CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

[WhimsyTheFae]

On the bright side, we're making Darwin's job a lot more difficult.

 

[InVinoVeritas]

Nah, we're just changing what gets selected.

 

[Nyaricus]

Right. Obviously we don't need any of those things, either.

No, we actually don't need those things - we being here today with our ancestors obviously not having access to them means that humans don't need those things. They simply mean that life is that much easier to live in today's world.

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[DaveyJones]

Either way, I loved it. My ten year old son won't believe we grew up that way.

The poor kid. My wife insists on the helmet...

if you'd put a wrapper on your helmet you might not have a kid.

 

[Psion]

Risk management seems a little less meaningless when you fall victim to something you wish you had guarded against.

 

[billd91]

Got this on my e-mither and thought i'd share:

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

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We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, ...
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Meh. I was born in the 1960s and we had all of this stuff.

 

[mara]

Got this on my e-mither and thought i'd share:

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Or they'll conclude their parents have so little real accomplishments that they have to point to dumb luck and call it virtue.

 

[Mal Malenkirk]

I'd be a lot more willing to puff out my chest and proudly claim being part of these generations (1979, last year if eligibility!) if you struck out the first six items. These are mostly stupid.

 

[megamania]

I'm sure I'll regret talking about my childhood with my kids as I spoke of-

Jumping off the bridge with bikes into the river-

Asking drivers how fast we were going on steep hills (us on peddle bikes- they in cars)

Accidently relieving ourselves on electrical fences OOOOOW!

Rolling crab apples onto bikes while hiding under cars and trucks

and some of the other stupid things we did...