Parents tell your kids how brave you are!!!!

[Ammi]

We was brung up proper

'And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993'!!!!!

Congratulations to all fm's who were born in the 1950'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 cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paint.

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. We rode in cars without seat belts or air bags. We drank water from the garden hose NOT a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Nandos.............

Even though all shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on a Sunday - we managed not to strave to death!

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with loads of sugar in, 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 street lights 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 them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played by the river beds. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, Xboxes, no 999 channels on Sky, no DVD's, no mobile phones, no internet or internet chat rooms WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! (and old Rovers, Austin 7's, Morris 10's - some lucky bastard even had a Rolls Royce!)

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits! We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays.
Not everyone made the football/rugby/cricket/netball team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT.

Our parents would TELL us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road....
They didn't invent stupid names for us like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla' and 'Tiger'

If you are one of these people CONGRATULATIONS! You were lucky to grow up as a kid before the lawyers and government regulated our lives for good.

TELL YOUR KIDS HOW BRAVE YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!

[Niamh.]

lmao I love it, I was born in 1978 so just about made it!!

[Ammi]

then you may just about remember the good old days:hugesmile:

[Claymores]

LOL - your mini-diatribe really reminds me of the Monty Python sketch "4 Yorkshiremen" out-doing each other :hugesmile::hugesmile::hugesmile:

"Ooh Luxury"

(PS - Please try to survive to their punchline at the end of the YouTube clip!!! It's soooo apt to the thread!)

Xe1a1wHxTyo

[Ammi]

LOL - you're mini-diatribe really reminds me of the Monty Python sketch "4 Yorkshiremen" out-doing each other :hugesmile::hugesmile::hugesmile:

"Ooh Luxury"

(PS - Please try to survive to the punchline at the end of the clip!!! It's soooo apt!)

Xe1a1wHxTyo

I don't recall that sketch - I'll look it up - sorry about the punchline it was hard to know how to title the post lol

[Claymores]

I don't recall that sketch - I'll look it up - sorry about the punchline it was hard to know how to title the post lol

It's embedded here! - Just press the play symbol on the YouTube clip above!

[Niamh.]

then you may just about remember the good old days:hugesmile:

I do! that was just what it like when I was growing up, awwww

[Ammi]

It's embedded here! - Just press the play symbol on the YouTube clip above!

A funny clip indeed - Monty Python were the best!

[Claymores]

A funny clip indeed - Monty Python were the best!

I am old enough you see!

[Ammi]

I do! that was just what it like when I was growing up, awwww

I was so fussy with my first child and hygiene and my dad used to say 'I don't know why you bother, he's just going to go outside and eat dog ****'! - lol

[Niamh.]

I was so fussy with my first child and hygiene and my dad used to say 'I don't know why you bother, he's just going to go outside and eat dog ****'! - lol

:joker:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i was born in the 90s :angel:

[Josy]

I read one of these about being born in the 80s or before, I will try and find it again.

[Niall]

I was born in 1995. :)

[Z]

I'm jealous! That's what a real childhood should be like.

[Shaun]

and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

oh well well done, the feeling of self-worth over those fools who do go out and get tested must be so fulfilling.

We rode in cars without seat belts or air bags.

well doesn't that just eradicate that safety feature. Nope. Soz car manufacturers, redesign everything, apparently some people didn't die and this is the case for everyone now xo

Even though all shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on a Sunday - we managed not to starve to death!

-isn't sure how this is relevant, since...we're still managing not to...-

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with loads of sugar in, but we weren't overweight because..........WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

fair point.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights 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 them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played by the river beds. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, Xboxes, no 999 channels on Sky, no DVD's, no mobile phones, no internet or internet chat rooms WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! (and old Rovers, Austin 7's, Morris 10's - some lucky bastard even had a Rolls Royce!)

I resent the implicaton I've bolded. Is your view of youth today so distorted as to assume children tune in, turn on, drop out 24/7? The majority of friendships are formed at school and always will be...

As for the treehouses/river beds stories, oh please, save it for an Enid Blyton novel.

