To all the kids who survived...

[Highlander]

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, and Early-ish 80's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
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, 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 hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drink 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. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

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 cell 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.

We were given cowboy guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
The town football club had tryout for the junior team and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, 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 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?!

:2thumbsup

[DemonWolf]

haha.. classic. =)

[Karma]

Mud pie? You want ketchup with that?

[Highlander]

Mud pie? You want ketchup with that?

Nah, but you better supersize it.

[Karma]

Nah, but you better supersize it.

Best one I like at the moment is McDonalds doing that 4 big Macs for $12 bit. Which one of you fat fuckers is eating 4 big macs at a time! :eyepoke:

[SARGE]

Looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have.......

My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread Mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes too, but I can't remember getting -E-Coli.


We played with toy guns, cowboys and Indians, army, cops and robbers, and used our fingers to simulate guns when the toy ones or my BB gun was not available.

Some students weren't as smart as others or didn't work hard so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), the term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE ... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now. Flunking gym was not an option ... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.

Every year, someone taught the whole school a lesson by running in the halls with leather soles on linoleum tile and hitting the wet spot. How much better off would we be today if we only knew we could have sued the school system.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and the pledge and stayed in detention after school and caught all sorts of negative attention for the next two weeks. We must have had horribly damaged psyches.

I can't understand it. Schools didn't offer 14 year olds an abortion or condoms (we wouldn't have known what either was anyway) but they did give us a couple of aspirin and cough syrup if we started getting the sniffles.

What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, PlayStation, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital cable stations. I must be repressing that memory as I try to rationalize through the denial of the dangers could have befallen us as we trekked off each day about a mile down the road to some guy's vacant 20, built forts out of branches and pieces of plywood, made trails, and fought over who got to be the Lone Ranger. What was that property owner thinking, letting us play on that lot? He should have been locked up for not putting up a fence around the property, complete with a self-closing gate and an infrared intruder alarm.

Oh yeah ... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played king of the hill on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48 cent bottle of mercurochrome and then we got our butt spanked. Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked (physical abuse) ... and then we got our butt spanked again when we got home.

Mom invited the door to door salesman inside for coffee, kids choked down the dust from the gravel driveway while playing with Tonka trucks (remember why Tonka trucks were made tough ... it wasn't so that they could take the rough Berber in the family room), and Dad drove a car with leaded gas.

Our music had to be left inside when we went out to play and I am sure that I nearly exhausted my imagination a couple of times when we went on two week vacations. I should probably sue the folks now for the danger they put us in when we all slept in campgrounds in the family tent.

Summers were spent behind the push lawnmower and I didn't even know that mowers came with motors until I was 13 and we got one without an automatic blade-stop or an auto-drive. How sick were my parents?

Of course my parents weren't the only psychos. I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that we needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!


How did we survive ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ?

[ManDownUnder]

Looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have.......

My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread Mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

<snip - etc>


How did we survive ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ?

I think you summed it up... you didn't survive...

You LIVED

[Goblin]

I remember dads old golden holden with a huge hole in the back seat floor. We kids used to put rubbish down it as we were driving along. The hole was big enough to fit both feet in it, dangerous as.
Guy Fawkes used to be so much fun too. Dad used to make accetilene(sp?) and oxy bombs in a car inner-tube. My sister & I were bouncing around in the back of the stationwagon as we took it home.When he lit it the explosion was heard way over the other side of the lake and nobody ever complained or got hurt.
We lived at the foot of Mt Ngongotaha and that was our playground. Parents never had to tell us to go outside and play as we were all good mates with all the kids in the neighborhood and used to bugger off at first light and get home at dusk, starving hungry. We ate real food and never complained.


Dont spoil your kids by making life easy for them.

[SARGE]

I think you summed it up... you didn't survive...

You LIVED


hell man.. i remember riding on the package tray of a 72 Ford LTD ( up in the back window) from Upstate NY to Bristol Tennesee for the NASCAR race..


"dad.. can i ride in the Trunk? (boot)"

sure..

"dad.. can i have that old riding lawnmower and the Sportster engine?"

Sure..

"dad.. im taking the shotguns out in the woods with Dave"

be home by sunset..


if i wasnt .. off came the belt and i accepted that ..

[Wolf]

We were just lucky, damn it! Pure blind dumb luck that the million-to-one chance that we wouldn't injure, maim or kill ourselves (or others) came up 999 times out of a thousand.

We all were statistical anomalies, constantly beating the seemingly insurmountable odds against survival that our current world strives to protect us from.

Shit, we should've all bought lottery tickets and hit the casinos in case the freakish luck that we enjoyed surviving our dangerous lives extended to the gaming tables...

Actually, we truly were lucky - lucky to have had that time and kids these days are impoverished by its lack...

[ManDownUnder]

hell man.. i remember riding on the package tray of a 72 Ford LTD ( up in the back window) from Upstate NY to Bristol Tennesee for the NASCAR race..


"dad.. can i ride in the Trunk? (boot)"

sure..

"dad.. can i have that old riding lawnmower and the Sportster engine?"

Sure..

"dad.. im taking the shotguns out in the woods with Dave"

be home by sunset..


if i wasnt .. off came the belt and i accepted that ..

WOT?!?!?

Responsibility?
Boundaries?

