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11-28-2008 9:31 AM
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We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays

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

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them, CONGRATULATIONS!

Ah, the good ole days.
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11-28-2008 11:17 AM
masbury
We have become the reminiscent old bastards we used to complain about!
11-28-2008 11:20 AM
mona
Strictly speaking, i'm not part of this group (I was born in 1981), but most of this applies to me anyway
11-29-2008 8:05 AM
prin1
ooo, i remember each and every one!
11-29-2008 9:02 PM
shaor
yea I am one! They never made such a big deal back then, just kicked us outside to play and learn. (1945 here)
11-29-2008 9:46 PM
blueridge
It was called Freedom.
11-30-2008 4:36 PM
swampfoxz
I would not change one second of it.
11-30-2008 6:39 PM
jimbo1000
we never had no mum, we were too poor
11-30-2008 6:40 PM
jimbo1000
my dad used to thrash me to sleep with a broken bottle
11-30-2008 6:50 PM
jimbo1000
and then there is the Monty Python sketch

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, o...
12-1-2008 10:46 AM
spirithiker
I miss Monty Python.
12-1-2008 12:09 PM
Jorjor
I really feel sorry for kids with paranoid parents.
12-1-2008 2:07 PM
photocards4all
If you miss Monty Python, check this out!!! Real BBC stuff, not bad copies...
enjoy
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OGqX-tkDXEk
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