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I WAS BRUNG UP PROPER !!





CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70's !



First, we survived being born to mothers who 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 and tuna from a can.



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 hitchhiking.



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



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, Subway or 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 Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers 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 old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY ,

no video/dvd films,

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...



We were given air 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

Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes 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'



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

:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl Those were the good ole days weren't they. !!!

And I'd like to add...........they didn't start selling Christmas merchandise at the end of September

My word, what it must have been like to have lived that long ago. Talk about the primitive dark ages, that's practically biblical. Did they have telephones back then?

Actually I remember when we got our first phone and our black and white TV with a 6in screen at best. Nothing high tech back then..!!

Yes spot, we had party lines!

CARLA;1336061 wrote: Actually I remember when we got our first phoneWhat sort of battery life did you get on standby?

No such thing as stand by it was a big black desk phone with a dial on it that you put your finger in for each number and dialed...!! then we got a push button one. No batteries just telephone cord. :wah:

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CARLA;1336075 wrote: No such thing as stand by it was a big black desk phone with a dial on it that you put your finger in for each number and dialed...!! then we got a push button one. No batteries just telephone cord. :wah:


A cord and no battery? You mean it was wired into the mains? I'm completely baffled, why would you power a phone off the mains, it makes no sense. And where's the screen on the picture you attached - how do you read text messages?

I sure hope that we are able to say that for us from the 80's 90's and 2000's 20-30 years from now, being that we have to deal with new super-viruses, World-wide terrorism, and the possible collapse of the world economic system.

I was only five years old but well remember the panic that this radio program stirred up. We lived 5 miles from where the MARTIANS? had landed.

War of the Worlds: The Broadcast Double Click

Bez;1336053 wrote: I WAS BRUNG UP PROPER !!





CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70's !



First, we survived being born to mothers who 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 and tuna from a can.



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 hitchhiking.



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



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, Subway or 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 Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers 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 old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY ,

no video/dvd films,

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...



We were given air 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

Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes 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'



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


Those were the days. The beginnings of a promising future when people had values worth living for. When families meant something and sisters were protected by their brothers. Every street had its gang and the streets warred.

Really, I can't say that much has changed other than two things. The nationality of my neighbours, and that both Mum and Dad have to go out to work to make ends meet. And, of course, kids don't go out on the streets to play any more. They use the Internet.

It was the 50's just a plain old phone wasn't pretty sometimes you would pick up the receiver and could hear people talking that was called a "Party Line" another words a shared line. you would have to ask how long they would be and try again later.

A cord and no battery? You mean it was wired into the mains? I'm completely baffled, why would you power a phone off the mains, it makes no sense. And where's the screen on the picture you attached - how do you read text messages?

That, Carla, is not a phone. That is two tin cans with stretched twine between them. Or, in the case of a party line, four.

:yh_rotfl Close enough tin cans with a dial and a bell that rang so loud it hurt your ears.

That, Carla, is not a phone. That is two tin cans with stretched twine between them. Or, in the case of a party line, four.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.


We were NOT ALLOWED back home unless we had active arterial bleeding or had set ourselves on fire.

spot;1336060 wrote: My word, what it must have been like to have lived that long ago. Talk about the primitive dark ages, that's practically biblical. Did they have telephones back then?


Only if you were rich.....

chonsigirl;1336062 wrote: Yes spot, we had party lines!


So did we....it was embarassing if you picked up when your neighbour was taking a call.

Bez;1336134 wrote: So did we....it was embarassing if you picked up when your neighbour was taking a call.And how much did you get back if you pressed Button B?

That was our mother catching us listening in on the party line.........................:wah:

One penny and three farthings !!!!!! LOL

spot;1336164 wrote: And how much did you get back if you pressed Button B?


Ha ha...that was pay phones. I know peopoe that used to go round the payphones pressing Button B just to cash in on the people that had forgotten to do it after thier call.

Bez;1336193 wrote: Ha ha...that was pay phones. I know peopoe that used to go round the payphones pressing Button B just to cash in on the people that had forgotten to do it after thier call.


Fourpence wasn't to be sneezed at back then.

Aaaaah. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be

spot;1336197 wrote: Fourpence wasn't to be sneezed at back then.


Tuppence for a bus ride to the town centre.

Sixpence for chips and scratchings in a fold of newspaper or a Saturday matinee, take your pick.

We used to have fish and chips every Friday for tea. The scratchings tasted a lot better then than they do now in my opinion. On Saturday mornings, we would go to the Saturday morning pictures or I'd go roller skating just round the corner from the cinema. Afterwards, it was down to the market to find some superhero comics.

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.



My brother and sister (the one's closest to my age that is) and I would have "adventures". We pretended to be explorers in the nearby park and in the alleys. We ould play "hide and seek' and chase each other all over the neighborhood. We would get a rubber ball and play "catch". We would take a break at the playground and just talk about stuff.Sometimes, we would visit friends and they would join us. We had a ball.

I want to Thank You Bez for posting this and wondered If you would mind If I used It?

I am forced to give a speech very soon and this would kick things off.

oscar;1336326 wrote: I want to Thank You Bez for posting this and wondered If you would mind If I used It?

I am forced to give a speech very soon and this would kick things off.


By all means use it. I'm not the original author. It came to me via e-mail :yh_flower

Bez;1336193 wrote: Ha ha...that was pay phones. I know peopoe that used to go round the payphones pressing Button B just to cash in on the people that had forgotten to do it after thier call.


Oh, we had to use an unbent paper clip.

Bez;1336360 wrote: By all means use it. I'm not the original author. It came to me via e-mail :yh_flower
Thanks... Thought I would ask as It would be rude not to.

I got an e mail today asking me to say some-thing at another function so It will break the Ice nicely on both occassions.

Those payphones.... They were dead easy to tap. Say the number you were dialling was 2567... You dialled 2 then hit the cradle twice. Then dialled 5 and hit the cradle 5 times and so on.

Of course I never resorted to such under-hand shananaghans and would never even dream of de-frauding the telephone company but I was once shown this method by some local scroats at the nasty secondry modern school. Other-wise any conversation on those phones ended In a manic babble after you had screamed ...'The pips are going'.. Quick !!!