someone posted about a music quiz for todays yoot

[ESG]

well as a follow up

 

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids

in the 50's, 60's, 70's probably shouldn't have survived, because...

 

- Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.

- We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.

- When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and fluorescent 'clackers' on our wheels.

- As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags - riding in the passenger seat was a treat.

-We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.

- We drank fizzy pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

- We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this.

- We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles 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 before it got dark. No one was able to reach us all day and no one minded.

- We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet chat rooms.

We had friends - we went outside and found them.

- We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits. They were accidents. We learnt not to do the same thing again.

- We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue we learned to get over it.

- We walked to friend's homes. We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school, we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.

- We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate live stuff, and although we were told it would happen, we did not have very many eyes out, nor did the live stuff live inside us forever.

- We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.

- 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!

 

Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.

For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read about us.

This my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a smile on your face.

 

The majority of students in universities today were born in 1983........They are called youth. They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children, and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel.

They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena or Belinda Carlisle.

For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.

AIDS has existed since they were born.

CD's have existed since they were born.

Michael Jackson has always been white.

To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance.

They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission impossible are just new films out last year.

They think that N-Trance "set you free" is an Old Skool song.

They can never imagine life before computers.

They've never heard of Pac-Man or Space Invaders or BBC computers that have Bat n Ball games.

They'll never have thought Jazz was the sexiest aftershave ever.

They'll never have pretended to be the A Team, Red Hand Gang or the Famous Five.

They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It or Why Don't You.

They can't believe a black and white television ever existed and don't even know how to switch on a TV without a remote control.

And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone.

 

Now let's check if we're getting old...

1. You understand what was written above and you smile.

2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon,after a night out.

3. Your friends are mostly married.

4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.

5. When you see children with mobile phones, you shake your head.

6. You've developed more and more feelings good & bad about your work. It's now your life.

7. You spend less and less time talking on phone with your friends daily.

8. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old days, repeating again and again all funny stories you have experienced together.

9. Having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some other

friends because you think they will like it too...

Yes, you're getting older !!!!

 

[CANV EFM]

im sure the current youth generation can drum up there own stories in the future.. like er...um...

watching the grand prix highlights till 1.00 am on a sunday

mugging an old bird for 34 pence

wearing a white baseball cap and a hoody

learning all the cheats on grand theft auto

getting laid at 13 yrs of age....(bastards!!!)

[Colin Zeal EFM]

There's a certain person who posts on here regularly who claims to have lost his virginity at the age of 9 or 10.

 

I shan't say who it is, as I'm sure if he wishes it to be public knowledge, he'll reveal himself when he's next on!!

 

 

[Little Miss Urchin]

I can guess who that is.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

I don't mind it being public knowledge <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

The annoying thing was the 8yr gap until the next one <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

 

That kid stuff is so true, in the summer I'd still be outside now (10pm) playing hide and seek, british bulldog etc. I fell off a swing and slipped a disc in my back once, and this was before the days of foam under the swings, it was still concrete we didn't try and sue the council.

My mum used to come out about this time and hollow my name across the estate and i'd be home, no mobile phones and I can tell you that more kids went missing in my day then today but we didn't have the whole hysteria over kids being watched all the time and that everybody was a peadofile until proven otherwise.