mjosparky 4 #1 January 15, 2005 People over 35 should be dead. Here's why. According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived. 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 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. We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on. 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 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. People under 30 are WIMPS SparkyMy idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deuce 1 #2 January 15, 2005 I agree Sparkster. I have always thought of it as legislating a Nerf World Order. No sharp edges=no cool scars. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gravityizsexy 0 #4 January 15, 2005 you did that to purposely get me mad I'm even considering disecting your "realization" and inserting some opposition "'Someday is not a day in my week'" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adamjenner 0 #6 January 15, 2005 i'm only 19 and after reading what you all did when you were kids, i feel like i haven't even lived half of my life....damn Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jjiimmyyt 0 #7 January 15, 2005 I'm under 35 and did all that stuff and more. Ok, only by 6 years but still... "This isn't an iron lung, people. You can actually disconnect and not die." -Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #8 January 15, 2005 I still have a couple years before I hit 35. I still find it hard to believe I made it this far. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gravityizsexy 0 #9 January 15, 2005 QuotePeople over 35 should be dead. Here's why. According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were " - blah blah blah... "Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint." (that explains "over 30" mentality) "We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets," (That was just a form of population control no longer needed) " ... and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.)" (You think we like wearing helmets???) "As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or air bags." Someone was eventually going to invent the airbag... blame corporate america. "Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat." We ride on the back of motorcycles at 90mph.... INVERTED!!! "We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle." We use water from the garden hose to WATER THE GARDEN!!! "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." What happened??? "We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this." Did you pass to the left??? well if you didn't know, that's the rule now.... "We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes." We use ski's and snowboards "After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem." we're still ski'ing "We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on." We leave when the street lights come on and not come back until the morning.... doesn't prove anything "No one was able to reach us all day. NO CELL PHONES!!!!!" Just think of it as a step up from passing notes in class. "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." now your starting to sound jealous... "We had friends! We went outside and found them." Hrrmmm.... Im gonna say, you have a teenager, correct me if Im wrong.. :) "We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt." DODGE IT!!!! "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." .................... yeah I agree with that one "We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it." mjo, that still happens... "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." A good therapist would've prevented that... heheheee "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." dood... again, kids still do this, I think... I used to "Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment." yeah, but who gets to play??? "Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade." hey, somebody needs to work at Wal-Mart (damn, I feel horrible for saying that.. but it's true...) "Tests were not adjusted for any reason." not true and you know it! "Our actions were our own." as oppose to whom??? Consequences were expected. Yeah, blame the teachers who tell police they have bad parents.. then in less than a day the kid is put in foster care. who I believe range in the 35 and up ages. "The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law." yeah... ummmm, jail is a little bit different now. "This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever." Fuckin right dawgy!!! People over 30 are WHINE!!! I'm 22, and you sound like my DAD!!! nothing but love though comming here... but honestly... are we THAT bad??? "'Someday is not a day in my week'" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites CrazyIvan 0 #10 January 15, 2005 Amen to that!!!