Nostalgia

[mosssideblue]

Plastic Sandals for the beach. Used to rub all the skin off the back of your ankles.

 

[idahoblues]

TV and Radio Times

 

[Dirty Harry]

Snorkel coats with fur (probably dog) lining

I actually remember there being a call to ban those Snorkel coats on the grounds of road safety as loads of kids were getting knocked over wearing the hoods zipped right up, seemed a bit mad at the time (as a kid), but looking back it was a pretty valid concern.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Cow horns and ape hangers

 

[Cellarite]

Feeling like the most fashionable kid around if you had a Fat Willy's Surf Shack t-shirt.
Garbage Pail Kids.
Little pictures of Mexico 86 mascot, Pique in screwballs off the ice-cream man.
Gary Lineker's Hot-Shots.
Chocolate pop from Morrisons.
Being the family champion at Subbuteo.
My Nanna buying me Shoot magazine every single week until I told her to stop at about 18 years old.

The almost impossible task of having a sneaky watch of my Dad's bluey video when they'd gone shopping.

• Give it 5 minutes once they leave the house in case Mum has left her purse at home.
• Leg it upstairs to the airing cupboard in their room.
• Carefully lift the pile of about 15 VHS tapes that the bluey is under.
• Run down and put the video in, remembering to set the counter to 0 so I could leave it where it was up to.
• A spot of self pollution.
• Rewind the video to 0.
• Fly upstairs, put it back and carefully lift the 15 cassettes back onto it.
• Back downstairs and sit watching a video of something innocent like the Guinness Soccer 6 tournament at the G-Mex.

 

[Dirty Harry]

The almost impossible task of having a sneaky watch of my Dad's bluey video

That reminds me of going to a mates house one Sunday for dinner in Benchill.

Someone decided we should watch a video afterwards, his little brother shouts “I know , we’ve got a James Bond video, ‘The spy who loved me’, so there we all were sat there, waiting, can’t beat a bit of Bond on a Sunday afternoon I thought, next thing, video comes on, CLEARLY a porn video and the parents are like “oh shit, look away look away” (never seen a 20 bloke move so fast) and manage to turn it off, turns out the little brother wasn’t the best reader and the film was actually called ‘expose me lovely’, and he’d found it in his Dads bottom drawer upstairs , I was gutted tbh.

 

[mosssideblue]

Tea Chests when moving home

 

[normskih]

Now we’re coming up to Christmas, anyone’s parents do the same as mine? Buy an extra tin of ‘something’ each week, staring beginning of Oct or so and put them in a box so that no one would eat them with the other food in the pantry. Those huge tins of fruit that only came out at Christmas twice the size of normal ones. We used to get those.
Also, my Dad use to buy my Mum cigarettes for Christmas and they would be a special edition of 50 in a box, seems weird that.

 

[Phil1]

Standing at the entrance to Hippos ready to go in and seeing blokes come tumbling down the stairs with the help of the friendly door staff…

 

[mexico1970]

Standing at the entrance to Hippos ready to go in and seeing blokes come tumbling down the stairs with the help of the friendly door staff…

Watching someone vomit in the big pot of stew brought out in the Chamber House Heywood half way through the night and drunkenly watching clubbers ladling the slop into little paper bowls.