Things we did as kids that no one does anymore...
10 October 2005, 12:48 PM
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Climbing trees!
Remember climbing a young sycamore.. got to the top and the branches snapped, came about halfway down like it was a fireman's pole until suddenly a branch was too thick to snap. Gave me a stonking bruise!
Remember climbing a young sycamore.. got to the top and the branches snapped, came about halfway down like it was a fireman's pole until suddenly a branch was too thick to snap. Gave me a stonking bruise!
10 October 2005, 12:51 PM
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Heating test tube tongs (the ones with a rectangular end) in a bunsen burner till they glowed red, then using them to burn chunks out of your mate's homework
10 October 2005, 12:54 PM
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Making "nail polish" out of the red rind on Edam cheese (Hmmm - or maybe that was just me?!)
Telling your friends that it would be a GOOD idea to peirce their ears with a compass - you just don't fancy having pierced ears thanks...
Telling your friends that it would be a GOOD idea to peirce their ears with a compass - you just don't fancy having pierced ears thanks...
10 October 2005, 12:55 PM
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Sticking beer mats in your bikes spokes to make a really unconvincing motorbike noise.
Deadly ramps made from 3 bricks and a half rotten plank.
Falling over on concrete and not hurting yourself.
Wishing you had a twin tape deck so you could copy your mates spectrum games.
Having fights without getting stabbed, shot, or jumped by ten of their mates.
Soaking each other with empty fairy liquid bottles.
Doing really stupid, possibly lethal things, without being worried about the outcome.
Not having to pay bills.
Thinking your dads car was great, no matter how much of a shed it really was.
Deadly ramps made from 3 bricks and a half rotten plank.
Falling over on concrete and not hurting yourself.
Wishing you had a twin tape deck so you could copy your mates spectrum games.
Having fights without getting stabbed, shot, or jumped by ten of their mates.
Soaking each other with empty fairy liquid bottles.
Doing really stupid, possibly lethal things, without being worried about the outcome.
Not having to pay bills.
Thinking your dads car was great, no matter how much of a shed it really was.
10 October 2005, 01:02 PM
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Getting shout at / slapped by an adult (usually another kids parent) and being afraid to tell your own parents incase they shouted at / slapped you too.
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10 October 2005, 01:06 PM
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What's Manhunt? Is it the same as Blockey 1-2-3?
Dog turd in piece of newspaper. Place on doorstep. Set fire to paper. Ring doorbell. Retire to safe distance. Laugh 'til it hurts at anxious homeowner stamps on lit newspaper ...
Dog turd in piece of newspaper. Place on doorstep. Set fire to paper. Ring doorbell. Retire to safe distance. Laugh 'til it hurts at anxious homeowner stamps on lit newspaper ...
10 October 2005, 01:07 PM
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Whacking your nuts on your bike as you either :
1) Land from a jump off a ramp you made out of a plank of wood and two milk crates
2) A failed 'endo'
3) Brake hard and your mate sat on the backseat as you peddle comes hurtling forward and sandwiches you between him and the handlebars
4) Come off whilst trying to cycle to school no-handed
1) Land from a jump off a ramp you made out of a plank of wood and two milk crates
2) A failed 'endo'
3) Brake hard and your mate sat on the backseat as you peddle comes hurtling forward and sandwiches you between him and the handlebars
4) Come off whilst trying to cycle to school no-handed
10 October 2005, 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by lucylastic
Making "nail polish" out of the red rind on Edam cheese (Hmmm - or maybe that was just me?!)
Telling your friends that it would be a GOOD idea to peirce their ears with a compass - you just don't fancy having pierced ears thanks...
Telling your friends that it would be a GOOD idea to peirce their ears with a compass - you just don't fancy having pierced ears thanks...
I'd forgotten about that - and how about making "Perfume" by soaking rose petals in a bucket of water - then trying to sell it to your family......
10 October 2005, 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Brendan Hughes
Plenty of losers still do this, unfortunately.
It was only a joke, honest, i thought all chavs were into crack and heroin nowadays.
10 October 2005, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by shaunywrx
I did'nt realise they still made sunblest bread!
10 October 2005, 01:42 PM
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Hedge Hopping through Gardens at Night when I lived in Sheffield........