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits! We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays.

Lawsuits point I accept. The suing culture is horrible. But air guns...

Not everyone made the football/rugby/cricket/netball team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT.

I imagine this is a dig at the much-exaggerated "we can't have a sack race because the kids feel bad about losing" spiel. The reason these stories find media attention is because they're so alien - and rare. I've never had experiences like that - I took part in sports day, I lost some, I won some, I grew up fine.

Our parents would TELL us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road....
They didn't invent stupid names for us like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla' and 'Tiger'

...what? :conf2: -has never heard of these names-

If you are one of these people CONGRATULATIONS! You were lucky to grow up as a kid before the lawyers and government regulated our lives for good.

TELL YOUR KIDS HOW BRAVE YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!

I like the way you've accidentally worded that to prove my point. "regulated our lives for good" - you can say what you like about this so-called Nanny State, but it's exaggerated. A lot of this post is just smug self-worth and delusion - what on Earth is the problem with the invention of airbags and not using airguns? Are you trying to appear 'hard'? Because it just makes you look like a whinging old nostalgic reminiscing about the 'good old days'.

You're not brave. You're typical of your time and you don't like change. [this isn't necessarily aimed at you personally, but the author of the post per se]

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i read 'brung up proper' then stopped reading

[Niall]

i read 'brung up proper' then stopped reading

Same.

I hate it when people go on about how good the old days were. Its like bitch please stop living in the past and see how good the present is and how bloody amazing the future will be.

Plus people used to have staycations all the time in the past. Ew. :bored: I'd much rather save money to go Florida or somewhere then go sleep in a dingy old caravan in a field every summer. :yuk:

But whatever, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and stuffs.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

^ LOL @ you editing that :joker:

[Ammi]

oh well well done, the feeling of self-worth over those fools who do go out and get tested must be so fulfilling.



well doesn't that just eradicate that safety feature. Nope. Soz car manufacturers, redesign everything, apparently some people didn't die and this is the case for everyone now xo



-isn't sure how this is relevant, since...we're still managing not to...-



fair point.



I resent the implicaton I've bolded. Is your view of youth today so distorted as to assume children tune in, turn on, drop out 24/7? The majority of friendships are formed at school and always will be...

As for the treehouses/river beds stories, oh please, save it for an Enid Blyton novel.



Lawsuits point I accept. The suing culture is horrible. But air guns...



I imagine this is a dig at the much-exaggerated "we can't have a sack race because the kids feel bad about losing" spiel. The reason these stories find media attention is because they're so alien - and rare. I've never had experiences like that - I took part in sports day, I lost some, I won some, I grew up fine.



...what? :conf2: -has never heard of these names-



I like the way you've accidentally worded that to prove my point. "regulated our lives for good" - you can say what you like about this so-called Nanny State, but it's exaggerated. A lot of this post is just smug self-worth and delusion - what on Earth is the problem with the invention of airbags and not using airguns? Are you trying to appear 'hard'? Because it just makes you look like a whinging old nostalgic reminiscing about the 'good old days'.

You're not brave. You're typical of your time and you don't like change. [this isn't necessarily aimed at you personally, but the author of the post per se]

......and you couldn't just take it with humour as intended:sleep::sleep::sleep:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

......and you couldn't just take it with humour as intended:sleep::sleep::sleep:

:worship:

[Niamh.]

lmao at all the people who are getting annoyed with this thread, it's only a a light-hearted post you know

[Niall]

^ LOL @ you editing that :joker:

:eek:

You saw! Ima have to kill you now.
http://heroeswiki.com/images/c/c4/0309-elle-ability-gabriel.jpg

[Niall]

......and you couldn't just take it with humour as intended:sleep::sleep::sleep:

Fair do's :)

Same with my reply then :D

[Shaun]

......and you couldn't just take it with humour as intended:sleep::sleep::sleep:

oh. well LOLOLOL seatbelts.

[Beastie]

We was brung up proper

'And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993'!!!!!

