Born Before 1986!

[Thmsshaun]

I guess this would be ermmmm. Everyone on here then
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>>Subject: BORN BEFORE 1986?
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>>According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who
>>were
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>>kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have
>>survived,
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>>because
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>>our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint
>>which
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>>was promptly chewed and licked.
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>>We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors
>>or
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>>cabinets and it was fine to play with pans. When we rode our
>>bikes, we
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>>wore no
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>>helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our
>>wheels.
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>>As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags
>>and
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>>riding in the passenger seat was a treat. We drank water from the
>>garden
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>>hose and
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>>not from a bottle and it tasted the same.
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>>We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with
>>sugar
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>>in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside
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>>playing.We
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>>shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and
>>no-one
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>>actually died from this.
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>>We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went
>>top
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>>speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After
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>>running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the
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>>problem.
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>>We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long
>>as we
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>>were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no
>>one
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>>minded.
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>>We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all.
>>No 99
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>>channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile
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>>phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chatrooms.
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>>We had friends - we went outside and found them. We played
>>elastics and
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>>rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt! We fell out of
>>trees,
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>>got cut, and broke bones but there were no law suits.
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>>We played knock-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the
>>owners
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>>catching us. We walked to friends' homes. We also, believe it or
>>not,
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>>WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to
>>school,
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>>which was just round the corner.
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>>We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in
>>packs of
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>>7 and wore our coats by only the hood. The idea of a parent
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>>bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...they actually
>>sided
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>>with the law.
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>>This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and
>>problem
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>>solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an
>>explosion of
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>>innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and
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>>responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. And you're
>>one of
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>>them.
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>>Congratulations!
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>>Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids,
>>before
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>>lawyers and government regulated our lives, for "our own good".
>>For
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>>those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read
>>about
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>>us.
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>>This my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put
>>a
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>>smile on your face:
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>>The majority of students in universities today were born in
>>1986....The
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>>Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They have
>>never
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>>heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda Carlisle.
>>For
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>>them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.
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>>AIDS has existed since they were born.
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>>CD's have existed since they were born.
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>>Michael Jackson has always been white.
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>>To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they
>>can't
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>>imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance.
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>>They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are
>>films from
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>>last year.
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>>They can never imagine life before computers.
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>>They'll never have pretended to be the A-Team, the Dukes of Hazard
>>or the
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>> Famous Five.
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>>They can't believe a black and white television ever existed.
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>>And they will never understand how we could leave the house
>>without a
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>>mobile phone.
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>>Now let's check if we're getting old...
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>>1. You understand what was written above and you smile.
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>>2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after
>>a
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>>night out.
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>>3. Your friends are getting married/already married
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>>4. You are always surprised to see small children playing
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>>comfortably with computers.
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>>5. When you see children with mobile phones, you shake your
>>head.
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>>6. Having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it
>>to some
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>>other friends because you think they will like it too...
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>>Yes, you're Getting old!!


Its all so true!!!

 

[Spinal]

DOH! By one year, I fall into the "statistically dead"

Nice tho! One must wonder, I STILL drink water from the garden hose when I'm outside and I'm watering the garden...

Michele

 

[RJIF]

your totaly right! i remember all those things from better days, is being nearly 27 old these days? i grew up up in the 80's surrounded in a close family by 70's culture and i do know who Duran Duran and eurythmics are unlike some of the youth that work in my building that dont even realise that the hits of today are simply samples of the past greats ressurected*reminisant pause* anyway were not getting old just more experienced in life

good post Shaun, ave 2 nana's one for the post and one for the for making me remember better times

 

[996jimbo]

All true. BUT, which is the generation that started suing for everything? Which is the generation that brought in all the new rules?

It's not the post '86 kids that did it to us - it's us that have done it to them!

 

[Thmsshaun]

It's not the post '86 kids that did it to us - it's us that have done it to them!

Now that is a bit of irony for you.

 

[wallingd]

Once again I believe this has been posted before. 2 or 3 times now .

 

[Benzowner]

Once again I believe this has been posted before. 2 or 3 times now .

Probably right, I have read it several times on other forums and ask the same question, in thoses wonderful times, how many more kids would have survived with modern rules and regs, I know 50% of my school class may have, out of 23 in my class only 11 survive today, makes great reunions

 

[blassberg]

and wore our coats by only the hood.

I used to think this was cool but I never remembered to or considered doing it myself. I'm gonna start!