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Thread ID: 39247	2003-10-31 10:00:00	Off topic: People over 25 should be dead!	Fire-and-Ice (3910)	Press F1

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188138	2003-10-31 10:00:00	People over 25 should be dead. To the survivors: According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's probably shouldn't have survived. First we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us (horrors). They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing (if they could stand it!), and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma. our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. (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 pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this. We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we were never 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 street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. No cell phones. Unthinkable. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms. We had friends! We went outside and found them. We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them. Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. 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. Are you one of them?!	Fire-and-Ice (3910)
188139	2003-10-31 10:10:00	Um, no, I'm not a survivor of those generations. But everyone over 25 should be dead anyway, because it is only due to better medicine, increased knowledge, and better technology that we are living past 25 and have a higher standard of living. And the longer we live, the more time we waste. Does life not have a sense of humour there?	agent (30)
188140	2003-10-31 18:37:00	Yes, and we had very big families. And they didn't even have Viagra either.	Baldy (26)
188141	2003-10-31 18:55:00	That is all very true. Those of us who grew up during the war were actually very healthy for some reason, despite living on toast and dripping. We were also quite immune to such dangerous things as when I dropped lighted matches into my dads motorbike petrol tank, which was laid up for the duration (it had some petrol in it, but being only about 50 octane or whatever "Pool" petrol was in those days, it was difficult to get it to burn). We could jump off outhouse roofs holding a sheets, pretending to be a parachutist without getting hurt. Later on when fireworks became available again, Wilders Thunderflashes, or Brocks Cannon bangers had the explosive power and noise of about 1 ton on TNT. Youl held them whilst they fizzed, and then threw them at the last moment so they exploded as, or just before they landed, just like one saw soldiers throwing grenades in the films. Exploding under a dustbin lid would lift the galvanised iron lid 50 feet into the air, and land it in next doors garden next to the lady of the house who by this time was already a nervous wreck by having pyrotechnic maniacs living next to her. It was quite safe to play on wired off parts off the UK east coast where there were heaps of unexploded mines buried or exposed in the sand. Kids just arent as safe these days :D	Terry Porritt (14)
188142	2003-11-01 01:52:00	Baldy, men are living longer because there are now fewer deaths from rolling out of bed thanks to Viagra.	jockT (3500)
188143	2003-11-01 01:54:00	Even back then, the average life span would have been in your fifties or more so I'm not sure where you got 25 from. Now 5,000 years is a different matter.	Dolby Digital (160)
188144	2003-11-01 01:56:00	Sorry, 5,000 years "ago"	Dolby Digital (160)
188145	2003-11-01 02:14:00	I can remember and not all that long ago, maybe 40years, merrily turning "Syndanio" ( a hard asbestos) on our laboratory lathe to make up heat shields and insulating components for a test rig driven by superheated steam. Now mention the word asbestos and everyone runs a mostly unnecessary mile. We used solvents like carbon tetrachloride and benzene by the gallon for cleaning precision air bearing parts. A small 'O' ring could be made bigger by putting it in carbon tet. for a little while :) Ah, those were the days before they invented the safety industry and people then started to get ill :) (don't take me too seriously you young ones and go sniffing benzene)	Terry Porritt (14)
188146	2003-11-01 02:28:00	CTC was used for extinguishing electrical fires but the rotten Bs dyed it red so it couldn't be used for dry cleaning!	jockT (3500)
188147	2003-11-01 04:49:00	I fully agree, this newer generation (myself included to some extent) suck. We're just rather crap all round in a lot of ways.	-=JM=- (16)
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