We was brung up proper

Yesterday I spent 'hours' searching for a file I had lost on my laptop. It wasn't on my rarely used desk top. It wasn't on my 1TB memory extension file. But I did find something and I think it is worth regurgitating. Here goes:
WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50's, and even the early 60's!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses containing lots of asbestos sheeting. Coal gas was piped into houses to provide lighting via gas mantles. They took aspirin, ate raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, spam and corned beef, tuna from an unlined tin cans, and they never got tested for diabetes or cervical cancer. There were no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets.
As children, if we were lucky, we rode in cars with no seat belts or air bags. We drank water from the garden hose or the kitchen tap and NOT from a bottle. Take-away food was limited to fish and chips; no pizza shops, no McDonald's, no KFC, Subway or Nandos or Indians.
Even though the shops closed at 6.00pm most nights and midday on Saturdays and did not open at all on Sundays - somehow we didn't starve to death!
We would share one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle. No straws – we simply wiped the neck on our shirt sleeve before putting it in our mouth and NO ONE died. We could collect empty drink bottles and cash them in at the corner shop to buy Toffees, colour changing Gobstoppers or additive laden Bubble Gum .
We ate white bread and margarine ( butter remained a luxury for many years) and we drank soft drinks with heaps of sugar in them, but we weren't overweight because.....WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! 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 O.K
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then would ride them down the hill, only to find out we had no brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in rivers that also carried sewage.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, or video games. For many years few homes had a TV -with three B&W channels not hundreds on SKY; no video or dvd films. Most families relied on radios, powered by lead/acid batteries The only time we saw coloured moving images was in cartoons at the Saturday morning matinee cinema. Some of us even remember the pianist accompanying silent B&W films.
We had no mobile phones (very few of us had telephones at home – phones could be several hundred yards away, or more, in red glass fronted boxes). There were no personal computers, no tablets, no Internet or Chat rooms..........WE HAD REAL FRIENDS and we went outside to find them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no Lawsuits from these accidents.
Only girls had pierced ears and no-one had a pierced nose!
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time.
We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or just yelled for them!
Mums mainly stayed at home and cared for their family.
FOOTBALL, RUGBY and CRICKET had try-outs and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT
Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bully's always ruled the playground at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL !
And if YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!