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by **RED BEERGOGGLES** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 4:48 pm

We would finish school on the Friday and our mother would bathe us in liquid nitrogen, and stand us in front of the fireplace were it would take us till Monday morning to thaw .... that's how we spent our weekends ...

by **redhayesy** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:32 pm

RED BEERGOGGLES wrote:
andy_g wrote:its only a matter of time before the monty python sketch is quoted or posted...

personally i think its correct that kids are now shut up inside with tvs, videos and playstations. it means we don't have to see or hear the snotty little feckers.

Snot ? ....dont talk to me about snot .......snot was all we had to eat in those days

fecking classic mate! snot-was was best hard & crusty though mate.

it filled you up for longer!

by **redhayesy** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:39 pm

RED BEERGOGGLES wrote:
redhayesy wrote:slippers? what were they! we had to walk across them bare foot mate. (superb topic this) i can also remember the great days of playing footy without shin pads!- or if you were lucky you could steal a couple of sheets of the daily newspaper of your folks before it went on the fire for fuel! 20 a side footy games were the norm then- get in from skool,shove yer scran down yers ,then straight to the park to meet up with everyone else in the area!

great memories mate-also when you had to make a bike out of different wheels & frames etc. the saying we had feck all,but made the best of it was so true,& we had better fun then without doubt for me. BTW- loved the bit about eating dirt,mud pies etc classic mate,brilliant!

Remember when every illness could be cured by being force fed yellow fish by your Mum ..... and the cure for chickenpox was to be painted head to toe in Calamine lotion, until you resembled Casper the Ghost .....
and how come no Kid choked on those fucking giant gobstoppers not one casualty ,you could play a game of kick the can and then British Bulldog with one of those monsters in your grid ....and how hard were we tackling a Iced jubilee or a Tip Top ,there was no fucking slushes back then ....its a wonder we have a tooth left ..... solid we were

i'm in stitches laughing here mate! fecking yellow fish-that shyte will haunt me forever!

also remember that every meal time -no matter what it was -i would have the same lecture-if you don't eat whats put in front of you-you will have it warmed up & served again later! let alone get no pudding!

that aside though mate i'm sure you will agree our mums were the best cooks in the world! for the budget they had, i remember a joint of meat would be served hot for sunday roast,cold on a monday & leftovers in a pie on tuesday!

we were as you say mate -a different breed back then!

by **Roger Red Hat** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:17 am

We didn't have products that 'killed 99% of Germs' or antibacterial surface cleaners back then, if you dropped a roast tattie on the kitchen floor you just picked it up and scoffed it. You'd share your ice cream with the dog!

we wonder why kids today get ill more than we did?

Also, we didn't have to have all the 'best' gear either. A pair of jeans, Dunlops on me feet and a t-shirt and I was good to go , play out all day in that gear, winter or summer.

We had Chopper bikes, Grifters, Raleigh Strikers. Jumpers for goal posts, footie matches of 20 a side, everyone wanting to be Pele!

loved it , lived it and I'm still here to tell the tales.

by **redtrader74** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 8:35 pm

We only had a 2 tonne copy of the Kays catalogue to get our rocks off

by **RED BEERGOGGLES** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:09 pm

IT WAS ME THE OPEN ROAD AND MY CHOPPER ... THE STUFF OF DREAMS ,A BAG OF TOFFEE LOGS AND A CAN OF STRAWBERRY CRESTA

by **dawson99** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:20 pm

RBG, awesome thread. I had the purple Chopper, only way to slow it down I thought was to put my feet in the spokes of the front wheel! Awesome. A load of us just used to go out all day, folks never worried, we just did what we wanted.

by **andy_g** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:28 pm

i always thought the sting ray was cooler than the chopper. it had a 5 speed stick shift, and curvy bits, and everything.

by **RED BEERGOGGLES** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:30 pm

dawson99 wrote:RBG, awesome thread. I had the purple Chopper, only way to slow it down I thought was to put my feet in the spokes of the front wheel! Awesome. A load of us just used to go out all day, folks never worried, we just did what we wanted.

Same here mate about 10 of us some on racers some on Choppers some unlucky fuckers had to borrow their Kid brothers Chipper

and off we would go to Southport ...as long as we were back for tea parents cared not a jot

by **redhayesy** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:51 pm

RED BEERGOGGLES wrote:
dawson99 wrote:RBG, awesome thread. I had the purple Chopper, only way to slow it down I thought was to put my feet in the spokes of the front wheel! Awesome. A load of us just used to go out all day, folks never worried, we just did what we wanted.

Same here mate about 10 of us some on racers some on Choppers some unlucky fuckers had to borrow their Kid brothers Chipper and off we would go to Southport ...as long as we were back for tea parents cared not a jot

fecking classic mate! 'unlucky b@stards who had to borrow their kid brothers chipper' i remember when i had a punture-& was in a hurry to go out with me mates on the 'bike convoy' about 15 of us -out all day-so i pinched me older brothers racing bike! fell of it so many times cause i struggled to reach the fecking pedals!

by the time i got home the bike was covered in all sorts of shyte etc! he was waiting for me -& as expected he gave me a good hiding! fecking older brothers who needs em!

it was worth it though cause i'd had a brilliant laugh with me mates! but i was also told in no un-certain terms by my brother if i snitched on him- the hiding would be even worse next time!

it still creases me up to this day,you took your chances & took your punishment also. it was part & parcel of your education in life-it was part of growing up!

best bike i ever had was the grifter! that was a bike that pulled crumpet aswell!

the girls were well impressed with that bike! -the amount of times i fell off the thing though trying to impress the girls was countless! -still it got me a nice few results-thats the main thing!

by **Ciggy** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:52 pm

What ever happened to a pair of trainees with the laces tied thrown over telephone wires

by **laza** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:40 am

Lee J wrote:We didn't have products that 'killed 99% of Germs' or antibacterial surface cleaners back then, if you dropped a roast tattie on the kitchen floor you just picked it up and scoffed it. You'd share your ice cream with the dog!

we wonder why kids today get ill more than we did?

Too bloody right, its was called building up your immunity

by **RED BEERGOGGLES** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 1:01 am

Ciggy wrote:What ever happened to a pair of trainees with the laces tied thrown over telephone wires

and who took all the clackers down

by **redhayesy** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 1:17 am

RED BEERGOGGLES wrote:
Ciggy wrote:What ever happened to a pair of trainees with the laces tied thrown over telephone wires

and who took all the clackers down

magic mate! i'd forgotten about those

keep this topic going i'm loving it!

by **RED BEERGOGGLES** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 1:20 am

Every time we had our guttering cleared there would be Hula Hoops ,action men complete with parachutes ,dozens of tennis balls and for some strange reason conkers .....it seems we had an obsession with throwing everything as high as we could ..... weird thing was there was never any sign of a Frisbee ...... where the fuck all those went is anybodies guess

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