survivors......again

[panther]

I wrote this thread just over 2 years ago, (my god was it that long ago), well anyway i thought i would show it again to those new webbers who might not have seen it!! because its very true!!!
According to todays's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 50s, 60s, and 70s (like me ) shouldn't have survived! Our cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans!
When we rode bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and fluoresent 'clackers' on our wheels.
As kids we would ride in the car with no seat belts or airbags. Riding in the front seat was a treat!
We ate dripping sandwiches , bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar innit, but we were never overweight cuz we were always playing out and not sitting in front of the tv playing on computer games, we shared our drink with about four friends, from one bottle or can and noone actually died from this!

We would spend hours, building go-carts out of scraps of wood and old pram wheels, and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we had no brakes, after running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back b4 it got dark. noone was able to reach us all day and noone minded. We had no playstations or x-boxs, no video games at all. no 99 channels on tv no videotape movies or surround sound, no mobiles, no PCs, no internet chat rooms... we had FRIENDS - we went outside and found them. we played elastics and street rounders and sometimes that ball really hurt!! We fell out of trees got cut and broke our bones and teeth, and there were NO lawsuits. they were accidents. We learned not to do the same again. We had fights, punched each other hard, and got black and blue - we learned to get over it!!

We WALKED to friends homes!

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate live stuff!

WE rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood, our actions were our own, consequences were expected.

The idea of parents bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of, they actually sided with the law, imagine that!!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors ever. we had freedom, failure, successes and responsibilty, and we learned how to deal with it all.

And you're one of them, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

[SPUGGIE J]

May have been a while ago but all that you have said is true and we survived. Now adays there is more padding and insulation than a DIY store.

[Ianto.W.]

Not only do this 'modern' generation have any resistance to simple infections, suffer from all kinds of allergies, they are ill equipt to cope with very basic of lifes trials and tribulations, I personally feel for these lack of imagination, centrally heated Mc Donalds fed children.