For the over 40’s Who are Having a bad Day
25 April 2006, 05:44 PM
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For the over 40’s Who are Having a bad Day
FOR THE OVER 40’S WHO ARE PIS*ED OFF
Just for a minute forget everything stressful in life and read on………………..
Let your mind drift back in time, before the Internet, computers and Apple Mac’s. Before semi-automatics, Subaru’s, joy riding and crack cocaine even before SEGA or Super Nintendo. We are talking way back!
To a time of hide and seek in the park
The corner shop
Hopscotch
Skipping
Handstands
Football with an old tin can
Finger bobs
The Beano, Dandy, Buster, and Dennis the menace
Rolly Poly
Hula Hoops (Not the one’s you eat)
The smell of sun on fresh cut grass
Bazooka Joe bubble gum
Watching Sunday Morning cartoons…..Short commercials, the Double Decker’s, Road Runner, He Man, The Magic Roundabout, The Wacky Races, Tiswas, Swapshop and Why Don’t You and being allowed to stay up to watch Doctor Who.
When around the corner seemed far away and going to town felt like you were going somewhere.
When nobody owned their own house and being on the property ladder meant you had built a den or tree house.
Your street was the best adventure playground in the world.
Earwigs, Wasps, Stinging Nettles and Bee stings.
Sticky Fingers, Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, Zorro and Climbing Trees.
Walking to school no matter what the Weather.
Running till you were out of breath and getting the stitch, Laughing so hard that your belly hurt.
Jumping on a bed, Pillow Fights, Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was a cause for giggles and being tired from playing…….. Starting to remember?
The Worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water Balloons were an ultimate weapon of war.
Playing cards in the spokes of your bike transforming it into a Motorcycle.
Choppers and Grifters
Eating Raw Jelly
Orange squash ice pops
And We’re not finished yet!
Remember when there was two types of Trainers………Girls and Boys…And Dunlop green was flash and the only time you could wear them was in PE at School.
You knew everybody in your street and so did your parents.
It wasn’t odd to have Three best friends.
You slept a wink on Christmas eve.
When nobody owned a pure bred dog.
When 25p was very very good pocket money.
When you would reach into a muddy gutter for a dropped penny.
When everybody’s mum was at home when the kids returned from school.
When it was a real treat to go out to dinner at a real restaurant.
You only when to the cinema once in a blue moon.
When a parent could discipline a kid, or feed them, or use them to carry shopping and nobody, not even the kid thought a thing of it.
When being sent to the heads office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you when you got home.
Basically we were in fear for our lives but it had nothing to do with Drive-by-shootings, Drugs, or Gangs.
Your parents were a much bigger treat! And some of us are still afraid of them!!
Remember When……….
All-important decisions were made doing “IP DIP DOG SH*T”
Race issues were about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly.
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs, and the worst part of the day was to have to sit by one.
It was unbelievable that British Bulldogs was not an Olympic event.
Having a weapon in school was to be caught with your catapult.
Nobody was prettier than your Mum.
Scrapes and Bruises were kissed and instantly better.
Drug taking meant Orange flavour chewable Aspirin.
Ice cream was a basic food group and not the devil.
A foot of snow was a dream come true.
Older siblings were your worst tormentor but also your fiercest defenders.
If you can remember these things then you have LIVED
And all you can do is feel sorry for the poor saps that grow up these days……
STILL FEELING PIS*ED OFF? BET YOUR SMILING
Just for a minute forget everything stressful in life and read on………………..
Let your mind drift back in time, before the Internet, computers and Apple Mac’s. Before semi-automatics, Subaru’s, joy riding and crack cocaine even before SEGA or Super Nintendo. We are talking way back!
