How Old do you feel now ???

[merlin]

Sorry if you have seen it before.


According to todays regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 50's 60's 70's and early 80's, probably should have not survived, because !!

Our baby cot's were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint, which was promptly chewed and licked.

We had no childproof lids on our medicine bottle's, latche's on our doors and cabinets, and it was fine to play with pot's and pan's.

When we rode our bike's, we wore no helmets, just thong's and flourecent clakers on our wheels.

As children we would ride in cars with no seat belts, child seat's or air bags.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle, and it tasted the same.

We ate dripping sandwiches, bread and butter pudding, and drank fizzy pop with sugar in it, but we were never overwieght because we were allways outside playing.

We shared one bottle or can of drink with four friend's, and no one actualy died from this.

We would spend hours building go-carts out of old scraps of wood and pram wheels, and then went at top speed down hills, only to find we forgot to add brakes.

After running in to stinging nettles a few time's, we learned how to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us all day and no-one minded.

We did not have Play stations , X-boxes or video games yet we were content to make our own enjoyment.

We had friends because we went out and found them.

We played elastics, conkers and street rounders and sometime that ball realy hurt.

We fell out of tree's got cut's and broke bones and teeth, yet there were no law suit's. They were accidents , we learn't not to do the same thing again.

We had fights, punched each other hard and got black ey's, we learned to get over it.

We Walked to friends home's.

We also believe it or not walked to and from School.

We made up game's with sticks and stones, and never lost an eye. as we were so often warned.

We rode in packs of seven or more, and wore our coats only by the hood.

The idea or parents bailing us out when we were in trouble was un-heard of. They actualy sided with the law. Imagine that !!

When we recieved the cane or slipper at school, we accepted it for doing something wrong, and did not go running home to mummy.

This generation has produced some of the best risk takers , problem solvers, and inventors ever. The past 50 years there have been an explosion of innovation and new idea's.

We had freedom, faliure, succes and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with each one.


And your one of them. CONGRADULATIONS

[Scoobs]

hehe true words

[kdee]

yeah, we had that list doing the rounds in our local village here.
There are a few more that I could add.
We had tomatoes that tasted like...well ...tomatoes
We ate fruit not protected from pests and that didn't last for a week and it tasted juicy and sweet and we didn't fall ill
Getting the bus was a real adventure not a chore
We played in the sea and didn't contract a rash due to chemicals dumped in there
We got up in the morning and it was freezing cold and we lived
We shared bath water and didn't contract cholera
we kissed each other behind the bike sheds and didn't get pregnant (though we were told we would)
We ate bread with sugar on it and didn't get fat
We caravanned and thought it was cool
We read books because we wanted to not because we had to
We fell in love with The Beatles/The Stones/Led Zeppelin and knew they were the coolest bands ever...and we were RIGHT

[merlin]

Have I started something here How many more things did we used to do and yet lived through them

[Scoobs]

eating fish & chips out of real newspaper .. god they tasted good then .. must have been the ink

[Pisces]

Toilet outside and shared between all occupants of four floors. No hot running water. Jack frost and ice on all the windows during winter.

By the way, I still love bread and sugar and bread and dripping but rarely eat it now.

[Worldlife]

Given up on tomatoes - blooming tasteless things.

Now have beetroot or red peppers instead - much more flavour and sweetness

[seaviewuk]

hope sts doesn't read this

[kdee]

Originally posted by Worldlife
Given up on tomatoes - blooming tasteless things.

Exactly
that's because they are so pumped full of cr*p that they taste like a condom filled with water (not that I've ever...blah blah blah)
You need to nip down to a nice old fashioned allotment and see if Grandpa Tom can let you try one of his lvongly tended ones, then you will rememeber why people raved aobut them

[Worldlife]

@kdee

A condom filled with water would be a cheaper option if the rubber is edible and biodegradable.

Probably more tasty and satisfying to the appetite especially if there were a choice of fillings.

[stonesman]

Just give me the T-shirt.