8 Reasons Children of the 1970s Should All Be Dead

Reason #9 Mumblypeg.

We used to bring knives to school to play it at recess. Usually just pocket knives but I had a fixed blade in a sheath worn on my belt a few times as well.

True that. We used to be in the wars all the time,cuts,bruises,falling out of trees.
Kids today are all mass media casualties.
Big sooky wimps.

At age 5 I used to buy cigarettes for my parents, at the same time I was walking about a mile and a half to go to my English lessons.
Most kids at first grade stayed home by themselves after school.
We played outside until dark with no supervision.
Starting at age 12 I started going by myself to my art classes in bad winter and late after school.
And so on...
I went on two weeks vacation with a friend in 6th grade.
Her grandma was supposed to supervise us, but she decided to go to her village, so we stayed in the apartment by ourselves, no problem...

we used to bring our shotguns to school on the first day of hunting NYS

if you were not wearing a Buck 110 knife in high school you were not "cool"

what happened ameriKa ??

i know what happened

I must have been one bad ass little kid.
No helmet, no pads, no PPE and I lived...

had my first cigarette at about 11- 12 - lol quit after that summer and didn't smoke again until 18 - my cousin had her first cigarette at 6

This made me laugh .

What about teeter taughters and the carrousel in the play grounds . teeter taughter's OH MY ... the chilrens could fall or hurt there asses when we jumped off for the final CLUNK on the ass to ground finally .


Carousels : We would pump and run that puppy so fast in circles and jump on get dizzy and fly off , or put the younger kids on it and Laugh or asses off as they slid off the grip bars and skid out on the grass or gravel ground .


Another playground apparatus BANNED by the libtard crew .

What about BB-Guns , air guns where well made back then ...Pellet guns were deadly . All metal machined parts .
BB gun wars in the woods ...no head shots ...AND WE WOULDN'T because derp a head shot would get mom and Dad's involved.

Fire Cracker wars ....Tubing and bottle rockets fired accurately at passing cars .
Great fun ...Especially when 1 exploded in the car if the window was down .

THEN RUN FAST !

Swimming in fresh water lakes ALL DAY ! Even after meals .
What sun screen ?

ETC ..... Agh the 70's --I'm a hero to my kids ...

Laughing about this the other day, never sat in a car seat hell we'd stand up in the front seat going down the road and hang off the sides while riding in the back of the pick ups. Shutter to think what another 30 years of libtard policies will bring

1) Orange Sunshine
2) Blue Barrel
3) 10 kinds of blotter
4) Mescaline
5) Mushrooms
6) Opium
7) Lebanese Blond Hash
8) Columbian Gold

Sounds like Hazard County.

In defense of the stronger supervision, had any of the parents back then had access to sex offender maps where pervs were sprinkled throughout neighborhoods, there would have been much tighter rules.

And yet, those same tough as nails kids one day gave birth to the messed up adults and grandkids of today...So, I guess things DIDN'T turn out ok! Lol!

I went for a walk around my folks' neighborhood while visiting and witnessed a dad outside in the front lawn with his son who was probably 5-6 years old. They were playing "wiffle" ball, but with one of those BIG-ASS boom-boom red bats….you know what I mean?

Fucking kid had a helmet on. I chalked it up to the fact that I might be missing something, but I know that kid doesn't ride the short bus. Sigh

When Iwas a kid, we used to swim in the east river.

Bodies, guns, cars, trash,etc

Built up our immune system....and we NEVER got sick.

No back then they would have burned their house down or ran his ass out of town, but of course that doesn't happen today because some hippie libtard was more worried about the perverts right than Dick or Janes innocence

Irish and Italians , that's what we had for neighbors in NY .

Kids fought , parents fought , girls fought ....

The next day no body cared. No cops came ....

You took your lumps . people had respect for each other .


UNTIL COCAINE HIT ...then the killings started ..
Divorces ---- Welfare state ----

The 80's sucked so hard compared to the 70's i often wondered what the Fuck happened .

