Nanny State

[Miket]

Just been sent this e-mail, how very true it is :thumb: :thumb:


TO ALL THE CHILDREN WHO SURVIVED the1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured 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 cream cakes, bread and butter and drank fizzy 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. After running into the the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. after running in 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 Adult channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cellphones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms...........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, cut ourselves, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. 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 in us forever. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them! Schoolfootball and rugby 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! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as children, before the lawyers, lentil eaters with seaweed sweaters, woolly leg warmer brigade and this poxy, 'nanny state' government of ours.. deem to regulate our lives for our own good.

[Chimeara]

Very true Mike, although im only a mere bambino il go with 99% of that. No internet is a bit harsh though, would never of met you lot of lovely chaps nor got quite as far with my cobra. However if ideally living in he 60's id of bought an original and attended the present club meets to rub it in.

I can relate to the building of things with scrap aswell, thats what makes a pilgrim kit so fun

Anthony

[mylesdw]

There was a documentary on telly the other night saying that this generation of fat lazy children is predicted to be the first EVER that will not out live their parents. That's pretty scary.

It occurred to me the other day while watching some unfortunate person in a sandwich shop trying to prepare food with their hands in plastic bags how ironic it is that we are SO worried about AIDS on the one hand while the ridiculous food hygene laws will breed out a decent immune system in a generation or too anyway!

[rich]

Fully agree Mike,
But I think like most things that's been allowed to happen in this country,
It's too late to alter it now.

There's already almost total disregard of rules and the law by today's youth, brought on by a total lake of corporal punishment.
Soon there will be no sense of right and wrong leading to anarchy.

Beware Mad Max is Coming

Get the fast cars out and run for your lives!

[callum]

:angry: If my children fail to outlive me it is because I'll have shot them for scrounging off me.

[Chimeara]

Il go with that to, its an all to familiar sight to see people my age on street corners smoking, spitting and drug abusing. A smack did me no harm as a growing boy as it showed me discipline and right from wrong.

I now have a cobra instead of a potential rehab program if I had gone the other way.

Can I join the SAGA club yet Mike, im only 21 in July but putting the world to right is making me feel 51.

Anthony

[Purple AK]

Don't worry Antony, SAGA will find you on a regular basis when the time is right :angry:

[Miket]

Originally Posted by Purple AK

Don't worry Antony, SAGA will find you on a regular basis when the time is right :angry:

Chris

How true, they keep popping through my letter box, they go straight in the bin.

Saga Insurance for the over 50's, what a load of cr**, they are 50% for expensive than I'm paying, they probably think that someone over 50 can't use the Internet. :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

[FatBoy]

Hi,
I agree with all of the above....however....you need to bear in mind that it is possibly "our" generation that has allowed all this to happen.

I spent my childhood in the sixties and early seventies and I had a great time in spite of all the dangers that we had no idea even existed :thumb:

I suspect I under-achieved at school but that was because I went to a new fangled Comprehensive school with liberal teaching methods and no school uniform. So does that mean that the rot was already setting in by then?
If that is the case, then those responsible for our current predicament must be those who "lived" the sixties..love, peace, flower-power etc.

Paul

[rich]

Yeh-you hippies
It's all your fault :finger: