CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's.

[ohiosmith]

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

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

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

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.

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

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

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

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

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 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 cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

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

We ate 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 put out very many eyes.

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

Football teams had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

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!

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!

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

[skygazer]

1. Is this going to get posted every day?

:eyes:

[Hugin]

2. It's just one long tirade against Video Games...

Seems to me, but, that could just be the lead paint talking.

[skygazer]

4. Well, it's so absurd

Does whoever wrote it honestly think that life would be better for our kids if we had no seat belts or we smoked and drank when carrying them?

It's rightwing bullshit and it irritates me every time I see it. And I seem to be seeing it a lot lately.

[Hugin]

7. It does kind of celebrate stupidity...

so it fits the profile. :rofl:

[ohiosmith]

3. Yes. it is going to get posted every day. Every day for the rest of your life.

[MrCoffee]

5. just take your Ritalin like a good little spoiled brat.

[skygazer]

6. Is that going to interact with the lead paint I ate as a child?

Aw, hell, I survived mom's prenatal heroin habit, I guess I can handle the Ritalin.

[ohiosmith]

8. MrCoffee! How are you man? Long time no see.

[MrCoffee]

9. hey hey hey ohiosmith, how's tricks?

in the immortal words of Mr. Slim Shady, "It feels so good to be back"

[ohiosmith]

10. I'm great man. How you been? Where you been?

[MrCoffee]

11. the work situation was sort of freaky there for a stretch

things appear to be chilling a bit.

[ohiosmith]

12. Great. It's good to have you back.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

13. P.S. You're old

[slj0101]

14. I miss those good ol' days.

Back when the coloreds drank at their own water fountains, rode the back of the bus, and weren't allowed to eat at the lunch counter.

We didn't have to worry about Lexapro, Prozac, or Zoloft; if you had a problem, you spent some time "on vacation" at the local state hospital.

If you were molested by a grown-up- suck it up! We'll just act like nothing ever happened. It'll be the family secret.

Cars didn't need seatbelts or airbags- you just died from collisions that you'd walk away from now.

We didn't have to worry about our next meal or a place to stay- you could just get drafted and fight communism in some Asian country, room & board included.

It was okay to laugh at a joke- you didn't have to worry about offending some Chink, Jap, Polack or faggot- everyone was white!

good lord this fucking chain letter is tiresome.

[Debi]

15. Fine being sarcastic

but vulgar and disgusting isn't funny x(

[slj0101]

16. I realize it was a bit harsh, and I apologize for that,

but my point is, the good old days weren't as great as people make them out to be.

Everything I typed was meant as complete sarcasm, BTW.

[matcom]

17. I haven't had a good idea since I was six

it was right around the time I put all that lead paint in my mouth and broke the thermometer so I could play with all those little, cool beads

:D

[rug]

18. And there were no damn designer vaginas.