Things The Younger Generation May Never Experience

Football hooliganism.

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Originally Posted by simonp_ccfc

Football hooliganism.

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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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Originally Posted by Joe Gillis

Rented

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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

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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Originally Posted by ToTaL ITK

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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What about bank holidays down the Island.

Boasting to your mates that you'd had outside top with the smart bird down the street.

Then boasting to your mates you'd had a belly rub with the ugly bird down the street.

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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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Ah, those old Wembley Trophy footballs!

As you said, they would invariably get a puncture after a while; like yourself, I also tried unsuccessfully to repair the hole with a hot knife :hehe:. They were good though, they had the right feel & weight about them.

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Having an argument.
Back in the day it could go on for weeks as there was no easy way of proving who was right. Now Mr Google can sort it within seconds :frown:

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Originally Posted by Robin Friday's Ghost

Having an argument.
Back in the day it could go on for weeks as there was no easy way of proving who was right. Now Mr Google can sort it within seconds :frown:

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Bit like starting a rumour, it would take a week for a good story get from Splott to Ely :hehe:, now it’s seconds !!!!

Where’s the fun in that

The Monico

The radiogram

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Originally Posted by The Bob Banker Spanker

The Monico

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The PLAZA :thumbup:

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Originally Posted by BLUETIT

The PLAZA :thumbup:

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Monroe's

Polio

Flats, bedsits & living in rooms. Now for some reason they’re apartments, studios and house share.

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Originally Posted by Rjk

Polio

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Ricketts

Seeing King Crimson, on the Islands' tour, at the Capitol Theatre in Cardiff on Oct 29th 1971.

StT.
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Lead painted toys
Cresta; it's frothy man!
Watch out there's a Humphrey about

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Originally Posted by life on mars

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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Everywhere was like the warriors in the 70’s and 80’s.....

Vesta curry in a packet

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Originally Posted by splott parker

Ricketts

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Tuberculosis, my father spent 9 months in Cefn Manley Hospital isolation because he had TB. Now you just take antibiotics.

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Originally Posted by Auntie Andy

Tuberculosis, my father spent 9 months in Cefn Manley Hospital isolation because he had TB. Now you just take antibiotics.

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It's virtually eradicated in UK. A foreigner applying for a UK Residence visa has to go to a British Foreign Office designated Clinic in there home country and get a certificate to prove they do not have any trace of it. Without the certificate they won't get a visa.

Then of course all the so-called asylum seekers and illegal boat people come in without the checks and make the whole procedure pointless

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Originally Posted by fingers

Lead painted toys
Cresta; it's frothy man!
Watch out there's a Humphrey about

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What out Franky Humphrey's is about :hehe:

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Originally Posted by xsnaggle

It's virtually eradicated in UK. A foreigner applying for a UK Residence visa has to go to a British Foreign Office designated Clinic in there home country and get a certificate to prove they do not have any trace of it. Without the certificate they won't get a visa.

Then of course all the so-called asylum seekers and illegal boat people come in without the checks and make the whole procedure pointless

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Well for one thing Racism is something the younger generation are experiencing from the older generation.

Setting ones farts on fire contest , after footy games in dressing room.

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Originally Posted by light up the darkness

Vesta curry in a packet

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So strange my granddaughter just asked me what's my first was ,god bless you Vesta .
And Fray Bentos tinned pies.

We never owned a fridge

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Originally Posted by Auntie Andy

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

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It hurt when it went wrong

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Originally Posted by xsnaggle

It's virtually eradicated in UK. A foreigner applying for a UK Residence visa has to go to a British Foreign Office designated Clinic in there home country and get a certificate to prove they do not have any trace of it. Without the certificate they won't get a visa.

Then of course all the so-called asylum seekers and illegal boat people come in without the checks and make the whole procedure pointless

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My mum and dad met in a TB hospital in Sully.

A Childhood

Affordable housing

Jobs for life

Good pensions

Vesta curries

Deciding you would go along to watch Alan Durban's Third Division City team after all about forty minutes before kick off, parking virtually outside Ninian Park and joining a queue of one person (if you were unlucky) to pay cash at the turnstile.

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

Deciding you would go along to watch Alan Durban's Third Division City team after all about forty minutes before kick off, parking virtually outside Ninian Park and joining a queue of one person (if you were unlucky) to pay cash at the turnstile.

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Ah that was you behind me in the 'queue'

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

Deciding you would go along to watch Alan Durban's Third Division City team after all about forty minutes before kick off, parking virtually outside Ninian Park and joining a queue of one person (if you were unlucky) to pay cash at the turnstile.

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As a teenager outside the family enclosure (lower Grandstand) asking blokes if they i could go into the ground with them so i could get in cheaper.

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Originally Posted by The Bloop

As a teenager outside the family enclosure (lower Grandstand) asking blokes if they i could go into the ground with them so i could get in cheaper.

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Also, the bloke on the gate telling you to squeeze into one turnstile with your mate so that he could pocket your entry fee.

Five park drive.
Big Lisa.
Get a job, what a mad bastard.
Up the tree behind the grange end.
Going in the city with a guy in a wheelchair, then legging it before the ramp.
Getting stopped in James street at about 10am by a Jap seaman asking directions to North Star ****y ****y.

Hearing the knock off hooter on the dock and watching a tidal wave of push bikes exit the dock gates and swarm across the Clarence road bridge.