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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: Poppy Dave on November 02, 2012, 10:16:00 PM
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WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER !!
"And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993"!!!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's, 40's, 50's, and 60's.
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank Sherry while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos...
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, 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 a Sunday, 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 Toffees, Gobstoppers and Bubble Gum.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter,milk from the cow,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, or colour TV
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...
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 because we didn't need to keep up with the Jones's!
Not everyone made the rugby/football/cricket/netball 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 throw the blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren't concentrating .
We can string sentences together and spell and have proper conversations because of a good, solid three R's education.
Our parents would tell us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road.
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 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.
PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age anymore
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AND the fish and chips were wrapped in newspaper, covered in lead ink.
and it tasted much better for it!!
Or maybe it was the lashings of salt and vinegar :)
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AND the fish and chips were wrapped in newspaper,
After they were cooked in FAT
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We were tough back then. Not like today's lot, you would be locked up if you put your kids through that. :think1 itdidnt hurt us. We got a kick in the arse by the local copper ,got the strap/cane at school, had respect for people. Bring back the old days then we wouldnt have the crap we do today with kids. What they need is a good old flogging from time to time :spank :spank :spank :blk13
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I don't know about you, but never got a kick in the butt from the local copper. I did get the cuts at school.
Hardly spent anytime in the house, as for TV we didn't get one until just before the moon landing. It was a black and white PYE TV. Only had 2 channels ABC and WBBQ in Maryborough Qld. Colour came in 1976 when Dad wanted to watch the olympics in colour....it was amazing.
We were always out building something, like ramps to jump the pushy over (i had a gold Speedwell Dragster) or a fort for army which doubled up as a fort for cowboys and indians.
Toys, we made our own, I remember my Grandfather making me a repeater rifle (out of wood) Painted, metal sights and everything. played with that till the paint wore off.
Ah, the memories..........
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When I was 11 I lived in a village called Wilton in Wiltshire, UK (where they make Wilton carpets) and me and my mate used to go poaching on the river Wylye which runs through the grounds of Wilton House, the ancestral home of Lord Pembroke. We used little fishing science, just bread paste to bait a hook on a length of 20lb line, (no rod, too difficult to run with!), and as soon as you hook them snatch them out onto the bank. We used to catch a dozen or so rainbow trout each about one about 1-1.5 lbs, then scarper home for tea!.
The gamekeeper used to have rock-salt in his shotgun and he tried to get us a few times but missed, thank God!!
One day I remember we got caught by the local bobby on his bicycle as we came out from under the bridge onto the estate, and he made a big fuss of confiscating all the fish we'd caught but letting us off with a caution. It wasn't until later that we realised that the sly old scroat had just nicked all the fish we'd nicked! :law :law
Can't trust anyone!!! :cop :cop