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Caps (the gunpowder paper explosives)
Games compendium's
3 star petrol
TVs where you put money in the side
Ashtrays
Thermal underwear: those old fashioned thick white long John's
Empty roads to cycle on
Old people, there used to be loads of them, now there's just kids everywhere.
Kids playing outside, climbing trees and falling out of them,
Moon Boots,
kids carrying huge stereos on their shoulders,
Police walking the beat,
Barbers selling condoms, and saying "something for the weekend sir"
Adverts warning to not go and see someone's puppies.
Adverts instructing you on how to cross the street.
Car seats that would burn your legs if wearing shorts in the summer
😳 Try sitting in a current Mokka X with black leather seats that’s been sat in the sun all day, or any current car with black leather seats, for that matter, with the current weather conditions. I can promise you, from personal experience, it stings!
Edit- Findus crispy pancakes.
Angel delight
Cremola Foam.
Cyclists overtaking tractors, these days tractors are on steroids.
Feu Orange car air fresheners
Rotary dial phones
Raleigh Burners
But white dogshit seems to be staging a comeback
Afternoon closing in the pub. I miss three hours of drinking in the park until the pub opened again at 6!
Gangs of dogs roaming the streets
Electro LPs
Cassette Stereos carried aloft shoulders.
Glue Sniffers
Pony Trainers
Those fibre glass 3 wheeled cars with handlebars.
Scrumping
Overdrive button on your gear knob, wolfrace or rostyle wheels, crossply tyres
Hobnailed football boots.
Children making their own way to school and back.
Orange Jubblys.
Cap guns.
'Pop-out' car turning indicator arms.
Side-of-the-road 'brew-ups'.
Kitchen larders.
Beef dripping sandwiches.
Corporal punishment in schools.
Smog.
'Bob a Job' week.
Two UK radio stations (the Light Programme and the Home Service. Radio Two and Radio 4 to you).
Twenty shillings to the Pound.
Free milk at school
Checking the oil & water in the car
Kids tv programs full of double entendres
Police horses on Cannock chase.. I miss them
Young people on single track forums...
Barry Chuckle
My feet.
Kodak Instamatic cameras.
Kids knocking on doors selling raffle tickets.
Take away sherry.
Blow up rubber dinghys on roof racks.
Vinyl roofs.
Children who dressed like adults, rather than adults who dress like kids.
Crossed phone lines.
- Thin people
- People without tattoos
Afghan coats.
Afghan hounds come to think of it.
I wonder if there is a connection 🤔
White dog poo
Afternoon closing in the pub. I miss three hours of drinking in the park until the pub opened again at 6!
That's a good one - what goes with it is 11:00 closing, stupid amounts of consumption between 10:45 and 11:15, lock-ins, and joy at the local having an extension on a bank holiday (usually leading to ridiculous amounts of consumption between 12:15 and 12:45 instead).* Which reminds me of another thing - the stench of smoke on clothes the next day.
* there was always a pub that allowed under age drinking
Turquoise and white Police Panda Cars.
Barry Chuckle
Too soon
Tudor crisps.
Half p's.
People not smoking weed.
Working men's clubs that showed films Saturday nights.
Street bullies after your pocket money.
Outside toilets.
General smell of fresh poo just about everywhere (I grew up in Wolverhampton in the 60's - see above).
Bike shops.
Curious train trips to the coast that were always oversubscribed and got back after midnight.
Being able to buy alcohol in pubs at 13.
Police that gave you a friendly smack for being a twunt.
Buying lighter fuel in funny rubber pods and setting fire to your hands.
Lasers in Blackpool.
One bike for everything.
Football violence.
Shops for all purchases.
Massive 24" flares worn over high heels - I was 12 and a fashion victim. And yes, high heels for the lads - thanks to Slade!
50p being enough for a grand night out.
Gold top
A choke in your car
The Green Cross Code
Games of conkers
Those hard balls on strings you knocked together
Liverpool winning the League 🙂
Short mudguards on 'racers'
New romantics
Joe Cocker. Sure he’s alright though.
Look at that Raleigh!! way ahead of its time.... 1x on a road bike
Bullworker and chest expanders
Wrist radio and Atlantic 252
Dial a disk
Star Wars without CGI
Telephones in the hall
Kids sitting in the car in pub car parks whilst Mum & Dad had a drink
Quattro fizzy drink
Ring pulls, erverywhere
Raleigh, Quasar, Pulsar, Team Sprint, Winner
Spud guns
Home made catapults using a V or Y branch (must be hung around the neck when in transit)
Roller skate with a plank of wood bolted to it.
Alsatians
Kids playing kerbie
Glue Sniffers
Still around.
Replaced by helium or those silver cartridges..
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">What you don't see, is most of the people on this thread getting outside. Because there's tons of stuff on here you see all the time! </span>
[i]Kids playing kerbie[/i] - Played it a lot a year or so ago with my kid. Problem is people don't pass our heritage games on to their children 🙁
Kids playing kerbie
Problem is that modern houses are so tightly packed together that the kerb is lowered for most of the street to allow everyone access to their one parking space , outside the built in garage that's too small for any one of their three cars, the other two of which are parked in the street, half on the pavement.
