A break from adult life...
Discussion
If you're not smiling by the end of this, then what were you doing when you were young? Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read
this.............. (sorry its a bit long)
Close your eyes and go back in time...
Before the Internet...
Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack....
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
Way back........
I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park. The corner shop. Hopscotch. Butterscotch. Skipping.
Handstands. Football with an old can. Fingerbob. Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the menace.
Roly Poly.
Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams. The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass. Bazooka Joe bubble gum. An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune. Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps a screwball.
Wait......
Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials
or the flicks. Childrens Film Foundation, The Double Deckers, Red Hand Gang, The Tomorrow People, Tiswas or Swapshop?, and 'Why Don't You'? - or staying up for Doctor Who.
When around the corner seemed far away and going
into town seemed like going somewhere. Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings. White dog shit. Sticky fingers. Playing Marbles. Ball bearings.
Big 'uns and Little 'uns. Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.
Climbing trees. Building igloos out of snow banks. Walking to school, no matter what the weather. Running till you were out of breath, laughing
so hard that your stomach hurt. Jumping on the bed.
Pillow fights.
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles. Being tired from playing....remember that? The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon. Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. Choppers and
Grifters.
Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops. Remember when... There were two types of trainers - girls and boys - oh and Dunlop Green Flash - and the only time you wore them at school was for P.E. You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents. It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends. You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve. When nobody owned a pure-bred dog. When 25p was decent pocket money. Curly Whirlys. Space Dust. Toffo's. Top trumps. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there. When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it. When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs etc. Parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! and some of us are still afraid of them.
Didn't that feel good?
Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
Remember when....
Decisions were made by going "Ip Dip Dog Shit"?
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly". The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs. And the worst thing
in your day was having to sit next to one. It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic event. Having a weapon in school, meant
being caught with a catapult. Nobody was prettier than Mum. Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better. Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable
aspirin. Ice cream was considered a basic food group. Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true. Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.
That is all
Matt.
this.............. (sorry its a bit long)
Close your eyes and go back in time...
Before the Internet...
Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack....
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
Way back........
I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park. The corner shop. Hopscotch. Butterscotch. Skipping.
Handstands. Football with an old can. Fingerbob. Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the menace.
Roly Poly.
Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams. The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass. Bazooka Joe bubble gum. An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune. Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps a screwball.
Wait......
Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials
or the flicks. Childrens Film Foundation, The Double Deckers, Red Hand Gang, The Tomorrow People, Tiswas or Swapshop?, and 'Why Don't You'? - or staying up for Doctor Who.
When around the corner seemed far away and going
into town seemed like going somewhere. Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings. White dog shit. Sticky fingers. Playing Marbles. Ball bearings.
Big 'uns and Little 'uns. Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.
Climbing trees. Building igloos out of snow banks. Walking to school, no matter what the weather. Running till you were out of breath, laughing
so hard that your stomach hurt. Jumping on the bed.
Pillow fights.
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles. Being tired from playing....remember that? The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon. Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. Choppers and
Grifters.
Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops. Remember when... There were two types of trainers - girls and boys - oh and Dunlop Green Flash - and the only time you wore them at school was for P.E. You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents. It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends. You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve. When nobody owned a pure-bred dog. When 25p was decent pocket money. Curly Whirlys. Space Dust. Toffo's. Top trumps. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there. When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it. When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs etc. Parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! and some of us are still afraid of them.
Didn't that feel good?
Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
Remember when....
Decisions were made by going "Ip Dip Dog Shit"?
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly". The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs. And the worst thing
in your day was having to sit next to one. It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic event. Having a weapon in school, meant
being caught with a catapult. Nobody was prettier than Mum. Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better. Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable
aspirin. Ice cream was considered a basic food group. Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true. Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.
That is all
Matt.
and raw chips aka potatoes
I'm only 26 too, I remember it all. Those were the days. Yeh, I remember most of that, but the one that made me think was white dog shit. Can't think how it came about, apart from the obvious. You just don't get it now, not from our dog anyway.
Scraped knees, ruck sacks for goal posts, I now work with a guy whos father had an old Ford Popular E93A I think. Crashed my new bike into the back of it on my first ride out. 38 years ago. "Who knows where the time goes"
Scraped knees, ruck sacks for goal posts, I now work with a guy whos father had an old Ford Popular E93A I think. Crashed my new bike into the back of it on my first ride out. 38 years ago. "Who knows where the time goes"
polar_ben said:I still haven't figured that out
White dog shit.
I remember that too - but still don't understand the phenomenon. We never had a dog, neither did the neighbours. But there was a seemingly endless supply of the stuff and I always suspected it was white dogs that were responsible!
BONER ALERT...BONER ALERT!! Bright sunshine, used to bleach the shit white. At least thats what I was told when I was about eight.
David
David
TUS 373 said:
polar_ben said:I still haven't figured that out
White dog shit.
I remember that too - but still don't understand the phenomenon. We never had a dog, neither did the neighbours. But there was a seemingly endless supply of the stuff and I always suspected it was white dogs that were responsible!
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