TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE: 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!! First, we survived being born to mother 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 ate raw cake batter made of fresh eggs and sometimes ate a raw egg for energy, without getting food poisoning. 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 (cokes) 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. No one had a cell phone, GPS tracker or pager. 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 breaks. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We did not have Play-stations, Nintendo, 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 or 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 on our 10th birthdays and taught respect for the guns. We 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 yelled for 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 it we broke the law was unheard of! They actually sided with the law! If we received a spanking at school for breaking the rules, frequently we got another one when we got home. This generation had produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been and 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 you 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?! PS - The big type is because your eyes are shot at your age.
Yes I do remember that, yeah like a desk is gonna protect me. Seems like I was alot safer as a child then as an adult.
duck and cover. i remember a 'naughty' moovie that was a parody of the one they showed us in school back in the 50s. yup. fallout shelters and all that. i always thought that would be a cool way to build a house, nukes or no nukes. yah i remember my dad and i digging holes in the back yard and reading about them in popular mechanics. ah, cinimon toothpicks, don't restaurant supply companies still deliver them, or was that just s.e.rykoff before the went out of bussiness or got bought out or whatever happened to them. it's been a long time since i've been in a place that would have had them. i remember lots of the mom and pop greasy spoons used to get them. didn't dennys or one of those chains like them used to have them too? i miss infrastructure being nearly all unionized and retailing being mostly all mom and pop. which was one of the good things about how it was in them 'duck and cover' days. that and the government wasn't gonna come along and bulldoze your shack cause it wasn't code if you built it far enough out in the boonies. once upon a time when, while there were some real serious inequities, there were also still a few real freedoms too. =^^= .../\...
Thank you Fritz for bringing it all back, it was a great time to grow up!!!...now, schools cant swat the little darlings who need it and neither can the parents, and if you yell at them, its verbal abuse. I remember civil defense drills,and once we climbed from beneath our desks, the siren on the water tower would stay on awhile and us kids would get to go home early.
I remember cutting HS to go body surfin down at 51st street at Newport Beach by myself with a 6 pack of beer and still getting mostly A's. The senoir year, springtime, I musta missed about half my classes. 'The power of love rathur than the 'love of power' brings peace to this humble abode right now.' peace unto ye Honor Seed
(TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE: 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!! First, we survived being born to mother who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.) actualy my mother never smoked or drank then, or any other time. she wasn't all that much of a cook or a house keeper either. (They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.) diabetes is one of the things my father died of. none of the three of us ever cared that much for blue cheese dressing, but we did all eat tuna from a can. (Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.) yah. and so were the window sills at school where we all used to chip off flakes and eat them. (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.) calculated and understood risks. not taken blindly but understood and accepted. (As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.) absolutely true. and in the front seat were you could see out. although when i was little my dad never had a car. it wasn't untill the year i graduated high school that he did. almost everyone else did though and i did get to ride in them occasionaly. a lot of lives HAVE been saved by wearing seat belts. not nearly as many as would have been by riding interurban trolleys instead of worshipping the automobile though. (Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.) another thing not often for me but remembered. i don't know about special treat. they just stuck us back there because the cab wasn't big enough and didn't have room for us all. (We ate raw cake batter made of fresh eggs and sometimes ate a raw egg for energy, without getting food poisoning.) doesn't everyone STILL do that? i know i do. the cake and cookie and other baking batter that is. never got into raw egg just as raw egg. i do remember soft boiled though. and cute little egg cups to eat soft boild in/out of. (We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.) yes, bottled water wasn't a grocery item then. but there were a lot fewer of us and up in the mountains where i lived it would be many years yet before the streams and ever rivers would become anywhere near as poluted as they are now. (We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.) not often, i was pretty much of a loner, but we always drank out of the bottle what we had in the refrigerator. my parents and i. and my wife and i still do. (We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop (cokes) with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because.............) well i never cared all that much for all that sweet crap anyway. i was secretly glad when they started ostracizing white sugar. unfortunately that did NOT resault in it being removed from proccessed food which are STILL more saturated with it then most people realize. also i don't know where the "not overweight" pretense came from. reality is we WERE just as overweight on average, children and adults alike, during my childhood. the one real difference is that overweight wasn't universaly equated with ill health. many people in fact, believed just the contrary. (WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!) i wasn't. but i did go for a lot of nice long walks by myself. exploring everyplace there wasn't someone standing there with a shotgun to keep me from going. (We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.) what's a street light? i lived up in the boonies. no damd city streets for me. when it got dark it got dark. i did make roads in the back yards with my tonka trucks and end loaders. (No one was able to reach us all day. No one had a cell phone, GPS tracker or pager. And we were O.K.!) not just ok but in many ways mentaly healthier. i still refuse to own a damd cell phone! only way i'd ever have one is if someone else were paying me to. (We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the breaks. