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Are You Getting Old?
#1
BORN BEFORE 1986?

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 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 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags and
riding in the 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 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 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 Play stations 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 DVDs, no Internet chatrooms.

We had friends - we went outside and found them.

We played elastics and bullrush.
We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law suits.

We played knock-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.

We walked to 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 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a 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, success and responsibility, and we learned
how to deal with it all.
And you're one of them.

Congratulations!

For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read about us.

This is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a smile on your face:

The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986....
The Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel.
They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda
Carlisle.

For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.

AIDS has existed since they were born.

CD's have existed since they were born.

Michael Jackson has always been white.

To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't
imagine how this fat guy could be a 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 pretended to be the A-Team, the Dukes of Hazard or
the Famous Five.

They can't believe a black and white television ever existed.

And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a
mobile phone.

Now let's 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 children with mobile phones, you shake your head.

Yes, you're Getting old!!
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#2
Haha wow I must be getting old cuz most of those things are true for me. Didn't know what the internet even was till me folks got a computer in the 21ST CENTURYYYYY

And Billy Joel and Rick Astley can both nibble on my taint. Actually no thanks because gross.
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#3
Definitely getting old here. Walking to school, even in rain or snow - oh yes schools didn't close over an inch or even a foot of snow back then.

It was okay to grab an apple, or a green onion out of the garden, dust it off best you could and just eat it, dirt, germs and all.

Music actually wan recorded on vinyl disks that played at one of 3 different rpms, and I know what rpm means. I know how to replace the needle on my stereo - yeah I still have one of those things that plays the rack of vinyl sitting next to it.

A cell phone was a satellite phone and, it came in a huge box only millionaires and Maxwell Smart had.

Battle Star Galactica stared Lorne Greene, Starbuck was a hot guy, and Apollo was cute.

Yep. I'm getting old.
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#4
Yup, I was nodding my head and ticking all those boxes above!

Although, fixing chewed up music cassettes with a pencil/biro, scissors and Pritt Stick glue should be on there too! I was a master at it! :biggrin:
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#5
Wonderful. I'm amazed I didn't kill myself as a boy. I have to say in defence of the young kids in the square where I live, they are out at play most days.
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#6
Bookworm Wrote:Yup, I was nodding my head and ticking all those boxes above!

Although, fixing chewed up music cassettes with a pencil/biro, scissors and Pritt Stick glue should be on there too! I was a master at it! :biggrin:

When I read your comment, I thought of this:
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And also, this is very true:
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#7
I still got my Nes in its original box in pristine condition never been opened... I did buy two and remember getting them with my mum from ASDA in 1988 and feeling dead excited... I remember getting my super nintendo and thinking wow this is best thing since sliced bread.. I remember getting in my mums old Triumph car which had a faulty handbrake and rolling down the hill in it not wearing a seatbelt and it clipping a curb and stopping. I remember as a kid going down the hill on my skateboard upsetting my neighbours and best of all...

I REMEMBER THE DAYS MUSIC WAS PROPER MUSIC NO COMPUTERISED BOLLOCKS we call

Todays standards

kindest regards

Aunty zeon xx
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#8
I still got my Nes in its original box in pristine condition never been opened... I did buy two and remember getting them with my mum from ASDA in 1988 and feeling dead excited... I remember getting my super nintendo and thinking wow this is best thing since sliced bread.. I remember getting in my mums old Triumph car which had a faulty handbrake and rolling down the hill in it not wearing a seatbelt and it clipping a curb and stopping. I remember as a kid going down the hill on my skateboard upsetting my neighbours and best of all...

I REMEMBER THE DAYS MUSIC WAS PROPER MUSIC NO COMPUTERISED BOLLOCKS we call

Todays standards

kindest regards

Aunty zeon xx
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#9
why does it keep goin to double posts?
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#10
Quote: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

But if all those risk-takers, problem solvers, and creator of new ideas thought their childhood was so great then why did they change it for their children? :tongue:
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