Congratulations to all fm's who were born in the 1950'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 cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paint.

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. We rode in cars without seat belts or air bags. We drank water from the garden hose NOT a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Nandos.............

Even though all shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on a Sunday - we managed not to strave to death!

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with loads of sugar in, 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 street lights 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 them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played by the river beds. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, Xboxes, no 999 channels on Sky, no DVD's, no mobile phones, no internet or internet chat rooms WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! (and old Rovers, Austin 7's, Morris 10's - some lucky bastard even had a Rolls Royce!)

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits! We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays.
Not everyone made the football/rugby/cricket/netball team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT.

Our parents would TELL us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road....
They didn't invent stupid names for us like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla' and 'Tiger'

If you are one of these people CONGRATULATIONS! You were lucky to grow up as a kid before the lawyers and government regulated our lives for good.

TELL YOUR KIDS HOW BRAVE YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!

Haha amazing. I was born in 1989. I think people born around my year are like in the cross over generation!

But yeah things are too PC nowadays. People worrying about the snow. Oh.. how will we get to work? and all that crap! People would do some good if they put their wellies on and walked to work or something!

Lol Starve? Obesity is on the rise in the UK so lack of food will do them good! :hugesmile:

Yes back in the day things were much more simple. I had better friends and we just got on with things!

Ahh well Sign of the times.

[Ammi]

Same.

I hate it when people go on about how good the old days were. Its like bitch please stop living in the past and see how good the present is and how bloody amazing the future will be.

Plus people used to have staycations all the time in the past. Ew. :bored: I'd much rather save money to go Florida or somewhere then go sleep in a dingy old caravan in a field every summer. :yuk:

But whatever, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and stuffs.

This is not an 'opinion' or saying everything is rubbish today - its not meant seriously!!!!! Hopefully parents on the forum will appreciate it and for the younger fm's - fgs take a chill pill I'm not insulting you

[Ammi]

oh. well LOLOLOL seatbelts.
:sleep::sleep::sleep:

[Angus]

I can remember during the summer holidays taking my three younger brothers up to Hyde Park and Regents Park with a red rover bus ticket - I was 11yrs old, my brothers were 10, 8 and 5. We would leave first thing in the morning with a picnic, a blanket and a football, and not come home till almost dark. No mobile phones in those days, and in any case we didn't have a landline till I was 13, so couldn't have phoned anyway! My mum's instructions to my brothers were that I was in charge, we were to stay together, and to ask a policeman if we got lost! Talk about being streetwise, we all were in those days because we had a fair bit of autonomy and freedom. I really can't imagine any parent allowing that these days - the world is a far more dangerous place.

[Shaun]

well I'm glad to see you're taking your joke falling flat on its arse well.

[Niamh.]

well I'm glad to see you're taking your joke falling flat on its arse well.

It's not a joke, more like light hearted nostalgia shaun

[Shaun]

I'm sorry for getting it confused :tongue: but it just irks me whenever people get all "grr, kids these days", and I took it to be a serious post. Sorry again :p

[Niall]

This is not an 'opinion' or saying everything is rubbish today - its not meant seriously!!!!! Hopefully parents on the forum will appreciate it and for the younger fm's - fgs take a chill pill I'm not insulting you

No no no! Lol I get that your not being serious, I was just saying what I think. Not insulting you either.

Sorry for sounding so mean in my post :)

[Claymores]

......and you couldn't just take it with humour as intended:sleep::sleep::sleep:

CLASSUC knockback! :hugesmile:

[Claymores]

oh well well done, the feeling of self-worth over those fools who do go out and get tested must be so fulfilling.



well doesn't that just eradicate that safety feature. Nope. Soz car manufacturers, redesign everything, apparently some people didn't die and this is the case for everyone now xo



-isn't sure how this is relevant, since...we're still managing not to...-



fair point.



I resent the implicaton I've bolded. Is your view of youth today so distorted as to assume children tune in, turn on, drop out 24/7? The majority of friendships are formed at school and always will be...

