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

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!!!!!!!!!

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

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

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!)

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!

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

A funny clip indeed - Monty Python were the best!

I am old enough you see!

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

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i was born in the 90s :angel:

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

I was born in 1995. :)

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

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]

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.

^ LOL @ you editing that :joker:

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

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

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You saw! Ima have to kill you now.
http://heroeswiki.com/images/c/c4/03...ty-gabriel.jpg

Fair do's :)

Same with my reply then :D

oh. well LOLOLOL seatbelts.

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.

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

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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.

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

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

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 :)

CLASSUC knockback! :hugesmile:

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

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

At least I can spell you weird old drunk.

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

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

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!