Mate - you're clearly not from around these parts. The government won't let us have either and I, for one, will contact them to find out what my opinion is!

[ManDownUnder]

Actually, we truly were lucky - lucky to have had that time and kids these days are impoverished by its lack...

LOL - the hell they are. I'm on the lookout for good guys to hang around with - and my little man'll be coming with me.

He came and met a bunch of KBers the other day, and after soaking up a little of the language that was flying around whispered "fucken' arse" under his breath - just loud enough to be heard.

It was funny, but it also meant he got to see it in context. It's a rude word, it's this and it's that - but there's no denying... it's a REAL word. He'll come across it sooner or later.

Bloody funny too I might add... but we spoke about it.

[Wolf]

LOL - that hell they are. I'm on the lookout for good guys to hang around with - and my little man'll be coming with me.

He came and met a bunch of KBers the other day, and after soaking up a little of the language that was flying around whispered "fucken' arse" under his breath - just loud enough to be heard.

It was funny, but it also meant he got to see it in context. It's a rude word, it's this and it's that - but there's no denying... it's a REAL word. He'll come across it sooner or later.

Bloody funny too I might add... but we spoke about it.
Pissing myself!

I sat down on the folding chair outside and bashed my elbow on the edge of the barbeque (Whooops, better get OSH to come and sort that out!) and said "Ow-ow-ow-ow". My two year old said "Fuuuuck!" which was certainly appropriate to the situation.

[ManDownUnder]

Pissing myself!

I sat down on the folding chair outside and bashed my elbow on the edge of the barbeque (Whooops, better get OSH to come and sort that out!) and said "Ow-ow-ow-ow". My two year old said "Fuuuuck!" which was certainly appropriate to the situation.

Yup - that's the one. It's not right really - which makes it even funnier...!

[Motu]

All true - and I could tell you my childhood...just the same.But what I can't figure out is all the people who make these stupid fucking laws and go around blaming and sueing people for their own fuck ups - are are same age as me and had childhoods the same...where did they learn this shit from? Certainly not in our neighbourhood!

[Wolf]

All true - and I could tell you my childhood...just the same.But what I can't figure out is all the people who make these stupid fucking laws and go around blaming and sueing people for their own fuck ups - are are same age as me and had childhoods the same...where did they learn this shit from? Certainly not in our neighbourhood!
Perhaps they are of the same species as a Roman General-turned-Senator called "Torcatus", so named because he met a Celtic champion in single combat (mano e mano, winner takes all), was victorious and claimed said champion's torc (metal neck adornment for the benefit of those who may not know) as a trophy. One of the first laws he passed (on becoming a Senator) was to ban single combat with Celtic champions as too many soldiers were doing so and failing.

The species is called "Hypocrite".

[Damon]

I remember the old days, growing up on the farm, going out setting snare traps for rabbits and gin traps for possums,

falling off the water fall down the back when i got to close and only a handfull of grass between me and the rocky bottom 30m below.

learning to ride in an orchard on a bike with no throttle return.

Fliping the farm bike down a hill and getting on to ride it back up again.

Making our own crossbows to chase birds.

Chopping my finger with the axe and only needing a bandaid.

Towing friends on tryes behind the 4 wheeler as hard as we could with no saftey gear.

Getting my own gun at 12, and being able to use it!

Sneeking out at night to run around the farm and then having to clean up the woodshead when we got busted trying to get back in.

Shootng my first goat and then being made to carry it home on my back while everyone played Mr Ed with it's blood covered head

Being covered in cow shit when i shouldn't have been looking at the back end of the efluent sprayer, and only needing a shower to fix it.

Riding my pushbike down a hill that was too steep, crashing and then rolling winded to the bottom to push it back up and try again.

My parents making me climb into the blackberry bushes to get the good ones in the middle.

Teasing the pigs and then getting in the pen to see how close they could get without eating us.

Riding cows and laughing when the bucked us off onto the concrete

And now the farm i grew up on is a bunch of "life style blocks" so fucking townies can have a bit of the rural life, WANKERS!

Those were the days when Men were Men and women did what they were told :dodge:

[Damon]

I was chatting with a friend recently about all the kids on meds and in therapy, i wanted to know what made them different to all the other kids that have grown up trough time, what made them need pills to keep them thinking straight, and then i found out she'd been on pills...opps.

People are so ready to blame ADD and the like, i had trouble concentrating in school, but that was because i wanted to be outside running around, and once i had i was fine for the next 30 mins, kids these days are babied too much and brought up too fast, they need to know what being a kid is all about before becoming brain surgeons.

[Goblin]

[QUOTE=Damon]I was chatting with a friend recently about all the kids on meds and in therapy, i wanted to know what made them different to all the other kids that have grown up trough time, what made them need pills to keep them thinking straight, and then i found out she'd been on pills...opps.

I reckon alot of it has to do with diet. Look at all the fast easy snacks parents are feeding their kids. There's more numbers than actual food.
There will always be doctors dishing out pills cos they have incentive from the pharmacuitical companies. And if doctor says you need pills then you must need pills, doctors do know everything, dont they?

