SJ_SwanJun
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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?!
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Why do men snore when lying on their backs?
Because their balls fall over their butt holes and they vapour lock.
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20-06-2007 14:33
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Ebonyswanne
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21-06-2007 23:10
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Ebonyswanne
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| quote: | Originally posted by amyltrer
C'mon guys, early '90 generation isn't that bad either.
Maybe we're a little spoilt, but we were bred this way. I can't imagine my childhood without Tv , playstation, or junk food. I think all that juvenile deliquence is a bit exaggerated
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It's good to hear that Gatchaman has reach another generation!
I was married in 1992! (o.k very young and ahh wise...20yrs old, and we are beating the statistics so far!)
We still had computer games, my husband has LANS at mates places over weekends!
Junk food is for all generations, they are telling us Aussies are getting fat! (we are Rivaling the yanks can you believe it!)
So put us on a national diet....take away the beer and Mcdonalds, pizza you'd have civil war here I think!
The swan looks in the mirror at her behind and realizes, she does have a fat bum, must be Jinpei's cooking!
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22-06-2007 11:42
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SJ_SwanJun
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I am a Red Squadron.
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CD where in Canada, darling? (Ebay Ninja/Sniper here, I know ALL the customs bullshit/loopholes - can definitely help you with all that crap)
I have all the BotP DVD's available (Just ebay'ed the 25th anniversary one - am eagerly awaiting its arrival ) soooo... LEt me see if there is any way I can <shhhhh> obtain a copy or two for ya.
Of course, if you're in the GTA, I can always just loan them to you for a wee bit - if I can drag them away from Joshie, of course...
Of course, head in to Future Shop or HMV and you can pick up the Rhino releases. I got the box set and the original 6 releases from there ... I believe they're going pretty cheap right now.
The kid can't talk at all, but I kid you not, he knows the team by name and points them out to me.
Oh damn, I'm good!
SJ
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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny." 
and boy do I remember a lot of that stuff above!
As non-PC as this will sound (read), I know several people born in the 80s and 90s and they're pansies. And not because their young. Part of it is because their parents and teachers allowed them to be so emotionally coddled by that stupid self-esteem movement which made it a bad thing to tell a child that 2 + 2 didn't equal 5. As a result, these young folks don't seem to have the basic skills to deal with run-of-the-mill challenges and every day obstacles. Protecting our kids should mean equipping them with the skills to handle the many cruelties of life, not teaching them to believe that such cruelties don't exist. It's narcissism run amok. Sorry, my post sounds really serious. Let's return to a lighter fare. How 'bout them Baby Boomers!
= experience ( next thing you know, bike riding won't be allowed because of this)