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Old 01-12-2010, 05:19 PM #51
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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 maybe I'll write to Pixar studios and complain that Toy Story is misleading because toys can't really talk
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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?

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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?
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!

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

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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.

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i think dogs should take over the world it would be epic
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Random comment of the day..........
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It's a damn conspiracy I tell you. Bloody young turks.

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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!!!!!!!!!
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.

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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.

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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
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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.

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