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Do you remember? The days of Chopper bikes, going to the disco, going to the pool. TopDeck shandy, dandelion and burdock?
DAVID SCOTT does.
It's enough to make you wonder whether nostalgia today is as good as it was.....
ACCORDING to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us .who were kids m the60s, 70s and early 80s probably shouldn't have survived. Why? Because: our cots were covered with brightly coloured coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles or latches on kitchen cabinet doors and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent spokey dokeys on our wheels.
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, not from a bottle and it tasted the same.
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice 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-karts out of scrap 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 PlayStation or X-Box, no video games at all. No 99channels on TV, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no internet chatrooms.
We had friends - we went outside and found them and played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!
We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law suits. We had full-on fist flights but no prosecution followed from other parents.
We walked to our friends' 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.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.
We rode bikes in pack sof seven 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 past50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We bad freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. And you're one of them. Congratulations! Pass this good news on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.
For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read about us. This, my friends, is quite frightening... and it might put a smile on your face: The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986.
They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children, and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Small Faces, Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beeky, Mick and Titch
For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam. Aids has existed since they were born. CDs have existed since they were born. Michael Jackson has always been white. To them John Travolta has always been that shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance. They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are films from last year. They can never imagine life before computers. They've never pretended to be the ATeam or the Famous Five.They've never applied to be on Jim'11Fte It or Why Don't You.. ?They can't believe black and white TV ever existed and don't know how to switch on the telly without a remote control. And they phone and text and phone and text and phone and text. Now let's check if we're getting old:
1. You understand what was written above and you smile.
2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.
3. Your friends are getting married/already married/re-marrying.
4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.
5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6. You remember watching Dirty Den in East Enders the first time around.
7. You meet your friends from tune to time, talking about the good old days repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together.
8. Having read this, you are thinking of cutting it out and sending it to some old friends because you think they will like it too. Yes, you're getting old.
DAVID SCOTT does.
It's enough to make you wonder whether nostalgia today is as good as it was.....
ACCORDING to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us .who were kids m the60s, 70s and early 80s probably shouldn't have survived. Why? Because: our cots were covered with brightly coloured coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles or latches on kitchen cabinet doors and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent spokey dokeys on our wheels.
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, not from a bottle and it tasted the same.
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice 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-karts out of scrap 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 PlayStation or X-Box, no video games at all. No 99channels on TV, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no internet chatrooms.
We had friends - we went outside and found them and played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!
We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law suits. We had full-on fist flights but no prosecution followed from other parents.
We walked to our friends' 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.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.
We rode bikes in pack sof seven 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 past50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We bad freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. And you're one of them. Congratulations! Pass this good news on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.
For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read about us. This, my friends, is quite frightening... and it might put a smile on your face: The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986.
They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children, and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Small Faces, Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beeky, Mick and Titch
For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam. Aids has existed since they were born. CDs have existed since they were born. Michael Jackson has always been white. To them John Travolta has always been that shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance. They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are films from last year. They can never imagine life before computers. They've never pretended to be the ATeam or the Famous Five.They've never applied to be on Jim'11Fte It or Why Don't You.. ?They can't believe black and white TV ever existed and don't know how to switch on the telly without a remote control. And they phone and text and phone and text and phone and text. Now let's check if we're getting old:
1. You understand what was written above and you smile.
2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.
3. Your friends are getting married/already married/re-marrying.
4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.
5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6. You remember watching Dirty Den in East Enders the first time around.
7. You meet your friends from tune to time, talking about the good old days repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together.
8. Having read this, you are thinking of cutting it out and sending it to some old friends because you think they will like it too. Yes, you're getting old.
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