Back in the day thread...

Spangles, old Jamaica bars, loved frozen texan bars.
Banana splits show on a Saturday morning, hr puffinstuff.
Used to get 2 movies at the cinema as well.
Had a purple chopper, and a yellow puch racer.
We used to shoot each other with Gat air pistols, where you had to push the barrel in to compress the spring.
Progressed onto a daisy powerline pump action air rifle, where the instructions said not to exceed 10 pumps. I think I got 30 in and the pellet totally smashed the streetlight outside my bedroom window.
 
Watching the German TV broadcasts of Miami Vice on our proper TVs where you could select multiple sound channels. Hours of fun to let sunny and crocket speak in English and let the baddies speak in the German dub over voice :)
 
Steam trains. As a nipper when I stayed at my g/parents, a couple of times a year my Nan would take me on the puffer to Manchester. Into Littlewoods café for lunch and a mug of Horlicks (used to buy the Horlicks tablets too) then on to Deansgate to the `Green Shield Stamp` store. :cool:
 
Making go karts out of old prams, dens in the haystack, tatie picking for £5 a day, dams in the local beck and getting made to clean it out by the farmer, tyre swings over the same beck, apple scrumping, getting the windfalls at the local orchard, sharing a bottle of pop with mates without any of us dying, bike rides that lasted all day.
 
Does anyone remember peg guns?
They were a fairly short-lived '70s phenomenon where I lived, as parents had a mass confiscation after the kids started making four foot long window-breakers... :facepalm:
 
The (let's call them the) "travelling community" kids had a better game for that - truck inner tube tied between two pick-ups' tow bars then wheel nuts used as ammo. Would go through plate glass.
 
Pez sweets with the Popeye dispenser

Spudguns or just cap guns.
 
Box Brownie said:
Pez sweets with the Popeye dispenser

Spudguns or just cap guns.
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Oh yes...spud guns!
You can still get Pez. I saw them in a petrol station on Thursday :-)
 
Pogo sticks. Home made stilts. Clackers. :LOL: Ouch. :crying:
 
Jetex engines......fun and temperamental!

Steel bar, drilling lathes, workshop practice school studies, ball bearings, homebrew smokeless black powder.......... Holes in fences & loud noises. ;) :)
 
Box Brownie said:
Jetex engines......fun and temperamental!
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Oo yes I'd forgotten about those dangerous bloody things :D

I had a helicopter powered by those, the trick was to get them all lit at the same time, and run for cover.
If you didn't get them all lit, still run for cover :D
 
dejongj said:
Building and playing with the Marklin model railway up on the attic room. Making mountains out of chicken wire and papier mache, running the tracks through them.

Spending all day outside on my bicycle, mainly going to building sides and making Calcium Carbide bombs in empty paint tins :) Or cycle a long way away to the Rhine and the locks and see the huge freight ships go through...

And later on hacking telephone exchanges, parsing I/O ports on all sorts of devices, and earning my first paycheck performing ethical hacking when I was a minor....

Then when a bit old, playing baseball and hockey all day, hanging out at the club house getting stoned or drunk. Oh those were the days of the lazy weekends....
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So you were a phreaker?
 
I used to love my chemistry set and the fun with the likes of mini volcanoes, making batteries and primitive fuel cells but you could even have fun with an old shoe box and half a pound of sugar ;)
 
We filled old shotgun cartridges with potash, sulphur and charcoal.
Made great smoke bombs
One of my pals lit one in his Livingroom and burnt the ceiling
 
cowboy said:
Playing split the kipper at school with a sheath knife, image trying that now.
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You'd probably have the SWAT team there, social services and full Ambulance and emergency team.,
You'd even make the 10 o'Clock news :D
 
Playing with a magnifying glass, in the sunshine. :cool: (slugs were a favourite `sizzling` choice when I was about 7 :D )
 
OldCarlos said:
Playing with a magnifying glass, in the sunshine. :cool: (slugs were a favourite `sizzling` choice when I was about 7 :D )
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Or burning the back of the leg of the kid, with a magnifying glass, that was laying in the grass incinerating ants :D
 
On reflection I'm not sure how British Bulldogs was played, was it :-

Two equal numbered teams with one making a kind of rugby scrum but all being in a line rather than a semi circle, the opposing team had to run up and leap frog onto the line until all were on or the line collapsed.

Or

You had to get from one side of the playground to the other without being caught and lifted off the ground, it started with one person on their own trying to catch and lift.

Can't imagine either being allowed today :/
 
We played it the second way you described, but it was always stopped by a teacher before anyone got really hurt
 
Mr Bastable said:
You had to get from one side of the playground to the other without being caught and lifted off the ground, it started with one person on their own trying to catch and lift.
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That's how I remember it, it was just a ruff and tumble really :D
 
Back on the food(?) theme

Amazin the raison bars.......and....lucky bags.....sherbet saucers.
 
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Box Brownie said:
Back on the food(?) theme

Amazin the raison bars.......and....lucky bags.....sherbet saucers.
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Sherbet dip, bite both ends off the licorice "straw" and blow :D
 
Pye Powerline Intercomms. Trying and generally failing to get them to work between houses 60 yds apart.
 
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Cabana bars and Space Dust.
 
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