As for the treehouses/river beds stories, oh please, save it for an Enid Blyton novel.



Lawsuits point I accept. The suing culture is horrible. But air guns...



I imagine this is a dig at the much-exaggerated "we can't have a sack race because the kids feel bad about losing" spiel. The reason these stories find media attention is because they're so alien - and rare. I've never had experiences like that - I took part in sports day, I lost some, I won some, I grew up fine.



...what? :conf2: -has never heard of these names-



I like the way you've accidentally worded that to prove my point. "regulated our lives for good" - you can say what you like about this so-called Nanny State, but it's exaggerated. A lot of this post is just smug self-worth and delusion - what on Earth is the problem with the invention of airbags and not using airguns? Are you trying to appear 'hard'? Because it just makes you look like a whinging old nostalgic reminiscing about the 'good old days'.

You're not brave. You're typical of your time and you don't like change. [this isn't necessarily aimed at you personally, but the author of the post per se]

You REALLY wrote all this pish in response to the witty opening post ?!?! :crazy:

OH SILLY SPROGLET :joker::joker::joker:

[Shaun]

At least I can spell you weird old drunk.

[Beastie]

I think it's nice to have a bit of everything! Such as being a child making dens and treehouses but also can watch tv and play computer games too. Nothing wrong with a bit of mix and match!

[Niall]

^ Exactly, I always make massive tents at Christmas with my cousins out of bedsheets and stuff. :)

[Claymores]

I'm sorry for getting it confused :tongue: but it just irks me whenever people get all "grr, kids these days", and I took it to be a serious post. Sorry again :p

hahahahahaha - yer a prize act and a half :joker::joker::joker:

[Angus]

I'm baffled as to why some of the younger FMs on here are taking such offence at a lighthearted post. Clearly us older ones can remember a time when there was no such thing as health and safety and political correctness to worry about, and because we lived through those times we have a yardstick to compare our childhoods with those of our children and the younger generation in general. It's a fact that back in the day children were allowed to take risks, to learn by experience and to take responsibility for themselves, whereas kids today have not had that opportunity given that they are constantly being monitored, supervised, assessed, tested etc etc.

Give it 20 odd years, and the FMs sneering at our trips down memory lane, will find themselves remembering the "good old days" with their own kids!

[Ammi]

I'm sorry for getting it confused :tongue: but it just irks me whenever people get all "grr, kids these days", and I took it to be a serious post. Sorry again :p

I have 'kids these days' so I love 'kids these days' - I am around their homour constantly, its amazing and (sometimes harsh and cruel) but its just their take on life, I'm not offended/insulted/or think they are being mean. This is a humourous take on what it was like when I was young - A HUMOUROUS TAKE - seriously, my arse isn't flat at all, why would it be?

[Ammi]

I think it's nice to have a bit of everything! Such as being a child making dens and treehouses but also can watch tv and play computer games too. Nothing wrong with a bit of mix and match!


Exactly tbh I couldn't live without my internet these days lol

[Shaun]

hahahahahaha - yer a prize act and a half :joker::joker::joker:

and you're...being a massive *****? Go back to your silly forum politics or whatever it is you do.

oh well.
funny how the "it's only a joke thread" comments come AFTER i tear it to shreds.

[MTVN]

Time to take the rose-tinted glasses off I think :laugh:

[Beastie]

I'm baffled as to why some of the younger FMs on here are taking such offence at a lighthearted post. Clearly us older ones can remember a time when there was no such thing as health and safety and political correctness to worry about, and because we lived through those times we have a yardstick to compare our childhoods with those of our children and the younger generation in general. It's a fact that back in the day children were allowed to take risks, to learn by experience and to take responsibility for themselves, whereas kids today have not had that opportunity given that they are constantly being monitored, supervised, assessed, tested etc etc.

Give it 20 odd years, and the FMs sneering at our trips down memory lane, will find themselves remembering the "good old days" with their own kids!

