Getting Old (are you one of us)??
21 January 2004, 09:09 AM
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How about when police actually used to walk the beat? And there was enough of them!
Cinemas that had only one screen
! And you had to queue to get in, but could stay for more then one showing.
Geezer (1967)
Cinemas that had only one screen
! And you had to queue to get in, but could stay for more then one showing.Geezer (1967)
21 January 2004, 10:17 AM
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I used to get a sixpence(!) pocket money then blow the whole lot on sweets from the off licence at the pub over the road, I used to come back with a bucketload 
One day when I was about eight me, my little sis and some mates used some chalk to draw a full size zebra crossing in the main road where we lived (village not town!) then waited with bated breath for the first car to come past to see if it would stop for us to cross
It was about an hour before the first one came along and we all stood expectantly by the side of the road but he didn't stop - the git
Ho hum, carefree days
[Edited by scoobychick - 1/21/2004 10:18:45 AM]
One day when I was about eight me, my little sis and some mates used some chalk to draw a full size zebra crossing in the main road where we lived (village not town!) then waited with bated breath for the first car to come past to see if it would stop for us to cross
It was about an hour before the first one came along and we all stood expectantly by the side of the road but he didn't stop - the git Ho hum, carefree days
[Edited by scoobychick - 1/21/2004 10:18:45 AM]
21 January 2004, 11:20 AM
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but the change is constant and back in '73 a 30 yr old would have done the same style of list (although he wouldnt have stuck it on the web!)
i lived in Earley, Reading where they built Lower Earley (largest housing estate in Europe at the time) in the early 80's. we used to climb all over the houses being built and jump from roofs onto sand heaps- so the schools ran loads of campaigns about staying of building sites- at the time we moande about how, 20 years before that didnt happen and how we were loosing are freedom, etc, etc.....nowadays you cant even get in a building site let alone play in it all afternoon (not as easily as you could in '82 anyway!
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i lived in Earley, Reading where they built Lower Earley (largest housing estate in Europe at the time) in the early 80's. we used to climb all over the houses being built and jump from roofs onto sand heaps- so the schools ran loads of campaigns about staying of building sites- at the time we moande about how, 20 years before that didnt happen and how we were loosing are freedom, etc, etc.....nowadays you cant even get in a building site let alone play in it all afternoon (not as easily as you could in '82 anyway!
T
21 January 2004, 11:32 AM
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Proud to be old- great thread- we used play Starsky & Hutch!!
Born June 1966 and yep I am old but still look half bloody decent- dont know about the kidneys though!!
Born June 1966 and yep I am old but still look half bloody decent- dont know about the kidneys though!!
21 January 2004, 11:39 AM
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Well if i wasn't old b4 i read this i am now lol.
I was born in 81 n its my birthday 2day so does make me 1 of u?
I grew up with amiga just b4 the age of sega n nintendo, i was mid teen when they come about, to me neway lol.
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I was born in 81 n its my birthday 2day so does make me 1 of u?
I grew up with amiga just b4 the age of sega n nintendo, i was mid teen when they come about, to me neway lol.
Blitz.
21 January 2004, 07:36 PM
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Just think, the children of today will be looking back in twenty years and saying " blimey do you remember those mother and child parking spaces out the front of supermarkets" that was the good old days, thank god for home delivery, now we can sit in front of a telly all day without having to walk that long distance from the space to the door. 
21 January 2004, 07:43 PM
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Brings a tear to my eye reading this. One of the best threads on here in ages.
I used to play cowboys & Indians and buy plastic guns from the corner shop.....and I'm a girl!!
I used to play cowboys & Indians and buy plastic guns from the corner shop.....and I'm a girl!!
21 January 2004, 07:49 PM
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and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's'on our wheels.
no personal computers,
Did anyone's dad make them throwing arrows? Length of bamboo with playing cards as flights and a shoe lace to launch the bugger. If you made one now you would be arrested for carrying an offensive weapon!
** Edited to say I was born in late '76 **
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21 January 2004, 09:40 PM
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a couple more...
Pipkin.
Spacedust crackling on your tongue.
being uncontrollably excited when the cast of star wars or chritopher reeve were on the muppet show.
those weird black slip-on pumps you wore for p.e. (where did we buy them from?)
your mum making you a nasty little bag from old bits of denim with your name on the front to hang your p.e. kit in at school.
getting to school early in summer so you could play cricket/football before registration.
sniff...sniff....
