CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO WERE BORN IN THE 30s 40s 50s 60s and early 70s.

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 baby cots were covered with bright coloured 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
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 NandosEven 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 Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers 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 onNo 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 down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.
We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY no video/dvd films, 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.
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.

We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays.

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.

RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on merit.

Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bully's 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 didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL !

And YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS

some of us are still there…

have you noticed even nostalgia in`t what it used to be 😆

it never was 🙂

Too true!

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.

Just like some kids born in the 21st century (much of the rest he's just not old enough for). Would rather his drinks didn't have so much sugar in, but if you think young kids' drinks don't, either you don't have kids that age, or you haven't looked at the label.

Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes

I must be have been a deprived child – they didn't seem to do that (I even went to a Catholic school 😯 )

did you perform a risk assessment for all that typing? Thought not…

Nostalgia: (n) machine for paving over the pot-holes in memory lane

don't quote me on this.. (no really don't.. I probly just nicked it cut and paste off another forum anyway..)

were you born in the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s or early 70s?

Are you a lonely whiner? If so yunki NEEDS you.

no… no no no… no tails..
lonely whiners do NOT mix well together

"cupcakes?" I wasn't born in the US.

OLD

I've said many times, copy and paste functions should be licensed.

jebus… what a tough crowd..

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be

😥 I was born in the 80s does that mean I am doomed?

As doomed as the KIDS at work who had never dialled a number on a 'proper' telephone. Someone else has a bliddy 'app' that replicates an olde worlde phone on their Herophone or whatever. They showed them – the KIDS didn't really understand. Pfft.

Well, I was born in '74. I liked it. It raised a mildly amused smirk and reminded me of when life wasn't such a PITA. Thanks.

I like the definition of nostalgia as well!

Whatever happened to kids with nut alergies back then?

I've had a nut allergy since 1967 – I was avant-garde me! 😆

So did you have to go to a special school or were you shipped to Australia?

I was born in the 80s does that mean I am doomed?

Yep you are gonna catch AIDS and probably be labeled a peado, but don't worry I'm there to as another 80's child!

Early 70's here, and so true.

But it missed the bit about… went sledging every winter (in Kent for me), and Dad still managed to get to work each day in the snow in an Austin maxi.

your point being what exactly?

from a child of the 80's

I was born in the 80s

I've got love for you.

As has Calvin

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO WERE BORN IN THE 30s 40s 50s 60s and early 70s.

CONGRATULATIONS? IT WAS YOU FECKERS WHO MADE THE WORLD WHAT IT IS TODAY!

Latch key kid here, my mother always worked.Child from the 60's

no point really tomthumb…
I just found this little peice of writing to be an amusing comment on health and safety and todays nanny state…
as a new father this resonates deeply within my psyche at this time..

I thought it might raise a wry smile on the lips of others that can relate to it..

myfatherwasawolf – Member

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO WERE BORN IN THE 30s 40s 50s 60s and early 70s.

CONGRATULATIONS? IT WAS YOU FECKERS WHO MADE THE WORLD WHAT IT IS TODAY!

It was already broken.

Admittedly we didn't help… 😳

CONGRATULATIONS? IT WAS YOU FECKERS WHO MADE THE WORLD WHAT IT IS TODAY!

Exactly. Your childhoods were so scary and dangerous that when you all grew up you became H&S obsessed, food, and drink product control freaks who have ruined it for the rest of us.

😉 but not really, because you know its true.

Kit, 80's child

CONGRATULATIONS? IT WAS YOU FECKERS WHO MADE THE WORLD WHAT IT IS TODAY!

Actually I suspect you'll find a lot of the dealers doing dodgy trades in financial instruments they didn't understand were in their twenties and early thirties. As were the people overextending themselves with mortgages they couldn't afford.

Presumably though you'd prefer the world to be like it was in the fifties?

aracer – Member

CONGRATULATIONS? IT WAS YOU FECKERS WHO MADE THE WORLD WHAT IT IS TODAY!

Actually I suspect you'll find a lot of the dealers doing dodgy trades in financial instruments they didn't understand were in their twenties and early thirties. As were the people overextending themselves with mortgages they couldn't afford.

Presumably though you'd prefer the world to be like it was in the fifties?

And what the hell has that got to do with the thread?

Just pointing out that a lot of people born in the late 70s and 80s helped a lot towards our current financial situation.

Good point, I'm sure it'll make a good contribution to a relevant thread 😉

Why, is our current financial situation not part of "THE WORLD WHAT IT IS TODAY!"?

Of course it is but I was talking within the context of the thread, which is largely about the lack of freedom due to parental worries about H&S etc, not the current financial situation, or how we may be better off now than in the post-war years…. yawn.