If you were born in the 1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's..

Homer

Congratulations!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots 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 or shoes, 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.
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no kebabs, pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on Sundays, somehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner shop and buy fruit tingles and some crackers to blow up frogs with.
We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks 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. We built tree houses and cubby houses and played in stream beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have iPods, Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on satellite, DVD’s, no surround sound, no mobile 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.
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross buns at Easter time.......no really!
We were given BB guns and sling shots for our 10th birthdays.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
Footy had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather straps and bully's always ruled the playground at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like "Kiora" and "Blade"

Feel free to add to the list!!

L1011

The vast vast majority of that applies to the 1980s if you were born in Ireland...

KingOfFairview

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

they didnt have bright colours until the 60s, before that it was black, white, nicotine colour, box colour, sombre green, ashen beige etc...

biko

I remember leaving the house after breakfast, being away all day playing and coming home at 5 or so. And no-one was worried. I was about 10.

Binomate

I got love for you if you were born in the 80's, the 80's.

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Dudess

I think I, as someone born in the late 1970s, had it quite a bit easier than someone who was born in the 20s, 30s or 40s! My parents were born in the 40s and they tell me of winter mornings so cold that there was ice INSIDE the windows, not just outside.

cookie*

that i so true!! and do u know what we probably had a better time because we could do what ever we wanted and not have to worry what anyone thought because we all did the same thing!!!!

arybvtcw0eolkf

OP welcome to 1995.

cornbb

Hehe, good times. I wouldn't worry though OP. Those born in the 20s probably thought that those born in the 50s were wusses. Today's kids will probably moan about the kids born in 30 years time who will doubtlessly wear bubblewrap clothing and space helmets until the age of 25 and eat nothing but antibiotics and refined sugar.

prendy

A game of football with friends didnt mean Pro Evo or FIFA.

Dyr

industria wrote: »

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner shop and buy fruit tingles and some crackers to blow up frogs with.
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ehh how does a packet of jacobs cream crackers blow up a frog? force feeding

And who in ireland was given a BB gun as a kid? Off to Amerikey with ye and your new fangled talk :mad:

Oswald Osbourne

Mairt wrote: »

OP welcome to 1995.

Agreed.

Also, don't forget. Send this to 100 people or you dies!

Procasinator

If you were born in the 1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's..

I'd be living proof of reincarnation!

Homer

Bambi wrote:

ehh how does a packet of jacobs cream crackers blow up a frog? force feeding

And who in ireland was given a BB gun as a kid? Off to Amerikey with ye and your new fangled talk :mad:

eh maybe they were "fire" crackers and not jacobs cream crackers? Still confused?

And I was using BB gun as a generic term for the many different types of toy guns that were around during those decades! :cool:

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prendy wrote: »

A game of football with friends didnt mean Pro Evo or FIFA.

More's the pity.

Dord

biko wrote: »

I remember leaving the house after breakfast, being away all day playing and coming home at 5 or so. And no-one was worried. I was about 10.

Me too, and I was born in the mid 80's. But I stayed out later!

OP, a lot of that applies to the 80's and early 90's even.

Oswald Osbourne

Procasinator wrote: »

I'd be living proof of reincarnation!

and proof that this attitude towards parenting (that was prevelant in the 20s - 70's) that resulted in your death 6 consecutive times before the age of 20 wasn't necessarily a good one.

xzanti

Dudess wrote: »

I think I, as someone born in the late 1970s, had it quite a bit easier than someone who was born in the 20s, 30s or 40s! My parents were born in the 40s and they tell me of winter mornings so cold that there was ice INSIDE the windows, not just outside.

My mother was telling me only last weekend (during one of her 'back in my day' rants) about that.. Her father used to heat coins up on the gas light and thaw circles in the ice to look through.. Brrrrr.. Central heating ftw

ScumLord

I remember when getting a lump of coal off santa was a great present that the whole family could enjoy, kids turn they're noses up at it now they have they're central heating.

Pherekydes

industria wrote: »

If you were born in the 1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's...

