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> 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. Our mothers
>> dressed boys as boys, and girls as girls. We were taught to eat what was
>> put in front of us, with NO choice.
>> The mothers took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and
>> didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
>> Then after that trauma, our 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 hitch-hiking
>> As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
>> Riding in the back of a motorbike with no helmet or in open-topped
>> car 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,
>> McDonald's, KFC, Subway or Red Rooster.
>> Even though all the shops closed at 5.30pm and didn't open on the
>> weekends, 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 loacal
>> shop. With the cash, buy single fags, spangles etc and some bangers to
>> blow up frogs with.
>> We ate cupcakes, 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 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. We built tree
>> houses and dens and played in creek beds with matchbox cars.
>> We did not have Playstations, Nintendos, X-boxes, no videogames at
>> all, no 199 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 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..no really!
>> We were given toy rifles, guns (or for girls a new dress) or a
>> second hand bike for our 10th birthdays,
>>
>> We drank full cream milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had
>> eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testings.
>> 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.
>> 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?!
>> PS -The big type is because your eyes are probably shot at your
>> age(or is it the Wine)?
> 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. Our mothers
>> dressed boys as boys, and girls as girls. We were taught to eat what was
>> put in front of us, with NO choice.
>> The mothers took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and
>> didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
>> Then after that trauma, our 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 hitch-hiking
>> As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
>> Riding in the back of a motorbike with no helmet or in open-topped
>> car 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,
>> McDonald's, KFC, Subway or Red Rooster.
>> Even though all the shops closed at 5.30pm and didn't open on the
>> weekends, 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 loacal
>> shop. With the cash, buy single fags, spangles etc and some bangers to
>> blow up frogs with.
>> We ate cupcakes, 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 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. We built tree
>> houses and dens and played in creek beds with matchbox cars.
>> We did not have Playstations, Nintendos, X-boxes, no videogames at
>> all, no 199 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 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..no really!
>> We were given toy rifles, guns (or for girls a new dress) or a
>> second hand bike for our 10th birthdays,
>>
>> We drank full cream milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had
>> eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testings.
>> 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.
>> 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?!
>> PS -The big type is because your eyes are probably shot at your
>> age(or is it the Wine)?