blinkers Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Playing Conkers, its not allowed now, too dangerous. Yes, I'll put scrumping on here too, even though 3 years ago at the age of 65, I just couldn't resist one more time... they tasted better than anything you could buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lokie Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Knock a door, runaway (Postman's knock) School milk in little bottles every morning Jubblees (frozen triangular fruit pops) Snakes (Hand rolling Tobacco candy in a little yellow and red packet greaseproof wrapper) Candy Cigarettes Making throwing crosses on a hot summers day with lolly sticks and the pitch patches on the road/street used to glue them together Going on hols to Pontins or Butlins, as a kid was like the best Pop (Soda Drinks) delivered door to door by Alpine soft drinks lorry Penney back on glass bottles Banna-Splitz on kids TV The Double Deckers On The Buses Steptoe & Son HR Puffing Stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron19 Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Tan the kids hide when they deserved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron19 Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 3 minutes ago, Lokie said: Knock a door, runaway (Postman's knock) Not to forget setting fire to a paper bag full of some substance before you run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravip Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Listening to shortwave radio... BBC, VoA, DW, Voice of Peace...etc. Weather reports & Navigational warnings on Morse code. Telegrams, radio-telephony calls. Working with coast stations like Portishead Radio. Crossing of the Suez canal in convoys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunken Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Dripping. Radio Luxembourg, 208 on your dial. Films that had dialog & action without computer graphics. Pens that were dipped in ink bottles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muhendis Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Dividing £1 into three equal parts. Andy Pandy and Muffin the Mule on 405 line black and white TV with only two channels and loads of glowing valves inside. Listening to sea area weather reports on the radio which needed time to warm up first. Never did find out where was German Bite Listening to the football results and watching my dad check the football pools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraday Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 19 minutes ago, Muhendis said: Dividing £1 into three equal parts. Andy Pandy and Muffin the Mule on 405 line black and white TV with only two channels and loads of glowing valves inside. Listening to sea area weather reports on the radio which needed time to warm up first. Never did find out where was German Bite Listening to the football results and watching my dad check the football pools. And The Woodentops! Strange lot they were.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lokie Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Neatly rolling Manchester Evening News broadsheet pages up and tying in a loose knot while getting ready to make a fire, bits of tinder and if we had money that week a few firelighters put on, lit the paper knots and firelighters, once got hold put hand shovel against the breast with sheet of paper to draw the bugger and get it going... Paraffin heater in outside loo in back yard to stop cistern pipework freezing 8" nail in wall for bog roll (Or evening news on a tight week lol) White washing yard wall for me mam Hiding Bomby wood on coal bunker roof storing it for Bonfire night Going Bomby raiding and knicking above wood from other kids gangs lol... Apple raiding back gardens knicking all the bloody crab apples ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAKAPALITA Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Find a Policeman who doesnt look 60 years younger than You.????Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieH Posted November 8, 2018 Author Share Posted November 8, 2018 2 hours ago, Lokie said: Neatly rolling Manchester Evening News broadsheet pages up and tying in a loose knot while getting ready to make a fire, bits of tinder and if we had money that week a few firelighters put on, lit the paper knots and firelighters, once got hold put hand shovel against the breast with sheet of paper to draw the bugger and get it going... Paraffin heater in outside loo in back yard to stop cistern pipework freezing 8" nail in wall for bog roll (Or evening news on a tight week lol) White washing yard wall for me mam Hiding Bomby wood on coal bunker roof storing it for Bonfire night Going Bomby raiding and knicking above wood from other kids gangs lol... Apple raiding back gardens knicking all the bloody crab apples ???? Are you my brother ?????? You reminded me about using the long tube off Mam's vacuum cleaner as a "rocket launcher" to fire rockets into rival gangs bonfires ! 555555 ???? We used to go nicking rhubarb too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgrahmm Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Halloween war wagons.... Old cars we'd buy and cut the roof off of & line the edge with a split hose so no jagged edge.....The shop teacher never seemed to care as we prepped the cars.... We'd start days ahead loading up with eggs, fruit & vegetables, pumpkins, refillable water fire extinguishers, some had tanks & water pressure pumps rigged in (air & water at every gas station) to fill & charge the tanks......3 or 4 would face off driving crazy with 4 or more standing up through the open roof & pelting the other ones driving on the streets.....Once in awhile someone in foot would toss an egg at them/us - big mistake..... Good times.... The police always seemed not to be around somehow..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAKAPALITA Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 When our Fishermen didnt go to Sea for 6 Months on factory ships. You could talk to them, say hello. