I did the sinkers, and the mercury from thermometers. And lead free-form casting by pouring lead in water. We did not think or even know about the dangers.

At times I wonder how our generation has been able to survive at all. We did not wear helmets when riding bicycles, had not heard anything about car belts. I was fishing on a river bank completely on my own when I was 5.

Too much concern about safety takes away freedom to experiment and makes the life boring. I wonder at times if that's not where addictions, drug abuse and things root from.

Isn't China a holiday destination? Don't 'capitalists' spend billions there?

And turn the blind eye on how cleverly China fights 'capitalist' countries by making them increasingly dependent on China?

At last one handy tool for expressing how you really feel. Printed out this matrix of the century (which?) and posted right before my eyes.

But use with care! Don't say somebody is lumpish if they are in fact goatish lol.

You are not saying there was a time with no cell phones, are you?