people born before 1986 lol

sambo

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 coloured 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' on our wheels. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags - 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 juice with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside 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 chat rooms.

We had friends - we went outside and found them.

We played 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 had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.

We played chap-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.

And you're one of them. Congratulations!

Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.

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

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

The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986........They are called youth.

They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children, and 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 the last couple of years.

They can never imagine life before computers.

They'll never have pretended to be the A Team, RedHand Gang or the Famous Five.

They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It or Why Don't You.

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 teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6. You remember watching Dirty Den in EastEnders the first time around.
7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good Old days, repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together.
8. Having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some other friends because you think they will like it too...
Yes, you're getting old!!
Laughing

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Hcollie85

Me no old, more than half that written stuff is not true to me but then i was born the year before 86

Heather :wink:
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jox

Okay I was smiling, I confess to being born in 1967.

Don't forget sledging down a snowy hill on a bin bag or seeing how many kids you could get on the seat of a Raleigh Chopper (even though it had a label on the seat that told you it was for just one rider).
Also the amount of Witch Hazel your Mum would go through nursing your bruises!!!! Very Happy

Happy days!!!!!
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Jo & The Lovely Loonies
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Violette

You three don't really know what you are talking about! I REALLY DO REMEMBER ALL OF THAT, and now I am depressed! Crying or Very sad

I lived in a small seaside town, and in the holidays we used to head off for the day to the beach - one or two would start it, and we would just pick up other kids and dogs as we went. We shared each others cheese sandwiches, clubbed together to buy a couple of bottles of fizzy drink full of artificial colours and additives, swam, paddled, climbed the rocks, broke every health and safety rule ever invented - and lived to tell the tale.

Actually, it scares me a bit to think now of what we did! Shocked

littlelab

Oh I remember ALL of the above, I was a 70's baby..

On the upside they are doing re runs of Jim'll Fix it on UK TV Gold and they are showing the 'Fix it's' and then bringing you up to date with the people now, its fascinating

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Natalie and Co xxx

poppydog83

I was born in 1983,and i remember alot of that. It made me smile reading that too...................yup im old

Nosey

Now i'm feeling very old d'oh!

DancingCrow

Had to join up when I read this.... because ......

we walked to school in two feet of snow, and it wasn't round the corner, it was ****dy MILES away

we had no phone till I was 9 (cos they were for v v rich peops)

the tv was black & white till I was 10 (as above)

we had a GRAMAPHONE when I was 3

it was 6d for a coke (six old pence for you youngsters!)
2s 6d for a night dancing at the Civic
we sat at 13 years old with flowers in our hair (giving it away now..)
bus fare was 10d
first wages at 15 were £5 per week (that was good then!!)
only children with rich parents went to college
i could give me mum half me wages, go out every night and STILL
buy clothes

if it was thick snow and the buses weren't running, you Walked 5 miles to work (ok on the way back, except the lovely maxi coat dragged in the slush...)

and we felt free, and unafraid of strangers (mostly) and Life was Good

there were few sirens, even fewer planes, no long traffic queues, very little pollution, asthma was unheard of, people were friendly (especially to strangers), life with lived with innocence and not guile, there was no acid rain (quite yet), no megabritish holiday costa resorts, no hole in the ozone layer (but then how would you know if you didn't have tv?), no pressure to perform/conform (though avoiding marriage was difficult), no exams till age 11... and on and on...

No, am not pensioner, just started dancing to hard house 8 years ago and love my laptop, mobile, sky tv, cordless phone and still long to be able to drive anywhere and BE TOTALLY ALONE (apart from northern parts, have you ever tried being alone on a beach or hillside these days??)

Dancing Crow

FRE

Cor Dancing Crow .......... 2 feet of snow, that all??? ......... Luxury ........... now when I used to walk 9 miles to school ............... Wink

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Biggles & Harry

Fidgitsmum

Thats made me feel VERY old Laughing

Joo

Great thread, I certainly smiled when I read it.

- Whisky on the teat of the bottle when we were teething
- My mum never locked the door at night
- Stone 'pigs' ...hot water bottles
- Cigarettes you could buy in singles Embarassed

- 6 inch platforms
- Jeans with a different coloured insert Rolling Eyes

- Babycham(sp) & Cherry B

Where's my zimmer frame Laughing

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Joo, Kippa & Stan x
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DancingCrow

Ah, now you are talking - Cherry B!! Only the oldies like us know Cherry B even existed and whats more, how drunk you could get mixing it with a Babycham! Of course, if you were posh, you could mix Babycham with Brandy but never remember when, how, you got home....

I was going to reply earlier to the sad person who had to walk 9 miles to school..... well, did you even have soles on your shoes or no shoes at all??? Lol...

Not to make us feel old, but valid in our innocence as in those days I do not remember hordes of drunken teenagers on the streets, just a lot of cider (er, was 15 then) and chilled out listening to Led Zepplin or Art & Garfunkel.... I think we were more gentle then and less demanding of the world.. and please, lets keep this going cos its making me feel good...

I have just moved 'home' to the Midlands after 35 years away so memories are v powerful at the mo, mostly the Beach Boys, Melanie, a v young Elton John, and the feeling that we REALLY could change the world if we loved each other enuf

Still think that

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