[MSTRS]

..... doctors do know everything, dont they?
Apparently. But when they don't, there is an Ombudsman to say they do anyway.
Loving this thread...all so true. Bring back the good old days....they were b-a-a-d.:yes:

[Wolf]

Anyone got a dimensionally trancendental blue police box or a geek-pimped Delorean? I feel a desire to go back to a time when if you put your coffee between your legs then attempted to drive and burned yourself, all you'd get would be laughter and cries of "Dumb-arse", not a hefty pay-out and the promise of an international company to put "Warning: Coffee may be hot" labels on all their cups...

[ManDownUnder]

Fond memories of my cousin and I with God only knows how much bailing twine... hoisted an air rifle (BSA Meteor) up a tree so we could sit and snipe at anything with a pulse...

wonderful fun, and causing heart attacks to anyone looking on.

[SPORK]

I remember the good ol' days when my mum would listen when I told her to get back in the kitchen.

I remember the days where real men wore leather and had hair bigger then your sister's.

I remember when we'd set off at dawn and come back at sunset covered in blood with half the outback slung behind us on a rope.

Wait, no I don't...

[ManDownUnder]

I remember the good ol' days when my mum would listen when I told her to get back in the kitchen.

I remember the days where real men wore leather and had hair bigger then your sister's.

I remember when we'd set off at dawn and come back at sunset covered in blood with half the outback slung behind us on a rope.

Wait, no I don't...

Actually you put it nicely in a nutshell - you don't remember it and it's a hell of a loss. If you were being a twat for some reason - would you rather have a cop give you a good swift kick or put you through some family group hug session regime?

I wonder which would have done you more good.

All the tagging shit is WAY out of hand because Joe Public's scared to swat the little bastards, or get their favourtite coloured paint and give their clothes a seeing to.

Na mate - life's very restricted now. And it's getting worse

edit - I note your avatar kinda suits the response too...

[Macktheknife]

WOT?!?!?

Responsibility?
Boundaries?

Mate - you're clearly not from around these parts. The government won't let us have either and I, for one, will contact them to find out what my opinion is!

ROFLMAO
That is brilliant, when you find out would you let the rest of us know so we can all become the good and obedient little sheep we should be?
A little poetic memorial...

I miss the old days and the old ways
but they are gone like so many of my old friends,
nothing more than cherished memories now.
I suppose I should be grateful for the fact that I have them still.

As the light dims in my eyes
the bright sun still shines in the hallways of my mind
the screams of children were something to be longed for
not feared or investigated.

The world was full of adventures yet to be had
and games still to be invented in the excitement of each day.
I miss the old days and the old ways,
So did my father.

[SPORK]

Actually you put it nicely in a nutshell - you don't remember it and it's a hell of a loss. If you were being a twat for some reason - would you rather have a cop give you a good swift kick or put you through some family group hug session regime?

I wonder which would have done you more good.

Oh dude, no cop can catch me. See, I saw on 50 Cent's album how he was like oh the cops i kill them and shit and then i like yeah and stuff


All the tagging shit is WAY out of hand because Joe Public's scared to swat the little bastards, or get their favourtite coloured paint and give their clothes a seeing to.

Dude your wack that shit is dope. itz coz u hv a lmitd view point youve got 2 XPANND ur viewboint bro


Na mate - life's very restricted now. And it's getting worse

edit - I note your avatar kinda suits the response too...

I'll take 'em with a bottle of bootlegged firewhiskey in one hand and a Skid Row cd in the other. :rockon: :rockon: :rockon: :spudgrr: :spudgrr: :spudgrr: :banana: :banana:

[SARGE]

I remember the good ol' days when my mum would listen when I told her to get back in the kitchen.

I remember the days where real men wore leather and had hair bigger then your sister's.

I remember when we'd set off at dawn and come back at sunset covered in blood with half the outback slung behind us on a rope.

Wait, no I don't...



piss off.. i have shoes older than you...:killingme





All the tagging shit is WAY out of hand because Joe Public's scared to swat the little bastards, or get their favourtite coloured paint and give their clothes a seeing to.




i was working in an upmarket club in Dayton Ohio back in the mid 90's.. couple little 'gangsta' assbandits decided to mark thier territory all over the front of the club..


problem with that is they did it during business hours..


4 of us grabbed the little assholes and escortd them to the cooler where we stripped them down to thier skivvies and turned them into 'urban art' ( whole new meaning to 'Blue Balls'..)

filled thier ears up with paint.. asscracks..hair.. everything..

then we showed the the door..THROUGH the club main floor on a Friday night.. out the front in thier skivvies..

January..

Dayton Ohio..

-4 degrees F


never had a problem after that ...

[Swoop]

Nice one!

And the reason that we don't die from mums cutting allsorts of stuff on the chopping board is that the timber kills of the bacteria - aparently.
The plastic ones are the dodgy ones cause the bugs live on the surface and can breed. Only cure is to nuke with boiling water.
(Totally useless piece of trivia for everyones evening!):wait:

[Goblin]

Oh and the long hot summer days making sledges out of fence battons, towed behind the tractor after hay-making. In one paddock there was a little bump which was once a drain, told the driver to get the tractor over the bump, then nail it! Well he nailed it before the bump and got the wee massey ferguson about 5 feet in the air and the muffler flew about 20 feet in the air. The dopey prick hopped off the tractor and tried to pick the muffler up and his fingers stuck to it. :killingme
Same driver was too busy watching me on the sledge and drove the DB right through the fence, I had to bail out before I ended up being sliced by barbed wire.
We got caught riding the Yamaha Grasshopper up and down the driveway at 70kph with no helmets:doh:
Going rabbit shooting and pulling tails off dead bunnies.
Playing cowboys and itchy-bums on the horses with no bridles or lids, until someone got chucked off and the wind knocked out of them.
How did we survive indeed?:slap:

