[Misc] Things you did as kid that don’t seem popular any more

[Winker]

Playing cowboys and indians

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Playing with matches
Buying farthing chews
Saturday morning pics
Playing football in the street
Lucky lolly sticks
Jamboree bags
Cubs and cub camp
Wearing football kit to junior school once a week
Yellow sherbet fingers
School caps
Beating children with slippers, canes etc

 

[Is it PotG?]

Running, petting and bombing

 

[studio150]

Subbuteo League
Risk
Playing football in the street
Walking to school

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Fingering

And taking her for a wimpy

 

[raymondo]

Making ice slides on the pavement on a hill (West Blatchington estate), in front of the old people's houses. (I'm really sorry ).

 

[Weststander]

Going to the corner shop to buy penny sweets with loose change scavenged from god know where.

Returning empty soft drink bottles to off licences to raise the cssh.

The original recycling.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

British Bulldog (banned at my primary school when kid ended up in hospital after being pushed headlong into a wall)

British bulldog!

I played that every single morning without fail (weather allowing) at junior school for 4 years!

It never got old!

 

[raymondo]

Walking for 20minutes to your mate's house on a weekend, to find out they're not home .

 

[Lever]

potty putty and luminous fish

 

[The Clamp]

Having to watch whatever depressing crap your parents were watching on telly.

Shops being closed on Sunday and on Wednesday afternoons. A good thing that should be brought back.

Going and picking up the take-away rather than commanding an asian teenager on an unlicensed moped to bring it to your door.

Comic subscriptions

Only having McDonalds on birthdays rather than every day after school.

Bullying that didn’t leave kids a mental wreck for the rest of their lives.

 

[raymondo]

Checking out the amazing ice feather patterns inside the windows (late fifties!).

 

[BNthree]

Returning empty soft drink bottles to off licences to raise the cssh.

The original recycling.

Going round the back of one shop to get bottles to take to another.

The original circular economy.

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Long lines of lads arms over each other’s shoulders singing ‘All in for war in 1964, we lost our guns and used our bums in 1964’ The prelude to a big game of war. ‘You don’t take your shots’ was a frequently heard in the play ground.

 

[Mellotron]

Picked my nose.

Just can't get into it anymore. Lost it's lustre.

 

[silent-assasin]

Fingering?

 

[stewart12]

Reading the previous posts on this thread a lot of familiar activities.
The main difference with my generation compared to millennial is that we were outdoors all of the time

millennials are mostly well into their/our 30's now. We were outside a lot as kids

 

[The Clamp]

Fingering?

With my knees? No chance.

 

[Papak]

Fingering?

[Misc] - Things you did as kid that don’t seem popular any more

Going to the cinema with mates. Is Saturday morning pictures still a thing?

www.northstandchat.com

 

[stewart12]

Having to watch whatever depressing crap your parents were watching on telly.

definitely this. I had absolutely no say in what was on TV or listened to on the radio. What it did mean is that I picked up a lot of the cultural references shared by my parents- one area being that I like a lot of the same music as both of my parents