Ahhh The Good Old Times

Big Chief

This is very good!

Read and remember.....
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 50's, 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 'clackers' on our wheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle that
tasted the same.

We ate dripping sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy
pop 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 play all day, as long as we were
back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us all day and no one
minded.
We did not have Playstations 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 Internet chat rooms. We had
friends we went outside and found them.
We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball
really hurt.

We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were
no lawsuits. They were accidents. We learnt not to do the same thing
again.

We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue we
learned to get over it. We walked to friend's homes.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate live stuff,
and although we were told it would happen, we did not have very many
eyes out, nor did the live stuff live inside us forever.

We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard
of.

They actually sided with the law. Imagine that! 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!


Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as real
kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own
good


(If you aren't old enough, thought you might like to read about us).

the fnj

More of a retro thing really.

EvilGeorge

Yep, definately great days, remember them well.

Big Chief

Originally posted by The FANJ
More of a retro thing really.

i suppose so... never really thought about it soz

woulda got more views in after hours though

Amz

Was already on After Hours a few weeks back if I remember rightly.

de5p0i1er

Why are we still alive, the whole human race should have been extinct years ago doing these thing.

bizmark

Lol its amazeing theirs nearly 7 billion of us

Exit

We were great kids all the same, weren't we?

Capt'n Midnight

LOL
Always amazed at kids who fall, cut their knee and then look around for an adult, if they see one they'll start crying - but if there are none around - they'll just keep playing...

Also those kids don't have asthmah - must be something in that lead paint !

Silvera

I was an 80's child.
Remember the trollies/go-karts that we made ourselves - looking back - how did we survive going down all those hills with NO brakes :eek:


.......and don't even mention the bikes I had with one (or no!) brakes

gurramok

Street rounders was class, it created great fun and atmosphere, i remember it from 80s.
Also the rope swing around the street pole was fun, life on a bmx was kewl !

Kids dont play that nowadays ?

Moonbeam

we used to play corners,bulldog and tip the can for hours and hours every day and somehow never got bored of the 3 games:)

Gillie

Ahhh! Tip the can.
Now that was fun!:)
A long time ago!
Best days of my life!

The world seemed safer back then:(

misswex

Aw Tip The Can, Street Rounders and Kerbs - essence of an 80s' childhood!!!

evie

Tip the Can, I used to play it in a park where the can literally was a can. It was a bosca bruscar but a can all the same.
Stuck in the mud, ice and snow, chanies and red rover, some of my favourites.
And when I was very young, Jackie Bluebells (heard of many different variations on that one). "In and out goes Jackie Bluebells" Doesn't seem so innocent now!

misswex

Do you remember 'Cross The Border' and 'Please Mr Crocodile', oh and 'Traffic Lights'???