The Things You Remember As A Kid Thread

[City_Shirts]

Liverpool winning the league
Footballers with permed hair
Man Utd being shit
Footballers with beards
Subbuteo
Footballers with 'taches
Pitch invasions
Bog roll being thrown at games
The yids still aiming for the "big 4"
Patrick football boots
Being squashed on the terraces
Bags of broken biscuits from the local shop
Puma thugs footy boots
Hornby train sets
Knock down ginger
Run outs
Dogs getting stuck together
Sportsnight
Getting beat by lower league opposition in the cup........ some things never change!

 

[samy]

Breaking your Virginaty

 

[stony]

I got one of these for my birthday, I think I was about 7. Took it to school and some cnut nicked it.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

tar on a lolly stick
Jubblies
white dog shit
rickets
short trousers
free NHS orange juice
malt extract
rose hip syrup
George Poyser

 

[blueinkwell]

tar on a lolly stick
Jubblies
white dog shit
rickets
short trousers
free NHS orange juice
malt extract
rose hip syrup
George Poyser

What ever happend to White Dog Shit! don't see it anymore.

 

[stony]

What ever happend to White Dog Shit! don't see it anymore.

Caused by Distemper which is now vaccinated against, I think.

 

[simonk]

hot summers with the tar on the street melting
3 channels on the tele
wrestling being something you watched
football cards with chewing gum
sewing patches on your jackets
peter barnes football trainer (ball on elastic)
space 1999
power cuts - and getting the candles out
those kinda triangular mambos in some weird cardbaord type wrapper that was really hard to open with your teeth

all of the above from the 1970s

 

[AyrshireBlue]

Football shorts being really short & tight
NHS Glasses, the blue type
Proper school satchels
striker

 

[The Pink Panther]

Milk at school, candy cigarettes, diving in the swimming pool at the shallow end

 

[Alty Blue]

tar on a lolly stick
Jubblies
white dog shit
rickets
short trousers
free NHS orange juice
malt extract
rose hip syrup
George Poyser

What ever happend to White Dog Shit! don't see it anymore.

My dog managed it the other day in the garden. I was so chuffed he got extra biscuits. Good doggy.

 

[StrangewaysHereWeCome]

tar on a lolly stick
Jubblies
white dog shit
rickets
short trousers
free NHS orange juice
malt extract
rose hip syrup
George Poyser

What ever happend to White Dog Shit! don't see it anymore.

My dog managed it the other day in the garden. I was so chuffed he got extra biscuits. Good doggy.

The distemper = white dog poo is a myth. It was caused by eating too much calcium, bones and bones being crushed into doggy biccies, doesn't happen anymore, maybe because of BSE?

I thenk yaw!

(anyone ever pick up white dog poo and throw it at your mates?)

 

[stony]

(anyone ever pick up white dog poo and throw it at your mates?)

we used to pick the crusts off cow pats to get at the maggots to use as fishing bait.

 

[Biggsy1]

Soda Stream jesus h christ what a blast from the past!

 

[The Pink Panther]

That black and white Robinson Crusoe being shown every summer school holiday

<a class="postlink" href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHB1zd1f5M" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" target="_blank">http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHB1zd1f5M</a>

I bet that beach is now surrounded by hotels, Irish bars and burger restaraunts

 

[Alty Blue]

That black and white Robinson Crusoe being shown every summer school holiday

<a class="postlink" href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHB1zd1f5M" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" target="_blank">http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHB1zd1f5M</a>

I bet that beach is now surrounded by hotels, Irish bars and burger restaraunts

Plus White Horses, The Flashing Blade and Casey Jones. Belle and Sebastian too, before they became a band.

 

[mackenzie]

That black and white Robinson Crusoe being shown every summer school holiday

<a class="postlink" href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHB1zd1f5M" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" target="_blank">http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHB1zd1f5M</a>

I bet that beach is now surrounded by hotels, Irish bars and burger restaraunts

Plus White Horses, The Flashing Blade and Casey Jones. Belle and Sebastian too, before they became a band.

all these and banana splits too.

happy days indeed.

 

[Knight1979]

voltron and transformers were my obsessions, never got into GI Joe

 

[Simon Le Tom]

(anyone ever pick up white dog poo and throw it at your mates?)

we used to pick the crusts off cow pats to get at the maggots to use as fishing bait.

You smelly handed dirty git.

 

[shadygiz]

barbapapa

green tank-tops with yellow stars on them

shit-on-a-stick hide n seek (does what it says on the tin)

 

[AyrshireBlue]

Why Dont You - tv programme
The Tufty Annual
milk being delivered in bottles (nicking milk bottles from doorsteps on the way to school) & milk floats
Grifters, Tomahawks & Choppers - bikes