The good ole days

Nostalgia! yes I know you've probably read this before but here it is again;-)

Also a quarter of 15-19 yr old girls say Jordan is their role model and that they would prefer lap dancing as a career to teaching!! hold that thought....or maybe don't!


>FOR THOSE BORN BEFORE 1986
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> >According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were
>kids
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> >in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived,
>because
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> >our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which
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> >was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids on medicine
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> >bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with
>pans.
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> >When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and
>fluorescent
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> >'spokey dokey's' on our wheels. As children, we would ride in cars with
>no
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> >seat belts or airbags - riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
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> >We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted
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> >the same.
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> >We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar
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> >in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside
>playing.
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> >We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one
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> >actually died from this.
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> >We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top
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> >speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running
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> >into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
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> >We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we
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> >were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one
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> >minded.
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> >We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99
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> >channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones,
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> >no
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> >personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.
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> >We had friends - we went outside and found them.
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> >We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!
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> >We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law
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> >suits.
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> >We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other
>parents.
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> >We played chap-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners
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> >catching us.
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> >We walked to friends' homes.
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> >We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or
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> >daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.
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> >We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.
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> >We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
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> >The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard
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> >of...They actually sided with the law.
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> >This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem
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> >solvers
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> >and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of
>innovation
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> >and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and
>we
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> >learned how to deal with it all.
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> >And you're one of them. Congratulations!
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> >Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids, before
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> >lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.
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> >For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read
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> >about us.
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> >This my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a
>smile
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> >on your face:
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> >The majority of students in universities today were born in
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> >1986........They
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> >are called youth.
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> >They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children, and the
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> >Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They have never
>heard
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> >of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda Carlisle.
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> >For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.
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> >AIDS has existed since they were born. CD's have existed since they were
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> >born.
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> >Michael Jackson has always been white.
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> >To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't
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> >imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance.
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> >They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are films from
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> >last year.
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> >They can never imagine life before computers.
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> >They'll never have pretended to be the A Team, RedHand Gang or the Famous
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> >Five.
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> >They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It or Why Don't You.
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> >They can't believe a black and white television ever existed. And they
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> >will
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> >never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone.
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> >Now let's check if we're getting old...
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> >1. You understand what was written above and you smile.
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> >2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night
>out.
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> >3. Your friends are getting married/already married.
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> >4. You are always surprised to see small children playing
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> >comfortably with computers.
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> >5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
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> >6. You remember watching Dirty Den in EastEnders the first time around.
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> >7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good Old
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> >days,
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> >repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together.
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