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According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those
of us who were kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's
probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby
cots were covered with brightly colored 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 'spooky do key's' on
our wheels.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts
or airbags and 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 ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy
juice 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 could play all
day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No
one was able to reach us 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 DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.

We had friends - we went outside and found them. We
played elastics and rounder, and sometimes that ball
really hurt! We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke
bones but there were no lawsuits.

We played knock-the-door-run-away and were actually
afraid of the owners catching us. We walked to
friends' 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. We rode
bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the
hood. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke
a law was unheard of, they actually sided with the
law.

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
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 1986, The Uptown Girl they know is by
West life not Billy Joel. They have never heard of Rick
Astley, Bananarama, Neneh Cherry 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 films from recent years. They can never
imagine life before computers. They'll never have
pretended to be the A-Team, the Dukes of Hazard or the
Famous Five. They can't believe a black and white
television ever existed.

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 getting married/already 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.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 old!!

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kai una don old seriously

abi u see am!

romade:

kai una don old seriously

No be God? Na God!

God is so good Halleujah! God is so good Hallelujah! God is so good. . . He's so good to me!

If I have a little black box I put the devil in. . .
I take him out and chop! chop! chop! and put him back again. . .
If I have a little Red Box I put my Jesus in. . .
I take him out and Muah Muah Muah
And show him to my friends. . . .

gabrywyl:

God is so good Halleujah! God is so good Hallelujah! God is so good. . . He's so good to me!

If I have a little black box I put the devil in. . .
I take him out and chop! chop! chop! and put him back again. . .
If I have a little Red Box I put my Jesus in. . .
I take him out and Muah Muah Muah
And show him to my friends. . . .

Abeg, no be black box devil dey inside o. Tufiakwa!

dat gurl don bcome sumtyn else i swear

Who u referrin to Pomade?

na wah o

@topic
[i]**shouts**[/i]yeh paripa. . . .

sima:

@topic
[i]**shouts**[/i]yeh paripa. . . .

why?

zhy?

Really, I'm getting old

Dami D:

Really, I'm getting old

ah, you obviously passed all those checkers at the bottom of the article? i did too! lol

i did not pass all only 27%

don't tell me u dull

Na today!

romain where are thou?

he dey try to refresh him brain

Lol!how u take know?