tolf Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930s, 40s, 50s, and 60s. First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank Sherry while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos... They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, 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 a Sunday, 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 and Bubble Gum. We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter,milk from the cow,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, or colour TV 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! Not everyone made the rugby/football/cricket/netball 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 throw the blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren't concentrating . We can string sentences together and spell and have proper conversations because of a good, solid three R's education. Our parents would tell us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road. 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! PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age anymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martyblues Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Blimey what brought that on? Bang on though. If a policeman said i will tell your dad, you **** yourself Mind, police used to walk about then, if you saw two officers walking together, you were in a bad area. great times on **** all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRAIGR Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Those were the days .Kin excellent they were too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martyblues Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Scalextric Hornby Triang Meccanno Stuff I used to dream of. Set of pram wheels, gold dust Bomb sites for play grounds our school playground was a bomb site, the head master called it paradise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRAIGR Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Remember wandering the back alleys looking for bike frames and bits to make a half decent bike from and knocking on the doors and asking for them not swiping them for f'all. Corona pop bottles with a refund on them back in the 60's nowadays its a modern concept called recycling. Blackjacks ,Rhubarb and custard penny chews Jamboree bags 1 rollerskate with an old Beano annual balanced on it and off down the hill you go ......Priceless !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martyblues Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 what were those bl**** great ice triangle things called? remember sturmy archer 3 speed hub dynamo cable brakes drop bars 2, 3, 4 star petrol green shield stamps fag coupons, save enough for an iron lung Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRAIGR Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Green shield stamps i remember them and going to the argos style shop with me dad and an armful of books to get something ridiculous. 405 line black and white tv's Sing something simple radio program on a sunday night (hated that because it meant school the next day) "Rag and bone " the man would call as he passed with his horse and cart 20-1 shot of oil from the oil drum in my yamaha fs1e with a gallon of petrol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martyblues Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Stop car run into road with shovel to pick up horses crap for the garden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7sRWild Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 All of the above.......wouldn't change a damn thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KugaWestie Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 I was born 1970, so I can relate to all of the above. aniseed twist sweets, army and navy sweets, tom thumb drops, all from the massive jars in the newsagents. Corona lemonade bottles, 10p back and of course The Raleigh Chopper and tomahawk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRAIGR Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Hehe Knock down ginger (thats what it were called down sarf) ie bang on someones door like mad and run like feck. An addition to the theme when we were older was to wrap some dog poo up in newspaper set it alight on the concrete doorstep then bang on the door and watch the unamused resident stamp it out when they opened the door. Then ....................run like feck !! Oh and trawling the local toy shop Gamleys for a cool Airfix plane to make. Still have most of my corgi cars all boxed in mint condition (when i looked last about 5 years ago) in my loft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KugaWestie Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 LOL We used to play knock down ginger, but with a fishing line tied to the knocker and hide in a bush. As the door opened, give it some slack, as it closed, pull in the slack as quick as possible and knock again. It went on for a few knocks until we had to leg it as we couldnt stop laughing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KugaWestie Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 How about putting a playing card into your rear wheel spoke and securing it with a peg onto the frame to make a sound when you rode along? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRAIGR Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Haha remember doing that. What about BLAKEYS !! those metal things you hammered into you shoe heels and made wicked sparks when on your bike. Green gardens sticks split at one end with playing cards as flights sharpened the other end and a bootlace to fling em a hundred yards or so hours of fun for nowt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martyblues Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 How about putting a playing card into your rear wheel spoke and securing it with a peg onto the frame to make a sound when you rode along? classic, Biro tube small tin of rice, he he lacky band and paper folded pellet both equalled blackboard rubber at ninty mph in the class room Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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