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things we did as kids in the 70s
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doing the johnny machine in local pub of all its 50p, s,with a lolly stick and if you were really brave give ye mates dad his 50p back
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and to be fair everychance they get my grandkids and their friends in the street ,every chance they get set up a tall outide their house on the avement elling their toy,football cards etc etc
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We used to play walk the plank but it got ridiculous. We lived on a barge so people used to just step off on to the tow path
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Birmingham bags and wonderfully dressed pop stars ,minder,faulty towers ,fa cup replays and fa cup semi finals on a neutral ground not Wembley,I don’t miss burning the top of my mouth on the jacket spuds straight from the bonfire,happy times when the world was you g
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Nearly dying several times due to different reasons or risks we all used to take as children in those days!
Pretty sure there are reasons kids today don't do some of the stuff we used to do. |
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Manhunt, 123 and In, Summer holidays, up early watch kids tv, then get a pound for dinner and over the park playing football, cricket and plenty more, home for tea, back out again until it was dark.
Has to be better than the kids have these days. |
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yep many injuries, but could have been worse often, without luck.
Infant mortality per 1000 currently around 3 in the UK, in 1975 for comparison it was 15.73. |
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Marbles, waiting for the racing results 5 past the hour on the radio
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catapult fights
sone and brick fights as you say stu dangerous games climbing cliffs even chucking knives at each others feet split the kipper jumping off wash house roofs onto a thin mattrass ha a few split heads of them bricks  |
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throwing aerosols on bonfires and running like fck before it explodes
riding your bike with fireworks sticking out the handlebars on a fixed wheel |
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fill a nut bolt with matchstick heads then tighten the other bolt up throw it up in the air ffs or it would even go off in your hand sometimes
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GREG
that not how you spell ARRISHOLES , but i can think of a few on here who could do with chucking |
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Junior school football team . we played our matches against the other schools on a weekday afternoon , maybe wednesday or thursday , so got the afternoon off school .
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Yep, so did we, when we got up the big school it was Saturday mornings.
Remember proper sports days too in proper events, you know, when it was OK for someone to come last without worrying that they were about to top themselves like today  |
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Trying to finish a jubbly in a day.
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throwing the javelin and shotput n stuff
like the olympics it was back then..... n at our local skool there was even a "faggers wood" (AS INsmoking ****..!!) n the six formers or prefects, would do fooking raids on the place, tother side of the skool rugby pitch.....!!! |
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if ye got a "detention" ie, for jumping the dinner que
ye had to stand on a square outside the 'dinner hall' and wait till everyone else had gone fro , n by time ye got inn there were nowt left...propr torture and abuse from the teachers back# then |
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ha, a thousand lines....!!
i though not shalt commit a sin.... |
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I am sure in todays world, Knock Down ****** has been renamed. I loved Texan bars. Only worry I had, I must have been buck ugly, 2 years as an altar and never touched once.
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Might be of interest to some on this thread
https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/ |
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Oh and everybody I knew, no matter what colour or creed had a decent command of English.
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Going to the newsagents saturday morning to get your comics , and just before the season started getting the league ladders in shoot .
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We always played Saturday mornings however I do remember on one occasion playing on a Wednesday afternoon,we draw 4 4 with a posh grammar school on the morning of the Sunderland Leeds cup final I remember to this day the referee say no matter what happens at Wembley this afternoon it won’t be as good as the game you all played,the replay was the Wednesday after the head allowed all our school the afternoon of to watch the replay against this posh school we beat them 4 0
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from bror we had a week tour every yr pkayed 3 games in a week,we tayed at hexam for one week playig 3 geordie team,ome in a place called WALLBOTTLE inbetween hex and n.castle, and a team im coldstream, we were very good in our area but WALLBOTTLE were a notch above us and following yr stopped around edinbrough and 3 games against the jockss in the area
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Did a lot of the above, especially nicking the empties from round the back of the shop and getting the shilling back
But, got introduced to quite an ingenious one in the Summer holidays aged about 14... In the morning we went round all the local phone boxes and stuffed a blown up balloon up the return money chute, so it was out of sight... People would put their 2p, 5p or 10p into the slot, but if the number was engaged or no answer, then they'd put the receiver down and wait for their money to be returned ... Of course the balloon was stopping it but they couldn't see that so they'd just give up on their returned coin... We'd then go round in the evening and stick a pin up the chute, if you pardon the expression, to burst the balloon, then all the day's coins would fall down... Used to be a nice little earner |
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Does that sort of thing happen anymore 1st time ? We played a few games from school in Holland back in 77 I would imagine now the hoops everyone would need to jump through it wouldn’t be worth it.
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reg brilliant,we did something a little bit like that when following United you would stop at the motorway service and back then the one armed bandits were simple and not well built,you could press on the weak plastic as the 3 wheels went round to make sure you got 3 strawberries |
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1tp...if you were following United you'd more likely get 3 lemons
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Sorry, not 1tp,apologies, jimnast
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1tp was further up, apologies to jimnast as well, a cheap shot at United
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No worries there reg not in the slightest,I trust your still visiting weatherspoons I was reading there shares report which are doing very well ,but surprisingly the food sales are showing very small growth,
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Been there this evening, jimnast
Live in a seaside town, so the customer numbers start dipping now until Easter They are cutting back on staff levels so the wait at the bar can be frustrating, and tables full of piled up empty plates at times... But, it's cheap....Real Ale Festival starting Wednesday as well, happy days |
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I’ve noticed a decrease in all round standards recently in some of there pubs by the staff ,they are now in airports where they will be printing money.
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We have 5 in Manchester ones in a no go area in Piccadilly ,the other 4 are fine one is now franchised out I think they have 15 that are franchised.
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yes those bell fruits you could use a straightened metal coat hanger
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Yeah, prices in airport Spoons twice that of other Spoons, but still cheaper than the other outlets there
They've also started putting new Spoons in Haven holiday camps, again at a premium from the normal prices |
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That’s it Greg you must have been at it yourself
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