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[Misc] Things you did as kid that don’t seem popular any more
- Thread starter POSKETT AT THE VALLEY
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LamieRobertson
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Pffft when i was six months old we lived in cardboard box in middle of road ….hmmm i may have nicked this from somewhere
That's funny... we also called it the 'front room ' even though it was in the backOh you were posh….i grew up in a council house and our ‘coke’ stove was in the kitchen (it had a back boiler to heat water as well…Friday was bath night. We did have a fire in the ‘front room’, but always had to wait for dad to come home so it could be lit. Would two coal bunkers be considered posh?
- Oct 20, 2022
- 4,878
I was a terrible child 
Getting chucked out of home for ‘treating the place like a hotel‘ and having to get a bollocking far too often.
- Getting whacked across the hand with a cane
- Whacking classmates round the head with books or rolled up comics (and getting more whacks across the hand with a cane as a punishment)
- Comics - Beano and discovering what ‘Whiz’ really was later in life
- Dissecting frogs
- Trespassing on railway lines - and getting bollocked by railway staff
- Trespassing in back gardens - scrumping - and getting bollocked by house owners
- Dissecting rats
- Desperately shoving coins into a public phone when the pips started going before getting cut off
- Listening to Radio Luxembourg and Radio Caroline under the bed covers by torch light
- Pegging my Dad’s best bridge cards to the spokes of my bike to make it sound like a motor - getting bollocked
- Making a skateboard out of my sister’s roller skates when she was at camp and getting bollocked
- Being really bored during my parent’s Sunday paper reading hours every Sunday between 5-7 - very quiet, no TV.
- Putting up disco lights in the disused double garage and having band practice and parties
- Smoking behind the bicycle shed at school, in the bus shelter when raining and out of the bedroom window at home - getting bollocked for burning a hole in one of my curtains..
- Raiding my all mates’ Dad’s liquor cabinets every time we got together at each other’s houses after school and me going through everyone’s parents’ record collections. Getting bollocked by my mates’ Dads for guzzling all the Advocat
- Creeping in hours after curfew and trying not to wake up the dog only to crash over something in the dark and wake up the whole bloody house - getting bollocked by everyone
Getting chucked out of home for ‘treating the place like a hotel‘ and having to get a bollocking far too often.
- Apr 5, 2014
- 23,599
- Apr 5, 2014
- 23,599
1. Chucking eggs over the wall of my school playground when the girls were doing PE. Throw, hear he screams, run. (I was in Seniors at the time, it's not a recent thing...)
2. Taping the top 40 with the budgie on percussion in the background
3. Holidays to Paignton and the IOW
4. Running a bookies at school
5. Stealing from sweet shops
6. Chocolate cigarettes
7. Real cigarettes
8. Two paper rounds a day
9. Getting up at 6.30, finishing paper round at 8.00. 2 mile walk to school, two mile walk back, another paper round. Off to Boy's Brigade, back home and bed. I think my life was much harder then.
10. Terrible school reports....
2. Taping the top 40 with the budgie on percussion in the background
3. Holidays to Paignton and the IOW
4. Running a bookies at school
5. Stealing from sweet shops
6. Chocolate cigarettes
7. Real cigarettes
8. Two paper rounds a day
9. Getting up at 6.30, finishing paper round at 8.00. 2 mile walk to school, two mile walk back, another paper round. Off to Boy's Brigade, back home and bed. I think my life was much harder then.
10. Terrible school reports....
- Oct 20, 2022
- 4,878
Yes - top of Islingword Rd - corner of Cobden - my old neighbourhood when I lived in Brighton.
Google Earth
- Apr 5, 2014
- 23,599
Did you go to Elm Grove ?Yes - top of Islingword Rd - corner of Cobden - my old neighbourhood when I lived in Brighton.
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- Oct 17, 2008
- 10,712
Going out on the pull!
Jim Van Winkle
Well-known member
At least he’s in front of you.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Thought of another one….Splits with a knife game …remember once stabbing my right shin 
portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
- 17,119
Collecting insects, newts, tadpoles…that sort of thing. Was very common.
Also growing cress on wet kitchen roll.
Also growing cress on wet kitchen roll.
Making bases for Star Wars toys etc out of old packaging and boxes.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Oh yes…often caught stick insects
Once got the upper half of a BIG tent pole embedded in my foot doing this. About 3 feet long with a 2 or 3 inch spike on the top. OUCH!Thought of another one….Splits with a knife game …remember once stabbing my right shin
GT49er
Well-known member
Staying at Grandad's in Whippingham Road. Gas mantels only - electricity never installed there until after he died in 1965. The coal cupboard was under the stairs, and the size of the snails on the wall to the next house up the road (just about one storey higher than Grandad's house, in the steepest part of the road) was a source of wonder to a small boy. Still have the heebie-jeebies at the thought of what might have happened if Mum had ever slipped and let go of my pram!
Radio from cable, basically a speaker rented from a shop in Elm Grove.
Radio from cable, basically a speaker rented from a shop in Elm Grove.
Charlie Livesey
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- Sep 28, 2023
- 15
Waiting outside the Odeon, Kemp Town when there was an A certificate film showing, asking random adults if they would take you in with them.
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- Apr 5, 2014
- 23,599
And when you needed a sticker, you had to be careful not to sound too needy. If you did, the swap request might have been higher. If I really needed a sticker I would infer that I wasn't sure but would take it anyway.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Putting my pocket money into the Space invaders and various other arcade games 10p a play.