The Summer of '76

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RichB

51,433 posts

283 months

Wednesday 16th July 2014
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Blib said:
I saw ELO play at Wembley ... God, I'm old. I had hair back then and everything. weeping
You're old? I saw The Move !!!

aeropilot

34,299 posts

226 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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keslake said:
Chatting to another Boat owner last Friday, weather was glorious and 10cc's ' I'm not in Love ' came on the radio and he said it felt just like the Summer of 1976, to which i readily agreed.

Then when i actually thought about it...38 yrs ago..Jeez.

For a short while afterwards i just sat on the Pontoon feeling somewhat sad by just how long ago those times were.

FFS, i wanna be 13yrs old again.

Anyone else old enough to remember that crazy, hot year?

p.s. ( i know the song was out in 1975 but for me it brings back unforgettable times from '76 )
Yup, another 13 year old here in '76.


Music wise, two songs stick in my mind from that hot summer, hearing my first Charlie Feathers track, Stuttering Cindy and the release of Blitzkreig Bop by the Ramones....and I was caught in that teenage do I want to be a punk or rockabilly dilemma laugh
Rockabilly won, and 38 years later I'm still listening to it, but I still have a nostalgic twinge for '76 as soon as I hear 'Hey ho, lets go...'





silverfoxcc

7,683 posts

144 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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My first wife and i broke up

kev b

2,708 posts

165 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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If only I could go back then knowing what I know now............

SeeFive

8,280 posts

232 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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'76, I was 16, we were making our way along the south coast on a Sunday. There was a plague of ladybirds biting people. It was quite funny travelling along in the car watching most, and I really mean most of the hundreds of people on the pavement in Brighton and Hove slapping themselves and heaving swinging right hooks into thin air.

That year I had finished my exams in school, and got 3rd degree burns pissing about on my dad's boat on the Thames for the full time between finishing at school, and going on to further education. Didn't know much about melanomas in those days.

Happy days indeed.

DoctorX

7,240 posts

166 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Man eating Ladybirds? Never come across those before, didn't realise they could bite.

SeeFive

8,280 posts

232 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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DoctorX said:
Man eating Ladybirds? Never come across those before, didn't realise they could bite.
Oh yes, the size of cows!! Into the bunker quickly, never mind the zombie apocalypse wink

A quick Google drags this out from a scare story last year

Torygraph article said:
The garden insects, which normally feed off greenfly or blackfly, have reportedly been switching their attention to humans in their search for liquid refreshment.

“This last happened in 1976, when we had a damp spring with lots of aphids, so the ladybird population thrived,” says Matt Shardlow, chief executive of Buglife. “Then it got dry and hot and the aphids shrivelled as they couldn’t get any water out of the plants. The ladybirds got desperate for water and started biting people.”
Full scare here:- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/10193879...

android

894 posts

168 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Space dust !! Even better snorted (might have been prep for being a yuppie but i never aspired to those 'heights')
Got a T-Rex dinosaur airfix type kit with fluorescent bits on it.
Playing amongst all the rows of imported VW's on the old Ramsgate Aerodrome.(Passat's Golfs what are these cars ?)
Oh and some music,(yes it was a year before punk)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2-GqYkwjTM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcokCLbdxuw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrnI7TQ44U0


NDA

21,488 posts

224 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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LBird said:
I was 16, my sister was 15 and we had our first holiday without our parents, walking around the IoW, staying in youth hostels. I had my transistor radio in the back pocket of my rucksack and remember us dancing along the grass verges to "In Zaire"! Also remember laughing hysterically, until we couldn't stand up any longer, in house of mirrors in Black Gang Chine and having to get more money from Mum and Dad as we'd spent all ours on bus fares (well, it was very hot for walking).....

It was a glorious, wonderful summer, full of many significant memories for me. A summer I will always remember with a smile and a sigh of nostalgia.
I remember that track too - and the Pans People dance routine to it!!

NailedOn

3,114 posts

234 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Southampton beat Man United to win the FA Cup 1-0.
Bobby Stokes scored the goal and I was gutted.
United were back to Wembley the following year and beat Liverpool 2-1.
Somehow the 1976 Final is the one that lingers.

drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

210 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Cap guns... playing cowboys and Indians and making airfix kits. But capguns with their rolls of paper caps that had a wonderful smell when lit and you could have play mission impossible by linking them together and make a fuse to ignite a bundle of matches.

WinstonWolf

72,857 posts

238 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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A whole roll of caps under a hammer cloud9

Morningside

24,110 posts

228 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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WinstonWolf said:
A whole roll of caps under a hammer cloud9
Oh YES yes My friend found his fathers old knackered .22 air gun. So we went over the marshes and shot things like posts and killer treestumps.

He also shot at me and hit me in the arse. fk did that hurt! Then he tells me that he was aiming for my head yikes

Edit: Do you remember that dart like thing with a metal front end where you used to put the caps in it?

I used to like unrolling them into a line and lighting one end.

Can you still buy caps?

Edited by Morningside on Thursday 24th July 10:37

chris watton

22,477 posts

259 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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And French bangers! I used to make up Airfix kits with these already installed, just to blow them up!

Imagine trying to do that these days, you'd be arrested under some terrorist act! hehe

Adenauer

18,564 posts

235 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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The summer of '76 would have been around about the time that I discovered a few pints of meths in my Dad's garage.
I took the pipet from my chemistry set and sucked some into it leaving the cap off the larger bottle. I then lit the end of the pipet ala James Bond and a can of deodorant.
Mr Bond used it to kill a snake IIRC, whereas I squirted it back into the larger bottle, lost my eyebrows, and ran like hell into the house screaming, 'mum, my hair's on fire. biggrin

RichB

51,433 posts

283 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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NeMiSiS said:
We also had cap darts, they took a plastic bucket type cap, you loaded it in a pin and spring at the end of the dart and threw it at your brother, it would only go off with a head shot though.
Which sounds like a more modern version of cap bombs we had in the 60s - a plastic bomb with a lead head on the end into which yo could push a cap. Throw the bomb up in the air and when it hit the ground the lead head would fire the cap.

vixen1700

22,669 posts

269 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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This Luger was my fave cap gun I had at the time. Bought on holiday in Torquay. smile

WinstonWolf

72,857 posts

238 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Morningside said:
WinstonWolf said:
A whole roll of caps under a hammer cloud9
Oh YES yes My friend found his fathers old knackered .22 air gun. So we went over the marshes and shot things like posts and killer treestumps.

He also shot at me and hit me in the arse. fk did that hurt! Then he tells me that he was aiming for my head yikes

Edit: Do you remember that dart like thing with a metal front end where you used to put the caps in it?

I used to like unrolling them into a line and lighting one end.

Can you still buy caps?

Edited by Morningside on Thursday 24th July 10:37
Ah yes, we used to play a game called "shooting each other". Small unripe berries hurt far more than lead pellets irked

And they wonder why we're not that health and safety conscious biggrin

Adenauer

18,564 posts

235 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Pea Shooters and proper dried peas. I used to love sitting high up in the tree in our garden that was overlooking the pavement. biggrin

Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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chris watton said:
And French bangers! I used to make up Airfix kits with these already installed, just to blow them up!

Imagine trying to do that these days, you'd be arrested under some terrorist act! hehe
Cruelty to polystyrene.