Thought provoking

I just saw the "Youth Group" (?) cover of the song Forever Young.
1970's clip of young kids skateboarding down a hill and doing tricks. Simple boards, simple clothes, just rolling down a hill with some markers to swerve around, everyone having fun.

If the clip was made now it would be "Xtreme" games style, Ipods and $300 sunnies would be the norm. Boards would be a carbon fibre composite with ply, and the board fittings (trucks, wheels and decals) would not be under $500. Attitude mandatory. Forget "just" rolling down a hill as well.
Pity the kids that get sucked into that, and the parents should know better.

I know I had a pretty active childhood, and my idea of "flash" was getting a book on toy making delivered out to the farm, then making the ones that had potential to shoot sticks or rocks. That or walking off into the hills to 'hunt' for interesting stuff. I also was doing mustering, cattle handling and general yard work by age 8. I was the chook and dairy cow jackeroo by age 6. When we moved to town, it was cricket, getting into trouble, getting rides on the cane trains, skateboarding and going swimming at the beach. All simple things that kept me pretty happy.

Seems you need a lot of $ to have fun now. Kids must have to deal with not having parents that can shell out lots of $ when still pretty young.

Yeah

makes me think of a mate of mine who lived out at boorowa nsw.

for xmas he got one present, a tonka grader. Was out helping his dad plow the three billion acres and stopped for lunch. Played with his grader and then off they went forgetting it.:eek:

he never found it again and still gets teary 30y later:o

And then he told me about the time his dad told him to walk the flock down the road and right at the T and into the paddock.

Got to the T and the sheep kept going the opposite way so he would run across the paddocks, cut them off and they would go back the way they came. Never would go the right way.

He was found by a farmer sitting on the road crying after 3 hours.

And he was only 7years old:eek: .

Thats hard

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[quote=dazzler]Yeah

makes me think of a mate of mine who lived out at boorowa nsw.

for xmas he got one present, a tonka grader. Was out helping his dad plow the three billion acres and stopped for lunch. Played with his grader and then off they went forgetting it.:eek:

he never found it again and still gets teary 30y later:o

And then he told me about the time his dad told him to walk the flock down the road and right at the T and into the paddock.

Got to the T and the sheep kept going the opposite way so he would run across the paddocks, cut them off and they would go back the way they came. Never would go the right way.

He was found by a farmer sitting on the road crying after 3 hours.

And he was only 7years old:eek: .

Thats hard[/quote




Hard? At 7 If I received a present It was one I had made and gave to myself. Made from old newspaper and and collected sticks It was called a kite. But I don't give a hoot because at 17 I purchased a cheap pair of secondhand desert boots which snapped me out of It.



ps Maybe thats why I,m not Interested in greenies lol


Max Ripper Go the 70's (satbf)

Last time I saw desert boots they were called Campus Boots, new image????