[chickenfunkstar]

Wasn't that long ago, I grew up in the late 80's - early 90's and I can still remember:

cutting down trees with the saw on a mates pocket knife just to see if it could do it,

Crashing my bike about once a month and getting mum to pick the gravel out of my knees,

seeing who was brave enough to stand up on the seat of a pushbike when going down a long hill,

riding on the back of a ute lying on top of a pile of hedge clippings so they didn't all blow away,

feeling really cool 'cos I got to sit on dad's knee and steer the van for the last 1km home,

going into the bush at night at night to test out my new torch,

getting 'dubbed' to school sitting on the front handle bars of a mates bike, no helmet,

'magic carpet' rides for 50c on an old piece of carpet getting towed behind a tractor.

Thinking about it I guess most of these things wouldn't happen anymore.

[Wolf]

Playing cowboys and itchy-bums on the horses with no bridles or lids, until someone got chucked off and the wind knocked out of them.
How did we survive indeed?:slap:
I seem to recall some stupid shit who got too big for his britches at a total stranger's farm - his dad was contracting and took the kids... who got bored waiting for their old man and investigated the farmer's horse (devoid of even a halter) in a nearby paddock. The oldest son managed to get the horse close to the fence, climbed the fence and got up onto the horse which instantly took umbrage at the upstart and took off like a rocket. All the kid could do - for lack of saddle or reins - was cling frantically to the horse's neck for a whirlwind ride around the paddock. Kid starts sliding off so wound up doing that fancy riding around clinging to the side of the horse that you see the indians doing in all the best Western movies. Finally the horse stopped and the kid got off shaking like a leaf and barely able to walk and his younger brother wanted to have a ride on the horse.



Poor Michael, I doubt he ever forgave me for not letting him ride the horse. I mean, umm, well, oh shit. :doh:

[SPORK]

Wasn't that long ago, I grew up in the late 80's - early 90's and I can still remember:

cutting down trees with the saw on a mates pocket knife just to see if it could do it,

I did it with my OWN knife. You cheap bastard.


Crashing my bike about once a month and getting mum to pick the gravel out of my knees,

Psh, amateur. I crash mine every day and pick the gravel out myself.


seeing who was brave enough to stand up on the seat of a pushbike when going down a long hill,
I think I am. I'm going to stand on the frame when I do it tomorrow. Also, no helmet.


riding on the back of a ute lying on top of a pile of hedge clippings so they didn't all blow away, Does riding on the back of a trailer on a bunch of hay count?


feeling really cool 'cos I got to sit on dad's knee and steer the van for the last 1km home,

Feeling special coz I got to drive the tractor home.

going into the bush at night at night to test out my new torch,
Going out to the bush at night to test my new rifle.

getting 'dubbed' to school sitting on the front handle bars of a mates bike, no helmet,
Not wearing a helmet ever, doing stunts on the main road.

'magic carpet' rides for 50c on an old piece of carpet getting towed behind a tractor.
Ok you're too bogan for me.

Thinking about it I guess most of these things wouldn't happen anymore.
LIES! ALL LIES!

For the record, I'm still "growing up"...

So shove that up your collective pipes and smoke it!

[ManDownUnder]

For the record, I'm still "growing up"...

ain't that the truth...

[SPORK]

ain't that the truth...
What's your point? I'm far more mature than all of you sadistic, lace wearing, kitten-loving, PETA-supporting, whale saving cantankerous old men (and ladies).

Jokes!

Or am I?

I think I am.

[ManDownUnder]

What's your point? I'm far more mature than all of you sadistic, lace wearing, kitten-loving, PETA-supporting, whale saving cantankerous old men (and ladies).

Jokes!

Or am I?

I think I am.

My point is exactly what I said - you're still growing up. You have a different view on this stuff... as you rightly should.

Shame you take the piss all the time, but then... that's part of being 15. I could launch into a bunch of developmental psychobabble at this point but you'd only wonder what the fuck I was doing that for, you'd see it as pointless drivel and launch a cutting (albeit misguided) comeback.

That's what 15 year olds do.

No big deal

[Swoop]

What's your point? I'm far more mature than all of you sadistic, lace wearing, kitten-loving, PETA-supporting, whale saving cantankerous old men (and ladies).

Jokes!

Or am I?

I think I am.

Ahh! PETA - excellent cause....

[Karma]

That's what 15 year olds do.


I thought 15 year olds lurk in chat rooms and forums and masturbate all night? :killingme

[Wolf]

Ahh! PETA - excellent cause....
Where do I get a t-shirt like that!?

[SPORK]

My point is exactly what I said - you're still growing up. You have a different view on this stuff... as you rightly should.

Shame you take the piss all the time, but then... that's part of being 15. I could launch into a bunch of developmental psychobabble at this point but you'd only wonder what the fuck I was doing that for, you'd see it as pointless drivel and launch a cutting (albeit misguided) comeback.

That's what 15 year olds do.

No big deal
Ouch. I expected you to realise that my post was merely a joke.

