Isn't this very true....done in two parts!

[Bobbisox]

WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER!!"And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993"!!!
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 smoked and/or 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, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

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, McDonald's , KFC, Subway or Nandos.

[NoMercy]

I was born in 77, does that count?

[Bobbisox]

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.

[Bobbisox]

part 3..lol


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 !

[zzxxee]

i count as i was born in 1972 we were hardened and rightly so if someone hit you you were told to hit em back !!!!
if you fell off your bike you got back on and no crash helmets!!!
hi mutha xx

[Bobbisox]

NoMercy you ate a nice person...so yes it does..lol

[Bobbisox]

morning zee x

[ummmm]

Yep...very true.

I feel sorry for the kids now.

[bibblebub]

Have you forgotten about early closing on Wednesdays, so that nowhere was open after lunch? And on Sundays the newsagent just used to open for a couple of hours in the morning, 8-10 where I lived.

[joggerjayne]

Mopsy, this is all sooooo true !

J x

[Bobbisox]

you are right ummm, we are so ready to point the finger at them, I think society has let them down in general...or the do-gooders who know f-all have ♥

[ummmm]

And the pubs use to close in the afternoons.....Well sort of..lol

[Bobbisox]

Hya Bib and JJ♥
wednesday half day closing, yes I remember it well , my dad was tv and radio engineer for a large department store, he was off every wednesday afternoon and if I was off school, we all used to go out to the park or the beach

[zzxxee]

i remember going on car journeys on family holidays to butlins with about five kids on one back seat of a car !!!

[redman41]

You are so right Bobbi. Compare all you have said to todays living standards and there is little comparison.My Grandfather lived to the age of 97 having done and ate all these so called bad things for ones health. Today however we are constantly told not to eat this, that and the other and yet food is 'tampered' with like never before. Low fat this Low fat that. Don't do this do that instead ! Duh !!
I eat what I feel like eating as I like 'Proper' food which is natural.
I will survive, although not sure for how long ;-))

[Bobbisox]

ummmm, now theres one I did forget about...12-2 on Sundays and close at 10-30 eh?

[Bobbisox]

Morning red, my mum would turn over in her grave if she saw anyone buying the Sunday joint at anywhere but a Butchers

[milliezoe]

Hi bobbisox
I was born 1948 last week I became a grandfather I am having a ball now I work part time play golf etc I can recall breaking my arm falling out of a tree trying to get the biggest conker think that has been banned now by elf and safety ?

[NoMercy]

Actually... the sterile lives we tend to live nowadays are not doing our immune systems any favours. The only way to build up immunity to bugs is to encounter them in the first place.

[ummmm]

Yeah...12-2 on Sundays but our pub was usually busy by 10am.

[pericat]

Morning bobbi - please add - we survived the nuns teaching us - if you could do that you came out a stronger person