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johnie

If your 30! you should be DEAD!

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People over 30 should be dead

I have said this a million times - I don't know how we survived with all the things young parents don't let their kids do and what they do when kids are infants like washing baby clothes given as gifts before they put them on the baby (WHAT!!)

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even earlier probably shouldn't have survived.

People over 30 should be dead. Here's why .................. Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.

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 children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors!

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in
it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one
actually died from this.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode them 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.

No one was able to reach us all day. NO CELL PHONES!!!!!

Unthinkable!

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers , or Internet chat rooms .

We had friends! We went outside and found them. We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt .

We fell out of trees , got cut and broke bones and teeth , and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember accidents?

We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms , and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes , nor did the worms live inside us forever.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door , or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. Horrors!

Tests were not adjusted for any reason. Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected . The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that!

This generation has 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. And you're one of them! Congratulations!

Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good !!!!!
No matter where you Go!"there you are"!

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:D:DYou can have all those nuances of yesteryear. I love my indoor plumbing and increased cancer survivability. when I wipe my ass without the problematic winds drafting my backside, I thank the twenty-somethings that made my life a lot better with the Internet that, ironically, is the medium that carries this message to all readers. Too bad it's in electronic form; I ran out of toilet paper and I need that last coffee filter for tomorrow.
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ahhh the good ol' days, I can relate to it all.... ;)

The 80's were the best!!! period!!!!



I did like the huge interior of my Dad's Oldsmobile Land Yacht and the cheap prices of Cubs bleacher tickets, but I was 3-12 yrs old in the 80s, and that's not a whole lotta freedom.

I liked 25. Not old, not infantile.
Ostriches and rheas are the only birds that urinate and defecate separately. They read Parachutist while doing #2.

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