Memories of the 70s-80s-90s

pepi1967 said:
Thats very true. And it ment more when a police officer did it than it did when my dad did it.

I got stoped for riding my bike in the dark with no lights and got lippy with the bobby who gave me a right clock winder round my ear Then he said go tell your dad what i did so i did and got another off my dad for being lippy with a police officer lol.
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Oh lordy, you just reminded me....when I was a kid (bout 5 or 6), the gas board dug a HUGE hole in our road for mains repairs, and when they'd gone home one evening we all (bout 8 kids) decided it's be great to have a play in the big hole...despite all the Keep Out signs.

Well we'd been in there a few minutes when the local plod came along...big burly fella with the full monty beard....all the other kids scarpered - including my brothers :eek: and left me in the hole!! I remember him pulling me up out of the hole literally by my coat collar and carrying me home, where he banged on the door and asked my mum..."is this yours?"

Scared the bejesus out of me!
 
Ever lasting toffee....
About an inch wide and (to a 7 year old) a foot long, wrapped in white paper.
It had the consistency of bakelite and tastes remotely like butter, but lasted all the way through the pictures on a Saturday afternoon when my aunt took us.
And home made skateboards with a roller skate base under a shaped wooden board....MILES faster than mates shop bought ones.
Going down my street (on a hill) sat on my brothers action man tank.
Making bogies from wooden pallets and old pram wheels, steered with your feet on the front board.

I spent a lot of time in Leeds general infermary A&E........
 
whatdoesthisbutt said:
Ever lasting toffee....
About an inch wide and (to a 7 year old) a foot long, wrapped in white paper.
It had the consistency of bakelite and tastes remotely like butter, but lasted all the way through the pictures on a Saturday afternoon when my aunt took us.
And home made skateboards with a roller skate base under a shaped wooden board....MILES faster than mates shop bought ones.
Going down my street (on a hill) sat on my brothers action man tank.
Making bogies from wooden pallets and old pram wheels, steered with your feet on the front board.

I spent a lot of time in Leeds general infermary A&E........
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:lol: did you have to lift the front of the tank to brake :lol: I remember doing just that :clap:
 
whatdoesthisbutt said:
Ever lasting toffee....
About an inch wide and (to a 7 year old) a foot long, wrapped in white paper.
It had the consistency of bakelite and tastes remotely like butter, but lasted all the way through the pictures on a Saturday afternoon when my aunt took us.
And home made skateboards with a roller skate base under a shaped wooden board....MILES faster than mates shop bought ones.
Going down my street (on a hill) sat on my brothers action man tank.
Making bogies from wooden pallets and old pram wheels, steered with your feet on the front board.

I spent a lot of time in Leeds general infermary A&E........
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Ahh, bogies :)

My mate and I built one using the remains of some sort if old wheelchair, so it had independent rear suspension, and a (functioning, as we discovered :lol: ) roll-over bar fashioned out of the legs of an old metal deckchair.

We even rigged up a steering wheel operating via a pulley system and thought we were really clever until muggins here discovered (during the
test "drive") that whilst it initially turned the front wheels in the direction you wanted, the rope immediately went slack and you couldn't turn it back again. :eek:

We really should have picked a less steep hill to test it out on too..... :lol:
 
Kids nowadays will never know the joy of picking a hardened scab off your knees
I dont know if its nostalgia, but back in the 70's it seemed that everyone was in the same skint boat, so 'making things' and playing out until the street lamps came on was what everyone did.
Todays kids (mine included) are so mollycoddled with organised activities outside and games consoles inside that they miss out on bieng adventurous.

Floating down the river on a boat made from the packaging of a fridge....now thems the life skills you teaches yourself.....
 
whatdoesthisbutt said:
Kids nowadays will never know the joy of picking a hardened scab off your knees
I dont know if its nostalgia, but back in the 70's it seemed that everyone was in the same skint boat, so 'making things' and playing out until the street lamps came on was what everyone did.
Todays kids (mine included) are so mollycoddled with organised activities outside and games consoles inside that they miss out on bieng adventurous.

Floating down the river on a boat made from the packaging of a fridge....now thems the life skills you teaches yourself.....
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How very true. Kids today have no imagination. If it hasnt got a joypad they dont want it.
 
whatdoesthisbutt said:
Kids nowadays will never know the joy of picking a hardened scab off your knees
I dont know if its nostalgia, but back in the 70's it seemed that everyone was in the same skint boat, so 'making things' and playing out until the street lamps came on was what everyone did.
Todays kids (mine included) are so mollycoddled with organised activities outside and games consoles inside that they miss out on bieng adventurous.

Floating down the river on a boat made from the packaging of a fridge....now thems the life skills you teaches yourself.....
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Well said
 
I wonder if schools still treat a grazed knee with yellow iodine and cotton wool?
Somehoe I highly doubt it.
 
viv1969 said:
I wonder if schools still treat a grazed knee with yellow iodine and cotton wool?
Somehoe I highly doubt it.
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Ambulance....trip to A&E....12 pages of paperwork for the teacher who has to take the rest of the day off to accompany the child and stay with them at the hospital, just in case they are snatched from the waiting room by a paedophile........
 
Flash In The Pan said:
Ambulance....trip to A&E....12 pages of paperwork for the teacher who has to take the rest of the day off to accompany the child and stay with them at the hospital, just in case they are snatched from the waiting room by a paedophile........
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You forgot the no win no fee, claims for negligence from the parents afterwards.
 
