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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Lloyd65 on February 22, 2013, 10:50:13 PM
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This is so True,I have been through and done about 90% of these
And never regretted any of them,,
It was a great way of living back then..
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 occasionally
smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made 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 cribs were often painted 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 some of us took hitchhiking.
As children, in carry baskets, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a Ute 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, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Red Rooster.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm 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 corner store and buy Fruit Tingles and some fire crackers to blow up frogs and lizards 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 cubby houses and played in creek beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape or DVD 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!
...and...only girls wore pink shirts!!
...and...only girls carried handbags!!!
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 BB guns and sling shots for our 10th birthdays,
We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing at Maralinga in 1956.
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 bully's 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 "WALKED" to school with our friends in the mornings and at the end of the day, the only people who used cars to get "to and from" school, were teachers, Imagine that, and EVERYONE who I walked with, is STILL alive yet!!!!.
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?!
Cheers Lloyd Hope you had a good laugh, its all true. ;D
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I love it. Absolutely love it. Awesome. :cup:
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Good one lloyd, yep my kids cop the O'l " back when I was a little boy " and a hell of a lot of what you have written, my youngest [ miss 5 ] is amazed by the stories ...I'm not that old mind you " a product of early 1963 " .. well done .
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so the big 50 this year.... :cup: :cheers:
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Yes, that one came out a while ago, but it is still good. Kevin
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Well said, Wow I had such a good childhood when you think of it like that. Brings back some great memories.
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Couple more,
We survived $ drink nights (those were the days) Tuesdays for me Roundabout Hotel Hurstville
You were chased by mum with the wooden spoon (and you didn't go on to be axe murder)
A job was a job
Cars were made of metal
At the blue light disco you were searched for alcohol not drugs or weapons.
LB
The only "right" we had was to pack our bags and move out if we didn't pull our heads in
will dispute the pink shirts due to mambo, hypercolour and fluorescent bobby socks. (sorry born early seventies hence teenager in the 80's.....not saying the fashion was pretty). and also the video games, damn proud of my Atari!!!!
Understood the true meaning of corners due to no seat belts and vinyl seats (great fun in Granddads Holden premier)
5 seater cars meant mum dad and as many of your friends as you could fit in, the parcel shelf was not out the question.
Lastly the unwritten rule of the big night out "you never left a man behind".
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Those were the days :)
My missus was horrified recently when I preferred one primary school over another for our son because he could walk there...
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Oh Lloyd, how true how true. :'( :'(
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So true.
But I didnt see "burning your ar5e and back of your legs on the hot vinyl seat after a day at the beach"
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Wow, thanks for the memory blast. Fit into the tail end of categories (1973 to be exact) but all so, so true. I was only talking to someone the other day about how as kids we roamed parklands and paddocks, swamps & creeks. We made toy guns out of 25mm conduit and timber door stops (are guns even allowed as toys any more?) and had water pressure powered rockets fired off the good old garden hose. There's nothing wrong with a bit of nostalgia, does make us realise that whilst there have been massive gains made in medical & dental care, we do live in a heavily regulated and changing world. I intend my boy (1.7 currently) to learn how to use garden tools, how to kick a ball and how to swim and run. I'm not one eyed enough to think he won't play with video devices, buy I'm gonna try damn hard to ensure he gets some degree of exposure to how things were. He is going to know the basics of "doing things" himself, and what more appropriate time to reflect this than my looming 40th birthday.
Lloyd, thankyou you made my day (& week actually) I may recycle some of this one day (unless you have a patent!!)
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so the big 50 this year.... :cup: :cheers:
Well done! Big BBQ at your place?
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Most cars were 6 seaters with a bench seat in the front . Utes were three seaters not just two bucket seats in them. The old man would have a few stubbies and listen to the races on Saturday. If he had a win we would have Chinese take away for tea. The only other take away around , but you had to take your own pots for them to put it in. There was no plastic or foil containers back then.
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Perfect...it should still be this way but unfortunately these are the generations that invented all these things and changed the rules of living to what we see today...
I remember these days all too well... Many great times were had...
Sent from Behind you...BOO
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That is just sad...
http://www.news.com.au/technology/modern-technology-keeps-us-tuned-in-but-turned-off/story-e6frfro0-1226583804430 (http://www.news.com.au/technology/modern-technology-keeps-us-tuned-in-but-turned-off/story-e6frfro0-1226583804430)
"Younger people are often intimidated by making phone calls in favour of Facebook," she explained.
