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Occupied all summer holiday - what's up with today's kids?
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Posted 9 months ago #
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I loved the 20 a side games of football with the kids down the street and who could climb the tree the highest. The best was when Rebecca £$%$£* let us feel her t%ts whilst drinking two dogs though!
Happy days
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hedgerow porn....
ah... rose-tinted glasses....
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I can remember being bored sensless in the summer holidays. I did all the rose tinted stuff above, plus had a field bike with antisocial exhuast to terrorise the moors on & use the petrol to make petrol bombs.
Then I discovered summer jobs, disposable income, lager and girls.The adults have changed, not the kids. We once had a farmer empty both barrels of a 12 bore over our heads as we rode past his farm (again). My mum just told me to stop riding past his farm - He'd have had the local ARU round these days!
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I can remember being bored sensless in the summer holidays
I can't. Not ever. The year I finished my O-levels I must have had about 3 months off. I spent most of the time fishing and palying football/cricket in the park as far as I can remember, but bored? Nope.
The only thing that bores me now is sitting on a beach/poolside in the sun for days on end. I get restless and have to go do something.....
I probably watch 1-2 hrs of TV on the average day, and on holiday none at all. I can ALWAYS find something to do!
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Summer holidays were great, 6 weeks worth of having a laugh with your mates....whats not to like?
Dont understand why kids want their parents to 'stimulate' them the whole time....the summer holidays were a good excuse to get away from your parents and do your own thing each day even if it was just going round a mates house.Posted 9 months ago # -
Few things pop into my mind when I think of my child hood:
10-21ers! magic! Jackets for goal posts and 25 a side, and a whole host of other variations on how you kick a ball about. Kirby, water fights, climbing trees and school roofs. Doing the grand nation through everybody in the streets garden. Going plundering(mind you I suspect there's not as many gardens to plunder these days, that might be partly my fault!
) We had numerous swings of varying danger. Stealing your mum's stash of black bin bags to use as makeshift sledges as soon as a bit of snow appeared 
) Doing the ganjy run(chapping doors and asking for spare juice bottles, at 8p a whip you got a lot of sweets for your effort!). Going wandering on your bmx to find wee bits of singletrack here and there.(used to be a cracking bit down from tormusk to my bit, bastards tarmaced it mid-nineties though). Flying head first down the nearest big hill on your skateboard. My mum shouting so loud at dinner time that I could hear here from about 2 miles away! Must admit i had a great childhood.Contrast that to the woman below me, who basically hangs about with her daughter, and as far as i can see the daugter isn't allowed anywhere alone, and she's about ten... I feel sorry for the daughter, basically no freedom.
Mind I spent a month on my spectrum one time, my mum basically kicked me out the house and I got told to go an play!
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Ha, I remember games of 25 a side in our local estate which lasted from 5pm until sunset. Ace.
The other popular school holiday passtime was trying to find gentlemen's rhythm pamphlets in the local hedgerows. One fruitful summer we found two copies of Club AND a Fiesta Readers Wives.
This passtime would appear to have died out in recent years. I blame the internets.
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When I were a lad we used to spend our summers riding our velocipedes into the village green where we would engage each other in a hearty game of cricket, laughing and telling likely tales.
We would fashion fishing nets out of an old pair of nylons and a length of cane and take them down to the river where we would catch stickleback and catalogue the local flora and fauna, referencing them against our pocket guidebooks.
Other days we would sit on the railway bridge and wave to the grimy men on the footplates of all those magnificent shiny engines, and if we were lucky they would give us a long toot of the whistle as they thundered by.
Our summer holidays each year were about 30 years long, during which not a minute went by when each and every last single child in the entire world wasn't engaged in character building activities. We'd be out of the house, climbing trees and making dens from the second the bell went at the end of term to the first class of the new year, only returning home once for 15 seconds in which time we'd eat a delicious plate of tasteless gruel and have an ice cold bath in the living room. Rickets never hurt anyone, and if you didn't have TB you were a jessie. If ever we were naughty, whichever adult was nearest would hang us naked from a gas lamp and thrash us half to death with a tetanus covered iron fence post. Never did us no harm.
Nowadays of course it's all computer games consoles, gangster rap music, X Factor, tubgirl and creampies. It's such a shame we can't all live in the memory I have of my past rather than in the reality of either now or then.
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I don't think much has changed between my generation's childhood and the current's. What has changed I think is adult attitudes.
Parents are either massively overprotective due to a vastly disproportionate fear of nonces, or don't give a toss about their kids.
Meanwhile, non-parents are busy reading the Daily Mail and bemoaning the youth of today and decline of society, result being you can only tell a kid they're shit so often before they believe it and behave accordingly.
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Right, that's it. I'm sending the stepkids out on their bikes and am not letting them back in until they've got the full set of Razzle, Escort and Knave magazines rescued from underneath hedgerows.
If that doesn't build character, nothing will.
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What's wrong with a game of knocky nine doors? The youth of today eh.
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I was never bored:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ZEDNkZ2L4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHB1zd1f5M
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzA_qmJkmLY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbU5CzPi0zMCouldn't find the Double Deckers.
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Did anybody fancy nobbing Heidi? Or was that just me?
I must admit we did some less wholesome stuff that would probably make the Daily Mail. My mate Scotty "borrowed" his grandad's .22 BSA Mercury air rifle and along with a tin of Marksman pellets and a rock solid sniping position ,he generated lots of business for purveyors of greenhouse glass...
Another fun trick to play was to put a note in the empty milk bottles on a stranger's doorstep that read "6 bottles of plain & 6 stere please"
In fact, I was a right bastard kid!
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