It's a wonder we're still living!
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It's a wonder we're still living!
Most of you should appreciate this...some won't have a clue what
it's all about!
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who
were kids in the 40’s 50's, 60's, and 70's probably shouldn't
have survived.
Our baby cots were covered with brightly colored lead-based
paint, which was promptly chewed and licked.
We had no child-proof 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 'clackers' on our wheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air
bags. Riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle -
tasted the same.
We ate dripping sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop 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 play all day, as long as
we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us all
day 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, and no Internet chat rooms.
We had friends - we went outside and found them.
We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball
really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and
there were no lawsuits. They were accidents. We learnt not to do
the same thing again.
We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue -
we learned to get over it.
We walked to friend's homes.
We made up games with sticks and tennis ***** and ate live stuff,
and although we were told it would happen, we did not have very many eyes out, nor did the live stuff live inside us forever.
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard
of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that!
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.
it's all about!
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who
were kids in the 40’s 50's, 60's, and 70's probably shouldn't
have survived.
Our baby cots were covered with brightly colored lead-based
paint, which was promptly chewed and licked.
We had no child-proof 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 'clackers' on our wheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air
bags. Riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle -
tasted the same.
We ate dripping sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop 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 play all day, as long as
we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us all
day 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, and no Internet chat rooms.
We had friends - we went outside and found them.
We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball
really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and
there were no lawsuits. They were accidents. We learnt not to do
the same thing again.
We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue -
we learned to get over it.
We walked to friend's homes.
We made up games with sticks and tennis ***** and ate live stuff,
and although we were told it would happen, we did not have very many eyes out, nor did the live stuff live inside us forever.
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard
of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that!
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.
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Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 5,133
From: Dallas, Tx
not to hyjack the thread, but most of the atari games are opendomain now. There is an emulator called stella (google for it) that allows you to play all the oldschool atari games with the same blocky graphics on your pc. 
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