Where have all the flowers gone?

Long time passing..


Guess you are all too young to remember when summer's were summer's..


Those hippy day's when flower power was in the air.


Suggest you listen to a record called "Are you goin to san francisco.."..Scott mc kenzie.


Time's were good then ...not like now...


With all that corruption. in politics.


We had FREEDOM...


No traffic wardens..no surveilance camers..no speed cameras..no ramps on the roads.no anti smoking loby that shoot's you on site for smoking in a bar or stubbing a Dog End out in the street.


NO FACIIST GOVERNMENT.


Tony Blair is turning to the church of Rome while Gordon Brown turned coward when faced with a challenge by the torries..

Where have all the flowers gone?
Hi there Vernon, I completely agree with you......excellent times and memories.....


First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.


They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.


Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.


We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.


As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.


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 cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, 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 scraps and then ride 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 Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cellphones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet 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 these accidents.


We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.





We 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 yelled for them!





Football teams had trials 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!


This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
Reply:I agree!!!





bring back the 60's, from a 60's child :)
Reply:same thing happening across the pond
Reply:I agree with you. Ah the good old days
Reply:hun, it's FALL!!!


ALL THE FLOWERS ARE GONE!!
Reply:I know it sucks, no epidemics of illegal drugs, seatbelt laws, longer living averages, AIDS awarness, advancements in medicine, computers. Its horrible!
Reply:Everyone likes to remember their era with fond nostalgia Vern, but there were riots that were crushed back then and kids died in Vietnam then just the same as now.





As long as we have the likes of Rothschild we will never have governments that work for the people. And the banking cartels are well and truly established now.





Unfortunately the answer is still blowing in the wind.
Reply:new name same avatar??????? or i could be wrong.





peace love and hair grease.....
Reply:"Gone to graveyards everyone, When will they ever learn? When we they ever learn?"





"Where have all the young men gone, ? long time passin', ..........................
Reply:sex, drugs and rock n roll, flower power, the freedom of love


where have those days gone......
Reply:Hey I don't know how I did it but the flower beds out front are still blooming bright purple, yellow,orange and red!





But anyway the corruption is the bit that bothers me the most. Honesty is buried back in the time when people still out numbered the cars.





I used to wear flowers in my hair back in the late 60' early 70's and loved listening to The Monkey's, ahhh those were the days.
Reply:And aids wasn't rife, yes I can remember.
Reply:i loved that song...be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...i'm not so young, i'll be 52 in a few days. those were better days for sure.
Reply:Yes, Vern...times were good then, Not only did I go to San Francisco, I also went to Woodstock!...


We did have freedom and excercised it...Hey, you didn't see them breaking up woodstock!...No way, they would have rioted big time...and the government knew it...why they didn't bother us!...
Reply:I wish I had gotten to experience that. It sounds sooo wonderful. *sigh* maybe I'll just move back in the woods, away from the rest of the world and pretend that the world isn't so corrupt and horrid. That's why I listen to hippie music...it just seems so much more free than today's music.