CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70's !

First, we survived being born to mothers who 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 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 hitch-hiking.

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

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

Take away food was limited to mom's left overs, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, or Subway.

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 Toffees, Gob stoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers 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 street lights 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 old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.

We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on satellite TV, no video/dvd films, 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...

We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,

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!

Every sport had try-outs 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.

Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes 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 didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL !

PS -The bold type in is because your eyes are not too good at your age any more

Thanks

Good thread, nice time capsule....

I was born in 1975 so just at the end of all this. Great memories.

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So true.

The PC world has gone wayyyyy too far.

It's no longer survival of the fittest.....evolution is being corrupted.

I can identify with all of those. It helped me what I am today. We didn't even have penicilin when I was born. If you got sick you either survived because of your own immune system... or you died.

Wah! How old are you? I thought Penicillin was found 100 years ago.

Wah! How old are you? I thought Penicillin was found 100 years ago.

Lets put it this way... Eve took this photo :lol:

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Ha ha, you don't look that old mate.

Those were the days - before disposable nappies were invented. The first few months of my (younger) brother's life were interesting (and noisome).

Wah! How old are you? I thought Penicillin was found 100 years ago.

Early forms of penicillin go back to the middle ages, just didn't have the media savvy of Fleming, although it was Fleming's research that found it effective regarding Syphillis and other stapph's.

Back in the day. It'll never be the same again, and what a shame. You don't look any older than 75. Just kidding.

So true.

The PC world has gone wayyyyy too far.

It's no longer survival of the fittest.....evolution is being corrupted.

Important point this. The PC generation Y, are fit for £%&*&%$. Pasty faced, puffing climbing stairs, health problems in the next generation which will fulfil all the doomsday predictions.

Kittos Poor Sucker! I happened to be listening to this on streaming radio when I read that!

God you are so right. My 14 year old nephew who is a black belt in Karate, wants to be a particle physicist when he grows up, snowboards and skateboards must find his life so very very sucky. I will be sure to tell him to get off his ass and do something.

baby boomers have indeed had it all,growing up in a safe environment,plenty of jobs,easy to travel,morgages,no problem.Pity we left in our wake social destruction through easy divorce,fatherless children................a truly selfish generation.Sorry to be a party pooper.

God you are so right. My 14 year old nephew who is a black belt in Karate, wants to be a particle physicist when he grows up, snowboards and skateboards must find his life so very very sucky. I will be sure to tell him to get off his ass and do something.

There are always exceptions that prove the rule. Take Bedlam. Full of really intelligent people, but we have Soundman and Crow Boy....................See the intelligent rule proved by the exceptions !!!

God you are so right. My 14 year old nephew who is a black belt in Karate, wants to be a particle physicist when he grows up, snowboards and skateboards must find his life so very very sucky. I will be sure to tell him to get off his ass and do something.

There are always exceptions that prove the rule. Take Bedlam. Full of really intelligent people, but we have Soundman and Crow Boy....................See the intelligent rule proved by the exceptions !!!

Oi Plod boy I resemble that remark

I may be stupid but at least I aint admin

CB

You have an all seeing eye

Whats this old people, &lt;deleted&gt;?

That's okay, us "Ol folks" jest gotta stand around and take all the insults...

That's okay, us "Ol folks" jest gotta stand around and take all the insults...

I hardly recognised Ian from the back....most of his photos with girls are from the front.

I hardly recognised Ian from the back....most of his photos with girls are from the front.

True...

baby boomers have indeed had it all,growing up in a safe environment,plenty of jobs,easy to travel,morgages,no problem.Pity we left in our wake social destruction through easy divorce,fatherless children................a truly selfish generation.Sorry to be a party pooper.

Speak for yourself, I'm not part of THAT generation nor do I optimize it either....

In the late 50,s you leave school start an apprenticeship, usually between 14 and 15 years old, lots of factories, mills, mines, to choose from,or god forbid the armed forces,imagine the culture shock , go and see some wicked men in khaki on a monday, and hey presto 14 days later you are in a place called aldershot,secure in the knowledge your loving parents have signed away 15 years of your life,no ipods, laptops or civilian clothes for the first 3 months and after that only mufti, back to schoollearn a trade take a degree, and learn to be a squaddie, kiss your hair goodbye, and get very close and personal with blanco, brasso and cherryblossom bootcream,not old enough to vote, go in a pub, but old enuf to carry a rifle for queen and country,running paralell with your service is a scheme called national service, 10,s of thousands of poor buggers pressganged and bashed through 6 weeks basic training and then off to units and countries with exotic names, Catterick, Sennelager, Fallingbostel, and Gil Gil to name a few, no such thing as human rights,and military glasshouses and prisons were places to be dreaded colchester, sheptonmallet, or for soldiers under 17 Blackdown Nick!many a boy sent there came back a military robot, just wind up once a day and let them go, so we survived the 50,s and 60,s and have earned our retirement , my grandkids like to visit their crazy grandad who calls thailand and australia home, and is always ready for a laugh and a game of footie :jap:

You have an all seeing eye

No, I have the all seeing eye.

Nasty bit of inflammation there...

Thank God, that explains it....................

Dear ohh dear Sbk, you need to lay off that thing for a day or two, looks very painfull.

I think certain people have missed the point.

I liked the dental implant ad that shows above. I mean below.

Just remember the 92 year old Frenchman, who, while at a party, noticed a young, beautiful woman enter the room. He turned to his friend, and said "Oh to be 72 again."