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posted on July 22nd, 2003 at 01:12 AM
Hi
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yes I agree there H,
I don't like putting children in my backseat,
my friends probably think I am rude sometimes but I don't really like doing it
just in case.
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posted on July 22nd, 2003 at 01:18 AM
This is an email that fish sent me that mentions this stuff
----- This is incredible... and so true!
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those
of us who were kids in the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's,
70's probably shouldn't have survived. . .
I Can't Believe We Made It!
* Our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured
lead-based paint.
* We had no childproof lids or locks 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. 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. No mobile
phones. Unthinkable!
* We did not have video games at all, cable TV (or any
TV at all), videos, surround sound, personal cell
phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.
* We had friends! We went outside and found them.
* We played dodge ball, 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 rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and
knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked
in . . .
* Football teams 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. Horrors!
* Tests were not adjusted for any reason.
* Our actions were our own. Consequences were
expected.
* The idea of parents bailing us out if we got in
trouble in school or broke a law was unheard of. They
actually sided with the school or the law. Imagine
that!
* Experiencing the above produced some of the best
risk-takers, problem solvers, and inventors.>* We had freedom, failure,
success, and responsibility
-- and we learned how to deal with it.
* And you're one of them!
* Congratulations.
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posted on July 22nd, 2003 at 01:45 AM
Funny you should put that bit of nostalgia there. I'm not that old (35) but I bought my beetle because it doesn't have a computer, I can fix
it myself if I wanted to, and I can't even hear my mobile phone ring. I feel like I'm free again...
"Tell him 'We've already got one'"
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posted on July 22nd, 2003 at 02:40 AM
I need to do something about the noise in herbie, I have ringing ears after a couple of hours behind the wheel
I have to be careful hes just too loud with the roof back, as the wind buffets and the exhaust roars and I go deaf.
Might get some ear plugs or another muffler.
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posted on July 22nd, 2003 at 06:31 AM
Have you got opening rear 1/4's fitted yet ?
That should take some of te buffeting away when the roof is back !!!
Mind you i not got a rag roof and i'm going deaf from mine when it's runnig of course !!!!!!!!!
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posted on July 22nd, 2003 at 08:56 AM
Hi herbie
all those things you mentioned have been on my mind for years, I have three kids the oldest 12, the youngest 4, most of their free time is either
spent in front of the TV playing sony games or watching soaps or BIG BROTHER, I can remember my parents having to threaten me with a hiding to get me
inside before sun down, and I knew every owner of every house in my street, no Villas or town houses in those days, and two blocks of units, in a 2
Mile street.
Next door to my house was a war veterens home, we used to have big cricket & footy test matches in the paddock out the back, the old diggers
used to love to watch, and if there was a bit of biffo from a dissagreeance, they loved to watch that too, at least until the matron came out and told
us to rack off anyway!
Parents didnt have to worry about their kids as much then because if you got into trouble or if someone was hanging around, you could duck into so
and so's place and they would call your mom, to come and get you, I even knew some of the local cops, they actually walked around and stopped to
say hellow or to give you a boot in the bum and send you off home, dont bother tring to talk to them now. They wonder why their public relation is no
good!
Some times we would have commando raids on mrs collins chook shed, or the orange trees, if she saw us she was out the door running after us with
the straw broom, more than once she caught us, and the laggers got a wacking, not to mention a phone call to the parents house, and another wacking of
your dad!
Sometimes I drag my kids out to do some of the things I did when I was a kid, they protest and complain, but when it is all over, the look on
their faces and the When can we do it again crys make it worth while, even if the enthusiasim only lasts until we get home in front of the TV.
It wasen't so important to have a HSC in those days either, if you left school at fifteen and became an apprentice, or got a government job
(remember them) then you were set for life, now days even a uni degree dosent gaurantee an affluent life, the days of paying off a mortgage on a
single income are all but over, I can see the old class system returning (if it ever went away) and more and more people dropping out of society as we
know it now, going back to the old self sufficent life style, on a block of land in the bush.
I think I will be one of them.
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posted on July 22nd, 2003 at 12:23 PM
Your last sentence hits the nail on the head. I also agree with this statment.
A nice big area of land in the bush and be self sufficent would suit mrs and me......
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posted on July 22nd, 2003 at 02:53 PM
hi
:sandrine
Yes I agree with all there.
Living down here I am fortune enough to met all different people from all walks of life.
From the tourist who flock down here to self sufficient people living in a humpy
on as block of land....(& they love it.)
I know if I say the word "hippies" everyone will cringe but this area founded the first commune around this way.
And many people still live like that....
In a tent, caravan, humpie, etc or actually made there homes out of mud bricks etc.
and eat organic self grown food.
And after all these years very happy living like that.
Like they say....if they need technology
they come into town & its there.
maybe its not so bad after all when you
think about it....Life is more simple
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posted on July 22nd, 2003 at 02:59 PM
another cruise perhaps?
:sandrine
was thinking of another cruise & try to find more fellow V dubbers to be in it.
I am pretty busy now in August...
Valla, Herbie festival, son turns 18, etc.
Is the last weekend in August (Sun the 31st) good for everyone?
I realize its a long way off...but people can get organized for it better......
That can be our monthy Klub cruise as well.
Let me know if this suits most of you.
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posted on July 22nd, 2003 at 09:32 PM
hi all ....
words well spoken....
as for the cruise at the end of august i'll be in as long as i get 2 weeks notice, how about we sart a thread in the general discussion so
everyone will see it as prob. not everyone look in the spotters section for organised cruise... ?
lets get it started by choosing a date .... the last sunday of august will be the 31st if all agrees lets get that thread started
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posted on July 23rd, 2003 at 12:34 AM
Gold Coast Gathering of the Faithful
I have posted the pics on the new thread,
Gold Coast Gathering of the Faithful
I posted it in General chit chat.
So lets continue from there, as like sleeper said we are now under the wrong heading.
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