CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1920-70

[donpato]

Very true,born in the 50s and no wonder i shake my head when i see todays youth.

[Symon]

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).

[kylarama]

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...

[Marschy]

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.

[Symon]

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.

[berlitza]

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   

[speewa158]

 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 

[DaveR]

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.

[edz]

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 ..

[DaveR]

Sure did, got me thinking to look for it when at the shops next.
Whats my chance?

[oldmate]

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?

[MDS69]

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.

[edz]

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 ..

[Fathom]

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.

[DaveR]

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........

[Boxhead 71]

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?