To a time of hide and seek in the park
The corner shop
Hopscotch
Skipping
Handstands
Football with an old tin can
Finger bobs
The Beano, Dandy, Buster, and Dennis the menace
Rolly Poly
Hula Hoops (Not the one’s you eat)
The smell of sun on fresh cut grass
Bazooka Joe bubble gum
Watching Sunday Morning cartoons…..Short commercials, the Double Decker’s, Road Runner, He Man, The Magic Roundabout, The Wacky Races, Tiswas, Swapshop and Why Don’t You and being allowed to stay up to watch Doctor Who.
When around the corner seemed far away and going to town felt like you were going somewhere.
When nobody owned their own house and being on the property ladder meant you had built a den or tree house.
Your street was the best adventure playground in the world.
Earwigs, Wasps, Stinging Nettles and Bee stings.
Sticky Fingers, Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, Zorro and Climbing Trees.
Walking to school no matter what the Weather.
Running till you were out of breath and getting the stitch, Laughing so hard that your belly hurt.
Jumping on a bed, Pillow Fights, Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was a cause for giggles and being tired from playing…….. Starting to remember?
The Worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water Balloons were an ultimate weapon of war.
Playing cards in the spokes of your bike transforming it into a Motorcycle.
Choppers and Grifters
Eating Raw Jelly
Orange squash ice pops
And We’re not finished yet!
Remember when there was two types of Trainers………Girls and Boys…And Dunlop green was flash and the only time you could wear them was in PE at School.
You knew everybody in your street and so did your parents.
It wasn’t odd to have Three best friends.
You slept a wink on Christmas eve.
When nobody owned a pure bred dog.
When 25p was very very good pocket money.
When you would reach into a muddy gutter for a dropped penny.
When everybody’s mum was at home when the kids returned from school.
When it was a real treat to go out to dinner at a real restaurant.
You only when to the cinema once in a blue moon.
When a parent could discipline a kid, or feed them, or use them to carry shopping and nobody, not even the kid thought a thing of it.
When being sent to the heads office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you when you got home.
Basically we were in fear for our lives but it had nothing to do with Drive-by-shootings, Drugs, or Gangs.
Your parents were a much bigger treat! And some of us are still afraid of them!!
Remember When……….
All-important decisions were made doing “IP DIP DOG SH*T”
Race issues were about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly.
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs, and the worst part of the day was to have to sit by one.
It was unbelievable that British Bulldogs was not an Olympic event.
Having a weapon in school was to be caught with your catapult.
Nobody was prettier than your Mum.
Scrapes and Bruises were kissed and instantly better.
Drug taking meant Orange flavour chewable Aspirin.
Ice cream was a basic food group and not the devil.
A foot of snow was a dream come true.
Older siblings were your worst tormentor but also your fiercest defenders.
If you can remember these things then you have LIVED
And all you can do is feel sorry for the poor saps that grow up these days……
STILL FEELING PIS*ED OFF? BET YOUR SMILING
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25 April 2006, 06:24 PM
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i can remember all of that no probs. and im only 32.
i also had a yellow grifter with grip shift gears! and a purple chopper with a cool gear shift stick. i couldn't wait to watch airwolf on saturday nights either. then getting the crap scared out of me watching hammer house of horrors later that night!
ive asked my oldest girl (11) what a record is. and she says whats that.
i also had a yellow grifter with grip shift gears! and a purple chopper with a cool gear shift stick. i couldn't wait to watch airwolf on saturday nights either. then getting the crap scared out of me watching hammer house of horrors later that night!
ive asked my oldest girl (11) what a record is. and she says whats that.
25 April 2006, 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by S1mon. J
Oh dear, I'm not forty (yet) and i can remember most of that 
What about connect 4 with your family and playing conkers with your grandad?
How about watching Whack-a-day and POB and the waltons whilst eating a 5-4-3-2-1 Bar? Or drinking Five Alive..
I remember having nightmares from watching watershipdown!
Thanks for reminding that I HAVE LIVED and yes I smiled happily
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25 April 2006, 09:42 PM
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You must have lived in my street too!
50 or more houses and only one had a car (Ford E93A)
I went 'scrumping' over the fence in the Council allotment and got caught.(not once, slow learner till Dad found out...)
