When I was a kid

[Oberon305]

Surely most of it is how parents bring up their kids though???

My daughter told me off for swearing last week. I said 'Jesus Christ' when someone cut me up on an Italian Autostrada. She will also happily play outside on her scooter or the trampoline for hours and regularly plays with swords (wooden ones!).

Admittedly, my boy would rather play on his DS or watch TV, but once he's outside he'll still play nicely!

I know society is changing, and it's mostly for the worst, but it's up to us as parents to stop it going too far!

 

[KingGuin]

Denim aftershave for the men, Tweed or something from Avon for the ladies. Saturday morning TV - Champion the Wonder Horse, White Horses, Robinson Crusoe, Banana Splits and in summer WDYSOYTSADSMII? Swing ropes over dangerous gorges (well they always seemed to be!), gobstopper machines and machines where dirty tabbers could buy a single smoke. Nicking cans of your Dad's beer, not for the beer but for the pictures of the women on the back. Sweets from jars in paper bags. Oh well nostalgia over, back to work!

 

[vim_fuego]

Denim aftershave for the men, Tweed or something from Avon for the ladies. Saturday morning TV - Champion the Wonder Horse, White Horses, Robinson Crusoe, Banana Splits and in summer WDYSOYTSADSMII? Swing ropes over dangerous gorges (well they always seemed to be!), gobstopper machines and machines where dirty tabbers could buy a single smoke. Nicking cans of your Dad's beer, not for the beer but for the pictures of the women on the back. Sweets from jars in paper bags. Oh well nostalgia over, back to work!

Saturday morning telly! I'd forgotten about that...Wake up Saturday and race my brother (we shared a room) down to the doormat for first dibs on the comic that would have been delivered with the paper...Buster IIRC. Then if I wasn't playing football for Cubs it'd be up town shopping with my parents...the deal was sweetened by a visit to a cafe for a sticky bun and a visit to the sweet stall in the market for a 'quarter' of sweets in the aforementioned white paper bag twisted with great flair by the vendor to close it...

My kids play out front (cul-de-sac) but I'm not far away...if they don't get some fresh air in the day its a poor show IMO...We started camping this year and its been inspirational for them...with carefully selected sites they leave the tent after breakfast, bond with all the other kids, and exist as a ferrel pack until they are either hungry, thirsty or tired and you tend to find that the two former problems are solved by any of the parents they roam by...Off again the weekend after this and can't wait...

 

[Realist78]

DizzyWitch mentioned chips being 25p a bag. I remember (must have been late 60s), on the way back from Cubs every week going to the chippy and getting a bag of chips and a small bottle of pop for...a tanner each! Now then, the term 'cheap as chips' was accurate then, it ain't anymore!DT_Xtremez_19:

 

[Realist78]

Forgot to mention, did anyone get 'invited' to Measles parties and the like?

 

[vim_fuego]

DizzyWitch mentioned chips being 25p a bag. I remember (must have been late 60s), on the way back from Cubs every week going to the chippy and getting a bag of chips and a small bottle of pop for...a tanner each! Now then, the term 'cheap as chips' was accurate then, it ain't anymore!DT_Xtremez_19:

Remind those of us who are not under the watchful eye of 'nurse' what a tanner is/was?

 

[Realist78]

Remind those of us who are not under the watchful eye of 'nurse' what a tanner is/was?

Tanner...sixpence, 6 old pennies, two and half pennies in new money!DT_Xtremez_19:

 

[Scaley brat]

the good old nit nurse
ink pens
Playgrounds were separated at my first school

Nitty Norah
Ink? Until I was about 7 my teachers only let you use a pen AFTER your handwriting had reached HER standard of legibility Pencils onill then DT_Xtremez_14:
My first junior school still had the gate between the boys and girls playgrounds (not enforced)

They also use to send kids down the mines, up the chimneys etc lol

In your day perhaps granddad ::

a 'quarter' of sweets in the aforementioned white paper bag twisted with great flair by the vendor to close it...

they leave the tent after breakfast, bond with all the other kids, and exist as a ferrel pack until they are either hungry, thirsty or tired and you tend to find that the two former problems are solved by any of the parents they roam by...

2 oz (half a quarter) Sherbet lemons in a paper bag, after being in your pocket for a few hours DT_Xtremez_14:

As parents were expected to, nowadays it almost as if your not allowed!

