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

[Lenny Rider]

Esso World Cup coins

Football Cards

Shoot League Ladders

Subbuteo

Airfix Soldiers

Scalectrix

Hornby Railways

Wrestlers Hot Dogs at the Odeon

Annual visit of the Fun Fair

Black Jacks and Fruit Salads

Salt N shake crisps

Space Dust.

The annual arrival of the Xmas editions of the TV and Radio Times

Dirty book stash

Towards the end of our formative years the arrival of various ‘continental‘ films on VHS.

 

[Rdodge30]

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

4th year (yr10) - cool rebel that I was, leaving school at lunchtime to get fishcake and chips from local chippy - few detentions for that

5th year - due to unnecessary rowdiness and general unacceptable behaviour during lunchtime hybrid game of football/Murderball/bulldog - banned from school premises at lunchtime and lived off fishcake and chips from local chippy

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Buying single cigarettes from the news agents outside the school gates.

Or the 5 Park Drive and penny book of matches.
oh, and the waxy blue tabs of salt in crisps.

 

[Eeyore]

Fingering

Finger of fudge ?

 

[Eeyore]

Picked my nose.

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

Eating it too. Much tastier than ear wax.

 

[Weststander]

Saturday morning mayhem at the Odeon .... kids just left by parents for a couple of hours. Where was the safeguarding ?
Sneaking into the ABC cinema with mates, only one having paid, the others let in through the Fire Exit.
Fixing bike punctures yourself with the trusty tin repair kit and a bowl of water.

 

[raymondo]

Getting a chocolate Smoker's Outfit for Xmas...the best!

 

[portlock seagull]

Schools not Academy’s
Pupils not students
5th year not year whatever
Discipline not anarchy
Fights not murder enquiries

 

[BluesRockDJ]

Taking car numbers...........60's

 

[Badger]

Schools not Academy’s
Pupils not students
5th year not year whatever
Discipline not anarchy
Fights not murder enquiries

I guess schools didn't teach you about the correct use of an apostrophe.

 

[Si Gull]

Kerb ball. Nowadays you can't see the kerbs for parked cars.

I bloody loved kerb ball, or kerbie as we knew it. Who knew you could have so much fun with just a ball and a kerb? 1pt for a half-kerb half-road return catch, 2pts for a full kerb? Lengthy tournaments were held.

Cars were a bit of a pain, though, also poor shots that carried on and ended up on the 'Major's' lawn - he was a (ex) major, and hated kids, would confiscate the ball if he got to it first. Not as hardcore as matey up the road who, should anyone do a Sterling and miscue into his garden, would puncture the ball before returning it.

 

[maffew]

Opening all the milk bottles delivered and drinking the cream off the top

Putting playing cards on the forks on your Raleigh burner with a peg to make it sound like a motor bike

Spokey dokeys

Building ramps on the park and seeing how many lying down mates you could jump over

Buying rolls of caps for cap guns from the newsagent and setting them off with your finger nail/burning finger

Domino rallys

Copying tapes and disks and swapping with mates at school

Cow tipping

 

[bluenitsuj]

Tying my fishing rod to the bike frame and going fishing with my friends all day. Not a care in the world, no Internet, no mobile phones

 

[MTSeagulls]

Pubs being places for adults only. Dark, foreboding, smoke filled rooms that daylight barely reached and there wasn’t colouring book and crayons within a hundred miles.

Ah yeah, I could often be seen on the doorstep of The Royal George with a packet of crisps and a bottle of coke while my parents were drinking inside. Coca Cola had bubbles that went up your nose in those days

 

[AstroSloth]

Going to the cinema with mates.

You say that like anyone can afford it anymore.

Looked at going to see Dune 2 and it would have been £17 just for a single ticket.

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Tying my fishing rod to the bike frame and going fishing with my friends all day. Not a care in the world, no Internet, no mobile phones.

Used to cycle to patching pond night fishing and straight to the paper shop in the morning for my round.

 

[loz]

Saving milk bottle tops for the “ blind dogs”
Playing “ you show me yours and I’ll show you mine”
Spending all Sunday looking at football scores, who scored and studding meaningful attendance figures.
Playing cricket with a lamp post being the wickets and who ever got the last batsman out went into bat.

 

[Cordwainer]

Football with air flo balls
Sliding down stairs in sleeping bags
Dead legs

 

[swindonseagull]

climbing lamposts and hanging from those cross bar things.

 

[swindonseagull]

Pushing the B button in a phone box to get pennies back