Ok really off topic but i'm zzzzz of the T.O scenario I was born in 1972, so I grew up in the 70's and 80's I was up in my folks place yesterday and my sisters kid was in doors all day playing his playstation (he is 12) I was thinking even though I had an Atari and a commodore64 I was still outside playing getting up to all sorts when I was a kid Playing football in the steest (I Dont really see ths anymore) Scooting on the back of trucks Climbing trees / making tree houses Going on the mitch from school (a lot) and staling **** out of woolworths (Hey I was a messer as a kid) Making go carts with wood and pram wheels Making my own gat out of a coat hanger and a rubber band Making a crossbow out of a piece of wood from a breadboard and an elastic band. Having a secret hidout Any one remember a game called kick the can? prob just a Dublin thing. I remember my Ma giviing out **** to me because I was out late all the time and coming home filthy! Kids today wouldn't do any of that ****. Then the sweets of the 70's and 80's Wham Bars Sherbet Fountains Flying Saucers Hubba Bubba's Chewits Time bars (not sure if you got these in UK?) Refreshers tons more but can't think of any more right now. So go on show your age and tell what you used to get up to?
Dublin - I have been lamenting the loss of youth for these kids for a while. They will regret it. My main worry is that they never get out and make mistakes while they are young enough to get a bollocking and learn their lesson. By not going out until they are 16 or 18, when they make their mistakes it could have far reaching consequences for them (like jail instead of a clip)
I was born in 73, my first computer was a dragon 32, that was a really basic computer my parents bought me from the old Amstrad store. What about fudge, curly wirlies and breakaway bars?
Yes. Never! Big yes to both. Not for me. Don't remember anyone doing that in my primary/secondary schools either really. We were all good boys where I come from obviously. No. There were inevitable go cart/trolley/wheelie-bin races, but never built from our own ingenuity. ****'s a gat?! Again, ingenious. Never tried it myself though. Oh yeah. I still have one actually. Nice place to go for a quiet smoke and relax. Never 'eard of it. Yes to these. No to these. From a 90s/00s lad. Other stuff we used to do: BB gun wars. Going round our area with paintball guns shooting the party picket signs around election time. Cricket on the street. Laughing at the 'charvers' and being simultaneously terrified of them. Chucking rocks at church windows. Hide and seek. Knock a door run. Asking random people what the time was. Making home-made bombs and weapons. It has changed a lot, but kids can still have fun. The main thing is the country's paranoia about *****s and abductions, which let's face it, are actually pretty rare, especially if a bunch of kids know how to stick together when some strange bloke offers them sweeties and a dampened cloth.
Not sure if I am allowed to post here, as its an ageist thread. Born soon after the chairman of IBM said the world market for computers was 5 (not 5 billion, 5 single ones). At school I was miffed because the clever lads in the class were allowed to play with the calculating machine after finishing their sums, so therefore I wasn't. (On thyat point - First real job in the early 70's - you could give the office calculating machine an impossible task (like divide by 0) and it would still be working it out when you got back from lunch. Big treat in summer was getting a small carton of orange juice (Barrs, I think) that the corner shop in Beeston had put in the freezer. Often did that on way home from school (Cross Flatts). Had to wear short trousers in my first year at secondary school (Cockburn) - hated having the piss taken. Going for a pint of mild (it was 'orrible) at age of 15 in some crap pub in Holbeck. (Think it cost about 1shilling and 2d but might be wrong on that) about 1971 going with a university mate to watch his beloved ManU and - in my memory - we were in the Stretford end but sitting down (which ain't possible) but I do know the Leeds defence was superb and we won 1-0, and I had a big problem keeping my hands by my side when we scored. Most of lads living near me were older and I was always getting hit by my mum for following them and roaming. My mother used to wait until i was undressed before belting me so it hurt more (my Dad never hit me once in my life) Making go carts with wood and pram wheels (copied that one from Dublin) - also sledges with wood and rounded metal off pram bars (I think). It seemed to snow a lot then. "borrowing" my elder brothers carefully constructed paper mache wind up aeroplane and losing it on the railway line (and subsequently coming the closest to death I have ever come) At school, playing British Bulldogs and murder ball until some new Headmaster arrived and - shape of things to come - stopped it on health and safety grounds.
just remembered - asa group being followed in Miggie woods by a strange looking man aka perve - we thought it was a great joke then, no real sense of danger.
Blimey, looking back on how basic they were, kids of today would not be able to comprehend how far technology has moved forward in the past 20 years
Grew up near a depot full of jcb's and *diggers, we use to hop the fence and sit in them but always got chased by the watchman and his poxy dogs.
Bit harsh boab... Who remembers the TV of the 80's Metal Mickey Rentaghost Number 73 Round the twist Funhouse How cute were the twins
I would suggest they are responsible for voting in the current Tory/Lib government of the UK, those born in the 60's know how right winged and absolute ****ing ****s the Tories are and unless you have a ideology that thinks right winged politics is fair, then you would rather die than vote Tory. As for Liberals, well again those born in the 70's and 80's are to blame, for stupidly thinking that the alternative must be better than the current. Arseholes. Also some of the worst music the world has ever had to suffer came from the 80's. Wham, Thompson Towns, A Flock of Seagulls, Nik Kershaw, ABC, Spandau Ballet etc etc...hide your head in shame.
Every night. I sleep well knowing that the UK no longer has any industries and that when she needed that 'feel good' factor, she'd send hundred of British soldiers to a country they would never have heard of, so that they would die just to make her feel good and to make the gullible British people fall for her 'great' leadership every time. She is a **** of a woman and I hope the day she dies that we are allowed to celebrate and hope her time in hell is as bad as she made millions of people in the UK feel under her leadership and beyond.
