LIFE IN A SOCIETY LONG SINCE PAST - Please
Richard Kirkwood
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids
in the 50's, 60's, and 70's probably shouldn't have survived.
Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which
was promptly chewed and licked.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or
cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and fluorescent
'clackers' on our wheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags - riding
in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle - tasted the
same.
We ate dripping sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop
with sugar in it but we were never overweight because we were always
outside playing.
We shared one drink with 4 friends, from 1 bottle or can and no one
actually died from this.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top
speed down the hill only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running
into stinging nettles 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
before it got dark.
No one was able to reach us all day and no one minded.
We did not have Playstations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99
channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones,
no personal computers and no Internet chat rooms.
We had friends - we went outside and found them.
We played elastics and street rounders and sometimes that ball really
hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits. They were accidents.
We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue - we learned
to get over it.
We walked to friend's homes.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls, ate live stuff and although
we were told it would happen we did not have very many eyes out nor did the
live stuff live inside us forever.
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. 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.
And you're one of them. Congratulations!
Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as real kids
before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.
(If you aren't old enough, thought you might like to read about us...)
CyBorg_0091
No such thing as building a rocket in your backyard any longer,you need a
permit to expand your knowledge at the cost of $2000 to think an idea into
practice
I noticed this happen 2 years ago in my way back area of real early timers:
House builders go from being normal people to white coats with university
degrees in wood grain.
My playground as a kid now has giant signs that say NO WOOD CUTTING,the old
man at aged 78 that used to cut wood for a living at $25 a ton for everyone
in the area cannot do it any longer.
This was once no mans land in a sense and everyone's land.
This was a free land
A mechanic was a person who liked mechanical things when I was at school and
when I was young everyone was a mechanic now a mechanic is a person that has
a bit of paper to say he is a mechanic.
The old fellow at age 70 with the Auto shop shuts his doors in the end,our
only real mechanic left is now gone,the one that used to stand at his petrol
pump all day and wave to every passer by.
The town drunk is gone,everyone's friend even kids
The little old lady at age 94 that could hardly walk and owned the town
sweet shop and made sweets shut her doors with no business to be able to
continue and lived out her life next-door to the shop were she would have
died until the new government nurse comes oneday to ship her to an insane
ward and pump her full of drugs.
I used to hang around with these characters of old people at about 5 years
old and they gave me life basically,they gave me perception and much more
than a university could give anyone,these people were the founders of the
towns and my parents kept their dream alive by unknowingly working as they
did.
I just noticed in the local paper that every one of the people from the
towns where I grew up has not paid their counsel rates in exactly 10 years.
These people were too remote from the happenings of the country never
bothered with radio although it existed,these people were their own.
My parents voted but never knew why.
We were out of towners that became a part of the area's history
I am now 24 and live in a world of wheely
bins,fences,rednecks,whitecollars,people wanted to sue you for moving,no
camp fires at the local beach,no car rusting in the back yard without
complaint,police that can't catch criminals,people that keep car windows
closed and truck drivers that drive psychotically,next door neighbors that
don't talk,people that don't wave,school kids that are driven to
school,wearing helmets on push bikes, and the rest.
I go back to my old world and wonder sometimes,a bit like many would turn to
religion,I turn to the old people and just watch them.
"Richard Kirkwood" <sas...@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:iar_a.32571$bo1....@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
sharkey
>
> A mechanic was a person who liked mechanical things when I was at school
(at this point I was taking bets that CyBorg_0091 was suffering
from Premature Ageing Syndrome)
> I am now 24 and live in a world of wheely bins
24? Bwahahahahaha! Oh, you poor lonely old man!
-----sharks
Doug Cox
> just flip flops and fluorescent
> 'clackers' on our wheels.
Thongs and pegs and cardboard.
> We ate dripping sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop
Soft drink.
> We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps
Billy carts.
Doug Cox.
Work to ride, Ride to work...
Zebee Johnstone
>
> Soft drink.
And vegemite, I dunno anyone in Oz ate dripping sandwiches except in the
Depression.
I also note that the people who had this idyllic upbringing are the ones
who agitated for the protections this post is attacking.
They are the ones who sued when their kids were hurt. The ones who
wanted it all, and whined when they didn't get it. So it seems all
such a chidhood does is produce hypocrites.
