Nostalgia

[nellie2]

This or something similar has been posted before...... but I thought I would resurrect it!! :)

Oh how true the following is! Remember any of this?

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 50's, 60's, and early 70'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.

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 dripping sandwiches, 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 play all day, as long as we were back

before it got dark. No one was able to reach us all day 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 and teeth, and there were no lawsuits. They were accidents. We learnt not to do the same thing again.

We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue we learned

to get over it. We walked to friend's homes. We also, believe it or not, 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 and ate live stuff, and although we were told it would happen, we did not have very many eyes out, nor did the live stuff live inside us forever.

We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. 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. > For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read

about

This my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a smile on your face.

The majority of students in universities today were born in 1983........They are called youth.

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, Nena or Belinda Carlisle.

For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.

AIDS has existed since they were born.

CD's have existed since they were born.

Michael Jackson has always been white.

To them John Travolta has always been round in 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 just new films out last year.

They think that N-Trance "set you free" is an Old Skool song.

They can never imagine life before computers.

They've never heard of Pac-Man or Space Invaders or BBC computers that have

Bat n Ball games.

They'll never have thought Brut was the sexiest aftershave ever.

They'll never have pretended to be the A Team, Red Hand Gang or the Famous Five.

They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It or Why Don't You.

They can't believe a black and white television ever existed and don't even know how to switch on a TV without a remote control.

And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile

phone.

:D :D :lol:

[Tankus]

We did all that ...then we bread the kids of today ....something went wrong ..!

[andsome]

Parents born in the 60's is where we went wrong, combined with the Nanny state.

[Guest Drovers Dog]

:P

Naw, Mate!!!

You are only half right!!!

In the 60's Computers came in, mind you in a small way, but enough to change the World forevermore!!

I remember, as a Lad, with a new Baby, watching my brother work as a Computer Programer, spending hours converting symbels to Tape for the MASSIVE MACHINE! I found out later that it had a 1K Capacity!!

A few years later that Baby came home with his Maths Homework, and there was all those Symbels!! I could not help him! These days I can help my Kids with their Maths, because it is back to what we learnt!

If you want to blame anything, just blame Progress gone Wrong!!

:censored: :D

[-pops-]

- - - -and Dettol was reserved for special occasions when you had severely cut yourself, not used at every concievable opportunity to kill (theoretical) deadly germs.

Domestos was used for bleaching cotton, not for sloshing everywhere these, again theoretical, deadly germs were hiding.

We got mucky but didn't care.

Note how the expansion of the current molly coddled nanny society corresponds to the introduction and development of commercial television in the 60's with its obsession with cleanliness, whiter than white, 99% of all known germs and similar things - trading on fears of some awful doom if your white washing didn't glow in the dark, that your house didn't constantly reek of a mixture of polish, bleach and disinfectant.

Of course things are "better" now aren't they? Nowadays we have a different product for every possible cleaning task. Gone is the bar of green soap and a scrubbing brush. Enter the cleaner for the cooker top, a different one for the grill and yet a third for the oven. Then there is the cleaner for the microwave, different to the one for your work surfaces which is different to the one for your cupboard doors. And just how many products are needed for your kitchen floor?

Let's not forget the non-products - those with no possible sensible use but sold by the many tonnes purely because of, say, some daft woman prancing around her house like a dervish on acid. One I'm thinking of in particular here is Shake'n'Vac. Who in their right mind would actually spend time sloshing powder over their floor just to vacuum it up again? It must be said, though, it was a marketing triumph and made SC Johnson a huge amount of money. There are several other products of this category - an example is the spray window cleaner. Almost all water with a very tiny amount of detergent, a perfume and vinegar enough to make it smell. True value? Almost nothing

I shouldn't criticise these too much, after all, the fragrances in these products paid my salary for a good number of years but I can't help thinking the world would be a better place without such stuff.

[andsome]

All very true pops. I do the shopping and cooking while 'Er indoors does the gardening, as I have said before. A few months back I was in Sainsbury's where one of the dreaded demonstrators tried to interest me in some Dettol wipes for putting underneath a kitchen floor mop. These were supposed to kill every germ known to mankind. I asked her what the hell we would need those for. She said that it would guarantee that the floor was as clean as the work surfaces. She was not happy when I pointed out that we used clean work surfaces to prepare food and clean plates to eat it from, and NEVER used the floor for such purposes. She could not provide a sensible answer when I pointed out that the very first person to step on the floor wearing outside shoes would undo all the good work. What a wast of money.

[Tankus]

She didn't give you her phone number then ......?, andsome ......., you must improve your chat up technique.....!

eg .....my my what an impressive mop you have .....!

[-pops-]

I am reminded of a graffiti many years ago painted on one of the gas holders just outside St Pancras station in London - you could see it as the train left the station:

"Nostalgia ain't what it used to be"

Think about it :D

[andsome]

She didn't give you her phone number then ......?, andsome ......., you must improve your chat up technique.....!

eg .....my my what an impressive mop you have .....!

I wouldn't have wanted it, I like my birds a lot slimmer than that one.

[ALBINOCAT]

:P a summary on this subject I recall reading once...."The advertising industry creates a need for the product thereby creating the market"...something like that..anyway.... :D