Stuff from your youth that you dont see nowadays

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.

Snow? https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/sick-of-the-incessant-snow-updates/page/35/

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