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geezer
Optics Apprentice Joined: October/22/2008 Location: Georgia Status: Offline Points: 133 |
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I found this last night and thought that I would pass it on -
How did we survive!!! If you lived as a child in the 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's Looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have... As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat. Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets. When we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention hitchhiking to town as a young kid!) We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times we learned to solve the problem. 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. Our parents knew that all the neighbors would watch out for all the kids. No cell phones. Unthinkable. We played dodge ball and sometimes the ball would really hurt. We got cut and broke bones and broke teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame, but us. Remember accidents? We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it. We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda, but we were never overweight... we were always outside playing. We shared one grape soda with four friends, from one bottle and no one died from this. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, video games at all, 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, Personal Computers, Internet chat rooms ... we had friends. We went outside and found them. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rung the bell or just walked in and talked to them. Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves! Out there in the cold cruel world! Without a guardian. How did we do it? We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever. Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't, had to learn to deal with disappointment.... The teams actually kept score and the winning team was allowed to be excited and the losing team learned to be good sports about it and learned that, in life - sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Some students weren't as smart as others so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade..... Horrors. Tests were not adjusted for any reason. Almost no one went to "pre-school" and when we graduated high school we all knew how to read, use proper grammar and do basic math. We all learned how to count out change without a calculator to tell us the amount. The worst problems in school were tardiness and chewing gum in class. Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. No one to hide behind. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law ... imagine that! If you misbehaved - your parents spanked you and no one arrested them for doing that! We also learned that when a parent said "No" - they actually meant that and our lives would not be ruined forever by being denied every little thing we wanted at any given moment. New toys were received on birthdays and holidays..... not on every trip to the store. Parents gave us gifts out of love.... not out of guilt. This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years has 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! |
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I would give you my two cents worth, but then you would probably have to give half to the gov't and what good is one penny
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Ed Connelly
Optics Retard God of no Chihuahua Joined: December/16/2007 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 24225 |
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Ah yes............it reminds me of a movie I once rented on VHS............it was in Black and White. It was a real good old one, like the Lassie TV show or Old Yeller or Those Calloways..........which was just like my life was..........except we didn't really trap for a living..........
.....imagine that??
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Dogger
Optics Jedi Master Joined: January/02/2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Status: Offline Points: 8915 |
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Good one geezer - easy to identify with that!
Always had a pocket knife too and no one called 911. Edited by Dogger - February/05/2009 at 12:01 |
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God save the Empire!
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lucytuma
Optics Jedi Knight Joined: November/25/2007 Location: Wisconsin Status: Offline Points: 5389 |
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Hell, when I was in grade school we played deer hunter. We would bring spent shotgun shells to school, two people were the hunters the other kids were the deer. You threw the shells at the at the other kids, kind of like tag.
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"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." - Thomas Jefferson
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mwyates
Optics Master Joined: June/15/2004 Location: Texas Status: Offline Points: 1196 |
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I carried a pocket knife to school everyday from 1st through 12th grade. we were kind of expected to; might need it to open something for the teacher.
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No man on his deathbed ever said "I wish I'd made more money".
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Kickboxer
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I used to take my 22 to school and leave it in the coat closet so I could go squirrel hunting on the way home from school.
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Opinion,untempered by fact,is ignorance.
There are some who do not fear death... for they are more afraid of not really living |
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Ed Connelly
Optics Retard God of no Chihuahua Joined: December/16/2007 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 24225 |
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I remember taking a jacknife to school starting in , like, fourth grade. I never brought a rifle or something because we rode the school bus ( 18 miles ), but the Teachers [!] brought rifles!! We used to walk through the parking lot at lunch and look into the car windows ( doors probably unlocked..) and there were deer rifles and varmint rifles riding shotgun in the front seat for those teachers who were looking for game on their way home. We used to talk guns and ballistics with certain teachers during study halls.
In the sixties the WORST THING that happened in our High School (that you could get in trouble for) was running in the hall!!
Everyone was a reader ( it seemed ). We used to read on the school bus (if we weren't fooling around ) and we did HOMEWORK on the bus---so that we could have more Free Time at home. We read all kinds of stuff that is considered politically incorrect today. We read stuff by Robert Ruark, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jim Kjelgaard, Erich Maria Remarque, Ernest Thompson Seton ---you name it; we read it!! Try to find a kid today who even knows who these people are!! Edited by Ed Connelly - February/06/2009 at 06:04 |
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8shots
Optics Jedi Knight Lord Of The Flies Joined: March/14/2007 Location: South Africa Status: Offline Points: 6253 |
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When I was a kid we used to play cowboys and crooks with air rifles. On rainy days we would get bored and then start shooting the clothes pegs off the clothesline from our bedroom window. It would not be long and we would start shooting at one another across the length of the bedroom and see who would chicken out first!
