This will make you smile its just a bit of fun :-)

xmaslolly76

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1920s, 30s , 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses full of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese & 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 cadging lifts.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
A trip to the coast on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the stream and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Kebabs.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and only opened for a few hours at 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 corner shop and buy fruit Spangles and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
We ate buns, 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 mobile phones & no one was able to reach us all day. And we were always O.K.
We would spend hours building our trolleys 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 streams with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on Sky, no video tape or DVD movies, no surround sound, 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 had air guns and catapults for our birthdays,
We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them from the street!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
Mum & dad didn't need Brandy, Whisky whatever when they came in from work!
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 'Kylie' 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?!

mazza1970

How true all this is!

lv1109

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::T:j

Very funny! And very true!!

Evansangel

Kylie isn't a stupid name lol x

xmaslolly76

damn i knew that line would upset someone please note i did not write it got sent it from a friend and i agree kylie is not a stupid name :-) x

ailuro2

And we'd never ever dream of calling Christmas 'xmas'....:p

because it meant something a bit more that just a present-fest back then??

People did get brain damaged falling out of trees, and they were born with defects because our mothers didn't know to take folic acid and to look after themselves.

Yes, most of us survived, but sometimes it was against the odds....not a long lifespan after cancer was diagnosed but many people go on to live long lives after beating it successfully these days.

OK, so it's only a bit of fun and a bit of nostalgia, but let's not underestimate our kids not having to go through the pain of those fillings that sugary juice made us need, or overlook the years of counselling some folk needed to get over the bullying they suffered at school.

One good thing back then...there was only 70 or 80 shilling,lager or cider. :beer:

laurauk

oh yes please bring back those days, i remember being out all day building camps in the bushes and playing british bull dog, no nasty men around to take us away.
we also used to share drinks from cans and most of us had a snotty nose, but we never got sick?
life was so simple then and im very thankful for the lovely childhood i had,

jackomdj

How true this is! We were one of the first families to move onto a new housing eatate...& the part built houses & piles of mud were our playground!

I forgot about collecting bottles to take back to the shop. Used to hunt them out all the time.

I remember when we got central heating, our first land line phone (my Dad refused to get one for ages & he was sometimes on call for his job & the police would come to our house to let him know he was needed, he said making the police come out would mean they really needed him!), our first computer (one with a tape deck to make it work), my first hi-fi (a huge great thing with a record player, double cassette & radio), putting rags in my hair to make it curly.

All this & I am not even 40! I tell my eldest DD some of what we did not have & she just thinks it is beyond belief!

Nicky

Evansangel

xmaslolly76 wrote: »

damn i knew that line would upset someone please note i did not write it got sent it from a friend and i agree kylie is not a stupid name :-) x

Haha, im only joking. Im not upset :rotfl:
Well i dont think its a stupid name, its my name

It was funny though, even though i was born in 1989. It makes you realise that alot of us today panick over things that our mums didnt.

x x