No need to make assumptions.

[Coyote]

I thought 15 year olds lurk in chat rooms and forums and masturbate all night? :killingme
You're way off. When I was 15, I'd wake up some random girls room with a massive headache and I couldn't remember what went on the night before. Now I'm 16, I'm far more civilised. I hardly go anywhere without wearing my tuxedo.

What was that about us taking the piss?

[ManDownUnder]

Ouch. I expected you to realise that my post was merely a joke.

No need to make assumptions.

Like I said - 15 year olds take the piss all the time...

[Dadpole]

Like I said - 15 year olds take the piss all the time...

So they should. Keeps us old buggers in our place.

[Ixion]

Just you wait until I grow up !

[froggyfrenchman]

This thread is totally classic! well done to all imvolved

[slimjim]

We survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us:yes:

They took aspirin,ate blue cheese dressing, tuna in a can,and didn't get tested for diabetes,:gob:

Then after that trauma,our cots were covered with bright coloured lead-base paints

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles,doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes,we had no helmets,shit not to mention the risks we took when we went 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,we shared one soft drink with four friends, all from one bottle, noone actually died from this,:innocent:

We ate cupcakes,white bread and real butter and drank soft drink with real sugar in, 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 home when the streetlights came on,and we were ok:yes:

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps, and then race then down hill, shit only to find out, forgot brakes,:gob: however after running into a few bushs,we learned how to solve that problem,:yes:

We did not have playstations,Nintendo's,x-box,and no bloody cell phones, shit let alone personal computers, or internet and their chat rooms,..........We had friends and we went outside ,

We fell out of trees, got cuts, broke a few bones, chipped a few teeth,lost a couple too,,these were all accidents,we even ate worms and garden snails, made mudpies, and the snails and worms did not live in us forever

We were given real air rifles for our 10th birthday,and made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any ones eye,:dodge:

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door,or rang the bell,or sometimes justed yelled out to them,

Gee and our sport team,well when they had tryout's and not everyone made the team,well those that didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment,:gob: image that

The idea of parents bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of,They acturally sided with the law,

Boy, this generation has produced some of the best risk-takers,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 have learned how to deal with it all.!!!
And if you Are One Of Them
Congratulations:Punk:

I was one of these kids that had the luck to grow up,before the goverment regulated our lives for our own good, you might want to share this or forward it to your kids so they may know how BRAVE their Parents were............:done:

[Waylander]

Hey I was born in the eighties and I went through all that.

Shit some of it I still do, though climbing trees is easier when you are 6'3"...

[JimO]

thats me dude but i have had some mates die in their 30s and 40s so maby the reaper is catching up with us:shit:

[Hitcher]

Sniiiiper!

[MattRSK]

We survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us:yes:

They took aspirin,ate blue cheese dressing, tuna in a can,and didn't get tested for diabetes,:gob:

Then after that trauma,our cots were covered with bright coloured lead-base paints

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles,doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes,we had no helmets,shit not to mention the risks we took when we went 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,we shared one soft drink with four friends, all from one bottle, noone actually died from this,:innocent:

We ate cupcakes,white bread and real butter and drank soft drink with real sugar in, 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 home when the streetlights came on,and we were ok:yes:

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps, and then race then down hill, shit only to find out, forgot brakes,:gob: however after running into a few bushs,we learned how to solve that problem,:yes:

We did not have playstations,Nintendo's,x-box,and no bloody cell phones, shit let alone personal computers, or internet and their chat rooms,..........We had friends and we went outside ,

We fell out of trees, got cuts, broke a few bones, chipped a few teeth,lost a couple too,,these were all accidents,we even ate worms and garden snails, made mudpies, and the snails and worms did not live in us forever

We were given real air rifles for our 10th birthday,and made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any ones eye,:dodge:

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door,or rang the bell,or sometimes justed yelled out to them,

Gee and our sport team,well when they had tryout's and not everyone made the team,well those that didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment,:gob: image that

The idea of parents bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of,They acturally sided with the law,

Boy, this generation has produced some of the best risk-takers,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 have learned how to deal with it all.!!!
And if you Are One Of Them
Congratulations:Punk:

I was one of these kids that had the luck to grow up,before the goverment regulated our lives for our own good, you might want to share this or forward it to your kids so they may know how BRAVE their Parents were............:done:



.................argh I can't be arsed ripping into this one ya old cunt.

[Waylander]

share this or forward it to your kids so they may know how BRAVE their Parents were............:done:
Oddley enough, what generation is the one that now runs the government that is trying to control our lifes and is bringing thier kids up letting them play Nintendo/Xbox/Playstation, be online all day, buying cell phones for thier kids, letting them stay inside watching TV all day.

[Skyryder]

I'm one of the baby boomers. My generation blames Spock. And here we have the dividing line. Who is Spock you say. Ahhhh That guy from Star Trek

Nope. You'd be wrong?????



