please check if born before 1986...all frighteningly true

[steve.s]

this was going round the office, and very true.

back to today some would say progress, i think not though. see what you think......

>>Born before 1986??
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>>> According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us Who were
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>>> kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived
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>>> because first, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or
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>>> drank while they carried us.
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>>> They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for
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>>> diabetes, our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based
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>>> paint which was promptly chewed and licked.
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>>> We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or
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>>> cabinets and it was fine to play with pans. When we rode our bikes, we
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>>> wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on
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>>> our wheels. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or
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>>> airbags -riding in the passenger seat was a treat.We drank water from
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>>> the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.
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>>>
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>>> We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with
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>>> sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always
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>>> outside playing.
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>>> We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no
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>>> one actually died from this. We would spend hours building go-carts
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>>> out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out
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>>> we forgot the brakes.
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>>> After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve
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>>> the problem. We would leave home in the morning and could play all
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>>> day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to
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>>> reach us and no one minded.
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>>>
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>>> We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99
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>>> channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile
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>>> phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.
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>>>
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>>> We had friends - we went outside and found them.
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>>> We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!
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>>> We
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>>> fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no
>>lawsuits.
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>>> We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other
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>>> parents. We played chap-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of
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>>> the owners catching us. We walked to friends' homes. We also, believe
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>>> it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive
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>>> us to school, which was just round the corner.
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>>>
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>>> We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.
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>>> We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. The
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>>> idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard
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>>> of...They actually sided with the law. This generation has produced
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>>> some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever.
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>>> The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas
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>>> We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
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>>> how to deal with it all.
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>>>
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>>> And you're one of them. Congratulations!
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>>> Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real
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>>> kids,before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own
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>>> good.
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>>>
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>>> For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read
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>>> about This, my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might
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>>> put a smile on your face: The majority of students in universities
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>>> today were born in 1986........They are called youth.
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>>> They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children and the
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>>> Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They have never
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>>> heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda Carlisle.
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>>> (possibly not a bad thing of course....) For them, there has always
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>>> been only one Germany and one Vietnam.
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>>> AIDS has existed since they were born. CD's have existed since they
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>>> were born. Michael Jackson has always been white. To them John
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>>> Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't imagine how
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>>> this fat guy could be a god of dance. They believe that Charlie's
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>>> Angels and Mission Impossible are films from last year. They can never
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>>> imagine life before computers.
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>>> They'll never have pretended to be the A Team Red Hand Gang or the
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>>> Famous Five. They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It or Why
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>>> Don't You. They can't believe a black and white television ever
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>>> existed.
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>>> And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a
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>>> mobile phone.
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>>>
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>>> Now let's check if we're getting old...
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>>>
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>>> 1. You understand what was written above and you smiled.
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>>> 2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night
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>>> out.
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>>> 3. Your friends are getting married/already married.
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>>> 4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably
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>>> with computers.
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>>> 5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
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>>> 6. You remember watching Dirty Den in EastEnders the first time
>>around.
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>>> 7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old
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>>> days, repeating again all the funny things you have experienced
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>>> together.
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>>> 8. Having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some
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>>> other friends because you think they will like it too... Yes, you're
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>>> getting OLD!

[Dodgy Motor]

NO IDEA WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT....... :lol: I wish

[tracey steele]

i get this one your right i use to play out all day when i was a kid it felt safe in those days, on a snowy school day if the heating broke we still had to go to school we just had to put our coats on in class, not today, suger sarnie`s i had every day , my teeth are fine , yes i drank from the hose pipe too, no seat belts , i think we should choose if we want to risk our own life and not wear one, those were the days, drippin on bread i had lots, so many laws and rules today you can`t help feeling your being watched all the time , what happened to the feeling of freedom its all gone, to be honest i don`t feel british any more as a lot of british traditions seem to of just vanished

[frostrobo]

Thank you for making me feel old lol

Yeah I remember doing all those things... Kids of today are missing out!