Things The Younger Generation May Never Experience

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Originally Posted by lennybluebird

Standing for the queen at the end of a film.😬

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I remember the sudden charge for the ecit doors to avoid standing fot the queen.

But if the anthem started anyone who hadn't reached the exit doors stopped where they were until it ended!

If you had got through the doors you were free to go.

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Originally Posted by splott parker

Exactly, you are a part of the younger generation compared to us fossils😂😂

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I'm 59 & 3/4s, I recognise virtually everything, (apart from a few modern items - post 80s). What's the fossil threshold & do I get a badge (or government allowance!£

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Originally Posted by Des Parrot

I'm 59 & 3/4s, I recognise virtually everything, (apart from a few modern items - post 80s). What's the fossil threshold & do I get a badge (or government allowance!£

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You’re in Des👍 3 months to go to the pass but I’m allowing you dispensation 👍

Queuing for tickets to see a band on a first come first served basis. I queued round the block to get tickets to see wings in the Capitol in the 70s. These days all the tickets are bought up en bloc by third party greedy companies and then re sold on line for about 5 times the price, scandalous.

Another one I can remember is getting the inside of my thighs chapped through wearing short grey flannel (rough as hell) trousers.

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Originally Posted by Taffy Blue in Berkshire

The football special from Llanishen with a steam train and a city scarf round the funnel��

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I don't know if you are kidding or not? :hehe::hehe:

Radio One Road Show down Barry beach where some perverted 40 something DJs would get to fondle young girls whilst Smiley Miley would pick the biggest clueless tw@ts from the thronging masses to do 'bits and pieces' (feckers wouldn't know a thing) and then you'd get a band like Bad Manners miming to My Boy Lollipop

I once 'saw' Radio Ones Mike Reid do a DJ set at a nightclub in Great Yarmouth in 1985 he walked on stage in his mod suit and straight mini tie and had a pint thrown at him - he told us all to feck off and walked back off stage

Saved us from listening him destroy a Secret Affair song anyway

Playing in the woods, building dens and dams.

Picking bluebells and delivering bunches of them to all the fit mums in the street.

Street water fights.

Playing in Rumney river.

Having a paper round.

Getting the bus to town and then legging it down to Ninian Park.

Artic light
Worthington e
Barley wine
Tenants super
The cockle man
8 pints on a Sunday morning 12 til 2

Riverside railway station

Clarence Road railway station

Ely Main Line railway station

St. Fagans railway station

Cefn Onn Halt railway station

People who used to knock on your door

Whipperine
Man who repaired umbrellas sharpened knives
Rag and bone man
Redifusion/radio rentals man to empty the money box on the back of your telly (although no money left as your dad had already opened the box and spent it)
Electricity man to open money box (see above re your Dad)
Rent man
Pop man
Milkman
Bread man
Insurance man
Doctor (whenever requested even if you only had a cold)
Fruit and veg van man in a reconverted ambulance
Coal man

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Originally Posted by Auntie Andy

People who used to knock on your door

Whipperine
Man who repaired umbrellas sharpened knives
Rag and bone man
Redifusion/radio rentals man to empty the money box on the back of your telly (although no money left as your dad had already opened the box and spent it)
Electricity man to open money box (see above re your Dad)
Rent man
Pop man
Milkman
Bread man
Insurance man
Doctor (whenever requested even if you only had a cold)
Fruit and veg van man in a reconverted ambulance
Coal man

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How long did your goldfish live for ?????

The one off the rag & bone man ???

Salvation Army coming round the pubs on a Friday night selling the War Cry

The chip van with chips for sixpence

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Originally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead

COUNTY flicks!..

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county cinema

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Originally Posted by BLUETIT

6 of the best off Brother Claude !!!!!!!

F ucking hurt as well :frown:

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I also had 6 off Claude. I am convinced to this day that the man was a sadist who got pleasure out of inflicting pain.

As for the cinema does anyone remember this every Saturday morning at the Olympia I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzWjw7AO_Xo

Catchy little tune from the late 50's/early 60's.

Football Echo .
End of term troubles ,
Short trousers
Carry bags instead of rucksacks
sandals
clothes from Woollies
Buying smokes on the way too school.
PE ins your school uniform
fighting everywhere
walking to school in heavy snowfall
playing football in the streets
doctors and nurses

Dial a disc.
mind you the phone line quality gives MP3 a run for the money

gary glitter at the capitol :facepalm:

It's really strange some of the things that people think that kids don't do these days. Playing in the woods or playing football in the street?

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Originally Posted by BLUETIT

How long did your goldfish live for ?????

The one off the rag & bone man ???

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Still got it now :hehe:

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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Originally Posted by ToTaL ITK

The chip van with chips for sixpence

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fourpence when I was a kid :old:

Dogshit on every street

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Originally Posted by Rjk

Dogshit on every street

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no jacks where i lived

on a serous note there was only one dog in our street of about 100 houses

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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Originally Posted by 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😱

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Say "knife" more, Steve. Sounds like you had quite the sinister childhood :hehe:

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Originally Posted by life on mars

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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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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Originally Posted by BLUETIT

6 of the best off Brother Claude !!!!!!!

F ucking hurt as well :frown:

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been there, done that!!!

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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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Originally Posted by 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😱

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If I'm remembering correctly we used to call that knife game splits

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Originally Posted by insider

If I'm remembering correctly we used to call that knife game splits

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That’s it, splits, my mistake, cheers insider👍👍👍

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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Originally Posted by Heisenberg

Say "knife" more, Steve. Sounds like you had quite the sinister childhood :hehe:

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It was the sharpest tool in the box Tom................unlike me😢

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Originally Posted by insider

If I'm remembering correctly we used to call that knife game splits

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We used to call it ‘split the kipper’ :shrug:

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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Originally Posted by Joe Gillis

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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You had a television - how posh.

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Originally Posted by The Bloop

You had a television - how posh.

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Rented

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Originally Posted by Joe Gillis

Rented

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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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Originally Posted by 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:

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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