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carolef 14-02-2006 21:33

How True
 
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>>TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
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>> 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
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>> First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked
>>and/or drank while they
>> carried us.
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>> They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a
>>can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
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>> Then after that trauma, our baby cot's were covered with
>>bright colored
>> lead-based paints.
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>> 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.
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>> As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or
>>air bags.
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>> Riding in the back of a car on a warm day was always a
>>special treat.
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>> We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a
>>bottle.
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>> We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one
>>bottle and NO ONE
>> actually died from this.
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>> We ate Jam butties, white bread and real butter and
>>Lemonade with sugar in it, but
>> we weren't overweight because
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>> WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
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>> We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as
>>long as we were back
>> when the streetlights came on.
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>> No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
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>> 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...
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>> 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 personal computers, no Internet or Internet
>>chat
>> rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and
>>found them!
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>> We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and
>>there were no
>> lawsuits from these accidents.
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>> We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms
>>did not live in us forever.
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>> We were given Air guns for our 10th birthdays,
>> made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although
>>we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
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>> We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked
>>on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
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>> Football had tryouts and not everyone made the team.
>>Those who didn't
>> had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
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>> The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law
>>was unheard of They
>> actually sided with the law!
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>> This generation has produced some of the best
>>risk-takers, problem solvers
>> and inventors ever!
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>> The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation
>>and new ideas.
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>> We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and
>>we learned
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>> HOW TO
>> DEAL WITH IT ALL!
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>> And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!
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>> 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.

shakermaker 14-02-2006 21:36

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looks like i missed out...........80's kid; spawn of thatcher :(

carolef 14-02-2006 21:41

how true
 
sorry i have captured this twice somehow!:)

grannyclaret 14-02-2006 22:21

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and we were a much happier and well rounded set of kids,,,:engsmil:

garinda 14-02-2006 22:27

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I could never keep worms down, otherwise spot on.;)

Ernie 14-02-2006 22:38

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Seems like we are lucky to still be alive, I think I need a lie down, after all I was born in the 50s

Phylum 14-02-2006 23:07

We had polio, diptheria, consumption (tb), mealses, chikenpox and many more diseases killing us. Pollution was abominable. Women were treated like skivvies. I don't miss it.

(born in 50's)

jimmi5bellies 15-02-2006 09:09

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And if you did need an operation you wasnt put to sleep with a needle you had a big black mask put over your face and you felt like you was choking !

Margaret Pilkington 15-02-2006 12:19

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Yeah, and despite all that we retained a sense of humour, self respect and tolerance. Born 1940's.

Phylum 15-02-2006 12:20

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Tolerance...me? Nah!

SPUGGIE J 15-02-2006 15:19

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Never ate the worms just used them for fishing the rest is so true (y.o.b 1970)

West Ender 15-02-2006 15:37

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40s kid here - war baby, no less. :)

Survived it all, lived to tell the tale, and I enjoyed it too. ;)

Basher 15-02-2006 18:09

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Fantastic, and so true.

sarnie boy 15-02-2006 18:26

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wow these days kind of suck
football tryouts are kinda the same tho
i wish i had REAL friends :)

chav1 15-02-2006 18:48

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if bird flu had been around in the 70's we coulda eaten the chicken raw and at most had bad farts the next day

todays world has become so sterile we dont get near propper dirt to build up our immune sytems

sarnie boy 15-02-2006 19:51

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another advantage from not washing:)

emmatjackson 15-02-2006 19:53

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They :hippy: were the good old days. Wish my kids could have grown up like us!

chav1 15-02-2006 20:43

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Quote:

Originally Posted by emmatjackson
They :hippy: were the good old days. Wish my kids could have grown up like us!

yeah so do but unfortunatly by the time my kids have kids things like risk , adventure and freedom will just be words in a dictionary

pendy 16-02-2006 14:41

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I suppose we were hardier - these days with so much "better hygiene", more and more kids have asthma and allergies. And another funny thing, when not everyone had quite enough to eat, very few people seemed to have "food intolerances".

katex 16-02-2006 18:38

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[quote=carolef]>>

>> rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the
>>risks we took







>> We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one
>>bottle and NO ONE
>> actually died from this.

