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Posted on 04/17/2011 12:02:26 PM PDT by OL Hickory
Remember the good ol days? Mom's smoked and drank when pregnant, you were raised on home cooking, your crib was covered with Lead Base paint, rode a bike with no helmet on gravel roads, you went outside till the street lights came on, your parents had no childproof lids or seat belts in cars, you got spanked when you misbehaved, had 3 TV channels you got up to change, school always started w/the Pledge of Allegiance, & stores were closed Sunday,you drank water out of a creek or out of water hose and YOU STILL TURNED OUT OK, if you can remember others that the kids of today would cry and wine about post em..
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Good Man - always enjoy these posts -
As some have said - I was out the door at 0630 with my brother and sister to be out until 1800 when mom’s law said everyone ate together - Then back outside.
School days - up to you how you got to school, the bus left at 0630, or you could ride your bike, or walk. The Middle school was 4 miles (I rode my bike no matter the weather) and the high school was 6 miles. (I rode my bike for two years until i could afford a car).
Neighbor shot us kids with a shotgun with rocksalt. I still have the scars - my mom put us (my brother and I) in the tub and told us it was our fault for being in his property so stop whining.
At 14 we could spend the night anywhere we pleased as long as we let my parents know where. I slept rough many a night to save a bike ride home.
And now I’m just an old bootstrappy kinda guy with two kids who are independent and laughed at all the little whiners in their colleges classes before they went on to good careers of their own......
“I identify with America as it existed before the Baby Boomers went to college. You can look back at previous generations and marvel at their accomplishments. They “won the West” and built the Panama Canal and put a man on the moon.”
Those baby boomers came up with the very computer you are now typing on, and the basis for all of the other technological wizardry we consider part of our daily lives now. So don’t knock all baby boomers. There was a lot of good that came out of the boomer generation along with the bad. Same as our earlier generations who fought our wars and built this country, yet voted en masse for a socialist, FDR. Explain that one. Every generation has its faults and virtues. One should not blanket indict, it is unbecoming.
Remember when people still honored the constitution, and a balanced budget was considered a good thing....
Seems like an eternity ago.
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States; more than 57,000 die of colorectal cancer each year.
The dangers of processed meats
McDonalds bad?
Do you put dimethylpolysiloxane, an anti-foaming agent made of silicone, in your chicken dishes? How about tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ), a chemical preservative so deadly that just five grams can kill you?
The Chicken which should be banned
One of my favorites is the 16 year old McDonalds hamburger that will not decompose. Watch the video.
Soda bad?
Sugar is a big part of it, and diet sodas are worse.
Why are you on a “good old days” forum if you are a big sissy about food? The whole point of this thread is that life in the “old days” featured lots and lots of threats but we all happily survived. Everything you name - if eaten in moderation - will cause no harm.
By the way, the McDonald’s hamburger has been totally debunked.
Ok, I’m not sure how “good ol days” we’re talking here, but the snorting of the drug coke predates the drink by many years, with the pure chemical being discovered back in the 1850s, mainly used as an anesthetic. Hence where the drink got its name. Good try, just had to get a couple things straight first. I guess we should say, “Remember when we used to have our teeth pulled and were given coke to ease the pain?” :-)
Thanks for your kind words about the baby boomers. They have good people and bad people but the bad people get all the attention. So many of my generation died in Viet Nam. Jane Fonda, perhaps the most infamous of anti-war protester, was born in the late 30s so was never a part of my generation. How many conservative generation x’ers know that?
I’m particularly grateful to my generation for their veneration of old Hollywood - and bringing it to life with their college courses and seminars. It was the baby boomers who taught me who D.W. Griffith was and Groucho Marx. The men who changed Hollywood for the worst - people like Warren Beatty and Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper had nothing to do with the baby boom.
Your post is hilarious! Your neighbor took a shotgun to you and your mom blamed you! That’s what I love about the ‘50s - our parents took personal responsibility to an extreme. And yet we seemed to have total freedom. Why was that, I wonder?
I don’t really think that most of us are blaming today’s parents (although some do seem rather uptight and nervous). I think we are blaming the lawyers and educators who have turned this society into a jail for children and grownups.
Sorry - got distracted by the lead paint comments. Didn’t mean to hijack the thread.
My dad belonged to the gun club in school.
I used to walk a mile to town by myself when I was 7 years old.
Me and my buddies rode in the back of a pickup truck 40 miles both ways, mostly on the expressway.
Jarts!
Oh, I didn’t mean you had hijacked the thread - I tend to do it myself, lol! I got distracted ‘cause I love hot dogs!
I remember sneaking out of the house one late spring morning around 7am - I was 8 years old - and walking all over the neighborhood stealing spring flowers for my mother. Totally by myself I must have wandered for a mile. No one on the road, no one awake - sublime! Nothing like happy childhood memories.
Played with electric train sets without electrocuting ourselves.
Played with toy guns that are now banned in many cities. No one got killed.
Kept dogs as pets without the cops shooting them all the time. They even petted our puppies without killing them.
Bought ice cream off trucks without fear of child molesters.
Kept Bibles in our pockets to read at school on Friday for Sunday school class on Sunday.
Played Smear-the-Queer.
Played Tetherball.
Played on metal jungle gyms on the playground.
Played little leagued with boys against boys.
Kept a dime in our pockets for phone calls in case “something happened”.
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