CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1920's, 30's 40's, 50's, 6

[Eyeball Chambers]

I was born in 89 and I did all the shit on that list.  I pretty much lived outside when I was younger, sunburn/tan/melanoma bonanza.  I blew shit up, broke people's bones (accidentally), collected scorpions,  ate anything that wouldn't break my teeth off, wrestled and fought with kids, jousted on bikes with huge sticks, used to carve spears with my pocket knife, sword fights with scrap metal, mustering cattle quite often at the grandparents farm, street water bomb fights, rock fights, road footy, all the fun shit.

Same with me, I had a pocket knife confiscated by my teacher at school in 2nd or 3rd grade.  Didn't get suspended or any of the crazy shit they do to kids today...

[onlyme]

I was born in 58' and grew up in the 70's.  It was awesome back then.  I graduated in 76' which was a great year too.  I am happy to have lived through and experience the things I have.  Kind of makes the shitty times more bearable.

[Cleanest Natural]

I was born in 58' and grew up in the 70's.  It was awesome back then.  I graduated in 76' which was a great year too.  I am happy to have lived through and experience the things I have.  Kind of makes the shitty times more bearable.

props keith....

[packetman]

Arent the kids of the 60's and 70's raising the kids of today?

Good point...'70

[chocolate fizz]

right on Sevastase

the best times in history have gone....50s,60s,70s....jesus christ....those decades in terms of cultural, social, and musical change are unsurpassed....90s and 00s can only compete in technological change, which has been kick ass I might say, but then again, no fucking Intel chip or ADSL connection every brought me as much fun as driving across the US, beer in one hand, cig in other and a combi full of hippes and Led Zeppelin on the radio....living like we were forever young....FUCKING-A-MEN BROTHER!!!

those days are gone....freedom as we use to know it is a warped realty...

getbig is our only chance...

You really have no clue about the identity of those that engineered the social revolution of counter culture, do you?

Jesus, the gentiles truly are dumb.

[Get Rowdy]

Same with me, I had a pocket knife confiscated by my teacher at school in 2nd or 3rd grade.  Didn't get suspended or any of the crazy shit they do to kids today...

If that had happened today they'd have thought you were going to kill your classmates or something, it's bullshit.

[garebear]

Same with me, I had a pocket knife confiscated by my teacher at school in 2nd or 3rd grade.  Didn't get suspended or any of the crazy shit they do to kids today...

Right. It is CRAZY to suspend a kid for bringing a knife to class. Just crazy.

[polychronopolous]

The cycle of 80 years theory... it's almost 2010....

Roughly 80 years ago was the Great Depression and World War 2. Eighty years before that was the Civil War. 80 years before that, the Revolutionary War. Roughly 80 years before that the Glorious Revolution...
Roughly 80 years before that the Armada Crisis. And roughly 80 years before that the War of the Roses.

All bullshit, yes most likely, but entertaining to contemplate about none-the-less.

[The Coach]

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1920's, 30's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses full of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese & 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 cadging lifts.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

A trip to the beach on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the stream and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Kebabs.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and only opened for a few hours at weekends, 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 shop and buy fruit Spangles and some bangers to blow up frogs with.

We ate buns, white bread and real butter 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 mobile phones - no one was able to reach us all day. And we were always O.K.

We would spend hours building our trolleys out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in streams with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on Sky, no video tape or DVD movies, no surround sound, 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.......no really!

We had air guns and catapults for our birthdays,

We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing.


We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them from the street!

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!


Mum & dad didn't need Brandy, Whisky whatever when they came in from work!

Footy had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather straps and bully's always ruled the playground at school.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we 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 70 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 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.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

My God.......this brought back so many memories of an awesome childhood. I was born in 62' and even throughout the mid 70's and through high school is was great. I remember going to my friends house at the end of the street on my bike in the pouring rain and having all the neighborhood kids meet for a football game in the mud, we called it "The Mud Bowl" on Thanksgiving it was "The Turkey Bowl" and Christmas was "The Santa Bowl". Gone are the times when you actually grew up with your friends. I grew up with my friends from the time I was 6 all the way through high school. Not that way anymore, now people are buying homes, waiting for equity to climb, then up rooting the kids from their friends and moving to a bigger home. To me that sucks. Just when kids have friends, it's time to move because parents nowadays want "bigger". Damn, I could go on for ever as with anyone around my age.

That was the age of security.........not so anymore I'm afraid.

[polychronopolous]

So, you think "Working hard, and voting Republican" are going to bring back these shitty memories from your past?

