An E-mail I Received

[Dr.Death]

I found this to be very true and make so much sense.



TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the
1930'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, tuna from a can, and
didn't get tested for diabetes.



Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright
colored 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.




Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special
treat.




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 cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop
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 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 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround
sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or
Internet
chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and
found
them!




We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were
no lawsuits from these accidents.



We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did
not live
in us forever.


We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with
sticks and tennis balls; and although we were told it would happen,
we
did not put out very many eyes.



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!




Little League had tryouts 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!



And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!





You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to
grow
up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our
lives
for our own good.



And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how
brave their parents were.




Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors,
doesn't it?!

[PJ]

you mean....you played outside!

....creeeeepyyy.....

[This_name_sucks]

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were
no lawsuits from these accidents.

LMAO! Back in the days when the average person had an ounce of sense and didn't sue because there was a hair in their cupcake, or whatever the hell the latest idiotic lawsuit is.

[Undead_Mercenary]

Hehe that email was me up to about the age of 14.

[midnightservice]

as far as pj, tns and merc are concerened, you n00bs did you not read the email or were you just reading to be reading. i know for a fact none of you were born in the 30,40,50,60 or 70's

[Undead_Mercenary]

Then obviously your the noob here since you didn't understand what I meant. The old fashion kid's life in that email was very similar to my childhood till about the age of 14.

And I was born in the 50's. I made a time machine, entered the time of your birth, dropped you a couple times, then entered the year 2002.

Now you know why Mid is so messed up

[PJ]

lol, ya...i played outside all the time till about 13 or 12...still do go out and play basketball with a few friends...

but those where teh good ole days

[Dr.Death]

I think the point about going outside was the fact that we could leave in the morning while our parents were still sleeping and not let them no where we untill after we came home 16hrs or so later, and there were no fears about being raped, mugged or kidnapped. Now you need 24hr surveilence on your childeren.

[Archangelus]

Hell, I'm gonna have DNA-specific gatling guns on the corners of my property just so my kids will be able to play in the yard.

Well, I'll paint them nice colors so that they blend in. You know, don't want to upset the neighbors.....

[XoR]

Good post DrDeath! lol Arch, worrying already

There was no such thing as "saftey gear" when I was growing up, nobody wore a helmet EVER, now kids wear a helmet on ROLLER SKATES. OMFG

Poor kids today, take little johnny's training wheels off and mommy and daddy dress him up like Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. What ever happened to flying down a hill on your Huffy in ripped underwear at 35 mph into a lake?

[PJ]

i never wore a helmet...and death there were those problems back then, you just never heard about them.

[Kilroy]

You never wore I helmet, PJ? That explains a lot.... I suppose you munched on those lead-based paint chips as well.

[Dr.Death]

Well PJ there may have been problems back then, but nothing, and I repeat, nothing like we have now. I feel so sorry for my children for having to grow up in the world we live in now. Society has gone to hell. I dont remeber there being an Amber Alert in the 70's or 80's. I don't remember any off my friends in 1st grade brining a Q/P or a gun to class for show-n-tell. Hell, Columbine? Never!

[DenKirson]

I gotta.

Leave your kids alone for a while and listen to professionals (not me, real scientists) before you listen to evangelical assholes who truly glorify violence, gloat about themselves, and then shift their deserved blame to something else they hate, like video games and people with varying opinions.

Hey, you decade-olds who did grow up with and empowered an opressive governing body, send chain mails with posturing, contradictions and lies, show off your meaningless scars, and believe that all those wrinkles on your ass gives you precedence over the children who have ten times more wrinkles on their brain than you right now.

Parents who like being safe (after surviving the "good ol'" years before the eighties) also like their kids being safe, bringing some solace in an environment where information travels fast, but not always properly. Modern science and common knowledge are being expanded upon, more people are being informed, while those who are ignorant and send misinformation out to the masses that know no better, cause problems.

Amber Alert in the seventies or eighties? That's because Tom Ridge who grew up in the 40's wasn't old enough to be seated in government to fuck things up yet. How the fuck can these politicians born of the 30-70s milk ONE of very FEW (as oppsoed to very MANY before the nineties) school shootings being related to video games (which suddenly happen to be the problem for everything, since they now own radio, once known for being "tha' devil!") for six years without anybody with a voice smelling the shit and asking who the hell's responsible?

"Terr'ists are all over!" and yet kids are far more safe today than they were ten years ago, not the other way around; 11/9/01 did little to affect the constant decrease of violence since 1994. You were around before 1994, weren't you? You surely remember how violent and devious things were back then, don't you? I was barely around in the eighties, and that was hell to how good we have it today!

Nowadays, you'll be better off protecting your kids from guys in suits than goons in the street.

[Dr.Death]

Den, you totally lost me on this. Either you are siding with me or you are telling me I don't have a f-n clue.