Skyryder

[u4ea]

i was born in the year of the valiant regal...............72.........:Punk:

[The Pastor]

We survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us

They took aspirin,ate blue cheese dressing, tuna in a can,and didn't get tested for diabetes,:gob:

Then after that trauma,our cots were covered with bright coloured lead-base paints

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles,doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes,we had no helmets,shit not to mention the risks we took when we went 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,we shared one soft drink with four friends, all from one bottle, noone actually died from this,:innocent:

We ate cupcakes,white bread and real butter and drank soft drink with real sugar in, 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 home when the streetlights came on,and we were ok:yes:

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps, and then race then down hill, shit only to find out, forgot brakes,:gob: however after running into a few bushs,we learned how to solve that problem,:yes:

We did not have playstations,Nintendo's,x-box,and no bloody cell phones, shit let alone personal computers, or internet and their chat rooms,..........We had friends and we went outside ,

We fell out of trees, got cuts, broke a few bones, chipped a few teeth,lost a couple too,,these were all accidents,we even ate worms and garden snails, made mudpies, and the snails and worms did not live in us forever

We were given real air rifles for our 10th birthday,and made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any ones eye,:dodge:

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door,or rang the bell,or sometimes justed yelled out to them,

Gee and our sport team,well when they had tryout's and not everyone made the team,well those that didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment,:gob: image that

The idea of parents bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of,They acturally sided with the law,

Boy, this generation has produced some of the best risk-takers,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 have learned how to deal with it all.!!!
And if you Are One Of Them
Congratulations:Punk:

I was one of these kids that had the luck to grow up,before the goverment regulated our lives for our own good, you might want to share this or forward it to your kids so they may know how BRAVE their Parents were............:done:

And look how messed you are!:second:

[scumdog]

O.K., it's a repost, where is Sniper when you need him?
And I was born the year of "I knocked the bastard off"

[DougB]

What about the 30's and 40's? I was born in 1932 and got my first bike, a 1950 AJS 500cc single in 1952. It was one of the first in NZ to have rear springing. We had no crash helmets or protective clothing. An ex army greatcoat and newspaper tucked under the shirt kept us warm. Most roads were loose metal. We lived a wonderful free and uncomplicated life.

I look at the youngsters today and feel sad that they are so protected from adventure and danger. I also admire them as they seem far cleverer than we were. Our challenges were physical theres are of an intellectual nature.

It appears to me, as my end approaches. that I have lived my seventy four years during one of the best of times for New Zealanders and am glad I wont be here long enough to suffer the ills that appear to be ahead.

I am also glad that I can still get about on my eleventh bike living still some of the freedom of yester year.

[insane1]

well i was born in 66 didnt start riding till i was 40 and have done all that stuff and some dumb things as well young people now have it so easy and are a lot more lazy than when we were growing up back in the 60"s.

[Pwalo]

Oddley enough, what generation is the one that now runs the government that is trying to control our lifes and is bringing thier kids up letting them play Nintendo/Xbox/Playstation, be online all day, buying cell phones for thier kids, letting them stay inside watching TV all day.

Yep. Bloody guilty angst ridden ex-hippies who don't want their kids to get up to the things they did.

If I wasn't so old and grumpy myself I'd be really annoyed.

[SpankMe]

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

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, 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 van - loose - was always great fun. We drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop 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. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem .

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 cell phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them NOT ONLINE!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents .

We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, 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 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.

[canarlee]

im have seen that before!


damn funny and soooo true!

[Mrs Busa Pete]

Well said there spank:niceone:

[Grahameeboy]

Thank @#$% for KB...................

[tri boy]

It a'int over yet. Were gen Ys worst night mare. bbwaaaahaaaa hhaaaaa:shit:

[Maha]

No mention of the mighty 'Tonka Trucks'......:Punk:

[Grahameeboy]

No mention of the mighty 'Tonka Trucks'......:Punk:

Andy Pandy
Flower Pot Men
Rhubard and Custard
Corgi
Golliwog
Big Ears
Wombles
Clangers
Deep Throat???

[Maha]

Andy Pandy......Who?
Flower Pot Men.....And who?
Rhubard and Custard....Yum!
Corgi.....Had a Lab
Golliwog....I had two
Big Ears....No but other body parts made up for it
Wombles....Wellington was my fav'
Clangers.....Not quite sure on this one
Deep Throat???....Read 'The Happy Hooker' on a bus trip once

[Grahameeboy]

For you Marky

http://http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/clangers/

http://http://www.wwwk.co.uk/television/shows/kids/andy-pandy.htm

[Skyryder]

And Spock was the parenting guru of the day.

We all became juvenile deliquents, justified or not.

Pot was something you graduated from washing and drying to smoking.

The pudding club was desert that turned to custard.

At worst a one night strand got you a dose of the clap

V8’s sounded like a car………….a real car.

And bikers were milk-bar cowboys…………………..??

There were Teddy boys, Bodgies and Widgies.

Camp was camp and gay was happy.

Drag........... how the Queens dressed up.

Butch was so………….. so bitchy.


Skyyrder

[Ocean1]

It a'int over yet. Were gen Ys worst night mare. bbwaaaahaaaa hhaaaaa:shit:

Oh HELL yes, all that childhood shit was just basic training for the biggest payback of all time. :devil2: Going to piss on their floors, peel their wallpaper, cut all their flowers and make with the chewing gum in the carpet. An that's just the FIRST day of my post retirement campaign. :yes:

[Ocean1]

And Spock was the parenting guru of the day.

We all became juvenile deliquents, justified or not.

Pot was something you graduated from washing and drying to smoking.

The pudding club was desert that turned to custard.