Ahhhh the memories.

we didn’t wear seatbelts back then because the parents were much better and much less distracted drivers...no cell phones, no texting,..... And you didn’t have to worry about the other drivers as much for the same reasons.....not to mention that many places still had only 2 lane roads, one lane bridges, no brakedown shoulders and no yellow stripes on the road.

if you fell off something/got hurt somehow, and bactine didn’t fix it, then you went to the doctor and got a cast or stitches.....and you had a story to tell (or embellish) about how it happened. Ahhh the smell and the burn of the bactine......

The knees of jeans got patched, repatched, and patched again.....and when they finally couldn’t be patched they became cut-off shorts for the summer.

unbelievable how much different is today......

society loses when normal impulses are demeaned.
it is normal to explore.

Perverts shouldn't even be living in neighborhoods, They should be dropped off on an island or at least a halfway house gated community cut off from rest of society

Thank your loss of freedoms due to our Government not regulating lawsuits.

Everyone wants a celebrity lifestyle and think that the quickest way to revenge and money is to sue someone.

Every single day theres a lawsuit story in the local and nationwide news for some injury or insult

Our loss of freedom is everyone afraid of eachother now.

Making bike ramps and jumping over each other. 7 kids laying next to each other was the record. Skateboard skiing and snow sledding behind a car. Night time lawn darts, hedge apple fights. We did all the same shit you did and not one kid ever got seriously hurt. Oh yea we had a few scrapes bruises and burns but that was about it.

no seat belts either, only fell out once...just kidding

i remember running around standing between the two front seats leaning on the dashboard, face squashed up the windscreen pretending i am superman, waving to the policemen as they drove by, it's ok tho dad's only had 3 pints, and we're off to the doctors, walking into his office as he's just tapping out his pipe, then back in the car for silk cut and brut 33 all warmed up together by the car heater

Do you know what changed? Parents didn't have the internet in the 70's & 80's to scare the living shit out of them.

There are just as many murderers, rapists, sick fucks as there were in the 70's you just hear about it instantly now.

The internet, not TV, is the single greatest reason why parents and people in general are suspicious & paranoid about everyone and everything.

How about the skinned knees that were treated with Mercurochrome? Gads that stuff burned but healed faster and didn't scar as much as wounds do now.

Left in the morning with a sack lunch and came home after the street lights came home. No one knew where we were. We knew the rules and followed them (mostly). Had fun, learned responsibilities, used our brains to think for ourselves, knew that any adult who saw us doing something wrong would contact our parents or march us home. Cops weren't called.

Seat belts were never used and there was less death in auto accidents. Autos were made to PROTECT the occupants. Seat belt laws were the beginning of the nanny state but no one saw it - it was for our own good don't ya know.

School teachers lead by example. Children were NOT managed, they were taught. Teachers were never mistaken for a student. They were held accountable and dressed appropriately. Though I do remember a teacher who thought wearing a mini skirt to parent/teacher conferences, who was told by one of the fathers "If you want to dress like that when I am not with my wife, I will stare all day but as long as my wife is here, you not only disrespect her and myself, you disrespect your job." He left the room with his wife and the teacher was fired the next day.

The best damned music ever!!!!!

The year of 1977!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am a female, I am cute and I use to run around the neighborhood butt naked at times, unsupervised, until I was four years old and never got molested or stolen. played around deep lakes by myself too. I never drowned and I knew when the sun started to go down it was time to go home throughout my time growing up. Never was there any problem.

So population growth has nothing to do with it? Consider that theres always a percentage of perverts. That percentage WILL GO UP when general population goes up.

Figure it out. genius

COCAINE is what happened. Then meth ... etc. That's why we need to have the War on Drugs.

Great thread, OP 5 stars. The 70s were pretty awesome. I'm grateful to have been alive when people didn't live in a perpetual state of fear. For those too young to remember the 70s, many of the movies reflected the social and cultural differences today. Remember at the end of the Bad News Bears after little Timmy Lupis hurled the 2nd place trophy at the rival Yankees and every kid on the team had a bottle of beer? You'll never see a kids movie with an ending like that ever again. Good times.