Emailed this morning >BORN BEFORE 1986? > > >According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were >kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, >because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured Lead-based >paint which was promptly chewed and licked. > >We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or >cabinets and it was fine to play with pans. When we rode our bikes, we >wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our >wheels. > > >As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags and >riding in the passenger seat was a treat. We drank water from the garden >hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same. > >We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar >in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside >playing. We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can >and no-one actually died from this. > >We would spend hours building go-carts out of spoos and then went top >speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After >running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the >problem. > >We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we >were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one >minded. > > >We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 >channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile >phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chatrooms. > >We had friends - we went outside and found them. We played elastics and >rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt! We fell out of trees, got >cut, and broke bones but there were no law suits. > >We played knock-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners >catching us. We walked to friends' homes. We also, believe it or not, >WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to >school, which was just round the corner. > >We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in packs of >7 and wore our coats by only the hood. The idea of a parent bailing us >out if we broke a law was unheard of...they actually sided with the law. > >This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and 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're one of them. > >Congratulations! > >Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids, >before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for "our own good". > >For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read >about us. > > >This my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a >smile on your face: > >The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986....The >Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. > >They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda >Carlisle. > > >For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam. AIDS >has existed since they were born, they aren't going to die of ignorance. >CD's have existed since they were born. > > >Michael Jackson has always been white. > >To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't >imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance. > >They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are films from >last year. They can never imagine life before computers. > >They'll never have pretended to be the A-Team, the Dukes of Hazard or >the Famous Five. > >They can't believe a black and white television ever existed. And they >will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile >phone. > > >Now let's check if we're getting old... > > >1. You understand what was written above and you smile. > >2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night >out. > >3. Your friends are getting married/already married or divorced ?!? > >4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably >with computers. > >5. When you see children with mobile phones, you shake your head. > >6. Having read this, you are thinking of forwarding it to some other >friends because you think they will like it too... > > >Yes, you're Getting old!! > >Guilty as charged.
Thanks Job- i relate to all of that - especially the falling out of trees bit - spread eagled a barbed wire fence....ouch.
Very Good - brought back some good memories. When you consider they have now even banned tag/it from the playground you fear for what our kids will be allowed to do in the near future.:doom: Thankfully though when my daughter's virtual puppy takes a **** I don't have to scrape it off the back lawn
Sigh, tis all true. I actually remember when I first went to school being suprised to see an East and West Germany. In fact back in the 80's there weren't half as many countries as there are today. Bring back the Soviet Union!! :]]
A piece of cardboard held in place by a clothes peg flicking against the spokes of my bike to make it sound like a motor bike.
We were real Kids back then. I used to love bunking off school and going to the greyhound meeting at Vicarage Road - even got a 66/1 winner once for 10p -paid for the the fish and chips from the chippy and loads and loads left over for the rest of the week.
I always wanted (but never got) a Chopper so had to make do with regularly loaning one from a guy in return for the use of my go kart.
reading that and agreeing with it all, i realised at the age of 27 that i am now old! the one thing i can remember was swapping panini football stickers with mates and going mad when watford went down the year they started doing silver badges for the 1st division teams, and thus i could not have a silver watford badge
Psht, i was born in '87 and know the version of billy Joels Uptown Girl :]] the thing about CD's too.. i remember having to record off of the radio using a cassette lol
So true used to do the same myself. Nowadays everything is a lot more immediate. If I want to listen to a particular tune I can lsten to it online or download it in no time.
And for us older ones who were born in the Fifties.............. We remember it all so well. Andy being allowed to sleep with Ted. Play with Looby Loo! Bill and Ben spitting all over the place and of couse the original "CRACKERJACK" Oh so happy and simple days. Bring them back.................. Terrific post
