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

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Going to the cinema with mates.

Is Saturday morning pictures still a thing?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Nearest the wall with toy soldiers, petrol station airline discs or coins.

Marbles in the playground.

Wasn't it, hmmmmmm.

 

[papachris]

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

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

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

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Spudguns
Collecting bubble gum cards, Mars Attacks being my favourite.

 

[The Clamp]

Is Saturday morning pictures still a thing?

I think after a certain age, kids rarely bother.

 

[Mellotron]

Sitting in the same room playing video games together. Not online.

Meeting your mates to hang out with minimal plans and no organisation further than “see you at the park tomorrow”.

Then going home and not seeing/hearing from your mates until school on Monday .

Not saying it wa better, just different.

Feels mad now. I was part of that last generation of kids just pre and then post mobiles coming in.

Used to all message the night before (ON MSN MESSENGER) - right we're all going to get the XX.XX train to Brighton in the morning.

If one of our group didn't make that train (and there was always one, bless him) he had to then just WANDER AROUND BRIGHTON HOPING HE FOUND US.

 

[papajaff]

Fingering

 

[MTSeagulls]

Leaving school at lunchtime to go to the chippy. Kids are locked in all day at school now.

We had a little Spar or Co-op convenience store in Stoney Lane Shoreham where I'd go to buy cold mince beef and onion or pork pies to eat, otherwise I'd do the 10 minute walk home for lunch and watch Pipkins or something.

 

[ozzygull]

Playing and collecting marbles. I've lost my marbles now, but that a different thing.

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

Casual racism, homophobia and hunting for interesting magazines in the bushes.

 

[The Clamp]

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

A recent archaeological project dug up sections of playgrounds and playing fields across the U.K.

Loads of Dinky cars, toy soldiers, marbles, top trumps cards etc in the layers up to about 2005. After that, barely anything .

 

[MTSeagulls]

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

10p mix up please

 

[Weststander]

Walking
Running
Cycling
Making camps in woods
Being outdoors

‘til dark, without parental angst.

 

[The Clamp]

Feels mad now. I was part of that last generation of kids just pre and then post mobiles coming in.

Used to all message the night before (ON MSN MESSENGER) - right we're all going to get the XX.XX train to Brighton in the morning.

If one of our group didn't make that train (and there was always one, bless him) he had to then just WANDER AROUND BRIGHTON HOPING HE FOUND US.

I was 23 before I got my first mobile phone.

Didn’t have internet at home until I was 30!!

 

[Is it PotG?]

Put a doggy do in a paper bag, put it outside a front door then light it.

Knock the door then watch the stamping out from a distance.

Apparently.

 

[Lever]

whittle sticks and make and use bows and arrows

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

Not sure if this will make sense to anyone but in primary school in the mid 1960s playtime often involved knocksie-downsies, farthies and dropsies in addition to football, cricket, it(tag) etc.

 

[dazzer6666]

Leaving the house after breakfast in the school summer holidays on your bike, meeting your mates and not getting home until it was dark. No phone, and parents had no clue where you were.

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

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Airfix models
Airfix soldiers
Headers and volleys/World Cup