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Thread ID: 101777	2009-07-26 23:22:00	Monday Laughs........Those were the days my friends...........	Billy T (70)	PC World Chat

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795503	2009-07-26 23:22:00	CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU WHO WERE KIDS BORN IN THE 1940's, 50's, and 60's!! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer and lived in houses made of asbestos . Then after that trauma, our baby cots (and the toys we chewed) 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 some of us took hitchhiking. We talked to strangers. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a Ute or in a trailer on a warm day was always a special treat. If we were yelled at, sometimes we cried. We got over it. 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 Red Rooster. We called fruit and vege shops "the chinaman's". Guess why, and it wasn't considered racist! Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death! It wasn't that bad, dairies were open on Saturday mornings. You couldn't buy petrol after 6:00pm, but our parents knew to fill the tank before then. 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 Fruit Tingles and some fire crackers to blow up stuff with. We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drink 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 trollies out of wood scraps and old pram wheels, never bothered with brakes, then raced them down the steepest hill in the neighbourhood. We rolled them into hedges and on gravel, it hurt like hell and we lost acres of skin but it grew back, then we went and did it all again! We built tree houses then fell out and broke our arms, the plaster was a badge of honour and if we were lucking it was on our writing arm! We built cubby houses out of today's 'toxic waste' and played in creek beds with matchbox cars. We made gunpowder and tried to make bombs to blow up the vege garden, you could get all the makings from the plant shop and nobody ever asked what you wanted them for. We built model planes with motors powered by castor oil, ether and nitro-benzine. We mixed our own fuel and never thought of sniffing it. Getting the plane to fly was a big enough high. In school science classes we rubbed pennies with mercury and made them silver, no shlt, then tried to pass them off as two shilling pieces at the dairy and got our arses kicked for trying it on. We did not have Playstations, Nintendos, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on satellite or cable, no video tape or DVD movies, no surround sound, 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. We had air rifles and shot at anything that didn't move, and a lot of things that did. We learned to run real fast! 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.......no, really! We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from all the atomic testing of 'dirty' bombs in the 50's and 60's. 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! Footy had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Our teachers used to belt us with canes and leather straps and the school bully always ruled the playground. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade'..... Our generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 70 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 if 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 much real fun their parents had. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors in your hand, doesn't it?! PS -If you can't read this, go get your glasses because your eyes are shot at your age! ********************************* The Ten Commandments For Bridegrooms. 1.Thou shalt hold thy wife's hand more often than thou wouldst hold the remote control. 2.Thou shalt not take thy mother in law's name in vain. 3.Thou shalt always remember to put the toilet seat down, especially at night when thy wife needeth not a light by which to sit. 4.Thou shalt honour thy wife's birthday, and with gifts purchased by thyself, not thine secretary. 5.Thou shalt always send thy wife flowers whenever thou screws up. 6.Thou shalt remember to say "I love you" every day. 7.Thou shalt not borrow your wife's car. 8.Thou shalt never utter those four little words "have you put on weight?" 9.Thou shalt always have a reliable witness when staying out late. 10.Thou shalt be grateful always thy wife had the good sense to pick thee. ********************************* Amazingly simple home remedies: Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold the vegetables while you chop. Avoid arguments with the females about lifting the toilet seat (or leaving it up) by using the handbasin. For high blood pressure sufferers ~ simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes, thus reducing the pressure on your veins. Remember to use a timer. If you get an ice cube stuck in your throat, pour boiling water down to dislodge it. A mouse trap placed on top of your alarm clock will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives. You'll be too scared to cough after that. You only need two tools in life - WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and should, use the WD-40. If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape. If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem. Daily thought: Some people are like slinkies - not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
795504	2009-07-26 23:25:00	A man was sunbathing naked at the beach. For the sake of civility, and to keep it from getting sunburned, he had a hat over his private parts. A woman walks past and says, snickering, "If you were a gentleman you'd lift your hat." He raised an eyebrow and replied, "If you weren't so ugly it would lift itself."	Cicero (40)
795505	2009-07-27 01:29:00	CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU WHO WERE KIDS BORN IN THE 1940's, 50's, and 60's!! Yes, sad the way kids aren't allowed to live nowdays.	pctek (84)
795506	2009-07-27 01:32:00	I agree, now that I am a teenager and have more freedom, I can do those things which I could not do as a young child. And I can appreciate them more.	sammo450 (13626)
795507	2009-07-27 02:45:00	By Heck Billy you had it easy - cans of tuna, cars, garden hose, soft drinks, cup cakes and street lights - sheer luxury. We 1930ers use to dream of such things.	Dally (6292)
795508	2009-07-27 03:21:00	You were allowed to dream? Luxury.	R2x1 (4628)
795509	2009-07-27 04:18:00	tbh, a lot of those things in the first post were still done by kids in the early/mid 90s. I know because I did :)	utopian201 (6245)
795510	2009-07-27 04:54:00	What is this "outside" you speak of? :p	pcuser42 (130)
795511	2009-07-27 04:59:00	A red head tells her blonde sister that she slept with a brazillian man. The blonde says "you are such a ****, how many is a brazillian?"	plod (107)
795512	2009-07-27 05:30:00	What is this "outside" you speak of? :p its the place you go to get beaten up by random dudes for no reason whatsoever or you drive some where and some prat bottles your car cause its better than his :annoyed:	MAC_H8ER (5897)
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