What did the kids do before the internet?

[Sir peace frog]

for porn I used to look through the freemans catalogue at the underwear pages :)

 

[grant1977]

Had much more healthier lives!!!

 

[Sir peace frog]

Had much more healthier lives!!!

oh yes we did ,sat in the back of an escort van on suitcases travelling to wales, both mum and dad tanning the embassy no6 with the windows closed ,happy days

 

[scousemanc]

Day long outdoor activities, all of which resulted in grazed knees. Dreading the call to come in for bed

 

[Magicpole]

Most of the above, plus building huts, having a bonfire, going to the posher areas and relieving them of the contents of their strawberry patch.

Bike rides, stunts, doing wheelies on a chopper, building death trap bogies out of pram wheels. Playing football until hunger induced delirium drives you home. Playing for the school in
finals and winning cups. Being told by a Celtic player at the time, who was going out with my team mates sister, that I played brilliantly and shook my hand.

Going swimming with supply of wrist band colours that meant you were in all day. Left the pool like a prune. Starving I may add and if you didn’t have the money for a plate of chips, the smell of them covered in vinegar was hell on Earth.

Getting chased by posh people who objected to us stealing their strawberries, apples, plums, telly’s.

Chatting up the posh girls. That was the best. Fighting the posh boys who objected, easy.

Stealing copper from houses being renovated and making a small fortune.

Borstal

Then we started drinking full time and other pursuits took over.

But that’s another story.

 

[Crouchinho]

I have no idea what kids do these days. We seemed to do a bit of everything.

Young age we played It, kirby, footy until dark, swings, roundabouts, knock down ginger and hours of bike riding to towns miles away etc

Inside shitty monopoly, spectrum 128k, Amiga 500

As I got into my teens hanging outside an off license with a bottle of cider became the norm and loutish behaviour. The playstation pretty much put jobs and life on hold with gaming 14 hours a day spending our dole money on the pubs

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

for porn I used to look through the freemans catalogue at the underwear pages :)

Me too! Kay’s catalogue. Much better in those days too!!!

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Building go karts, doing up bikes, making crude armaments from tubes and garden equipment with stuff bought at boots and garden centres, blowing up telephone boxes, not being allowed to play with the other kids, reading my dads Mayfair mags, rolling big ball bearings round the gutters, breeding newts, keeping fish and reptiles, waiting for my first pubic hair.... Weird dreams about girls of the opposite sex.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Building go karts, doing up bikes, making crude armaments from tubes and garden equipment with stuff bought at boots and garden centres, blowing up telephone boxes, not being allowed to play with the other kids, reading my dads Mayfair mags, rolling big ball bearings round the gutters, breeding newts, keeping fish and reptiles, waiting for my first pubic hair.... Weird dreams about girls of the opposite sex.

the true makings of a serial killer right there

 

[MellowJoe]

Just played football until it was too dark to see who you could pass to.