My mom sent this to me today, and it makes one wonder either a) if todays safety-nuts and regulators are right, how did that entire generation survive? Or b), since they did make it, why do we need to be so regulated?
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People over 35 should be dead. 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, door 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 airbags. 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 bone 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!
Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, eh?
Ahhhhh, the good old days! I don' t think anybody in my family had ever heard of a gun cabinet. You couldn' t find many corners of the house without a rifle or shotgun leaning up in them, but none of us kids would have ever thought of touching them. And the things my little brother and I would create to jump our dirtbikes off of! What a blast! Scars fade, but the momories last a lifetime!
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At age 13, I bought myself a M721 Rem. in .30/06 for $85.00 (new) I could not afford a m70 Win. The next year I started loading ammo for it. I started muzzleloading with Black Powder at age 13 also, and no-one thought there was anything strange about it.... Now, the whole country would have a cow if a kid bought a .30/' 06!!
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someday they will make you wear bubble wrap suits, helmet , with a ouuter case like a turtle shell. & a shock[] coller in case you get into anthing you not suppose too. ( maybe the old folks home?)
Thats why i cant function a car well? , not enought warning labels& instructions. but i did own a 76? wv 411 german car that did say sit first.
or was it a 78, 412...was a 4 door anyways lol.
Hammer: do not strike fingers , pets other humans, wear safty googles& hearing portectuon at all times , a full face sheild& upper body protection is also recomended; alos wear pants & shoes & have a fire exting,& medical personal handy
wow, how true. I was just thinking of this the other day when I was driving down the road and saw a bunch of kids on their bicycles -- all wearing helmets.
When I was there age I was repelling from buildings like an idiot.
Everyone over 35 should be dead...
nah.
How in the world did I ever get to be 50 years old, LOL !!!!
] by making it this far!lol
( maybe the old folks home?
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