How about breakfast cereals?
Cornflakes
Shredded wheat
Weetabix
Porridge oats (Scotts of course)
Alpen
Rice krispies
Sugar puffs.
Bloody hell, I remember when they first started advertising Golden nuggets DT_Xtremez_06: and they were horrible!

How about Fussels condensed milk? With bread.... mmmm DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[Obi Wan]

How about Fussels condensed milk? With bread.... mmmm DT_Xtremez_30:[/QUOTE]


Or even better...................Bread & Beef Dripping...............Mmmmmmm Cholestoral City.

DT_Xtremez_34:

 

[Scaley brat]

DizzyWitch mentioned chips being 25p a bag. I remember (must have been late 60s), on the way back from Cubs every week going to the chippy and getting a bag of chips and a small bottle of pop for...a tanner each! Now then, the term 'cheap as chips' was accurate then, it ain't anymore!DT_Xtremez_19:

How about a bag of "scraps" for 6d (for the young uns that is a bag of little batter bits out of the fish fryer for the princely sum of a silver sixpence DT_Xtremez_15

 

[KingGuin]

Home made cake and jam, having to walk everywhere, queing for the phone box, Victor, Hotspur, Bunty, Jackie, Penny Chews. Getting new shoes for the start of school and (imagine this nowadays) the local Copper clipping you round the head and dragging you home by the ear.

 

[Realist78]

How about a bag of "scraps" for 6d (for the young uns that is a bag of little batter bits out of the fish fryer for the princely sum of a silver sixpence DT_Xtremez_15

If they had too many, they'd give us them for nowt!

 

[Realist78]

Home made cake and jam, having to walk everywhere, queing for the phone box, Victor, Hotspur, Bunty, Jackie, Penny Chews. Getting new shoes for the start of school and (imagine this nowadays) the local Copper clipping you round the head and dragging you home by the ear.

Victor & Hotspur or Bunty & Jackie, make your mind up.DT_Xtremez_34:

 

[KingGuin]

Victor & Hotspur or Bunty & Jackie, make your mind up.DT_Xtremez_34:

Errr I have a sister........................taxi..................

 

[252]

Errr I have a sister........................taxi..................

Relax its now ok to be metrosexuall(i think!)

Come to think of it if you were court marshalled for being gay in the old days,wasnt it rather ironic that your situation arrose because you were breaking QUEENS regulations!!!.DT_Xtremez_19:

 

[Belle and Sebastian]

Saturday morning TV

Saturday morning TV

Denim aftershave for the men, Tweed or something from Avon for the ladies. Saturday morning TV - Champion the Wonder Horse, White Horses, Robinson Crusoe, Banana Splits and in summer WDYSOYTSADSMII? Swing ropes over dangerous gorges (well they always seemed to be!), gobstopper machines and machines where dirty tabbers could buy a single smoke. Nicking cans of your Dad's beer, not for the beer but for the pictures of the women on the back. Sweets from jars in paper bags. Oh well nostalgia over, back to work!

Great TV shows, but can I add ' The Flashing Blade'. A french/spanish production dubbed into english. I thought it was excellent in the early 70s.

I got it recently on DVD and have only just realised how bad the dubbing was - I'm now thinking they dubbed it over the phone or in another room as I don't thinks the voice actors were watching the same program. And, above all, a great opening soundtrack. Go on, google it.

 

[KingGuin]

Great TV shows, but can I add ' The Flashing Blade'. A french/spanish production dubbed into english. I thought it was excellent in the early 70s.

I got it recently on DVD and have only just realised how bad the dubbing was - I'm now thinking they dubbed it over the phone or in another room as I don't thinks the voice actors were watching the same program. And, above all, a great opening soundtrack. Go on, google it.

Was struggling to remember that earlier, was that the show with the theme tune which started "You got to fight for what is right....."

 

[I Look Like Kevin Costner]

Wanting your mum to buy the expensive breakfast cerials because they had tokens to get some crummy BEA Tristar/ Oil Rig / Hovercraft model..

Fireworks on sale to 13 year olds..

 

[Rocket_Ronster]

The Banana Splits, didn`t think they had their own show ???
Wasn`t it just a section in the middle of The Monkees ?
Now that was proper Satday morning telly.

 

[Belle and Sebastian]

Was struggling to remember that earlier, was that the show with the theme tune which started "You got to fight for what is right....."

That's the one.