Are you feeling Old! check this out!

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This was sent to me I thought you would like to share it! - Zenda :cheesy:


Feel like you're getting old? You'll enjoy this then .....

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 last year. 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!
 
Hi John,

I think you know you’re old if your granny was born before 1886!? Anyway, I bumped into Roger Daltrey the other day and he looked great – surprisingly so, really.

Funny thing is though, we’re now being told that most of our children are going to predecease us? Laughs all around then?

Cheers

Mayfly
:)
 
Mayfly said:
Funny thing is though, we’re now being told that most of our children are going to predecease us? Laughs all around then?
What's all that about Mayfly?
 
I think he may be trying irony..That is, in world of red tape and bureaucracy attempting to keep our children ever safer ...reverse engineering through obesity and sedentary lifestyles etc may see them dying before we do. He may have a point.

N0 9 and 10 were missing.
9.You start seeing the names of your peers in the obituary columns.
10.You know you are mortal and get irritable more easily at having your diminshing time wasted by people who are still young enough not to have thought of their mortality at all. LOL
 
chump said:
I think he may be trying irony..That is, in world of red tape and bureaucracy attempting to keep our children ever safer ...reverse engineering through obesity and sedentary lifestyles etc may see them dying before we do. He may have a point.

N0 9 and 10 were missing.
9.You start seeing the names of your peers in the obituary columns.
10.You know you are mortal and get irritable more easily at having your diminshing time wasted by people who are still young enough not to have thought of their mortality at all. LOL
Ah, OK. I thought there had been some empirical research on the subject recently published. I agree with your general view on lifestyles not being as healthy, but there doesn't seem to be too much stopping the exponential (ish) rate of increase in longevity.

I'd like to add a number 11 to the list.

11. Recognising names of those who 'passed away this year' at awards ceremonies.
 
Didn't mention playing with the asbestos mats you put your bunsen burner on in the science lab at school.
 
Or playing with mercury in the chemistry lab and the bottle having to be weighed at the end of every lesson to make sure no-one had nicked any
 
Passing bodily fluids with the communal fag ....LOL just realised that may be misunderstood

Was of course referring to the passing of the No 6 ciggie around the group.


Tony,
you're right that current stats show increasing longevity ,but of course there is an obvious time lag on stats when it comes to evaluating if there is to be a new trend. That is we have to wait for these porkers to grow 'old' and die ... ;) Bit like trading really , if you wait for proof of a new trend you've missed the boat to do anything about jumping off the old trend.
 
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chump said:
Passing bodily fluids with the communal fag ....
You an Eton Boy too?

chump said:
you're right that current stats show increasing longevity ,but of course there is an obvious time lag on stats when it comes to evaluating if there is to be a new trend. That is we have to wait for these porkers to grow 'old' and die ...
So I suppose in this case, we'd have to use an Weighty Unmoving Average?



{sorry....}
 
Idicators of getting old.

RSI - on a down trend
OBV - not what it used to be
Mass Index - increasing monthly
Ease of Movement - declining

Gravestone doji forming.
 
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