If your over 30 , you should be dead.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-06-12 09:05pm

I heard this on the radio this morning. I thought it was kinda amusing.

Subject: Over 30
>
> People over 30 should be dead.
> According to today's regulators and bureaucrats,
> those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's,60's,
> or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't
> have survived.
>
> Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored
> lead-based paint.
>
> There was nothing to stop us from sticking a
> fork in an electrical outlet.
>
> We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles,
> doors or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had
> no helmets.
> (Not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.)
>
> 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.
>
> We drank water from the garden hose and not from
> a bottle. Horrors!
>
> We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop
> with sugar in it, but we were never overweight
> because we were always outside playing.
>
> We shared one soft drink with four friends, from
> one bottle, and no one actually died from this.
>
> We would spend hours building 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 street lights
> came on.
> No one was able to reach us all day.
>
> No cell phones. Unthinkable!
>
> We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64,
> X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable,
> video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell
> phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.
>
> We had friends! We went outside and found them.
>
> We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball
> would really hurt.
>
> We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones
> and 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 made up games with sticks and tennis balls
> and ate worms and mud pies, and although we were told it
> would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the
> worms live inside us forever.
>
> We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and
> knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in
> and talked to them.
>
> Little League had tryouts and not everyone made
> the team.
> Those who didn't had to learn to deal with
> disappointment.
>
> 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.
> 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. And
> you're one of them!
> Congratulations.
>
> Please pass this on to others who have had the
> luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government
> regulated our lives, for our own good...
>
> Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't
it?

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-06-12 09:07pm

of course, for a lot of those years, after they grew up, we spent a while polluting most of what they had used. thus the regulations.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-06-12 09:09pm

LOL!! I'm still kicking!!

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-06-12 09:11pm

I NEVER ate worms! I promise you THAT!

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-06-12 09:12pm

no cell phones! i would be a happy man if that were still true

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-06-12 09:15pm

It's mildly amusing, but the relevant parts of it (and the message) are untrue.

Life expectancy is now at its highest level ever, in great part because we don't do those idiotic things, like giving children access to 230 V of power.

Riding a bike with no helmet <=> Darwin Award waiting to happen.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2003-06-12 09:15pm

Interesting thing... With all the saftey we have now the average age of people will increase. I have no doubt that for the most of us on the board will live with 80 being the average age in the least.

Next of Kin · Post by **Next of Kin** » 2003-06-12 09:15pm

Phew! I can breathe a sigh of relief. I'm only 29 so I missed the cut off by one year!

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-06-12 09:17pm

Frank Hipper wrote:I NEVER ate worms! I promise you THAT!

Of course not, only maggots.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-06-12 09:21pm

I used to like drinking from the garden hose. It had a slight metallic taste that was much better than the water from the kitchen.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-06-12 09:24pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
Frank Hipper wrote:I NEVER ate worms! I promise you THAT!
Of course not, only maggots.

Uhh, no. I was the one that got kids like you to eat filth. I was good at it, too.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-06-12 09:26pm

I'm only 17, but I remember doing stuff like that, and I still for the most part do. Why anyone would choose any life beyond one with danger, bumps, bruises, and mud pies is beyond me.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-06-12 09:28pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:I used to like drinking from the garden hose. It had a slight metallic taste that was much better than the water from the kitchen.

I loved drinking water from the garden hose you got so much more water. i remember that metallic taste... the kitchen was better though.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-06-12 09:30pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:I used to like drinking from the garden hose. It had a slight metallic taste that was much better than the water from the kitchen.

Mmmmm, mettalic taste. I love hose water.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-06-12 09:31pm

Things change as time goes on. I don't understand why people have such a problem with that.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-06-12 09:32pm

Sweet...about 1 year and four months to go...and I'll never have to see another tax again!!!

Course...I'll not be eating Sherbert either....hmmm choices.

justifier · Post by **justifier** » 2003-06-12 10:10pm

I hate cellphones, that is all

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-06-12 10:18pm

Something must be wrong i`m six years overdue,come on die i say die.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-06-12 10:46pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:I used to like drinking from the garden hose. It had a slight metallic taste that was much better than the water from the kitchen.

