CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THOSE OF US BORN IN 1930's, 1940's !!!
Possum3 said
01:42 PM Jun 3, 2017
First, you survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, your baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints. You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when you rode your bikes, you had no helmets .. As children, you would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun. You drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle. You shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. You ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but you weren't overweight because...... YOU WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! You 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 you all day. And you were OK. You would spend hours building your billy-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out you forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, you learned to solve the problem . You did not have PlayStations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, video games. at all. Zip. Nada. Zero. No 999 plus channels on satellite TV. No DVDs. No surround sound. No mobile phones. No text messaging. No personal computers. No Internet or Internet chat rooms.......... YOU HAD FRIENDS and if you didn't you went outside and found them! Not post suicide notes on Social Media or self harm. You fell out of trees, endured cuts, bruises, lacerations, broke bones and lost teeth. But ...there were no lawsuits from these accidents. You played with worms ) well most boys did) and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. You made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although you were told it would happen, you did not poke out any eyes. You rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! You played sport in a local team and not everyone got picked to play every week. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing you out if you broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law ( as it was, before Political Correctness. Our generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!!!!! Those past 50 years were an exponential explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and, best of all, 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 plethora of ambulance chasing lawyers, Namby Pamby Statism, layer upon layer of 'Commisars' and the so called successive misgovernments thereafter '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.
The Belmont Bear said
05:14 PM Jun 3, 2017
Possum why did you specify those who grew up in te 30s and 40s as being different, each statement would be the same for people who grew up in the 50s and 60s ? Not sure how much this relates to Australia I don't remember too many people eating blue cheese dressing or dinking pop I recall more tomato sauce, vegemite sandwiches and taking a Bex or Vincents powder . Brings back some great memories though.......
Aus-Kiwi said
05:27 PM Jun 3, 2017
We had modern things like crystal sets etc well ?? 50's and 60's did . lol
msg said
06:13 PM Jun 3, 2017
What about transistor radios. 60's.
Aus-Kiwi said
06:21 PM Jun 3, 2017
Yep modern day crystal sets . Later 60's .
msg said
10:02 PM Jun 3, 2017
My Grandma went overseas in 1960 and brought me back one.
Aus-Kiwi said
11:03 PM Jun 3, 2017
Mine was shaped like a jet . Tuned by pulling a Rod out of its nose section . Had no batteries .
Possum3 said
09:12 AM Jun 4, 2017
I had a (home made) crystal set in late 40's - Strange really as London's BBC did first TV Broadcast in 1936 watch it here www.youtube.com/watch
I remember beer delivery's from the Brewery at end of our street.
4 Horses and a big Dray with oak barrels.
2 blokes with big leather aprons for sliding the barrels down pub ramps
into cellars.
Milk in silver tops. with single horse and cart.
Later,
electric floats.
AND...
My Gran had GAS lights in the walls of her house,
PRE. Electricity.
Street lights the same. (Early '40's) Bloke on push bike
with this long handle and "Snuffer " on the top of it.
We used to go Spud "Bashing" at farmers paddocks out the back
as kids.
Threepenny bit a bag, Picked.
Tractor turned it over. we all along behind him "bashin' the spuds.
And a bag of spuds to take home for mum at end of day.
That was BLOODY heavy at 10\12 yr old.
I uses to go down the fish Quay. with my own Crab pot. Scrounge fish heads etc off blokes.
Pot down in corner of posts.
Off to school.
Pull up after sch.
Always one or two "eaters" and maybe a small Lobbie (Lobster) for mum.
Down on the beach on falling tide.
Pushing an old tyreless pushbike with flat Home made trailer behind
for "Seacoal logs".
"Timber "raking" the seacoal from Coal ship loaders.
Roll it into Logs.. With newspaper. Sell some. Penny each.
The rest went on fire at home to keep cold away.
Good old days then.
Then we f----d it up by growing up And getting responsibility's hey.
13 yr old. Working deckie on fishing boats Hartlepool, Sutton Trawlers.
The old "Longscar". last steam trawler in the N.E Fleet.
It'd kill these young buggars nowadays.
Start at first light. finish when you can't see your feet.
Callouses at 10. Swinging and gutting 30\40lb Cod at 13yrs.
In those days. EVERYBODY worked hard. Just to keep warm
in down to Minus 20deg. Usually -4 to -10ish of frost.
