FOR EVERYONE BORN BEFORE 1986

[Whits]

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, because
 
1. Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.
 
2. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
 
3. When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels. 4. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags - riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
 
5. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.
 
6. We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
 
7. We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this.
 
 
 
8. We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.
 
9. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
 
10. We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.
 
11. We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all.
 
12. We did not have 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went outside and found them.
 
13. We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!
 
14. We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones but there were no law suits.
 
15. We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.
 
16. We played chap-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.
 
17. We walked to friends' homes.
 
18. We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.
 
19. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.
 
20. We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
 
21. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...They actually sided with the law.
 
This generation has 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.
 
And you're one of them. Congratulations!
 
 
 
Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good. For those of you who aren't old enough, I thought you might like to read about us.
 
This, my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a smile on your face:
 
The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986........They are called youth.
 
They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children, and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda Carlisle.
 
For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.
 
AIDS has existed since they were born.
 
CD's have existed since they were born.
 
Michael Jackson has always been white.
 
To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance.
 
They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are films >from last year.
 
They can never imagine life before computers.
 
They'll never have pretended to be the A Team, RedHand Gang or the Famous Five.
 
They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It or Why Don't You.
 
They can't believe a black and white television ever existed.
 
And they Will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone.
 
 
 
Now let's check if we're getting old...
 
1. You understand what was written above and you smile.
 
2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.
 
3. Your friends are getting married/already married.
 
4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.
 
5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
 
6. You remember watching Dirty Den in EastEnders the first time around.
 
7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good Old days, repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together.
 
8. Having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some other friends because you think they will like it too...
 
Yes, you're getting old ......................
 
Oh, they were the days!

[Asher]

Had that on email recently possibly the funniest thing ever.  Its all so true!

[Piemonte]

seen that before, but its still good and in my case almost entirley true

Them were the days!

[DanOUFC]

Born in '84, get in!!!

[le god cuervo]

those were the best days ever! brings back so many memories!  

[Sippo]

Quality - Feel well old now!

[janaage]

Did anyone have (usually in your bedroom) one of those black and white tv's that had a dial on the front, and the shittest reception ever, you could hardly see a thing, but you still watched it.  I watched the Liverpool v Juve European Cup final on one of those.

The 80's were great, when wham bars were huge!!!!  And a great way of pulling your teeth out.

[Asher]

i shaved off my hair for a wham bar once.....

[CARTMAN]

i used to work with a load of teenagers and they also haven't heard of sgt bilko, night rider, airwolf, laurel and hardy and they didn't believe me when i said that games used to be loaded onto computers by tape (spectrum 48k)   :old:

[janaage]

tape used to be the worst, remember the noise?  And when after about 10 minutes it would just crash for no reason.

Also the old fashion ring pulls, that would also sometimes break.

[DanOUFC]

games used to be loaded onto computers by tape (spectrum 48k)   :old:

I'm just about old enough to remember the  comador (think that's it's name). Loved the game with the little egg blokey. Anyone else remember him?

[Piemonte]

That was Dizzy Dan

Games loading by tape sucked, like jan says they'd load for ages, then randomly crash. Anyone remember the multi coloured lines you'd get when it was loading and making all the noises?

[CARTMAN]

 i still miss those days...they were brill, every was so tacky that it was ace

[janaage]

Gary Wilmott
Rubbish looking electric guitars
Dogtanian and the three muskahounds
Rainbow
"Pull off" ring pulls on cans of coke
Spam
Street Hawk
Lucky dip (sweet bags)

"10 You are a dick
20 Go to 10
run"

Commentating on football when you used to play up the park
White dog poo
Pubs were boring (remember thinking why does dad come here?)
Warming up milk in a pan
tank tops
Rotary dialling phones
No seat belts
XR3i's
skateboarding
coloured shoe laces
Hubba Bubba
Karate Kid
bulldog
Football stickers (got/need etc)
Five Star
Care Bears
Those black jeans with coloured ass panels
New Kids on the Block
One pound notes
1/2 penny sweets
Knightrider
Chips (not the food)
Grange Hill
Tuckers Luck
Seperate shampoo and conditioner
Nike air
Sky toothpaste
Jim'll fix it
Vauxhall Cavalier
Recording charts
Frogger
The A Team
Tapes
Small footyball shorts
PE daps
Noel edmonds house part (I think)
Sarah Green was sexy.
Highland toffee
Dunlop footy boots
Kissing girls was strange
German porn
Bros
Big hair (on women)
A black Michael Jackson
The Cosby Show
Coal delivering lorries
Soda Streams
That "plug into your tv" video game system, you could play squash & tennis,
(it was just a block moving across the screen)
Sunday Night at the London Palledium (Tommy Cooper dying on TV)
Transformers
flurescent socks
ZX Spectrum 48k
Live Aid
Tory years
BMX's
Rally Griffters
Ewoks
Sweat Bands
Rat's tails (long bit of hair at the back, but not a mullet)
Free Milk at School at 11am
1/2 penny sweets
tight tight jeans
body warmers
illuminous socks
big wham barstyping 55378008 in a calculator
Ruud Gullitt/Michel Platini/MichaelLaudrup/Arthur Scargill
Those benches that you'd sit on in assembly, then turn over during PE
Chas n Dave (appearing at the Casbah, next week!)
Les Dawson
Blockbusters
The Krypton Factor
Kylie & Jason
FA Cup Finals being exciting
More from the calculator files "0.553"     "77345" "710 77345"

other things from the 80's

[le god cuervo]

i remember the old shitty spectrum tapes. used to play soccer boss all the time! amigas were ace too. james pond robocod was quality

dizzy was wicked too!
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