I'll never forget getting my foot stuck in a Pond Cover and getting taken home by the local Dibble.
Funny how 20 years on the same Copper is still looking for me but this time with a hand held Laser Speed Trap............ B@stard
Ahhhhhhhhh the good old days eh, Seams this thread has stirred a few memories I Reckon.
I'll never forget getting my foot stuck in a Pond Cover and getting taken home by the local Dibble.
Funny how 20 years on the same Copper is still looking for me but this time with a hand held Laser Speed Trap............ B@stard
Ahhhhhhhhh the good old days eh, Seams this thread has stirred a few memories I Reckon.
10 October 2005, 02:02 PM
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Splodgies
Hackey 123 (well thats what we called it
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Digging infeasibly huge ramps out of dirt/bricks in the public woods...or hijacking the ones the elder kids on scramblers made. And seeing how high/far you could jump with your bmx on the biggest ramp...cracked my nadgers on a few landings, I can tell you
A good game of slaps never went amiss
Or a game of knuckles
Crusty cobs were still crusty
PE at school meant football, or football, or football. Girls played Netball and nothing else. Ahh the variety of sports
Finding fresh windows at school (always getting broken in one way or another), and nicking the putty
Lift up lid desks - storage for all sorts of nasties
Usually booby trapped for unsuspecting victims (balloon, sellotape and hole punches ), or moving around peoples stuff into other desks, some geeks even fitted alarms in theirs.
Vauxhall Nova GTE/SRs were cool. The Nova Sport was the cream of Novas
We used to walk to and from school, come wind rain, snow or shine.
- No SUVs...apart from the odd Talbot Rancho
It was Ok to be a Bros fan
Constant wars about which comic was best: Beano Vs. Dandy...with the odd Beezer outcast
Being forced to read the highly boring and patronising "Peter and Jane" kids reading books which put you off reading for life
Mental Arithmatic I, II, III, IV etc... The maths test books everyone hated, especially the "progress tests".
You had to wait 20 minutes to load your favourite computer game
Everyone had a Soda Stream
You could still buy sweets for a half penny!
Hackey 123 (well thats what we called it
)Digging infeasibly huge ramps out of dirt/bricks in the public woods...or hijacking the ones the elder kids on scramblers made. And seeing how high/far you could jump with your bmx on the biggest ramp
...cracked my nadgers on a few landings, I can tell you A good game of slaps never went amiss
Or a game of knuckles
Crusty cobs were still crusty
PE at school meant football, or football, or football. Girls played Netball and nothing else. Ahh the variety of sports
Finding fresh windows at school (always getting broken in one way or another), and nicking the putty
Lift up lid desks - storage for all sorts of nasties
Usually booby trapped for unsuspecting victims (balloon, sellotape and hole punches ), or moving around peoples stuff into other desks, some geeks even fitted alarms in theirs.Vauxhall Nova GTE/SRs were cool. The Nova Sport was the cream of Novas
We used to walk to and from school, come wind rain, snow or shine.
- No SUVs...apart from the odd Talbot Rancho
It was Ok to be a Bros fan
Constant wars about which comic was best: Beano Vs. Dandy...with the odd Beezer outcast
Being forced to read the highly boring and patronising "Peter and Jane" kids reading books which put you off reading for life
Mental Arithmatic I, II, III, IV etc... The maths test books everyone hated, especially the "progress tests".
You had to wait 20 minutes to load your favourite computer game
Everyone had a Soda Stream
You could still buy sweets for a half penny!
10 October 2005, 02:44 PM
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Go back in time....
Before the Internet or the Apple Mac....
Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack....
Before Sony, SEGA or Super Nintendo....
Way back....
I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park. The corner shop. Hopscotch. Butterscotch Skipping. Handstands.
Football with a stone, an old Coke can or a football in desperate need of pumping up. Jumpers for goalposts.
Swapping bikes. Fingerbobs. Beano, Dandy, Buster and Twinkle. Roly Poly.
Hula Hoops. Jumping the stream, building dams. The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass. Bazooka Joe bubble gum. An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune. Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps a screwball with the bubblegum at the bottom.