At worst a one night strand got you a dose of the clap

V8’s sounded like a car………….a real car.

And bikers were milk-bar cowboys…………………..??

There were Teddy boys, Bodgies and Widgies.

Camp was camp and gay was happy.

Drag........... how the Queens dressed up.

Butch was so………….. so bitchy.


Skyyrder

Fuck dude you're OLD.

I had to look all that shit up... :whistle:

[Skyryder]

Fuck dude you're OLD.

I had to look all that shit up... :whistle:


Some of us are just younger than others.

Skyryder

[Usarka]

fuck me do kids still build trolleys/karts? i aint seen one of those for ages might go build one next weekend for a laugh!



edit: hahaha i see they are making a 'get smart' movie http://www.flicks.co.nz/trailer.php?movieid=780

[Coyote]

Yet they raised their kids in the pussy manner that you're taking the piss out of, hmmm...

[mbazza]

Too true!
I got a pocket knife for my eighth birthday, never cut anyone (but myself), lost it about 20 times (got it back once), carved, cut and carried one ever since, I was taught to be responsible for my own actions by having a knife. Still carry one today, (still tend to be mostly responsible) always responsible with my knife! Cheers.:Punk:

[Usarka]

Yet they raised their kids in the pussy manner that you're taking the piss out of, hmmm...

thats whats so bloody weird. something on telly a month ago that said the radius that people let their kids roam has decreased from something like 2km to 600m (i made those figures up but it was a lot).

I blame the internet and telly - too much information generating fear about the big bad pedalfiles, gangsters and aunty helen.

what sort of weirdo creates a website to spread "information" anyway hahahaha.

[Ocean1]

Yet they raised their kids in the pussy manner that you're taking the piss out of, hmmm...

That's 'cause of all the deep rooted trauma from our childhood. :drool::crazy::eek5:

[Coyote]

thats whats so bloody weird. something on telly a month ago that said the radius that people let their kids roam has decreased from something like 2km to 600m (i made those figures up but it was a lot).

I blame the internet and telly - too much information generating fear about the big bad pedalfiles, gangsters and aunty helen.

what sort of weirdo creates a website to spread "information" anyway hahahaha.
In the olden days my radius was my house, now it's New Zealand :D

[Coyote]

That's 'cause of all the deep rooted trauma from our childhood. :drool::crazy::eek5:
So all that booze and drugs in the womb did have some effect? :p

[Ocean1]

So all that booze and drugs in the womb did have some effect? :p

Of course, that and the lead painted buzzy bee. But being the bunch of general good pricks we are we rose above the overwhelming dissadvantage and suffering to become the godlike figures of ethical rectitude you see before you now :dodge:

[Usarka]

my mum smoked drunk and i licked buzzy bees like a trooper. didn't do me any bloody harm.

also used to ride in the back of a ute on the road :shit: the cops would be all over that shit now, my old man wouldv'e been beaten on the side of the road like rodney king

[deanohit]

Was a few years too late, but me and my friends did all those things. Our radius was as far as we could ride our bikes, often up to 10 kays.:scooter: We raced homemade carts,we made bow an arrows an hunted possums and rabbits with our dogs, went fishing down the wharf and speared eels in the rivers. We had slingshot wars with the kids from the other streets :2guns: and didnt have to be home till 6;30 for dinner.:gob:
And you know what, we all survived it fine.

Edit: I remember now, only one kid out of all of us lost an eye.

[Edbear]

You know, it's kinda sobering to go visit the museum and see the toys, implements and gadgets you used now considered antiques...:bye:

When I was a kid we used these phones on party lines, (see pic). We were still using draught horses and sleds for feeding out hay that was stacked with pitch-forks. My mother drove a Daimler school bus with the Wilson pre-selector gearbox and Dad had a series 1 Standard Vanguard which was often pressed into service as a tractor.

We churned our own butter and ice-cream and Dad milked 50 cows by hand.:yes:

Most things we now take for granted were invented, or developed for public use, in my lifetime.

Computers,(PC's and Laptops), cellphones, TV's, Transistor radio's, microwaves, air-conditioning for cars and houses, radial tyres, electronic ignition, multi-grade engine oil, space rockets, video players, camcorders, and I'm sure others can add to this list. Mum got the latest wringer washing machine and how proud we were!

Matchless/AJS's and BSA singles were the bikes to have and anyone with a Triumph twin, was King!

Armstrong Siddleys were the rich snobs cars and any car with a heater was envied, and if it had a valve radio as well....!!!!:gob:

[Virago]

And the QRF maintains a diplomatic silence...

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=38195

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=21299

:dodge:

[Her_C4]

Yet they raised their kids in the pussy manner that you're taking the piss out of, hmmm...

..................and yet! A lot of us didn't ... hmmmm:gob: :sunny:

[Highlander]

thats whats so bloody weird. something on telly a month ago that said the radius that people let their kids roam has decreased from something like 2km to 600m (i made those figures up but it was a lot).



70% of statistics are made up on the spot.

[Edbear]

And the QRF maintains a diplomatic silence...

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=38195

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=21299

:dodge:




How very diplomatic!:yes: Was that a deafening silence or a golden one...:innocent:

[kerfufflez]

When I was a kid we used these phones on party lines, (see pic). :

Hehe, we had a phone like that, I remember having to turn the crank thing and say "working, working" down the line to the exchange. And the only morse code I know is because of the old phone numbers with a letter on the end.
I used to see dial telephones on programmes on tv and think they were soooooo exotic, haha.