I was given one Xmas present each year, and the Schuco 1070 racing car I had at 9 years old I still have.
I made model aeroplanes with my Dad (now not here) and he bought me my first Lambretta
For those that may scoff at this nostalgia....tough luck to you all as it was of a quality you will never know.
All that luck and great thoughts.
I'm 54 now with a 21 year daughter, hope I have given her something to look back on.
To amuse you all, this is how things are now, and I'm chuffed to be able to do it!
http://www.dropshots.com/day.php?use...1&ctime=014320
Graham.
50 or more houses and only one had a car (Ford E93A)
I went 'scrumping' over the fence in the Council allotment and got caught.(not once, slow learner till Dad found out...)
I was given one Xmas present each year, and the Schuco 1070 racing car I had at 9 years old I still have.
I made model aeroplanes with my Dad (now not here) and he bought me my first Lambretta
For those that may scoff at this nostalgia....tough luck to you all as it was of a quality you will never know.
All that luck and great thoughts.
I'm 54 now with a 21 year daughter, hope I have given her something to look back on.
To amuse you all, this is how things are now, and I'm chuffed to be able to do it!
http://www.dropshots.com/day.php?use...1&ctime=014320
Graham.
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25 April 2006, 09:59 PM
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Can I play...
Here is a super cool video that should revive a few memories from a fab childhood when imagination was the only toy you needed!!
http://www.dpccars.com/car-movies/04...oxCarChase.htm
Here is a super cool video that should revive a few memories from a fab childhood when imagination was the only toy you needed!!
http://www.dpccars.com/car-movies/04...oxCarChase.htm
25 April 2006, 10:08 PM
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THE BEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE WAS YOUR SCHOOL DAYS
im 30 and can remember most of that stuff especially the raliegh chopper i could fit 3 of my mates on it with me
my first computer was the spectrum 48k with the rubber keys, it used to take about 5 minutes to load a game and sometimes just to annoy you it would CRASH at the last minute. you used to have to adjust the heads of the cassette player to load certain games.
I HATE BEING OLD
im 30 and can remember most of that stuff especially the raliegh chopper i could fit 3 of my mates on it with me
my first computer was the spectrum 48k with the rubber keys, it used to take about 5 minutes to load a game and sometimes just to annoy you it would CRASH at the last minute. you used to have to adjust the heads of the cassette player to load certain games.
I HATE BEING OLD
25 April 2006, 10:17 PM
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If you took the inner box from England Glories matchbox, coated it with balsa cement it would float for ever.....
Time for my medication.
Killa vid, must be some Uni project or something?
Men in white coats coming up the stairs for .......meeeeeeeee.
Agree: BEST thread for yonks.
Was anyone here an ABC Minor?
Time for my medication.
Killa vid, must be some Uni project or something?
Men in white coats coming up the stairs for .......meeeeeeeee.
Agree: BEST thread for yonks.
Was anyone here an ABC Minor?
25 April 2006, 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by 911
For those that may scoff at this nostalgia....tough luck to you all as it was of a quality you will never know.
Have to Agree with you there Graham
25 April 2006, 10:33 PM
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Blackjacks(not antii hijack) 4 for a farthing, thats 16 for 1 old pence to young un's.
Sherbet and liquorise
Shrimp sweets
Christmas presents
Apple, Orange and Sugar mice.
Jackonory
Flowerpot men
First Wage £4:17s:6p
Pint beer 1s 6p
Pint Cider 1s 2p
Party 7 cans
20 **** 1s 10p
Paisley shirts and Red Corderoy Jacket
Bloke had longer hair than women.
Walking along main Roads and playing first one to spot a Car!!
Old people smelt of stale Pee (nothing change then)
Mothballs & Wooly bears
Tony
Sherbet and liquorise
Shrimp sweets
Christmas presents
Apple, Orange and Sugar mice.Jackonory
Flowerpot men
First Wage £4:17s:6p
Pint beer 1s 6p
Pint Cider 1s 2p
Party 7 cans
20 **** 1s 10p
Paisley shirts and Red Corderoy Jacket
Bloke had longer hair than women.