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.) i remember this. i rode all the way down the colfax grass valley highway from up behind wimpies where we lived all the way down to the bear river on it. the cops told my dad if they ever caught me doing that again they'd throw him in jail for contributing to the deliaquency of a minor. (We did not have Play-stations, Nintendo, 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 .............) other then personal computers and the internet i don't have any of that crap now, nor feel i need it. what we did have were model and toy trains. that was my thing anyway. and matchbox cars and trucks and those big metal tonka trucks you could play with out in the back yard. (WE HAD FRIENDS or we went outside and found them!) not exactly. outside often yes. looking for friends, not so much. of course that's me. (We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.) yes everybody wasn't suing everybody all the time and you didn't HAVE to post keep out signs just to cover your ass. i never fell out of a tree or broke a bone, but i do remember in school other kids would come in and all that was a fairly common occurance. sometimes they would do REALLY stupid things, and several DID get themselves killed doing so. (We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.) who is this we you are talking about? (as my mom would say) "you got maybe a mouse in your pocket". there was also a lot more claiming and threatining to then i ever saw happen. (We were given BB guns on our 10th birthdays and taught respect for the guns.) bb guns hell; i had a real 22 long rifle on my 13th i think it was. used to go plinking cans. never had a bb gun. neighbor kid took a 22 shell, stuck it in a rust hole in the kind of 55 gallon drums we all used for incinerators in those days and tried to get it to fire by beating on it with a hammer. i was there and lucky i didn't get killed or lose something vital. he lost a couple of fingers and has gone through life ever since without them. (We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.) another mouse in the pocket we. for those more social then myself. (We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!) did ride bikes and walked a lot. (Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!) yah, immagine that. i wasn't interested and everyone thought i was a nut or something cause i wasn't but i still wasn't. besides my parents couldn't have afforded the uniform if i had been. i WAS in the school band however. (The idea of a parent bailing us out it we broke the law was unheard of! They actually sided with the law!) generaly true, though a probablem i generaly avoided. (If we received a spanking at school for breaking the rules, frequently we got another one when we got home.) no more spankings at schools when i was there. still sent kids home or to the principals office though. (This generation had produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!) maybe yes, maybe no. i don't think what the've done with the world we all have to live in is all that wonderful. should also be noted they created the laws that eliminated what most of this is bemoaning the loss of! along with worshipping the automobile and the insurance industry are the real culprets to be blamed for the loss of it! (The past 50 years have been and explosion of innovation and new ideas.) very few really bennifiting anyone. mostly percisely those the earlier lines in this very list bemoaned the resault of. the only thing to come along worth a dam completely new in the last 50 years is the personal computer and the internet. so give an effing break. the 80 years prior to that are another story but still a mixed blessing. (We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned) well we DID have more of several kinds of real freedom, most of the rest of it is gratuitously romantacized bullcrap though. (HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!) too bad we didn't learn to deal with it better instead of denying then as now the connection between priorities and probabilities and the kind of world we all have to live in (And YOU are one of them!) yeah, arn't i thrilled. like everything and everytime else, there was good and bad and better and worse and moslty neither better nor worse. =^^= .../\...
Yep. So now they handcuff five year old girls who are acting out of line, like they did to that little girl in Florida a while back. .
fuckin pig bastards picking on 5 year old kids now fuckin scummy twats how low will they stoop.........look at the fear on that kids face can imagine her havin nightmares for years man ....thats just pissed me right off .....maybe this should be named a blast from the future ..........sad man .
A couple decades from now, people will look back and say, "Ah, the good old days when they handcuffed kindergarteners. Now all we do is flip the switch on the mind control unit and they behave. .
Two of those officers were trainees. It seems like the lead officer took advantage of that situation to use it as an easy training mission. Let's hope that kind of thing doesn't become common. .
Oh my. Suspended for 30 days for folding a piece of paper in the shape of a gun. What if you point your fingers like a gun and say "Pow!" ? Oh well. Back to nuke drills and the like. Today I guess we can say that we have drills for what to do when someone folds a piece of paper in the shape of a knife. Duck and Cover! Don't worry about a nuclear winter. Paper is more dangerous. .