Flash In The Pan said:
Ambulance....trip to A&E....12 pages of paperwork for the teacher who has to take the rest of the day off to accompany the child and stay with them at the hospital, just in case they are snatched from the waiting room by a paedophile........
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:cuckoo:.............Sadly, you're probably not far off the mark.
 
Michael Bentine's Potty Time

How

and what was that program - quiz show i think, with Bernard Cribbins in the chair scoring and he had scores on big cards that flipped over :thinking:

Then of course there was the adventure of playing on a building site.. running along in the footings pretending you were in war trenches and spinning a bucket of water round over your head so the water stayed in the bucket.. then offering the little kid to try knowing he wouldn't get a full revolution and end up drenched :lol:

Did anyone play Planet of the Apes? I had a pair of purple cords and used to tuck them into my black wellies and pretend i was Galen... i was a whizz at trotting on a pretend horse :clap:
 
pepi1967 said:
Pacers :love: minty sweets. Tasty as a tasty thing
Ah the memories.:lol:
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Woahhhh Scott! I thought I was the only person to remember these from the 80's, nice one, completely agree :thumbs: I also remember 'pyramints(?)' or something, exaclty what they said on the tin(Wrapper) mint... Inside a pyramid shape of chocolate :)

On a crisp note - Piglets, Fish and Chips, Meanies...

Can you tell I'm hungry??? Haha
 
fabs said:
Pacers??? Opal Mints if you please!
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Nooooo has to be pacers

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then they brought out a different flavour where they were green with white stripes didn't they?
 
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Yummy but not as yummy as pacers :love:
 
viv1969 said:
I wonder if schools still treat a grazed knee with yellow iodine and cotton wool?
Somehoe I highly doubt it.
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My wife works as a mid-day care assistant at a local primary school when she is in the First Aid room all she is allowed to use is water and cotton wool to clean up a cut or graze.
 
CRESTA!

YUK!!!


It's frothy Man!

:puke:
 
nilagin said:
My wife works as a mid-day care assistant at a local primary school when she is in the First Aid room all she is allowed to use is water and cotton wool to clean up a cut or graze.
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At the swimming pool in '81 we were playing on the diving board (why is the diving pool never heated, the shock of the cold water took your breath away!) and decided to make it more springy. One lad started to turn the wheel at the side to adjust it and another tried to help by turning the smaller wheel opposite it.
Physics was yet to teach us that smaller things rotate a lot faster than larger things when they are on the same shaft....sooooo, his finger got caught in the rack and pinion and, well, parted company with his hand.
Cue a 12 year old lad, blood spurting everywhere, along the side of the pool to the first aid room.
Where the kind lady applied copious ammounts of iodene.............cue a now screaming 12 year old running away from the first aid room still spurting blood everywhere. I got my first trip in an ambulance as a non patient that day.
And to this day he is still called.....fingerbob (another 70's reference):lol:
 
whatdoesthisbutt said:
At the swimming pool in '81 we were playing on the diving board (why is the diving pool never heated, the shock of the cold water took your breath away!)
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The heating at the (private) swimming baths I used to go to as a kid in the 70s was forever breaking down, so one day a member who was a rep for a well-known confectionary company decided to make a point and summoned the caretaker to the pond......


in the middle of which was now floating a large Fox's Glacier Mint, complete with the Polar bear on top :lol:
 
leftcurl said:
How
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Check.

Fred Drainage, Jack Hargreaves, Bunty somebody and John somebody. Fred's still going strong on southern TV news.


and what was that program - quiz show i think, with Bernard Cribbins in the chair scoring and he had scores on big cards that flipped over :thinking:
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You've got me there. I remember runaround with Mike Reid though.

Animal magic when I was even younger was essential viewing. Also Tarzan with Ron Ely.

And before that even, does anyone remember Daktari? With Clarence the cross-eyed lion. Casey Jones?

Im getting too old:sulk:
 
It's not that old, but....TRAPDOOR!!
 
pepi1967 said:
I used to think it was soooo funny ahhh to be young again :D
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If I'm honest it's still pretty damn funny. :lol:
And yes...oh to be young again.
 
whatdoesthisbutt said:
At the swimming pool in '81 we were playing on the diving board (why is the diving pool never heated, the shock of the cold water took your breath away!) and decided to make it more springy. One lad started to turn the wheel at the side to adjust it and another tried to help by turning the smaller wheel opposite it.
Physics was yet to teach us that smaller things rotate a lot faster than larger things when they are on the same shaft....sooooo, his finger got caught in the rack and pinion and, well, parted company with his hand.
Cue a 12 year old lad, blood spurting everywhere, along the side of the pool to the first aid room.
Where the kind lady applied copious ammounts of iodene.............cue a now screaming 12 year old running away from the first aid room still spurting blood everywhere. I got my first trip in an ambulance as a non patient that day.
And to this day he is still called.....fingerbob (another 70's reference):lol:
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I know it's cruel but that made me laugh.

DorsetDude said:
Check.

Fred Drainage, Jack Hargreaves, Bunty somebody and John somebody. Fred's still going strong on southern TV news.
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Anyone remember the country programme, on Sunday lunchtimes I believe, which Jack Hargreaves presented?
 
Captain Pugwash and Rhubarb & Custard - two of the best theme tunes ever. :thumbs:
 
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