TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940’s, 50’s 60’s,70s

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TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940’s, 50’s 60’s,70s

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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS 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 made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored 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 hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a Bakkie on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Steers, Nandos.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn’t open on the 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 store and buy Chappies, Wilson’s Toffees, Wicks Bubble Gum and some crackers to blow up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, 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 one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and cubby houses and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on DSTV, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, 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 were given pellet guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,

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

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

RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT AND NOT DUE TO BLACKMAIL, THREATS AND GUILT FROM THE PAST..... strange but true!

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!

Our parents didn’t invent stupid names for their kids like “Kiora” and “Blade” and “Ridge” and “Vanilla”

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.

PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age anymore
There is a certain type of mentality that thinks if you make certain inanimate objects illegal their criminal misuse will disappear!

Damn the TSA and Down with the BATF(u)E!
Support the J P F O to "Give them the Boot"!!
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The rubber band gun wars. The rubber bands were sections of innertubes.

Without the aid of alcoholic beverages we would try things like using broom sticks, peach crate lids, and bicycles to re-create medevil jousts. About one major wreck per session.
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I was born in '47.

When we played "war" as kids, we loaded a bit of clay into the muzzle of our air rifles. Stung when you got hit. But nobody put an eye out.
"Youth and skill are no match for age and treachery." Unknown

“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.” Sigmund Freud

"Oderint dum metuant." ("Let them hate, so long as they fear.") Accius
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Silly us, we played Knights of the Medieval Castle and jousted...

Pick up a metal garbage can lid, a corn broom and get on our bikes and "charge"...This of course was done on either the paved back lane or the sidewalk in front of the houses...

Remember riding back from a trip and laying across the back window shelf/ledge nearly the entire journey...
There is a certain type of mentality that thinks if you make certain inanimate objects illegal their criminal misuse will disappear!

Damn the TSA and Down with the BATF(u)E!
Support the J P F O to "Give them the Boot"!!
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And I forgot to mention, my Mom (may She rest is peace) smoked 1-2 packs a day through her pregnancy with me, and on doctor's orders, drank a large wine every day. I weighed nearly 10 pounds at birth.
"Youth and skill are no match for age and treachery." Unknown

“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.” Sigmund Freud

"Oderint dum metuant." ("Let them hate, so long as they fear.") Accius
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CByrneIV wrote:BB gun fights. Everyone wore jackets, jeans, and glasses or sunglasses. One pump only, no CO2.

Great fun.
Ditto. We also added "wrist rocket" sling shots as artillery. Only small rocks, no ball bearings, and only long range, indirect H&I fire allowed.

ETA: We had our battles in the hills behind my house, plenty of cover from Oak trees and granite rock formations. 5-10 combatants per side.
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CByrneIV wrote:BB gun fights. Everyone wore jackets, jeans, and glasses or sunglasses. One pump only, no CO2.

Great fun.
AYUP - we had Daisy BB guns, the ones with lever action and octagonal barrels - and they looked like Yellow Boys - but I can't find any useful info on Daisy's site.

I wish I still had mine, it might be worth some money.
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON

A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.

I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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We used the dirt clods from aerated lawns as grenades. And there was always a water fight in the neighborhood (the whole neighborhood joined in), and pickup basketball or baseball or hockey pretty much daily. Man, I miss being a kid.
workinwifdakids wrote: We've thus far avoided the temptation to jack an entire forum.

But what the hell.
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