For Those Born Before 1986

 

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According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80'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 'spokey dokey's' 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 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-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 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 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 DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.

 

We had friends - we went outside and found them.

 

We 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 fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.

 

We played knock a door run and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.

 

We walked to 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 packs of 7 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 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. And you're one of them. Congratulations!

 

 

 

Pass this 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 surprisingly frightening......and it might put a smile on your face:

 

 

 

The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986........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 Cherry 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 films from last year. They can never imagine life before computers. They'll never have pretended to be the A Team, RedHand 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 they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone.

 

 

 

 

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.

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 EastEnders the first time around.

7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good Old days, repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together.

8. Having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to someone. ;)

LOL .. How true ..

 

Bringing back happy memories for me ..

lol..that was brilliant

 

 

...oh the good ol' days

LOL very true

 

1,3,6,7,8 is my checklist damn im feeling old and im only 24 :cry:

That my friend is probably the best thread on any forum I have ever had the pleasure to read. I have copy and pasted it for future reference.

 

I was a bit sad to notice the absence of "GLAM ROCK"???

 

but nethertheless. EXCELLENT. (you old b45t4rd)

lol, those certainly were the days!

Ok then, who can remember what bmx they had? :D

I had one of those raleigh burners with the yellow

skyway wheels, then a redline one after that :bow:

Fook me I was too old for a BMX!! I had a raleigh racing bike wich of course I modded .. A mate did have a 'grifter' (I think that is what they were called, my memory is failing)

 

I was born in 67 though

Molly coddeld little turds nowadays :headvswal

 

lol....Red Hand Gang....id forgotton bout that

lol, those certainly were the days!

Ok then, who can remember what bmx they had? :D

I had one of those raleigh burners with the yellow

skyway wheels, then a redline one after that :bow:

 

MonGoose :bow:

 

& a raleigh burner before that :D

The good old days.

You could leave your door unlocked and catch polio at the swimming pool. Or consumption. ;)

 

Seriously though - none of that leaded paint and go karts ever did me any harm and I'm 30.

omg im only 26 and that made me feel old haha. Another thing we used to do was get abit of cardboard and slide down the biggest hill we could find, only to forget there was a lake at the bottom of it :rofl:

 

You wouldnt find many girls doing that now lol

Spot on, all applies to me.

 

Makes me feel really old!!!

Fook me I was too old for a BMX!! I had a raleigh racing bike wich of course I modded .. A mate did have a 'grifter' (I think that is what they were called, my memory is failing)

 

I was born in 67 though

 

LOL @ Raleigh racer - me too Chris! And yes, Grifters were pretty popular down my way.

 

Steve :)

Us old boys have to stick together mate .. LOL ...

had a budgie first then a chopper then a grifter or the other way round cant remember

IIRC those grifters were well heavy .. GOD only knows how anyone got round on them .. LMAO

I whole heartedly agree with you on this sideshowbob and have to admit that I comply with all 8 points (god I must be getting old).

Spot on !!!!!!, I'll need to print it of for the work mates.

 

fook me a BMX that was one of them new fangled thingumy bikes :)

 

in my day it was a raleigh tomahawk ( or if you were bigger a chopper) :)

OMG.....brilliant!!!!

 

anyone remember when u used to stand up to peddle on the grifter and really go for it ??

 

 

Always managed to change the gear change on the twist grip handle bar to nuetral, smack ur nuts and fall off!!!! :wack:

 

I'm pretty sure this was on the grifter, my memory aint what it used to be :xxx:

 

Anyone remember???

 

 

Anyone else got altzhiemers at 32???? :rolleyes:

Class, That was my childhood down to a T, right after I escaped from the Labratory! LOL :rofl:

I had a Raleigh Tomahawk (baby chopper) which I put cardboard in the spokes to make it sound like and engine. Walked around the neighbourhood writing down car reg number. Collected loads of spiders in a glass. collected newts fron the cycle path gutters lol. made watches out of cardboard, drink mr frosty drinks, chuck bricks on my toy cars to make em look like they had been in a crash, make dens in the woods, find and old t-shirt and draw a football kit onto it then went to the park to play football thinking i looked cool. Mind you I was from a one parent family in a council house so couls not buy real watches, footie kits.

lol, those certainly were the days!

Ok then, who can remember what bmx they had? :D

I had one of those raleigh burners with the yellow

skyway wheels, then a redline one after that :bow:

 

 

i had a black bmx type thing had black mags wheels and had differant sound effects on black fox i think it was called,my friends were so envious

 

spectrum 128k and waiting 3hours to load,could cause epilepsy to those who didnt even suffer from it to :nono:

 

ummmm stone throwing,walking through streams looking for eels,god i miss those times :cry:

That was amazing, brought a tear to my eye :cry: Made my own bike, put a banana seat on it, a long whippy arial, cow horns and 4 squeese horns. And they think they've got bling today lol. If anyone walks round our streets today collecting number plates they probably work for a gang of ringers!! Who remembers drinking CRESTA and just having to say 'ITS FROTHY MAN' just like the polar bear?? :p :p :p

oh and knicking my mums shopper with the 3gears it was a fold up one also,use to undo the centre connection ride down a hill until the bike use to fold up whilst traveling at sonic speeds :p

 

in the winter when it snowed stealing mums t tray and go down the steepest iciest slope PMSL great fun

i only sold my bmx last year...the campin trips were good especially when the "girls" found out they would come up and tease the foook out of us the dirty little minxs

omg im 23 and feel old!!!

 

thats class.