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That is so true. The good old days although i missed the boat.
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My sister was married in the seventies. A photo of me and my brother in platform shoes and butterfly collars and mop-top hair is hilarious to look at now.
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My sister was married in the seventies. A photo of me and my brother in platform shoes and butterfly collars and mop-top hair is hilarious to look at now.
C'mon then....post it up !!!!!
Amazing that in just a short time span ( and these things were almost unheard of in the 60 ' and 70 's ) things like asthma, allergies, gay people( except for catholic priests ) have proliferated ???
Must admit though, the ease of living is a lot better theses days, but I sure enjoyed the quality of life back then ( I was born in 59 )
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I blame modern medicine, it has unbalanced the law of the jungle where only the strong survived :)
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& back then you had to drive home from the pub ...cxause walking was just out of the question :cheers:
& telling lies to policeman " lvvvvvv oNlY HAAd 2 0r 3 Beeee"Hic"sr ( some belived me )
& making spending $15 on fuel & grog to go to the drives on Sat Night
& going to the drives with a boot load of bods
& still getting up to milk cows at 4am the next day
lts time to take my pills & have a lye down now :cheers:
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Thats right the good old days where we would be outside playing with the kids
or off camping with the car and tent and eskies full of ice
not sitting here typing on the PC telling the kids to turn the ipod or nintendo down
i am trying to concentrate ;D
Cheers
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Yes the good old days........I even had hair back then ;D ;D
Mark
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Sorry Jeepers / Fuji been and gone, was almost a new years tike and now on the wrong side of 50.
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Utes were three seaters not just two bucket seats in them
This is what my parents had and when I came along that made 4 to fit in the front of the ute. My "Child restraint" as a toddler was mum's shoulder (I stood on the seat in behind her shoulder as she drove) - quite often through the paddocks with dad standing in the back of the ute with my older brother and shooting kangaroos (sorry conservationists - but they wrecked the wheat crop and we had to have an income to eat)
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AAhhhh the days before seat belts, how vivid the memories of my head meeting the steel dash of our VW pick ups dash are.in the crash .
Didnt improve tho looks any though.bonus was a nice lady gave the then 3 yro a lemonade icy pole to make the cracked head all better .LOL .
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Remember the old $2.00 coin pumps for after hours fuel?
Back when $2.00 of fuel would get you to the drive-in and back and to work the next day.
And speaking of drive-ins, didn't we all have some of the best sex ever when we went there. (It was better id you weren't on your own too.)
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I just started driving when the fuel was changed over from gallons to litres. Thirteen point something cents per litre. Ahh, memories :D
And speaking of drive-ins, didn't we all have some of the best sex ever when we went there.
Can't remember ever seeing a movie at the drive-in :angel:
KB
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We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
;D
All of this is true and what a wonderful life we had/have because of it, except we did not eat cupcakes, we eat and I still do eat bloody PATTYCAKES. >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
Thanks for sharing this ,
cheers duggie
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And remember when we didn't have bloody Americanisms >:( We had choccy chip BIKKIES too!
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An cashing in an empty soft drink bottle was a way of scoring a feast of mixed lollies for 2.
An what about getting the ol Mercurochrome smiley on the knee or elbow after
kissing the asphalt.
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Hi,
Early 60s in Adelaide:
I remember waiting at the 2 bob in the slot petrol station for some one to use the rest of the petrol, 'cause I had filled the tank on my Honda 90 with 2/- (20 cents to all you young'uns) and didn't want the rest wasted.
cheers
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I wait for the recant from the Eastern staters, but peanut paste is still peanut paste in my book, not peanut butter. South Oz finally gave up years ago and conformed, but I still call it peanut paste, much to my FNQ wife's amusement who has always known it as peanut butter.
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All very good to congratulate the survivors of the good old days. The fact is that more of us will survive because of some of the changes you regret. I remember the early seventies when Victoria got serious with the road toll. The slogan was "Declare War on 1034" which was the road toll for the preceding year. Now we lose a couple of hundred people each year. That's 800 extra people each year who can read this post today.
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That's right! That should teach you blokes! How dare you try and have a bit of light hearted banter?!!! Especially about the good old days! What's the world coming to?!!! Reminds me of when a coupla people tried to start chatting about........ Oh,... hang on..... :-[ ???
