People over 35 should be dead

[sea nmf]

You know what's really fun??

Check out any thread that is over two pages long.

Read the first post, then click to the last page and read the last post.... my how we digress.... lol

I guess it's all in the spirit of the discussion

Not really off topic. The post is about how we survived the perils of childhood without the current protection.

 

[alemaozinho]

Here's why .........



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.



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.)



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. Horrors!



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.



We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually

died from this.



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.



After running into the bushes 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

when the street lights came on.



No one was able to reach us all day. NO CELL PHONES!!!!! Unthinkable!



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. We had friends! We went outside and found

them.



We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.



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.

Remember accidents?



We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get

over it.



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.



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.



Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had
to learn to deal with disappointment.


Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were

held back to repeat the same grade. Horrors!



Tests were not adjusted for any reason.



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!

so true

 

[SHARKBAIT94]

At least kids continue to be born with imagination. [/QUOTE]
yeah they are born with an imagination but if we never let them use it and can't be bothered to be parents any more and always use tv and video games as a baby sitter or parent then that skill will go bad. people who discover idea and build stuff use that gift called the imagination.

 

[DPJ]

Some of my more ridiculous adventures:

At age 6 went saling with my older neighbor (he was 8), who knew how to sail. Jumped in the 10 foot dingy, no life jackets, no engine, no paddle and shortly after getting into the middle of the river, no wind. Luckliy a couple of hours later, someone decided to come tow us home.

Around age 12, figured out WD-40 with the plastic tube, makes a great homemade flame thrower. Just need to pull the tube out when gets short.

Lesson learned when burning plastic models make sure, the firecrackers inside explode prior to the plastic melting. Still have the scar from that one.

 

[newbie@scuby]

I turn 40 in a few weeks and I just told my sister that I guess I have to grow up this year. now u tell me it's to late i should be dead! no fair.

 

[Quarrior]

I turn 40 in a few weeks and I just told my sister that I guess I have to grow up this year. now u tell me it's to late i should be dead! no fair.

Why do you have to grow up this year? Doesn't sound much fun to me.

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

Naw... I refuse to grow up until I am 5'5".

 

[Quarrior]

Me too.

Naw... I refuse to grow up until I am 5'5".

 

[newbie@scuby]

Why do you have to grow up this year? Doesn't sound much fun to me.

I went down a mud slide my nephew built at our camp @the river, i've been in a fire cracker battle with my son right know{it's been going on since july 4} he got me good today...i'm waiting till about 2am peck on his window and let a whole round of fire crackers off....same nephew that built the mud slide claims he has some old m-80's don't know if they still work will keep u posted.
all this to say mud isn't a good look on a 40 year old{almost} unless of course your mud wrestling...i havent done that :06:

 

[miketsp]

I turn 40 in a few weeks and I just told my sister that I guess I have to grow up this year. now u tell me it's to late i should be dead! no fair.

You're only as old as you feel and I feel younger than many around me, half my age.

Thinking about it, on most dive boats the guys around me are half my age...