Tom
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Most of this applies to me...................
..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
'clackers' on our wheels. (I think you will find they were known as spokey
dokeys - some old git wrote this)
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 pop 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 Internet chat rooms. We had friends we went
outside and found them.
We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really
hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones but there were
no lawsuits.
We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.
We played knock-down-ginger and were afraid of the owners catching us.
We walked to friend's 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.(I'd like to
add if they did drive a car it wasn't a huge bull bar equipped 4x4 SUV)
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 up as real kids,
before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.
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Robbo
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That is sp true... I used 2 go out an play with friends (war games/footie/cycling etc) and wudnt come back til 6ish 4 me tea, no-one cared... thems were the days 
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antonOO2
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We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
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Tom
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Yeah and we used to have water fights and just turn up to see mates and have grass fights in the summer on the way home walking back from school and we used to have massive games of briutish bulldog and make our own big bonfires on bonfire night (was loads of older lads I hung round with) was such a good time of your life, i'm so gutted to be old
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Robbo
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quote:
Originally posted by Tom D
have grass fights in the summer on the way home walking back from school
And now we spend all day slogging away at work :'(
PS, me mam hated the grass stains on me clothes from them!!
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Natalie
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We used to roll around in the grass and pretend the germans were gonna get us 
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Icy
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Registered: 31st Jan 01
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aaaaaaah memories 
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Tom
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And I used to play 'house' with the girl who lived next door she was mum I was dad 
Robbo yeah grass stains in your shite school shirts
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Robbo
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Me an my mate used 2 play loads of war games in the huge fields behind my house (it was a bit like a jungle loadsa trees an hills etc... was brilliant) with toy guns and no one cared an no one wanted 2 rape/sexually assault us! Its a shame its all driveing around and paedos and mobile fones now :'(
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Robbo
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quote:
Originally posted by Tom D
Robbo yeah grass stains in your shite school shirts
Hell yes!!
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Tom
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quote:
Originally posted by RobboSRi
Me an my mate used 2 play loads of war games in the huge fields behind my house (it was a bit like a jungle loadsa trees an hills etc... was brilliant) with toy guns and no one cared an no one wanted 2 rape/sexually assault us! Its a shame its all driveing around and paedos and mobile fones now :'(
Yeah so true, there were loads of places round ours called the breck the mound etc, was all just like mini forest or hill land, odd weird fella now n then be we just used to throw things at them, used to love getting 'legged' aswell
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MatthewR
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Registered: 21st Oct 02
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Who used to play runouts?
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Robbo
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I want 2 be eight again now :S
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Icy
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i loved going round my estate with the ringer on on my Street Wolf bmx
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Tom
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quote:
Originally posted by RobboSRi
I want 2 be eight again now :S
Yeah I might see if my mates wana game of slam 2nite
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Ojc
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I used to play wargames, go over the back of our estate and go fishing in the dykes and build bases out of the left over building material the builders left after building our houses, our bases as you can imagine were excellent
How I miss summer days in Kent 
How I miss a simple life
How I miss that the only thing I had to worry about was that I had 18 gears on my mountain bike.
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leeshez
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2 True
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Tom
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
I used to play wargames, go over the back of our estate and go fishing in the dykes and build bases out of the left over building material the builders left after building our houses, our bases as you can imagine were excellent
How I miss summer days in Kent
How I miss a simple life
How I miss that the only thing I had to worry about was that I had 18 gears on my mountain bike.
Yesh didn't even care what clothes I had then as long as I was allowed out to my den's or to go with the older ones swimming or to the sand dunes
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
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quote:
Originally posted by Tom D
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.
No, it tasted better from the hose
Those were the days eh. Some very good points in there.
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Ben
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british bulldog was quality
when u wa thursty and wanted a drink ya wud just from anyones outside tap lol!
and fill up ur waterbombs in summer (or winter if ya had em) and soak each other.
hide and seek and scarpa lol!
i really miss been young now!
but now kids parents have spoiled it all wi complainin all time and taking everything to a no win no fee solicitor because her kid fell on pavement!
in them days ya wud just get up, stop crying , dust ya self off and carry on!
i remember wen about 6 of us had gocarts and we bombed about the village , i used to have an old tax disc selotaped on
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Matt H
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all true
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the_legend_of_yrag
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quote:
Originally posted by Ben
british bulldog was quality
when u wa thursty and wanted a drink ya wud just from anyones outside tap lol!
and fill up ur waterbombs in summer (or winter if ya had em) and soak each other.
hide and seek and scarpa lol!
i really miss been young now!
but now kids parents have spoiled it all wi complainin all time and taking everything to a no win no fee solicitor because her kid fell on pavement!
in them days ya wud just get up, stop crying , dust ya self off and carry on!
i remember wen about 6 of us had gocarts and we bombed about the village , i used to have an old tax disc selotaped on
We used to drink from the old fire water thingies whatever there called!! lol
Have about 5 in my village but most are broke as people have kicked em down etc.
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IntaCepta
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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wow! how true!
All the memories, think we were better off growing up then than now..
what are kids doing now?
dressing up in rudeboy custumes, wearing more gold on them than what their parents own.
talk to each other in rudeboy language,
shooting/kniving people.
oopz, think i need to go buy meself a pair of slippers and a pipe!
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