Pipkin.
Spacedust crackling on your tongue.
being uncontrollably excited when the cast of star wars or chritopher reeve were on the muppet show.
those weird black slip-on pumps you wore for p.e. (where did we buy them from?)
your mum making you a nasty little bag from old bits of denim with your name on the front to hang your p.e. kit in at school.
getting to school early in summer so you could play cricket/football before registration.
sniff...sniff....
21 January 2004, 09:52 PM
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your mum making you a nasty little bag from old bits of denim with your name on the front to hang your p.e. kit in at school.
21 January 2004, 09:56 PM
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I remember when my rich mate got a fantastic computer game. It was black & white and similar to table hockey, where a white blob would cross the screen and you had to stop it going into your goal. We thought it was ace!
22 January 2004, 06:57 AM
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God i feel old (born in 65) but those times were great.
If my mum and dad knew what i got up to they would have had a fit, but that was all part of growing up and building your independance.
Who remembers NHS Blue specs? My sister had them, hideous.
Magic snake gunpowder from the joke shop, you used to light this little chunk of gunpowder and it grew into a long snake type thingy.
I had a comodore PET, casette player for the 500 byte programmes. LMAO.
I graduated to a ZX80, then an 81 and finaly the spectrum, but i so wanted a spectrum plus with proper keyboard.
i was into skateboading in a big way, the first time it came to the UK. Various coloured kriptronics, a set of bones and some ACS651 trucks, nearly killed myself first time going down a bowl, scary as hell but so exciting.
I lost my two front teeth sliding down a frozen river, when i hit a brick sticking up and nutted the floor at 300MPH, you wouldnt get near a damn river now, never mind a frozen one.
How about building your own sled, none of this plastic crap people buy now. Mine had two wooden sticks with nails sticking out to act as something to steer, i still hit barbed wire fences.
My best mate had a crossbow, we used to go firing that for hours in the woods, nobody cared. You would be locked up now just owning it.
I had a den my friends and I dug out of the side of a railway embankment and reinforced with wood. We had candles in there and a transistor radio. Deadly looking back but at the time it was a fun adventure.
Remember the snorkle parker and how you used to walk with the thing zipped up and had to swing round your whole body side to side to check if the road was clear before you crossed, on your own!! shock horror.
How about the green cross code and the cycle proficiency test at school.
Lucky bags and how you used to give the free necklace to the pretiest girl in class.
doing a headstand got you a gymnastics certificate.
Playing murderball
I could go on for hours, we used to have independance and lots of fun adventures compared to the kids of today. I pity them, they havnt got a clue.
If my mum and dad knew what i got up to they would have had a fit, but that was all part of growing up and building your independance.
Who remembers NHS Blue specs? My sister had them, hideous.
Magic snake gunpowder from the joke shop, you used to light this little chunk of gunpowder and it grew into a long snake type thingy.
I had a comodore PET, casette player for the 500 byte programmes. LMAO.
I graduated to a ZX80, then an 81 and finaly the spectrum, but i so wanted a spectrum plus with proper keyboard.
i was into skateboading in a big way, the first time it came to the UK. Various coloured kriptronics, a set of bones and some ACS651 trucks, nearly killed myself first time going down a bowl, scary as hell but so exciting.
I lost my two front teeth sliding down a frozen river, when i hit a brick sticking up and nutted the floor at 300MPH, you wouldnt get near a damn river now, never mind a frozen one.
How about building your own sled, none of this plastic crap people buy now. Mine had two wooden sticks with nails sticking out to act as something to steer, i still hit barbed wire fences.
My best mate had a crossbow, we used to go firing that for hours in the woods, nobody cared. You would be locked up now just owning it.
I had a den my friends and I dug out of the side of a railway embankment and reinforced with wood. We had candles in there and a transistor radio. Deadly looking back but at the time it was a fun adventure.
Remember the snorkle parker and how you used to walk with the thing zipped up and had to swing round your whole body side to side to check if the road was clear before you crossed, on your own!! shock horror.
How about the green cross code and the cycle proficiency test at school.
Lucky bags and how you used to give the free necklace to the pretiest girl in class.
doing a headstand got you a gymnastics certificate.
Playing murderball
I could go on for hours, we used to have independance and lots of fun adventures compared to the kids of today. I pity them, they havnt got a clue.