__________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites bigway 4 #11 January 15, 2005 people under 30 are wimps.....maybe americans but i am 26 and you just described exactly what it was like growing up in new zealand during the 80's....though after reading that, i feel growing up that way we were much luckier than the way my future children will grow up. though, still drink from the hose, ride a bike without a helmet, i aint got no air bags in my car and riding in the back of a pick up car is how you get around when you are hitching. actulaay you know what, everything you say that use to happen....it still does.....maybe you got married, and had kids and your wife made you get airbags and a cell phone so she could always get hold of you. maybe you do not d eat cup cakes because you do not know how to make them and your mum is not around anymore. maybe you are too old and your doctor said you are not allowed much sugar? Maybe you stopped playing dodge ball because it hurt and you cant handle it anymore. when you have an accident, it is an accident, maybe that is because you live in the states and like to sue people for any old thing. maybe you do not ride bikes to your mates anymore because your wife wants you to drive your nice safe car with airbags and she calls you just before you get there on the mobile she bought you because she does not want you eating his wifes cupcakes and coming home injured from playing dodgeball and going to the lawyers to sue your mate. Life is different for you because you choose it to be different. You go to another country and you just might see all what you say does still exist ....there is nothing wrong drinking from a hose in new zealand, rather do that than pay for a bottle of water, my god a bottle of water is more expensive than gasoline. enjoy_ .Karnage Krew Gear Store . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites ltdiver 3 #12 January 15, 2005 And we were the best physically fit kids who played with sticks and stones and now have the health to live into our 70's, still enjoying life! ltdiver Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Superman32 0 #13 January 15, 2005 Touche gravityizsexy Touche Bwhahahaha Inveniam Viam aut Faciam I'm back biatches! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites freeflir29 0 #14 January 15, 2005 QuoteYou go to another country and you just might see all what you say does still exist ... Well....I guess this point is arguable because it's LIKE being in another country but all this can still be found right here in the good old USA. You just have to go to places like Montana, Idaho, W Virginia that aren't QUITE so touched by modern life. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites bigway 4 #15 January 15, 2005 Living that way is still modern life, i mean it is still here, if you want to accept a different way of life with all the cell phones and airbags and whatever else have you well that is each individuals choice, modern life is how ever you make it......i mean go to thailand or africa and tell me that they do not live in modern life because they do not have all this technology, if they are not livving in modern life what life are they living in, because i am pretty sure that it is 2005 everywhere in the world. Modern is however your life is, it is not a way of life. .Karnage Krew Gear Store . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites aerohaga 0 #16 January 15, 2005 QuoteQuoteYou go to another country and you just might see all what you say does still exist ... Well....I guess this point is arguable because it's LIKE being in another country but all this can still be found right here in the good old USA. You just have to go to places like Montana, Idaho, W Virginia that aren't QUITE so touched by modern life. Hey, now! WV isn't that bad if you stay out of the "hollers"!!For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, But the sight of the stars makes me dream. -Vincent Van Gogh Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Frenchy68 0 #17 January 15, 2005 How about BASE jumping with a skydiving rig... Good post! "For once you have tasted Absinthe you will walk the earth with your eyes turned towards the gutter, for there you have been and there you will long to return." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites AggieDave 6 #18 January 15, 2005 35 is old... There should be an over 30 jumps organizations... Maybe something that enphasizes big canopies and a style series... (every year I get closer to 30 and I'm pretty happy about it...not really, but I'm pretty amazed I've made it this far...)--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites masterrig 1 #19 January 15, 2005 Great post, Sparky! Thanks for sharing. I didn't see, (maybe I read it to fast) where if you got punished in school, you got it again when your dad got home. Try that now! Kids now, have and know their rights and probably have an attorney on retainer. Sister Mary Rommel, had to put away the 3-cornered ruler. I did a whole bunch of those things, growing-up. Like you said, probably the reason we are enjoying the hell outa life in our 'later years'. I think, we came out of it all in pretty fair shape. Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites mjosparky 4 #20 January 15, 2005 QuoteHow about BASE jumping with a skydiving rig... Good post! Been there, done that. El Cap. # 270 SparkyMy idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites littlestranger 0 #21 January 15, 2005 God we had fun! If my mother only knew some of the things my sister and I did...playing in the sewers under the street, and rearranging all the flowers in the cemetary next to our house. Like you said, we were gone all day running around and wreaking havoc, just so long as we got home before dark. Pure freedom. