Title: Born before 1986?
Post by: Guest on September 06, 2006, 10:51:17 AM
Post by: Guest on September 06, 2006, 10:51:17 AM
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 scraps 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. 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 recent years. 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 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 mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some
other friends because you think they will like it too...
Yes, you're Getting old!! .
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 scraps 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. 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 recent years. 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 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 mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some
other friends because you think they will like it too...
Yes, you're Getting old!! .
Title: Born before 1986?
Post by: Cobra {sfx} on September 06, 2006, 06:09:49 PM
Post by: Cobra {sfx} on September 06, 2006, 06:09:49 PM
Sounds like a middle aged crisis to me m8 lol
Title: Born before 1986?
Post by: *Herr_Kruger on September 06, 2006, 06:50:20 PM
Post by: *Herr_Kruger on September 06, 2006, 06:50:20 PM
SSUK :
The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986....
holy crap, i was born in 1977. lmao.
Title: Born before 1986?
Post by: Elgan {sfx} on September 06, 2006, 06:59:49 PM
Post by: Elgan {sfx} on September 06, 2006, 06:59:49 PM
hm, im 19, 1987. A-Team sucks, and alot of that still is true for me even tbh, but A-Team still sucks. i woke at 17:30pm today.
my go-karts rocked
my go-karts rocked
Title: Born before 1986?
Post by: PKM on September 06, 2006, 09:38:41 PM
Post by: PKM on September 06, 2006, 09:38:41 PM
Cobra {SFX} :
Sounds like a middle aged crisis to me m8 lol
lol yep
and i'm turning the big 4-0 this year
Title: Born before 1986?
Post by: Cobra {sfx} on September 06, 2006, 09:52:23 PM
Post by: Cobra {sfx} on September 06, 2006, 09:52:23 PM
Ill let you in on a secret then, its no different to yer 20th 
Some good points there Steve, they dont know theyre alive, then again most of us are lucky to be alive
Some good points there Steve, they dont know theyre alive, then again most of us are lucky to be alive
Title: Born before 1986?
Post by: Guest on September 06, 2006, 10:01:24 PM
Post by: Guest on September 06, 2006, 10:01:24 PM
hehe
I broke collar bone tripping over a fire hydrant when I was 9 yrs old playing 'army men' - yup axis and allies even then...
I fell out of a tree the following year and broke my wrist collecting conkers from a horse chestnut tree.:cry I then went on holiday with a plaster of paris cast on my wrist which subsequently 'dissolved in the swimming pool' :((
When I got home I had to have an operation to deliberatley break the wrist bone so they could start all over again repairing it.... ouch:blush
I broke collar bone tripping over a fire hydrant when I was 9 yrs old playing 'army men' - yup axis and allies even then...
I fell out of a tree the following year and broke my wrist collecting conkers from a horse chestnut tree.:cry I then went on holiday with a plaster of paris cast on my wrist which subsequently 'dissolved in the swimming pool' :((
When I got home I had to have an operation to deliberatley break the wrist bone so they could start all over again repairing it.... ouch:blush
Title: Born before 1986?
Post by: Floyd on September 06, 2006, 10:06:17 PM
Post by: Floyd on September 06, 2006, 10:06:17 PM
lol thats funny. I remember when the remote control first came out, it was easy to understand because it only had 2 buttons.
Title: Born before 1986?
Post by: Cobra {sfx} on September 06, 2006, 10:15:52 PM
Post by: Cobra {sfx} on September 06, 2006, 10:15:52 PM
I used to climb this tall silver birch that overlooked a cliff, was great in strong wind - kinda blew ya over the drop, took the family there a few years back and nearly died when i seen how high that cliff is :cry
Title: Born before 1986?
Post by: Card {sfx} on September 06, 2006, 11:57:17 PM
Post by: Card {sfx} on September 06, 2006, 11:57:17 PM
I remember playing Stick-ball
the playing field backed up to some houses.One house in left field had a Dog-pen which had 2 Giant German Shephards..
If you hit it in the pen you scored 10 runs automatically....
Then end of game.......We were too chicken chit to go get the Ball!!!
Yea its a bitch now.....Waking up now is ROLLING outa bed.....not jumping!!!!
When my son can stay up LATER then me on weekends!!!!
Sometimes daughter too(shes 2..LOL)
When now i fall asleep in my recliner at the drop of a hat!!!!(i think its drugged...LOL)
BUT i am almost 41 and still playing COMPUTER GAMES!!!!!!!
DAMN i need a life!!!!!!!
the playing field backed up to some houses.One house in left field had a Dog-pen which had 2 Giant German Shephards..
If you hit it in the pen you scored 10 runs automatically....
Then end of game.......We were too chicken chit to go get the Ball!!!
Yea its a bitch now.....Waking up now is ROLLING outa bed.....not jumping!!!!
When my son can stay up LATER then me on weekends!!!!
Sometimes daughter too(shes 2..LOL)
When now i fall asleep in my recliner at the drop of a hat!!!!(i think its drugged...LOL)
BUT i am almost 41 and still playing COMPUTER GAMES!!!!!!!
DAMN i need a life!!!!!!!
Title: Born before 1986?
Post by: Cobra {sfx} on September 07, 2006, 12:21:22 AM
Post by: Cobra {sfx} on September 07, 2006, 12:21:22 AM
Just Mod and STFU!
Alarm clocks huh - worse invention ever:O_o
Title: Born before 1986?
Post by: Card {sfx} on September 07, 2006, 12:50:27 AM
Post by: Card {sfx} on September 07, 2006, 12:50:27 AM
LOL noooo alarm clocks
Little one comes in bedroom and CLOCKS me in head with the DOG!!!!...LOL
Great Thread Steve......+ rep for you....:P:P
Little one comes in bedroom and CLOCKS me in head with the DOG!!!!...LOL
Great Thread Steve......+ rep for you....:P:P
Title: Born before 1986?
Post by: STORMnl on September 07, 2006, 09:26:55 AM
Post by: STORMnl on September 07, 2006, 09:26:55 AM
wow,,,i'm from 1960
i feel like a dinosaur
=STORM=
i feel like a dinosaur
=STORM=
Title: Born before 1986?
Post by: *Herr_Kruger on September 07, 2006, 02:59:59 PM
Post by: *Herr_Kruger on September 07, 2006, 02:59:59 PM
STORMnl :
wow,,,i'm from 1960
i feel like a dinosaur
=STORM=
lol dont. Look around you. 40, 41 , 39. 29
Title: Born before 1986?
Post by: mainframe on September 08, 2006, 07:45:00 AM
Post by: mainframe on September 08, 2006, 07:45:00 AM
Holy shyt Pkm your old as hell lol J/k :love
I'll be 24 in a few weeks ... hellz yeah
I'll be 24 in a few weeks ... hellz yeah
Title: Born before 1986?
Post by: PKM on September 08, 2006, 02:19:31 PM
Post by: PKM on September 08, 2006, 02:19:31 PM
mainframe :
Holy shyt Pkm your old as hell lol J/k :love
I'll be 24 in a few weeks ... hellz yeah
lol i know. most people assume that the way i post is linked to my age . they swear i'm 12 or something, kinda the anit-rookie_onel.