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#1
Was sent this, thought it was very apt....

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1920's, 30's 40's, 50's, 60's and 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, or bex and ate blue cheese, 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 and they used real nappies on us.....god forbid!


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, no brakes and 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 Ute 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,
no Maccas, KFC, Subway or Red Rooster.

Even though all the shops closed way before 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!....bloody amazing that!!!
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 fruit tingles and some crackers to blow up frogs with.
We ate pikelets, 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
Mum had tea ready.


No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We survived.


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 creek beds with matchbox cars.....and made cubbies out of blankets over the beds.


We did not have Play Stations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, 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 found them and played with 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 sling shots for our 10th birthdays,

We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing at Maralinga in 1956.

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!


Footy had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather straps and bullies always ruled the playground at school. We learned to cope though and we were all fine.


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

Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade'

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.


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?!
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#2
too friggen funny and sooooooooooo true!!!!

i used to sit with my dad on the open cab tractor or sit on the combine whilst he planted wheat..always rode on the back of the ute with the dogs..actually the dog rode in the front the spoilt bugger.
playing in small channel near house naked in mid winter then run inside to the cement basin next to washing machine(that was yesterday actually lol)
brother once they fought and youngest pushed his lil wheelbarrow throught the glass dorr too get at older bro..mum was just pissed off at the broken door.frig the kids.
lead paint lordy prolly licked the walls at some stage.
asbestos i remeber contractors removing the abbestos at school.he was wearing a mask.kids in the room doing studies.shite going everywhere.


i,m healthy but this nervous tick is bugging me.
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#3
true true... kids these days are soft, and disrespectful!
nothing a cane or strap couldnt fix.lol
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#4
Them were the days, thank goodness they're gone.
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#5
Hey you forgot about the sixpences and threepences in the chistmas puddin.
Now that was dangerous LOL!!
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#6
(03-07-2009, 06:50pm)Pommie Wrote: Was sent this, thought it was very apt....

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1920's, 30's 40's, 50's, 60's and 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, or bex and ate blue cheese, 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 and they used real nappies on us.....god forbid!


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, no brakes and 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 Ute 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,
no Maccas, KFC, Subway or Red Rooster.

Even though all the shops closed way before 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!....bloody amazing that!!!
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 fruit tingles and some crackers to blow up frogs with.
We ate pikelets, 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
Mum had tea ready.


No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We survived.


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 creek beds with matchbox cars.....and made cubbies out of blankets over the beds.


We did not have Play Stations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, 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 found them and played with 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 sling shots for our 10th birthdays,

We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing at Maralinga in 1956.

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!


Footy had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather straps and bullies always ruled the playground at school. We learned to cope though and we were all fine.


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

Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade'

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.


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?!

Its not about when you brought them up it how you bring them up .
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#7
(03-07-2009, 08:37pm)DAD Wrote: Hey you forgot about the sixpences and threepences in the chistmas puddin.
Now that was dangerous LOL!!

Yes i remember, my brother always got the sixpence.

Still can't eat pudding ...

It was always catch & kill your own at our house. Pi_thumbsup


I love kids, but just can't eat a whole one Lol3
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#8
True story....

If I hung around the house on weekends / evenings / School Holidays,
either my parents or my Grandmother would give me a 410, or later a 12 bore
and say "bugger off and shoot something".
"Something" being Rabbit/Fox/Pigeon etc. Vermin or food.

Was considered pretty normal 40 year's ago.
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#9
um don't know if i should reply here but i did most of that stuff when i lived on the farm and loved every second of it, moved to the city and a wholr lot changed. still also enjoying being 18
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#10
and don't forget being allowed to fill ya own hot water bottle with boiling HOT water
Isn't it Ironic that my Favourite Stretch of Tarmac is called C.O.P. Eek
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#11
Ah yes and we thought the iron curtain was bad in the old days (sixties), looks like it has come a full circle and has bitten us on the arse.We dont have the curtain but we have a bunch of communists running the place.Also, were the greenies around then(sixties)? Nah they were all socialists hiding under the labour party cover, now there out and have farked this place as most minorities do..
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#12
(03-07-2009, 07:42pm)Hutch99 Wrote: true true... kids these days are soft, and disrespectful!
nothing a cane or strap couldnt fix.lol

Well there is hope.
All of the kids (10-35 average) I hang out with every Sunday for 3 hrs at Parkour are awesome.
Focused, have direction and are fascinating to talk and listen to.
It is one of the main reasons I keep going back.

You would be VERY surprised.
Don't give up on them yet!


From one very impressed old man.
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#13
GOD I MISS THE FIREWORKS,USE TO LOVE BLOWING UP THOSE LETTER BOXESIdiot2
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