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites skyyhi 0 #22 January 15, 2005 Oh wow. . .that was BEAUTIFULLY said. My first dose of "today's" reality came when my I signed my son up for little league and they played him in all positions and rotated all the players. . .The first game they didn't keep score and I FREAKED OUT. I said "did someone get their panties in a twist because little Johnny's team lost?" I was asked to leave the field. . .ROFLMAO. . . My second was when a neighbor heard me cheering my son's first road rash. . .a big rasberry on the knee. She gave me a lecture on safety and said if I didn't buy my son "protective" gear she was going to call CPS (child protective services). . .silly me, what was I thinking. . .maybe I should have just taped him in bubble wrap before I sent him out. Thanks Michael. . .that was refreshing. . .________________________________________ Take risks not to escape life… but to prevent life from escaping. ~ A bumper sticker at the DZ FGF #6 Darcy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites AggieDave 6 #23 January 15, 2005 QuoteNO CELL PHONES!!!!! Not true, really. Cellphones were invented in 1947. Just because they weren't affordable until the 1980s doesn't mean that they weren't around.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites jimmytavino 16 #24 January 15, 2005 . . . . . hell we are ALL bullet proof!!!!! thanks for the accurate trip down memory lane... .. the only thing you forgot.... was the part about.. '"we rode in the car while our " Old man" chain smoked Camels,,, ( filterless of course),, and FILLED that old station wagon,, with 2nd hand smoke,", hahahah "2nd hand smoke" ???? hell Bring it on !!!! we can take it... .we're a product of the 50s.... L S M F T Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites LouDiamond 1 #25 January 15, 2005 QuoteShe gave me a lecture on safety Ya should of kicked her in the cookie and then asked why she wasn't wearing protective gear"It's just skydiving..additional drama is not required" Some people dream about flying, I live my dream SKYMONKEY PUBLISHING Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Prev 1 2 3 Next Page 1 of 3 Join the conversation You can post now and register later. 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CrazyIvan 0 #10 January 15, 2005 Amen to that!!!__________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigway 4 #11 January 15, 2005 people under 30 are wimps.....maybe americans but i am 26 and you just described exactly what it was like growing up in new zealand during the 80's....though after reading that, i feel growing up that way we were much luckier than the way my future children will grow up. though, still drink from the hose, ride a bike without a helmet, i aint got no air bags in my car and riding in the back of a pick up car is how you get around when you are hitching. actulaay you know what, everything you say that use to happen....it still does.....maybe you got married, and had kids and your wife made you get airbags and a cell phone so she could always get hold of you. maybe you do not d eat cup cakes because you do not know how to make them and your mum is not around anymore. maybe you are too old and your doctor said you are not allowed much sugar? Maybe you stopped playing dodge ball because it hurt and you cant handle it anymore. when you have an accident, it is an accident, maybe that is because you live in the states and like to sue people for any old thing. maybe you do not ride bikes to your mates anymore because your wife wants you to drive your nice safe car with airbags and she calls you just before you get there on the mobile she bought you because she does not want you eating his wifes cupcakes and coming home injured from playing dodgeball and going to the lawyers to sue your mate. Life is different for you because you choose it to be different. You go to another country and you just might see all what you say does still exist ....there is nothing wrong drinking from a hose in new zealand, rather do that than pay for a bottle of water, my god a bottle of water is more expensive than gasoline. enjoy_ .Karnage Krew Gear Store . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ltdiver 3 #12 January 15, 2005 And we were the best physically fit kids who played with sticks and stones and now have the health to live into our 70's, still enjoying life! ltdiver Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Superman32 0 #13 January 15, 2005 Touche gravityizsexy Touche Bwhahahaha Inveniam Viam aut Faciam I'm back biatches! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #14 January 15, 2005 QuoteYou go to another country and you just might see all what you say does still exist ... Well....I guess this point is arguable because it's LIKE being in another country but all this can still be found right here in the good old USA. You just have to go to places like Montana, Idaho, W Virginia that aren't QUITE so touched by modern life. