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23-02-09, 05:12 PM
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Gotta Be Over 40 to Understand
Mum used to cut chicken, slice eggs and spread Mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't get food poisoning.
My Mum used to defrost mince-meat on the kitchen sink AND I used to eat some raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper, in a brown paper bag, not in icepack coolers, but I can't remember anybody getting e.coli. Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the creek instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then. The term mobile phone would have conjured up a moving phone, and a pager was the school loudhailer or PA system. We all played sport, and also did PE... And risked permanent injury with a pair of sandshoes (only worn in the gym or the sports ground) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built-in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened, because they tell us how much safer we are now... Flunking sport was not an option.... Even for stupid kids! ... There were not many fat kids. Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the National Anthem and got free school milk for strong bones and teeth, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything, and she could even give you an aspirin for a headache or fever. I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself. I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. Oh yeah..and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed! We played 'king of the castle' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mum pulled out the 20-cent (two shillings in real money) bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our hair ruffled and got told to get back out there! Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mum calls the Solicitor to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.. We didn't misbehave at our mate's house either, because if we did, we got our bum smacked there, and then we got our bum belted again when we got home. I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front verandah, just before he fell off. Little did his Mum know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a yobbo. It was a neighbourhood run amuck.. We climbed trees, rolled down grassy slopes, made dams in the gutter, jumped into privit hedges .. To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a 'dysfunctional family'. How could we possibly have known that we needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive? 
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i;m so young i dont remeber any of it lol !!!
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yes i remeber it all and we was always gettin dirty an bein dirty was so much fun an we had picnics in the house if it rained an we was always climbin walls an trees an scrumpin next doors apples oh happy days and i forgot the nit nurse comin an also givin us codliver oil an then a teaspoon of orange juice yuk it was an if we did not have a pe kit we were made to do it in just our pants
 
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I am not much over 40 and I remember all that and more..... I once remember jumping off a flat back wagon parked up for the night, me and my friends where just playing who could jump the farthest when a police car came along, he stop had us line up and took all our names and addresses...... leaving us with the words you had better go home and tell your parents before we arrive.
We all went home and I have never felt so scared in all my life. Every knock at the door sent my heart racing. He never arrived but I can well assure you none of us never jumped off any wagons again. Now the police would get verbal abuse off the kids and then again off the parents.... Where is the respect gone????
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25-02-09, 11:58 AM
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[QUOTE=jazzy;40545]Mum used to cut chicken, slice eggs and spread Mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't get food poisoning.
My Mum used to defrost mince-meat on the kitchen sink AND I used to eat some raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper, in a brown paper bag, not in icepack coolers, but I can't remember anybody getting e.coli. Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the creek instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then. The term mobile phone would have conjured up a moving phone, and a pager was the school loudhailer or PA system. We all played sport, and also did PE... And risked permanent injury with a pair of sandshoes (only worn in the gym or the sports ground) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built-in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened, because they tell us how much safer we are now... Flunking sport was not an option.... Even for stupid kids! ... There were not many fat kids. Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the National Anthem and got free school milk for strong bones and teeth, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything, and she could even give you an aspirin for a headache or fever. I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself. I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. Oh yeah..and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed! We played 'king of the castle' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mum pulled out the 20-cent (two shillings in real money) bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our hair ruffled and got told to get back out there! Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mum calls the Solicitor to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.. We didn't misbehave at our mate's house either, because if we did, we got our bum smacked there, and then we got our bum belted again when we got home. I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front verandah, just before he fell off. Little did his Mum know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a yobbo. It was a neighbourhood run amuck.. We climbed trees, rolled down grassy slopes, made dams in the gutter, jumped into privit hedges .. To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a 'dysfunctional family'. How could we possibly have known that we needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive? [/QUOTE]am 33 and remember it all only my school still have the cane and the a prefect running round the school ringing it.. bring it back i say.
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