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Aneirin -> How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 9:58:51 AM)
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940'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 from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cots 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 with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun. We drank water from the garden hosepipe 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 pop(soda) 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 text messaging, 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 played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any 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! Local teams had tryouts 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 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. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?! PS -The BIG type is because your eyes are shot at your Age.

Drahcir -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 10:02:56 AM)
Happy days indeed.[8\|]

faerytattoodgirl -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 10:05:14 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Aneirin First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. Ya i survived with having 4 major open heart surgeries and told i'd not live past age 20 because of what you said here...

mercifulsiren -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 10:08:32 AM)
It is very true actually. I would like to add one....riding in the bed of a truck, feeling the wind blow through your hair. That was so much fun when I was a kid.

rubberpet -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 10:15:50 AM)
Well said, Aneirin! Those were the good ol' days! Kids in today's society are sissies compared to when we were growing up. People wern't getting sued over stupid shit back then like they are today. Lawsuits were over meaningful things like civil rights violations. Lawsuits today are over missing pants from a dry cleaner for 600 gazillion dollars or because they didn't make the cheerleading squad. I admit that I had the old Pong video game system and an Atari 2600. High tech back then! TVs didn't have remotes...it was old school technology called "get off your lazy ass and change the channel to one of the other three available". Lead paint rules!!! No brakes are needed, something hard will stop us! Falling out of trees only made us better climbers! Our parents let us take our lumps and it made us better people. [:D]

Drahcir -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 10:17:05 AM)
The children of the 80s, 90s. will be able to say they enjoyed happy slapping pensioners or shanking one another with knives etc.

mercifulsiren -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 10:23:16 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rubberpet Well said, Aneirin! Those were the good ol' days! Kids in today's society are sissies compared to when we were growing up. People wern't getting sued over stupid shit back then like they are today. Lawsuits were over meaningful things like civil rights violations. Lawsuits today are over missing pants from a dry cleaner for 600 gazillion dollars or because they didn't make the cheerleading squad. I admit that I had the old Pong video game system and an Atari 2600. High tech back then! TVs didn't have remotes...it was old school technology called "get off your lazy ass and change the channel to one of the other three available". Lead paint rules!!! No brakes are needed, something hard will stop us! Falling out of trees only made us better climbers! Our parents let us take our lumps and it made us better people. [:D] Rubberpet thanks for the laugh honey

popeye1250 -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 10:30:21 AM)
Yup, it's all true. You couldn't keep us inside during the summers! And we all worked after school. I can't ever remember my father giving me any money, we had to go out and "earn it."

Aneirin -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 10:30:33 AM)
And in my youth, I regularly carried a knife and a catapult, made sling shots, bows and arrows,(out of yew), and javelins.like warriors of old.We even chucked the javelins at each other, no one got hit for we had learned to watch and move fast, sometimes catching javelins in flight and chucking them back. We used to see stuff on tv, which was the old dial change tuner in black and white, then go out and try it, bivvying, snaring and teach yourself to skin and cook rabbit. My local woods were my second home.Sure, there was the occaisional flasher mooching about, but a well aimed catapult barrage sorted them out.No head shots, just very accurate hits in the bits the flashers liked to show off. We never told our parents of who was lurking around in the woods, we were too scared of being grounded for metering out our kind of justice. Police, well, they were rarely seen, they contended themselves with fighting real crime where it was.

bipolarber -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 10:48:55 AM)
Yeah, those were great days... you bet. I especially liked how blacks and whites were segregated. I loved how homos could be persecuted, and beaten to death. How women had so fewer choices in what they could do with their lives. If you practiced a non-mainstream religion, you would lose your job. How Nixon was in the White House and all was well in Viet Nam. That companies could open up new developments, like the one at Love Canal, and profit. Drugs for stress, like Thaolomide, were handed out to pregnant women. I was always jealous of my neighbor Jimmy, his parents got him an iron lung. Yeah, great times back then. Not like today. Today is just a bunch of crap, isn't it? What with all those diseases being cured, and legislation helping you to get a fair shake no matter what your skin color is. Women getting a near-equal say in government. Tech that makes your life 100 times easier than your grandparents. The "Good ol' days" is a fantasy. They weren't all that great. And today isn't nearly as bad as people make out. You can live your life looking back if you want. I'm looking to the future.

Lashra -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 11:08:36 AM)
I remember riding my mini bike without a helmet, shooting my bow and arrow in the backyard without supervision, running around with my BB gun shooting cans, I recall going fishing walking barefoot and picking up a black snake and showing it to my Mom. She nearly had a heart attack but I thought it was good fun! [;)] Yes I am very much the "tomboy". ~Lashra