Lot colder at sea on open decks too.
not Shelterdecks like nowadays. They got it good.
You kids didn't get the pleasure of that lot in your days. Did you.
sandsmere said
07:32 AM Jun 17, 2017
Possum3 wrote:
I had a (home made) crystal set in late 40's - Strange really as London's BBC did first TV Broadcast in 1936 watch it here www.youtube.com/watch
Yep.
I made a crystal set in 1956. Still got it.
Kisha said
01:11 PM Jun 17, 2017
Macka great post, and it actually bought tears to my eyes, tough times to in a way but you wouldn't change it for the world....regards Kisha
First, you survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, your baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when you rode your bikes, you had no helmets ..
As children, you would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun.
You drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle.
You shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
You ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but you weren't overweight because...... YOU WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
You 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 you all day.
And you were OK.
You would spend hours building your billy-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out you forgot the brakes.
After running into the bushes a few times, you learned to solve the problem .
You did not have PlayStations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, video games. at all. Zip. Nada. Zero.
No 999 plus channels on satellite TV.
No DVDs. No surround sound.
No mobile phones.
No text messaging.
No personal computers.
No Internet or Internet chat rooms..........
YOU HAD FRIENDS and if you didn't you went outside and found them!
Not post suicide notes on Social Media or self harm.
You fell out of trees, endured cuts, bruises, lacerations, broke bones and lost teeth.
But ...there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
You played with worms ) well most boys did) and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
You made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although you were told it would happen, you did not poke out any eyes.
You rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
You played sport in a local team and not everyone got picked to play every week.
Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.
Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing you out if you broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law ( as it was, before Political Correctness.
Our generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!!!!!
Those past 50 years were an exponential explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and, best of all, 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 plethora of ambulance chasing lawyers, Namby Pamby Statism, layer upon layer of 'Commisars' and the so called successive misgovernments thereafter '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.
Possum why did you specify those who grew up in te 30s and 40s as being different, each statement would be the same for people who grew up in the 50s and 60s ? Not sure how much this relates to Australia I don't remember too many people eating blue cheese dressing or dinking pop I recall more tomato sauce, vegemite sandwiches and taking a Bex or Vincents powder
. Brings back some great memories though.......
4 Horses and a big Dray with oak barrels.
2 blokes with big leather aprons for sliding the barrels down pub ramps
into cellars.
Milk in silver tops. with single horse and cart.
Later,
electric floats.
AND...
My Gran had GAS lights in the walls of her house,
PRE. Electricity.
Street lights the same. (Early '40's) Bloke on push bike
with this long handle and "Snuffer " on the top of it.
We used to go Spud "Bashing" at farmers paddocks out the back
as kids.
Threepenny bit a bag, Picked.
Tractor turned it over. we all along behind him "bashin' the spuds.
And a bag of spuds to take home for mum at end of day.
That was BLOODY heavy at 10\12 yr old.
I uses to go down the fish Quay. with my own Crab pot. Scrounge fish heads etc off blokes.
Pot down in corner of posts.
Off to school.
Pull up after sch.
Always one or two "eaters" and maybe a small Lobbie (Lobster) for mum.
Down on the beach on falling tide.
Pushing an old tyreless pushbike with flat Home made trailer behind
for "Seacoal logs".
"Timber "raking" the seacoal from Coal ship loaders.
Roll it into Logs.. With newspaper. Sell some. Penny each.
The rest went on fire at home to keep cold away.
Good old days then.
Then we f----d it up by growing up And getting responsibility's hey.
13 yr old. Working deckie on fishing boats Hartlepool, Sutton Trawlers.
The old "Longscar". last steam trawler in the N.E Fleet.
It'd kill these young buggars nowadays.
Start at first light. finish when you can't see your feet.
Callouses at 10. Swinging and gutting 30\40lb Cod at 13yrs.
In those days. EVERYBODY worked hard. Just to keep warm
in down to Minus 20deg. Usually -4 to -10ish of frost.
Lot colder at sea on open decks too.
not Shelterdecks like nowadays. They got it good.
You kids didn't get the pleasure of that lot in your days. Did you.
Yep.
I made a crystal set in 1956. Still got it.
Macka great post, and it actually bought tears to my eyes, tough times to in a way but you wouldn't change it for the world....regards Kisha