Originally Posted by ~HO~HO~HO~ (Post 3955618)

: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.

Originally Posted by Mr. Tinsels (Post 3955641)

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, fuck 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?

Originally Posted by Mr. Tinsels (Post 3955641)

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, fuck 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?

Originally Posted by Tinseltoes (Post 3955661)

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

Originally Posted by Tinseltoes (Post 3955661)

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

Originally Posted by scott (Post 3955676)

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

Originally Posted by Tinseltoes (Post 3954743)

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!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Miss Ivy Balls (Post 3995049)

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.

Originally Posted by Tinseltoes (Post 3954743)

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!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by MTVN (Post 3995077)

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

Originally Posted by XmasTurtle (Post 3994950)

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:

Originally Posted by Nutcracker (Post 3955386)

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