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This made me feel OLD!This will mean nothing to the "youngsters" like Gangsta Smurf and Chris's scooby but to the rest they were glory days!!
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 child-proof 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 air bags - 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 scraps and then went topspeed 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 chat rooms. 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 lawsuits. We had full on fistfights but no prosecution followed from other parents. We played knock-on-the-door-and-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. They are called youth. They have never heard of "We are the World", "We are the children", and the Uptown Girl they know is by West life not Billy Joel. They have never heard of Rick Ashley,Bananarama, Nina Cherry or Belinda Carlisle. For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam. AIDS has existed since they were born 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, Red-Hand Gang or the Famous Five. They'll never have applied to be on "Jim'll Fix It" or "Why Don't You".They can't believe in 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. 4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers. 5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head. 6. You remember watching Dirty Den in East-Enders the first time around.. 7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old days, repeating again all the fun you have experienced together. Do you feel old now???!
as I am of such an age it was all very true, the only thing missing was that we were specialists in bomb production, causing a lot of terror to the local villages...
I wish i could do some of those things you did.
I'm not allowed to do some of those though, i do like playing rounders but i've never seen a rounders bat or ball at JJB or Soccer Sports
But they do sell very nice alloy baseball bats! Very handy for all kinds of things!! Welcome son of sumo!!
Goodness me, i feel really old now even though its my Birthday This Sunday
im 34 OMG !!! this Sunday LOL !! THE WR1 RR DVD http://www.scoobycity.co.uk/wr1/phpBB2/ ... highlight=
that bought back a lot of great memorys , we did have a better time then than what kids do now, all this electronic stuff seems to be ruining their childhood experience and yes it does make you wonder where all the years are going 42 next thursday, but hey at least i can drive my impreza, thats made me forget how old i am
lost youth wot a brilliant posting...where's the idealism of youth gone..wanting to make the world better???the rebelliousness of youth...all sucked dry by uni fees..part-time jobs and wall to wall saturation of down market tv..
MY WR1.....MY WORLD
Everthing above is spot on.
You did however forget to mention that the 80's had the best music of all time. Silver 04 Sti PPP
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