Republicans rely on the vote of religious fanatics, homophobes, racists and guys like you who look back at their childhood with "rose coloured glasses" just so they can still more money from your kids/grandkids future

[The Coach]

So, you think "Working hard, and voting Republican" are going to bring back these shitty memories from your past?

Republicans rely on the vote of religious fanatics, homophobes, racists and guys like you who look back at their childhood with "rose coloured glasses" just so they can still more money from your kids/grandkids future

Dude, I'm far from racist and far from homophobe. There is no dem or republican that could ever bring back those times me or my kid. The politicians now have fucked everything up (and that includes repubs) compared to back then but then again, like my son, I didn't know any better nor did I care. But all I know Kennedy was a GREAT President and would probably be considered a conservative now or at the very least a repub. This is a great thread, don't screw it up.

[polychronopolous]

Dude, I'm far from racist and far from homophobe. There is no dem or republican that could ever bring back those times me or my kid. The politicians now have fucked everything up compared to back then but then again, like my son, I didn't know any better nor did I care. But all I know Kennedy was a GREAT President and would probably be considered a conservative now or at the very least a repub. This is a great thread, don't screw it up.

And you are going to fuck this country even worse by voting for a ticket that includes a Presidential candidate who opposes the Free Choice Act (which would bolster the middle class wages), and a vice-presidential candidate who is a complete disgrace. Yes, no jokes or punchlines, just the WORST vice-presidential candidate in over 200 years of this great country.

You will vote for these two people just so Rush or Sean Hannity can have "talking point". It's all bullshit coach, Sean Hannity will never talk bad about George Bush even though he has a fucking 27% approval rating!!!! Spin city baby!! The "liberal media!?" yeah right, multi-billionaires own the media, not democrats and they ain't votin democrat.   Just think about that, quit being a robot who listens to this crap everyday, following it blindly.

[The Coach]

And you are going to fuck this country even worse by voting for a ticket that includes a Presidential candidate who opposes the Free Choice Act (which would bolster the middle class wages), and a vice-presidential candidate who is a complete disgrace. Yes, no jokes or punchlines, just the WORST vice-presidential candidate in over 200 years of this great country.

You will vote for these two people just so Rush or Sean Hannity can have "talking point". It's all bullshit coach, Sean Hannity will never talk bad about George Bush even though he has a fucking 27% approval rating!!!! Spin city baby!! The "liberal media!?" yeah right, multi-billionaires own the media, not democrats and they ain't votin democrat.   Just think about that, quit being a robot who listens to this crap everyday, following it blindly.

Lets just say I won't vote for a socialist/communist who has ties to corruption to anything liberal, Ayers, ACORN, Fannie/Freddie, his "pastor" etc, etc,etc,etc,etc,etc,etc. As for Hannity, you don't listen to anything if you don't think he disagrees with Bush. Call it bullshit, call it what you want. You vote for Obama your voting for socialism and at the very least marxism and you've been duped. And like I said before, you deserve who you vote for. All I know is, it's going to be a close election and if some God forsaken reason Obama wins....my ass is covered financially........he can kiss my ass. As for the security of this country? If he wins and we get hit in a port, nuclear or financial districts? Your fucked and we're all fucked because he put everything else ahead of the protection of this country.

[polychronopolous]

Lets just say I won't vote for a socialist/communist who has ties to corruption to anything liberal, Ayers, ACORN, Fannie/Freddie, his "pastor" etc, etc,etc,etc,etc,etc,etc. As for Hannity, you don't listen to anything if you don't think he disagrees with Bush. Call it bullshit, call it what you want. You vote for Obama your voting for socialism and at the very least marxism and you've been duped. And like I said before, you deserve who you vote for. All I know is, it's going to be a close election and if some God forsaken reason Obama wins....my ass is covered financially........he can kiss my ass. As for the security of this country? If he wins and we get hit in a port, nuclear or financial districts? Your fucked and we're all fucked because he put everything else ahead of the protection of this country.

"His pastor"? How about Palin's pastor praying over her to prevent the "witchcraft". That didn't scare you in the least bit? This imbucile is just one heartbeat away from a 72 year old man (whose dad died at 70?) dying to become the most powerful person in the world!!!

C'mon coach, you say Kennedy was a great president, and I agree, during the Russian Crisis, he played it cool, he took the diplomatic route, and it probably saved millions and millions of lives. You wan't this dumb mumbling bitch to be in control of this nation is McCain passes away!? She will pull the trigger thinking she is doing "God's Work" I swear to you if the democrats came up with a V.P. candidate like this I would vote for McCain in a heart beat.

Why all the fear-mongering? Do you really think that a republican is going to protect us any more than a democrat from a twenty something person who decides to do some crazy shit? We are no more safer under Republicans than we are Democrats.

