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Getting Older....
November 11, 2007 @ 01:45:33 pm
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids
in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly colored lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or
cabinets and it was fine to play with pans. When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey
dokey's' from cornflakes on our wheels.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags and riding in the passenger seat was a treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.

We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop, but we were never overweight because we were always out playing.

We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this...

We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.

After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.

We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99
channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chatrooms.

We had friends - we went outside and found them. We played with elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt! We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law suits.

We played knock-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.

We walked to friends' homes. We also, believe it or not, WALKED
to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...they actually Sided with the law.

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem
solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 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.


For those of you who aren't old enough, you might like to read about
us.

This is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a smile
on your face:

The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986....

The Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel.

They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda Carlisle.

For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.

AIDS has existed since they were born.
CD's have existed since they were born.

Michael Jackson has always been white.

To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance.

They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are films from last year.

They can never imagine life before computers.

They'll never have pretended to be the A-Team, the Dukes of Hazard or the Famous Five.

They can't believe a black and white television ever existed.

And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone.

Now let's check if we're getting old...

1. You understand what was written above and you smile.

2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.

3. Your friends are getting married/already married

4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.

5. When you see children with mobile phones, you shake your head.

6. Having read this, you are thinking of forwarding it to some other
friends because you think they will like it too...

Yes, you're Getting old!!

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indigo

New Post! November 11, 2007 @ 01:52:39 pm
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I pretended to be the famous five! they were my gods when i was like seven!!! don't diss!

these lists are cool


clurrby

New Post! November 11, 2007 @ 01:54:42 pm
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@indigo Said
I pretended to be the famous five! they were my gods when i was like seven!!! don't diss!

these lists are cool


Haha wasnt dissing it!
The A Team rocked


DragonLover

Perverted and Proud

New Post! November 11, 2007 @ 02:06:11 pm
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Absolutely Brilliant.

I used to pretend to be one of the A-Team,also Maid Marrion
I never could find the same sort of sheds B.A could find though, I loved playing elastics and so on and so on.Everything you have written is scarily accurate to my childhood! Again absolutely brilliant


DragonLover

Perverted and Proud

New Post! November 11, 2007 @ 02:06:11 pm
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double post


loveis

brat-inella

New Post! November 11, 2007 @ 02:16:11 pm
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Enjoyable read, so true!


sheepy

New Post! November 11, 2007 @ 02:28:55 pm
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Guys, sorry, look at my age. I read Famous Five books when I was little, and even then I found them infuriating and extremely dated. A girl has to pretend to be a boy, and takes a strop when someone points out that she isn't. The girls are all sops, unhealthy interest in shorts as teenagers, they always found it such a bind to tell lies and felt guilty about it even when it was telling lies to outright scum criminal people. As for the author, turns out she was a closet lesbian who didn't particularly like children and treated her own like s***.
Jolly good show, lets crack open lots of ginger beer chaps. The girls can cook it because that's all they are good for, we'll slip on our shorts and go hunting for treasure.


xxdeceivingeyesxx

New Post! November 11, 2007 @ 03:59:41 pm
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Yay, it's not just me!!!!!!

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