Zebee
Aaron & Kylie
Aaron
ZX6R
"Richard Kirkwood" <sas...@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message news:iar_a.32571
<snip crap>
kiwipete
little meely mouthed fools from the left leech lawyers club have ruined all
our fun!!
kiwipte
"Richard Kirkwood" <sas...@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:iar_a.32571$bo1....@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
Stuart Thyer
----------
In article <iar_a.32571$bo1....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, "Richard
Kirkwood" <sas...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>VERY GOOD AND SO TRUE!
>
>
>According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids
>in the 50's, 60's, and 70's probably shouldn't have survived.
'
But we did, and now we're the people that parents try and protect their
children from.... or we are the parents.
Stuart Thyer
Doug Cox
> And vegemite, I dunno anyone in Oz ate dripping sandwiches except in the
> Depression.
My mum loves dripping sandwiches.
And sheep brains.
Theo Bekkers
> Brilliant!! Absooooolloooootely!! dam Political correctness and the
precious
> little meely mouthed fools from the left leech lawyers club have ruined
all
> our fun!!
>
> kiwipte
Pete, I can ignore poor spelling, I can ignore really bad spelling, but
mate, you spelled your NAME wrong.
Theo
smee
>
And SOOOOOO american
>
> According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids
> in the 50's, 60's, and 70's probably shouldn't have survived.
Korean war, vietnam war tried that with some success
>
> Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which
> was promptly chewed and licked.
Mine wasn't
>
> We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or
> cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
> When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and fluorescent
> 'clackers' on our wheels.
wtf are flip flops?
Only clacker is in my pants.
>
> As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags - riding
> in the passenger seat was a treat.
>
> We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle - tasted the
> same.
Nope the garden hose tasted rubbery
Melbourne still had the purest water at the time.
>
> We ate dripping sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop
> with sugar in it but we were never overweight because we were always
> outside playing.
"fizzy pop"??
wtf is fizzy pop?
>
> We shared one drink with 4 friends, from 1 bottle or can and no one
> actually died from this.
We also wiped the top of the bottle
and we still share drinks.
>
> We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top
> speed down the hill only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running
> into stinging nettles a few times we learned to solve the problem.
Stinging nettles eh?
>
> We would leave home in the morning and play all day as long as we were back
> before it got dark.
>
> No one was able to reach us all day and no one minded.
>
> We did not have Playstations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99
> channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones,
> no personal computers and no Internet chat rooms.
Shame really we did have quality tv programs though none of this
reality tv crap.
>
> We had friends - we went outside and found them.
So you are saying we have no friends now?
farknell better tell mine to piss off then.
>
> We played elastics and street rounders and sometimes that ball really
> hurt.
Try getting a soccer ball kicked in the nads at full tilt.
>
> We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth and there were no
> lawsuits. They were accidents.
Still not the case here in australia
America became a litigious society in the 60's onwards.
>
> We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue - we learned
> to get over it.
what you don't now?
>
> We walked to friend's homes.
Still do especially if you are out on the piss.
Unless we live to far to walk.
>
> We made up games with sticks and tennis balls, ate live stuff and although
> we were told it would happen we did not have very many eyes out nor did the
> live stuff live inside us forever.
Still do I see it every day where I work.
>
> We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. Our
> actions were our own. Consequences were expected.
Bullshit!!!!
>
> The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of - they
> actually sided with the law. Imagine that!
Still rings true in the majority of cases despite the tripe you read
in the papers.
>
> 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.
Neccesity is th mother of all invention.
we had world wars
WTF do you think we were so innovative?
>
> And you're one of them. Congratulations!
Thank you.
>
> Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as real kids
> before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.
What a load of tripe.
There are articles that describe this sort of crap over 50 years ago
about the previous 50 years and so on ad infinitum.
Learn to live with today and don't dwell on the past
Bernie Dwyer
>
> VERY GOOD AND SO TRUE!
>
> According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids
> in the 50's, 60's, and 70's probably shouldn't have survived.
>
> Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which
> was promptly chewed and licked.
>
You f*ckwit! My aunt copped chronic lead poisoning from lead-based paint
and spent the rest of her life being cared for by various relations
because she was too simple to take care of herself. When she was a
little girl she used to lick the dew from the verandah railings in the
mornings - it was too late for her when the doctors finally found the
cause.