Were you born in all those decades? :rolleyes:

Forgot to add: People born in any of those decades could spell, use punctuation and construct a grammatically correct sentence. Some were even numerate. None posted on internet fora.

tallus

Dudess wrote: »

I think I, as someone born in the late 1970s, had it quite a bit easier than someone who was born in the 20s, 30s or 40s! My parents were born in the 40s and they tell me of winter mornings so cold that there was ice INSIDE the windows, not just outside.

hahah I remember that in the 80's before we got double glazing!

Pherekydes

Oswald Osbourne wrote: »

and proof that this attitude towards parenting (that was prevelant in the 20s - 70's) that resulted in your death 6 consecutive times before the age of 20 wasn't necessarily a good one.

See what I mean about numeracy?

r3nu4l

Dudess wrote: »

I think I, as someone born in the late 1970s, had it quite a bit easier than someone who was born in the 20s, 30s or 40s! My parents were born in the 40s and they tell me of winter mornings so cold that there was ice INSIDE the windows, not just outside.

You obviously come from a privileged background so. I was born in the mid-70's and vividly remember ice on the inside of the windows in our house. We had single-glazed wooden-framed windows with no central heating. We finally got central heating installed in 1982, I remember the chaos well

emeraldstar

r3nu4l wrote: »

I was born in the mid-80's
....
We finally got central heating installed in 1982, I remember the chaos well

Slow coach wrote:

See what I mean about numeracy?

yep

mehehehehe

r3nu4l

emeraldstar wrote: »

yep

mehehehehe

Jeez, one typo and all of a sudden you're classed with the rest of the dullards What's the world coming to at all at all Ted?

Terry

tallus wrote: »

hahah I remember that in the 80's before we got double glazing!

I remember it myself.
The wood frame, single glaze windows weren't really good at keeping the cold out.

All you people with central heating are boned when the revolution comes.

industria wrote:

We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

Completely true. We also walked to school.

industria wrote:

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!

Both my parents had to work to make ends meet. (I was born in '75 and the '80's were tough on most of us ).

industria wrote:

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

My father rang the cops when one of my neighbours told him I was smoking hash.
I went through many years of street searches by the cops, but they never found my stash.

industria wrote:

Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like "Kiora" and "Blade"

Check out my awesome normal name.

toiletduck

MYOB wrote: »

The vast vast majority of that applies to the 1980s if you were born in Ireland...

Word. Except for the BB guns, that would have been ace!

Call Me Jimmy

Dudess wrote: »

I think I, as someone born in the late 1970s, had it quite a bit easier than someone who was born in the 20s, 30s or 40s! My parents were born in the 40s and they tell me of winter mornings so cold that there was ice INSIDE the windows, not just outside.

look global warming! But if that weather returned they would attribute that to global warming too...

Lizzykins

Loved your post Industria. Reminded me of long summer days in the 70s. Remamber all the ball games the girls played-playney a packet of rinso,over a packet of rinso......? We played "beds" with an old shoe polish tin filled with earth and stones and marked out the suface with a bit of chalk that you found somewhere. Sometimes we robbed the Mammy's full polish tin. Sand sandwiches on the beach and those brown sandals all the kids wore! My granny putting Ambre Solaire sun tan oil on her arms and legs! Don't know how she didn't fry! Cars getting stuck in the sand on the beach and bringing home buckets of sand in the boot! To his credit my grandfather said nothing. Ah happy days indeed!

Latchy

I remember we kids in the 60s/70s would be saying '' in the future everything will be run by computors and big brother will be around '' .We were right hey ?

snickerpuss

Terry wrote: »

I remember it myself.
The wood frame, single glaze windows weren't really good at keeping the cold out.

All you people with central heating are boned when the revolution comes.

I still have wood frame, crappy glass windows. Pity me. It's cold in here.

Quality

Dad used to bring us to the pub with him on Sundays, Then we would all hop in the car and go home with him, The four kids in the back seat with no seat belts after he had about 6 pints.

Tayto and red lemonade was a great sunday brunch!!