Congratulations..., to all those born in the 70s and earlier

[Ferrari Spider]

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 

1930's
40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna/sardines from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs 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, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking .

As children, we would ride in cars (for those of us lucky enough to have one) with no seat belts or air bags.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle, or from deepwell sometimes

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop 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 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 scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem . 

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell 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 .. 

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Football teams had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! 


This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, 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 are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers, the Common Market, European Court of Human Rights 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.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

[Andy]

Hey Peter, every word a true word written.
I SURVIVED,

[redstu]

I don't recall ever eating worms , but everything else (and still do some of them given the chance!)

[tommy84]

How true, but you forgot about the early 80s, as we were still pretty unprotected. God, how many times did I crash with my bike not wearing a helmet, having normal nutrition - hell I don't even know what glutenfree means or does to your body
And im phsyically and psychically ok - apart from that racing addiction

I wonder why so many kids nowadays have allergies en masse with all that super duper baby food???
In German we have a saying - translated freely: "Dirt cleans your stomach" - and I think it's true

[LangTall]

We have the same saying in Holland Tommy!

[Perdu]

So very true Peter

All that and more

This could become "You lived in a hole in the road! You were lucky" if we aren't careful but I agree with every word.

Mind you we did take some precautions

We NEVER stepped on cracked pavement slabs after all, did we?

We never took the copper home that smacked our ears for swinging on the bit of rope on the lamp posts either, 'cos dad would give us a real hiding afterwards.


bill

[landman]

You forgot the bit about care free sex

I think...

[landman]

Depends if they're drunk?

[Perdu]

Ah yes the care free sex

I forgot the endless agonies of wondering if she would let you "go all the way" or stop you dead just after you made her happy

And if she would tell her dad

Or her bl**dy brother who was sixteen feet tall...

Them was the days!

Then you got a job and the world turned upside down, bloomin hell I did love it all so.

Lunch times on the stairs with Carol

Round the park with Sue

Over at.... No 'nuff said

I really DONT know how we survived it all

 

[Snoring Rhino]

You forgot the bit about care free sex

I think...

quite right, quite right.  Far East was always a good spot to meet 'free spirits' the ozzies and kiwis had a particular reputation, tap their heads and their cloths would fall off on the spot.  Is it like that now I wonder

Surely you've seen Dx on a good night 

[alibongo]

how did we survive???

[Lorry]

I can agree with all of that, plus people could spell and add up (well quite a few could).  We had smog, but no asthma or global warming

The only benefit of the modern era must be soft bog paper

[Boorish Grobian]

And Formula 1 was a sport for men!  GP cars with six wheels, ground effects, turbo motors pumping out 1400 BHP, majestic circuits.  Not spoiled little twats, with overbearing daddies, driving around computer designed circuits carved out of the middle of deserts.
Not to mention a Mulsanne straight with no fricking chicanes!
Fax

[Perdu]

God, now I know I'm old

MY GP cars had engines in front of the driver and cutaways so he could hang his bare arms over the edge of the cockpit....

His race helmet was always a "Corker" and it rarely had is strap done up

And he was nearly always Stirling Moss or some geezer called Hawthorn

Them WAS the days!

[Leftie]

Peter, you're a real sod bringing all this back to mind.

Tommy said,

'In German we have a saying - translated freely: "Dirt cleans your stomach" - and I think it's true'.

We used to say " you don't die untill you've eaten 14lbs of dirt" which is basically the same.

Bill said,

We never took the copper home that smacked our ears for swinging on the bit of rope on the lamp posts either, 'cos dad would give us a real hiding afterwards.

The amount of times I had my ear smacked, then physically dragged by that ear by the local Bobby home only to face a beating....All because I got caught.

I forgot the endless agonies of wondering if she would let you "go all the way" or stop you dead just after you made her happy

And if she would tell her dad

Or her bl**dy brother who was sixteen feet tall...

The amount of times I was at breaking point can be counted on a millipede.

But hell to it all.  WE SURVIVED through the best years. You didn't need an ASBO for street cred, it was a thick ear and you dropped your pants to show the belt weald and buckle marks on your arse.

I tried to teach my son (now 23) to fall out of trees, he won!