Yes I agree with you. When I was a kid we had that. We could ride at the back of a trailer when someone was driving a tractor and that through the village. This is why I said people born around my time is like the cross over generation. From getting freedom without any stupid risk assessments to people panicking about their health and sprogs because of probably how the media has shaped it all up to be? I am not sure. It is a range of factors really.

[Ammi]

and you're...being a massive *****? Go back to your silly forum politics or whatever it is you do.

oh well.
funny how the "it's only a joke thread" comments come AFTER i tear it to shreds.

erm no the post is in chat and games not serious threads

[Claymores]

and you're...being a massive *****? Go back to your silly forum politics or whatever it is you do.

oh well.
funny how the "it's only a joke thread" comments come AFTER i tear it to shreds.

hahahahaha - keep going - your long post is already worthy of a Razzie Nomination for missing the wit by such a wide margin.

The bolded bit is just beyond irony if you genuinely believe that, and had me in stitches again.

Gawn yersel Net Ranger :joker::joker::joker:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

and you're...being a massive *****? Go back to your silly forum politics or whatever it is you do.

oh well.
funny how the "it's only a joke thread" comments come AFTER i tear it to shreds.

oh dear lord :S

[Josy]

:conf: Why so serious? It's only a bit of fun, it wasn't even the OP that wrote it, its being going around emails and stuff for a long while and I think one of the papers printed it too.



I

[Angus]

Yes I agree with you. When I was a kid we had that. We could ride at the back of a trailer when someone was driving a tractor and that through the village. This is why I said people born around my time is like the cross over generation. From getting freedom without any stupid risk assessments to people panicking about their health and sprogs because of probably how the media has shaped it all up to be? I am not sure. It is a range of factors really.


I think it was very much a case of "ignorance is bliss", since we weren't being bombarded with the amount of information we have these days on the television and on the internet. The media is responsible for a lot of scaremongering to the point that most of us live in a constant state of anxiety! Back in the day my family didn't even have a phone or a tv till I was in my teens, and of course no such thing as a computer! We lived in blissful ignorance of the dreadful things that could befall us every time we left the safety of our homes, but we somehow survived:laugh:

[Ammi]

:conf: Why so serious? It's only a bit of fun, it wasn't even the OP that wrote it, its being going around emails and stuff for a long while and I think one of the papers printed it too.

ever think a bit of tabloid phiff could spark such a serious debate :hugesmile: maybe I'll write to Pixar studios and complain that Toy Story is misleading because toys can't really talk

[Stu]

Political correctness and health and safety were just as if not far more prominent for kids back in the aul days ... we just didn't invent tabloid friendly, paranoia nation terms for them yet. People my parents age tell me they didn't exactly have a lot of opportunities to slap on make up, watch violent movies, **** like rabbits, drink like fish and then go home to talk dirty with a few hundred strangers on a teeny, tiny little camera.

Of course as most people over the age of 40 would have you know Facebook is actually slowly eliminating actual human contact. No ... it's not making us more connected ... it's actually making us hermit like extensions of our computers. Sure you can use it to ask people for free what there plans for the night are without having to send carrier pidgeon ... but what kind of weirdo does that?

[Beastie]

Political correctness and health and safety were just as if not far more prominent for kids back in the aul days ... we just didn't invent tabloid friendly, paranoia nation terms for them yet. People my parents age tell me they didn't exactly have a lot of opportunities to slap on make up, watch violent movies, **** like rabbits, drink like fish and then go home to talk dirty with a few hundred strangers on a teeny, tiny little camera.

Of course as most people over the age of 40 would have you know Facebook is actually slowly eliminating actual human contact. No ... it's not making us more connected ... it's actually making us hermit like extensions of our computers. Sure you can use it to ask people for free what there plans for the night are without having to send carrier pidgeon ... but what kind of weirdo does that?

True. The people over 40 have missed out on the internet because they didn't have it as a kid. Now that they have it. I bet they feel like they are a kid again who is naturally perving on vulnerable kids/young women who he/she wants to meet up with and "do stuff" with!