rubberpet -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 11:24:54 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: bipolarber Yeah, those were great days... you bet. I especially liked how blacks and whites were segregated. I loved how homos could be persecuted, and beaten to death. How women had so fewer choices in what they could do with their lives. If you practiced a non-mainstream religion, you would lose your job. How Nixon was in the White House and all was well in Viet Nam. That companies could open up new developments, like the one at Love Canal, and profit. Drugs for stress, like Thaolomide, were handed out to pregnant women. I was always jealous of my neighbor Jimmy, his parents got him an iron lung. Yeah, great times back then. Not like today. Today is just a bunch of crap, isn't it? What with all those diseases being cured, and legislation helping you to get a fair shake no matter what your skin color is. Women getting a near-equal say in government. Tech that makes your life 100 times easier than your grandparents. The "Good ol' days" is a fantasy. They weren't all that great. And today isn't nearly as bad as people make out. You can live your life looking back if you want. I'm looking to the future. Damn, someone woke up on the wrong side of his high-tech king-size Tempurpedic bed this morning.[8\|] It's just cool to look back and realize how even though it was a simpler time, we were having fun. In fact, in your glorious future, we have arab terrorists hell-bent on killing as many Americans as possible, bombings every single day in the Middle East killing thousands each year, stripping damn near butt-ass naked before you can get on an airplane because of possible bomb-carrying terrorists, you can't eat hardly anything in stores now without the risk of e.coli or salmonella, idiotic countries like Iran and North Korea are arming themselves with even more sophisticated nuclear ICBMs than the Soviet Union ever had, and AIDS is running rampant all over Africa with no sign of a cure in the next decade or longer. Yeah, life may be easier thanks to technology, but all you had to worry about back in the good ol' days was the big red machine and a few cuts and scraped knees. Take a chill pill, dude. Old school flashback.....rotary telephones! [:D] EDITED TO ADD -----> I'm all for the advancement of minorities and women in society, especially in corporate America and politics. As far as we've advanced in our thinking, we still have a long way to go in regards to race relations. The good ol' days, in that aspect, were fucked up.

faerytattoodgirl -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 11:27:38 AM)
Rotary telephones were LOUD and SCARE THE SHIT out of you!!!!

popeye1250 -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 11:32:55 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: bipolarber Yeah, those were great days... you bet. I especially liked how blacks and whites were segregated. I loved how homos could be persecuted, and beaten to death. How women had so fewer choices in what they could do with their lives. If you practiced a non-mainstream religion, you would lose your job. How Nixon was in the White House and all was well in Viet Nam. That companies could open up new developments, like the one at Love Canal, and profit. Drugs for stress, like Thaolomide, were handed out to pregnant women. I was always jealous of my neighbor Jimmy, his parents got him an iron lung. Yeah, great times back then. Not like today. Today is just a bunch of crap, isn't it? What with all those diseases being cured, and legislation helping you to get a fair shake no matter what your skin color is. Women getting a near-equal say in government. Tech that makes your life 100 times easier than your grandparents. The "Good ol' days" is a fantasy. They weren't all that great. And today isn't nearly as bad as people make out. You can live your life looking back if you want. I'm looking to the future. Ahhhhh, the good old days!

domiguy -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 11:39:47 AM)
People who live in the past are cowards and losers- Mike Ditka Everything is just awful right now. "you fucking kids get off my lawn!!!" It really sucks to grow old.

Level -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 11:45:58 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rubberpet idiotic countries like Iran and North Korea are arming themselves with even more sophisticated nuclear ICBMs than the Soviet Union ever had, Not correct on that point. Now, they'd LIKE to, but they aren't, and currently, can not do so. General thought: good and bad existed in the past, does so now, and will in the future. But I do like to reminisce.

Aneirin -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 11:55:24 AM)
The 'good ol days' were not always good, and the present is not always good, there is good and bad in both, but the point of the OP was to suggest where have things gone wrong, by todays standards, we should all be dead with the 'harsh' conditions we had to live in, so unsterile and lots of heeby geeby microbes to shorten our lives. And I was one of those manky little kids that used to eat earth worms, and my sister garden snails.I learned once though, that Laburnum seeds were not edible, I got a stomach pump for that. A case of you live and learn by your mistakes. The funny thing was, my mate got a stomach pump too, even though he had'nt been eating the seeds.It was done just to make sure. Broken bones, bruises and blood, all part of daily life, I was encouraged from an early age to try everything and learn by my own mistakes. Falling out of trees hurts,screwing down a steep hill on the push bike with rod pull brakes is not a good idea and trespassing on farmers land gets salt granules fired at you, and they hurt with bare legs, as we were always wearing shorts whatever the weather.

rubberpet -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 11:57:58 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Level quote: ORIGINAL: rubberpet idiotic countries like Iran and North Korea are arming themselves with even more sophisticated nuclear ICBMs than the Soviet Union ever had, Not correct on that point. Now, they'd LIKE to, but they aren't, and currently, can not do so. General thought: good and bad existed in the past, does so now, and will in the future. But I do like to reminisce. How would you know? Maybe you're one of those Korean-speaking Iranians who look like a normal, english speaking American. Commie!!! Just kidding, but the technology for those countries to mass produce these weapons are more readily available on the black market than back then, albeit more difficult to obtain. Kind of an oxymoron, but you get the idea. I see your point, though. They barely have enough uranium/plutonium to make one nuke and the missile barely makes it off the Asian continent. Give them time, they're not as dumb as they look.[&:]

Rushemery -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 12:04:39 PM)
Thanks for the reminder Aneirin those were good days, we may have made progress in many areas but we also have lost in many others I remember when people pulled over for someone broke down, now you have to call a tow truck and wonder if its going to be a crazy person who comes to help

Level -> RE: How true is this, the reality? (1/12/2008 12:07:16 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rubberpet quote: ORIGINAL: Level quote: ORIGINAL: rubberpet idiotic countries like Iran and North Korea are arming themselves with even more sophisticated nuclear ICBMs than the Soviet Union ever had, Not correct on that point. Now, they'd LIKE to, but they aren't, and currently, can not do so. General thought: good and bad existed in the past, does so now, and will in the future. But I do like to reminisce. How would you know? Maybe you're one of those Korean-speaking Iranians who look like a normal, english speaking American. Commie!!! Just kidding, but the technology for those countries to mass produce these weapons are more readily available on the black market than back then, albeit more difficult to obtain. Kind of an oxymoron, but you get the idea. I see your point, though. They barely have enough uranium/plutonium to make one nuke and the missile barely makes it off the Asian continent. Give them time, they're not as dumb as they look.[&:] No, they certainly aren't that dumb [:D]

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