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OH just reieved this and I thought it would amuse you.
WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER !!
"And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993"!!!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO WERE BORN IN THE1940's, 50's, and 60's
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
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I have seen that before LK....but it is very true
ja...x
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Excellent LK...I shall mail it to some friends..
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SO true! Thanks LK. Kids today don't know what they are missing!
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Hello, thought I'd better say "Hello" 'cos you'll think I'm being rude!
Have been doing stuff on boards as it takes my mind off all the stuff that has been churning around in my head (not good at "chatting" when mind's in a jumble!). Have had a very difficult decision to make, but have now gone ahead and applied for voluntary redundancy at work (as you'll know, public sector has to cut costs - and we've got to lose about third of workforce).
So - I'll find out in a few weeks if I've been accepted. If I am, then I'll be retired - Yikes!
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Will you be getting a pension too MC ?
ja...x
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Brilliant LK !
Just a few thought to ponder on!!!
'We' ate blue cheese, NOT as we now know it but, in fact, cheddar cheese kept without refrigeration so that the 'rind' went mouldy !!
We just sliced off the rind without a thought and eat the cheese in the middle !!
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Re: the medicine bottles with no child locks !! - 'We' had those junior aspirin tablets, orange flavoured, which were kept in a high cupboard. BUT, there were 3 big drawers beneath that 'high cupboard', which, if you opened them up, the lower one most, then the next a little less, then the third even less, you could climb them like stairs and reach those 'orange flavoured sweeties' which were SO nice.
Thankfully, I never ate too many in case they were missed !!!
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My dad used to bring odd scraps of asbestos home from work which we placed the hot iron onto but I used to like playing with them and crumbling them into little bits and blowing them around to make 'snow' !!
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I also used to break apart old thermometers and barometers to get out the blobs of mercury inside - it would roll into balls and they would mix with each other in my fingers - such fun to play with !!
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Looking back, life was so dangerous then, BUT, you never needed to lock your door, you could visit other peoples houses, play outside, and wander the streets without fear.
I wonder which is preferable??
Dea x
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Yes ja...x - will get pension from this job and also have one from my previous job so the two together aren't bad. Plus will be able to pay off mortgage and do stuff in house.
Will probably want to get a little p/t job so I don't stagnate.
Hope they say yes!
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Good afternoon, how the devil are we all.....??
T x
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Sounds good then MC
My pension is not enough to live on but it helps and the lump sum was a bonus as I never realised I would get that
Hi Trace nice to see you see you have been busy...can you confirm you are still doing ER look ups
ja...x
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Wow - we have a 'stranger' in our midst !!!
Welcome back Tracey - How are you ??
Dea x
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Hey Jax,
I haven't done anything for a while, i'm actually at work now and shall be here until about 11.00 tonight, so i will endeavour to get through as many lookups as i can i that space of time, (it's very quite here at a gig and i'm sat doing nothing currently).
Things should settle down hopefully in the next couple of weeks, then it starts all over again in June, i might be working in Vegas for 6 weeks :-/
I miss the place and am trying to keep my hand in (Ginny keeps shouting at me :( ) So i shall try and stick about today..... get allllllllllllll the abuse over with in 1 sitting :)
T x
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Hey Dea,
How the devil are you ?
T x
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I am fine thank you Tracey.
We have missed you on here.
Dea x
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Hope they say yes MC - It sound like a good move.
Dea x
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Thank Evans you are back T...I sent you a PM WEEKS ago asking for your assistance..;)
Hope you and yours are all well and
with all that work rolling in you will be rolling in it with the dosh as well..;0
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Hi Tracey
Hardly saw you there --- so thin now ----------well done
size 12 indeed --------brilliant --- dont forget to get a smaller stab vest for when you are working
And dont bring home any new gadgets from Vegas ----
Renes xxx
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OOOhhh ooohhh Renes - I am going to 'double up' my size to a size 12 one day !!!!!!
Ojala !!!
Well done though Trace !!
Dea Xxx
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Last time I was in Vegas I brought back a 'bucket' of money which I won on the machines !!
Once I had won it I didn't want to put it back in 'coz I knew I would lose it all again!
I tipped it into the machine and it gave we a whole 'wad' of dollars !! - It was like winning twice!
Nice.....
Dea Xxx
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