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Thread: Congratulaitions Baby Boomers
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24th September 2010, 03:37 PM #1
Congratulaitions Baby Boomers
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1920's, 30's 40's, 50's, 60's and 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, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
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 some of us took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a Ute on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Red Rooster.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Fruit Tingles and some fire crackers to blow up frogs and lizards with.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, 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 streetlights 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 scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and cubby houses and played in creek beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape or DVD movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no Lawsuits from these accidents.
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross buns at Easter time.......no really!
We were given BB guns and sling shots for our 10th birthdays,
We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing at Maralinga in 1956.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
Footy had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather straps and bully's always ruled the playground at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade'.....
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 70 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
PS -The big type is because your eyes are shot at your ageAndrogens Order
Forgive your enemies, but never, ever forget their names.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but never forget.
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24th September 2010, 04:16 PM #2
Right? You can only talk to the survivors.
Mum's don't smoke and drink now cos it gives their babies a better start in life.
The people who lived in asbestos houses are still dying. If the lawers take any longer they will all be dead soon and they won't have to pay anyone compensation though.
People actually DO die of diabetes and cervical cancer.
I guess the population of Aus would be even bigger if they did all these things sooner.anne-maria.
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24th September 2010, 08:53 PM #3
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I've always thought nostalgic memories are always better than the real thing. Plus things seem less complicated when you are younger.
As far as the"good old days" go, I don't miss the intolerance to those who were not of British descent (far worse than today), the legally sanctioned lower wages and diminished opportunities for women who did the same work as men, and the vacuum of knowledge and information that was generally available.
Its true we are very much over regulated, Governments have taken advantage of the average easy going Aussie and more people need to bring them to account.
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24th September 2010, 09:28 PM #4
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Guys.... It's a joke
I know we all take life seriously, but its Friday, the beer is cold, so, so let's all celebrate the coming of spring once more.
Greg
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28th September 2010, 11:17 PM #5
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pity you didn't bring your kids up teh same way,
but some of us younger ones did grow up like that. we spent our life running around teh hills building cubby houses out of saplings and branches that we cut down with teh axes and knives we were given.
caught yabbies and mussels in teh dam or creek and cooked them over a fire in a coke can with teh top off.
drank watter from teh creek
dad showed us how to make bows and arrows from soap tree branches and rag weed.
no one ever got badly injured or sick.
my younger brotehr on teh other hand spends his life sitting on his computer playing "wow" and "COD6" yelling at himself.
everyone just needs to loosen up a bit the world is going crazy.
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