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigway 4 #15 January 15, 2005 Living that way is still modern life, i mean it is still here, if you want to accept a different way of life with all the cell phones and airbags and whatever else have you well that is each individuals choice, modern life is how ever you make it......i mean go to thailand or africa and tell me that they do not live in modern life because they do not have all this technology, if they are not livving in modern life what life are they living in, because i am pretty sure that it is 2005 everywhere in the world. Modern is however your life is, it is not a way of life. .Karnage Krew Gear Store . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aerohaga 0 #16 January 15, 2005 QuoteQuoteYou go to another country and you just might see all what you say does still exist ... Well....I guess this point is arguable because it's LIKE being in another country but all this can still be found right here in the good old USA. You just have to go to places like Montana, Idaho, W Virginia that aren't QUITE so touched by modern life. Hey, now! WV isn't that bad if you stay out of the "hollers"!!For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, But the sight of the stars makes me dream. -Vincent Van Gogh Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Frenchy68 0 #17 January 15, 2005 How about BASE jumping with a skydiving rig... Good post! "For once you have tasted Absinthe you will walk the earth with your eyes turned towards the gutter, for there you have been and there you will long to return." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #18 January 15, 2005 35 is old... There should be an over 30 jumps organizations... Maybe something that enphasizes big canopies and a style series... (every year I get closer to 30 and I'm pretty happy about it...not really, but I'm pretty amazed I've made it this far...)--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masterrig 1 #19 January 15, 2005 Great post, Sparky! Thanks for sharing. I didn't see, (maybe I read it to fast) where if you got punished in school, you got it again when your dad got home. Try that now! Kids now, have and know their rights and probably have an attorney on retainer. Sister Mary Rommel, had to put away the 3-cornered ruler. I did a whole bunch of those things, growing-up. Like you said, probably the reason we are enjoying the hell outa life in our 'later years'. I think, we came out of it all in pretty fair shape. Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mjosparky 4 #20 January 15, 2005 QuoteHow about BASE jumping with a skydiving rig... Good post! Been there, done that. El Cap. # 270 SparkyMy idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
littlestranger 0 #21 January 15, 2005 God we had fun! If my mother only knew some of the things my sister and I did...playing in the sewers under the street, and rearranging all the flowers in the cemetary next to our house. Like you said, we were gone all day running around and wreaking havoc, just so long as we got home before dark. Pure freedom. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyyhi 0 #22 January 15, 2005 Oh wow. . .that was BEAUTIFULLY said. My first dose of "today's" reality came when my I signed my son up for little league and they played him in all positions and rotated all the players. . .The first game they didn't keep score and I FREAKED OUT. I said "did someone get their panties in a twist because little Johnny's team lost?" I was asked to leave the field. . .ROFLMAO. . . My second was when a neighbor heard me cheering my son's first road rash. . .a big rasberry on the knee. She gave me a lecture on safety and said if I didn't buy my son "protective" gear she was going to call CPS (child protective services). . .silly me, what was I thinking. . .maybe I should have just taped him in bubble wrap before I sent him out. Thanks Michael. . .that was refreshing. . .________________________________________ Take risks not to escape life… but to prevent life from escaping. ~ A bumper sticker at the DZ FGF #6 Darcy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #23 January 15, 2005 QuoteNO CELL PHONES!!!!! Not true, really. Cellphones were invented in 1947. Just because they weren't affordable until the 1980s doesn't mean that they weren't around.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimmytavino 16 #24 January 15, 2005 . . . . . hell we are ALL bullet proof!!!!! thanks for the accurate trip down memory lane... .. the only thing you forgot.... was the part about.. '"we rode in the car while our " Old man" chain smoked Camels,,, ( filterless of course),, and FILLED that old station wagon,, with 2nd hand smoke,", hahahah "2nd hand smoke" ???? hell Bring it on !!!! we can take it... .we're a product of the 50s.... L S M F T Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LouDiamond 1 #25 January 15, 2005 QuoteShe gave me a lecture on safety Ya should of kicked her in the cookie and then asked why she wasn't wearing protective gear"It's just skydiving..additional drama is not required" Some people dream about flying, I live my dream SKYMONKEY PUBLISHING Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