[Ammi]

Political correctness and health and safety were just as if not far more prominent for kids back in the aul days ... we just didn't invent tabloid friendly, paranoia nation terms for them yet. People my parents age tell me they didn't exactly have a lot of opportunities to slap on make up, watch violent movies, **** like rabbits, drink like fish and then go home to talk dirty with a few hundred strangers on a teeny, tiny little camera.Of course as most people over the age of 40 would have you know Facebook is actually slowly eliminating actual human contact. No ... it's not making us more connected ... it's actually making us hermit like extensions of our computers. Sure you can use it to ask people for free what there plans for the night are without having to send carrier pidgeon ... but what kind of weirdo does that?

Speak for yourself - youth are youth whatever the era they're born, we all had fun and did our thing - as it should be

[Beastie]

Speak for yourself - youth are youth whatever the era they're born, we all had fun and did our thing - as it should be

Exactly! In the 60's wasn't it about spreading the love? ;)

Nowadays it would be like "speading the STI's"

[Stu]

Speak for yourself - youth are youth whatever the era they're born, we all had fun and did our thing - as it should be
... who did you think I was speaking for?

Although you would be a fool to think that youth night life existed to the same extent back then as it does now. Although the youth night life I'm thinking of could be an elaborate illusion brought on to convince us that we have freedoms.

I don't know. I'm young and ignorant.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i think dogs should take over the world it would be epic

[Josy]

i think dogs should take over the world it would be epic

Random comment of the day..........

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

http://i52.tinypic.com/28ba4ok.jpg

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

http://images1.memegenerator.net/Forever-Alone/ImageMacro/3625413/forever-alone.jpg

[Josy]

Stop spamming rubbish Pete!

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

:shocked:

[Stu]

It's a damn conspiracy I tell you. Bloody young turks.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

and forever alone is not rubbish :shocked:

[sooty]

We was brung up proper

'And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993'!!!!!

Congratulations to all fm's who were born in the 1950'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 cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paint.

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. We rode in cars without seat belts or air bags. We drank water from the garden hose NOT a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Nandos.............

Even though all shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on a Sunday - we managed not to strave to death!

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with loads of sugar in, 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 street lights 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 them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played by the river beds. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, Xboxes, no 999 channels on Sky, no DVD's, no mobile phones, no internet or internet chat rooms WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! (and old Rovers, Austin 7's, Morris 10's - some lucky bastard even had a Rolls Royce!)

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits! We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays.
Not everyone made the football/rugby/cricket/netball team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT.

Our parents would TELL us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road....
They didn't invent stupid names for us like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla' and 'Tiger'

If you are one of these people CONGRATULATIONS! You were lucky to grow up as a kid before the lawyers and government regulated our lives for good.

TELL YOUR KIDS HOW BRAVE YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!

rhino
I have just seen this thread.

This reminded me of my mother when I was very little.
One day I had slight nose breed (I might had a cold), she saw me but just said "Oh it is nothing, go out and play, you will be fine"
Sure I was!

[Benjamin]

Even though I was born early 80's still most of the stuff applies. Kids today have so much and are so ungrateful for it and take it all for granted. :nono:

[30stone]

Heh, I was born in 1991..

And i had most of that anyway.. :)

I built dens and "base's" yet i had a seatbelt in my parents car best of both :)

[Miss Ivy Balls]

I have the attitude, or at least try to (with many things), that if you didn't have something to start with then you're not going to miss it because almost in a way, in this case, it didn't exist so you wouldn't think about it.

[Beastie]

I have the attitude, or at least try to (with many things), that if you didn't have something to start with them you're not going to miss it because almost in a way, in this case, it didn't exist so you wouldn't think about it.

True. That's why these poor kids in African countries are so chuffed and overwhelmed if they are given a piece of chocolate or something.

We are in the PC generation.

[MTVN]

These things are always way too romanticised, every generation seems to get really nostalgic when they look 20 years back with their rose tinted glasses and seem to think their generation was the best, and that todays is far worse :p

[InOne]

We was brung up proper

'And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993'!!!!!

Congratulations to all fm's who were born in the 1950'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 cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paint.

