People over 35 should be dead

Desert Moose · 2004-07-24T14:47:45+00:00

People over 35 should be dead Here's why ... According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived. 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 seatbelts or air bags. Riding in the back of a ute or truck on a warm day was always a special treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors! 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 shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this. 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 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. WE HAD NO MOBILE PHONES!!!!! Unthinkable! 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 played brandy, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt. We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember accidents? We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any 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. Footy and netball clubs had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. Tests were not adjusted for any reason. Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that! Our generation 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. People under 30 are wimps!:thumb :alien

Craig Torrens 6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 · 26 Jul 2004, 12:36 pm

#208075

Yes Wes, are you still trying to prove your manhood :thumb

sgetty Fahrvergnugen

994 posts · joined Sep 2003 · 26 Jul 2004, 12:54 pm

#208077

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I could go on and on. My point is, I don't think it's limited to 35 and over. Maybe 25 and over, depending on where your parents were brought up. Mine grew up in ipswitch, so maybe they were behind the times. :duh [/quote]

mmmmmmmm yes i think it does depend where u grew up, ive done all the same things wes has mentioned, never had a playstation only got a computer in 2000 and my girlfriend grew up in a small place outa tamworth and didnt have a tv till she was 13 or something like that.....

soooo it all depends, yeah i do agree that there is a softer generation growing up but that is not all, i was made to work for dad for pocket money never got given anything, dammm and im still working for him...

🙂

Baja Wes V6 Baja Pioneer

3,119 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 Jul 2004, 1:15 pm

#208087

Craig Torrens wrote:Yes Wes, are you still trying to prove your manhood :thumb

If I wanted to do that I'd just post a picture of it.

But the admins would delete it anyway, and besides, it'd take up too much bandwidth 😀

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amazer kombi pilot

3,187 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 Jul 2004, 1:44 pm

#208108

Those slippery dips where you fried your ass in summer? I know where there is one, still living, and monkey bars as well. At the butterfly "farm" where the bug in was held last year.

Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf

baybuscamperkid prince of insufficient light, ruler of heck

4,316 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 Jul 2004, 7:43 pm

#208311

HotRodMatt wrote:
and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets.
And we rode much more dangerous contraptions than kids today!

i am 18 and i ride nothing less then 20 years old! i have a schwinn cruiser, myer speed and hustler dragsters, and i tell you right now, a longframe dragster on 80s tyres with no brakes down a big hill into a sharp corner is much more dangerous now then when the tyres were new ( and had tread!)

and yes, where you grow up does make a difference. i was involved in several of the things that you list (even had an industrial motor powered go-kart with trike style balloon tyres) and my cousin who lives in the country is well known for falling out of trees and escapades on his mini-bike.

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OZ Towdster Keen to finish some projects

1,921 posts · joined Dec 2003 · 26 Jul 2004, 8:07 pm

#208339

Cmon Dave B lets here your stories like running away from dinisours when you were young hehehehehehehehehehehe

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Desert Moose Cut Cut Cut

2,098 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 26 Jul 2004, 9:53 pm

#208439

Peter Leonard wrote:we all ate perkins paste, but who ate clag as well, and which did you prefer?

Clag was best by far :duh

lulu94 Wolfsburg Wizard

449 posts · joined Dec 2003 · 27 Jul 2004, 3:10 pm

#208696

i remember getting that in an email ages ago.

i was born in 81 and i still did some of those things, played in the street with the neighbours, climbed trees. fell of my bike.
i did have a nintendo but hardly played it, didnt get a computer till i was 16. my cousins used to come stay in the holidays and we would wrestle on the blow up mattress and have concerts for our parents, that usually involved dressing up and dancing to kylie minogue or the smurfs album

the days when we used our imaginations
Danielle

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soon to be supercharged 🤘🤘

1970 and 72 Squarebacks 70 soon to be rotor powered

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0 posts · joined Feb 2004 · 27 Jul 2004, 4:33 pm

#208728

:alien perkins was a bit too tangy for mass consumption, bit like a strong fermented, sweaty sock style cheese. It was an aquired taste, though there were a couple of kids who really dug the taste, I was more a kid who gave into peer pressure and ate it, trying desperately to fit in with the 'cool' kids... :duh

Clag was 100% better taste wise, bit like farex with fragrent dishwashing liquid flavour. In fact I eyed off the bottles at the supermarket yesterday, ahhh the good old days.. Didn't want to buy, just wanted to smell it again for old times sake.... :duh

Question is why? why eat perkins paste, and why invent perkins paste? It never really stuck anything down, not like clag.. went all crusty and ur piccies in school projects always fell off.... sorry getting sidetracked here...

did anyone else have a weird kid in class who collected colour coded pencil shavings? :duh

amazer kombi pilot

3,187 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 27 Jul 2004, 4:58 pm

#208735

Weirdest kid I went to school with was obsessed with time. If you asked him what the time was, you would get the seconds as well. He spent hours at the train station checking if they were on time, pretty much had the timetable memorised.

He got picked on a lot. Everyone would synchronise their watches on different times and it would freak him out.

Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf