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rjvh · 23rd June 2008, 04:50 AM

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 we 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 crackers to blow up frogs 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 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!

Sport teams 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" (Ed. Nothing wrong with Blade (named in honour of champion ruckman Brendan Lade))

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?!

________________________________________

audioguru · 23rd June 2008, 04:54 AM

Because we lived with poisons and germs, we developed antibodies that kept us well. Today's "sterile" kids are full of allergies to almost everything.

Mikebits · 23rd June 2008, 04:55 AM

Wait! What is wrong with tuna in a can? I am doomed...

**Krumlink** · 23rd June 2008, 05:01 AM

Its dolphin or shark. Chicken of the sea, turkey of the sky, it all blends together. I have no allergies, although one of my friends is allergic to lemons and some fabric softeners. I am allergic to hard labor

jpanhalt · 23rd June 2008, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by rjvh

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1920's, 30's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

It's called natural selection.

Quote:

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned...

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.

Whatever makes you think the government wants a citizenry made up of competent, thinking individuals?

John

dknguyen · 23rd June 2008, 11:45 PM

I am proud to say I have eaten sand and do not hav pierced ears.

Mikebits · 23rd June 2008, 11:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dknguyen

I am proud to say I have eaten sand and do not hav pierced ears.

You must be hard to shop for at xmas. Then again maybe a Fluke meter would make you giddy

**Nigel Goodwin** · 24th June 2008, 09:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dknguyen

I am proud to say I have eaten sand and do not hav pierced ears.

I don't have pierced 'anything'

Neither does my 17 year old daughter, she's always considered piercings (including ears) as pretty barbaric, and as martial artists it's a good target to strike (or rip out)

Pommie · 24th June 2008, 09:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nigel Goodwin

and as martial artists it's a good target to strike (or rip out)

Ouch, the position some people have piercings, that could be extremely painful.

Mike.

**Nigel Goodwin** · 24th June 2008, 10:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pommie

Ouch, the position some people have piercings, that could be extremely painful.

Even better!

But you probably wouldn't see those anyway, eyebrows and lips are the best targets for punching, and ears (and perhaps nose) for ripping out.

TiagoSilva · 24th June 2008, 01:26 PM

Well, comming from the 80's in my country could be something like comming from the 70's in yours LOL
I don't have pierced anything too !
I have a broken a lot of bones, the wrist, the chin, one ear (lol), my nose (broke and riped to one side actually, by a brick), one finger in 2 parts and one rib that i've never went to the hospital to fix LOL
The frog part i didn't... i think it is not fair to do that to something as harmless as a frog...
I don't smoke by the way... I drunk a little, but that was till my stomach started to warn me against that lol
I ride bicycle without protections, i do still think that they look silly...

This is to Nigel daughter, YES i you are right not using piercings, i have seen some female colegues in school getting the ears ripped because the earrings (during sports of course LOL) lol

Well, since i stoped riding my bike i got fat...

I need some lessons from Nigel's dojo lol that would help loosing the fat

**Krumlink** · 24th June 2008, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nigel Goodwin

Even better!

But you probably wouldn't see those anyway, eyebrows and lips are the best targets for punching, and ears (and perhaps nose) for ripping out.

Apparently Mike Tyson here saw a piercing and took the opportunity

**Nigel Goodwin** · 24th June 2008, 07:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Krumlink

Apparently Mike Tyson here saw a piercing and took the opportunity

A perfectly valid (and recommended) move in Ju Jitsu!

The Marquis of Queensbury never made it as far as Japan.

Torben · 27th June 2008, 10:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nigel Goodwin

A perfectly valid (and recommended) move in Ju Jitsu!

The Marquis of Queensbury never made it as far as Japan.

I have quite a few piercings but I never *ever* wore them in the dojo. Sensei would have killed me. And it's just one more reminder to stay away from situations where they might be endangered when not in the dojo.

For me martial arts are one of those skills I hope never to actually need. But if I was actually in a serious fight and my opponent pulled one or more out, that would be the least of my worries. Having an earring pulled out hurts far less than a punch to the nose, a kick to the kneecap, or a joint lock.

But then, none of my piercings are in particularly *ahem* sensitive areas. I can live with a ripped earlobe.

Torben

**Nigel Goodwin** · 28th June 2008, 10:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Torben

I have quite a few piercings but I never *ever* wore them in the dojo. Sensei would have killed me.

Likewise, we insist all piercings are removed in the dojo.

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23rd June 2008, 04:50 AM	(permalink)
rjvh	good old time 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 we 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 crackers to blow up frogs 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 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! Sport teams 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" (Ed. Nothing wrong with Blade (named in honour of champion ruckman Brendan Lade)) 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?! ________________________________________

23rd June 2008, 04:54 AM	(permalink)
audioguru	Because we lived with poisons and germs, we developed antibodies that kept us well. Today's "sterile" kids are full of allergies to almost everything. __________________ Uncle $crooge

23rd June 2008, 04:55 AM	(permalink)
Mikebits	Wait! What is wrong with tuna in a can? I am doomed...

23rd June 2008, 05:01 AM	(permalink)
Krumlink	Its dolphin or shark. Chicken of the sea, turkey of the sky, it all blends together. I have no allergies, although one of my friends is allergic to lemons and some fabric softeners. I am allergic to hard labor __________________ MechTronics World of Warcraft is a disease

23rd June 2008, 11:45 PM	(permalink)
dknguyen	I am proud to say I have eaten sand and do not hav pierced ears. __________________ NO, that picture isn't me so don't bother asking if we can be friends.

24th June 2008, 01:26 PM	(permalink)
TiagoSilva	Well, comming from the 80's in my country could be something like comming from the 70's in yours LOL I don't have pierced anything too ! I have a broken a lot of bones, the wrist, the chin, one ear (lol), my nose (broke and riped to one side actually, by a brick), one finger in 2 parts and one rib that i've never went to the hospital to fix LOL The frog part i didn't... i think it is not fair to do that to something as harmless as a frog... I don't smoke by the way... I drunk a little, but that was till my stomach started to warn me against that lol I ride bicycle without protections, i do still think that they look silly... This is to Nigel daughter, YES i you are right not using piercings, i have seen some female colegues in school getting the ears ripped because the earrings (during sports of course LOL) lol Well, since i stoped riding my bike i got fat... I need some lessons from Nigel's dojo lol that would help loosing the fat __________________ Best Regards, Tiago Silva.