People of 30+

[DuVeL]

People over 30 should be dead (nothing ment offensive, just for fun, forumadmin, otherwise delete it plz). Why?

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived.

Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. And they had lots of space between the slats that we could get our heads caught in and strangle us to death.

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 with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors!

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

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

We spent hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode 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 would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. No cell phones. Unthinkable!

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.

We had friends! We went outside and found them. We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.

We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember accidents?

We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. Horrors! Tests were not adjusted for any reason.

Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that!

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.

Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good...

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors!

[albert]

Not a truer word was spoken, bring back child hood. But you forgot working "down pit" when OB, Doorman, Dingo and Brass were young.

[Benny]

We ate cupcakes

I'm sure I knew someone called 'cupcakes'.

And don't rankle Oldie, he fought in the war for you youngsters...the boer war

[SecretSquirrel]

Sounds like an horrendous childhood if you can call it that - more like child abuse.

I'm so relieved I'm still years & years & years & years away from 30 never having to endure all that torment.







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Do you think I put too much emphasis on 'years' to make it sound convincing

[FBG]

Originally posted by SecretSquirrel@Jan 5 2004, 06:41 PM
Sounds like an horrendous childhood if you can call it that - more like child abuse.

I'm so relieved I'm still years & years & years & years away from 30 never having to endure all that torment.







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Do you think I put too much emphasis on 'years' to make it sound convincing

especially as you should have put "hours"

[GRIM_REAPER]

when i was a lad we had: 3ghz computers(must have taken like a minute to boot up), games where you had to press buttons (shock horror), we had to go to school (what no instant inteligance brain food?).

Ahh those were the days      

[Dingo]

Originally posted by albert@Jan 5 2004, 05:16 PM
Not a truer word was spoken, bring back child hood. But you forgot working "down pit" when OB, Doorman, Dingo and Brass were young.

...........we weren't working down the pit we was "playing"

.....ah!, I remember like it was yesterday, we would take a box of matches down with us and play "gas leak", a great game where the winner were the first one to ignite something (course they had hacks in them days too cos some lads use to take canaries with them to get them to sniff the gas first!!)

 and then we'd play "run 't mine shaft before we're buried" which was great for keeping us young 'uns fit and healthy, as was karting over moors and charging headlong down to the bottom in your Go-Kart with no brakes and string to steer and then running back up the hill to do it all again!!

Not forgetting the Hovis of course cos you couldn't have a great worm and sugar sandwich without a slice of that healthy bread to put it in. Only chips we'd heard of in them days was the sort that was piled up on your plate and covered in grease, vinegar and half a bag of salt washed down with Ginger beer or Cream Soda, or if you were really lucky a sip of your dad's Watneys Red Barrel!!

Pah!!, ruddy kids nowadays are spoilt rotten and softer in the head than a boiled egg................

Bring back Conscription and hanging I say!!   :yell:  :eyebrow:  :rant:

 

[Doorman]

Harumph!

[Gh0st Face Killah]

Ahhh yes the good old days.......... :lmfao:  :lmfao:

[SecretSquirrel]

Originally posted by Dingo+Jan 5 2004, 07:26 PM-->

[Dingo]

Hanging is too good for you Whippersnapper!!  :blink:


...............someone bring me my cat'o'nine tails for this impudent youth!!  :rant:  :yell:  :angry:

[Benny]

Do you think that at some point someone actually had a cat with nine tails and tried to lash someone with it. I'd imagine it would be quite pleasurable.

[SecretSquirrel]

Originally posted by Benny@Jan 6 2004, 05:04 PM
Do you think that at some point someone actually had a cat with nine tails and tried to lash someone with it. I'd imagine it would be quite pleasurable.

Yes it is :dribble:

But a Squirrel 'o 9 Tails is even better

[Gandalf]

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[Benny]

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sorry