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Fluffy
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 Posted - 08/04/2006 : 05:12:21 AM
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Those Born 1930-1979!
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
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 infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up 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, white bread and real butter and drank koolade made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!(albeit was with globs of mercury)
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 melted and burned toy army men and Barbie's and inhaled the burning plastic. mmmmmmmmm
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride 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's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms..........
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went OUTSIDE to find them!
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. IMAGINE THAT!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, 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!
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 so much of our lives "for our own good".
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?! Have FUN!!!
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Peace & Keep the Faith
Fluffy         
"THE MUSIC BUSINESS IS A CRUEL AND SHALLOW MONEY TRENCH-- A LONG PLASTIC HALLWAY WHERE THIEVES AND PIMPS RUN FREE AND GOOD MEN DIE LIKE DOGS. THERE'S ALSO A NEGATIVE SIDE..." -Hunter S. Thompson |
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tbjinv
Is Anybody Here?
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Posted - 08/04/2006 : 11:32:19 AM
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Man what a flashback! I think we might have grown up in the same neighborhood Fluffy. It's amazing we all survived.
I also survived running minibikes into trees, fishing in an old boat without a flotation device and hunting without a gun safety course. It's amazing we didn't all have skin cancer since there was no such thing as sunscreen. I'm also suprised that we survived drinking alcohol at age 18.
How the times do change.
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dan p.
Alien Abductee
Uganda
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Posted - 08/04/2006 : 11:48:16 AM
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i would have to agree with essentially everything here. if it didn't kill kids or hurt them then, why would it now? everytime i hear someone talk about a "new study" they saw on good morning america or the today show or whatever, i roll my eyes just a little bit. and the government shouldn't be regulating anything in regards to private life.
tvjinv, is your signature picture a joke or is it serious? if it's a joke, that's pretty funny. if it's serious, then that's pretty stupid. |
death to false metal. |
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Robin
Yak Addict
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Posted - 08/04/2006 : 11:39:40 PM
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I always think back on those times as a little bit of natural selection.I mean the kids in my neighborhood stupid enough to do anything really off the wall got hurt, and they(hopefully) learned not to do it again. Perpetual paste eaters were a facination to me. Was it tasty? Why did they eat paste every art project? OMG there wasn't a warning on the label!!!
We were in the streets all day playing.
One Summer my goal was to climb as many trees as possible, I wanted to see how high I could go. Only fell out of one, and re-thought the whole tree thing.... for about a day.It's really different today that's for sure. You actually have to teach kids now how to jumprope and play jacks. "Bored" was never a word I uttered,life was full from the TIMe I woke up till bedTIMe.
If you have kids teach them to play and not be afraid of bumping their little heads and bruising their knees. Remember when the scrapes you had at the end of the day were something to be proud of? I compared mine to the boys, if I had enough I could hang with them the next day. Peace, Robin
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spaceoddity
Try A Little Harder
Belgium
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Posted - 08/05/2006 : 02:30:59 AM
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As matter fact the paste was DELICIOUS kinda minty.M80's were pretty cool too,now all you can get are those ones with plastic caps in the ends. |
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Ranting Thespian
Fluffy-Esque
USA
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Posted - 08/05/2006 : 02:57:58 AM
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I was born in '84, and my earliest memeory is in '88. Video games, computers, phones, and such have all been in my life from the start. I do have to say, thanks to medical science today, I am not dead (I seriously would be without it, either one of my illness or suicide). I do wonder about living in less complicated times, but I know with all my conditions I would never have survived.
So, I guess you guys were lucky to live in simpler times. |
Not communicating can hurt more than any word that can be said -
Nick
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dan p.
Alien Abductee
Uganda
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Posted - 08/09/2006 : 12:39:38 AM
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i, too, was born in '84, and indeed it was my own parents who taught me the way of the controller. you see, they bought the original nes. . .for themselves. my dad was never terribly good, but my mom. jesus. she was a videogame fiend. she beat the original zelda (no guide, even beat the second quest) and get this, she beat mike tyson's fucking punch-out. i played that game again like a year ago and didn't beat it. my first games were duck hunt and some mickey mouse game. oh and excite bike. those are the first games i remember.
but mom and dad didn't parent like it's done now. if i did or my brother did something that meritted a smack on the head, then that's what we got. they tried to get me and my brother into sports, and certainly my brother liked it. he coached college basketball up until just this year. i had a natural inclination towards sports, but i didn't care much for them. i liked music. but i had no "natural ability" if such a thing even exists. so the whole "go out and exercise thing" never really took. |
death to false metal. |
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Silky The Pimp
Alien Abductee
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Posted - 08/09/2006 : 7:58:55 PM
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| I used to heat up metal objects (forks etc.) using the gas burners on the stove until they were literally glowing red and then just melt stuff. Good times... good times... |
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Maraika
Is Anybody Here?
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Posted - 08/10/2006 : 1:27:17 PM
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| well it sure explains why some of you are riding the short bus. Think of what your IQ's might be if you hadn't munched lead paint or played with mercury globs in science class. sure you survived but......LOL all in good fun, all in good fun. |
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roxygrl77
Is Anybody Here?
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Posted - 08/10/2006 : 2:37:59 PM
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Do's Tim have a Child??? |
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Fluffy
Administrator
USA
10739 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2006 : 4:23:38 PM
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Originally posted by roxygrl77
Do's Tim have a Child???
This should answer your question:
http://www.timreynolds.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=326 |
Peace & Keep the Faith
Fluffy
"THE MUSIC BUSINESS IS A CRUEL AND SHALLOW MONEY TRENCH-- A LONG PLASTIC HALLWAY WHERE THIEVES AND PIMPS RUN FREE AND GOOD MEN DIE LIKE DOGS. THERE'S ALSO A NEGATIVE SIDE..." -Hunter S. Thompson |
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Robin
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Posted - 08/10/2006 : 4:27:53 PM
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Originally posted by Maraika
Think of what your IQ's might be if you hadn't munched lead paint or played with mercury globs in science class.
OHHHH, I forgot about those mercury blobs so MUCH fun! I remember when any thermometer broke we'd all collect the bits in a glass vial and play with it all day.
STP, I had a friend like you, and he melted all his green army guys. Never a boring moment, good TIMes indeed. Peace, Robin |
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Ranting Thespian
Fluffy-Esque
USA
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Posted - 08/10/2006 : 11:02:13 PM
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| Blobls of mercury, wow! Now to me, that's crazy and dangerous as hell. I would never want to touch mercury. |
Not communicating can hurt more than any word that can be said -
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tericee
Alien Abductee
USA
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Posted - 08/19/2006 : 7:39:05 PM
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Originally posted by Fluffy
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.
That's why you cracked your head open as a small child... |
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PJK
Alien Abductee
USA
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Posted - 08/19/2006 : 8:27:20 PM
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Originally posted by Fluffy
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.
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That's exactly why you cracked your head open as a small child...
OHHHHH, So that's why Fluffy is the way he is! j/k sorry couldn't resist hehehehe  |
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tericee
Alien Abductee
USA
2579 Posts |
Posted - 08/21/2006 : 10:16:20 AM
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Originally posted by PJK
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That's why you cracked your head open as a small child...
OHHHHH, So that's why Fluffy is the way he is! j/k sorry couldn't resist hehehehe
Exactly my point! |
teri
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Robin
Yak Addict
USA
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Posted - 08/21/2006 : 12:13:49 PM
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| I think it made his head tougher It did mine that's for sure,and hey mercury...not so bad I'm still here! Peace, Robin |
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