CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!!

Something doing the facebook rounds, so true....



CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!! First, you 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, your baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when you rode your bikes, you had no helmets, not to mention, the risks you took hitchhiking .. As children, you would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun. You drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle. You shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. You ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but you weren't overweight because...... YOU WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! You 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 you all day. And you were OK. You would spend hours building your go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out you forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, you learned to solve the problem . You 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 mobile phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........YOU HAD FRIENDS and you went outside and found them! You fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents you played with worms(well most boys did) and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. You made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although you were told it would happen, you did not poke out any eyes. You 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 you out if you 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. You had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and you 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.

 

Re: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!

All true. Except the bit about video games. I had an Amstrad 464. Although, I used to go and laik art for 3 hours while it loaded.

 

Re: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!

fantastic post oh i'm a '82 so I qualify

 

Re: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!

Wow, I didn't realise how lucky I was until I saw this and I have done everything on that list!

 

Re: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!

Yep I'm a 72 child and most of that was my childhood although we did get a Grandstand sports console and a spectrum once the 80s arrived.

 

Re: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!

I'm not adverse to sharing the odd thing I think will be of interest or give people a chuckle. This follows the discussions about the overly PC/Nanny state we all allegedly live in.

 

completely 100% agree with all of that

as its 100% true, 1955 for me so I am well in the bracket, I remember it all well ..

Tere 14 of us livin' in t'shoebox in t'middle of t'road.... LUXURY

 

Re: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!

82 also - just came at about the right time for video games on the Speccy and an Amiga but, you're right, we did play outside a lot more.

Television, as I remember it, was watching a half hour programme that you liked and then returning back to the TV when something else came on that you liked. I miss getting the Christmas TV guide and circling all the films/programmes I wanted to watch. My parents did have Sky TV when I was still quite young (about 1990ish?) but it was an absolute sack of rubbish, the only thing of note I remember watching on it in the early days was The Simpsons which never came on terrestrial TV until the late 90's.

 

Re: completely 100% agree with all of that

1973, 100% true. That's actually in a frame ont wall int Mount pub. Was reading it the other day.

 

I also remember going down the Clough's at Hoyland, before they built all over it

we would drink from the stream at the bottom with no worries at all... we would also sometimes dig up some spuds from the farmers field and roast them in a fire we made ...they were black on the outside and raw as hell in the middle... but we ate them and survived too. We played all manner of games down there, made rope swings across the stream and platforms up in the trees... I remember Johnny Brennan falling out of a tree 5000000 feet tall he broke his arm and bounced quite a bit , but no real lasting damage .

 

Re: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!

Those were the days; When Spectrum, Commodore 64 and CPC 464 owners used to shout abuse at each other in the street.

I had a C64, by the way.

 

Re: completely 100% agree with all of that

YOU WERE LUCKY......... 56 for me

 

Re: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!

Its funny how the kids who lived through those experiences became the parents that banned them for their own kids...

 

Re: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!

back when floppy discs were actually floppy...

 

Re: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!

70 for me - c64 for me - spectrum sucked

 

Re: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!

The football games on mine were brilliant. One, 'Trevor Brooking's World Cup Glory' or summat daft, was hard as fook.

My mate had an Amiga by the late 80's, and along came Sensible Soccer and we loved that, in between building dens, playing hide n seek, playing football and jumping in Elsecar canal/resevoir.

Ahhh, memories.

 

Re: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!

Also catapults, and throwing arrows, and swimming in canal locks with leeches stuck to you. Makes you wonder how we survived

 

Re: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!

Remember divers rock up at the lido and nicking old lorry tyre innertubes for floats. Buying single cigs from Bobs shop and raiding the local building sites for the empty pop bottles so we could take them back for the 5p deposit. Them tree houses down at the beck were quality and the air raid shelter dens and old toy bins (black and red) were a dream come true for a group of kids with a sense of adventure. Oh and the hills and woods were legendary.

 

Re: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!

Ha ha. Great post, Mr C.