[Mekk]

Bah humbug.

This thread is one giant "when I was a boy, we had to walk through FIFTEEN MILES of snow, BAREFOOT. None of this new-fangled WHEEL crap you kids have today. You don't know how lucky you are...in fact this one time..."

You lot may have been tougher back then... but you sure as hell make up the complaining, whining lot of today!

Return to your former glory and... HTFU. :D

[KATWYN]

70% of statistics are made up on the spot.

I think its 73%...... i'm 91% sure about that

[DEATH_INC.]

Dunno if it's been here before, but I haven't seen it so here it is (pinched off the 750turbo site ) good for a giggle...


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 fire-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 videogames at all,
no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, nosurround sound,no
mobilephones, 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 Crossed 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 staps 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 "bl*de"

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?!

PS -The big type is because your eyes are shot at your age

[Patch]

Ahhh, the good ole days - when men were men, an women knew their place :laugh:

[skidMark]

Ahhh, the good ole days - when men were men, an women knew their place :laugh:


hang on

what the fuck happened.

i blame once were warriors

nA5_NVj5aGY

[Bikernereid]

Got I feel old but grateful to be a 70s child!! Those were the happy good old days!!

[PrincessBandit]

The 70's sure were good! After reading (and laughing) my way through that I can honestly say I thoroughly enjoyed my childhood and sometimes wish that NZ was still a bit like that! (Oh, that's right, if you want to experience it move to Invercargill). :niceone: Seriously, I visited some friends a couple of years ago who moved down there from Auckland and it was like stepping back in time. The friends absolutely love it down there and would never want to come back to Auckland.
Anyways, thanks for the remeniscing! Great start to the day.

[Street Gerbil]

Feck, it's not that I didn't have body armor, I wasn't aware it even existed.
1972 was a good year to be born.

[Lissa]

I spent most of my childhood outside playing on my bike (without a helmet) riding up and down the road until it got dark, or running off down the street to a the paddocks and climbing trees, playing in the stream, all without one single grownup in sight. It is changed so much now, alot of parents will drive there kids to and from school because they dont want them crossing the road, or getting abducted, kids (talking about mine) have limited imagination and always want me to entertain them with renting video games, or dvds, they have a hard time coming up with there own things to do. I used to make have fun making mud pies all day, but now parents dont want their kids to get dirty....

[Ocean1]

if you want to experience it move to Invercargill). :niceone: Seriously, I visited some friends a couple of years ago who moved down there from Auckland and it was like stepping back in time.

Ask me about growing up in Invercargill in the 50's sometime. :baby:

Well all right, failing to grow up in Invercargill...


I used to make have fun making mud pies all day, but now parents dont want their kids to get dirty....

Me too, pisses the mrs off no end that I never get sick, it's because I've met all the bugs before, and ate them. :cool:

[3umph]

TO ALL WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1940'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, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can

Then after that trauma, our baby cots 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

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 Nandos.

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 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 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 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.

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...

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.

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!

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.



PS -The big writing is because your eyes are not too good at your age anymore!

[Gareth51]

[SIZE="6"]TO ALL WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's !

!

Best years of my life, can rember them like yesterday,opps can't remember yesterday

[portokiwi]

dont know if this is a repost but its very good.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 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, 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 Nandos.


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 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 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 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.



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...



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 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 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!


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.





PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age anymore

[firefighter]

hmmmm, i'm early 80's and this all applies to me too.....feeling a little ripped off there! :oi-grr:

[Hitcher]

dont know if this is a repost but its very good.

Nah. It's not a repost...

[kiwi cowboy]

People are so ready to blame ADD and the like, i had trouble concentrating in school, but that was because i wanted to be outside running around, and once i had i was fine for the next 30 mins, kids these days are babied too much and brought up too fast, they need to know what being a kid is all about before becoming brain surgeons.

Me and my boss were talking about ADD one day and he says 'dont knock it its real as his teacher wife had studied it' and i replyed that a good swift kick up the arse soon fixed any ADD i ever had 'im so damaged'<_<:laugh:

[BuellBunny]

We used to travel in the back of dads Holden with a big mattres.... shit loads of toys... no seat belts... and here we are today.... alive and kicking...! PC crap indeed!!!!

[BuellBunny]

WHAT A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS..... ooooooooo.... can I say that?????

[crazyhorse]

No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us,
WE ARE AWESOME !!!!
OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF !!!!
To Those of Us Born
1925 - 1979



TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
1930's, 40's, 50's,
60's and 70's!!



First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.

Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

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

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

We ate cupcakes made with Lard, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank FLAV-OR- AID made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight.. WHY?

Because we were always outside playing....that's why!

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 OKAY.

We did not have Play stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no 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 would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, or just a bare hand and no one would call child services to report abuse.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. What can kids today do besides push buttons..

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

If 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 so much of our lives for our own good.

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?

[avgas]

Hmmm reading that whole lineup made me wonder if this was the list of reasons why people in this age bracket have problems ;)
Out of interest why did it stop at 1979? What changed then?
Was the 1979 Kawasaki Z1000 EFI that amazing?