazyboy, BUT I revisited it!!

Edited August 9, 2007 by SamuiJens

[SamuiJens]

WHAT HAVE I DONE!

[lost_in_space]

That was one of the dumbest posts I've ever read.

Life was great back then... nonsense.

Look at the first line, "We survived..." Well, duh, who writes history but the survivors.

Life is too PC now...also nonsense.

As Dickens said, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." When does that not apply?

Got nostalgia? Here's a quote. "There once was a time when all of Europe worshipped one God, and the church ruled. That time is called the Dark Ages.

[Big A]

2 words to Brits born in the early 60's

POGLE'S WOOD!!

A classic. Anyone remember the plant that drank bilberry wine? Even to this day, I have nightmares about an alcoholic plant. Check out the following:

www.pogleswood.org

http://www.t-web.co.uk/trumpcam.htm (Trumpton and Camberwick Green)

Edited August 9, 2007 by Big A

[menostay]

Lost_in_space............there is room for you as well as others in space.......including those that enjoy the memories of the past. Cheers, may we all find room for others in the space we have.

[Big A]

Mary, Mungo & Midge

Toffee Crisp

Cadbury's Flake

Z Cars

Wine Gums

10 fags for 50p

Morris Minors

The burying of the Blue Peter year 2000 box

and many more memories

[qwertz]

I have a Blue Peter badge somewhere in my memorabilia.

Edited August 9, 2007 by qwertz