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Love it I was born in 72 and as kids we would ride our bmx bikes to the local dam drag them up and ride in the spillway or when there was enough water jump in for a swim, when it overflowed we could get in and watch as the eels came over and down the creek.
Jim
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That's right! That should teach you blokes! How dare you try and have a bit of light hearted banter?!!! Especially about the good old days! What's the world coming to?!!! Reminds me of when a coupla people tried to start chatting about........ Oh,... hang on..... :-[ ???
Silly Old Bugger , or is that me ,,,,,, Narrr it him :cup:
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How old is Grandma?
Stay with this -- the answer is at the end.
It will blow you away.
One evening a grandson was talking to his grandmother about current events.
The grandson asked his grandmother what she thought about the shootings at schools,
the computer age, and just things in general.
The Grandmother replied, "Well, let me think a minute, I was born before:
' television
' penicillin
' polio shots
' frozen foods
' Xerox
' contact lenses
' Frisbees and
' the pill
There were no:
' credit cards
' laser beams, CD’s,i-pads or
' ball-point pens
Man had not yet invented:
' pantyhose
' air conditioners
' dishwashers
' clothes dryers
' and the clothes were hung out to dry in the fresh air and
' man hadn't yet walked on the moon
Your Grandfather and I got married first, and then lived together.
Every family had a father and a mother.
Until I was 25, I called every man older than me, "Sir."
And after I turned 25, I still called policemen and every man with a title, "Sir."
We were before gay-rights, computer-dating, dual careers, daycare centers, and
group therapy.
Our lives were governed by the Ten Commandments, good judgment, and common sense.
We were taught to know the difference between right and wrong and to stand up and
take responsibility for our actions.
Serving your country was a privilege; living in this country was a bigger privilege.
We thought fast food was what people ate during Lent.
Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with your cousins.
Draft dodgers were those who closed front doors as the evening breeze started.
Time-sharing meant time the family spent together in the evenings and weekends –not
in condominiums.
We never heard of FM radios, tape decks, CD's, electric typewriters, yogurt,
or guys wearing earrings, let alone caps back to front !
We listened to Big Bands, Jack Benny, and the President's speeches on our radios.
And I don't ever remember any kid blowing his brains out listening to Tommy Dorsey.
If you saw anything with 'Made in Japan ' on it, it was junk.
The term 'making out' referred to how you did on your school exam.
Pizza Hut, McDonald's, and instant coffee were unheard of.
We had 5 &10-cent stores where you could actually buy things for 5 and 10 cents.
Ice-cream cones, phone calls, rides on a streetcar, and a Pepsi were all a nickel.
And if you didn't want to splurge, you could spend your nickel on enough stamps
to mail 1 letter and 2 postcards.
You could buy a new Ford Coupe for $600, but who could afford one?
Too bad, because gas was 11 cents a gallon.
In my day:
' "grass" was mowed,
' "coke" was a cold drink,
' "pot" was something your mother cooked in and
' "rock music" was your grandmother's lullaby.
' "Aids" were helpers in the Principal's office,
' "chip" meant a piece of wood,
' "hardware" was found in a hardware store and.
' "software" wasn't even a word.
And we were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed a husband
to have a baby.
No wonder people call us "old and confused" and say there is a generation gap.
How old do you think I am?
I bet you have an old lady in mind ?
Read on to see -- pretty scary if you think about
it and very sad at the same time.
Are you ready?????
This woman would be only 59 years old & born in 1953.
There you go. Can any body tell me seriously:
Have we progressed or regressed as a civilised
society ?
PASS THIS ON TO THE OLD ONES.
THE YOUNG ONES WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT.
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Sounds good but not very factual.
KB
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After reading all that l need a lye down :-[
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And the sad part of it is that is US that created all this and the loss of all those good things we remember so lovingly!!!
Well or parents started it way back when we were in nappies (those cloth things that wrapped around us and were fastened with a Nappy Pin), but we just grabbed it an ran with it.
Now we remember.
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And the sad part of it is that is US that created all this and the loss of all those good things we remember so lovingly!!!
Well or parents started it way back when we were in nappies (those cloth things that wrapped around us and were fastened with a Nappy Pin), but we just grabbed it an ran with it.
Now we remember.
No they didn't
And the Grandma post is also not true, so many mistakes
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What a load of stupid rhetoric.
Yes, congratulations to those who where born in the 1920's, 30's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's, as you are the generations who stuffed up the world for those born in the 80's, 90's, 00's and now the 10's.
