How True is This

[ptc]

Wife say's I'm a Grumpy old Man !

[Amb]

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

Those were the days, yes, but don't forget, the times we live in now, were most everyone is looking out for themselves, were the dollar almighty rules, and were our position in society fundamentally depends on accumulation of the almighty dollar, is championed by the very people that enjoyed those freedoms of yesteryear.
I often wonder how many of those high flying corporates types, and wealth accumulating investors, were free-spirited 'hippies' in those times gone by.

[Schtoo]

Soft drinks are about 30% sugar. They make a sugar syrup and then mix that with the drink flavour to get the soft drink. I can't drink coke anymore as it just seems like sugar syrup to me all thick and sticky.

Studley

It's still sugar there?

Sure as heck isn't here.

[windbreaker]

We used to run through a sprinker on the back lawn in summer. They reckon it's getting hotter now but I recall bloody hot days when we were kids in Sydney. No such thing as air conditioning of course, or insulation. We used to wet the path down the side of the house in the shade and lay of it for hours hoping for a small breeze. Now that was A/C

At nights I'd connect the crystal set to the mozzie screens and listen to the cricket from UK

I showed my little boy a sprinkler the other day and he didn't have a clue what it was or what is was used for.

I had no problems catching a train around Sydney from about the age of 10 by myself.

I vividly remember the "Graham Thorn" case and how it gripped a city in shock.

Life certainly was simpler.

WB

[wheelinround]

Those were the days, yes, but don't forget, the times we live in now, were most everyone is looking out for themselves, were the dollar almighty rules, and were our position in society fundamentally depends on accumulation of the almighty dollar, is championed by the very people that enjoyed those freedoms of yesteryear.
I often wonder how many of those high flying corporates types, and wealth accumulating investors, were free-spirited 'hippies' in those times gone by.

Amb you mean this web site isn't a reflection of misspent youth sharing and passing on hints tips and dumb luck stuff from missguided adventures..

That the board and its members & sponsers are all just after a quick quid or 3

and what about Mr/Miss/Mrs Anon $$ and others proured into free give aways

That all the knowladge passed on FREE isn't

well I am dumbfounded and saddened by that thought

To think I have read and seen for my self how BLOKES (including females) from this forum have jumped the fence and run to aid another BLOKE throw shyte at each other and still have a beer or slap em silly laugh and cry.

[wheelinround]

It looks like all the "A" class students who looked down on all the "B" & "C" class students who never did anything in those days are coming to the fore now telling how they have put all the protection into place and getting even for all the things they weren't allowed to do.

Just a couple of things I and my brother used to get up to. During the school holidays we would be gone from dawn until dusk. Some of the things we used to get up to in Sydney were walk the freight train lines that ran all over the western suburbs and duck into a culvert when a freight train came.

Then we would walk all the storm water canals that also ran all over the western suburbs.

Ride down the sides of grass banks on sheets of corrugated iron and rip our trousers.

Ride our push bikes from Summer Hill to Parramatta along Parramatta Road.

Play in all the air raid shelters that were built in all the public parks just after the 2nd world war.

Welll said Barry yes it was always up themselves adults who stopped us from doing stuff or their dobber kids who were well dressed clean as a whistle prissy sissys.

It was when we could talk them into doing things without dobbing in they would enjoy life playing in creeks on rail traks near Mortdale sheds, or the old brick pit the other side of the Mortdale primary school.

Has anyone ever done 360 on an old swing one of the old metal frame with chains twice. my dad near shyte himself he saw me do it while at work at the Mortdale Bowling club the old pharts had dobbed me in. He checked the chains seat and said do it again. that was my dad full of go get em same as my uncle they are kids they will learn from hurting themsleves.