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell17au Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Going and raiding the local farmers corn patch and him coming out with his gun and shooting you in the ass with saltpeter. looking down and being able to see my middle leg now the overhanging verandah hides it so must feel for it before I wet my pants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tofer Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 9 hours ago, HHTel said: The good old days: EE bye gum, thas med me reight homesick.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tofer Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 8 hours ago, Vacuum said: Women knew their place. The right ones still do in Thailand! Although mine got a bit too westernised after 17 years in UK...???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tofer Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 8 hours ago, colinneil said: Possum ole lad, you never went scrumping as a boy? During the school holidays it was a favourite pastime of mine, going into an orchard and nicking the apples off the trees. Hedge hopping and trying to avoid the cold frames en route. Never forget the houses up our road, all had hedges. We'd start at the top and dive over the hedges rolling onto our feet and onto the next one. I think they call it free running now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tofer Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Having a bath in a tin tub in front of the fire, hoping to be first in it! Splashing around in the same tin tub in the back yard on a sunny day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Dwyer Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Playing with your clackers in the school playground in the late 60’s.Bloody lethal they were !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvs Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 8 hours ago, CharlieH said: Selling Pidgeons to the Pet shop and then wait for them to come home and go sell em again !!! ???????????? I still do that!!!Sell them at chatuchak and wait for them to come home!!!Some don't and some do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacessit Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Having groceries delivered to your home by one vehicle servicing 1000 houses. Now, 1000 cars drive to the supermarket to buy their groceries and transport them home. A lot of logic in that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonah Tenner Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 9 hours ago, connda said: Nowadays, along with the helmet, full-face protection and body armour do your mom and dad have to wrap you in bubble-wrap? Only if you are going outside... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lokie Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 1 hour ago, Andrew Dwyer said: Playing with your clackers in the school playground in the late 60’s. Bloody lethal they were !! Ahh, Clackers yes bleeding lethal! wrapped my knuckles a few times with them trying to be a smart ar $e lol Marbels and Alleys and 'Dobbers' no ones mentioned them yet, playing on a square grid for keeps. Shove apenny and nearest to the wall (at big school for the actual money) fag money (Cigs for our american cousins not gay guys) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lokie Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 10 hours ago, CharlieH said: We called them "bogeys" made from odd wood and pram wheels.???? Bogies and 'Guiders' plank o wood and yeah pram wheels, big bolt through the front for steering axle, axles just held by nails bent over ha ha... sometimes put a wooden fruit box for a seat unit on em and a wooden brake, although shoe leather came into play on many occasion - Yikes! Asbestos, smashing it off old garage roofs and throwing it on bonfires, about a min then BOOM!! (normally lobbed it on before your mates turned up lol) Just thought...? whos gonna admit to going Ledding? We had a lot of slum house clearances in the 70s so as kids we found out you could weigh any old led in at the scrappy... The Led men would give us a good hiding if then caught us, thing was we was to fast for em he he he... True/Dare/Kiss/Command/or Promise... the lenghts youd go to to get a kiss of the girl you fancied lol (see spin the bottle) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgrahmm Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 10 minutes ago, Lokie said: Bogies and 'Guiders' plank o wood and yeah pram wheels, big bolt through the front for steering axle, axles just held by nails bent over ha ha... sometimes put a wooden fruit box for a seat unit on em and a wooden brake, although shoe leather came into play on many occasion - Yikes! Asbestos, smashing it off old garage roofs and throwing it on bonfires, about a min then BOOM!! (normally lobbed it on before your mates turned up lol) Today's version of a soap box racer - gravity racer.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyezhov Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Milk in returnable glass bottles Having to ask the Pharmacist for Rubbers Brake stand burnouts Double Album covers to shake the seeds out No bicycle helmets Hanging out the wash (in America, not here) No Double Stack 9mms except Brownings Carrying a Luger Fedoras Skinny Ties B&W TVs Transistor Radios and Crystal sets Dial phones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenslegs Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Could then - Can't now ... When I was a Boy Scout (UK - late 1960's) we all carried 6"+ sheath knives and various pocket knives. In the UK now - only a folding knife with 3" blade is permitted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieqw Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 On 11/7/2018 at 5:58 AM, pgrahmm said: Drive in movies with a gal, blanket, & a back seat........ yeah right 555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieqw Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 WANKING AND NOT COMMING Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieqw Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 5 hours ago, chickenslegs said: Could then - Can't now ... When I was a Boy Scout (UK - late 1960's) we all carried 6"+ sheath knives and various pocket knives. In the UK now - only a folding knife with 3" blade is permitted. 6 inch never allowed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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