I got sent this email and it made me laugh!!! I feel old now!!
According to today's recualtors and bureaucrats, those of use who were kids in the 60's, 70's and 80's probaby shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead based paint which was promply chewed and licked. We had no child proof 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 - riding 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 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 we forgot the brakes. Sfter 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 Playstations or X- boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on the TV, no DVDS, no internet chat rooms. 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, broke bones but there were no law suits. We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.
We played chap the door run away and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.
We walked to our 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 seven and wore our coats by the hood.
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 and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, sucess and responsibilty, and we learned how to deal with it all.
And you're one of them! Congratulations!!
Pass this onto others who have had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and goverernment regulated our lives, for our own good.
For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read about us. This my friend is surprisingly frightening... and it might put a smmile on your face.
The majority of students in univesities today were born in 1986, they are called youth.
They have never heard of We are the World, we are the children, and the uptown girl they know is by Westlife, not Billy Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astkey, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda Carlilse. For them, there has always been only one Germany and Vietnam.
AIDS has existed since they were born. CDs have existed since they were born.
Michael Jackson has always been white.
To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they cannot imagine how this fat guy could be god of dance.
They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission impossible are films from last year.
They can never imagine life before computers.
They'll never have to pretend to be The A team, RedHand gang, or Famous Five.
They'll have never applied for Jim'll fix it or Why don't you.
They can't believe a black and white TV ever existed. And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile pone.
Now lets check if we're getting old
1) You understand what was written above and you smile.
2) You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon after a night out.
3) Your friends are getting married/already married
4) You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.
5) When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6) You remember watching Dirty Den in Eastenders 1st time round.
7) You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old days, repeating again and again all the funny things you experienced togther.
8) Having read this you are thinking of fowarding it to some other friends because you think they will like it too, yes you're getting OLD!!
According to today's recualtors and bureaucrats, those of use who were kids in the 60's, 70's and 80's probaby shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead based paint which was promply chewed and licked. We had no child proof 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 - riding 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 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 we forgot the brakes. Sfter 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 Playstations or X- boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on the TV, no DVDS, no internet chat rooms. 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, broke bones but there were no law suits. We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.
We played chap the door run away and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.
We walked to our 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 seven and wore our coats by the hood.
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 and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, sucess and responsibilty, and we learned how to deal with it all.
And you're one of them! Congratulations!!
Pass this onto others who have had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and goverernment regulated our lives, for our own good.
For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read about us. This my friend is surprisingly frightening... and it might put a smmile on your face.
The majority of students in univesities today were born in 1986, they are called youth.
They have never heard of We are the World, we are the children, and the uptown girl they know is by Westlife, not Billy Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astkey, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda Carlilse. For them, there has always been only one Germany and Vietnam.
AIDS has existed since they were born. CDs have existed since they were born.
Michael Jackson has always been white.
To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they cannot imagine how this fat guy could be god of dance.
They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission impossible are films from last year.
They can never imagine life before computers.
They'll never have to pretend to be The A team, RedHand gang, or Famous Five.
They'll have never applied for Jim'll fix it or Why don't you.
They can't believe a black and white TV ever existed. And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile pone.
Now lets check if we're getting old
1) You understand what was written above and you smile.
2) You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon after a night out.
3) Your friends are getting married/already married
4) You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.
5) When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6) You remember watching Dirty Den in Eastenders 1st time round.
7) You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old days, repeating again and again all the funny things you experienced togther.
8) Having read this you are thinking of fowarding it to some other friends because you think they will like it too, yes you're getting OLD!!
??? btw i see kids thats like 9 years old with mobile phones, thats messed up :thumb:
I miss the Knock-a-door-run game, it was so funny, it made my heart go so fast sometimes! 
