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Floridaboiler
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Joined: 18 May 2002
Posts: 11322
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
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 Posted: 01/30/04 - 19:57 Post subject: It is frightening the horrors of the older generation...
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> > People over 35 should be dead.
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> > Here's why ............
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> > 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.
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> > 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.)
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> > 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.
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> > Horrors!
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> > 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.
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> > We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one
> > actually died from this.
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> > 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.
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> > After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the
> > problem.
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> > We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were
> > back when the street lights came on.
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> > No one was able to reach us all day. NO CELL PHONES!!!!!
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> > Unthinkable!
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> > 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.
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> > We had friends!
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> > We went outside and found them.
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> > We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.
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> > 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.
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> > Remember accidents?
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> > We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned
> > to get over it.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who
> > didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.
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> > Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and
> > were held back to repeat the same grade.
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> > Horrors!
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> > Tests were not adjusted for any reason. Our actions were our own.
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> > Consequences were expected.
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> > The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of.
> > They actually sided with the law.
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> > Imagine that!
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> > This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem
> > solvers and inventors, ever.
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> > The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
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> > We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how
> > to deal with it all.
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> > And you're one of them!
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> > Congratulations!
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> > 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
> > !!!!!
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> > People under 30 are WIMPS
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