That's the lead for ya.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-06-12 10:56pm

You aren't supposed to drink from the garden hose? Well, I'm screwed, because I have been doing it for the last, oh, 19 years...

russellb6666 · Post by **russellb6666** » 2003-06-13 01:25am

even though i've only been around 17 years or so I can tell you I DON'T want to live to be 100 something not only would it get boring having to down a metric ton of pills and supplements each day just to keep kicking I most likely wouldn't be able to enjoy my favorite things like cheeseburgers or scrambled porn thanks to constant monitoring by big brother and all the asinine rules and regulations you can stand not to mention a crapload of stupidity generated by my freckless generation and others preceding it and others after it..........unless humanity is nuked out of existance that is

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-06-13 06:18am

Having learned to ride a bike during the peak of Evil Kenevil's popularity I find it rather amusing that my current city has a law that requires all children under the age of 18 to wear a helmet while riding a bicycle.

It's not that I don't think it is a good idea. Considering how Tucson trafic and drivers are I really see the point of the bike helment. However, the only people I've known who've seriously benefitted from a bike helmet were those who were hit by a car not those doing normal riding away from heavy traffice, which is what children should be doing. If they are old enough to ride with traffice they should be smart enough to wear a helmet.

That brings me back to the whole growing up during Evil Kenevil things. All the neighborhood kids were trying to do jumps with their bikes. I remeber seeing several bikes destroyed ( one kid went over the top of his handlebars and ripped them right off) because of attempted jumps but I don't remember anyone getting more than road rash and a bunch of bruises. It just seems to me that having a law requiring bike helmets is excessive considering what has to be a very small percentage of children who benefit by it.

Now if they are trying X stunts....

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-06-13 06:51am

Tsyroc wrote:Having learned to ride a bike during the peak of Evil Kenevil's popularity I find it rather amusing that my current city has a law that requires all children under the age of 18 to wear a helmet while riding a bicycle.

It's not that I don't think it is a good idea. Considering how Tucson trafic and drivers are I really see the point of the bike helment. However, the only people I've known who've seriously benefitted from a bike helmet were those who were hit by a car not those doing normal riding away from heavy traffice, which is what children should be doing. If they are old enough to ride with traffice they should be smart enough to wear a helmet.

That brings me back to the whole growing up during Evil Kenevil things. All the neighborhood kids were trying to do jumps with their bikes. I remeber seeing several bikes destroyed ( one kid went over the top of his handlebars and ripped them right off) because of attempted jumps but I don't remember anyone getting more than road rash and a bunch of bruises. It just seems to me that having a law requiring bike helmets is excessive considering what has to be a very small percentage of children who benefit by it.

Now if they are trying X stunts....

holy shit that reminds me ......the absolutely insane ramps my friends and i built for our bikes when we were kids. thankfully my bike had padding on the "nutcrusher bar"..but i still scratched the hell out out of my face and arms and legs. lol, i remember my mother seeing one we made and demaning it's immediate destruction.

Boba Fett · Post by **Boba Fett** » 2003-06-13 07:01am

According to the above text, I have two years left...

*runs to the phone to call all my girlfriends to have a last, good-bye sex, I don't have much time left*

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-06-13 07:01am

Tsyroc wrote:Having learned to ride a bike during the peak of Evil Kenevil's popularity I find it rather amusing that my current city has a law that requires all children under the age of 18 to wear a helmet while riding a bicycle.

It's not that I don't think it is a good idea. Considering how Tucson trafic and drivers are I really see the point of the bike helment. However, the only people I've known who've seriously benefitted from a bike helmet were those who were hit by a car not those doing normal riding away from heavy traffice, which is what children should be doing. If they are old enough to ride with traffice they should be smart enough to wear a helmet.

Just adding my $0.02 here.

Escaped a crash with just the bike wrecked and dislocated shoulder.

My helmet cracked and the ambulance people figured that wo it I could quite possible have died. So I am a big fan of bike helmets nowdays...

/rant