To all the kids born in the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's.

[Q Classic]

Re: To all thhe kids born in the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's.

Originally posted by Cort Haus
[q]

Congratulations!!!!! TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

Good, good. How are their lungs and livers? Are they even still around?

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Food is food.

Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paints.

Probably explains why you guys haven't the foggiest about running the country properly, and cannot grasp modern technology.

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 seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun.

It's my understanding that child mortality rates have gone down since you people were born.

We drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle.

Hosepipes are so honky-tonk, a relic from a bygone era.

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

Of course not, but didn't you guys get mono a lot more often?

We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because....

I have no idea what "pop" is, but good for you.

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

That would be one explanation for the higher rates of melanoma amongst your kind.

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 no one would realize you were missing until the next day, when you didn't get home.

And we were O.K.

So are we.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride 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 will spend hours trying to figure out what's wrong with the computer, only to find out you people decided to download some crappy attachment. After a few times dealing with the digital mess, we told you to never download anything again.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and looked for and found them!

We have friends that we meet online, from all over the world, and sometimes we go out and meet them. Besides, for the real friends we have and know from the real world, now we've got all sorts of ways to keep in touch that you never had, now we've got all sorts of ways of meeting new people that you never had, and ****, even shy people these days can start having many more friendships than in your backwards time.

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from t hese accidents .

No, but now you're suing on the behalf of your children who do this, you greedy ****s.

We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

You're pround of having contracted parasites?

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any eyes.

It's very hard to poke out eyes with a keyboard, so we've got no risk there. That's like saying you were playing with a grenade and never got blown up. Good for you, but.

We rode our bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or we just yelled for them!

Yeah, that's a bit rude. Now we IM, call, and email first.

Local sports teams had “tryouts” and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

/defriends j00

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

Which explains why you're all cowards, going along with the Patriot Act, and responsible for idiocy in lawmaking, stupid lawsuits, and so on.

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

True, but very few of you know how to actually apply them and run with them.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And yet, you stand here, wringing your hands over how the world's become, scared of your own shadow and everything you've done in the world. Instead of taking responsibility, you decide to sue everyone else, blame concepts and ideas such as "terror", "video games", "angry music", and even fashion trends like, "goth".

Instead of adapting to change, and trying to crest the wave of a revolution, you're stuck in old ways of thinking, refusing to admit that the internet has allowed for massive democratization of content and has changed the very fabric of society.

You run around, trying to make schools as safe as possible because it's you who can't deal with things like cyber-bullying, Columbine, and loud noises.

So, old people, get over yourselves.

[Asmodean]

WoW, Q Cubed...you don't have to try very hard to be an a**hole, do you?

You took a friendly thread and thoughtful post and started flaming him for it

Q Cubed

Asmodean

[Cort Haus]

Q Cubed, who are you raging at exactly? People born in the 70's may not even be thirty yet are not running the country or media.

The point of the article was merely to point out how people grew up in the past when kids were not wrapped in cotton wool, and there was more freedom, and less interference in the minutiae of people's lives. Instead, you seem to have got into a hysterical hissy-fit and started making absurd assumptions about the opinions of thousands of millions of people that you don't know.

The article was not even written exclusively from the boomer POV, it includes Gen X as well - the first to grow up with video games, angry music and goth. Calm down.

[Q Classic]

Pfft. I'm not angry or upset. And no, I don't have to try hard to be an *******, that's my natural state.

It's not a rage, but a snotty retort to the sort of egotistical "we survived this bull****" thing the OP quoted.

Why, you ask? Well, simply put, the way it's written seems to blame and put-down my generation for not having grown up in the same fashion, when it's those generations preventing us from doing so.

And don't call me out on generalizing millions, when the OP's quoted material does the same thing.

Yes, I know it was in jest.

My reply was just as serious, too--mostly jest.

Guess modern snark is missed by you old farts.

[DAVOUT]

Apparently, nobody is interested by the kids born in the 30's.

However, it is likely preferable.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
And no, I don't have to try hard to be an *******, that's my natural state.

I guess that is understood by everyone.

