Born In The 40's, 50's Or 60's?

[Al Milton]

CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50's, and 60's !

 

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

 

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

 

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 or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

 

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

 

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

 

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Nandos.

 

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on Wednesday afternoon or the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!

 

We shared one soft drink with 2 of our friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

 

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.

 

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks 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 old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.

 

We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

 

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY, no video/dvd films, no mobile 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.

 

Only ladies had pierced ears!

 

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

 

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...

 

We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,

 

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

 

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!

 

RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT

 

Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bully's always ruled the playground at school.

 

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

 

Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'

 

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, the bleeding heart liberals 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.

[BigLee]

Excellent

[Guest peter2b2002]

glad i'm not the only one to think like that

peter2b ( 1st 16 years in Herne Bay)

[Guest TerryBarry]

Only Fish & Chips ??

We also had Jellied Eel stalls and a Pie 'n Mash Shop.

[First 15 years in SW17 ]

[miikae]

Oh , those where the days , Dad in the Navy mum ex Wraf , i born moments before Hitler popped himself and spent my early years searching the woods between Chatham and Maidstone for crashed planes and finding clips of 303 bullets and old American cars only armed with a few pence and a bottle of Tizer bought by handing in old beer bottles we found on our travels .

 

We travelled miles on our bikes in those days . A good life it was too .

 

Mike

[ibrooks]

 

It all sounds so familiar - but I was born in the 70's.

 

I've actually got a bit of an odd perspective on this stuff.

 

When I was really young I thought it was great if I found an old pop bottle in the grass at the side of the road as it meant I could take it back to the shop and get some sweeties for the deposit - as I got older though you had to check the bottom of the bottle to see if it was one with a deposit. Recycling ain't a new thing.

 

I was young enough to be enthralled by MacGyver when it was first on the TV ad now I see it on it's umpteenth repeat I keep wondering why he doesn't use his mobile to speak to the guys back at the base or whatever - and then the penny drops

 

I had a Sinclair Spectrum - boy is the Playstation a leap forwards. I actually had a ZX81 (well dad had one) and boy was the Spectrum a leap forwards. I had a bunch of people at the Mini club laughing the other night when I told them that we used Link's in our I.T. lessons at school. I got an E for I.T. and now I look after computers for a living - go figure.

 

Iain

[Guest gdc]

i was born in the fifties

didnt do me any harm ?

 

i think .

 

 

the sixties were full of hippies .end off >

 

the seventies

 

i got married in the seventies met my misses and we

got married .

but still together. poss unlike the hippies.who were into free love !

mine cost me a fortune !

 

re the sixties didnt you just love mini skirts !

the seventies .

those lovely hot pants !

the 80s

we had shoulder pads and madonna.

now guy has a prob with madonna in the naughties . how to get her gone ?

 

graham

[Guest Guy]

When I was about 8 I used to stand in the back of my dad's Volvo 121 with my head out of the window and my eyelashes flattened against my head, I remember my mum tapping me on the shoulder and asking me to come in because we were doing over 100!!

[Snapperpaul]

Born late 50's

Started drinking early 70's

Can't remember much after that