I love how you bring out the word "socialism" at any chance you can, like we will suddenly become Russia...1920's as soon as a Democrat is brought into office. Why do you have to go to the extreme like that? Maybe some regulation is good in the market? Maybe we shouldn't be playing the market like a night in Las Vegas? Have you ever thought it would be good to actually invest in the United States of America for the long term?

[The Coach]

"His pastor"? How about Palin's pastor praying over her to prevent the "witchcraft". That didn't scare you in the least bit? This imbucile is just one heartbeat away from a 72 year old man (whose dad died at 70?) dying to become the most powerful person in the world!!!

No, and I know you won't get this....but it was IN THE NAME OF JESUS

C'mon coach, you say Kennedy was a great president, and I agree, during the Russian Crisis, he played it cool, he took the diplomatic route, and it probably saved millions and millions of lives. You wan't this dumb mumbling bitch to be in control of this nation is McCain passes away!? She will pull the trigger thinking she is doing "God's Work" I swear to you if the democrats came up with a V.P. candidate like this I would vote for McCain in a heart beat.

Use some commonsense, you act as though McCain is going to drop dead the day after he gets inagurated. McCain has the foreign policy experiance almost the same way Biden (might) have the experiance. Palin was the Governor of a state that benefited from her being in office. Obama was the "community organizer" of a district in Chicago that, for all intensive purposes, failed.


Why all the fear-mongering? Do you really think that a republican is going to protect us any more than a democrat from a twenty something person who decides to do some crazy shit? We are no more safer under Republicans than we are Democrats.

Yes, Obama made no bones about taking from the military budget and putting it into social programs. Take away from the military you take away from our National security

I love how you bring out the word "socialism" at any chance you can, like we will suddenly become Russia...1920's as soon as a Democrat is brought into office. Why do you have to go to the extreme like that? Maybe some regulation is good in the market? Maybe we shouldn't be playing the market like a night in Las Vegas? Have you ever thought it would be good to actually invest in the United States of America for the long term?

Not Democrats but Liberals, you know as well as I do they want people to run to the government for everything and without a blink, they are willing to accomodate. They want to take from the rich, give to the poor (lazy) and raise taxes on it for social issues.....that's socialism, marxism at best.

[newmom]

Dont forget, we got a an ass spanking if we misbehavied and our parents didnt have to worry about the state knocking on the door or anything. Timeouts dont work for serious punishments. I remember, back in early 80's when I used to get an allowance, and believe me I had to earn it with chores, my dad took out 2 bucks for taxes back then.  Basic lesson, dont coddle kids, be firm and let them know who is boss. Its funny, no one was stricter than my dad, but if my 3 year old acts up and I discipline her, he goes dee dont be so hard on her, I look at him like he is nuts. I said dad if I did that, you would of beaten my ass.

Born in 1969..

[polychronopolous]

Dont forget, we got a an ass spanking if we misbehavied and our parents didnt have to worry about the state knocking on the door or anything. Timeouts dont work for serious punishments. I remember, back in early 80's when I used to get an allowance, and believe me I had to earn it with chores, my dad took out 2 bucks for taxes back then.  Basic lesson, dont coddle kids, be firm and let them know who is boss. Its funny, no one was stricter than my dad, but if my 3 year old acts up and I discipline her, he goes dee dont be so hard on her, I look at him like he is nuts. I said dad if I did that, you would of beaten my ass.

Born in 1969..

Born in 1981, I have had my ass beaten by my parents if I stepped out of line.

I have drove across state with a six pack of beer right next to me, and a quarter bag of smoke, listening to rock music hanging out with friends.

I have been busted with a little smoke, and let free because the cop used to live next door to my grandmother and knew that I was a good kid.

I have been pulled over after having a little too much to drink on a backroad, and the police officer allowed one of my friends dads to come pick me up after sitting and talking with me about it for about 15 minutes.

I still can go back to the neighborhood I grew up in and see alot of my good friends growing up.

I love how older people seem to think that they lived in these "golden years" and we in our twenties had it SO BAD!! We had keg parties in some persons field, or right by the river. Sometimes we got a break, sometimes we didn't. I have been given corporal punishment by my football coach, a paddling right there in the locker room.

I remember a couple guys got into a fist fight before practice, the coach made them run for 30 minutes straight, then the two guys agreed to put on the boxing gloves and go for 3, thirty second rounds in front of everyone.

Everything isn't ULTRA LIBERAL, all of the sudden.... I can't comment on people that are 18 now because I am not in touch with them, just like anyone over 40 really can't be in touch with how my generation in the south grew up.

[Rudee]

This is old as the hills.