While you are feeling good about the 'good old days' how about you think for a minute as to why things aren't that way anymore - and how you played a part in making it that way.
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Yeah! Take that, you daydreamin', rose tinted glasses wearin ol' buggers. ;D
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I was boring in the 70's, walked to school, walked out of school as well during the day, filled the car up at the drive ins and my parents smoked like chimneys in the car, had the windows closed as well when it was cold...told to stop whinging...now they whinge at everyone for smoking, cos they didn't know it was bad for you!!!!!
You forgot bad hair does, desert boots, Faberge jeans and no air-conditioning in cars it as called wind down the windows....
I don't miss much of it to be honest, I wish I was born when my kids are the change they are going to experience is amazaing...my first phone (20 years ago) was a brick, I had an Atari and space invaders was the ants pants. These days, you get a computer on your phone, get in an aeroplane, drive good 4wd and campers in comfort. I hold a optimistic view of the world coming cos it just gets better..Most of the problems they go on about today, were around then just it is in the news and constant, true the drugs are harder, cars and women faster but hey cant all be perfect.
The children of today will be doing miraculous things in the next 20 years, going to space, travel across the globe in an hour who knows what will happen.
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And those born in WA will remember.
We had Peanut Paste. Still havent found where the butter comes into it.
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What a load of stupid rhetoric.
Yes, congratulations to those who where born in the 1920's, 30's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's, as you are the generations who stuffed up the world for those born in the 80's, 90's, 00's and now the 10's.
If that's the case, this is probably one of the people that'll hold your children's
future in there hands...
http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/great-wall-v200-2011-13950485 (http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/great-wall-v200-2011-13950485)
Good luck with that. lol
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And those born in WA will remember.
We had Peanut Paste. Still havent found where the butter comes into it.
Because it's an American product and they call it Peanut Butter 8)
I prefer Pecks Paste :D
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If that's the case, this is probably one of the people that'll hold your children's
future in there hands...
http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/great-wall-v200-2011-13950485 (http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/great-wall-v200-2011-13950485)
If that's the case, this is probably one of the people that'll hold your children's
future in there hands...
http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/great-wall-v200-2011-13950485 (http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/great-wall-v200-2011-13950485)
Good luck with that. lol
Touchë. Ha ha ha,
Here endeth the lesson!
If that's the case, this is probably one of the people that'll hold your children's
future in there hands...
http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/great-wall-v200-2011-13950485 (http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/great-wall-v200-2011-13950485)
Good luck with that. lol
Good luck with that. lol
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but lm stil here >:D
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This is so True,I have been through and done about 90% of these
And never regretted any of them,,
It was a great way of living back then..
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 occasionally
smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made 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 cribs were often painted 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 some of us took hitchhiking.
As children, in carry baskets, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a Ute 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, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Red Rooster.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm 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 corner store and buy Fruit Tingles and some fire crackers to blow up frogs and lizards 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 cubby houses and played in creek beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape or DVD 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!
...and...only girls wore pink shirts!!
...and...only girls carried handbags!!!
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 BB guns and sling shots for our 10th birthdays,
We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing at Maralinga in 1956.
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 bully's 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 "WALKED" to school with our friends in the mornings and at the end of the day, the only people who used cars to get "to and from" school, were teachers, Imagine that, and EVERYONE who I walked with, is STILL alive yet!!!!.
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?!
Cheers Lloyd Hope you had a good laugh, its all true. ;D
I had to dig this up.
That is pure Gold
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Very true,born in the 50s and no wonder i shake my head when i see todays youth.
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Not one scrap of it is true, like I said before the whole thing is stupid rhetoric.
The one thing that is true in this thread is some people's extreme cases of Metathesiophobia (that's the fear of change in case you are wondering).
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Very true,born in the 50s and no wonder i shake my head when i see todays youth.
and I'll bet back when you were a young whippersnapper in the 60's / 70's, the oldies born in the teens would have looked at you and shook their heads in disbelief! It's a vicious circle...
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I was born in the 60's, and work in IT. I find my life is becoming more challenging as I get older than what it was when I was young due to having to keep up with ever changing technology.
I don't envy the youth of today, they are faced with challenges that would do my head in if I was 20 years younger.
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I know of a person who is now in his late 40's who has gone back to school to get his year 12 certificate (he only went to year 10 initially as that is all that was needed back in the day).
He was somewhat astounded as to what the average Year 12 student is expected to know these days.
