[Misc] Things you did as kid that don’t seem popular any more

[Eeyore]

I was in the Boys Brigade and got the piss taken out of me…….left and became a skin head a few years later and chased people like you.

Yep, same here. Did you go to Glynde camp ?

 

[BN9 BHA]

Yep, same here. Did you go to Glynde camp ?

Yes many times, I occasionally work in Ringmer and drive through Glynde, always think of the camp.

 

[Comrade Sam]

Oh forgot - shoplifting at Woolworths. Even my Dad's generation served their apprenticeships nicking the pick and mix and more from Woolies. That's why modern thieves are rubbish.

 

[Eeyore]

Yes many times, I occasionally work in Ringmer and drive through Glynde, always think of the camp.

I went every year from 81-87. I understand it is still going but somewhere else in the area near Ringmer. I played cricket for the Old Boys for a number of years.

 

[Comrade Sam]

I was in the Boys Brigade and got the piss taken out of me…….left and became a skin head a few years later and chased people like you.

My mum always said I was allowed to join right wing para militarist organisations. She was right, they just trained Nazis.

 

[Weststander]

Pen pals, I had a particularly nice French girl as one who would send perfumed letters

Ditto, met her in a Brighton club.

Obvs not the same female

 

[dazzer6666]

If you go up to Easthill Part in Portslade, and down to the far south west corner, near where Alex Dawson lived, you will find a wall between the park and the field. The wall there has been part demolished and rebuilt in rather unattractive brick.

I knocked that wall down, with the (feeble) assistance of Steve Neilson in around 1969.

Gratuitous vandalism.

I was only 10 at the time. But I had the intellect that would qualify me as criminally responsible.

Yeah, prove that, wankers!

Don’t need to, you’ve coughed. Going down.

 

[BN9 BHA]

I went every year from 81-87. I understand it is still going but somewhere else in the area near Ringmer. I played cricket for the Old Boys for a number of years.

Late 70s for me

 

[Eeyore]

Late 70s for me

Digger, digger dig...

 

[Robinjakarta]

Buying rolls of caps for cap guns from the newsagent and setting them off with your finger nail/burning finger

Putting said caps on the model railway line at Beech Hurst, Haywards Heath and startling people with the resulting cacophony when the train went over them.

 

[The Grockle]

Knocking round for your mates. Used to head out on my own then knock for a mate, then on to the next house and the next. Sometimes in the summer they'd be a dozen of us playing football, making camps causing trouble trying (and failing) to meet girls

 

[raymondo]

You say that like anyone can afford it anymore.

Looked at going to see Dune 2 and it would have been £17 just for a single ticket.

Gosh...the sands of time, eh

 

[The Clamp]

Putting crisp packets in the oven so they shrink down to a miniature packet.

Spokey Dokeys.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Going to Blockbusters to rent a VHS.

Spending all day in the street outside kicking a ball backwards and forwards.

 

[raymondo]

Fixing a bit of water pipe to a block of wood, hammer the fixed end flat, drop in a lit banger then a handful of dried peas...then aim at the neighbour's window. Anyone...no

 

[raymondo]

Sticking pictures of Peter Ward on my bedroom wall.

Wanking into a sock.

Was she still wearing the sock

 

[Bakero]

Buying rolls of caps for cap guns from the newsagent and setting them off with your finger nail/burning finger

I'd completely forgotten about cap guns.

 

[The Clamp]

Wanting to be a cowboy

 

[raymondo]

Wanting to be a cowboy

Yep, none of us wanted to be the indians

 

[Robinjakarta]

Oh forgot - shoplifting at Woolworths. Even my Dad's generation served their apprenticeships nicking the pick and mix and more from Woolies. That's why modern thieves are rubbish.

WH Smith were good for that except when, like me, you get caught in my case for trying to nick a balloon of all things.

The cheapest fags as we called them after taking up smoking aged 7 (first one a sophisticated Olivier) were Park Drive, Anchor and Woodbine Tipped at 1s 3d for 10 or Dominos at 4 for sixpence.

Has nobody mentioned collecting autographs? Sussex County Cricket Ground was a good place for this and discovering who was nice to autograph hunters (Ray Illingworth immediately springs to mind) and who wasn't (as one of many to receive snooty Ted Dexter's immortal words: 'f*** off.' John Arlott was similarly dismissive.