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.