Don't propagate this pathetic baby-boomer self-esteem crap around the
internet (it's been seen before, many times) and don't believe any
company or government who says "trust us, we know what's best for you".
--
Bernie Dwyer
Dump the z to reply to me
*****************************
sharkey
>
> There are articles that describe this sort of crap over 50 years ago
> about the previous 50 years and so on ad infinitum.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
-- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
-----sharks
vinyl
"Doug Cox" <toos...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3f3ad7c5$1...@news.comindico.com.au...
Conehead
Intact Kneeslider
>
> VERY GOOD AND SO TRUE!
>
> According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us
> who were kids in the 50's, 60's, and 70's probably shouldn't
> have survived.
<snip-rest of nostalgic wank-fest chainmail that we've all seen 50
times by now>
Please try to be a bit more critical of the flotsam which washes up on
the beach that is your inbox, Richard.
kiwipete
dam
kiwipete kiwipete kiwipete k_i_w_i_p_e_t_e !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-|
"Theo Bekkers" <th...@bekkers.com.au> wrote in message
news:3f3b...@news.bekkers.com.au...
kiwipete
crazy 21st century society tries to shift blame from our own actions to
others... its always the OTHER persons fault... so sue em...
As far as lead based paint goes... yes lead did a lot of damage... but not
by sucking on a bassinet for goodness sake!
kiwipete
"Bernie Dwyer" <ber...@caloundra.qld.gov.au> wrote in message
news:3F3AE826...@caloundra.qld.gov.au...
Zebee Johnstone
kiwipete <chat...@NOSPAMclear.net.nz> wrote:
> You totally missed the point of what was said... the fact is that in this
> crazy 21st century society tries to shift blame from our own actions to
> others... its always the OTHER persons fault... so sue em...
And you have missed the point that the people who are suing are the ones
brought up in the time this piece praises.
"society" is people. The people brought up int he 50s and 60s are the
ones who are doing the suing.
So clearly something's wrong with that upbringing eh?
If it was so wonderful, why are they not wanting it for their kids, why
are they making it impossible for their kids to enjoy?
Zebee
Intact Kneeslider
>
> kiwipete <chat...@NOSPAMclear.net.nz> wrote:
>
> > You totally missed the point of what was said... the fact is that in
this
> > crazy 21st century society tries to shift blame from our own actions to
> > others... its always the OTHER persons fault... so sue em...
>
> And you have missed the point that the people who are suing are the ones
> brought up in the time this piece praises.
Which would mean the piece had worked like a charm, then, wouldn't it?
Manning
"kiwipete" <chat...@NOSPAMclear.net.nz> wrote in message
news:3f3b...@clear.net.nz...
> Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
>
> dam
That's 'd-a-m-N'
Manning
Theo Bekkers
> Makes ya wanna go hug a tree doesn't it?
I was out in the yard (building a chook-pen) yesterday avo when I
noticed that I have two trees that are hugging. One has a pair of
branches completely wrapped around the other.
Theo
Theo Bekkers
> "kiwipete" wrote
> > Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
> >
> > dam
> That's 'd-a-m-N'
I saw that bait.
:-)
Theo
kiwipete
kp
"Theo Bekkers" <th...@bekkers.com.au> wrote in message
news:USI_a.33644$bo1....@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
kiwipete
cycles... right now its coming out of a "liberal" time and becoming more
conservative... society tells us what NOT to do rather than allowing us to
do what we want... a society is driven largely by marketing forces. Right
now the market force with the most clout is the under 25's... society is a
reflection of that group... not ""our" generation.
Have you ever heard or read any commentaries by the social commentator Hugh
McKay? He says that society today is one of the most conservative for over a
hundred years... Can't give you the exact reference, however it was in a
video I saw in the mid nineties... and have seen this backed up by others in
the field..
kiwipete
"Zebee Johnstone" <ze...@zip.com.au> wrote in message
news:slrnbjmaed...@zeus.zipworld.com.au...
Hamish Alker-Jones
"Zebee Johnstone" <ze...@zip.com.au> decided to come out from under the bed
and slurred:
> In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:03:07 GMT
> Doug Cox <toos...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> "Richard Kirkwood" <sas...@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
>>
>>> We ate dripping sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop
>>
>> Soft drink.
>
> And vegemite, I dunno anyone in Oz ate dripping sandwiches except in the
> Depression.
Glub, no wonder I have been depressed for so long! Us boat people did.
Hammo