Walking along main Roads and playing first one to spot a Car!!
Old people smelt of stale Pee (nothing change then)
Mothballs & Wooly bears
Tony
25 April 2006, 10:36 PM
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i remember most of these and im only 19!!!!!
you forgot being locked in the car in a multi storey car park while your mother goes shopping because she cant be arsed to drag you round the shops, me and my brother invented a game called oi you anyone ever heard of it???
you forgot being locked in the car in a multi storey car park while your mother goes shopping because she cant be arsed to drag you round the shops, me and my brother invented a game called oi you anyone ever heard of it???
25 April 2006, 10:55 PM
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Very Nostalgic
Couple more for the list..
TV's with only three channels that you had to change by getting up and pressing in a big chunky button that you also had to turn to tune in.
Being amazed at the first video recorders - big as your sofa and the dilemma of VHS or Betamax
Saturday Morining Pictures
Action man figures and being excited when they started coming out with hair, gripping hands and strings to pull to make them speak.
Making a go cart from old pram wheels, a wooden box and some string.
Playing in deserted old houses about to be knocked down and the thrill of finding a few wet pages from a **** mag
The height of culinary treats when Dad came home with a chinese take away once or twice in a year..
Kids with drainpipe trousers and glasses at school being ridiculed as boffins.
The shame of having to wear a school jumper that your mum had knitted for you.
Parker coats in navy and green - and mittens with string that you had to wear with them
The day you realised that it was not cool anymore to wear Balaclavas, again knitted by your mum.
Plastic brown sandals for school over grey long socks and grey flannel shorts just above the knee..
..those were the days
Couple more for the list..
TV's with only three channels that you had to change by getting up and pressing in a big chunky button that you also had to turn to tune in.
Being amazed at the first video recorders - big as your sofa and the dilemma of VHS or Betamax
Saturday Morining Pictures
Action man figures and being excited when they started coming out with hair, gripping hands and strings to pull to make them speak.
Making a go cart from old pram wheels, a wooden box and some string.
Playing in deserted old houses about to be knocked down and the thrill of finding a few wet pages from a **** mag
The height of culinary treats when Dad came home with a chinese take away once or twice in a year..
Kids with drainpipe trousers and glasses at school being ridiculed as boffins.
The shame of having to wear a school jumper that your mum had knitted for you.
Parker coats in navy and green - and mittens with string that you had to wear with them
The day you realised that it was not cool anymore to wear Balaclavas, again knitted by your mum.
Plastic brown sandals for school over grey long socks and grey flannel shorts just above the knee..
..those were the days
25 April 2006, 11:34 PM
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hmm, I am not 40 yet and remember nearly all that stuff.
I want to know what happened to spangles, I also liked that liquorice that was sort of like rolling tobaco.
I want to know what happened to spangles, I also liked that liquorice that was sort of like rolling tobaco.
26 April 2006, 07:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Bartop
Lucky Bags - ahh yes..
Remember you used to get those red fish things in them that used to curl up in the palm of your hand - hours of fun !
Remember you used to get those red fish things in them that used to curl up in the palm of your hand - hours of fun !
*And I'm nowhere near 40 yet.
26 April 2006, 07:26 AM
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Yeah I remember all that too, I had a bright orange chopper bike, Cost my Dad £38, bought a smile to my face this morning, nice one Ted Kids today do not have a clue
Cheers
Colin
Kids today do not have a clueCheers
Colin
26 April 2006, 09:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Scoob99
Yeah I remember all that too, I had a bright orange chopper bike, Cost my Dad £38, bought a smile to my face this morning, nice one Ted Kids today do not have a clue
Cheers
Colin
Kids today do not have a clueCheers
Colin
Was it the first time you've sat on a chopper?Remember the Tomahawk a smaller version? What about the bomber, i'd guess it was the first mountain bike?
