Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:22 am Post subject: ha!!
copied from a email
oh i didnt hurt frogs by the way
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70’s!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer..
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered 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 we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
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 Nandos.
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 Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs 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 old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY,
no video/dvd films,
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!
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...
We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,
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!
RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on
MERIT
Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes 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 didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'
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.
PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age anymore _________________ my website is www.hauntedessex.com
seen this one a lot of times and always worth the read.. ah memories... :) _________________ as a babe drinks from its mothers breast so too does man milk mother earth
I use to go out on my horse or motor bike and come back int eh dark there were no street lights where i lived and my parents never battered an eye or asked where I was.... we were obviously safe :) _________________ as a babe drinks from its mothers breast so too does man milk mother earth
And I still drink tap water. I even did it when I visited Egypt although everyone else was paranoid about it. Ridiculous how brainwashed people can be. _________________ Magic Is. That’s all, it just is. We don’t have to create it, we simply have to find it. But where do we look? Within, first, last and always; look within.
Not all tapwater has a metal taste- I remember in my country also ther were places where water wasn't so tasty, like what you describe, but that had to do with the soil or whatever- were some zones, like by the sea.
London tapwater is fine by me.
And in Egypt we were warned about which zones had tap water that was unsafe to drink and then I just bought some bottles, but main cities is ok. I find buying water a waste of money. _________________ Magic Is. That’s all, it just is. We don’t have to create it, we simply have to find it. But where do we look? Within, first, last and always; look within.
I'm a 90's child by name and rights, but even i was playing football in the roads till dark everyday after school, build Dens in the field at the end of my road, rode to Canvey Seafront most weekends, then i was told it wasn't PC by my secondary school, and then things really went downhill _________________ I give you, the Waffle King
I've got an interview next Friday in Poole, we'll i have 2 actually, one for the RNLI and another for a computer firm, so nuts to you _________________ I give you, the Waffle King
My god man! visit a seaside, the lifeboat people, that aren't the coastguard i applied for a job, and i've got an interview, for next saturday afternoon, so ner, no more of this geta job malarkie _________________ I give you, the Waffle King
i'm 25 and i did all those things as a kid as well. in the sumer holidays my mum didn't see me at least until it got dark. i think nowadays people like to think there's a lot of danger out there because it's constantly in the news. i really dont think there's anymore danger out there than there has ever been.
I live in the eastend, and not only that one of the roughest parts of the eastend.
I've lived here all my life and with hand on heart I have never been mugged, burgled or have had any kind of weapon pulled on me.
And I walk around the streets sometimes at 2 in the morning when I'm coming home from work.
I feel perfectly safe if I'm honest.
I suppose it's because I'm from this area so I know it.
In the past I have had visitors from other parts of the country stay with them and they just don't know how to behave in an 'eastend' kind of way and it makes them stand out. I suppose it makes them a target.
I know what you mean Raymond... My ex hubby is from the eastend and I've been there many, many times both to do with work and family. I'm a northerner and to be honest, if I was in a pub and opened my mouth, I'd get stared at immediately.. then I found that once they got used to me they were fine... no probs what so ever.
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