When We Where Young!!!!!!!!!

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ericsti

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TO ALL THE KIDS
WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !! :clap:

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored 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 infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.


We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
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 Lemonade made with sugar, 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 150 channels on Sky, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or 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
Claims from these accidents.

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

We were given Cap guns for our 10th birthdays, 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 walked in and talked to them!

Football tryouts, 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!

These generations have 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! :drunk: :lol:
If YOU are one of them . . CONGRATULATIONS! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

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 so much of our lives
for our own good. :wall: :wall: :wall:

:headbanger: :headbanger:
 
Hello Eric,

Sounds like you are getting ready to be a parent  ;)

It wan't like that in my day  :lol:

(and all that)  :D

Cheers,

Michael
 
At 24 in the age of commadore 64 and eventually sega megadrive life was still somewat like tha even at my youngish age..

no mobile phones, out for hours, no health and safety crap.......... and were still alive...

the world is now a nanny state full of do-gooders...


i've 5 weeks left til i see my little girl born and wat a shitty world she will be entering........

bring on a time machine............ gladly go back 20 or 30 years..........
 
[quote author=555-Scooby link=topic=2672.msg25181#msg25181 date=1182380981]
ahhh the old 64 and megadrive...still have both in the attic.....bring back the good old days.
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Savage you still have them!Must be worth somthing these days!?
 
i still have 1986 Nintendo entertainment system (Nes) 21 years old and still the coolest thing in the house!
 
[quote author=Woogy link=topic=2672.msg25183#msg25183 date=1182381295]
[quote author=555-Scooby link=topic=2672.msg25181#msg25181 date=1182380981]
ahhh the old 64 and megadrive...still have both in the attic.....bring back the good old days.
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Savage you still have them!Must be worth somthing these days!?
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i also still have the commadore 64 with about 30 games... all leads and cassette loader thing in a drawer in the parents.........??

memories............
 
just the 30 games....have over 100...plus mine took the cartridges :thumbsup: still have the lot in the original box seen them on e-bay for €30 up to €150 also have an atari 2600 with pac man and a few other games, think you can get about 25 commodore games now with a joystick that just plugs in to the tv...no loading for half an hour then at the last minute it would freeze :angry:
 
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your gonna be a rich boy..... ha ha.........

and yeah remember the coloured lines when loading..........

fucked if you were epileptic.......................... :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
don't remember that bit..

although you are older then me..........

maybe you were inhaling your lynx just before you seen pictures magically appearing........ :ponder: :ponder:
 
I've got the first sega. The master system and the mega drive. Have all My Star War stuff as well still in the boxes. I also have an Octomas Prime Transformer still in the Box. Haven't a clue what to do with them! I was a bit anal as a kid. Oh and Eagle eye action men that I played with for hours on end.
 
[size=20pt][move]  :ponder: Suggestion  :ponder: [/move] [/size]

Two new sections:

1) Old codgers section  :thumbsup:

2) Soon to be antiques for sale  :thumbsup:

Must get onto Paulo  :p

No seriously, was fun years ago  :thumbsup:
 
just after reading this.its very good.i was born in 77 so went up through the 80's and it was very much like that even though we had computers. :thumbsup:
 
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