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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!

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!

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!

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?

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

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!