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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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dejavuatbtn
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Playing with matches
Buying farthing chews
Saturday morning pics
Playing football in the street
Lucky lolly sticks
Jamboree bags
Cubs and cub camp
Wearing football kit to junior school once a week
Yellow sherbet fingers
School caps
Beating children with slippers, canes etc
Buying farthing chews
Saturday morning pics
Playing football in the street
Lucky lolly sticks
Jamboree bags
Cubs and cub camp
Wearing football kit to junior school once a week
Yellow sherbet fingers
School caps
Beating children with slippers, canes etc
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Running, petting and bombing
studio150
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Subbuteo League
Risk
Playing football in the street
Walking to school
Risk
Playing football in the street
Walking to school
POSKETT AT THE VALLEY
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And taking her for a wimpy
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Returning empty soft drink bottles to off licences to raise the cssh.
The original recycling.
Tubby Mondays
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British bulldog!
I played that every single morning without fail (weather allowing) at junior school for 4 years!
It never got old!
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Having to watch whatever depressing crap your parents were watching on telly.
Shops being closed on Sunday and on Wednesday afternoons. A good thing that should be brought back.
Going and picking up the take-away rather than commanding an asian teenager on an unlicensed moped to bring it to your door.
Comic subscriptions
Only having McDonalds on birthdays rather than every day after school.
Bullying that didn’t leave kids a mental wreck for the rest of their lives.
Shops being closed on Sunday and on Wednesday afternoons. A good thing that should be brought back.
Going and picking up the take-away rather than commanding an asian teenager on an unlicensed moped to bring it to your door.
Comic subscriptions
Only having McDonalds on birthdays rather than every day after school.
Bullying that didn’t leave kids a mental wreck for the rest of their lives.
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Going round the back of one shop to get bottles to take to another.
The original circular economy.
POSKETT AT THE VALLEY
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Long lines of lads arms over each other’s shoulders singing ‘All in for war in 1964, we lost our guns and used our bums in 1964’ The prelude to a big game of war. ‘You don’t take your shots’ was a frequently heard in the play ground.
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Fingering?
stewart12
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- Jan 16, 2019
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millennials are mostly well into their/our 30's now. We were outside a lot as kids
With my knees? No chance.
[Misc] - Things you did as kid that don’t seem popular any more
Going to the cinema with mates. Is Saturday morning pictures still a thing?
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stewart12
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- Jan 16, 2019
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definitely this. I had absolutely no say in what was on TV or listened to on the radio. What it did mean is that I picked up a lot of the cultural references shared by my parents- one area being that I like a lot of the same music as both of my parents