The 50 and Over Club Motto Selection

• coyotes22

  

  Have I not yet left OHI-O!!!!!
• dwccrew

  

  BRF wrote:

  dwccrew wrote: I'll remember that when I'm your age and popping viagra and having someone with "youth and ability" changing my shitty diapers.

  The only thing that is saving you from a beat down courtesy of our members is the emoticon at the end of your statement.

  Eh, I'm not scared. I've learned from the best how to handle you old timers!
  
  
  
• brutus161

  

  God, for
  Once, please
  Allow me
  To not poop myself
• Darkon

  

  Grumpy
  Old
  Ass's
  Talking
  Shit
  
  
• Swamp Fox

  I think I like Berry's post the best because it is, essentially, what we do on here! I. of course, attempt to maintain a certain level of civility which is often absent in our posts.
• ManO'War

  

  How about "The few people over 50 that know how to use a computer"
• THE4RINGZ

  

  "our kids call us when they need money"
• Cat Food Flambe'

  

  dwccrew wrote:

  Cat Food Flambe' wrote: Remember Glasshoppahs...
  
  Old age and treachery trumps youth and ability every time

  I'll remember that when I'm your age and popping viagra and having someone with "youth and ability" changing my shitty diapers.

  Before I get to that point, my kids will "take Dad on an Alaska cruise" and dump me on on ice floe in the Bering Sea.
• BRF

  

  dwCcrew:
  
  
• coyotes22

  

  BRF wrote: dwCcrew:
  
  

  You ARE having a bad day, eh?
• BRF

  

  I'm going to send you a PM.
• coyotes22

  

  BRF wrote: I'm going to send you a PM.

  Received and Replied
• hang_loose

  Does it have to have GOATS in it??? I read one somewhere (could have been on this site) that said something like "boy, whatever you think your are, I AM!!!"
• Salmom

  Thought all of us "old timers" woule enjoy this and everything is true!
  
  To Those of Us Born
  
  1925 - 1970
  
  ~~~~~~~~~
  
  TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
  
  1930s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s!!
  
  First, we survived being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drank
  
  while they were pregnant.
  
  
  
  
  They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
  
  
  
  Then, after that trauma, we were
  
  put to sleep on our tummies
  
  in baby cribs covered
  
  with bright colored lead-based paints.
  
  
  
  We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets,
  
  and, when we rode our bikes,
  
  we had baseball caps,
  
  not helmets, on our heads.
  
  
  
  As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes..
  
  
  
  Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
  
  
  
  We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
  
  
  We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.
  
  
  We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And we weren't overweight.
  
  WHY?
  
  Because we were always outside playing...that's why!
  
  
  
  We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
  
  No one was able to reach us all day.
  
  --And, we were OKAY.
  
  
  
  We would spend hours building
  
  our go-carts out of scraps
  
  and then ride them 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 did not have Play Stations, Nintendos and X-boxes. There were
  
  no video games, no 150 channels on cable,
  
  no video movies or DVDs,
  
  no surround-sound or CDs,
  
  no cell phones,
  
  no personal computers,
  
  no Internet and no chat rooms.
  
  
  WE HAD FRIENDS
  
  and we went outside and found them!
  
  
  
  We fell out of trees, got cut,
  
  broke bones and teeth,
  
  and there were no lawsuits
  
  from those accidents.
  
  We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand, and no one would call child services to report abuse.
  
  
  
  We ate worms, and mud pies
  
  made from dirt, and
  
  the worms did not live in us forever.
  
  We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and
  
  -although we were told it would happen- we did not put out very many eyes.
  
  We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house 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. Imagine that!!
  
  The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
  
  
  These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers,
  
  problem solvers, and inventors ever.
  
  
  
  The past 50 to 85 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas..
  
  
  
  
  We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
  
  
  If YOU are one of those born
  
  between 1925-1970, CONGRATULATIONS!
  
  
  
  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 so much of our lives for our own good.
  
  
  
  While you are at it, forward it to your kids, so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.
  
  
  Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?
  
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• HitsRus

  

  Thanks for the reminder
• Swamp Fox

  Thanks for the memories, Salmom! And it was a far better time for all of us. It wasn't someone else's fault when we screwed up. It was ours. The way it should be.
• Salmom

  I sent this to my daughter and she replied back, "this doesn't apply to me MOTHER." Ya want an ass whoopin' young lady?!
• Apple

  

  Salmom wrote: Thought all of us "old timers" woule enjoy this and everything is true!
  
  To Those of Us Born
  
  1925 - 1970
  
  ~~~~~~~~~
  
  TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
  
  1930s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s!!...
  
  ...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 so much of our lives for our own good...

  I've seen this assessment attesting to the nostalgia of how the older generations grew up.
  
  The one thing missing is that is was also this same group of people who convinced the government TO REGULATE and lawyers TO GET involved.
• ytownfootball

  

  Nah Apple, it was the womens rights groups who were burning bras and looking for ways out of the kitchen leaving "latchkey" kids at home causing inflation, and the "keeping up with the Jones'" mentality, two income households. Lawyers and government had little to do with it, and who convinced them had even less.
• BRF

  

  I'm smelling a thread hijacking here!
  
  However, you raise an interesting point, Apple.
• Salmom

  wasn't that the generation BEFORE us?!