Can't play the game if you don't have a court
Old cars.
Every car on the road now seems to be a 6 month old Range Rover or something, nobody drives anything more than about 4 years old.
Im sure there used to be loads of bangers around in the 80s (and I don’t just mean brand new British Leyland vehicles).
Do conker competitions still need a full risk assessment these days?
Problem is that modern houses are so tightly packed together
I think the main problem is that there are so many cars compared to when we were kids that, even if you can find a spot with enough space between the parked cars, you couldn't play for 5 seconds without having to stop for someone driving past. I live in a cul-de-sac with about 20 houses and we still had to stop every few mins.
being chased down the road by skinheads. I don't miss it if I'm honest.
TVs where you put money in the side
I remember those bastards. Playing Turrican on the Amiga, final boss battle, TV goes off. Me freaking out trying to pause the game whilst frantically scrabbling about for change in the correct denomination.
Do conker competitions still need a full risk assessment these days?
http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/september.htm
People walking the streets to get somewhere.
Glue sniffing, or am I hanging out with the boring kids nowadays?
Properly hard Action-Men who weren't prancing around trying to sell you something.
Detachable ring pulls on cans.
Disreputable newsagents with a seemingly endless top shelf.
TV closedown.
Outspan orange cars!
Vapona fly killers.
Full churches.
Clark's foot measuring things in both safe and not so safe versions.
Vests.
Kids openly carrying knives and airguns around.
Plenty of decent, experienced local traffic police. Had so many lectures as a snotty youth with a GP100 from large, friendly well meaning local plod, most bikers, always ready with a scare story and good advice.
Even younger, knowing the name of your local beat bobby and him playing football with kids in the street, popping in for a brew etc.
Phone boxes.
Woolworths
C&A
BHS
Our Price
non-shit WH Smiths
Virgin Megastores
Arcade games built into tables in pubs / sports club bars
MacDonalds Cola
Wimpy Burger "restaurants" on the High Street
People pouring water into car batteries
Jacked up rather than lowered suspension on shit cars
Battles to take over House of Fraser
Walkmans (Walkmen?)
Russ Abbott
Rickets.
Woolworths
My bedside lamp still has a Woolies bulb in it. Quite impressed that still works, with the little Woolies logo on the top. It’s only a 12w.
Fast riders on 3 speeds.
Yeah whatever happened to Russ Abbott? Wonder how his brand of humour would go down these days 🤔
Wonder how his brand of humour would go down these days
It'd be about as funny as it was back then. ie. not
Has anyone said white dog poo yet?
White dog poo
Trafficators permanently stuck out the side of cars
Has anyone said white dog poo yet?
I think it was mentioned on page 1.
And 2
Probably 3
Definitely 4.
We used to persuade this kid to eat it when we were nippers. Nasty. I wouldn't do that now. Well, not now you don't see it anymore anyway.
Stoneloaches, bullheads, sticklebacks, hedgehogs, butterflies, bees, cuckoos, I could go on
******* depressing to be honest.
Seen in the last week -
Krooklock - on a VW Golf in Pittenweem, Fife yesterday and one 2 weeks ago in Benllech, Anglesey
Telephone boxes with phones in them x 2 (within meters of where I am currently sat)
Roundpin electricity plugs on 5 amp lighting circuit - in a building at work
Ropeswing - over the river near where I live
26" wheels - 4xbikes in my garage
Skooshy water toys - in the shop at work
Public safety adverts that scared the crap out of you (with or without the help of Jimmy)
A council road squad using a pneumatic jack hammer to properly repair a road, nowadays a wee drop of tarmac pushed down not even a sharp square edge with a seal of bitumen
I have some white dog poo in the back garden, if anyone wants it.
Small dog's started making it.
Come and help yourselves.
Food with use-by dates.
Rabbits hung outside the grocer's.
Tub lollies. Was that just a local thing? Home-made ice lollies sold in corner shops.
Car door edge protectors with little reflectors in. Should be bloody mandatory these days.
Aftermarket Moss car alarms.
Fish & chips wrapped in newspaper.
Roundpin electricity plugs on 5 amp lighting circuit – in a building at work
I have one of those in my living room at home. No idea whether it's still live.
Detachable ring pulls on cans.
Yeah, that you could snap in half and use the tongue bit to ping the ring half at people.
Hairs on my legs.
Mostly gone, apart from small outcrops around my knees.
Must be an age thing.
Tramps, the 'old man of the road' type that you'd see out in the sticks. Where have they all gone????
Schools television.
And F R E E D O M !
(actually, maybe freedom is something you feel?)
Slide rules
TV repair men
Black donkey jackets instead of orange hi-viz
Dustmen who'd come into your garden, pick up your bin and carry out to the lorry on their backs.
Krook-loks are coming back, thanks to these no-key cars.
Old cars? Ten years old was ancient when I were a youth, but now thats nothing.
Badges on cars - AA, RAC, IAM. Sun visors on car windscreens.
Dustmen who’d come into your garden, pick up your bin and carry out to the lorry on their backs.
Complete with anything of value within a 20 feet radius of said bin.
My feet