[lord of the mark]

Re: To all thhe kids born in the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's.

[QUOTE] Originally posted by Cort Haus

Congratulations!!!!! TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

My mom rarely smoked or drank, and Im sure didnt while she was pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

I dont know that my mom didnt get tested for diabetes. What is he talking about?

Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paints.

Actually I think lead based paints were already becoming less common in the '60.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets

We were watched reasonably closely, however.

and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets,

Well yeah, I did luck out on that, not everyone did though. Go ask Asher, he thinks biking is dangerous even WITH a helmet.

not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking

Er, uhm, NO.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Seatbelts were widespread when I grew up. There was some question if you HAD to wear one in the back seat though.

Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun.

Who the hell had a van?

We drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle.

Not too many garden hoses where I grew up.

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

This isnt a decade thingie. In Brooklyn, Jewish moms knew youd die from sharing a softdrink since the 1940s at least.

We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because....

Actually i knew several kids who were overweight. And of course plenty of us who werent, still got a good start on our cholesterol levels

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

Well yeah, thats true. Pretty much. Tee Vee was starting to encroach, but with only a few channels, and some of us still having only black and white, it wasnt as enticing.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

Well some of us were expected to come in for meals.

No one was able to reach us all day.

Nah, my folks knew pretty much where I was.

And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride 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 did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and looked for and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from t hese accidents .

We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any eyes.

We rode our bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or we just yelled for them!

Local sports teams had “tryouts” and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

Some of us are still getting our revenge

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

Never having broken the law, I wouldnt know. I suspect some parents did bail their kids out though.

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 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.

Actually most of this has to do with parenting styles, and technology, rather than with lawyers or gov regs.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by Starchild
So we, the kids of the 80's and 90's, grow up in the world built by our parents and then get treated to stuff like this, the smug superiority of the baby boomers and the not-so-subtle implication that our childhoods are vastly inferior compared to theirs.

Baby boomer are teh Suk. Its us kids from '65 - '79 that deserve to feel superior.

[Zkribbler]

At least we know how the spell "the."

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Starchild


It sounds less like tough love and more like another hallmark of the boomer need to see itself as a golden generation.

nah, its just CH doing his libertarian thingie. Posting something that conflates real problems in the culture (like kids not playing outside as much) which happen NOT to be imposed by lawyers or govt, with trivia that IS imposed by lawyers or govt (OMG! Childproof caps! Oh the World We Have Lost) The political motivations behind this conflation should be apparent.

I can tell you that going playing outside, without fear, was great. It was possible not so much because our parents were not infected by the culture of fear, but at least in my neighborhood cause there always WERE adults around. Credit stay at home moms, seniors who hadnt retired to Florida, the lack of central AC, and the lack of good TV, all of which meant there were always about a dozen or so adults in lawn chairs shooting the breeze in front of our apt building. My mom KNEW I was being watched.

Not having childproof locks as toddler, well I dont even remember. I dont think you guys have missed much on that account.

Sitting in back without seatbelts? It had its moments, but on the whole probably not worth it.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Asmodean
Q Cubed

fixed

[Wezil]

My circumstances were very much like the article. I participated in virtually every activity named.

As to the parenting vs generational argument - I have two younger siblings (20+ years between me and them) that do none of these activities. They are members of the video game generation that would probably melt if they spent more than 10 minutes outside. Can't blame it on parents - they are the same parents I had.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Wezil
My circumstances were very much like the article. I participated in virtually every activity named.

As to the parenting vs generational argument - I have two younger siblings (20+ years between me and them) that do none of these activities. They are members of the video game generation that would probably melt if they spent more than 10 minutes outside. Can't blame it on parents - they are the same parents I had.

Note I said parenting AND technology, and certainly other social trends. Do you think they are inside because of lawyers and govt regulators?

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

How much of this is that women don't know their place and have gone to take man jobs?

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
How much of this is that women don't know their place and have gone to take man jobs?

Quiet Ogie! I'm trying to find a position as some rich woman's mistress...or boy toy..or whatever. :consprire: