tonybooth

For me, in no particular order: -

1) Caravan holidays
2) Butlins
3) Free School meals
4) Free uniform
5) NHS brown tortoiseshell spectacles
6) Bizarre medical tests aged 9 cos I was an eraly 'developer' - electodes on head - For what?

Technology restrictions should not count but financial, social and economic ones do!!

T

Reality

vinyl seats / shorts / hot summers day / sister's car sickness combo.

semolina

Brendan Hughes

Thought you meant physical scars. I have one on my thumb from where I held a couple of feet of rope taut while my brother tried to chainsaw it , and one on my left ring finger from where I tried to open a tin of corned beef; got halfway round with the key winding off the metal strip, key got stuck, I tried to pull the two halves apart - also .

Mental scars - yeah, plenty thanks. Just the pessimistic way of looking at the same things in the "What kids don't do these days" thread. I call it "growing up".

EP82

No sky television and free clothes for me..

There was an unwritten law at primary school. You had to test whether or not your yoghurt was safe to bring into the school, and not explode in your bag.

Simple test really tip the thing over your head if it didn't come out of the pot in ten seconds then it was deemed safe to bring to school.

My mum bought some new yoghurts which we tested on the day of purchase they passed with flying colours. Summer was upon us and i sat down at the table with a group of older pupils. They had never seen the yoghurt before and decided that i had to test it. Confident with the contents of the yoghurt i agreed.

1..2..3..4..5.....

Splat, i had pink yoghurt all over me. I have been wary of yoghurts ever since, especially on hot days

fast bloke

brown corduroy(sp) trousers with patches sewn on the knees

getting picked last for football, or worse.... getting given to the other team

walking 3 miles home in the pissing rain to find that your mother had done the decent thing and gone to pick you up in the car, with the keys
walking three miles back to school to find that she had given up waiting and gone home again

school discos

lucylastic

1. Having to wear mittens that were attached to a piece of string, that went up one arm, across your shoulders and down the other side (I think the reason was to stop you losing them ) All well and good, until your arms grew, but the string didn't stretch

2. My mum plaiting my hair so tight, that every time I moved my neck it snapped a load of hairs

3. The fights on a Sunday between my sister and I as to who would wash, and who would dry the dishes

4. My mum cleaning my face with a handkerchief she'd spat on

SJ_Skyline

Flares

Graz

Yep always seemed to wind up with my Dad having a right go at me and my brother for something we had or hadn't done and threatening to go home (never did though ). You'd have thought he would have learned his lesson after the first few holidays but no, almost every year and some half terms etc. from the age of 6 to 16!

That said there were good points as well, went to some fantastic places in the U.K (Scottish Highlands, Wales, Devon, Cornwall, Yorkshire Dales, Peak District) and has probably influenced the things I now like to get up to at weekends (hiking, mountain biking) and the types of holidays I tend to go on. No caravan though, usually rent a nice holiday cottage though I'm not opposed to a spot of camping in the summer

SJ_Skyline

Deformed 70's haircuts, much akin to those sported by certain members of the moderater team

David Lock

My boy's got a scar on his leg when someone stuck a needle in him when he was minus 7 months old! Beat that

Reality

ajm's got a scar from some cats when he was younger - has affected him ever since

blubs

I'm afraid there is only one.

YOUR MOTHER LICKING IN A HANKIE THEN WIPING YOUR FACE!


aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........ YAK!

dpb

2" slit above the left eye.....
....DONT rock that chair on its hind legs ......WALLOP....

..smacks head on edge of table.........
..Still have the scar..!



is this what hes on about.