This scares me as I'm only 27

[Dover]

Getting a racer, then putting Cowhorns on it.

Top Deck Shandy.

Camping out over the hockey pitch. With no adults in attendance, and overnight.

Varius relatives keeping rabbits, then having odd tasting chicken stew, with no rabbit in its hutch.

No central heating, winter was freezing inside the house, let alone outside.

Toffee apples.

Five of us saving up for a Wembley Trophy football. It got stabbed by one of the old boys down the road. We blew up his greenhouse with French Bangers.

Dumped cars. A great climbing frame.

You didnt want a lift to school. Because then you wolud be a mummys boy.

Freedom, I hope it happens again.

 

[driddles]

Paying 10 cents to use a public toilet.

Glad those days are gone. Probably cost a buck now.

 

[Lord Cornwallis]

4 black jacks or fruit salads for a penny

A black and white tv from radio rentals

Wrestling on a Saturday afternoon with Kent Walton

Freezing cold cotton sheets on the bed in the winter

Black plimsols for PE, slip ons if you couldn't do your laces

Tesco bomber jeans with patches on the knees

Your first bike. With rod brakes

Painting tiny little Airfix soldiers

Clarks 'Tuff' school shoes. Guaranteed 6 months, but only lasted one good playtime. Later with animal track soles and hiden
compass in the heel.

Then they invented the 8 track, and it all went down hill.


Great thread.

 

[Easy 10]

Atari 2600 with the "wooden" front and big chunky cartridges

Silly Putty

Mum making me deliver the christmas cards to all the neighbours (HATED that job)

Game & Watch

Staying up to watch 'V' and thinking it was scarey

 

[Mr Popkins]

octopuss you covered in soap and it climbed down walls

Holograms, given away free with cornflakes, it was magic!!!

begging your mum to buy the cereal for the toy even though you didnt like shreaded wheat!!!

going through the Argos catalouge at Xmas, highlighting nearly every toy you wanted!

opening up old board games to find the dice missing!

always wanting "Tin Can alley" but never got it!!!

those red caps that you put in toy guns, that had gunpowder in and letting them off by rubbing a coin over them!!

Talking Action man being the best toy since sliced bread "were under a cover, "enemy Tanks approching!"

breaking Buck-a-roo by pulling the head too far back and snapping the spring!

happy days!!!

 

[Soton Seagull]

Hungry Hippos

Raisens in Double Deckers (before anyone argues, to settle a long running office argument I phoned up Cadbury's and they copnfirmed it! )

Sport Billy, Fang Face And Dungeons and Dragons.

7 o'clock bedtime!

Hi-Tec trainers were cool (especially the ankle boot ones)

Plastic football boots

 

[Curious Orange]

Atari 2600 with the "wooden" front and big chunky cartridges

I've got one of those. I can go round the score counter on Space Invaders 3 times before I get bored!!!

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

I could go on all day about this but i wont ,but what a post.

 

[bhanuts]

What about Sat mornings buying Roy of the Rovers with your pocket money?

ZX81 computer!

too much to mention!

 

[Collar Feeler]

Chipping the ice of the inside of my bedroom windows in winter (no-one had double glazing in my street)

Picking blackberries 'down the fields' and then selling them door to door for 2p a pound with your mouth and face red with blackberry juice

Being scared of the old pensioner round the corner who wore dark glasses as he allegedly ate chidlren

Being completely in awe of my dad who seemed to know everything and could make just about anything.

Being scared of coppers

skidding on my bike by applying the rear brakes by stepping on the pedals and wearing a thin spot on the tyre until the inner tube poked out then burst

thinking my mate was posh coz he ate wagon wheels and his mum had custard cream biscuits

only getting lemonade at Xmas

looking for 'nudey' mags under the school prefabs put there by the older boys

getting a fairly fashionable item of clothing and wearing it at every available opportunity especially the school disco to impress the girls

wondering what it would be like to fly in an aeroplane

airfix models

annuals

playing war

being in a gang

oohhh halcyon days....... great thread!

 

[Simster]

Meccano

Pushing your action man tank along the pavement

Skipping round the playground singing "Who wants to play...Bri-tish-bull-dog"

Going to your mates house and being excited because he had teletext on his telly.

A quarter of cola cubes for 28p

Doing a shitty weekly paper round for £4.50.

Batfink and HeMan

Trying to make a decent break like Alex Higgins on your new snooker table (in the middle of the snooker boom time), even though the balls were like marbles and the table was about a foot long

Bergerac and Juliet Bravo

Knowing that Hi De Hi and Allo Allo weren't even funny at the time.

 

[Easy 10]

Trying to make a decent break like Alex Higgins on your new snooker table (in the middle of the snooker boom time), even though the balls were like marbles and the table was about a foot long

And the "cushions" were just strips of sponge stuck along the edges.

 

[Helen Chamberlains Quim]

Havn't posted for ages but what a truly awesome thread! I can't believe you all went to the same school as me!




Raliegh Grifter with twist grip gears.

NO McDonalds - Wimpy ruled.

Long hot summers at Saltdean Lido.

My dad getting nicked in his Ford Corsair on the A23 at Pyecombe.

Chocolate bars in a paper wrapper.

Football themed wallpaper.

Having to get ill fitting PE kit from lost property.

Fizzy drink cans that were almost indestructable.

Playboy WAS porn.

Buying bangers on the school French trip.

Strap on roller skates.

Blue Peter annuals for christmas.

Trying to smoke discarded dog ends but never having a light.

The girl in your class from the scabby council estate who always smelt of piss.

Euro 80 sticker albums.

Wimpy world cup wall charts - free if you were treated to Wimpy and chips.

Double Diamond.

Cigarette ads on telly.




Happy Days

HCQ

 

[Beach Hut]

Tragedy the kids of today have never heard of Rick Astley - legend

 

[Trotster]

Re: Re: This scares me as I'm only 27

Most of our first year students who started in September were born in 1986. So they were 3 when the first Stone Roses album came out, and 4 when Nevermind came out. Jesus.

Fcuking Hell!!!! That makes me feel really old !!!