When I was 13 years old I learnt to program in MS BASIC version 2 on my TRS-80, back then I was quite advanced for my age. Now I see 13 year olds programming in Java, I wouldn't even know where to start. By the time they finish high school they will be writing applications I could only dream about.
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I was an early 70's kid and don't think one generation is better or worse than the next . I feel sorry for kids these days the amount of stress and pressure on them is huge, back in my day you could finish uni and start a new job without the all the debt, ya didnt have to worry about whos got the lastest laptop/phone/tablet/ipod and if i had the internet and laptop when i was 13 i probably wouldnt go out and play either ;D
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When l was 13 l got an electronic devise that did math for me . It plugged in to the wall & the display went all the way up to 8 didgets sums . l think it was called a,,,,,ummmmmm,,a ,,,,, can't reme,,,,,ummmm Time for another l thinks :cheers:
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I’m from the 60’s. I took my wife one day to show her the old Haunts.
The BMX track complete with a Tunnel and floating bridge over the small creek which we kids made, even stole a length of storm water pipe from the council depot up the hill which took us a few weeks to get it in place, this was the tunnel.
Then there was the old wharf on the river, we’d ride our bikes down the hill flat out and jump of the wharf into the river hoping your string was long enough and attached to the bike.
That game stopped when a horse was taken by a shark just down the river one day.
I could go on, the cave on the cliff face, on and on.
Looking at it all many years later I can’t believe what we did, my parents had no idea. I want my kids to have fun, but I think I’ll keep them away from what I did.
As an apprentice, I’d ride my bike home from work on Thursdays via the pub, with my pay packet in my pocket and tare it open at the bar.
Now how many tore their money???
ME, I did a few times.
Thanks for the memories folk, especially perkins paste.
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Ok Dave fess up !! You used to eat perkins paste didnt you ..LOL. I remember there was atleast one kid in class at most of the schools I went to that ate the stuff..
For some reason, the smell of it made me think it was made from mashed up cockroaches.. dont know why ..
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Sure did, got me thinking to look for it when at the shops next.
Whats my chance?
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Sure did, got me thinking to look for it when at the shops next.
Whats my chance?
About 0% I reckon mate. Didn't they stop making it in the 80's sometime?
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What was the name of the glue in the tapered plastic bottle with the red lid that was also the applicator brush. Was it clagg???
Was it perkins paste that smelt like salt and vinegar chips.
Who remembers catching tadpoles in their youth.
I don't have the stats to back this up but the whole walking to school/stranger danger/abductions etc is no worse that when we were kids. Something I recall hearing on TV or the radio 2 or 3 years ago. Parents of today myself included keep our children close and don't allow then to take the risks we use to like climbing trees etc
I remember as a kid when the sewer went through our suburb we use to jump off the side of the hole into the water filled pit where one of the pumping stations was being built. We use to slide in the mud from a running start along the backfilled trench as it rained for days prior. We would ride our pushbikes down a hill onto the jetty over a home made jump then into the lake.
Fruit fights were a regular occurrence at high school. Do these still happen.
Water bombs were another regular feature at school. The school went as far as banning for sale from the canteen moove containers and fruit juice containers that were used as the water bombs.
My mates use to smoke pot under the maths building before school.
I guess when my kids go into high school in the next couple of years I will see if things have changed.
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Reckon I'd have a fit if my youngun ever raided the mower fuel and made Molotov cocktail bombs out of vegimite jars like I used too..They just added that extra bit of realism to the war games we played...reckon Ive still got a few marks on the melon from the Hand grenade rock / clumps of dirt we hurled at each other too.
I know the bloke next to our place was pretty ticked of when when his undercover stockpile of hay bales got set on fire one day ..
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About 0% I reckon mate. Didn't they stop making it in the 80's sometime?
You can still get it..
I even had some with me when we were at Levuka last Olly..
I would have shared. :)
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You can still get it..
I even had some with me when we were at Levuka last Olly..
I would have shared. :)
Sweet, I'll be looking for sure.
Just remembered another dastardly deed from school my mate and I would do.
Sneak pencil cases out of other kids bags, pour ink into the liquid paper bottles, put it all back without detection. Then wait for the fun........
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Not one scrap of it is true, like I said before the whole thing is stupid rhetoric.
The one thing that is true in this thread is some people's extreme cases of Metathesiophobia (that's the fear of change in case you are wondering).
I wonder what the fear of Fun Police is called????