Congratulations !!If you were...

[Rush]

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE​

40s, 50s, 60s and 70s !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes.


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, 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 van - loose - was always great fun.
We drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle.​

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

We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop 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. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem .

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 text messaging, 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 .​

We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. ​

Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

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

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! ​

The past 50 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?! ​

PS -The BIG type is because your eyes are shot at your age​

 

[Anon_F]

It never harmed me having toys with lead paint on them.
And Tonka Toys would never break, even after being dropped from 40ft!!!

 

[floppybootstomp]

Yay! That's me!

Never done me any harm.

I'm going to bury my next victim in the basement dressed in blue I think, that will be quite poetic, don't you think?

 

[Rush]

Remember fishing for sticklebacks in the brook , then peeing in it coz house was too far...then the next week drank it coz ...yep you guessed it house was too far....used to run through all the tunnels shouting coz it echoed damm the list is endless....

anyone remember Rally-o-bingo 123 or played kirby

 

[Abarbarian]

Can remember Hawai 5 O is that similar .

Book him Dano .

 

[itsme]

My first bar of chocolate [frys five boys] 6p in 1949

it didn`t melt as we had no central heating had to ask my dad to break it for me.
the first banana I saw I thought it was a politician yellow and bent
cor:::: memories

 

[Anon_F]

I'm going to bury my next victim in the basement dressed in blue I think, that will be quite poetic, don't you think?

Now where is a copper when you need one, is Mr Postill about!!!