When curly wurly's were as long as your arm and wagon wheels as big as your face.
Remember.... Watching Saturday morning cartoons....short commercials, The Double Deckers, Road Runner, He-Man, Tiswas or Swapshop?,
Banana Splits and Why Don't You? - or staying up for Doctor Who after Saturday tea.
When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like going somewhere. Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings. Sticky fingers.
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro. Climbing trees. Building igloos out of snow banks. Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt. Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights.
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles. Being tired from playing....remember that?
When the second worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. And the worst was having the opposing captains argue about who had you last time. Swapsies.
When water balloons were the ultimate weapon. Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. Choppers and Grifters.
I'm not finished just yet.....
Remember....
Eating raw jelly. Mr Freeze ice pops. There were only three types of trainers - girls, boys, and Dunlop Green Flash - and the only time you wore them at school was for P.E.
You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents. It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends. You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve.
When nobody owned a pure-breed dog. When you still saw the occasional bit of white dog-crap.
When 25p was decent pocket money and a 10p mixture would buy more than two sweets. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a shiny penny.
When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there. How it was "magic" when dad would "remove" his thumb.
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.
When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him, or use him to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving schoolchild at home.
Remember when....
Decisions were made by going "Ip Dip Dog ****". "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly. 48k seemed like an enormous amount of computer memory.
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs. And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to someone of the opposite sex. All day.
It was unbelievable that "British Bulldog" wasn't an Olympic event. Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult. Nobody was prettier than Mum.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better. Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin. Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true. It used to snow. Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.
Before the Internet or the Apple Mac....
Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack....
Before Sony, SEGA or Super Nintendo....
Way back....
I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park. The corner shop. Hopscotch. Butterscotch Skipping. Handstands.
Football with a stone, an old Coke can or a football in desperate need of pumping up. Jumpers for goalposts.
Swapping bikes. Fingerbobs. Beano, Dandy, Buster and Twinkle. Roly Poly.
Hula Hoops. Jumping the stream, building dams. The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass. Bazooka Joe bubble gum. An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune. Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps a screwball with the bubblegum at the bottom.
When curly wurly's were as long as your arm and wagon wheels as big as your face.
Remember.... Watching Saturday morning cartoons....short commercials, The Double Deckers, Road Runner, He-Man, Tiswas or Swapshop?,
Banana Splits and Why Don't You? - or staying up for Doctor Who after Saturday tea.
When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like going somewhere. Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings. Sticky fingers.
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro. Climbing trees. Building igloos out of snow banks. Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt. Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights.
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles. Being tired from playing....remember that?
When the second worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. And the worst was having the opposing captains argue about who had you last time. Swapsies.
When water balloons were the ultimate weapon. Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. Choppers and Grifters.
I'm not finished just yet.....
Remember....
Eating raw jelly. Mr Freeze ice pops. There were only three types of trainers - girls, boys, and Dunlop Green Flash - and the only time you wore them at school was for P.E.
You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents. It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends. You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve.
When nobody owned a pure-breed dog. When you still saw the occasional bit of white dog-crap.
When 25p was decent pocket money and a 10p mixture would buy more than two sweets. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a shiny penny.
When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there. How it was "magic" when dad would "remove" his thumb.
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.
When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him, or use him to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving schoolchild at home.
Remember when....
Decisions were made by going "Ip Dip Dog ****". "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly. 48k seemed like an enormous amount of computer memory.
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs. And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to someone of the opposite sex. All day.
It was unbelievable that "British Bulldog" wasn't an Olympic event. Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult. Nobody was prettier than Mum.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better. Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin. Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true. It used to snow. Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.
10 October 2005, 02:46 PM
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- damming your local brook. and backing it up.
- building rafts with pallets and empty oil drums. and then capsizing.
- using a huge heavy bakelite/plastic phone with a rotating finger dialler.
- camping out with your best mate in a field during summer hols.
- then copping off with his sister.
- exams that actually meant something.
- building rafts with pallets and empty oil drums. and then capsizing.
- using a huge heavy bakelite/plastic phone with a rotating finger dialler.
- camping out with your best mate in a field during summer hols.
- then copping off with his sister.
- exams that actually meant something.