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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008The following are a list of points taken from a junk/chain email I received today. It confused me slightly, so I have added appropriate comments
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1920’s, 30’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s !!
I was born in 1973, so I suppose that means me.
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos..
Some of us survived anyway..
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
Ok…
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
…right. And this was a good thing?
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Thats right, and many people died in accidents.
Riding in the back of a truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
I did ride in the back of truck once on the Indonesian island of Flores back in 1997. Fantastic journey, but I wasn’t aware that this trip resulted from my being born at the beginning of the 70s.
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.
Anyone spot the slight inconsistency in the above two statements?
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Burger King.
Is someone honestly suggesting that British cuisine (fish & chips) is better than Italian pizza? Fair enough with giving the American chains a hard time, but really, people in glass houses and all that. Still, at least they didn’t mention Asian food - that would have really got me started.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no videogames at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, nosurround sound,no mobilephones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms……….. WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We had several personal computers in our house as we were growing up. Anyone remember the Vic 20? Started my interest in computers and (eventually) led to me to start a career as a software developer. Still got no friends though.
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no Lawsuits from these accidents
I agree that the lawsuit situation is getting rather silly.
Mum didn’t have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
Not having to work could be nice. Not having an option in the first place due to your gender is another thing entirely.
Footy had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
Some bitterness coming through there..?
Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather staps and bully’s always ruled the playground at school.
Ah, bliss. Nothing like a good beating from both your fellow students and teachers to start the day.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy fruit Spangles and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
Blow up frogs?!!! Thats what years of bullying at school does to you.
Our parents got married before they had children and didn’t invent stupid names for their kids like ‘Kiora’ and ‘ Brooklyn ‘
Our parents got married before they had children?!! Maybe this was previous to the 70s.
Only girls had pierced ears!
No comment. Really. Or I might start hitting someone.
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 70 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 are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!
Congratulations my arse.
You don’t get innovation and ideas with the conservative and conformist mindset demonstrated in the rest of the email. But yes, the past 70 years have been an explosion of innovation and ideas - like computers, the Internet, mobile phones, globalisation, multiculturalism, and pretty much everything that was listed and slagged off.
I think I might make my own chain email letter to send around. It would go something like this:
- In my day, people actually read what they get sent, and actually think about whether it makes sense before passing it on to others.
- We use our intelligence to sift through the tons and tons of rubbish and bigotry that gets pushed in our faces via the media and chain emails, and don’t believe the first thing people tell us.
- We use our experience of life to realise that things weren’t any better in the past.
- We use our understanding of other people and other cultures to realise that our way of doing things isn’t the only way, and not necessarily even the best way (shock horror).
If only that was true.
Hope all is well with you down…