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. We rode in cars without seat belts or air bags. We drank water from the garden hose NOT a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Nandos.............

Even though all shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on a Sunday - we managed not to strave to death!

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with loads of sugar in, 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 street lights 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 them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played by the river beds. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, Xboxes, no 999 channels on Sky, no DVD's, no mobile phones, no internet or internet chat rooms WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! (and old Rovers, Austin 7's, Morris 10's - some lucky bastard even had a Rolls Royce!)

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits! We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays.
Not everyone made the football/rugby/cricket/netball team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT.

Our parents would TELL us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road....
They didn't invent stupid names for us like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla' and 'Tiger'

If you are one of these people CONGRATULATIONS! You were lucky to grow up as a kid before the lawyers and government regulated our lives for good.

TELL YOUR KIDS HOW BRAVE YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!

:love:

[Beastie]

These things are always way too romanticised, every generation seems to get really nostalgic when they look 20 years back with their rose tinted glasses and seem to think their generation was the best, and that todays is far worse :p

True. As a kid you don't really know what's going around "in the real world". Like current affairs and stuff like that. You had less respnsibilities so back in the day whether it was good or bad you was looking through rose tinted glasses.

[Josy]

Even though I was born early 80's still most of the stuff applies. Kids today have so much and are so ungrateful for it and take it all for granted. :nono:

I agree with this, last year I went to my friends house after Christmas dinner and her kids had already broken half of the Christmas gifts they had been given :o

[billy123]

I'm sorry for getting it confused :tongue: but it just irks me whenever people get all "grr, kids these days", and I took it to be a serious post. Sorry again :pWow i knew i could smell burning somewhere on the forum :rolleyes:
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[Jessica.]

:conf: Lots of that describes my childhood, I would wake up and go outside, stay out all day except for dinner time, I made go-carts, cycled without a helmet, in summer I would catch bees, tadpoles, caterpillars and ladybirds, rarely got take-away, had 3 channels on the TV and no internet, all of the children who lived where I did would play together until it was dark, I went swimming almost every day in summer, cycled eveyrwhere, played soccer. I was born in 1992. You can't think people didn't have proper childhoods just because of when they were born.

[MTVN]

:conf: Lots of that describes my childhood, I would wake up and go outside, stay out all day except for dinner time, I made go-carts, cycled without a helmet, in summer I would catch bees, tadpoles, caterpillars and ladybirds, rarely got take-away, had 3 channels on the TV and no internet, all of the children who lived where I did would play together until it was dark, I went swimming almost every day in summer, cycled eveyrwhere, played soccer. I was born in 1992. You can't think people didn't have proper childhoods just because of when they were born.

Yeah I just gave it another read and most of it applies to me as well and I was born in '93. I didnt wear a helmet either and I would just drink from a hose or a tap. I barely ever went to a McDonalds or a Pizza Hut and never went to Subway, drank a lot of soft drinks, ate white bread (shockingly enough) and was out all day in the summer and used to make dens and climbed trees, the sport teams were always based on merit as well.

I think one of the only things that I didnt have was a mother who smoked and drank while she was pregnant with me, and that's something I'm pretty thankful for tbh :joker:

[Shaun]

Wow i knew i could smell burning somewhere on the forum :rolleyes:
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oh go **** yourself.

[Ross]

Bitch please back then people didn't moisturise and didn't own any gucci xo

[Jessica.]

Yeah I just gave it another read and most of it applies to me as well and I was born in '93. I didnt wear a helmet either and I would just drink from a hose or a tap. I barely ever went to a McDonalds or a Pizza Hut and never went to Subway, drank a lot of soft drinks, ate white bread (shockingly enough) and was out all day in the summer and used to make dens and climbed trees, the sport teams were always based on merit as well.

I think one of the only things that I didnt have was a mother who smoked and drank while she was pregnant with me, and that's something I'm pretty thankful for tbh :joker:

:joker: My mother didn't smoke or drink either.

[billy123]

oh go **** yourself.FAIL :hugesmile: