Were you born in the 1940's, 50s or 60s - read on...
Dunmowin said
06:18 AM Aug 9, 2013
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50's, and 60's, and possibly of interest to those unfortunate to have been born later!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank Sherry while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos...
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, 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, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on a Sunday, 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 and Bubble Gum.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter,milk from the cow,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.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY , no video/dvd films, or colour TV, 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 because we didn't need to keep up with the Jones's!
Not everyone made the rugby/football/cricket/netball 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 throw the blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren't concentrating .
We can string sentences together and spell and have proper conversations because of a good, solid three R's education.
Our parents would tell us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road.
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 !
And 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 our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age anymore
dorian said
05:29 PM Aug 9, 2013
There was a good story on Catalyst last night. It blamed sugar rather than fat for our current high levels of obesity. The claim is that food manufacturers reacted to the anti-fat revolution of the 1970s by removing fat from their products, and then replacing it with sugar to compensate for the resultant loss of taste.
"Until now, each generation has always had a longer lifespan than the previous. But it's been predicted this current generation won't. And obesity is to blame."
"The studies show that exercise has virtually no effect on weight loss. One thing exercise does is it makes people hungry."
"Burning calories through vigorous exercise triggers hunger signals in your brain so that you eat to replace those calories."
By using the following calorie calculator and comparing the result against the kJ figures on various foods, I calculated that my 3km jog only burns off the equivalent energy content of 1.5 Arnott's milk arrowroot biscuits.
BTW, remember the Kentucky Fried ad with the fat family bouncing around in their car?
-- Edited by dorian on Friday 9th of August 2013 05:31:36 PM
Ontos45 said
10:46 PM Aug 9, 2013
Good onya mate, how I miss buying fish'n chips in 2 day old newspaper, pinch'n soft drink bottles from behind the corner store (what are they I hear some one ask), take em round front and get your 3 pence back again. Ice cream came in green canvas bags full of dry ice, that you only touched once, 3 penny ice cream cones and you could get a penny worth of broken biscuits from the grocer....ohhh well, thems were the days.
Peter
Keith19837 said
04:35 AM Aug 10, 2013
Dunmowin wrote:
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50's, and 60's, and possibly of interest to those unfortunate to have been born later!
So So So True. A small point of interest. I got rid of the big fonts; now how do I get rid of the yellow surround?
Dunmowin said
04:39 AM Aug 10, 2013
Keith19837 wrote:
Dunmowin wrote:
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50's, and 60's, and possibly of interest to those unfortunate to have been born later!
So So So True. A small point of interest. I got rid of the big fonts; now how do I get rid of the yellow surround?
This is how I received it..... try highlighting the coloured bit.....no, only know how to in word...
Keith19837 said
04:40 AM Aug 10, 2013
dorian wrote:
BTW, remember the Kentucky Fried ad with the fat family bouncing around in their car?
Not only do I remember the ad, I can still recite most of it. The Boy's name was Hugo and the girl was un named. "....And Hugo said you go,
and I said No you go,
So he went for a pack,
And we sat in the back.
With that wonderful...."
Sad, isn't it? SWMBO is looking over my shoulder, rolling her eyes and enquiring how I can remember this crap but can't remember when bin night is!!! Oh, the pain, the pain. (Lost in Space series)
-- Edited by dorian on Friday 9th of August 2013 05:31:36 PM
dorian said
02:28 PM Aug 11, 2013
I still remember when a Gay Time was a Streets ice cream, and when you could denounce buggery as disgusting without being accused of bigotry. But something happened since then. I think it's called PC, and I'm not talking about computers.
Ontos45 said
06:05 PM Aug 12, 2013
dorian wrote:
I still remember when a Gay Time was a Streets ice cream, and when you could denounce buggery as disgusting without being accused of bigotry. But something happened since then. I think it's called PC, and I'm not talking about computers.
Mate and I only talking about this Yanky PC over a few beers on weekend. Where a chip is now a fry, a 1/4 of a pound now comes in small, medium and large when you order a burger. The Australian language is being buggered (Aussie) by the XYZ generation with their shorthand for phone mssages and TV talk. "Eat my shorts" for example.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1940's, 50's, and 60's, and possibly of interest to those unfortunate to have been born later!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank
Sherry while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos...
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, 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,
McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on a
Sunday, 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 and Bubble Gum.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter,milk from the cow,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.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games
at all, no 999 channels on SKY , no video/dvd films, or colour TV, 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 because we
didn't need to keep up with the Jones's!
Not everyone made the rugby/football/cricket/netball 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 throw the
blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren't concentrating .
We can string sentences together and spell and have proper
conversations because of a good, solid three R's education.
Our parents would tell us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road.
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 !
And 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 our lives
for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how
brave their parents were.
PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age anymore
There was a good story on Catalyst last night. It blamed sugar rather than fat for our current high levels of obesity. The claim is that food manufacturers reacted to the anti-fat revolution of the 1970s by removing fat from their products, and then replacing it with sugar to compensate for the resultant loss of taste.
Toxic Sugar?
www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3821440.htm
"Until now, each generation has always had a longer lifespan than the previous. But it's been predicted this current generation won't. And obesity is to blame."
"The studies show that exercise has virtually no effect on weight loss. One thing exercise does is it makes people hungry."
"Burning calories through vigorous exercise triggers hunger signals in your brain so that you eat to replace those calories."
By using the following calorie calculator and comparing the result against the kJ figures on various foods, I calculated that my 3km jog only burns off the equivalent energy content of 1.5 Arnott's milk arrowroot biscuits.
www.runnersworld.com/tools/calories-burned-calculator
BTW, remember the Kentucky Fried ad with the fat family bouncing around in their car?
-- Edited by dorian on Friday 9th of August 2013 05:31:36 PM
Peter
This is how I received it..... try highlighting the coloured bit.....no, only know how to in word...
Mate and I only talking about this Yanky PC over a few beers on weekend. Where a chip is now a fry, a 1/4 of a pound now comes in small, medium and large when you order a burger. The Australian language is being buggered (Aussie) by the XYZ generation with their shorthand for phone mssages and TV talk. "Eat my shorts" for example.
Fair shake of the sauce bottle!
Peter