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- Stuff from your youth that you dont see nowadays
Caps (the gunpowder paper explosives)
Games compendium’s
3 star petrol
TVs where you put money in the side
Posted 1 year agoAshtrays
Posted 1 year agoThermal underwear: those old fashioned thick white long John’s
Posted 1 year agoEmpty roads to cycle on
Posted 1 year agoOld people, there used to be loads of them, now there’s just kids everywhere.
Posted 1 year agoKids 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”
Posted 1 year agoAdverts warning to not go and see someone’s puppies.
Adverts instructing you on how to cross the street.
Posted 1 year agoCar 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!
Posted 1 year agoEdit- Findus crispy pancakes.
Posted 1 year agoAngel delight
Posted 1 year agoCremola Foam.
Posted 1 year agoCyclists overtaking tractors, these days tractors are on steroids.
Posted 1 year agoFeu Orange car air fresheners
Rotary dial phones
Raleigh Burners
But white dogshit seems to be staging a comeback
Posted 1 year agoAfternoon closing in the pub. I miss three hours of drinking in the park until the pub opened again at 6!
Posted 1 year agoGangs of dogs roaming the streets
Posted 1 year agoElectro LPs
Cassette Stereos carried aloft shoulders.
Glue Sniffers
Pony Trainers
Those fibre glass 3 wheeled cars with handlebars.
Scrumping
Posted 1 year agoOverdrive button on your gear knob, wolfrace or rostyle wheels, crossply tyres
Posted 1 year agoHobnailed 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.
Posted 1 year agoFree 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…
Posted 1 year agoBarry Chuckle
Posted 1 year agoMy 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.
Posted 1 year agoAfghan coats.
Afghan hounds come to think of it.
I wonder if there is a connection 🤔
Posted 1 year agoWhite dog poo
Posted 1 year agoAfternoon 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
Posted 1 year agoTurquoise and white Police Panda Cars.
Posted 1 year agoTudor 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.
Posted 1 year agoGold top
A choke in your car
The Green Cross Code
Games of conkers
Those hard balls on strings you knocked together
Posted 1 year agoLiverpool winning the League 🙂
Posted 1 year agoNew romantics
Posted 1 year agoJoe Cocker. Sure he’s alright though.
Posted 1 year agoLook at that Raleigh!! way ahead of its time…. 1x on a road bike
Posted 1 year agoStar Wars without CGI
Telephones in the hall
Kids sitting in the car in pub car parks whilst Mum & Dad had a drink
Posted 1 year agoQuattro fizzy drink
Posted 1 year ago
Ring pulls, erverywhere
Raleigh, Quasar, Pulsar, Team Sprint, WinnerSpud 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
Posted 1 year ago<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>
Kids playing kerbie – 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 🙁
Posted 1 year ago
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