Suppose all does sound better when ya' put it that way, doesn't it?

Did inherit scar on eyebrow and concussion, however, from tumbling over handle bars on bike.

Best friend nearly 'died' on many occasions after she used to spit crumbs in the Tizer and didn't fancy a swig after that!!

Oh, and the one about the black mask before operation... had tonsils out when I was 4 (only because they thought were rather big and better to take them out before they caused trouble in later life). Thought I had dreamt this mask, but WAS true after all .... can smell it now..

Good fun this thread anyway. Thumbs up.

mez 16-02-2006 19:15

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definitly agree with westender, i was a war baby too. very happy childhood. the rest don't know what fun they missed...all innocent may i say .....(well till the teens )

West Ender 16-02-2006 20:02

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Imagine a child today waking up to find frost on the windows, on the inside, and stepping out of bed on to ice-cold lino. Washing in tepid water because there's no hot water left. Going downstairs to find the coal fire, the only source of heating in the house, is just being lit and what bit of warmth it's got is going straight up the chimney. Walking to school no matter how cold, wet, windy or snowy it is, or how far it is.

Imagine that extremely rare child (though nearly every grown-up smokes), the one with asthma, whose "treatment" is being sent to stand next to the tar boiler, when the roads are mended, to inhale the vapours. Imagine being sent to play with your friend who has mumps so that you will catch it while you're young and "get it over with".

Imagine no telly, no computer, no CD player (no CDs), no ipod, no mobile phone. How did we survive? :rolleyes:

Phylum 16-02-2006 20:06

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Quote:

Imagine a child today waking up to find frost on the windows, on the inside, and stepping out of bed on to ice-cold lino. Washing in tepid water because there's no hot water left. Going downstairs to find the coal fire, the only source of heating in the house, is just being lit and what bit of warmth it's got is going straight up the chimney. Walking to school no matter how cold, wet, windy or snowy it is, or how far it is.
Jeez, I had forgotten that. I lived in a prefab for the first 9 years of my life. I used to get up especially to scratch pictures on the frost on the inside of the window.

Margaret Pilkington 16-02-2006 20:45

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Yes, we made ice lollies on the window sill in our bedroom......and though we were freezing we still ate them......then we went to bed in nearly as many clothes as we went out in.

Phylum 16-02-2006 20:47

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With a nice fat hot water bottle.

katex 16-02-2006 21:03

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Phylum
With a nice fat hot water bottle.

Between the thighs :D No ... don't delete !!

ANNE 16-02-2006 21:12

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Not only did we make ice lolly's but we used to eat the hanging iciccles.
The patterns jack frost made one the window were lovely.
The toast made on the open fire was out of this world.
I can remember on a cold winters day my parents burning old shoes to keep warm.
Oh,boy did they stink.

Phylum 16-02-2006 21:18

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Toast and sausages on long toasting forks - heaven!!!!!!

ANNE 16-02-2006 21:27

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Mmmm nothing makes toast better than an open fire. Now that's something I do miss.

Margaret Pilkington 17-02-2006 13:02

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ooooh, that brings back memories. I was once hankering after some toast and my mother said the coals were not red enough to make toast (the fire hadn't been going very long)......I was insistent that it WAS red enough......so my mother cut me a shive of bread and let me put it on the coals........needless to say, mother was right and made me eat the blackened smoky dry bread. Moral of the story...trust your mother she really does know best!

panther 17-02-2006 19:03

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already come up with this topic back in november 2004, im afraid ;) http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=6312
beat ya to it:p
but its sooooo true:D

carolef 17-02-2006 23:24

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wasn"t a member back in 2004 only just joined and it was the first time i had seen it, still provokes a lot of thought though.:) thought it would be nice to share it.:)

Debbie J 18-02-2006 07:28

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I think it's a great thread as I wasn't a member in 2004 either. As a child of the 60's I too remember Jack Frost, the go-carts e.t.c. My mum didn't trust colour teles so I didn't have one till I left home at 17! We didn't have a washing machine till I was 11, we used the launderette every saturday & mum ironed (without steam) on the dining table on sundays. We had a bath on friday nights to get rid of the smell of school, but we were always clean.


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