'Is it me or is everything today SHIT!'
This is going to to be long one : bare with me...
Just received this e-mail:
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Born before 1986??
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 first, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for diabetes, our baby cots were covered with brightly
coloured 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 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags -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 rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!
We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no lawsuits. We had full on fist fights but no prosecution
followed from other parents. We played chap-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 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........They are called youth.
They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy
Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda Carlisle. (possibly not a bad thing of course....)
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 lastyear. They can never imagine life before computers. They'll never have pretended to be the A Team Red
Hand Gang or the Famous Five. They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It or Why Don't You. 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 smiled.
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 teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6. You remember watching Dirty Den in EastEnders the first time around.
7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old days, repeating again all the funny things you
have experienced together.
8. 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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I miss the old days, the safe old days. The days before political correctness, the days of simple things.
Back in the days of:
Communities & next-door neighbors,
Lego, mechano & stickle-bricks
Paddington Bear, Heartbeat & The Muppets
climbing trees, damming ditches & swimming in ponds.
People said what they thought, they said the way things were.
Back when we had chairmen not chairpersons, when we had deaf people not the hearing impaired, when we used toilet paper not bathroom tissue.
It constantly frustrates and saddens me the state the world is in. A world that seems to have it's head up it's arse!
People today do not realise that variety is beauty - People today rush to blend in.
People today forget that life is not fair, good people die & bad people prosper - but think they are owed a happy ending.
People today have lost the satisfaction that comes from working hard to get nice things - people want their 'birthright' of big houses, fast cars and wide-screen TV's.
People today deny the challenges and risk that are an unavoidable part of life, which make the good times so special - they invent fluffy language to disguise the harshness of the world.
People today have forgotten the sense of achievement of a job well done, the feeling of pride in creating something yourself - now they get a man in, open a packet, just add water.
We now live in a world of evasions, misdirections and platitudes. A dull, inoffensive, sterile, unimaginative, re-released, re-made and dumbed-down existence. Where greatness is a footnote and banality is headline. Where different is despised and conformity is celebrated.
Whose fault is it?
Our fault for swallowing one more absurd pc-term, one more better be safe then have any fun rule.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Come on you lot :
Start calling 'bullshit' when you hear it,
Use the non-PC term whenever possible,
Buy you kids construction sets & colouring-in books,
If you drop a sweet on the floor EAT IT - lets get our immune systems back,
Buy ingredients and not ready meals,
Do-it-yourself YOUR WAY not how Handy Andy did last night on telly.
Take Care.
Fluffy.
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Footnote - For those who know me : Ikea is just the thing that embodies this for me. I get passionate about Ikea because I'm passionate about the way the world is and what it should be. Ikea is not much worse than every other store. It just epitomises modern life for me.
Just received this e-mail:
--- - -- - ---
Born before 1986??
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 first, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for diabetes, our baby cots were covered with brightly
coloured 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 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags -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 rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!
We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no lawsuits. We had full on fist fights but no prosecution
followed from other parents. We played chap-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 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........They are called youth.
They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy
Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda Carlisle. (possibly not a bad thing of course....)
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 lastyear. They can never imagine life before computers. They'll never have pretended to be the A Team Red
Hand Gang or the Famous Five. They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It or Why Don't You. 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 smiled.
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 teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6. You remember watching Dirty Den in EastEnders the first time around.
7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old days, repeating again all the funny things you
have experienced together.
8. 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!
--- - -- - ---
I miss the old days, the safe old days. The days before political correctness, the days of simple things.
Back in the days of:
Communities & next-door neighbors,
Lego, mechano & stickle-bricks
Paddington Bear, Heartbeat & The Muppets
climbing trees, damming ditches & swimming in ponds.
People said what they thought, they said the way things were.
Back when we had chairmen not chairpersons, when we had deaf people not the hearing impaired, when we used toilet paper not bathroom tissue.
It constantly frustrates and saddens me the state the world is in. A world that seems to have it's head up it's arse!
People today do not realise that variety is beauty - People today rush to blend in.
People today forget that life is not fair, good people die & bad people prosper - but think they are owed a happy ending.
People today have lost the satisfaction that comes from working hard to get nice things - people want their 'birthright' of big houses, fast cars and wide-screen TV's.
People today deny the challenges and risk that are an unavoidable part of life, which make the good times so special - they invent fluffy language to disguise the harshness of the world.
People today have forgotten the sense of achievement of a job well done, the feeling of pride in creating something yourself - now they get a man in, open a packet, just add water.
We now live in a world of evasions, misdirections and platitudes. A dull, inoffensive, sterile, unimaginative, re-released, re-made and dumbed-down existence. Where greatness is a footnote and banality is headline. Where different is despised and conformity is celebrated.
Whose fault is it?
Our fault for swallowing one more absurd pc-term, one more better be safe then have any fun rule.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Come on you lot :
Start calling 'bullshit' when you hear it,
Use the non-PC term whenever possible,
Buy you kids construction sets & colouring-in books,
If you drop a sweet on the floor EAT IT - lets get our immune systems back,
Buy ingredients and not ready meals,
Do-it-yourself YOUR WAY not how Handy Andy did last night on telly.
Take Care.
Fluffy.
-- - --- - --
Footnote - For those who know me : Ikea is just the thing that embodies this for me. I get passionate about Ikea because I'm passionate about the way the world is and what it should be. Ikea is not much worse than every other store. It just epitomises modern life for me.