[InOne]

Originally Posted by Tinseltoes

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!!!!!!!!!

[Jessica.]

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]

Originally Posted by Jessica.

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

[Ross]

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

[Jessica.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

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

My mother didn't smoke or drink either.