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weths
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Post subject: something different
 Posted: Feb 08, 2010 - 08:34 PM
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> ; Subject:
> FW: We wuz brung up proper!Hey check this out below!! The way it should
> be…what a world we would
> have……………….
> 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 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.
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>
> Then
> after that trauma, our baby cots 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.
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> Take away food was
> limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds ,
> KFC, Subway or Nandos.
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> Even though all the
> shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends,
> somehow we didn't starve to death!
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>
> We
> shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and
> NO ONE actually died from this.
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>
> We could collect old
> drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and
> buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, 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......
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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.
>
>
> 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.
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> We did not have
> Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all,
> no 999 channels on SKY ,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!
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> We fell out of trees,
> got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
> Lawsuits from these accidents.
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> Only girls had pierced
> ears!
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> We ate worms and mud
> pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us
> forever..
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> You could only buy
> Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter
> time...
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> We were
> given air guns and catapults for our 10th
> birthdays,
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> 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!
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> 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
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>
> Our teachers used
> to hit us with canes and gym shoes and
> bully'salways ruled
> the playground at school.
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>
> The idea of a parent
> bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard
> of. They
> actually sided with the law!
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> Our parents didn't
> invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and
> 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and
> 'Vanilla'
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> We had
> freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
> HOW TO DEAL WITH
> IT ALL !
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>
>
> And 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.
>
>
> And
> while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will
> know how brave their parents
> were.
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>
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>
>
> PS
> -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your
> age anymore
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Post subject: RE: something different
Posted: Feb 08, 2010 - 09:23 PM
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| obviously i was born to late!!!! |
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Post subject: RE: something different
Posted: Feb 08, 2010 - 09:39 PM
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| Early 70s, I just got into that age bracket and no more, how much things have changed the last 20 years |
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Post subject: RE: something different
Posted: Feb 08, 2010 - 10:03 PM
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well said neil, i remember it all so well ! ! !  |
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Post subject: RE: something different
Posted: Feb 08, 2010 - 10:08 PM
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i was born right then, early 90s haha
someone copied all of that off an email too |
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Posted: Feb 08, 2010 - 10:29 PM
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***EDITED POST*** - I delved into the dodgy area of politics with my original post - apologies to everyone its a subject I normally steer clear of on open forums.
I will stick to my usual trivia in future.
Cheers
Andy. |
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Posted: Feb 08, 2010 - 11:15 PM
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Thanks for that.
Born in the early '60s, I can well remember it all....and by Christ do I mourn its passing 
I know it's easy to look back on "old times" through rose-tinted specs, but when I look at what's happening these days i really DO despair sometimes. I certainly wouldn't have any more children...  |
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Posted: Feb 09, 2010 - 05:23 AM
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The fact was our parents were all mean ************ who didn't care what we got up to so long as it didn't cost them anything. Till 8 yo I lived at a sugar mill town, and we didn't even wear shoes, how cheap was that! We learnt to make our own fun but took lots of risks and often ended up in the emergency ward.
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Posted: Feb 09, 2010 - 07:52 AM
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When I were a lad Mother would send me down to the local shop with sixpence and I would get a sack of potatoes, a leg of ham, a tray of eggs, 6 bottles of beer and 20 Woodbines and still take money back home.
You can't do that today....................too many surveillance cameras.  |
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Posted: Feb 09, 2010 - 08:05 AM
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| As an early 60's child I dispair of today's world and worry for what my children are going to face the posting was amusing but also a sad reflection of the society we now live in. |
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Posted: Feb 09, 2010 - 08:02 PM
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| Brilliant i was born in 63 and everything you have wrote is spot on.i was brought up on a farm .what a great play ground that was but only after i had done my daily list of jobs that my old man gave me to do ,The modern day children are missing out on so much. |
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Posted: Feb 09, 2010 - 08:13 PM
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Pah, you're all juveniles.
You are not old unless you have queued with a ration book, had a bath in a tin bath that hangs on a nail on an outside wall and when your only toilet is a bucket and chuck it down the bottom of the garden.  |
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Posted: Feb 10, 2010 - 02:57 AM
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| Well I never had a bath in a tin bath but I still empty my toilet down the bottom of the garden. |
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Posted: Feb 10, 2010 - 10:16 PM
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very good,just read that duncan,has been on car forums,remember my first car bought a pile of shite but fixed it myself with out dad, learn the hard way and still the best!
thats about how things were,wonder what the next 20/30 years might bring?
regards
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Posted: Feb 10, 2010 - 10:41 PM
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| ...YES, YES, ALL VERY NOSTALGIC....HOWEVER WE HAD TO ENDURE SALE OF THE CENTURY SO NOT ALL JOLLY IN PARADISE WAS IT!!! |
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