The worst was school. Our school was in a funny place. Come winter or summer, we had to walk barefoot in the snow. The worst was it was uphill to school and uphill back home again!
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Kickboxer
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That is typical when one has to walk to school. I had the same situation, it was always uphill.
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Opinion,untempered by fact,is ignorance.
There are some who do not fear death... for they are more afraid of not really living |
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budperm
Optics Retard show me your sheep!! Joined: January/01/2009 Location: Pennsylvania Status: Offline Points: 31710 |
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So what the H?LL happened.
Where did zero tolerance and Political correctness come from
certainly not our generation! Our children's? What did we do in raising them?
Or is it all the effects of the rise of the bleeding hearts?
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"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading".
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Ed Connelly
Optics Retard God of no Chihuahua Joined: December/16/2007 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 24225 |
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Special Interest Whiners........I mean, Groups...!!
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budperm
Optics Retard show me your sheep!! Joined: January/01/2009 Location: Pennsylvania Status: Offline Points: 31710 |
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Don't blush Ed....
We whine, bitch and cry about everything!!!
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"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading".
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300S&W
Optics God Joined: January/27/2008 Location: Burlington,WV Status: Offline Points: 10592 |
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+100 with Ed! They're on tv,the internet,schools,etc,influencing the kids(young and old!). al gore(doesn't deserve capital letters)recently gave a speech to a group of elementry school kids telling them that the kids knew more than their parents.
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Ed Connelly
Optics Retard God of no Chihuahua Joined: December/16/2007 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 24225 |
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.................yeah, well, ..............Al Gore's a bloody moron!!!
My Dad was my role model.......and all the other men that used to populate my life......Old Men who sat on porches telling me about the old days.....Grandfather-figures......neighbors who drove tractors and worked hard and put up hay and milked cows........
Men who taught us how to do things and use tools and fix stuff.....and men who helped one another and loaned each other money and didn't expect to be paid back 'cause that wasn't important.....
What a stupid world we live in now................
Well, I raised MY girls like I was raised!!!
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300S&W
Optics God Joined: January/27/2008 Location: Burlington,WV Status: Offline Points: 10592 |
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GOOD on ya Ed!! I grew up in the city and basically had the same type of influences you had. Got outta there shortly after my two were born(boy and girl) though as things were going to H**L. Brought them to WV where they could"sow their wild oats"without getting into too much trouble, where I felt I'd have more control of my influence on them,and where the schools were of the "reading,riting,and rithmatic"style. Worked out well as they're both out there makin on their own. And legally I might add.
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budperm
Optics Retard show me your sheep!! Joined: January/01/2009 Location: Pennsylvania Status: Offline Points: 31710 |
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I since a trend here. I too moved to a country setting to raise my 2 younguns.
Old fashion schools strick, aggressive, authoritarian! Both my kids turned into someone I am very proud of!!! Both are standing on their own two feet! No silver platter for them!
It has paid off nicely!
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"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading".
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300S&W
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And if it ain't broke don't F*** with it!
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supertool73
Optics God Superstool Joined: January/03/2008 Status: Offline Points: 11814 |
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Schools are pretty sad these days. My girlfriend is doing her student teaching at a city school in Salt Lake county and she was telling me just yesterday that there are tons of senior kids who cannot even read and write properly. Yet they just keep passing them so they can get their funding from the government.
We are in terrible times and its only going to get worse for us. |
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Lifetime warranty and excellent customer service don't mean a thing when your gun fails during a zombie attack.
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Dogger
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Something that has bothered me for a long time is the emphasis placed on University education and white collar jobs in our school system up here. It has gotten to the point where many kids feel they are a failure if they are not cut out for the academic route to employment.
We need a better system to help promote technical training and jobs. These kids have to feel that there are many worthwhile occupations outside of the university stream. SOMEONE has to get their hands dirty, build stuff, repair our cars etc., and grow our food.
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God save the Empire!
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Bigdaddy0381
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I remember as a kid 6years old I could take a 22lr and go and shoot all day long and no one thought it was strange. Now if a 6yearold had a rifle they would lock up the |
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