the good old days lol

[-(aaK)-grimreaper]

People over 35 should be dead. Here's why:

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived.
Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.
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 seatbelts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors!
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode 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 would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. NO CELL PHONES!!!!! U n t h i n k a b l e !
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, DVD's, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.
We had friends!
We went outside and found them.
We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember accidents?
We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home 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!
Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. Horrors!
Tests were not adjusted for any reason. Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law.
Imagine that!
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.
Congratulations...so far...so good!
Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good !!!!!

;D

[-(aaK)- Neil Faz]

I cant imagine that. Sounds like HIPPY bullcrap to me.

[RiO]

tbh i agree wiv everything he said lolol ;D

[-(aaK)-grimreaper]

lol a lot of you are to young to understand this old stuff espically the lead paint issue lmao back in the day it use to be pretty ruthless i use to have all kinds of brusies and stiches from all the stuff i did growing up and im shure others were right along doing the old pranks and such now you cant even joke around like that cause some one will get pissed and sue or pull out a gun and shoot ya lmao

[Buzz]

[glow=red,2,300]Bahhhh Younsters these days know nowt, when ar werrrree a lad we had wholemeal bread, and nowt else apart from water, Food!!! we would have eaten a measly pea an't be thankfull, aye lad tha knows, eh whassat, speak up..... did I say shout I aint deaf.... kids of today eh with their fancy long trousers, and school, dont get me started on t schools of nowadays, we never had chairs and desks, oh no no not us, we had to make do with being taught using t mud in t playground aye, and we still had t get up at 3 of the clock in t morning and gan down t pit bfore school n all, and that was with just a tiny piece of 2 year old cheddar in t top pocket aye:P[/glow]

[Rik-[FD]]

I feel a Monty Python quote coming on:

That's nothing. When I were a lad, we used to get up at 2 O'clock (half an hour before we went to bed). We would go out and lick the road clean with our tongues before going home to our cardboard box where our pap would chop us into little bits to feed the dog.

A cardboard box? You were lucky mate......


Considering the age of the Python team now, I think it demonstrates that every generation think they had it harder than the previous ones. For instance, Grim talks about people getting stressy with you if you take the piss or something...however, when I was at school, certain teachers would throw not only chalk or board rubbers at you but also CHAIRS if you were talking in class. Can you imagine what would happen these days if a teacher threw a chair at one of his pupils?

What I'm trying to say is that things change. "Dangers" come from different places but we've all had to face them and everyone to come will probably have to as well.

[Wuk]

It's always the same ... i must know that ... iam young.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics'