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BLUETIT
How long did your goldfish live for ?????
The one off the rag & bone man ???
Still got it now :hehe:
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Corona and Lowes Pop Van
5p for taken back empty pop bottles
Mackcross shop payment books
Prudential man
Nicking sweets
Raw jelly for lunch
tomato sauce sandwich
sugar sandwiches
Spam
TitBits ( Music lyrics section)
Top 40 on a Sunday afternoon
all night bonfire nights
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ToTaL ITK
The chip van with chips for sixpence
fourpence when I was a kid :old:
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Rjk
Dogshit on every street
no jacks where i lived
on a serous note there was only one dog in our street of about 100 houses
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Plastic ‘Wembley’ footballs, they came with a little adaptor in a plastic bag. When they inevitably punctured I used to try and melt the plastic over with a hot knife that’d been warmed up on the gas stove, never worked. What about the old leather balls with a bladder, pumping it up then doing the lace up with a lacer ( looked a bit like a screwdriver with a slotted end to thread the lace through).
Anyone else play ‘stretch’? Two of you facing each other with your legs together, taking it in turns to throw a knife either side (we all carried knives in the 60s😂) and you had to stretch your leg out to where your opponent’s knife had dug in, winner was the one who didn’t split his difference😂. The opposite to ‘stretch’ was chicken where you played the game in reverse😱
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splott parker
Plastic ‘Wembley’ footballs, they came with a little adaptor in a plastic bag. When they inevitably punctured I used to try and melt the plastic over with a hot knife that’d been warmed up on the gas stove, never worked. What about the old leather balls with a bladder, pumping it up then doing the lace up with a lacer ( looked a bit like a screwdriver with a slotted end to thread the lace through).
Anyone else play ‘stretch’? Two of you facing each other with your legs together, taking it in turns to throw a knife either side (we all carried knives in the 60s😂) and you had to stretch your leg out to where your opponent’s knife had dug in, winner was the one who didn’t split his difference😂. The opposite to ‘stretch’ was chicken where you played the game in reverse😱
Say "knife" more, Steve. Sounds like you had quite the sinister childhood :hehe:
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life on mars
no jacks where i lived
on a serous note there was only one dog in our street of about 100 houses
Where I grew up (maindy) there must have been loads of the ****ers as it was bloody everywhere.
Went back years later after they changed the law and it was the first thing that stood out to me how little shit there was
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BLUETIT
6 of the best off Brother Claude !!!!!!!
F ucking hurt as well :frown:
been there, done that!!!
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splott parker
New school uniform but with sandals for Corpus Christi (junior school, not senior).
Nazereth House fete & all the sports, sack race, egg & spoon, 3 legged race etc, great times.
And the Baseball Cup final was played after the fete in the evening. hundreds of people watching. normally St Peters against someone else!!!!
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splott parker
Plastic ‘Wembley’ footballs, they came with a little adaptor in a plastic bag. When they inevitably punctured I used to try and melt the plastic over with a hot knife that’d been warmed up on the gas stove, never worked. What about the old leather balls with a bladder, pumping it up then doing the lace up with a lacer ( looked a bit like a screwdriver with a slotted end to thread the lace through).
Anyone else play ‘stretch’? Two of you facing each other with your legs together, taking it in turns to throw a knife either side (we all carried knives in the 60s😂) and you had to stretch your leg out to where your opponent’s knife had dug in, winner was the one who didn’t split his difference😂. The opposite to ‘stretch’ was chicken where you played the game in reverse😱
If I'm remembering correctly we used to call that knife game splits
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insider
If I'm remembering correctly we used to call that knife game splits
That’s it, splits, my mistake, cheers insider👍👍👍
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I remember going to Oz travelling in 1990 when I was 18. Trying to find out how city had done was a mission. No internet or mobiles obviously, unless I rang home which I wasn’t ever going to do every week then I had to wait a full 4 days until the tues or weds to see the results in British soccer weekly newspaper. Now I could be there and watch us live on tv.....:shrug:
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Heisenberg
Say "knife" more, Steve. Sounds like you had quite the sinister childhood :hehe:
It was the sharpest tool in the box Tom................unlike me😢
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insider
If I'm remembering correctly we used to call that knife game splits
We used to call it ‘split the kipper’ :shrug:
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The Television meter running out and sliding a food knife down the side of the meter to get the tanners out
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Joe Gillis
The Television meter running out and sliding a food knife down the side of the meter to get the tanners out
You had a television - how posh.
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The Bloop
You had a television - how posh.
Rented
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Joe Gillis
Rented
How common.
I remember Cohen Griffiths winning a television for being Man of the Match when the league cup was sponsored by Rumbelows.
It was probably an ex-rental.
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goats
I remember going to Oz travelling in 1990 when I was 18. Trying to find out how city had done was a mission. No internet or mobiles obviously, unless I rang home which I wasn’t ever going to do every week then I had to wait a full 4 days until the tues or weds to see the results in British soccer weekly newspaper. Now I could be there and watch us live on tv.....:shrug:
We really did have similar lives, I went to Oz for 8 months in 93, backpacked down through Thailand and popped into HK on the way down
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simonp_ccfc
Football hooliganism.
I avoided that one but did put in fighting everywhere, if its wasnt the City, home and away fights or looking for them, you were scrapping with other areas of Cardiff , or in school or even streets ,maybe its was where came from ,who knows?
I remember one game we had fights with
Barry boys, police and then away fans .
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Joe Gillis
Rented
What a moment when that first television landed ,I thought the world had changed forever,we had ours very late .
I used to beg my mates to see theirs
( and the Tele's) lol
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Depending on what you were wearing, trying to dodge the huge gangs of punks mods or skins that roamed through the city
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ToTaL ITK
Depending on what you were wearing, trying to dodge the huge gangs of punks mods or skins that roamed through the city
What about bank holidays down the Island.