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General Forums => Air Speed Lounge => Topic started by: buddy boy on December 06, 2006, 10:47:47 PM
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BORN BEFORE 1986?
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who
where kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't
have survived, because our baby 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
our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent
'spokey dokey's' on our wheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags
and riding in the passenger seat was a treat. We drank water from
the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with
sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always
outside playing. We shared one drink with four friends, from one
bottle or can and no-one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then
went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the
brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we
learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as
long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach
us and no one minded.
We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all.
No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no
mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet
chatrooms.
We had friends - we went outside and found them. We played
elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt! We
fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law
suits.
We played knock-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the
owners catching us. We walked to friends' homes. We also, believe
it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to
drive us to school, which was just round the corner.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in
packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. The idea of a
parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...they
actually sided with the law.
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and
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're one of them.
Congratulations!
hhahah ,.. this just sumed up my child hood !!!...ahhh the good 'ol days.
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Christ!Ithought I was old!! ;)
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And it's soooooo fuckin true!!!! Dude.. it needs to be re-wrote for the youngins'.. see how it differs. :blink:
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so, i guess that explains why i'm like i am ???!!!! :huh:
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AMEN!!! Kids today are so different than I was only 25 or so years ago.
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so, i guess that explains why i'm like i am ???!!!! :huh:
Huh.....? Whuh....???? ^_^
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i was born in 86 which group am i in?
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If you have to ask............
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i was born in 86 which group am i in?
did you get beat by your parents for beaing an ass ???
were you playing outside all day , with out being molested ???
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I would not change a thing.
Remember sleeping on the top of the back seat of a Chev - Impala while travelling on a Hwy.
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I would not change a thing.
Remember sleeping on the top of the back seat of a Chev - Impala while travelling on a Hwy.
My parents brought me home from the hospital in a cardboard box on the back seat of a '65 Rambler :lol: Also took a road trip with the folks from BC to Manitoba and back riding in the canopy covered pick up box of my Dad's old Ford truck. At 11 years old, my friends and I were taking the bus from North Delta to North Van to go to the skatepark. We'd catch a 6:30 AM express bus that would take us all the way there and then have to stay until the evening rush hour to get home. This was pre-skytrain days.
:rockon:
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When I was in 1st grade, at the small rural school that I attended, I remember one hot sunny afternoon when the teachers loaded all the whole school (about 50 kids) into the backs of their pickups and took us to the beach for the afternoon!!
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this is a funny thing to read on line.