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And even after all that.....i'm still here!!!
Us oldies were built to last! ;) -
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on DSTV, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
.Ain't that the truth!
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"Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like "Kiora" and "Blade" and "Ridge" and "Vanilla"
blades a fucking great name, but agree with everything eles (even though i was born in 82)
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My son son is 3yrs and 2months old, yet can load + start the dvd player and turn on the PC + start internet explorer.
My brothers 5yr old is a master at the PS2 lego indiana jones game.I'm pretty sure I was at primary school before I so much as managed to type BOOBLESS on a calculator!
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Born in 84 still share most of those. We only had a black & white TV when I was little!
No family car.
No baby food (babies were given regular meals blended up)
No Games consoles.
A second hand Grifter painted in white gloss by my dad.
A big plank like skateboard with hard pvc wheels & plastic trucks.
No fast food except chips.
Air rifle & slingshot
Lots of climbing over barbed wire fences of 'junk yards' containing dobermans.
Lots & lots of fireworks (home made ones too)
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My son son is 3yrs and 2months old, yet can load + start the dvd player and turn on the PC + start internet explorer.
My brothers 5yr old is a master at the PS2 lego indiana jones game.I'm pretty sure I was at primary school before I so much as managed to type BOOBLESS on a calculator!
haha quality!
...didn't have nut alergies either!
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On food allergies:
I remember when there were three kids at school who had food allergies.
1) The kid allergic to nut who went bright red and had to be slathered in a greenish looking cream and got called the Peanut Hulk
2) The kid who was allergic to milk and would drink some for a quid so that you could leave the final lesson early when they had thrown up.
3) The kid who's allergy ended in anaphylactic shock and there was that day when they got carted off in an ambulance and you all had to sit in silence in assembly because no one would own up to nearly killing them.I also remember when it was fun to jump out of your mates first floor bedroom window and do combat rolls on the lawn and on Saturdays and Sundays playing on the contruction site was alright because your parents kind of knew where you were.
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+100000000000.
I was born in 83 and I get sick to the stomach whenever I see a cleaning advert (usually by dettol) with a baby being protected against getting a cold with some anti-bacterial spray.
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It's the smogs that I miss, nothing like a good, choking smog.
That and rickets, that separated the men from the queers.
Come to think of it, too many queers about these days. We need a good fucking war in this country.
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you dont see kids with leg calipers anymore or national health glasses
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Ofcourse it's important not to forget all that lovely child sex abuse that went unreported because no one would believe a word you said and there was no Childline to call or doctors or social workers or teachers trained to spot the blindingly obvious signs and anyway it was only strangers in the park who did that not your nearest and fucking dearest. Where did it all go wrong?
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Or how nice and easy it was for the police back then. Murder investigation? Just torture the local idiot until he fessed up. Pub anyone?
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Born in 84 still share most of those. We only had a black & white TV when I was little!
No family car.
No baby food (babies were given regular meals blended up)
No Games consoles.
A second hand Grifter painted in black gloss by my dad.
A big plank like skateboard with hard pvc wheels & plastic trucks.
No fast food except chips.
Air rifle & slingshot
Lots of climbing over barbed wire fences of 'junk yards' containing dobermans.
Lots & lots of fireworks (home made ones too)
That was the only difference for me :)
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Things aint like they used to be
Posted by
@won't-do-hills
One for the oldies ;~}
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50's, 60's & 70'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 cribs were 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 or shoes, 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 Bakkie on a warm day was always a special treat.
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, Steers, Nandos.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four 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 Chappies,
Wilson 's Toffees, Wicks Bubble Gum and some crackers 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 scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and cubby houses and played in river beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on DSTV, no video tape movies, no surround sound, 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 girls 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.......no really!
We were given pellet 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 AND NOT DUE TO BLACKMAIL, THREATS AND GUILT FROM THE PAST.... strange but true!
Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather staps 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"
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 70 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.